Attack of the Chickens Terra Nova Fox Network, Mondays, 8 PM “Instinct” Written by Rene Echevarria & Brannon Braga Directed by Jon Cassar “There are a lot more coming.” – Malcolm Wallace I’m a big fan of Alfred Hitchcock, so I don’t mind that this episode of Terra Nova is basically a riff on The Birds, his classic horror movie about birds suddenly attacking a peaceful coastal town. But if you’re going to translate a story to a different setting, make sure it fits. The element of horror in The Birds came from the intrusion of the Wild into a settled urban environment, where it…
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Terra Nova: “Genesis 1 & 2”
Wagon Train to the Past Terra Nova Fox Network, Mondays, 8 PM “Genesis 1” Teleplay by Craig Silverstein & Kelly Marcel and Brannon Braga & David Fury Story by Kelly Marcel & Craig Silverstein “Genesis 2” Written by Brannon Braga & Craig Silverstein and David Fury Directed by Alex Graves “This is the frontier, son, you gotta grow up fast.” – Hunter They had me at Stephen Lang. The grizzled, charismatic actor who damn near stole Avatar right out from under its stars plays the new leader of a colony set not on another continent or another world but in another past,…