Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:20:48 -0400
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
 WSFA Official List <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Terra Nova
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 10/11/2011 12:54 PM, Tamar Lindsay wrote:
> Fox...
> Yet another reason I'm glad I gave up tv back in 1993.
> It's funny how much I don't miss it.

Most of it is still crap, but there are occasional gleams of good stuff
here and there.  Some of the SF is actually decent SF, unlike the junk
(Lost in Space for example) that we watched when I was a kid for the
same reason that Eskimos eat blubber...it's all there was.

The jury is still out on Terra Nova for me.  The camera work and special
effects are first rate, and the acting is acceptable.  The premise is
interesting, and the writers have left openings for it to go several
ways, while hinting strongly at one possibility (which makes me
suspicious of a switch at some point).

There are several aspects that are not very believable, but they aren't
critical to the individual shows...just to the background that set up
the environment, and at least one of them could turn out to be more
believable with more information (and since a part of the
plot/background is involved that they've only hinted at in the first
couple of episodes is involved, more information is needed to tell if
it's reasonable or not.

Having the series start with a $20 million episode, and then two weeks
later you shove it into the weeds for a stupid baseball game seems
incredibly stupid to me, from a product management standpoint.  Of
course, I still can't figure out why the "skiffy" channel includes
wrestling in its lineup.  The audiences for the wrestling and SF (even
bad SF) do not overlap, so all you are doing is encouraging channel
switching...again, seems stupid.

-- Mike B.