Just finished watching Terra Nova.
The concept is good and time travel is one of my favorite themes, but something doesn't feel quite right.
The way they handled the "butterfly effect" seemed lazy at best. In general the family was meh except for the stupid teen boy who I want to be eaten by a dino ASAP. Make it slow and painful! The cute girl that will for sure be his love interest reminded me of a young version of Kate Austen, which isn't bad at all as long as they make this one more consistent and intelligent.
The seeded some mystery points there with the Avatar bad guy (Stephen Lang), which apparently now is a good guy but apparently may not be - yes, I know- and his son's disappearance, the symbols and the sixers (awful name btw) which may or may not be on his side undercover.
SFX not terribly bad but not top notch for TV either, I'd say a bit above average. The "Slashers" (a variation of raptor) are much better than the Carnotaurus, maybe because we only see the formers at night. I have to say though, that some of the gren screen stuff was really bad. i'll Have to wait and see more of them.
Still, I think I'll give the series at least another 3 or 4 episodes before deciding for sure if I'll stick with it or bail out, but since this comes from the people that made "V", I don't have much hope for Terra Nova at all.
Pilot = 2 balls