Terra Nova

[Mikey]

Touche.

Well, I admit I never read ANY work of fiction with an eye toward discovering some conspiratorial trend rather than a simple essay to enjoy a work of fiction. That said, I read Crichton's earlier novels and continued to do so because of one simple fact: I enjoyed to writing. I stopped doing so around Rising Sun or so, so I stopped reading.

[Graham Kennedy]

I didn't read them that way myself until Jurassic Park basically threw it in my face.

Have to say, though, despite my disagreement with his philosophy (or what I see as his philosophy), he did a pretty good job as a writer.

[Mikey]

Agreed, up to Disclosure. That was the point where, IMO, he started adding convolutions for tbeir own sake.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

This is... an odd premise for a show.

[Lighthawk]

Of course it is, it's an excuse to throw humans and dinosaurs together.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Of course it is, it's an excuse to throw humans and dinosaurs together.

Yeah, it's cool, but still weird.

[Lighthawk]

Definitely.

[stitch626]

When is this starting? I would love to see it (as long as it is decent).

[Lighthawk]

End of September last I heard

[Foxbat]

I shall do as I always do, set the DVR to record the 1st 4 shows. If it doesn't wow me by then, it's off the queue. I'm even harsher than FOX, but then again, I AM Foxbat, so, there you go...

[Lighthawk]

That's more generous than I am...two tries is about as much as I give most things.

[Mikey]

Ha! I removed Falling Skies from my queue - and erased the episode I had recorded - 1/3 of the way into watching the pilot.

[Foxbat]

Falling Skies needed more flashbacks to the invasion I thought, not just a bunch of survivors talking about how bad it was to each other...

[Mikey]

It also needed less hidebound writing, characters who were people and not just archetypes, and antagonists who didn't need to painfully enslave children in order to generate antipathy.

[stitch626]

Saw the premere. It was... ok. Nothing made me want to cringe (too much), but I wasn't blown away. Except for the nice CGI of the dinosaurs. It was pretty.