As we get closer to the fall premieres, we can finally look forward to seeing the debut of Fox’s much hyped series Terra Nova.
A reworked version of the pilot was shown at last week’s ComicCon. Hitfix’s Dan Feinberg was at the panel and reports that audience reaction to the show grew as the two-hour pilot unfolded.
Part of what the audience embraced in the later half of the pilot was the use of dinosaurs.
But if you’re thinking that the series will blow its budget early on the dinosaurs and then we won’t see them again for several weeks, you’d be wrong. Producer Jose Molina says that you can’t tease the audience like that.
“It’s dinosaur show,” Molina said. “You will see dinosaurs. We are expensive show. You will see the money on the screen. It’s going to look badass.”
Special effects designer Kevin Blank added that the effects are getting better as they work on the series. “”I think we’re getting better as we go. This is where we are right now and they’re only going to be better going forward,” he says.
But the cast and crew say the show isn’t just about the cool dinosaurs.
“I like to think this is a show that Gene Roddenberry would have liked,” said executive producer Rene Echevarria, while fellow producer Brannon Braga used words like “aspirational” and “humanistic” to describe it.
We’ll get to find out what the show is like for ourselves when it debuts on Fox later this year.
Dino’s? Yawn. How boring.
Time to come up with some new ideas Fox/Hollywood.
The Flintstones, Jurassic Park, and “The Many Colored Land” by Julian May especially, have already been there and done that.
This is a dead-end story (in more ways than one) even before it has begun.
And with Fox’s reputation it will be just a matter of weeks before they get cancelled.