EXCLUSIVE - TERRA NOVA SEASON 2: Executive Producer Brannon Braga on What Would Have Been

I just don't get why they went back to the times of dinosaurs. I mean, there was this whole mass extinction thing.

But still they weren't giving themselves any chance. Just delaying the inevitable. Mass extinction is what awaited them in either time period.

It was terrible - About 20 Years out of date. I felt let down by this show. The writers should have read 2000AD's Flesh where in the future climate change has destroyed the earth's ability to be self sufficient - A corporation goes back in time to harvest dinosaurs for meat. It is a full-on dino extravagannza full of blood thirsty dino battles and the corporation politics in the background. No offence to Braga but it was too episodic - almost like Star Trek TNG. But times have changed. My advice to Brannon is to go watch Game of Thrones or True Blood and then try again.

what a horrible show.. one of the worst i've ever seen. cheesy, boring, predictable.. just awful.

Ilove science fiction shows but battle star galactica raised the bar for all of them in my opinion even so this show was shit regardless.

-Every actor and actress aside from Lang looked like a Calvin Klien model

-The stories were extremely predictable flat and boring (how do you pull that off when you're telling a story involving [frick]ING DINOSAURS)

-i get that the sixers were some "badass" rebels but did they really have to dress them up like a bunch of Turok dinosaur hunters WTF. I mean come on!!!!

-The stories inevitably boiled down to a bunch of cheesy family disney channelish dramas which wasacomplete slap in the face to any true sci fi buff. the dialog became soooooo corny and cheese ridden

-I COMPLETELY HATED HATED THE DAD AND THE MOM AND THAT WEASLY CALVNKLIEN MODEL LOOKING SON. The characters were just so unlikable aside from Lang.

Lang and the dinosaurs were the only thing this show had going for it. Im just amazed. How the [frick] could producers mess up a show about people from the future living with dinosaurs?????? Its like they went out of their way to [frick] this up.

In the immortal words of Grif: Shit Show

I quite enjoyed it. The CGI in the fishing scene was atrocious though...

Yep, alternate timeline, so who's to say that there ever WAS an extinction? Anyway, I enjoyed this show for what it was. Still loads better than most garbage on TV these days. Would've liked to see where they took it with the new wave of people coming in and what happened when the "Sixers" got their hands on the return portal technology!

Wish it was still on :(

Braga who helmed Voyager and Enterprise literally drove Trek into the ground. His ideas and writing has became so stale and predictable that I wasn't surprise Nova flop. Along with Berman, these 2 has to be the most hated individuals in all of Trek.

@MGS

I wasn't gonna touch on that, but you're absolutely right. The worst years of Trek can lay right there at those little feet. And when Manny Coto actually turned Enterprise into an entertaining show (too late mind you), rather then let him finish the show, Berman and Braga marched in and wrote the worst episode of any Trek show ever (and I swear it was amiddle finger to all of us).

i really think that if a show made for a big budget like this is going to be made than it should either be put on fx or hbo because they give there series movie like budgets, if this was on hbo it wouldnt have looked so corny and dated like a bad syfy movie like sharktopus or something

The show wasn't bad, although I would have liked to see a little more than the 20 or 30 seconds of dinosaur "money shots" per episode.
The last show featuring the Bermuda Triangle-type graveyard of ships and artifacts from every era of history turned me off and I knew then where the show was heading. Similar to the British series "Primevil", but in reverse. Instead of dinosaurs going through wormholes into our time, Vikings and Romans and WWII soldiers would end up fighting in the Jurassic era like the fantasy game Heroscape. So maybe it's a blessing it ended when it did.
All episodes can still be seen on Netflix.

FOR ALL WHO HATE TERRA NOVA! WHY DID YOU INSULT IT, HEY EVERY-ONE IS ENTITLED TO THEIR OWN OPINION BUT JUST DON'T. TERRA NOVA WAS AN EPIC SERIES, NOW I DON'T KNOW WHY IT WAS CANCELLED, BUT I DO KNOW THAT IF A LARGE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE LIKE IT THEY'LL BRING IT BACK, HOPEFULLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE RELEASE A SECOND SERIES OF TERRA NOVA?