Terra Nova's had a great start. With its mysteries, engaging characters, and beautiful scenery, the show reminds me of the hit series Lost in many ways. I just hope they don't screw it up at the last minute like the Lost writers did.
The story follows the Shannon family, who lives in year 2149, when life on earth is being threatened by air quality problems and overpopulation. They are recruited for the tenth pilgrimage to Terra Nova, a human colony based 85 million years in the past, when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
Here are my thoughts about this two-part episode :
- I just loved the way it started. I don't know what they did to me, but they got me the second I started watching. I couldn't stop, and I was left wanting more and more. That's what every series should be aiming to do to viewers. I feel like this is going to be my new favorite TV series. I have great hopes for Terra Nova.
- The question I kept asking myself was "how can they build a human society in the past when humans weren't even on earth, without completely changing the future and creating a huge paradox?" I'm glad my question was answered in the first half of the episode. They're in a new timeline. The portal to the past leads to an alternate universe, so it's completely independent from their own timeline. No butterfly effect, then.
- I loved how everyone was so amazed and shocked about normal everyday things like fresh air, fruits, sunlight, clouds and the moon. It made me thinking, we should be more grateful for these things. We only notice how much important they are to us when we can't have them anymore.
- Commander Taylor. I don't know what to make of him yet. He's hiding something. And the whole thing with his son who went missing and the writings on the rocks near the falls. Something isn't right. Oh how I love mysteries!
- The Sixers. They came on the sixth pilgrimage. But they split away from the Terra Nova colony when they realized people knew they had a secret agenda. I'm so glad the only villains aren't the dinosaurs like the previews led us to believe!
- I feel like this Skye girl is hiding something too. What's her relation to the Sixers? She seemed to know that Drake guy pretty well, and have a good relationship with him, since he let them get in the vehicle when they were being attacked by Slashers. Was it only because she knew him before the split up? Or is she involved with the Sixers in some way...?
- According to Mira, the leader of the Sixers, the real reason for Terra Nova's existence is to control the past, and thus being able to control the future. And the writings on the rocks are the key to it. Whatever that's supposed to mean. But I can't wait to find out!
So that's it! What did you guys think about the series premiere?
How do you think it will develop?
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