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Needs More T-Rex

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (18)

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This one aired during the Super Bowl, and I admit I’m a little curious. One of two big-budget series airing this year (the other being the alien invasion-themed “Falling Skies”), “Terra Nova” is about family who ends up with a group of scientists and soldier types that travel a bunch of million years into the past to make a new life among the dinosaurs. Parts of it are eerily similar to the sometimes-great BBC show “Primeval,” but with better creature effects. Anyway, watch:

I’m happy to see Stephen Lang getting steady work, and the dinosaurs, what little we see of them, anyway, do look cool. Sort of a hard sci-fi version of “Land Of The Lost.” It’s produced by Steven Spielberg, and it’s either going to be great, or a staggeringly expensive flop.









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Comments

that premise makes no sense.

humans wrecked the present, so a community gets a "second chance" in the past? so if they succeed, will that wipe out the chain of events that leads to the rise of the mammals?

and if i had a time machine, and was going to use it as a little noah's ark for humanity, out of the many eras i might choose for my little house on the prairie, the era when giant reptiles ruled the earth probably wouldn't be my go to place.

and if it is really humanity's second chance, how many people did they bring, sufficient to give humanity a gene pool of a chance?

oh wait, shut up, its dinosaurs and guns and forts and jungle adventures.

Posted by: idleprimate at February 7, 2011 11:37 AM

oh, and i thought it was clancy brown for a second, got excited, then realised it was the dude from avatar shooting at locals again.

Posted by: idleprimate at February 7, 2011 11:39 AM

'Primeval' was exactly what I thought when I saw this.

Posted by: fenchurch at February 7, 2011 11:41 AM

Oy flipping gevalt.

The plot summary alone is almost enough to give me an aneurysm.

Posted by: The Wanderer at February 7, 2011 11:45 AM

i think of primeval as fun garbage that absolutely requires leaving your brain at the door, rather than 'sometimes great'

maybe it is a good reference point for terra nova

Posted by: idleprimate at February 7, 2011 11:55 AM

Primeval is ITV, not BBC, not that I'd expect you to know that, seeing where you see most British shows the west side of the Atlantic.

Posted by: cockroach at February 7, 2011 12:04 PM

I wasn't going to bother watching this because I doubt it'll be any good.

Stephen Lang's kickass beard however, deserves a fair chance. You just have to respect a manly beard of that caliber!

Posted by: Murderbot at February 7, 2011 12:10 PM

The remise reminds me a bit of that children's tv show from the eighties? early nineties? with humans fighting aliens on prehistoric earth, and they at least had the good grace to ride the anachronistic mix of different era dinosaurs and early synapsids, to mount torpedoes and ray guns on them and to fight

/Anyone remember the name?

Posted by: cockroach at February 7, 2011 12:12 PM

Time traveling into the past would explain the 6000-year old earth theories some ascribe to.

Although, God, still not involved. Slacker. Puts in one week of work, and expects everyone to worship him.

Posted by: Wembley at February 7, 2011 12:17 PM

There's a jeep in the future? Does the term "fossil fuel" mean nothing to these people?

Posted by: Anon at February 7, 2011 12:30 PM

Er, in the past/future, I meant to say.

Posted by: Anon at February 7, 2011 12:30 PM

The show I was thinking of was Dino Riders
This was what it was about.

Stranded in the past, two groups recruited the planet's dinosaur population into their struggle. The humans used their telepathy for taming dinosaurs to ride and for domestic use. The aliens captured dinosaurs with 'brain boxes'. These were large metal helmets which fit onto dinosaur's heads and control their brains. Both humans and aliens would often fit dinosaurs with huge arrays of laser and weapon platforms, upon which people could ride, and attack one another.

Make that into alive action tv show, instead of this sappy load of bull.

Posted by: cockroach at February 7, 2011 12:35 PM

High five, cockroach! Dino Riders was the tits. Dinosaurs plus laser guns = win. Always.

Maybe the brain boxes and saddles will appear in season 2?

Posted by: RobP at February 7, 2011 12:52 PM

They do know there's an extinction event coming, right? What happens then? Do they just go further into the past? Eventually they're gonna hit protozoa and just fuck life up from the start.

Posted by: coryo at February 7, 2011 3:14 PM

I have to agree that the dinosaur age would not be my time period of choice given the chance. But, maybe Spielberg doesn't understand any other time period. And this does look kind of awesome but I'll probably get as bored with it as I did with Primeval. That shit got old real fast!!

Posted by: mslewis at February 7, 2011 3:43 PM

mslewis
maybe Spielberg doesn't understand any other time period

Well it's either that or WWII, and there's no guarantee Indy will be there, so yeah, I'd stick with the dinosaur times

Posted by: cockroach at February 7, 2011 4:01 PM

Fifteen seconds into the trailer I was screaming "Can anyone say Julian May's Saga Of Pliocene Exile?"

At least they could have consulted him...this will not end well...

Posted by: DeaconG at February 7, 2011 4:52 PM

It's a great premise, but I really hope that scene was shot just for the trailer. If not, it won't be an asteroid that kills the dinosaurs, it will be the anvils falling from the sky.

Posted by: The Mutt at February 7, 2011 10:43 PM