JaxComet

Agreed.....This show is bad. Interesting idea, boring execution...........

starman9000

I wasn't expecting much at all, but I enjoyed it. I'll give it a few more watches, as it has the making of great guilty pleasure material.

PhantomStranger

That scene was a little creepy, the actors almost played it like that was going to happen. I suspect the writers were aiming for a father-daughter relationship. The show might have been more interesting if something shocking like that had occurred.

TimeandTide

I'd imagine that in an environment on the verge of ecological collapse, its citizens would look a little less...polished.

And the people populating a prehistoric past would look a little less like they model for Abercrombie and Fitch.

Like I said, a nitpick. But it does pull me out of the story a bit.

Jadzia

barelypure:

Sarcastically referring to another poster as "special" is insulting. Please keep the tone here civil. Thanks.

flipflopchic

i had read an advanced preview that was negative about the dinos, but i too enjoyed it. will watch a few more times to see if it draws me in. is this the new lost?

Pizza

Love dinosaurs and really wanted to love this but didn't like it. Beginning was annoying with stashing the little daughter and the father going to prison. Isn't it premise enough that they're going back to the stone age? Show feels a little like Primeval, but no where near as good. I'm wondering if that lady

pelenor

Just as an after thought, but the female leader of the sixers was the dog trainer from Pushing Daisies. I was half expecting her to have trained the dinosaurs to be obedient. Also, I just read "Ready Player One" and the evil dudes in there are also referred to as sixers.

mwbmis

Finally got around to watching this. I think me wanting to like this will probably get it a few more weeks. I liked Jason Mara in Life on Mars, and Stephen Lang is pretty bad-ass.

Like others I so wanted the teens to get killed, especially the son.

One thing I am hoping is that they don't go the predictible route and have the "sixers" be the "good guys" and Stephen Lang be the "bad guy".

JSwarce

I thought the same thing. It wouldn't surprise me if they travel down that road.

--John

Jason

Don't know if Lang will turn heel on them, but the Sixers will definitely end up being the good guys if this lasts long enough.

brilk

Facial hair is what always kills me during these shows. You see way too few beards and the ones you do see are always super-sculpted. Hey guys, you totally don't have electric razors anymore. Ever tried to permanently keep three days of stubble using only a knife? GLHF.

I'm sticking with the show just for the dinosaurs. Hopefully the rest of it will catch up to the coolness of giant lizards at some point.

buzzdalf

Just caught this off the DVR over the weekend. I liked the beginning. Hated the parts with the teens getting attacked and none of them dying. There is no way that girl should have lived, and the boy sitting there so casual after a dino was just gnawing on his leg, uh yeah.
Maybe we will get flash forwards into that future more during the show, that might keep me interested.

Shady12

Just got around to watching last night. First half was better than the second. Teen stuff is annoying. I said out loud at the beginning when they were in the future that I wished the show was going to stay there..I thought the dystopian future looked pretty cool for a show. Dino land got pretty cheesy. Definitely reminds me of Falling Skies. Hopefully it ends up a little better.

MikahC

Why not? The premise isn't that they're suddenly throw back in time with no modern conveniences. They took modern stuff back with them, and they get supplies all the time. I see no reason to believe they'd have futuristic vehicles and weapons, but not have an electric razor.

andicus

Uhm, duh...

Kevin M. Dean

Some people just don't pay any attention to what they're watching. Is it any wonder that don't enjoy anything.

brilk

They established that the future has ridiculously limited resources. Vehicles, weapons, and medical supplies are important to survival in the past and it's understandable that they'd be sent back. Thousands of Norelcos which require electricity, maintenance, etc. are only important to looking pretty. People are completely stupid, though, so I guess it's possible they're wasting resources like that.

Deftones

so they couldn't send back thousands of Gillette mach 5 razors? and for the record, i can't believe i just typed that sentence.

brilk

The sculpted and super short "beards" they have on the show are from electric razors. I doubt they'd send back all those thousands of mach 5s and zillions of replacement blades during a huge resource shortage either, though.

whotony

Relatively unimportant thing to be thinking about when watching a tv show like this.

brilk

It's just like all the other things people talk about that are ridiculous. You just don't care about this one since you're part of the wacky hairless culture it portrays. Of course it's not important, though. This is a mediocre show about dinosaurs and dumb, angsty teens. Nothing about it is important.

Except the dinosaurs. They're alright.

wmansir

There has to be some kind of bottleneck to the resources they receive, because they are hardly up to 19th century standards, let alone futuristic ones. Sure, they have some gadgets, but in terms of acreage and a secured perimeter today's military could do a lot better.

I hope those sonic canons guarding the gate were on stun or something, because they seemed to annoy at best the medium sized dinos chasing the trucks into camp. We obviously have better weapons today. Then again, perhaps they were on stun because they didn't want to have several tons of rotting meat just outside the camp gates.

Xander

It seemed to me like they were deliberately trying to stun dinos rather than kill them. Even when fighting the raptor-esque ones, didn't Lang say something about going for the belly because the tranqs wouldn't penetrate their hides? Don't really know the reasoning for that.

jpb07

If you were paying attention you'd know that they have electricity from solar panels. They even mention it in relation to the hot water in their shower. It's not too far fetched to believe that people brough their electric razors with them either.