More secrets are being revealed about the high-buzz, new Steven Spielberg show Terra Nova that will be starting in America next month and from January on M-Net in South Africa - like the fact that there won't be any Tyrannosaurus Rex dino's showing up.
Although Steven Spielberg used the same paleontologist from the Jurassic Park movies, the deadly dinosaur type won't be seen. But don't despair. Get ready for even more terrifying prehistoric creatures. Fact is, the Shannon family that time travels 85 million years into Earth's past to escape a dying Earth in 2149, are going back to a time even before the feared T. Rex ... to even more ancient dinosaurs! Although friendly leaf eating Brontosaurs exist, even more terrible carnivorous creatures await.
Also awesome: The colony encounters weird carvings of equations in rocks - writings and weird scribbles that present 85 million years ago. Who's making/made these? And how could this exist in a time before the cavemen?
Trading a dystopian future for a utopian past? Guess again. While the Shannon family and humanity escape a future Earth that's dying due to over population and pollution for a pristine past to make a new beginning, everything in the past isn't what it's cracked up to be. The reason? Humanity.
In the past, which is now the present, there exists a splinter colony that broke away. They're called the ''Sixers'' (since they were the Sixth Pilgrimate, or 6th group to have time traveled back). They're militaristic and evil (mmm, Lost's The Others come to mind) and viewers will meet them at the end of the first episode of Terra Nova.
Because they're now in the past it doesn't mean that the Terra Nova colony no longer has ties with the future. Earth's dystopian future is getting worse. That is having a direct impact on the past in the sense that they're sending back more people which the colony can't handle. The events in the future and the dire situation is also having other consequences on the colony because there is a link. So, although Terra Nova is set in prehistoric times after the time traveling takes place, their former present (the future of 2149) is still very much in play.
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