re: #98 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Wide release movies have their own problems (and Ebert’s latest column is on how Hollywood is hurting because of pricing, not piracy).

But with TV the productions are usually cheaper and one expects less… but in the case of Terra Nova the production is quite expensive but each episode is full of WTF moments every 5 minutes.

For example (SPOILER):

In the season ender we find that the cargoes returning to 2149 have as their valuable contents “meteoric iron”. That’s just stupid. If you want “meteoric iron” (as if that somehow is more important that the iron already on the planet, iron, which is the element that makes up the largest share of our planet’s mass) why send someone back 85 million years? Just go up into space and grab a freaking tiny asteroid that is not too far from Earth.

And, don’t get me going on the colony’s apparently never ending supply of temperate climate fruit always in season, or any of a hundred other silly things that are just thrown in against all reason.