Terra Nova (FOX)

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OK I admit I watched the whole season and the finale last night.

IS there a record for most "homages" to other shows/movies, if so they just broke it.

My god, bad guy is about to shoot good guy when he's eaten by a carnosaur, that happened in I think every Jurassic Park movie(one of them the bad guy was actually 2 raptors eaten by a T Rex in the original).

They finally broke the tendency to do the Star Trek thing where the person you'd never seen before on the mission was always the one to die.

But the ending reveal I won't spoil but let's just say it's just a twist on an old movie classic end reveal.

Disappointing.
 

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OK I admit I watched the whole season and the finale last night.

IS there a record for most "homages" to other shows/movies, if so they just broke it.

My god, bad guy is about to shoot good guy when he's eaten by a carnosaur, that happened in I think every Jurassic Park movie(one of them the bad guy was actually 2 raptors eaten by a T Rex in the original).

They finally broke the tendency to do the Star Trek thing where the person you'd never seen before on the mission was always the one to die.

But the ending reveal I won't spoil but let's just say it's just a twist on an old movie classic end reveal.

Disappointing.

That's a lot of your life you'll never get back. I didn't think anyone still watched this pile of feces.
 

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That's a lot of your life you'll never get back. I didn't think anyone still watched this pile of feces.

My gf likes it. I'm at the point where I watch to point out silly things.
 

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My 7 year old daughter loves this show. I like to watch it with her. Yes the plot has as many holes as Swiss Cheese and the acting leaves a lot to be desired. However in the end it was a fun enough ride to keep watching it. I'd still watch it if it comes back for another season.

My daughter was very sad that this was the last episode.
 

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I watched the entire season. There's not much competition on Monday night outside of MNF. There were a lot of eye rolls between my girlfriend and I the entire season and that held true for the finale. Any scene with either daughter in it is guaranteed horrible. Any scene with the son is only marginally better.

The firearms in this show are completely awesome or utterly ineffective. What was up with the guy being able to take down a Brachiosaurus from a mile away with a gun, but the girl shot Lucas twice from a few feet away (albeit a differnt gun) and he somehow scampers off with out them realizing it. Was her phazer mistakenly set on stun? Earlier in the season the guns at the front gates of Terra Nova weren't strong enough to put down one the the T-Rex-like dinosaurs. It's 2149.
 

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My 7 year old daughter loves this show. I like to watch it with her. Yes the plot has as many holes as Swiss Cheese and the acting leaves a lot to be desired. However in the end it was a fun enough ride to keep watching it. I'd still watch it if it comes back for another season.

My daughter was very sad that this was the last episode.

Same here, except it is my grandson that likes the show. Of course he is not so involved with story line, plot twists or even and real accurcay, he is six and likes the dinos and the blowing up of stuff.

We watch this together and have a great time doing so. One man's crap is another little boys treasure I guess. As long as he wants us to keep watching I will consider my time well spent.
 
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