The Paradise of Terra Nova

The new promo for Terra Nova says it all -There is no paradise without sacrifice – and it’s a fitting mantra for a show that could be an awesome blending of Lost, The Time Machine, and Jurassic Park.

Front and center is Jason O’Mara as Jim Shannon, the family man that escapes from a dying Earth to prehistoric times with his wife and kids, and you can’t just plop down into a dinosaur-filled area without some military muscle, which is expertly provided by Avatar‘s Stephen Lang as compound commander Nathaniel Taylor.

Just in case people missed the Terra Nova teaser trailer, a trio of pterodactyls in the background let you know that this is not going to be even remotely close to a family vacation.

Terra Nova is executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, and arrives on Fox with a two-hour series premiere on Monday, Sept. 26.

I wasn’t initially thrilled when I heard about this show because I just knew they might cobble together some bargain-basement effects that would ruin everything, but the dinos look real enough to eat you, and it looks like there’s going to be enough tension among the ‘escapees’ to keep the series from turning into an endless stream of people running from dinosaurs… although I’m hoping to see plenty of that too.