For anyone who had been patient to stay with 'Terra Nova' (Mon., 8PM ET on FOX) through its awkward and meandering first several episodes, things are really starting to get together and get interesting. In fact, I dare say if the keeps up, we might be worrying about a second season pick-up come the inevitable cliffhanger finale in about a month.
Immediately, Taylor tracked the man who'd been banished from Terra Nova for murder, and implemented a brilliant espionage assignment. It could help generate the man entry into the colony, but more to the point it could help Taylor find out who the spy is inside Terra Nova. That's a brilliant tactician using a predicament which was 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, a number of that genius he admitted his son has this week came from him. The concept that his son could have designed a method to speak to the near future could well be a game-changer for Terra Nova. They'll have to accept the Sixers, probably, to obtain their on the job it.
I've only been watching "Terra Nova" intermittently since the pilot, and haven't felt the requirement to weigh in because Ryan McGee's been doing such a good job along with his reviews on our Monkeys as Critics blog. Terra Nova Review. His strongest point, in the event you weren't reading those, is that in addition to making the Shannon family terminally dull, the producers picked the complete least interesting reason for the life with the colony to create the show. A protected, secure, thriving colony that already has its own laws and bureaucracies in position is vastly less compelling than, say, Taylor setting some misconception from the beginning, or even later on if/when there exists a war with all the Sixers. With things relatively stable - with dinosaur CGI very costly to feature them prominently every week (although that is what the show is approximately, or should be) - the show has had to consistently dust off ideas that Brannon Braga and company already did 5 or 6 times around the "Star Trek" spin-offs. (A cave that erases people's memories can be a hop, skip and a jump away from another episode in which the holodeck malfunctions.) This week's blackout episode, for instance, felt darned much like a "Next Generation" episode called "Disaster" - which that demonstrate did in their fifth season, because this is the type of inventory story you tell later inside the run when you're running low on new ideas. "Terra Nova" does not have any ideas to start with. It has a setting it can't really manage to properly exploit, and possesses characters nobody loves (other than maybe Taylor and Skye), and its particular stories seem generated by some kind of A.I. program that's watched the past Twenty five years of TV sci-fi and cribbed the most obvious bits. There's no there there. I agree with Ryan that "Nightfall" was most likely the best episode because the pilot, however, if this is the best the show can perform, I'm fine shifting.
For all those who had been patient to stick with 'Terra Nova' (Mon., 8PM ET on FOX) through its awkward and meandering first several episodes, situations are really starting to come together and obtain interesting. In fact, I dare say if this type of keeps up, organic beef be worrying of a second season pick-up come the inevitable cliffhanger finale within monthly.
Now, Taylor tracked the man who'd been banished from Terra Nova for murder, and implemented a fantastic espionage assignment. It could help generate the man entry into the colony, but more importantly it could help Taylor learn who the spy is inside Terra Nova.