I'm sure Terra nova sounded like a cool idea...in theory. If there were no geologists, paleontologists, or physicists in the room.



I'm sure it went a little something like this:

Sounds pretty exciting in theory...in theory.

But, when you put it into practice you wonder how they get around the paradox of sending swarms of people back in time. They answer it by saying their magic beacon sent them magic signals that let them know they were dealing with an alternate time-stream...step on all the butterflies you want; the all-powerful timeball says it's totally cool.



Then, assuming they could get around the possible problem of creating an alternate future, you wonder WHY--out of all the POSSIBLE times they could have picked in the distant past--they picked the particular period in which the LARGEST animals our planet has ever seen (a significant number of which were carnivorous) run rampant.



Of course, the people are already suffering from adverse climate conditions, so I'll give them a pass on choosing a period with dangerously high levels of carbon dioxide. But, honestly, that would be what we generally refer to as "a thing."

Finally, assuming you could let ALL of that slide, this period is punctuated with one of the largest mass extinctions our planet has ever seen. So, assuming you COULD build a thriving, sustainable colony...it has wonderful annihilation to look forward to for it's bi-centennial.

Honestly, scientifically speaking, you could not pick a worse, more dangerous period if you threw a dart at a timeline. Which they basically did according to the aforementioned all-powerful timeball...except their dart looks a little more like a re-purposed sea mine. They just time jumped from the frying pan into the fire.

But...we all know WHY this whole maddening situation is taking place:

AND, all that stuff aside, it REALLY bothers me that they can't call dinosaurs by their proper names. They have names. They're very cool...and most people know them. You don't need to call them slashers (probably some dromaeosauridae), screamers (I'm assuming a type of pterosaur...probably quetzalcoatlus since tv likes 'em big), or any other stupid name beginning with "s." You know what else begins with "s"? Stupid.



Speaking of the fauna...NONE of the dinosaurs mentioned in the show existed at the same time, in the same place. (And, that's reallysimplifying things, but you get the idea.) They're separated by millions of years and miles. The cretaceous period was 80 million years long...allosaurs and carnotaurs were not hanging out together looking to steal our picnic baskets.

Sigh...I know I'm taking it all too seriously. But, that's what I do. To be honest, I haven't even made it through the whole episode yet...all the stupid teenagers who went skinny dipping are stuck in a car.

That's what they get for not getting off my lawn.





Ok, and after all that ranting, here's some hilarity:










Toodles!