Cobbling bits of them for a TV show is not exactly progress. Both of those movies were sappy and have been done. Their presence makes Terra Nova feel like Jurassic Park meets Avatar. The dinosaurs play a major part in the two-hour pilot. Who sent the Sixers from the future? Why do they want to kill Taylor and stop Terra Nova? This is another welcome element to Terra Nova. They are the Sixers - so called because they arrived in the 6th Pilgrimage. Terra Nova is a gated community - big gates - because there are some very vicious dinos outside, and in a nice Mad Max-ish twist, there also are some renegade forces out there, trying to take down the colony. The Shannon family settles into their new digs and is learning to enjoy the clean air and clear skies, and then things get odd. Once the family gets to Terra Nova, they meet the settlement leader, the brusque and militaristic Commander Taylor (Stephen Lang of Avatar), who was part of the 1st Settlement. Here’s hoping they return there for some parts of the show (although they don’t in the two-hour pilot). That’s the part of Terra Nova that is most intriguing. They all hatch a plan to break out Jim, who hatches his own plan to bring Zoe along and, well, chaos ensues. When he finds out from prison that Elisabeth has been selected for the 10th Pilgrimage to Terra Nova (most people are chosen by lottery, and getting to go is like saving your life), Jim is ecstatic, until he finds out the government will only let Josh and Maddy go with her. Jim is put in jail for two years for resisting arrest. Even though Jim is a cop and Elisabeth is a trauma surgeon, there is no leniency when they’re found to have broken the two-child quota. If you’ve been paying attention, you know that’s one child too many in 2149. The show ostensibly revolves around Jim Shannon (Jason O’Mara), his wife, Elisabeth (Shelley Conn), and their kids: Josh (Landon Liboiron), who is 17 Maddy (Naomi Scott), 15 and Zoe (Alana Mansour), 5. Terra Nova is kind of like a utopian do-over - a chance for new age pioneers to go back in time and get it right. Not frustratingly unclear, but excitedly unclear. Still, what the ultimate purpose of Terra Nova is now - providing a safe haven for people in 2149 or somehow altering the course of history in some other way - is unclear. The producers explain that this wormhole isn’t allowing people from 2149 to retrace man’s steps (which would, given a wrong step, change the course of everything that came after it). This is a tricky element to the series, but the main idea is that nine expeditions so far have been sent back in time - 85 million years in the past, to be precise - to what is described as Terra Nova, a new civilization that just might be able to save the current one. See, the hook in Terra Nova is that desperate scientists discovered a “fracture in time,” a portal to the past. But the producers have chosen a different course. Right there, in those moments, is a series that a lot of people would want to watch. The scenes here have a faint Blade Runner quality to them. The government is brutally enforcing a two-child policy for every family. Plant and animal life are nearly extinct. The world is suffering from overpopulation and an environmental disaster. 'Terra Nova's' Landon Liboiron Joins Netflix's 'Hemlock Grove' (Exclusive)
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