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11 October 2011, 10:08 PM
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Terra Nova
Anyone else watched this piece of sheer ****. What a disappointment it has been. Probably as disappointing and unoriginal as this post.
After 3 episodes, I really don't see it having a second series.
After 3 episodes, I really don't see it having a second series.
11 October 2011, 10:19 PM
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I've only seen the first pilot episode (well, 3/4 of it, I can summon the inclination to watch the rest - too many other more interesting things to watch). I have to agree though. Apart from the novel setting idea, it's pretty poor. Even the Dino's are not that well done (and there are not enough of them). The jungle does not give you a sense of "other world/other time" about it. No little details showing this is the late Cretaceous period. I don't think I'll bother watching the rest.
12 October 2011, 12:10 PM
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I had a feeling your post wasn't going to a positive 
I'll watch pretty much anything and even I'll admit that its a bit shoddy. Shame because I like the actor playing the cop dad. He was in Life on Mars USA which I actually liked.
The general dude from Avatar makes it feel like a stupidly low rent Avatar with all the good bits taken out and blue people replaced with cheap CGI dinosaurs.
I think its just really good scifi won't get past those with the cash to make these things so writers have to come up with **** to get them to part with production cash. I expect anything too "out there" won't get picked up as it's too big a risk.
Imagine a writer coming up with a good TV series based on Dune - not a hope of getting it made. It takes two read throughs just to get the jist!
I'll watch pretty much anything and even I'll admit that its a bit shoddy. Shame because I like the actor playing the cop dad. He was in Life on Mars USA which I actually liked.
The general dude from Avatar makes it feel like a stupidly low rent Avatar with all the good bits taken out and blue people replaced with cheap CGI dinosaurs.
I think its just really good scifi won't get past those with the cash to make these things so writers have to come up with **** to get them to part with production cash. I expect anything too "out there" won't get picked up as it's too big a risk.
Imagine a writer coming up with a good TV series based on Dune - not a hope of getting it made. It takes two read throughs just to get the jist!
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12 October 2011, 12:22 PM
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I'm a pretty predictable gloomy poster, even I see that!
Since Battlestar Galactica came out, the SciFi game as been well and truely UPPED imo. I'm a big StarTrek fan but I just can't enjoy it anymore as it's just terrible in comparison. Although now I'm starting to see how good and underpraised Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was, I really disliked it when it first aired as it was so foreign to what StarTrek was like.
I loved Dune, what an incredible book. Bought the movie on HD-DVD and it wasn't for me, infact I thought it was completely awful. I thought there was already a "good" series about Dune?
I loved Dune, what an incredible book. Bought the movie on HD-DVD and it wasn't for me, infact I thought it was completely awful. I thought there was already a "good" series about Dune?
12 October 2011, 12:45 PM
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I have watched the first two episodes and have the 3rd recorded on sky plus.
Didn't think it was too bad. Got a nice little twist that I see playing out.
However, I give it two seasons before it is pulled.
Stargate Universe was the same sort of thing would appeal to same kind of audience. That was pulled earlier this year with one of the worsed endings to a series I have ever seen.
Didn't think it was too bad. Got a nice little twist that I see playing out.
However, I give it two seasons before it is pulled.
Stargate Universe was the same sort of thing would appeal to same kind of audience. That was pulled earlier this year with one of the worsed endings to a series I have ever seen.
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bring back Teminator the sarah connor chronicles. i enjoyed that one. agreed the new terra nova is **** poor. the new series of dexter is hotting up to be a good one.
I liked QL
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Conclusion
Throughout the series, Sam believes that God, or some other higher power, is controlling his leaps, sending him to times and places where he may be needed. In the series' final episode, he encounters a mysterious bartender who insinuates detailed knowledge of Sam's "mission" and his true identity. Because this bartender (or someone who looks exactly like him – both parts played by Bruce McGill) was also present in Sam's first leap (although there is no mention of this in the actual episode), Sam comes to believe he might actually be that higher power, though the man neither confirms nor explicitly denies this.
The bartender helps Sam remember that he built Project Quantum Leap exactly because he wanted to put right what once went wrong and makes him realize that he himself has control over his leaps. The bartender then asks Sam where he wishes to leap to next. Sam replies by saying he wishes to return home but he cannot as he still has a wrong to put right for Al, by letting his first wife Beth (Susan Diol in her second appearance in that role during the series) know that Al is still alive in a POW camp in Vietnam (when Sam first encountered Al's wife in the season 2 finale "M.I.A." he refused to tell her, because he felt it was wrong since that wasn't what he was there to change). Sam then promptly leaps out and does so as himself, not in a host body from the past. The show's epilogue states that Sam never returned home, however Beth and Al are still married and they have four daughters.
Throughout the series, Sam believes that God, or some other higher power, is controlling his leaps, sending him to times and places where he may be needed. In the series' final episode, he encounters a mysterious bartender who insinuates detailed knowledge of Sam's "mission" and his true identity. Because this bartender (or someone who looks exactly like him – both parts played by Bruce McGill) was also present in Sam's first leap (although there is no mention of this in the actual episode), Sam comes to believe he might actually be that higher power, though the man neither confirms nor explicitly denies this.
The bartender helps Sam remember that he built Project Quantum Leap exactly because he wanted to put right what once went wrong and makes him realize that he himself has control over his leaps. The bartender then asks Sam where he wishes to leap to next. Sam replies by saying he wishes to return home but he cannot as he still has a wrong to put right for Al, by letting his first wife Beth (Susan Diol in her second appearance in that role during the series) know that Al is still alive in a POW camp in Vietnam (when Sam first encountered Al's wife in the season 2 finale "M.I.A." he refused to tell her, because he felt it was wrong since that wasn't what he was there to change). Sam then promptly leaps out and does so as himself, not in a host body from the past. The show's epilogue states that Sam never returned home, however Beth and Al are still married and they have four daughters.
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nothing to do with tents then 
but seriously quantum leap was terrible and then they put same actor along with easily the worst theme music in history into the last incarnation of star trek, no wonder it sealed the coffin despite the hot chick, William Shatner still rules imo 
but seriously quantum leap was terrible and then they put same actor along with easily the worst theme music in history into the last incarnation of star trek, no wonder it sealed the coffin despite the hot chick, William Shatner still rules imo
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