Steven Spielberg's Terra Nova

[Dave]

I just caught this for the first time on something called Pick TV (a kind of 3 years-old Sky channel.) They were taking Angiosperms back in time with them to farm, but only Apples in the episode that I saw. I don't think they were very interested in messing up the timeline since the future Earth was dying anyway. I only saw one episode, but have to agree with Winters Sorrow:

I can't say I was too sad to see this series go in the end.

It seemed a quite confused jumble of ideas and plots, with none of them explored particularly well.

A promising start with a dense, overcrowded earth - lottery/chosen few sent back to a pristine new world to begin anew, followed by random obvious bits - dinosaurs are bad and want to eat you, m'kay - and interesting ideas not built upon ('traitor' breakaway group, rogue scientist working on reverse gateway) until the very end.

Expensive, bloated writing and populated mostly by cliched poorly defined characters. It didn't provide enough to warrant the audience it needed to survive.

I didn't feel connected to any character and they were poorly defined. The interesting part was the breakaway group who could communicate with the future, but that was only mentioned in passing among all the teenage angst. I feel better that I haven't missed anything by not watching it before.