Why do shows like this one fail so miserably?
I started watching the first few episodes because I liked the premise and it was good at first but then it started going downhill fast for me. The acting was mediocre at best, though some of the actors stand out better than the others. I could not stand that teenage son, wow we enter a world with dinosaurs and what do the writers focus on first? The son's poorly written and not well thought out resent of his father. I know they were thinking of character development but man the argument with the dad and son was just painful for me to watch. The rest of the episode didn't do much and the following two sucked.
Than it giot me thinking, why do modern scifi series like this fail so bad? I mean yeah I wasn't expecting the x-files but really, it seems like the writers these days, especially in american scifi, can't do better than coming up with the basic premise. I mean, for example, another fox show, Fringe, was doing pretty well in the first few seasons but then they screwed up by (spoilers) eliminating one of the major characters from the timeline but keep him in the show anyway. It ruined the dynamics the show had going on just for a cheap trick to get more ratings. Same here with this show, I liked how they set up the future and the human settlement in the past (or alternate time period?). But they just write the characters in a way that is cringe-worthy, if not flat out terrible. When I started watching this show, I didn't want to focus on unimportant family issues or boring plot lines. Why can't the producers just do something that does not feel forced and flows naturally? if they had done that with this show, than maybe it probably would've lasted.
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