For anyone who've been patient to adhere with 'Terra Nova' (Mon., 8PM ET on FOX) through its awkward and meandering first several episodes, things are really needs to get together and get interesting. In reality, I dare say if the keeps up, we might be worrying about a second season pick-up come the inevitable cliffhanger finale in approximately a month.
This week, Taylor tracked the guy who'd been banished from Terra Nova for murder, and implemented an excellent espionage assignment. It might help create the man entry into the colony, but more to the point it could help Taylor find out who the spy is inside Terra Nova. This is a brilliant tactician benefiting from a predicament that has been out of his control.
Taylor is a brave man, as seen when he faced down a gigantic lizard single-handedly, but he's also savvy and clever. Apparently, some of that genius he admitted his son has this week originated in him. The notion that his son could have developed a approach to speak with the long run is possibly a game-changer for Terra Nova. They'll only have to take on the Sixers, probably, to get their hands on it.
I've only been watching "Terra Nova" intermittently because the pilot, and haven't felt the need to weigh in because Ryan McGee's been doing this kind of good job together with his reviews on our Monkeys as Critics blog. Watch Terra Nova Online Trailer. His strongest point, in the event you haven't been reading those, is that in addition to making the Shannon family terminally dull, the producers picked the total least interesting reason for the life span of the colony to set the show. A protected, secure, thriving colony that already have their laws and bureaucracies in position is vastly less compelling than, say, Taylor setting things up from the beginning, or even later on if/when there is a war with the Sixers. With things relatively stable - and with dinosaur CGI very costly to feature them prominently every week (despite the fact that it is exactly what the show is about, or should be) - the show has already established to consistently take out ideas that Brannon Braga and company already did 5 to 6 times about the "Star Trek" spin-offs. (A cave that erases people's memories is really a hop, skip and a jump far from another episode where the holodeck malfunctions.) This week's blackout episode, as an example, felt darned much like a "Next Generation" episode called "Disaster" - which that show did in their fifth season, because that's the kind of inventory story you tell later inside the run if you are running low on new ideas. "Terra Nova" doesn't have suggestions to start with. It has a setting it can't really afford to properly exploit, and it has characters no-one cares about (other than maybe Taylor and Skye), and its particular stories seem generated by some type of A.I. program that's watched the past Two-and-a-half decades of TV sci-fi and cribbed the most obvious bits. There is no there there. Certainly with Ryan that "Nightfall" was possibly the best episode considering that the pilot, but when here is the best the show can do, I'm fine moving forward.
For all those who had been patient to stay with 'Terra Nova' (Mon., 8PM ET on FOX) through its awkward and meandering first several episodes, the situation is really beginning to bond and obtain interesting. In reality, I dare say if this keeps up, organic beef be worrying of a second season pick-up come the inevitable cliffhanger finale in approximately a month.
Now, Taylor tracked the guy who'd been banished from Terra Nova for murder, and implemented an excellent espionage assignment. It could help create the man entry back into the colony, but moreover it could help Taylor learn who the spy is inside Terra Nova.