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Jason O'Mara | ... |
Jim Shannon
(13 episodes, 2011)
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Shelley Conn | ... |
Dr. Elisabeth Shannon
(13 episodes, 2011)
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Christine Adams | ... |
Mira
(13 episodes, 2011)
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Allison Miller | ... |
Skye
(13 episodes, 2011)
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Landon Liboiron | ... |
Josh Shannon
(13 episodes, 2011)
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Naomi Scott | ... |
Maddy Shannon
(13 episodes, 2011)
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Alana Mansour | ... |
Zoe Shannon
(13 episodes, 2011)
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Stephen Lang | ... |
Commander Nathaniel Taylor
(13 episodes, 2011)
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Rod Hallett | ... |
Dr. Malcolm Wallace
(12 episodes, 2011)
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Simone Kessell | ... |
Lt. Alicia Washington
(12 episodes, 2011)
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Dean Geyer | ... |
Mark Reynolds
(12 episodes, 2011)
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Damien Garvey | ... |
Tom Boylan
(8 episodes, 2011)
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Damian Walshe-Howling | ... |
Carter
(7 episodes, 2011)
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Emilia Burns | ... |
Reilly
(7 episodes, 2011)
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Peter Lamb | ... |
Casey Durwin
(6 episodes, 2011)
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Matthew Scully | ... |
Dunham
(6 episodes, 2011)
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In 2149, earth is nearly wrecked by pollution. Police detective Jim Shannon is jailed for illegally raising an extra child, Zoe. He's sprung from jail just in time to join his family on the latest 'pilgrimage', through a unique time-space-continuum rip, to Terra Nova, a colony run with modern technology in a dino age forest. Colony commander Nathaniel Taylor soon recruits as security professional Jim, who gradually finds out about some threats, notably from Saurian monsters, the 'sixers' and his own, bitterly estranged son Lucas. Meanwhile Jim's son Josh keeps getting into trouble, mainly due to his girlfriend Skye. His smart sister Maddy is in love with gentleman soldier Mark Reynolds. Written by KGF Vissers
So the 2 hour premiere has a few scenes with the humans fighting dinosaurs. Apparently, the dinosaurs are bullet proof because they wouldn't take ANY damage! All you saw was a ricochet effect off them, and in some cases they were using a 50 caliber gun mounted on a transport vehicle. This wasn't a plot point or anything so it comes off as very lazy special effects. This then leaves the problem, if the guns don't hurt the dinosaurs, why would you take a weapon out to defend yourself from them if it doesn't work? I mean they had about 6 guys shooting one and it eventually turned and ran. I can see maybe they wanted to tone down the blood and death a bit in the pilot but it came off as a major flaw.