Fridge / The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Fridge Brilliance

• The female rex could have easily chased the group down, but that was not her intention. Since they were in her and her families' territory and since she has already been fed, the female only wanted to scare the threats away from her home. Since Burke came at her, she perceived Burke as challenging her.
• While Nick may have been following Hammond's orders to sabotage the hunters' scheme in transporting the dinosaurs off the island, that doesn't mean he's the only one. Hammond knew that the hunters would take the dinosaurs and he had another backup plan in case Ludlow succeeded, those InGen employees that allowed Ian and Sarah to help were actually employees who loyally served Hammond. One helped Ian and Sarah to enter Ludlow's announcement at the docks while those Jurassic Park San Diego workers were actually determining if the couple were some sort of spies for BioSyn until realising that they were affiliated with Hammond.
  • Not quite. Ludlow, after being called away from the podium, has a quick aside with an InGen worker whom he tells to get Ian and Sarah into proceedings because 'I want them to see this.'
• Dieter getting followed by the Compsognathus isn't that surprising in their behavior: They're opportunists. Dieter is wounded from his fall and bleeding from their first assault. To them, he is a wounded prey on his last legs and they're just waiting for him to make a mistake so they could pounce again. And they get it.

  • Plus as we learn in Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, as well as the original novel, they're venomous and Dieter had just suffered at least a dozen bites.

• When Malcolm visits Hammond in the beginning of the movie, he calls out Ludlow for covering the first movie's events and lying about "the death of three people", but five people died during the movie's events: Jophery Brown (the park worker during the opening scene), Dennis Nedry, Donald Gennaro, Ray Arnold, and Robert Muldoon. However, there's reasons which make this discrepancy plausible instead of being a continuity mistake.
  • There's only four casualties. This is never addressed in the movies, but Muldoon is revealed to be still alive in the extended universe (he appears in the comic book series Jurassic Park: Raptors Attack).
  • For the other victims:
    • Jophery's death is a distinct incident which happened at least days before the fiasco which killed the other persons, so Ludlow didn't need to cover it (and plausibly didn't), because the incident is the reason why Malcolm and the other guests visited the park to begin with.
    • Ludlow may have publicly covered Jophery, Gennaro, and Arnold's deaths, but not Nedry's, since the latter had a great part of responsibility in the whole fiasco, and was a convenient scapegoat since he was killed by the aftermath of a sabotage he's personally responsible of.
    • It's plausible to assume nobody discovered Nedry's fate (he dies in a remote place with no witness, and nobody finds his remains or his jeep in later events of the first film), so Ludlow didn't lie about him because everyone thought Nedry managed to sneak out the island alive.
• Many people have asked where Nick was when it came to the events of San Diego. However, there's an explanation for it: The reason why Hammond hired Nick was to sabotage InGen's plans on taking the dinosaurs off the island. For all intents and purposes, he completed what he was hired to do. However, when he sees that they had one of the T-Rexes caged and ready to ship, he probably believed he failed to the point where he had a Heroic B So D and left in self-perceived disgrace.
• Probably unintentional, but the second movie makes for a fantastic warning against the dangers of irresponsible activism.
• Tembo's comment of " A true hunter doesn't mind if the animal wins" comment in his deleted scene may be a bit more than just him wishing for a worthy challenge. As someone who has been around animals for most of his adult life, Roland would probably know well enough that it's not just human hunters who have their prey successfully evading them. For example, scientists have discovered that lions are only successful for about 17-30% in all of their hunts. Roland, knowing the rules of nature, would definitely be well aware that the hunter cannot always win. His dour attitude to his disproportionate success could be a lament to the fact that he could not abide by those rules.
• Ludlow's Too Dumb to Live moment where he tries to grab the infant one last time sees him being kneecapped by the adult and presented to the infant to learn how to make its first kill. He spent his last moments being used as a living practice dummy.
• Nick denouncing the Gatherers' expedition as a "wild-goose chase" is met with Malcolm telling him that they're heading to the only place in the world where "the geese chase you." Geese and other members of Class Aves have since been accepted by the paleontological, if not the entire scientific, community as being highly derived extant theropod dinosaurs, so Malcolm isn't that far off.

Fridge Horror

• The mysterious case of the SS Venture. While it's implied that that the T. rex woke up and killed all the crew of the Venture, the carnage that is inspected after it crashes into the docks suggests that crew were killed inside the bridge where the rex could not have possibly been without leaving massive signs of its presence (the bridge was completely intact structurally and the T. rex is too big to get inside in any capacity without damaging it). It wasn't the baby T. rex either because it wasn't transported on the boat to San Diego. Since no other dinosaurs were involved in the San Diego incident and it couldn't have been the T. rex or its baby, it's most likely that the Venture crew were killed by other smaller dinosaurs, in particular one small enough to stand comfortably inside the bridge and strong enough to tear a human apart. Velociraptors might fit the bill, except they have never been seen. Thus, three possibilities exist: the raptors snuck onboard and killed the crew after launch and either: Were killed by the rex, were lost at sea somehow or, most chillingly, they got off of the boat and are now on the mainland.
• Seeing how Stark died makes you much more horrified about [the fate of Cathy, the little girl from the opening, and much more relieved that she survived. Nevertheless, Cathy was immediately rescued by her parents and at least half a dozen servants. Dieter wasn't. The Irony of it is that Cathy only had a bathing suit and was much smaller. Stark was a full grown man, fully clad, and even had a good portion of his gear still on him. Improbable Infant Survival at its finest.
  • On the subject of Stark regarding the above detail, it's extremely likely that, having realized after the first two attacks how awful sweaty clothing/boots taste, the compies simply targeted the exposed areas of his body in his final moments i.e. his hands and face. The point is, he was still alive when they started to eat him.
    Malcolm: Did you find him?
    Tembo: Just the parts they didn't like.
• While the heroes get a lot of blame for the rex's rampage, it ultimately escaped entirely due to Ludlow and his men's incompetence (the rex wasn't restrained properly to keep it from breaking loose if it woke up), meaning it's unlikely all the dinosaurs captured could've actually been contained. Imagine if they'd done nothing and all of those dinos had escaped at once in San Diego, all scared and on a rampage.
• Jurassic Park: San Diego may sound good on paper by Peter Ludlow (bringing the dinosaurs to the people at a cheaper price), but a closer look at the schematics and models of the park reveals that it is a recipe for disaster. The paddocks and pens for the dinosaurs are small; far too small for large animals to live comfortably. And large carnivores like T. rex are the must-have main attractions. If the dinosaurs were to get stressed from the cramped living conditions, they would break out and rampage in a populous San Diego just like the T. rex in the actual climax of the film. It's no wonder that Hammond moved the park to Isla Nublar. More wide open spaces for the dinosaurs and little to no chance of them rampaging in the mainland.
• During the scene with the T. rex in the suburban backyard, the parents can be heard bickering as Ben leads them to his room where they can see it, you can hear the dad say "If you serve him dinner, he won't be up all night" to which the mother gets deflective over^Also?The fact he says "serve" instead of served past tense that can't be simple Denied Food as Punishment, which is usually a single time. As one Youtube comment pointed out, this seems to indicate possible child neglect, if not outright abuse.