Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

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Synopsis:



Episode 6 of 13

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

yay?

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

I am giving this show one more week, I really want it to be good, but it is just so-so The episode tonight almost seemed like a side mission in Knights of the Old Republic or some RPG game. Go talk to this guy, talk to the wife to get more info, go to the bar, find the killer, etc.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

Meh episode after a promising opening. Bummer.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

Tonight was the last chance I gave it. This is a show from a different era, it would have done much better 30 years ago in popularity when there was less competition. Once again, making the central character a cop was the wrong move. It's like comfort food for the networks, they just can't imagine any other job besides someone being a cop, lawyer or doctor.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

Cops and ex-soldiers are popular because they are an easy way to explain skill with firearms. You can't have a leading man in an action show not carry a gun, can you? It's not like he can use his elite MMA skills on flying dinosaurs. :)

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

Well if they had convinced Chuck Norris to be on the show they wouldn't have needed no stinking guns. And the 6'ers wouldn't be a problem either. See its in the casting.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

Meh, shooting isn't rocket science

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

I agree. Seems more than half the show on TV are cops solving murders. This show is supposed to be about dinosaurs & time travel. Are they out of ideas so quickly that they need to fall back on a standard whodunit?

Plus the production value has really taken a hit since the pilot. It's starting to look like the Saturday morning version of Land of the Lost. I'm half expecting a Sleestak to wander through the gate.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

Think we're done with this show too. The pilot was promising and I was really ready to get into the mysteries (symbols, missing son, other colony, etc.), but the show just hasn't delivered.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

Chuck Norris would have caused early extinction of the dinosaurs.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

Wow, I don't watch this show but that crap you described makes this sound like a bootleg version of Lost.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

yeah, I have no desire to watch the recorded episode. I'm out.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

Ive tried to like it, but I'm done with this show now too, I guess. It seems to me that they don't have any idea who their audience is. It's a sci-fi family show, which is like oil and water. Fans of sci-fi want dinosaurs, gadgets, and mythology, not sappy subplots about family love and who's dating who and oh gosh will the son learn how to play guitar and reunite with his girlfriend. And fans of family programming don't want to watch a show about a cop shooting at dinosaurs and rogue assassins that live in the woods. So basically, they've made the most expensive show ever for an audience of zero.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

they have some crappy soldiers if that guy went outside the wire without making sure his gun was working

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

I am enjoying it well enough, I will keep watching. They do need to find a better focus, I do like shows that have stand alone episodes, than stand alone story for that episode with an overlaying back story to be told through out the season which they tend to draw out longer then it needs to be. Not too big on the twenty four style of television because you are basically getting a small part of a movie each week.

It really does feel like that and none of those stand out to me. These days a show seems to have to be about a cop, doctor or lawyer to long for awhile aside from pure luck. Those could be fine shows, they just do not appeal to me all that much, I need more of a hook. (Drawn to shows where people have abilities, magic etc... not always)

So many story ideas needs to be longer than a standard movie, yet not as long as a television season. Aside from waiting too long I am starting to like shows that have smaller seasons just so stories can be told faster. However you can also break a season in half, two eleven episode stories, not that hard to do. Then there are some stories where all it needs it half to a full season to tell it. It does not need to run on for years.

[Moving to Book Talk]
 

For those giving up on TN, maybe head down the library and look up the similarly-themed "Saga of Exiles" sequence of novels by Julian May.

The books were pretty big back in the day but now seem to be out of print. Maybe a publisher will hop on the back of this show and re-issue...

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

The ratings fell again. Probably won't be back next year.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

It does appear people get bored really easily. Not that I can blame anyone, they think they are going to get one thing and it ends up being something else so far.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

This isn't an awful series by an stretch, but it's very by-the-numbers and wholly unremarkable.

It's the kind of thing I'll watch, but I won't miss it when it's cancelled.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

Charlies Angels, nothing really unresolved and it was fine yet nothing to really miss.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

It's not that bad, once you take it for what it is (?).

I know it won't be renewed. I know the production values will never be the same as the pilot.

So it's not appointment TV, we watch it whenever we can, it's not appointment TV.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

My problem is that it has a bunch of subplots that I want to see resolved. I hope they wrap them up before cancelling the series. The reason I rarely start on a new series is the risk of cancellation following cliffhangers. Anyone else shy away from unproven shows? Yes, I know this is a bad thing for new shows.

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

after the year I was burnt by the cancellations of Threshold, Surface, and Invasion, I rarely will watch a new show until I know it's gotten renewed. I will DVR them, and then start to watch if there is any indication that they will be coming back (or end in a cliffhangerless finale). Why I made an exception for this crap is beyond me (although I did also make an exception for American Horror Story, which I am happy I did).

Re: Terra Nova -- "Bylaw" -- 10/31/11
 

A fucking pet dinosaur? That's it, I'm out.