Re: Terra Nova
I recently (well, yesterday and the day before) watched Terra Nova Season 1, and I'm actually... moderately impressed...
I know my original argument for not watching the show was pretty much ;
"You cant go back in time, change your past to avoid your present without negating the need to go back in the first place, so if you didn't need to go back, you wouldn't have sent yourself back, thus not changed anything."
But, the alternate time-stream explanation settles that problem with time-travel, Terra Nova has officially re-entered my watchlist for this reason, I like answers this is the first and hopefully not the last in the show
Yeah, it has its flaws, what show doesn't? the Badlands (Bermuda Triangle Exit point?) was a little annoying, but also possibly explainable as long as it is done in a correct manor not just "we cant explain it" now something like "The original crack in time spread to pre-existing weak points in the space/time continuum and if the conditions were right (wrong for the object/person) allowed things to slip through" would negate the whole Second portal annoyance. I can see coming.
But before I turn this into an unending rambling of how the show could be better/worse I'll just wait for season 2 and find out