They reinforce my pre-air opinion that the show will not make it through a full season honestly. With True Blood, they don't take themselves seriously so sarcastic and silly posters work well. Terra Nova is doesn't seem to fit the campy and offbeat type of series.
Creative juxtaposition or misdirected marketing campaign? We will see I guess.
1. Enormously bloated budget that will only be sustainable if the show is a huge smash-hit 2. Constant production issues including but not limited to: reshoots CGI production location problems meeting production deadlines script issues 3. The limited appeal of a serialized genre series 4. The very real possibility that the ability to produce even 13 episodes per season may not be a reasonable target
This show has absolutely everything going against it. That's probably why I'm reluctantly rooting for it to do well.
Add how the promos looked to any discerning eye... not good.
Dinosaurs need a big blockbuster movie budget to even have a chance at looking passably realistic to me and then to have them as a major part of a TV series causes so many problems. Post-production time, actually production time and cost.
Just a huge risk in general for network TV.
It can find a niche, hell The Lost World found an audience for 3 years. Then again The Lost World was campy and had a B-movie feel to it. Terra Nova setting itself up as serious action drama is setting itself up to fall.... unless they pull it off perfectly.
Aha! I think this poster just helped me figure out why I'm so skeptical about Terra Nova. These posters remind me of those ridiculous public service announcements in the Starship Troopers movies. Troopers (at least the first one) was fun, maybe even good fun, but it certainly wasn't good.
Against my better judgment, I still watch Primeval. The CGI on that show is very hit and miss. In the last episode (aired only days ago in the UK) they had a fantastic rendering of a T-Rex causing havoc in London yet, in the very same episode, they had awful renderings of a flock of pterosaurs that looked like something out of Hitchcock's "The Birds."
If Terra Nova is going to have any hope for success, they're going to have to achieve a consistent quality with their CGI that Primeval lacks.
OR just bypass any serious level of realism and go for camp like Doctor Who, the early season of Torhwood etc... (I gave up on Primeval when they got rid of James Murray and Douglas Henshall.)
I like both of those series but they don't attempt to be real and certainly don't spend more than $16 million for an episode.
Haha I don't know, I kinda like them. Don't think they will be usefull as promotional posters tho, someone who knows nothing yet about the show will not be appealed by this, I believe. Let's just hope this show will be able to put off some quality. Could be great,, could be dead after the pilot. We'll see.
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These are great!
ReplyDeleteThese would be awesome if it was 1950.... I am not impressed.
ReplyDeleteI really don't like these...
ReplyDeleteThey should use my suggested slogan:
ReplyDeleteTerra Nova: This show is history.
They reinforce my pre-air opinion that the show will not make it through a full season honestly. With True Blood, they don't take themselves seriously so sarcastic and silly posters work well. Terra Nova is doesn't seem to fit the campy and offbeat type of series.
ReplyDeleteCreative juxtaposition or misdirected marketing campaign? We will see I guess.
I hope it's the marketing campaign. If this show takes itself too seriously the whole thing could be laughably embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteLOL
ReplyDeleteI like it!
can someone explain to me how people are already writing this thing off?
ReplyDeleteI'm on the fence. I mean I think there is something interesting in the vintage feel of the posters but I'm not too sure I really like them.
ReplyDeleteStill looking forward to the show though... :D
1. Enormously bloated budget that will only be sustainable if the show is a huge smash-hit
ReplyDelete2. Constant production issues including but not limited to:
reshoots
CGI production
location problems
meeting production deadlines
script issues
3. The limited appeal of a serialized genre series
4. The very real possibility that the ability to produce even 13 episodes per season may not be a reasonable target
This show has absolutely everything going against it. That's probably why I'm reluctantly rooting for it to do well.
Add how the promos looked to any discerning eye... not good.
ReplyDeleteDinosaurs need a big blockbuster movie budget to even have a chance at looking passably realistic to me and then to have them as a major part of a TV series causes so many problems. Post-production time, actually production time and cost.
Just a huge risk in general for network TV.
It can find a niche, hell The Lost World found an audience for 3 years. Then again The Lost World was campy and had a B-movie feel to it. Terra Nova setting itself up as serious action drama is setting itself up to fall.... unless they pull it off perfectly.
here's a 3rd one
ReplyDeletehttp://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2011/06/23/terra_nova_1_510.jpg
Aha!
ReplyDeleteI think this poster just helped me figure out why I'm so skeptical about Terra Nova.
These posters remind me of those ridiculous public service announcements in the Starship Troopers movies. Troopers (at least the first one) was fun, maybe even good fun, but it certainly wasn't good.
Against my better judgment, I still watch Primeval. The CGI on that show is very hit and miss. In the last episode (aired only days ago in the UK) they had a fantastic rendering of a T-Rex causing havoc in London yet, in the very same episode, they had awful renderings of a flock of pterosaurs that looked like something out of Hitchcock's "The Birds."
ReplyDeleteIf Terra Nova is going to have any hope for success, they're going to have to achieve a consistent quality with their CGI that Primeval lacks.
OR just bypass any serious level of realism and go for camp like Doctor Who, the early season of Torhwood etc... (I gave up on Primeval when they got rid of James Murray and Douglas Henshall.)
ReplyDeleteI like both of those series but they don't attempt to be real and certainly don't spend more than $16 million for an episode.
A slasher can run 45 mph. Can you?
ReplyDeleteHaha I don't know, I kinda like them. Don't think they will be usefull as promotional posters tho, someone who knows nothing yet about the show will not be appealed by this, I believe. Let's just hope this show will be able to put off some quality. Could be great,, could be dead after the pilot. We'll see.
But they're fun.
I like them.
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