Terra Nova

Jurassic Park? Avatar? Lost? Um? I envy those who found what they were looking for here. I just saw another unbearable, dime-a-dozen telenovela full of nonsense about banalities and about the real American family. This is all presented in CGI scenery, spiced up here and there by total guilty pleasure moments like Stephen “I’m so tough, I’m ridiculous" Lang vs. T-Rex which puts even scenes like Rambo vs. helicopter or Seagal’s pot belly vs. outnumbered a hundred to one. But at least I could watch the introductory double-episode to the end, unlike episode three. (06.10.2011)

It suffers from all the traditional problems afflicting American series, but it’s a good watch = the large budget is visible. The special effects are decent, very good in terms of story and mainly there is lots to investigate. I hope that we are treated to some flashbacks from the days of the first settlers. The greatest problem with this series are the characters and the actors. Stephen Lang is awesome, no dispute, but he towers so much above the others that you don’t give a damn about the main family, let alone the rest of the base. Also Allison Miller has grown on me, otherwise following the fates of the other jerks might become boring. We’ll see... So in the end it wasn’t so bad, a lot of unnecessary stuffing episodes, but the finale saves it overall. In fact, it’s fine whenever we get a glimpse of the future, even though it’s just a warehouse with a blue hole and nothing else. If Terra Nova gets a second series, fine... if not, I’m not going to cry about it. (28.09.2011)

Die Pilotfolge… Jetzt weiß ich, dass ich keine weitere Folge mehr sehen möchte, weil ich die erste uninteressant fand. Es ist egal, dass Terra Nova eine Mischung aus Jurassic Park (die Idee, das Ganze umzudrehen, hat mir gefallen – die Menschen sind in einem Gehege in einer mesozoischen Welt eingesperrt), Stargate, Avatar - Aufbruch nach Pandora usw. ist. Es ist einfach langweilig. Hinter jeder Ecke versteckt sich ein Klischee. Man könnte auch sagen, dass es eine "Möchtegernfolge“ ist (das betrifft die harten Kerle, die dramatischen Plots, den Humor, die Spannung…). Die Tricks sind auch nicht atemberaubend. Keine besonders gelungene Folge. (01.04.2012)