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* OlderThanTheyThink: A lot of the common criticisms against Horner's scavenger theory were already voiced long before this documentary even came out by some of his colleagues. Gregory S. Paul was very critical of this idea in his 1988 book ''Literature/PredatoryDinosaursOfTheWorld'', where he expresses frustration over the then-growing notion that large theropods were lumbering scavengers incapable of hunting, and explains in detail how these animals were built to be skillful predators and how unfeasible a scavenging lifestyle would be for anything other than a soaring bird, especially a multi-ton tyrannosaur.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The idea of a chubby ''T. rex'' was seen as laughable by many and was often used as a punchline when discussing this special. Over twenty years later and [[Series/PrehistoricPlanet another science documentary on dinosaurs]] would revisit that same idea but present the animal as both a scavenger ''and'' a hunter, which by then was a firmly cemented fact.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The idea of a chubby ''T. rex'' was seen as laughable by many and was often used as a punchline when discussing this special. Over twenty years later and [[Series/PrehistoricPlanet another science documentary on dinosaurs]] would revisit that same idea but present the animal as both a scavenger ''and'' a hunter, which by then was a firmly cemented fact.fact.
* VanityProject: This is very much one for Jack Horner, given that he's the ''only'' paleontologist featured in this documentary and its sole purpose is to promote Horner's own (largely ill-informed) pet theories about T. rex.
* VanityProject: This is very much one for Jack Horner, given that he's the ''only'' paleontologist featured in this documentary and its sole purpose is to promote Horner's own (largely ill-informed) pet theories about T. rex.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Most viewers aren't going to like a documentary about [[UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex the most famous dinosaur]] among laypeople not being as mighty as it's commonly thought, and the blatant, one-sided presentation with lots of errors is not going to appeal to science and Dinosaur lovers, who will notice and pick apart the problems more easily.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Most viewers aren't going to like a documentary about [[UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex the most famous dinosaur]] among laypeople not being as mighty as it's commonly thought, and the blatant, one-sided presentation with lots of errors is not going to appeal to science and Dinosaur lovers, who will notice and pick apart the problems more easily.easily.
* HilariousInHindsight: The idea of a chubby ''T. rex'' was seen as laughable by many and was often used as a punchline when discussing this special. Over twenty years later and [[Series/PrehistoricPlanet another science documentary on dinosaurs]] would revisit that same idea but present the animal as both a scavenger ''and'' a hunter, which by then was a firmly cemented fact.
* HilariousInHindsight: The idea of a chubby ''T. rex'' was seen as laughable by many and was often used as a punchline when discussing this special. Over twenty years later and [[Series/PrehistoricPlanet another science documentary on dinosaurs]] would revisit that same idea but present the animal as both a scavenger ''and'' a hunter, which by then was a firmly cemented fact.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Most viewers aren't going to like a documentary about [[UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex the most famous dinosaur]] among laypeople not being as mighty as it's commonly thought, and the blatant, one-sided presentation with lots of errors is not going to appeal to science and Dinosaur lovers, who will notice and pick apart the problems more easily.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Most viewers aren't going to like a documentary about [[the [[UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex the most famous UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex dinosaur]] among laypeople not being as mighty as it's commonly thought, and the blatant, one-sided presentation with lots of errors is not going to appeal to science and Dinosaur lovers, who will pick apart the problems more easily.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Most viewers aren't going to like a documentary about the most famous KingOfTheDinosaurs among laypeople not being as mighty as it's commonly thought, and the blatant, one-sided presentation with lots of errors is not going to appeal to science and Dinosaur lovers, who will pick apart the problems more easily.
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