Terra Nova: Difference between revisions

* [[Defiant to The End]]: {{spoiler|Washington}}, pretty much says "screw you" before Lucas killed her.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "It's an EMP Pulse!" Thank you Maddy.

* [[Earth That Used to Be Better]]: Much better; within the adults' lifetime the sky was completely blotted out by pollution, domes are in use, population control is in effect, masks are needed to breathe, and everything is grimy.

* [[Elite Mooks]]: The Phoenix Group, or as Lucas puts it "The best army money can buy."

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Taylor and Mira end up working together to fend off a pair of territorial slashers. After some personal backstory, they recognize it's a [[Worthy Opponent]] relationship between them. In fact, they also reason that they're much more the same than different - both ultimately want to protect their family and loved ones in the only way they know how. For Mira, that's her daughter back in the future. For Taylor, that's the colony.

* [[Expy]]:

** The Sixers sure sound a whole awful lot like [[Lost|The Others]].

* [[Kill It With Fire]]: {{spoiler|As part of their mining operation, the Phoenix group plans to use incendiary bombs to completely sterilize miles of jungle.}}

* [[Laser Sight]]: Green lasers are standard issue on the assault rifles, which is reasonable when dealing with dinosaurs, but they'll have to turn them off when fighting the Sixers.

* [[Made of Iron]]:

** Hunter ''gets the end of his leg chewed on by a dinosaur''. Despite this, at the end of the episode he’s merely hobbling along on the leg with the help of two friends.

** {{spoiler|Until it got blown up in the Phoenix Group's attack. The [[Stable Time Loop]] may still be in play.}}

* [[No Paper Future]]: It's implied that non-digital media is pretty much dead in the future. With Earth's resources effectively gone, this is understandable.

* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: Jim Shannon pretends that an explosion has made him deaf, mentally inhibited with partial amnesia, and left him with a limp. He blows his cover when he beats the shit out of {{spoiler|Lucas and a few Phoenix soldiers}} with his crutch to defend his son.

* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]:

* [[Scenery Porn]]: Frequently.

* [[Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: At the end, the family comments on how much bigger the moon is, 85 million years in the past, as it drifts from the earth at about half a centimeter per year. However, at that rate, the moon would only have drifted about 425 kilometers out of its total 400,000 km. distance -- not enough to make such a significant difference in appearance. It could be that the smogginess of their century-of-origin meant they'd never seen the optical illusion that makes the moon ''look'' larger when it's near the horizon.

* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: The basic plot. {{spoiler|Until Nate Taylor reveals that it's a lot different than so.}}

* [[Shell Shock Silence]]: Done from Jim's perspective early in the season finale when he wakes from a three-day coma and stumbles around the badly-damaged settlement to find Phoenix Group soldiers everywhere and Lucas and Mira in charge. Jim soon runs into Elizabeth, who restores his hearing and fills him in on what he missed.

* [[Trash the Set]]: Used in the first season finale to show the Terra Nova settlement in the aftermath of the Phoenix Group's [[Curb Stomp Battle|curbstomping]] of the defense forces.

* [[Trojan Horse]]: In the first season finale, Taylor and Jim replace a cargo container being shipped to 2149 with one containing a {{spoiler|carnotaur}}.

* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: The Sixers. In the first episode Terra Nova accepts them in to save them from a dinosaur attack. The moment the dinosaur leaves, they come out of their vehicle with guns armed. In their defense, the two forces are extremely bitter enemies.

* [[Villainous Incest]]: Lucas toward Skye. They're not actually related (Taylor is a father figure to her rather than her actual father), but he refers to her as a sister nonetheless. This doesn't stop him from constantly touching her affectionately flirting with her.

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