Terra Nova
Terra Nova

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Daniel: B- | 614 USERS: B-
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Because the Night Belongs to Sixers

Zoe: crawling. Jim: singing. Running out of lyrics. Daniel: kind of now wishing Jim had the kind of problem he could punch his way out of.

Back in the tree, Maddy and Mark are disgustingly still alive, with Mark blaming himself because this wasn't how their first date was supposed to go, and Maddy points out that it was kind of her idea to sneak out, and he jokes that she's a bad influence on her.

They hear some dinosaurs chowing down on some poor creature, and Maddy asks if he thinks they're going to die out there, and Mark blah-blahs about how he's never going to let anything bad happen to her ever and then the next thing you know they're making out, and at this point I don't necessarily need for them to be eaten by dinosaurs; dying from falling out of a tree would work just as well for me.

Back in the Eye, Jim is still singing when he stops hearing Maddy. He gets quite concerned, but fortunately they don't drag out that particular tension -- the father not knowing what happened to his daughter after she vanished into a place where he can't follow -- because I don't know if I could have handled that for too long. Instead, Zoe opens the door with the manual override and stands there beaming. Jim asks if there were any spiders. "Nope! The song worked!" she says. I'm a sucker for father-daughter stuff, and Zoe is kinda too adorably proud of herself to make fun of so let's all just move on.

They get out of the Eye, and Jim spots a soldier named Reilly, who fills him in on the meteor and the EMP. "Don't worry, your family is safe," she says. Hah! No one else cares about Maddy either! Also, since that's the first anyone's seen of Jim and Zoe for the entire day, I'd like to know who decided the family was safe. Reilly takes Zoe to school where the other kids are until the power comes back. Again: since they're rounding up the kids there, did no one realize that Zoe was gone?

Anyway, Jim meets up with Taylor, explains he was stuck in the Eye, and Taylor gruffly says that maybe he should have stayed there, because it's about to get ugly. And they hear the roaring and the grunting of the dinosaur as it breaks through the trees around the colony. What's that I feel? Genuine tension at what might happen? It's an odd feeling, I'm not sure how to handle it.

Terra Nova

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