Were you really expecting philisophical hard science fiction?
dacole Send a noteboard - 27/09/2011 07:08:43 PM
I was happy they addressed the issues we talked about at all. I had to much work to do so I only stayed until about the second commercial break (when the girl was feeding the dinosaurs) so I can't say to much. I thought those dinosaurs looked great. Like I said before they are not going to go into a lot of hard core physics and engineering. Many of us here would like it but lets face it the reason 2001 made money when it came out in the 70's wasn't because of the hard science....
As to the father I didn't find him all the cliche in the part I watched and I am not so sure about the kid situation. I expect there is more to her than we know. She looked different enough from everyone else that I found myself wondering if it was his kid. If it was just a fine as well I doubt they would have reacted like they did, they wouldn't have tried to pick the kid up, just said yup there it is here is your fine.
Apparently they didn't get the memo. All thought they do refer to them as "fruts: part fruit, part nut." Whatever.
As to the father I didn't find him all the cliche in the part I watched and I am not so sure about the kid situation. I expect there is more to her than we know. She looked different enough from everyone else that I found myself wondering if it was his kid. If it was just a fine as well I doubt they would have reacted like they did, they wouldn't have tried to pick the kid up, just said yup there it is here is your fine.
I didn't watch it, and doubt I will, but I'm still intrigued.
Fleshy, nutritious fruits didn't really get going until just after the dinosaurs died. Forests closed up, cutting off wind, meaning fruits needed a new way to scatter their seeds. At the same time, fruit-eating animals started to get bigger (dinosaurs didn't really eat fruit). So the nutritious, fleshy fruits we know today developed along with the birds and mammals that came to prominence after the dinosaurs died. At least, I think that's how it went.
It's funny that they apparently sidestepped all the issues we talked about yesterday (why go back 85 million years? What about effects on the future?) by just saying, "By complete coincidence, none of those things matter."
Fleshy, nutritious fruits didn't really get going until just after the dinosaurs died. Forests closed up, cutting off wind, meaning fruits needed a new way to scatter their seeds. At the same time, fruit-eating animals started to get bigger (dinosaurs didn't really eat fruit). So the nutritious, fleshy fruits we know today developed along with the birds and mammals that came to prominence after the dinosaurs died. At least, I think that's how it went.
It's funny that they apparently sidestepped all the issues we talked about yesterday (why go back 85 million years? What about effects on the future?) by just saying, "By complete coincidence, none of those things matter."
Apparently they didn't get the memo. All thought they do refer to them as "fruts: part fruit, part nut." Whatever.
Terra Nova. Pilot. Sigh.
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- 27/09/2011 03:54:20 PM
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Re: Did they bring the fancy fruits with them?
- 27/09/2011 05:26:06 PM
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Were you really expecting philisophical hard science fiction?
- 27/09/2011 07:08:43 PM
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Only hoping...
- 27/09/2011 07:41:28 PM
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Re: Only hoping...
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- 28/09/2011 11:24:06 AM
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- 28/09/2011 09:55:22 PM
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- 29/09/2011 12:49:00 PM
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- 29/09/2011 01:15:49 PM
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- 29/09/2011 01:51:12 PM
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A Spielberg project that features a strained relationship between father and teen son, I'm shocked
- 29/09/2011 02:10:08 PM
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