My Review-‘Terra Nova’
'TERRA NOVA' SHOULD HAVE A SEMI-FUNNY SPOILERS WARNING. UNFORTUNATELY IT'S VERY HARD TO HAVE SPOILER WARNINGS WITH THE WORDS 'TERRA NOVA'
Throughout history humans have been fascinated by things that are missing. Everyone's heard of Atlantis, yet it's thousands of years after Plato originally wrote of Atlantis. Amelia Earhart, who was doing something which wasn't amazingly significant, at least not enough to get her as famous as she is now, is so embedded on societies conscience that the last episode of Voyager's Season 1 (but an episode actually shown in Season 2)- 'The 37s' was almost totally about Earhart. So it makes perfect sense to me that one of Enterprise's first missions is to find a lost colony. It makes even more sense that some people, in this case Mayweather, would be absolutely obsessed with Terra Nova. There are plenty of people obsessed with Atlantis but let's have a look at the Storyline.
STORYLINE
In some ways this was a very good concept. I like the way they brought in a small moral debate near the end but in other ways it was bad. The scenes near the start, particularly in the caves, went on too long and in some ways this is just a contrived 'Aliens Vs. Us' story where there's a 'twist' that the Aliens are human. The Novans are well thought out though, particularly their language which is different but still easy to understand. This makes sense, remember how much English has changed in 70 years and we haven't been isolated. Also the language would of evolved from the vocabulary of children of 5 at the oldest. Now children of 5 are often understandable but their vocabulary is rarely anywhere near complete.
However there is another nitpick with the story. The children supposedly heard their parents blame 'humans' for the radiation. Why would they use the word 'humans' when their parents would be fully aware they were human. Now 'Earthers', 'Terrans' or 'Earthlings' even would be reasonable but not humans. On with 'the Ship'.
THE SHIP
Again very little to put here Im actually thinking of deleting this category. Only one thing to say and that's "Mental Note: Enterprise only has 2 shuttlepods". I wonder how long it'll be before a third pops up. Hmm?
THE
CHARACTERS
Characters were good this week.
Archer was in serious Kirk mode as per usual. Scott Bakula's doing a good job with him but still he's not my favourite Captain and I doubt he'll ever be.
Wow, Jolene Blalock is almost becoming watchable. Or maybe Im just getting used to the acting badness. Personally I hope it's the first.
We saw lots of Reed this week, which I liked. I really wanna see what makes Reed tick. He seems like a really good guy but so far his character seems to consist of being a stereotypical Brit (a stereotype which I have never met in my home country of err..... England.) and blowing stuff up.
Mayweather came of well this week. However it's hard to form an opinion on the character as he's the one we've seen the least of.
STAR
TREK NOTES.
Why would the Novans pass down some things (like radiation scarring) in their DNA.
Seeing how close a lot of people believe we are to curing cancer it's nice to see they can do it in Enterprise's time.
On another cancer related note, with a high amount of radiation you'd expect a high amount of cancer. Im very pleased they choose cancer as the disease for Nadette to have.
SUMMARY:
Rating (out of 10): Let's call it a 6. Above average.
