Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Netflix)

[The Deadman]

[neatoman]

They're making another Jurassic Park kids' show?

... Here's a quote from the original book:

The dinosaur stared at him and then snapped its head in a single swift motion.
Nedry felt something smack wetly against his chest. He looked down and saw a
dripping glob of foam on his rain-soaked shirt. He touched it curiously, not
comprehending…
It was spit.
The dinosaur had spit on him.
It was creepy, he thought. He looked back at the dinosaur and saw the head
snap again, and immediately felt another wet smack against his neck, just above
the shirt collar. He wiped it away with his hand.
Jesus, it was disgusting. But the skin of his neck was already starting to tingle
and burn. And his hand was tingling, too. It was almost like he had been touched
with acid.
Nedry opened the car door, glancing back at the dinosaur to make sure it wasn’t
going to attack, and felt a sudden, excruciating pain in his eyes, stabbing like
spikes into the back of his skull, and he squeezed his eyes shut and gasped with
the intensity of it and threw up his hands to cover his eyes and felt the slippery
foam trickling down both sides of his nose.
Spit.
The dinosaur had spit in his eyes.
Even as he realized it, the pain overwhelmed him, and he dropped to his knees,
disoriented, wheezing. He collapsed onto his side, his cheek pressed to the wet
ground, his breath coming in thin whistles through the constant, ever-screaming
pain that caused flashing spots of light to appear behind his tightly shut eyelids.
The earth shook beneath him and Nedry knew the dinosaur was moving, he
could hear its soft hooting cry, and despite the pain he forced his eyes open and
still he saw nothing but flashing spots against black. Slowly the realization came
to him.
He was blind.
The hooting was louder as Nedry scrambled to his feet and staggered back
against the side panel of the car, as a wave of nausea and dizziness swept over
him. The dinosaur was close now, he could feel it coming close, he was dimly
aware of its snorting breath.
But he couldn’t see.
He couldn’t see anything, and his terror was extreme.
He stretched out his hands, waving them wildly in the air to ward off the attack
he knew was coming.
And then there was a new, searing pain, like a fiery knife in his belly, and Nedry
stumbled, reaching blindly down to touch the ragged edge of his shirt, and then a
thick, slippery mass that was surprisingly warm, and with horror he suddenly
knew he was holding his own intestines in his hands. The dinosaur had torn him
open. His guts had fallen out.
Nedry fell to the ground and landed on something scaly and cold, it was the
animal’s foot, and then there was new pain on both sides of his head. The pain
grew worse, and as he was lifted to his feet he knew the dinosaur had his head in
its jaws, and the horror of that realization was followed by a final wish, that it
would all be ended soon.

[Andrew NDB]

Dominion nuked the base from orbit. That still makes me sour. How in the world they could have brought everyone back from the JP trilogy and combine them with the new in a world overrun with dinosaurs and had it go so, so wrong is beyond me. I close my eyes and all I can picture is black Han Solo lady with the Millennium Falcon from the movie, who seemingly stepped in from another movie entirely.

[Barkworm]

Originally Posted by neatoman

They're making another Jurassic Park kids' show?

... Here's a quote from the original book:

Hahaha, I read this part to my class teacher when I was 12 to ask whether he thought it was appropriate for our school's 6th grade reading competition. He said no.

[neatoman]

The fact that the dinosaurs got out in 5 does make the whole series awkward from that point on. They literally had to make another enclosure for these creatures in 6 to emulate some of the expected beats and dodge the whole "Monsters walking around in the wild" thing as much as possible. I also really hate that they feel compelled to write the characters talking about these things as if they are part of the natural order, when really they're nothing but the most unambiguous example of an invasive species imaginable (aside from aliens).

Like seriously, Grant and Malcolm are totally right in 3 and 5. The points they make are spot on:

1. Dinosaurs are extinct and what we see in this franchise are an articifial mimicry of them. They're barely even made from legitimate dinosaur DNA, they're frogs at the core and have genes taken from whatever random modern animals Wu wanted, as explained in both the book and 4.
2. They really should just have let them die in that volcanic eruption. Had these been natural life-forms, it might have been worth it to save them, but they're artificial and only created to be displayed at a zoo. It makes no sense to let them continue existing, they're just going to cause more problems no matter what.

But I guess only the locusts were fine to deliberately wipe out because they aren't marketable? God, I wish the Dino-Alzheimers thing from the second makes it into these movies so that it can be resolved...

Originally Posted by Barkworm

Hahaha, I read this part to my class teacher when I was 12 to ask whether he thought it was appropriate for our school's 6th grade reading competition. He said no.

Nice. But I bet everyone in class had already watched the toned down scene from the movie adaptation, right?

[DarkFell]

Originally Posted by neatoman

Nice. But I bet everyone in class had already watched the toned down scene from the movie adaptation, right?

I saw the movie before I read the book, and I was in middle school at the time. I brought up that last part because I bought the book at a book fair held at my middle school. (Most book fairs today probably sell child-friendly books for the kids to read, and the Jurassic Park novel certainly isn't -by any means- a gentle book to read.)

I'm not certain how Michael Crichton felt about the movie softening Nedry's death, but I did like how he wrote the savage side of Grant on how he chose to deal death to the raptors that got inside The Visitor's Center.

[TheCanadiandrome]

I may be in the minority here, but anything JP related sign me up

[The Deadman]