Terra Nova. Episode 10: "Within"

This episode is basically just a set-up for the next one. They found out who the spy was. It’s Bucket. Sorry, it’s Skye. Her nickname's actually Bucket, and I think it would be better if we had a bucket over her head the entire season.

"Duh, I'm the prettiest girl here."

There is, however, a cute girl in the hospital.

"I mean, why use my beauty toward
the end of the season?"

Bottom line is, Lucas has finished his equations.

Complete nonsense.

And now the portal can go both ways. Like I said, it’s just pretty much a set-up for the next episode.

And you all know what's coming.

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Terra Nova. Episode 9: "Now You See Me"

Skye is the spy. It would've been better if her name didn't have that silent "e" at the end, so it would be "Sky is the spy". Ah, what am I saying... Anyway, this episode will be memorable because if you haven't found a couple worth shipping in Terra Nova, now you do.

Eyesex.

It's Taylor and Mira. An old man and a black woman. Only in an alternate universe is this possible. And this is an alternate universe, right?

"Um..."

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Terra Nova. Episode 8: "Vs."

Since it's Thanksgiving in the States, that doesn't automatically mean that it's also Thanksgiving in Terra Nova, right? Wrong. They do have Thanksgiving in Terra Nova. But instead of the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, they celebrate Colonel Taylor's crossing into the portal.

"I'm a young girl playing a bearded man."

By the way, is Taylor really a bad guy or a good guy? I really don't know, but we have three episodes remaining, because I've just gotten word that Terra Nova will not be renewed for a second season─because of crappy CGI. Too bad for all the Naomi Scott fans out there.

"Here's what I think of your crappy CGI, Spielberg!"

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Terra Nova. Episode 7: "Proof"

Josh does something really stupid. Imagine stealing from your own mother. But really, how many of us are actually guilty of that at one point in our lives, right? Or maybe it's just me. Anyway, as long as it's done in the name of love, history will absolve you.

That's gotta hurt.

Maddy, on the other hand, becomes obsessed with her idol, Ken Horton. Horton hears a "who" coming from Maddy and Dr. Wallace, when they start to doubt if Horton is who he says he is. And yes, I just had to force that Dr. Seuss reference.

Oh, Naomi Scott. You look so pretty in a ponytail.

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Terra Nova. Episode 6: "Nightfall"

What's worse than having a thirty-foot parasitic worm inside your body?

Yuck.

It's having Maddy Shannon kiss that soldier boy, that's what.

Yuck.

And the cliffhanger here is: you know that device that they stole from the Sixers, the one that looks like a purple armored egg? Well, the Sixers stole it back. And guess whose DNA is the only one that opens it?

That guy.

And do you know who that is? That guy is... drum roll... Taylor's son. Kaboom.



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Terra Nova. Episode 5: "Bylaw"

We have the first murder in Terra Nova. It's a shame that a wonderful paradise like this should get spoiled by something like murder, right? However, their methods of solving the murder weren't really that awesome. I was hoping for a kind of CSI whodunit method. Not so in this case.

Their methods were "take him outside the gates, beat him up, and leave him".

Anyway, this episode didn't interest me much. Even the hatching dinosaur baby wasn't enough to compensate for the fact that Maddy Shannon had almost no screen time at all.

She'll cry if she doesn't get more screen time next episode.

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Terra Nova. Episode 4: "The Runaway"

This episode involves a runaway girl named Leah Marcos (no relation to Bongbong). During her first few minutes onscreen, she kind of reminded me of the guy from the "Freestyler" music video from Bomfunk MC's.

They had the same hair as our village loon.

I think this is this season's first plot point. Now we're starting to see that the Sixers aren't really that bad. And maybe, just maybe, Colonel Taylor is actually a bad man.

Well, anyone who dresses in black
has to be a villain, right?

On to the cooler things in this episode. First, it's official. Maddy and that soldier guy are officially dating.

