Anybody watch "TerraNova" tonight?

[HTRN]

Just finished, and son, I am a disappoint.

First was the silly weapons(sonic, tranqs - apparently Copper and lead are to valuable to put into dinosaurs), second was ridiculously tough dinosaurs, third was the hinted at subplot involving some kind of conspiracy.

[Precision]

nope.

Looked like a Michael Moore production meets Avatar, so I skipped it pending reviews.

[HTRN]

The had another Colonel Quaritch called Commander Taylor. I really wanted to see him off that T-Rex analog as he was standing outside the gate.

[Steamforger]

And it was the same actor if my ability to match voices is holding up. So far it appears to be another gaia lovers "huddled masses in the dark" eco-orgasm.

[HTRN]

Just checked Wikipedia - yup, it's Colonel Quaritch.

[Kommander]

I still want to see "Avatar 2: Rods From God".

[HTRN]

Something occurred to me - if you've got this problem with large, carnivorous predators, why not simply colonize a large island after ahem, "fumigating" it? No more worries about your population getting eaten.

[Steamforger]

Something occurred to me - if you've got this problem with large, carnivorous predators, why not simply colonize a large island after ahem, "fumigating" it? No more worries about your population getting eaten.

This would negate the "need" for tens of millions of dollars of CGI eye candy necessary to get people to buy a ticket. Dances With Smurfs was an terrible movie. The only way I'd watch again was if we let Mad Mike, John Ringo and Larry Correia write the new script for a sequel. Rods from God, indeed!

[Jered]

Something occurred to me - if you've got this problem with large, carnivorous predators, why not simply colonize a large island after ahem, "fumigating" it? No more worries about your population getting eaten.

This would negate the "need" for tens of millions of dollars of CGI eye candy necessary to get people to buy a ticket. Dances With Smurfs was an terrible movie. The only way I'd watch again was if we let Mad Mike, John Ringo and Larry Correia write the new script for a sequel. Rods from God, indeed!

And ray guns. Or guns that shoot relativistic beads of uranium!

[Legman688]

My quick and dirty review:

1. Interesting premise. Halfway original, which is more than you can say for anything else on TV or the big screen these days.

2. CGI dinos! They look a tad cartoony, but it's a tv show, with a tv show budget and lead times, not a big-budget motion picture.

3. Costuming. WTF? Why are 22nd century soldiers wearing football pads? It's ridiculous. We won't touch on the sheer lack of practicality, not to mention GFW-ness, of a tiny frontier colony having an 'only-ones' weapons policy. In a place with carnivorous dinosaurs >_<

4. Weapons. As HTRN pointed out, ridiculous. The major threat is multiton carnivorous dinosaurs, and they're using subcaliber carbines? WTF??? Try some bolt-actions in .375 H&H, guys. Or those McCann Industries Garands in .458 WinMag.

5. Armored vehicles that can't hold off a mid-sized carnivorous dinosaur for five minutes. Dumb da dumb dumb!

6. The bad guys... bog standard left-wing theory Mark 1 Mod 0 is that their dreams of a perfect society full of rainbows and unicorns and butterflies only fail because of deliberate "wreckers." Couldn't be because human nature prevents it, oh no. So of course it's a conspiracy - only we don't know yet who the actual 'good guys' are, the colonists or the 'Sixers.' And probably never will, given Hollyweird's penchant for moral relativism.

I'll give it another week.