1/1/2023 0 Comments Nova Genesis![]() Josh’s hatred against his father makes no sense to me, and it looks like it was just shoehorned in to force some familial drama into an otherwise engaging sci-fi show. At first Josh was so desperate for his father to make it to Terra Nova with the rest of the family, but then as soon as we got there it turns out he harbors a deep resentment against his dad for abandoning the family. ![]() The first two I noticed both came from Jim’s kids: Josh and Zoe. There were also a couple character moments that did not ring true for me. “You are not in Kansas anymore! You are on Pandor–I mean, uh…Terra Nova!” And how about that welcome speech by Lang? They really could have just switched out his AVATAR speech. The presence of transparent medical charts and Stephen Lang doesn’t help, either. You’ve got your handsome foreign lead actor being taken to a beautiful alien world that’s home to rare minerals and a potentially hostile inhabitants, only to realize that the other humans are the real enemies. Stargate and LOST are two of the first TV shows that come to mind, but the one that most people are going to be pointing fingers at is AVATAR. What I can’t do is ignore the blatant rip-off of countless other sci-fi properties. Obviously, this is a sci-fi show and we have to just accept that this works. Conveniently, mankind has found a one-way wormhole to this magical place and is being taken there to start a new life. Terra Nova is, apparently, a place that is stuck 85 million years in the past. He goes to jail for breaking this rule and resisting arrest, but is broken out in time to stow away on his family’s one-way trip to Terra Nova. Jason O’Mara plays Jim Shannon, a police officer who broke the government’s strict population control rules by having and hiding a third child. ![]() It seemed like a very boilerplate representation of a planet Earth that has gone to hell, and lacked any real unique interpretation as we’ve seen in films like Blade Runner or Minority Report. The depiction of 22nd century earth was pretty impressive by TV standards, although wasn’t anything special artistically. The pilot episode, appropriately titled “Genesis”, certainly starts off in a suitably epic manner. However, with a per-episode budget reported at four million dollars, can it possibly live up to the hype? Or does this dino show crumble under the weight of its own lofty expectations? Read on to find out. The marketing team at FOX would have you believe it’s the single largest television event in the history of the medium. TERRA NOVA “Genesis” Season 1 Episode 1 – FOX’s biggest new show this fall, the Steven Spielberg produced Terra Nova, is finally upon us. ![]()
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