Earth has become inhospitable and depleted of resources, and the only way to save the human population is to start a new settlement somewhere. Unfortunately in the new settlement, there is a faction that infiltrated them with an alternate agenda. I enjoyed this show, but unfortunately Earth 2 was cancelled after a season. Now it's back with another name - Terra Nova. Anyway, on their way to the new settlement, a news report in the background explaining time travel mentions quantum mechanics before getting talked over so we can't hear the explanation. I thought we were going to get a detailed scientific explanation for a second. Are we not going to get an explanation? We do find out later though that a 'rift' in spacetime was discovered, a probe was sent in but was lost so they don't know where the other end ends up, but they assume it's another universe. Being a one-way trip and no way of knowing what's on the other side, they guess it's worth the risk and send people after people through for years. Just hoping everything is okay I guess. On the other side, thankfully everyone is okay and a colony has been set up on that Universe's Earth, 85 million years in the past. So, instead of the new settlement being on another Earth-like planet - it's on another Earth. Couldn't they have also got Rebecca Gayheart to come back too? Anyway, with the Second Law Of Thermodynamics still intact, I can now sit back and enjoy a story of how a wooden fence is enough to keep people away from Dinosaurs*.
Besides the attacks from Dinosaurs and kids sneaking off outside camp grounds to drink moonshine, there's also the infiltrators who know the real reason Terra Nova was formed - whoever controls the past (of an alternate universe Earth i presume), controls the future (of an alternate universe Earth i presume), and they draw cymbols and calculations in the earth just so we've something pretty to look at.
Not entirely too terrible, so I'll watch a few more epiosdes of
* I don't need The Second Law Of Thermodynamics to be intact to enjoy things.
Other things
Ringers - Miss Gellar seemed quite good in this, but unfortunately it seemed like it was George Lucas directing a half written script. None of the characters were explored... or the story for that matter. It just kept jumping around various loosly related scenes. Maybe it wasn't a pilot episode but was a 45 minute trailer for an hour show, just showing the best bits but not spoiling the plot. Yeagh, that's what it was. Now it makes sense to me. I won't be watching again though.
New Girl - Showed some promise from the first episode but suffered from being too much of a setting up the storyline episode. Enjoyable enough to continue watching for the time being.
2 Broke Girls - Some of the jokes may have been too obvious and telegraphed, but it had some amusing moments and decent characters. I'll give it at least a few more episodes.
Pan AM - Didn't think much to this, nothing much to any of the characters or the storyline. Wasn't terrible or anything, just so very not interesting.
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