Terra Nova (2011)
Show insults the intelligence of viewers
21 November 2011
The actors are fine, but why would a mother of three look practically the same age as her daughter? Casting didn't read the script?? The special effects are nice, but why are there only really dangerous dinosaurs, and why don't the writers know more about them than they are dangerous. The characters are unbelievably stupid. There has to be more to life than lying, being hurt, etc etc etc.... If the producers are going to go through the trouble to put this together they might at least have learned some of the science they were trying to present, or at least hired writers with a science background, or at least a background in physical reality. It is totally unbelievable that an 800 pound fish can't drag a 200 pound man over the edge of the cliff that he is fishing next to. More unbelievable when the fish is not supposed to exist for several tens of millions of years. Same for rhinoceros beetles, etc etc etc... Make the show believable from a story point of view or expect it to disappear like the dinosaur that it is...

Example.... \ episode 9 suggests that dragonflies have tympanic membranes on their antennae...silly idea....then the commander resists the obvious idea of finding the subsonic transmitter... then they do it stupidly by resuscitating the insect rather than triangulating with radio receivers...
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