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"Terra Nova" Trailer and Clips: Won't Someone Think of the Children?

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (18)

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Fox’s “Terra Nova” has had a troubled production history, what with the delays, revolving door of writers and production staff, cuts to episode orders, and less than impressive trailers to date. With a September 26th premier date on a 13 episode first season, Fox is rolling out the full length trailers and faux viral campaign to get the juices flowing. You know what works better than bad CGI dinosaurs to get someone ready for fall television season? Three months of flipping channels and finding nothing but “The Closer” and reruns of “Walker Texas Ranger.”

Here’s the trailer, and please excuse the terrifying woman introducing the clip. I don’t know why she is apparently wearing a leather butcher’s apron. Maybe she wandered off the set of “Dexter”:

There are basically two televisions shows being advertised here. I really want to watch the one set in a disintegrating dystopian future. It’s got a fantastic Blade Runner feel to it. I have very little interest in watching “Avatar II: The Return to Jurassic Park.” Especially since they base that advertising around teenagers wandering off alone so that they need saved. The project that could save mankind, and these are the best they could find?

Here are the viral videos which are set as newscasts in the dystopian future:









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Comments

Every time I see this crap I keep praying Julian May will show up and sue the holy hell out of these people.

Yup, nothing more than the reworked version of her Saga Of Pliocene Exile series...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_of_Pliocene_Exile

Is nothing sacred to Fox? Never mind.

Posted by: DeaconG at September 7, 2011 10:56 AM

Oh HELL yeah, it's got Jason O'Mara in it! There's no way I'm missing the chance of seeing him shirtless.

I actually enjoyed the first few seasons of Primeval and that had extremely cheesy special effect dinosaurs. I think this looks like fun.

Posted by: snapnhiss at September 7, 2011 11:06 AM

And at the risk of sounding like a horndog, the guy in the header photo is 59 years old. Holy moly.

Posted by: snapnhiss at September 7, 2011 11:09 AM

Yay! Let's get a head-start on destroying the world.

Posted by: phase10 at September 7, 2011 11:09 AM

Looks a little better than Primeval (BBC America) and I watched that just for the dinosaurs, so I'll probably give it a try. I just hope the stupid teenagers get eaten pretty quickly into the season. (No offense intended to smart teenagers who would know better than to wander off and need rescuing.)

Posted by: spljt at September 7, 2011 11:59 AM

When do they show the Sleestaks?

Posted by: logan at September 7, 2011 12:00 PM

When I see the ads for this I think: I hope they took lots of penicillin with them to 85,000,000 B.C., because they probably have no idea what kind of dinosaur STDs and Jurassic ebola are floating around like the common cold. I figure all those people will be dead in a month. It'll be like what happened to the aliens in "War of the Worlds."

Posted by: , at September 7, 2011 12:04 PM

No human life by 2182? That's a fairly optimistic calculation.

Posted by: RobP at September 7, 2011 12:46 PM

I wish Fox execs were eaten by dinosaurs but dinosaurs probly have more discriminating taste.

Posted by: logan at September 7, 2011 12:53 PM

I will support Terra Nova for no other reason than Stephen Lang's badassery, which seems finally to be getting it's due, post-Avatar.

Posted by: Martin at September 7, 2011 2:13 PM

"Alright what do you got?"
"Dystopian future where people fight to survive."
"Alright, sounds interesting enough. What else you got?"
"Right well we build a time machine, so people can travel back in time and live with Dinosaurs."
"Wait is this a new show you are pitching?"
"No. Same show. The best way to deal with all these problems in the future is to go back in time and live with dinosaurs."
"Yeah, alright. Makes sense to me. Clearly that would be the best option. I mean literally no other idea would be a better choice than that."


Na seriously, this is the most retarded looking crap I've ever seen in my life. Like, I once saw a kid fight his own reflection. He would look at this show and go, "Wow, that's fucking retarded."

After that show hits the air, the entire world will stop hating Americans and just feel sorry for us. People are purposely going to get aids, just so they have something slightly worse to deal with in their lives. The end of the world will never happen because it'll just go, "yeah I can't top that awful show".

It goes on from that.

Posted by: googergieger at September 7, 2011 2:23 PM

Okay, let me see if I'm up to speed with this plot...

Life on Earth in this show's present day is about to go belly up, so the solution is to go back in time 85 millions years to an era of dinosaurs and no humans existing so that humankind can live again.

But...

If we go back in time to when humans don't exist and become successful, we now run the risk of interfering with the course of natural evolution in which case humankind never exists originally and therefore we don't evolve to become the humans that send ourselves back in time in in the first place. All we need is one of these dumbass teenagers to stomp on a butterfly and *POOF there goes human history.

And...

How could you possibly not alter the original timeline? How would the colony be successful & prosperous without leaving artifacts for our future ancestors to find and alter the timeline? For that matter how could you avoid the same mass extinctions the prehistoric world suffered without leaving stuff behind? Wouldn't the fact that there aren't more advanced humans or fossilized artifacts found prove that it didn't work? Or are we saying that mankind lived out to extinction in our own past with no evidence? Were humans THAT tidy?

And...

Where are those humans descendants now? If they're going back 85 millions years, what's to stop humans from evolving into something else altogether? Hmmm, maybe that's who Indy really found in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Spielberg did have a hand in this show too.....

WHO'S BEEN FUCKIN' AROUND WITH MY MEDICATION AGAIN?!?!?!!?!?

*Ahem...

I think I'm beginning to see why this production is causing so many fits. It would make more sense at this point if they went to another planet altogether or even a parallel world that had animals similar to our dinosaurs rather than this. What's that? Brannon Braga is the showrunner?

I'll go get the torches and pitchforks.

Posted by: bleujayone at September 7, 2011 2:46 PM

The "Tenth Migration?"

What happened to the other nine? Were they all on the "B" Ark or something?

"Well, Migrations One through Nine were set up to transfer all the real workers - you know, laborers, etc. - and the telephone sanitizers, network executives and so on. Unfortunately, we, er, lost 'em."

"Lost them?"

"Yeah."

"All of them? What happened?"

"We got our sums wrong. Migrations One through Nine were accidentally sent back to the Hadean Period. They were all incinerated and poisoned."

"But did we get things right for Ten?"

"Absolutely! We remembered to carry the two this time."

Posted by: The Wanderer at September 7, 2011 3:33 PM

FWIW,

This is a pretty fascinating article, and not too off topic, if you can access the complete version:

www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/15/110815fa_fact_kolbert

Apparently, "modern" man fucked Neanderthals 40,000 years ago and people today carry the genetic fragments as evidence.

Posted by: , at September 7, 2011 4:02 PM

Well they were gonna go back to the age of butterflies and moonbeams but Mr. Peabody set the Wayback machine wrong. So now they're gonna battle dinos and hope that comet hitting the earth and killing off everything theory was wrong.

Posted by: logan at September 7, 2011 4:05 PM

"Apparently, "modern" man fucked Neanderthals 40,000 years ago and people today carry the genetic fragments as evidence."

Man, and I thought mentally handicapped was too PC.

Posted by: googergieger at September 7, 2011 6:06 PM

i'm against the population control aspect of it i hope this one gets the friday night death slot

Posted by: Utah Dynamo at September 7, 2011 10:03 PM

So - they're going back in a time machine so they can restart human civilization during the age of dinasaurs before the big ass comet that wipes almost every living thing off the face of the planet hits.

How is this not an obvious design flaw?

Posted by: funtime42 at September 8, 2011 1:14 PM