Jurassic World

Avian dinosaurs are very adaptable. There are more species of birds than mammals today.

Where there's life, there's hope.

Hell, songbirds alone outnumber mammals.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

So what you’re saying is we should totally be out there killing mockingbirds.

What's that? Advance stealth reconnaissance for the Terror Lizard Reconquista, you say?

I, for one, welcome our new terror overlizards.

Can't be worse than [Insert Your Least Favorite Political Figure Here].

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At least they're honest about eating people, instead of hiding it behind a smile.

Then why do people usually say it was the mammals that took the dinosaur's crown after the comet struck? :S

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Genuscentrism and lack of biology knowledge.

That said, humans are the most powerful animals that ever lived.

edited 15th Dec '17 6:49:56 AM by RAlexa21th

Where there's life, there's hope.

Because it was the mammals that created the first generalist tool using species to reach a civilization level.

Birds might outnumber us, but we've done a lot more to the environment overall. None of it good, mind you. Even our best efforts are literally just mitigating our worst efforts, not actually improving the biodiversity of the planet in the slightest. We can't afford it. The very basis of society is mass murder in the form of clearing land for farming.

About that... Stealthy Colossus apparently is Truth in Television, if the entry about elephants sneaking into farms and eating the crops without being noticed are accurate.

It's not the Raptor DNA has it that said Spinosaurus (named Sobek in-story) had suffered mightily from the constant ringing of the phone in his stomach, as it kept ruining every hunting attempt he made. He was smart enough to connect the dots and realize that the humans had something to do with it (it happened only right after his first altercation with them), explaining his unusual persistence in pursuing them: He's out for revenge and his anger is worsened by his hunger.

And with a possible side helping of sociopathy/sadism purposefully engineered into her genome by Wu at Hoskins' order. He's trying to make an ultimate Living Weapon, after all.

I guess you didn't notice how Ellie's "The Reason You Suck" Speech — the whole "YOU'VE NEVER BEEN IN CONTROL!" thing, which IIRC was the last instance of someone in JP pointing out the flaws in Hammond's logic — actually managed the one thing that none of the previous such speeches did: It actually left Hammond speechless. That seemed like the moment where his illusions were shattered and he started rethinking everything from then on.

Why overlizards? I prefer the Mesozoic Effect approach of forging an equal-terms alliance with the saurian race.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

If you were frightened by the kitchen scene, then you should play this game that allows to relive the fear of being stalked by raptors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EDCvqe4ZGo

That was fun to watch, but it needs a win condition. A time limit after which you can make it to a door and leave the room. If there was one, we didn't see a clock or an accessible door in that video. He never tried the other door to see if it worked.

It needs those other features to really as you said have a winning condition. It's a simple and scary premise that works.

There's a world of difference between a farm (who are, generally speaking, pretty large) where an Elephant can go to side X of the farm without people in other locations of the Farm noticing, and a T-Rex sneaking on 6 creatures, two of them Raptor, without anyone noticing until he's literally got one in his jaw (Also without an actual way into the building, but that's something else entirely).

edited 14th Mar '18 9:52:51 PM by Ghilz

Spielberg has confirmed that Trevorrow will write & direct the third film.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

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That looked silly in so many different ways.

The Mosasaurus jumping out the water made me laugh; why is it Kaiju-sized?

Um, that's every bit as big as it was in Jurassic World. When Zara died, she was just as tiny to its mouth as that guy was.

And hell yeah! They have a door opening scene for the Indo.

Did they create an I. Raptor? The fools!

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Someone pointed out a while ago that Amblin trademarked the name Indoraptor.

edited 21st Apr '18 12:54:26 PM by Spinosegnosaurus77

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

The "inability to learn the freaking obvious from past mistakes" is reaching cartoonish levels in this franchise now.

The thing is, real-life humans have shown a remarkable capacity for chalking off past mistakes by other people as a sign that said other people were obviously incompetent when they did the thing that they are doing, which they are obviously doing with complete competence.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

What's your point? Just because something also happens in real life, doesn't mean it somehow stops being ridiculous. Being plausible and tolerable are two different things.

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Unfortunately, that intolerable thing falls perfectly in line with Crichton's original books. It's a repeating pattern that expands itself with each new version. First it's a park, which breaks down. Then it's a nature preserve, which people try to steal dinosaurs from. They get eaten and the dinosaurs get put back. Then it's a successful park, until a dinosaur that was specifically created as a weapon is let loose and the park falls apart yet again. Now people are stealing dinosaurs and SUCCESSFULLY pulling them off the island for sale. And a genetically enhanced super-dino breaks out to terrorize the thieves. Depending on how far the sales go before this happens, we could see dinosaurs, or at least blood samples, get released all over the place. We think we could handle dinosaurs. We're wrong. There was a Youtube vid I've forgotten the particulars of, that explained how very wrong anyone would be in thinking we could handle dinosaurs. They used the example of an apatasaur just walking down the street. It crushes cars. It breaks houses. It just does these things while walking around and eating plants. Eventually the military gets involved. The dinosaur dies. It falls. More property damage. And now there's a nice big corpse to haul away and do something with. Hopefully, we can eat it. In that case there'd at least be something useful out of the affair. Even so, there's a lot of property damage and potential loss of life.

I don't think that's quite realistic, since I doubt an apatasaur, or any big dino, would actually walk on cars or through houses. Bulls are actually quite graceful in China shops, if you can believe Myth Busters. But just think of the potholes one of those things would leave while walking down the road. Which, truthfully, is where they'd go. That alone would be bad enough. Then you get into the small and medium sized predators. Actual velociraptors eating outside pets. Utahraptors and their kin breaking into your house to kill you and your family. Just getting to your car would be an exercise in caution. Then you're driving down the road and a fucking ankylosaur just lumbers out of the forest, gets spooked, and puts its tail into your engine block. Oops.

You know if you want to keep dinosaurs a little big more manageable I think maybe they should be downsized to mordern animal levels.