Tuesday 13 September 2011

Terra Nova: Sci-Fi Sultans Bring Dinosaurs to the Small Screen | Magazine

Terra Nova: Sci-Fi Sultans Bring Dinosaurs to the Small Screen | Magazine: "If a TV show has aliens, robots, pathogens, disasters, demons, and/or superhumans, I’ll probably watch it at least once. I can even forgive a faerie if it’s good-looking. (God bless you, True Blood.) But when it comes to dinosaurs, my quality shields snap shut. Dinosaurs are sacred because they were real, and even learning that velociraptors actually looked like turkeys and the word brontosaurus is a misnomer didn’t diminish my childlike love for them. But Fox must think it can do right by thunder lizards in a TV show, because come September 26, the network will make them the stars of the ambitious drama Terra Nova.

It’s the story of a family set 138 years ahead in a dystopian future and also 85 million years back, when tyrannosaurs ruled North America. Think Swiss Family Robinson meets Jurassic Park by way of Timecop. And oh boy, "

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