Ah, early twenties mutual attraction... the best high in the world.

And second, this table.

Come on, seriously. That's got to be the coolest table ever.

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Terra Nova. Episode 3: "What Remains"

Alternate title: Three Hot Women of Terra Nova.

So you all thought humans 85 million years ago looked like this, right?

Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

Wrong. There were in fact some hotties back then.

Obviously not a still from the show.

That's Shelley Conn, who plays Dr. Elisabeth Shannon. Who is kind of cute. Like Salma Hayek with Indian blood.

Then there's this girl:

They seem to have nice clothes for prehistoric times.

That's Naomi Scott, who plays Maddy Shannon. She's that smart girl. You know, every family show has to have a smart girl. So that makes her like the Lisa Simpson of Terra Nova. What? Anyway, I thought at first that she was the same actress who played Vorena the elder in HBO's Rome. She wasn't. But she kind of looks like her, though. She's really cute, but her Google search results don't do her beauty justice. You really have to watch her in moving pictures.

Anyway, here's the third beauty from Terra Nova:

Wait, what's a Sixer doing posing
in front of Terra Nova's gates?

That's Christine Adams, who plays Mira, the leader of the Sixers. No, we're not talking about the Philadelphia 76ers.

"Are you sure? 'Cause I'd sure tap Christine Adams's ass."

The Sixers refers to the renegade group who came to Terra Nova on the sixth pilgrimage, as opposed to the Shannons who came on the tenth. Anyway, black women aren't really my type, but I would be lying if I said I didn't find her beautiful.

Strangely, none of the Terra Nova beauties are pure Caucasian. In true postmodern fashion.



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Terra Nova. Episode 2: "Instinct"

All right. Cute little birds, aye? Not.

A swarm like that is never cute.

Anyway, that Commander Taylor... isn't he the tough guy from Avatar?

I knew it.

Yes, that's Stephen Lang, who coincidentally also plays a colonel here in Terra Nova. But don't judge him if you think he can only play tough guy roles. The guy's a thespian, and is actually a Tony nominee.

Also, they introduced someone who could provide complications to the happily-married life of Jim Shannon. And that is in the person of Dr. Malcolm Wallace (played by Rod Hallett), who thought he could score once more on his med school flame who is now Mrs.Shannon. But why is he named after the father of William Wallace? Will there be any Braveheart references in future episodes? Just kidding. Of course there won't.

"But I am gonna score, one way or another."

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Terra Nova. Episode 1: "Genesis" (Parts 1 and 2)

You all know that in American TV shows, when they say they'll start the season with a treat by giving you an episode twice as long as usual? Well, that's really a trick, as they'll really be giving you two episodes in succession. Not really one long episode. At least that was the trick with the latest seasons of Modern Family and How I Met Your Mother. Well, such is not the case with Terra Nova. When they said a two-hour pilot, they really meant a two-hour pilot. It's just broken down into "Genesis" Parts 1 and 2 for production's sake. You know, so the filmmakers don't get confused.

Okay, so we can assume that the future setting is kind of like The Matrix, where the sky is too dark and the air is too polluted to breathe and all that. But don't worry, because we don't get to stay in that world too long. We're going back to the past, baby.

Thank God I don't have to wear this mask for the entire episode.

That's right. The past as in 85 million years into the past. To the time of the dinosaurs. What's that, you say? Like Jurassic Park? Of course it is. This series is produced by Steven Spielberg.

However, there will be no Samuel L. Jackson
telling you to "Hold on to your butts."

But we don't have any of that "step on a bug in the past and you'll never have been born" philosophy. This show utilizes the alternate timeline theory of time travel (as if time travel officially exists already), where nothing you can do can change the past, because whatever you do will just branch off into a totally different timeline. This is the time travel theory I subscribe to more, and sadly, this is not the theory followed by Doctor Who and Back to the Future, which are my favorite time travel show and movie, respectively.


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