Terra Nova

arknor said:
sgu got pretty good towards the end, so did the terminator series :(
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SGU was too long for the type of show it was trying to be.

I think we are going to see more 10-13 episodes per series now for these type of shows, they don’t seem to suit the 20 episode seasons.
 
XPE said:
SGU was too long for the type of show it was trying to be.

I think we are going to see more 10-13 episodes per series now for these type of shows, they don’t seem to suit the 20 episode seasons.
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they do if the writers are good and theres a strong story.

these days it seems to be all family drama BS for 90% of episodes though
 
I think family stuff is more suitable for light entertainment type shows, no ordinary family was quite good but it helps if they not completely boring like the family in Terra Nova was.
 
I'm not surprised. It's huge budget didn't help. The pilot was more expensive than Losts i think?

It had some interesting bits but nothing set it apart. It didn't have any sort of identity or unique hook. In the end it was a family drama with the backdrop of prehistoric earth.

When are we going to get the next BSG? I don't mean Blood and Chrome but the next 'big' Sci Fi/Fantasy show that really kicks the ball out of the park.

The Walking Dead came close but even thats slipped into a drama overload. Maybe Game Of Thrones will claim that title with it's second season?
 
Demoniser said:
I'm not surprised. It's huge budget didn't help. The pilot was more expensive than Losts i think?

It had some interesting bits but nothing set it apart. It didn't have any sort of identity or unique hook. In the end it was a family drama with the backdrop of prehistoric earth.

When are we going to get the next BSG? I don't mean Blood and Chrome but the next 'big' Sci Fi/Fantasy show that really kicks the ball out of the park.

The Walking Dead came close but even thats slipped into a drama overload. Maybe Game Of Thrones will claim that title with it's second season?
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Unfortunately I don't think we are going to get 'the next big Sci-Fi' show.
The number of Sci-Fi series running has been declining rapidly in the last couple of years, I think mainly because they usually have to involve a lot of CG and the networks just don't want that expense, Terra Nova being a good example (even if it was a bit pants as well!).

A real shame for a self-confessed Star Trek, Stargate, B5, and BSG freak like myself.

I think you hit the nail on the head over the drama overload; American writers are currently obsessed with creating the same drama over and over again just in different locations, that's not Sci-Fi, that's a soap-opera.

Also I know they're unpopular on this forum but I think Sci-Fi on TV needs to go back to a 'story-a-week' style for a while; story arcs are fine if you have a clear ending in mind, but American TV has gone to the milk-it-for-all-it's-worth system meaning that if season one is popular the writers will just have to keep dragging out the story for far longer than was probably originally intended.
 
PhillyDee said:
FFS. I am seriously thinking of just throwing my TV away.

The level of so called entertainment these days is just total crap. There really is nothing decent on TV anymore.
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Aside from Spartacus and The Walking Dead (neither of which are scifi which is my favourite genre) I agree. I'm just growing more and more ticked off to the point I feel like it's not even worth watching new shows. Every time I do, I start to get into them and care about what happens next, and then they gets cancelled. The disappointment completely overshadows all the enjoyment I had from the series.

Firefly
Flashforward
Surface
The Event
Invasion
SGU
Terra Nova

and those are just the few which I personally watched. All of these shows were fantastic and certainly deserved another season or two. There is a grand total of 0 GENUINE SCIFI shows being produced right now (by which I mean, set in space or the future, alternate tech/aliens etc). Which makes me a sad panda :(


SixTwoSix said:
This joins SGU and Falling Skies in the last few years of sci-fi hype and ensuing letdown!
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Falling Skies was crap, but SGU was amazing. Did you see the second season? It was sci fi gold.
 
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SheepBeast said:
Falling Skies was crap, but SGU was amazing. Did you see the second season? It was sci fi gold.
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Agreed.

SGU was such a brilliant show... So rare that people try to mix good character development with Sci-Fi, and after the short lived runs of SGU and Caprica, I doubt we'll see much more for a long while :(
 
I was looking forward to another season and find it a shame that it's been canned.

Can't say I was too surprised considering it took a gold mine to fund.
 
SheepBeast said:
...but SGU was amazing. Did you see the second season? It was sci fi gold.
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I watched S2 until the mid-season break, then I couldn't justify wasting any more time on it, it really was awful. I think it was only the casting of Robert Carlyle which kept me watching it for that long.

I'm much the same as the rest of the folks here, brought up with ST, B5 and most recently BSG...they've spoiled me for sci-fi for the rest of my life I think ;)
 
SGU Amazing... what?

It had terrible camera movements, boring episodes, Eastenders acting and I never felt for ANY of the characters. Being a massive fan of stargate with every episode on dvd from SG1 to Atlantis, it should never been called Stargate at all. The ONLY episode i enjoyed was the episode they couldn't leave that planet and then got eaten by those bugs :p
 
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Just saying.
 
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