La Brea

yeah, i tried to like it. I thought I would. I get the Lost thing, but they did too, referencing it in a very bad line that was clearly put there to make people go "oh fair enough, at least they said it". But to be honest I'd prefer to rewatch Terra Nova instead. I took it off my watch list after skipping through the last 15 minutes.

Wow. Been on here for over a decade and that's the cattiest comment I've ever posted about a show haha

Hahaha... well put. Unfortunately I keep tripping over these logic jumps and I feel that is where this Land of the Lost for adults will end up failing. In a attempt to get the audience of this take on Land of the Lost on board the Powers That Be erroneously believe we need some logic involved but unlike the brilliant LotL movie which somehow used just the right mix of SF mumbo-jumbo to give it some good bones to build on.

Whereas the mumbo-jumbo in La Brea seems to be trying way to hard to lift the premise they are trying to sell yet at the same time, clearly, not enough research went into the series and as a result it doesn't actually have the strength to hold itself up.

But that's just my feeling as of Ep 2... if I stick with it perhaps I'll be surprised.

Actors, dialog and plot are all rather pedestrian but the concept is interesting and so far they are revealing it in a compelling fashion. Hard to tell how long that will last.

I'm assuming that roads and buildings just broke apart when falling into the sink hole.  Humans, well, they should have just went *splat* when hitting the ground.  Maybe a bunch did, and the ones left alive are just the few that somehow survived.

I mean a giant sink hole opened up in LA.  You'd think a 10's or even 100's of thousand people would be involved, so the odd 100 or so that we see might be all that's left. Or maybe there are different groups scattered around or that went to another time slightly in the past or future from our group.

Just keep watching to find out I guess.  As for myself, I'm enjoying the show.  I can overlook bad acting and bad CGI if the story is consistent and well written (for right now I'll give this a "well ENOUGH written story" and just have fun with it.

EDIT:  I thought about this for a bit and I see what you were saying.  Even if the buildings and roads were broken up, there would still be a literal mountain of debris.  Maybe the rift filters out most of the non organic stuff?  Or it somehow only lets inorganic stuff (like cars) through if organic material was in close proximity?

Thanks.  Now this is going to bug me too

Ha! Welcome to my, focusing on minute unimportant details, brain.

During the 2'nd season I started to get the feeling like it's some soap opera with touch of sci-fi and now half way into 3rd it only deepens.

Yes I'm watching, no I'm not enjoying, and no it's not ending too soon