It’s a bit like Star Trek. It’s sooo sweet. Nothing bad ever happens to the main characters and things will surely sort out before the end of the episode. Call me what you like, but I like a show that leaves me smiling when I get back to work after watching it.

The “good” shows people seem to like leave me worrying and anguished for hours. Or weeks, if it’s Dexter. Thanks, I’ll rather take my share of light family drama with badly-rendered dinosaurs.

I would like to see more dinosaurs, though.

Kill off some of the other Mesozoic 90210 kids for sure though.

I have to agree with most people, why is this show set in the age of dinosaurs if there’s so few dinosaurs? Usually in a show, if there’s something odd, then it serves a significant, justifying purpose. Faster-than-Light travel in Star Trek? It gets us to these worlds where our character’s story can play out. Same with TARDIS. But in Terra Nova it really has the feeling of ‘meaningless backdrop’.

Also, given that we’ve known for nearly a decade now that dinosaurs have feathers, and that birds are descended from dinosaurs, /where are all the birds in terra nova/? They have a wooden fence and sound guns (anyone else think that’s packing like in Tyrannosaur country?) to keep out the big guys, but why isn’t this place overrun with hyper-carnivorous clawed birds?

As far as the characters, Taylor is interesting, but so over the top. Maybe it’d make more sense if we actually got to see what life was like for him while he waited for the ’1st pilgrimage’ crew to show up. I think a full length ‘silent episode’, without any real dialogue, would be really interesting in that respect, but we’ll probably just get a few flashbacks, and they’ll all look like his fight against the frilly(?) Megalania (YOU KOWARDLY KOMMODO!).

So I feel justified in all the complaints I made about this show around the water cooler. I gave up on the show, but even those who aren’t watching it for the dinosaurs notice it isn’t going anywhere with the “family-theme.”

And mark me down as another fan of Cadillacs & Dinosaurs from Mark Schultz’s “Xenozoic” comic books (I still have several of the toys — including the Cadillac — that I enjoyed while playing with my then 4-year-old daughter). You can find old episodes to download but they are a little dated now. “Terhune!”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillacs_and_Dinosaurs_(TV_series)

There’s a pitch for you, Fox. It’s really all you need.

Too many predators. Should be 3 or four at the most. And the show so rarely does anything interesting with them. I kinda liked the idea of the sixers goading the big spinosaur into attacking the fence. Also, I think they do what Spielberg did in the lost world and have guys ride motor cycles through a dinosaur stampede.

“A baby ankylosaur that the Shannon family took in a few episodes prior is returned to the wild, and a big momma ankylosaur immediately comes tromping out of the jungle to take the little tyke in as the human family looks on, all dewey-eyed.”- You know, for a second when we heard growling and saw the vegetation move, i thought the little ankylosaur was gonna get snatched by a predator. Then mom and dad could explain the food chain to Zoe!

“Anyone seen Cadillacs and Dinosaurs back in the 90s?”- I did. I was a little kid back then, but i caught a couple episodes.

Rumor is Terra Nova is going to get renewed for a second season, so maybe the producers will take the criticisms to heart and try to improve the show in its second run.

Or they could kill the 2 teens. They’re still flipping annoying though they are toned down compared to the first few episodes.

And, haw, yeah, I noticed the “bunny hands.”