The Idiot Box: TV Season 2011/2012

[Crafty_Pat]

The wife and I have really enjoyed "Terra Nova" (she has a fondness for that O'Mera guy). Then with the big reveal at the end of the first season. Holy crap.

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The Badlands is a dumping ground for the Bermuda Triangle.

I loved the pilot. Loved it. Raved about it to everyone who'd listen.

Then the week-to-week just broke my heart. If it weren't for the pilot being so good, and Shelley Conn being so adorable, and my morbid curiosity being so piqued, I don't think I could have made it through the season.

If it survives another year, I really hope they figure out how to craft interesting stories - because my gods this season was boring.

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So... In a future that bad off, there are still people so greedy they're willing to travel 50 million years to make a buck? Seriously?

It's not like these people don't already own everything. What are they gonna do with more?  

[Sletchman]

The wife and I have really enjoyed "Terra Nova" (she has a fondness for that O'Mera guy). Then with the big reveal at the end of the first season. Holy crap.

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The Badlands is a dumping ground for the Bermuda Triangle.

I loved the pilot. Loved it. Raved about it to everyone who'd listen.

Then the week-to-week just broke my heart. If it weren't for the pilot being so good, and Shelley Conn being so adorable, and my morbid curiosity being so piqued, I don't think I could have made it through the season.

If it survives another year, I really hope they figure out how to craft interesting stories - because my gods this season was boring.

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So... In a future that bad off, there are still people so greedy they're willing to travel 50 million years to make a buck? Seriously?

It's not like these people don't already own everything. What are they gonna do with more?  

I agree with everything here.

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You nailed it Pat.  If they wanted to bring back some unique mineral with a short half life that made some kind of super powered CO₂ scrubber (or even new plants with medicinal applications) I would totally get it.  But they want some kind of generic ore that's just worth money?  I just hope that's a misdirect, and that the ore is an important component of the gate anchors, and they want to use Terra Nova as a staging ground to go into other time lines and set up shop (modern tech in the 18th century = god mode).

I also think that the "alternate timeline" thing is incorrect - that they are actually in their own past, and the badlands are the result of temporal paradoxes and other nastiness that always arises from messing with time.

I just hope for season 2 (if it gets one - which I hope it does, if only for the fate of future high concept shows) that they get some focus.  Pick what they want to be, and do it well - because currently they seem to try to have it all (genre and themes wise) and it just comes across as bland (which given the concept is almost an achievement).

[foproy]

i enjoyed the season, and hope to see a season 2.

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one thing that did strike me as kind of odd, why would you have everyone right on top of the gate, why not set them back a few yards just in case they tried something like sending a bomber in first?

[Crafty_Pat]

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I also think that the "alternate timeline" thing is incorrect - that they are actually in their own past, and the badlands are the result of temporal paradoxes and other nastiness that always arises from messing with time.

That was actually one of my favorite parts of the pilot. I distinctly recall raving about it to Wolvie at Gen Con...

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The idea that Terra Nova was in a splinter timeline was awesome. Real time travel in a prime time series? Yes please!

Then they had to go and screw it all up with two-way travel. 

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one thing that did strike me as kind of odd, why would you have everyone right on top of the gate, why not set them back a few yards just in case they tried something like sending a bomber in first?

Um, because it served the plot? That's the best I got.

[ThunderMonkey]

I never thought about it, but the show was rather blah... I would be engrossed with something on my laptop (writing or gaming) miss about 5 to 15 minutes of the show, catch up and then go back to whatever I was doing.

So, I thought the show was pretty good, but probably only watched about 25 minutes of each episode in total.

[Crafty_Pat]

I never thought about it, but the show was rather blah... I would be engrossed with something on my laptop (writing or gaming) miss about 5 to 15 minutes of the show, catch up and then go back to whatever I was doing.

So, I thought the show was pretty good, but probably only watched about 25 minutes of each episode in total.

Insidious, ain't it?

Or inept. Six of one.

[Dhampire]

Terranova, while okay (good for scifi lovers) could have been so much more awesome if the family wasn't so glossy.  I don't remember where I heard it, but here goes...

A father, suffering emotional trauma from terrible prison conditions.
A teenage boy who despises his father, and rebels against him.
A young girl, withdrawn after a long time as a ward of the state.

But... we have to have things wrap up nicely, with a rose-colored glasses family to bookend each episode.

[Aldus Vertten]

Somebody should say it... Sherlock  "A scandal in Belgravia" is Perfect. Must see.

[foproy]

Somebody should say it... Sherlock  "A scandal in Belgravia" is Perfect. Must see.

is that based off the sherlock from the bbc a year ago. i liked that miniseries.

[Antilles]

Yup, the second series (season) of Sherlock began last sunday, and as Aldus said, it started with a bang.

[Sletchman]

Somebody should say it... Sherlock  "A scandal in Belgravia" is Perfect. Must see.

True words.  I had doubts the second season could be as amazing as the first, but it exceeded on all counts.  Just wish Moriarty wasn't so camp, but I can live with that.

[Mister Andersen]

Somebody should say it... Sherlock  "A scandal in Belgravia" is Perfect. Must see.

Or, you know, not, given that Moffat takes his usual dump on female characters and misses the entire point of Irene Adler.

[Aldus Vertten]

Or, you know, not, given that Moffat takes his usual dump on female characters and misses the entire point of Irene Adler.

I really liked his take on the character. The actress was perfect and the game between them was a joy to watch. Matter of opinion, i guess.


About Moriarty... i agree, it's a little too camp... I keep thinking that Tennant would have nailed it.

[foproy]

then end bothered me.

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i feel the rescue could have been handled more subtly, instead of slapping you in the face.

[foproy]

house of lies looks interesting.