Blog Assignment 2

Review "Terra Nova"

          Usually when I hear the words television drama I run screaming to the book case for something to read. This particular evening last week I was bored with the selection of books I would have had read a second or third time and decided to fire up the ole television and watch a movie. Awkwardly manhandling the ham fisted Wii controller I started to navigate through Netflix and to see if I could see something to well...see. I settled on Episode 1 of Terra Nova. I am unconcerned about a spoiler as it was a television drama and all the questions and answers are usually given out in the promotional ads prior to the show and the other reason was that it was Terra Nova and I am really not concerned about ruining it for you. Synopsis: Man destroys world, man finds hole in space that allows for time travel and decides destroying the world once was not enough so they set out to do it again. The pictures of this television drama were really quite amazing, from the bleak apocalyptic world of the future filled with pollution, guns and vehicles to the pre apocalyptic past filled with clean air, guns and vehicles? The whole premise of this tripe was to continually hammer home to the audience that humans have destroyed the world through their greed and destructive behaviour only to show the utopia of the past being set up for the same destruction. This was not irony, it was not intentional, it was purely because they could not make television with out guns and trucks and so now instead of guns, trucks, pollution and dark grey skies, now it is guns, trucks, clean air, sunshine and of course, dinosaurs. Perhaps it was intentional, perhaps if I watch episode 2 I will note that the whole premise is to show that humans are simply incapable of learning, but I have my doubts. Stay tuned next week when we talk about "Criminal Minds" and their obvious use of parent/child separation anxiety to lure more viewers to this formulaic crime drama.