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Terra Nova - Extreme Suck

Let me get this right: a FOX TV show about a future Earth that shows the then-world thrown into total environmental collapse requires certain selected citizens to be transported back in time 85 million years to re-start the whole civilization process.

When did the environmentalists lose the battle for fresh air and clean water? Who, and why, argued the future would be better with polluted water and air? Where I stand in history, there isn't anybody who would argue that even a little bit of air or water degradation would be okay given the benefits of some newfound technology. What, for Thor's sake, was the benefit gained by blighting the environment? Did the people of this world not watch Blade Runner, because the writers/producers certainly did (lam3rs).

And, more importantly, why is the future a fascist society when the leftists control the media and wrote the television show? Don't they think they're benevolent ideology wins in the long run, or do they unconsciously yet accurately realize this is the endgame of their desires?

This show sucks. It posits a future world where - America - limits the number of children you can have and then makes narcotics detectives married to highly-specialized physicians live in Ikea showroom apartments that can be "tossed" by the police on the suspicion of having an additional child. What? And then, when the cop/dad fights the police to stop the tossing of the apartment, the wife and teenage son do nothing but stand and gape at the injustice?

Really? Right then, my wife, who's not into television very much, said, "Why isn't she doing anything to help?"

Because leftism has inured the populace to obey the authorities. They know best. And you know this is true, because the writers of a story about a "new beginning" equip the ruling class with guns and the power to keep the people in line. Really? Why in God's name does a new civilization with future tech designed to to show how good human life can be need to be organized around a dude who has supreme authority and a heavily armed police force?

I'll skip the extreme stupidity of the third-world-in-a-first-world prison escape idiocy and ask the most pertinent question yet: if they have the technology to travel in time, why have they spent so much money on time travel instead of environmental remediation?

Really? Air scrubbers. Trees. Something. But time travel? Faced with decades of increased human-caused environmental calamity, the humans opted to spend their money and time on creating at time-travel device to give a selected few a second chance at civilization?

And then they created a totalitarian regime to rule over that future-past civilization? And the supposed hero-anti-hero of the show tells the "ruler" of that world that he wants to be a guy with a badge who puts bad guys in jail. Really? After just getting out of jail for a stupid criminal sentence, he wants to work for the man?

REALLY?!?!?!?!

Ain't buying the premise.

So, right about there, I quit out of the show.

And, yeah, I'm guessing the real purpose of the show is the whole "humans interact with dinosaurs" shtick. But, you get the premise wrong, and I got better things to do with my time.

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