My Thoughts on Terra Nova

Originally written in May.

Greetings my vigilant readers, it's been a while I know. My laptop's USB-ports went kaboom on late February and was on maintenance pretty much the entire March then when I got it back on March-April I was feeling real lazy and I basically did nothing execpt played GTA San Andreas and beat it.

Let me tell you GTA San Andreas was one hard son of a bitch of a game to beat but I did it! Yeah I'm on top of the world now.

But know that you know why I've done nothing I'll give you my five cents on Terra Nova. But now you're yelling that I'm a year late and you're be right- execpt that it was just shown in Finland and ended about a month ago, so there you go.

Now let me tell you another thing I'm sorry.

Yeah I'm sorry 'cause it got cancelled.

Now I got nothing to do about it, but to me that a show like Terra Nova got cancelled only tells about the sad sad state of american sci-fi. I heard that Firefly got cancelled after one season and I've heard nothing bad about it, only good so I thought that it got cancelled because it was too "complicated" cowboys in space you see.

Then even made a movie about it called Serenity wich bombed at the box office so it was released only on DVD here on Finland and since I heard nothing than good about it I bought it haven't seen it yet but I'm planning to.

But back to Terra Nova now I kinda get it why no-one watched Firefly and therefore was cancelled but a show like Terra Nova being cancelled after one season is truly sad.

Now don't get me wrong I didn't like Terra Nova one bit - yet I saw every single lousy episode of it but I thought it was just the right amount of crap to continue 'till the end of the days.

I first got on Terra Nova when I was watching the Big Bang theory and then on a commerical break I saw this ad for Terra Nova and I thought that it was pretty cool. Then on the next weekend I went to see my sister in Turku and ads for Terra Nova was all over the place it even had an article about it in the News paper it didn't say much except it was produced by Spielbergh and it wasn't going to be like Jurassic Park and that it had a huge budget so I thought to myself that it was going to be one hell of show.

Then the saturday came it was nine pm. I was sitting on my sister's couch all ready to see the very next TV-show since Lost and boy was I dissapointed. It sucked. Yet I found myself watching it every saturday just being amazed on how it failed to live up to hype.

I read that others were thinking the same thing.
Some said that it characters sucked being too cliche and everything but I thought that it sucked all the way. Not just because of the characters all though that's one reason. They were boring and cliched you had seen them about million times in other movies and you will see them on future.
The father of the main family was just a dumb stereotypic dope, the boy was the regular teenager you see in American Pie movies, the girl was the regular "good girl" and samething with the mother and the babydaughter was just cute that's all. The villains were just the evil company trying to rob the past earth's resources for they're own good and that's it!

And then the writing you though that the characters were onedimensional you know nothing! The writing was so cliched it hurt and had huge huge plotholes! For instance in the episode Vs. Taylor was so close capturing the sixer's mole but didn't 'cause he need to tell the whole truth about the body to Jim and therefore doomed the entire colony! And here's another thing that bugged me:

WHY IN THE HOLY NAME OF GOD DIDN'T THIS TAKE PLACE IN SPACE! WHERE THE HELL WAS EARTH'S SPACE PROGRAM! ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT IN THE FUTURE THEY DECIDE TO CLOSE NASA BECAUSE GOING IN SPACE HAS NO PURPOSE AND COSTS TOO MUCH! YOU'VE JUST TRAVELLED THROUGH DIMENSIONS AND TIME! YOU IDIOTS! 

*sigh*pant pant*
So yeah that's my biggest problem with this show but there is some good about it:
I liked the production quality and the whole world they just created. But it all comes down on one thing Terra Nova was just a really dumb show that was just being a good no-brainer to end my Saturdays. Thank God Yle decided to start showing the modern Doctor Who again or I would have become I don't know what. But anyway, I too feel bad about it cancellation 'cause to me it was just so dumb to go on and on but if it should continue I wouldn't care would I be watching it? I don't know - maybe? Anyway Live Long and Prosper and I try to be less of a lazy ass.