Greetings from Lithuania.
Although there are a lot of bad stuff in this show, and you can read them in ~90% of reviews (and i totally agree with them) i somehow like this show, to be more specific, i like it very much. Going to start from the Bad:
1) clichés - tons of it, in whatever direction you look at, i don't even want to start on that ...
2) A lots of corny dialogs, (especially they're coming from cute Shannons family members). But that's not a big problem in here. Hey, not every family have to look like it stars in Rob Zombie's movie.
3) Bad (most the time) CGI of the dinosaurs (especially in the last episode). of course it's a TV but it just HAVE to look better these days.
The Good:
1) Stephen Lang. Still fresh from "Avatar", he successfully steps in to the role of a colony leader. I think, Stephen Lang's character Commander Nathaniel Taylor is a twin brother of Colonel Miles Quaritch, only the "better" brother went to work in "Terra Nova", the bad - to Pandora. Just kidding here, but you can clearly see the similarities of these characters. His speech in 8th episode "Vs." at the end in a festival on his behalf was very good and touching ("family and peaceful life, that's the whole idea of the project "Terra Nova").
2) Not overdone with "mysteries and twists" stuff. Although i like twists and mysteries in a movies and especially in the shows, I was so tired of all the mysteries and twists stuff done recently in TV shows (and we know these shows aren't we?)where they just kept throwing them at us every 5 min. and one "big" at the end of the episode (look how "Lost" lost it's magic in the middle of airing when they just finally overdone with that). "Terra Nova" plays with you straight and i liked it. And there is some interesting stuff in the end of the last episode of season one.
3) The whole idea of a show and the production qualities. The idea of people being transported back 85 million years to prehistoric Earth with a second chance to build a civilization sounds really impressive for a TV show these days. It's nothing really new, but keeps us interested in the process of doing it. And the production of this show is a first rate, a lot of work went in doing that (but not in making of dinosaurs).
Overall: 1) if you are looking for some new Emmy/G.Globes winner show, than look completely elsewhere, no awards will shine in here. 2) if your standards for a TV show are high (first rate acting, brilliant writing, tons of mysteries to the keep the wheel spinning) and every new show has to be "revolutionaly good", look somewhere else.
Otherwise you can really check out "Terra Nova" open minded and then maybe you will be waiting for a second season, as i am now.
Although there are a lot of bad stuff in this show, and you can read them in ~90% of reviews (and i totally agree with them) i somehow like this show, to be more specific, i like it very much. Going to start from the Bad:
1) clichés - tons of it, in whatever direction you look at, i don't even want to start on that ...
2) A lots of corny dialogs, (especially they're coming from cute Shannons family members). But that's not a big problem in here. Hey, not every family have to look like it stars in Rob Zombie's movie.
3) Bad (most the time) CGI of the dinosaurs (especially in the last episode). of course it's a TV but it just HAVE to look better these days.
The Good:
1) Stephen Lang. Still fresh from "Avatar", he successfully steps in to the role of a colony leader. I think, Stephen Lang's character Commander Nathaniel Taylor is a twin brother of Colonel Miles Quaritch, only the "better" brother went to work in "Terra Nova", the bad - to Pandora. Just kidding here, but you can clearly see the similarities of these characters. His speech in 8th episode "Vs." at the end in a festival on his behalf was very good and touching ("family and peaceful life, that's the whole idea of the project "Terra Nova").
2) Not overdone with "mysteries and twists" stuff. Although i like twists and mysteries in a movies and especially in the shows, I was so tired of all the mysteries and twists stuff done recently in TV shows (and we know these shows aren't we?)where they just kept throwing them at us every 5 min. and one "big" at the end of the episode (look how "Lost" lost it's magic in the middle of airing when they just finally overdone with that). "Terra Nova" plays with you straight and i liked it. And there is some interesting stuff in the end of the last episode of season one.
3) The whole idea of a show and the production qualities. The idea of people being transported back 85 million years to prehistoric Earth with a second chance to build a civilization sounds really impressive for a TV show these days. It's nothing really new, but keeps us interested in the process of doing it. And the production of this show is a first rate, a lot of work went in doing that (but not in making of dinosaurs).
Overall: 1) if you are looking for some new Emmy/G.Globes winner show, than look completely elsewhere, no awards will shine in here. 2) if your standards for a TV show are high (first rate acting, brilliant writing, tons of mysteries to the keep the wheel spinning) and every new show has to be "revolutionaly good", look somewhere else.
Otherwise you can really check out "Terra Nova" open minded and then maybe you will be waiting for a second season, as i am now.