What Jurassic World: Dominion should have been about
(Because I’ve watched not only Dominion but also a Jurassic movies marathon last weekend on TV. So I got dinosaurs on the brain lol. And while I enjoyed Dominion in theaters, the more I think about it, the less the story makes sense, and didn’t deliver on the DINOSAURS IN OUR WORLD plotline we deserved).
Here we go!
Prologue. 65 million years ago, dinosaurs live their best lives, wild and free. We witness a fight between the T. Rex and Giganotosaurus. Giga wins and kills the T. Rex. 65 million years later, after the events of Fallen Kingdom, the T. Rex attacks a drive-in theatre, causing panic and chaos.
(AKA we keep the Prologue that Universal released on Youtube a few months ago. Because it’s awesome. Seriously, go check it out if you can!)
We see the NowThis segment on TV, with a little more scenes that weren’t already in the Dino Tracker added. Just to keep things fresh.
Ellie Sattler, Alan Grant and Ian Malcolm are all called as dinosaur experts to investigate dinosaur attacks in this new Jurassic World. We see the dinosaurs attack random people (like in the short film Battle at Big Rock that is also on Youtube and that is also awesome). Ellie, Alan and Ian go to investigate.
Meanwhile, Owen Grady, Claire Dearing and Maisie Lockwood are living off the grid in the house Owen built himself during and after the events of Fallen Kingdom. He’s been keeping track of his velociraptor Blue’s whereabouts, especially since she had a baby and he feels responsible for their safety.
When Blue’s baby gets kidnapped by poachers, it’s up to Owen, Claire and Maisie, as a family, to save Beta.
Ellie, Alan and Ian eventually discover that Lewis Dodgson, the man who hired them to investigate the dinosaur attacks, the owner of the company BioSyn, is cooking up a new dino in their lab: the Giga Indotosaur. The genetically-engineered dinosaur can track down dinos in the wild. BioSyn can then swoop in, capture the dinosaurs Giga Indotosaur hunts, and “protect our fragile ecosystems from these new apex predators” as Dodgson puts it.
(Or to sell the dinosaurs. That works too.)
The kicker? Our characters never go to the Biosyn lab. The audience sees some scenes there, including the return of InGen’s Dr. Henry Wu, who is still making genetically-engineered dinosaurs, but the crew never goes to another lab in another park. Been there, done that.
Owen, Claire and Maisie, meanwhile, bust out the poaching / dinosaurfighting ring, and try to save Beta. They fail. The road also leads back to BioSyn, as they learn by sneaking in the poaching ring, since BioSyn needs Blue’s DNA to make Giga Indotosaur more compliant. But again, Owen, Claire and Maisie don’t go to BioSyn. Then they are disturbed by another dino attack. They escape and we see the big action scene in Malta. Which was the best part of Dominion.
Of course, it’s not common knowledge that Blue’s (and by extension, Beta’s) DNA was mixed up with T. Rex DNA during the events of Fallen Kingdom. So when Lewis Dodgson adds her DNA to Giga Indotosaur (and goes behind Dr. Wu’s back, because he refuses to work with Beta), it, ahem, fucks shit up.
The Giga Indotosaur escapes BioSyn and starts to wreak havoc on the dinosaurs in the wild. Many who had been captured by BioSyn, including Beta, are also released, and it’s pure chaos on the streets of New York City (or pick whatever big city that Hollywood loves). It’s up to Ellie, Alan, Ian, Owen, Claire and Maisie to deal with the Giga Indotosaur and save the day.
Of course, Giga Indotosaur is killed, thanks to Beta and the T. Rex who gets her revenge, and everything eventually goes back to this strange, new normal. By the end, Ellie, Alan and Ian are interviewed by the United States Congress about the events with BioSyn and the future of dinosaurs in our world and Owen, Claire and Maisie bring Beta back to her mother.
Sprinkle in old characters, like John Hammond’s grandchildren, Tim and Lex, Ian’s daughter Kelly, Claire’s old friends Zia and Franklin, and Owen’s old friend Barry, and add new characters like Kayla Watts and Ramsey Cole. And Dr. Wu probably gets his comeuppance. Probably.
And that’s it. You got a movie.
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I got all the jurassic world evolution memos underneath the cut
-------{{TRUST ISSUES [1/2]}}-------
Participants: Claire Dearing, Ian Malcolm;
[10:07] Claire Dearing:
- Dr. Malcolm?
[10:07] Ian Malcolm:
- Mrs. Dearing, this is quite the pleasure.
[10:08] Claire Dearing:
- I have an extremely confidential issue I'd like to discuss.
[10:08] Ian Malcolm:
- We share so much in common, you and I, having both escaped the islands, and yet we're still somehow still involved with them.
- And besides, I'm intrigued to know the nature of this conversation.
- Discretion is a trait not often associated with me, but for you... I'll make an exception.
- Do go on.
[10:10] Claire Dearing:
- The Foundation just brought in someone new to oversee development of the islands.
[10:10] Ian Malcolm:
- I'm aware, we've been in touch.
[10:11] Claire Dearing:
- That's why I'm reaching out to you, Doctor.
- I'd like you to keep an eye on them.
-------{{VEILED THREAT}}-------
Participants: Henry Wu, Ian Malcolm;
[15:22] Henry Wu:
- Dr. Malcolm.
- Rumour has it that you and this new curator are working some sort of side deal...
[15;22] Ian Malcolm:
- And a good afternoon to you too, Dr. Wu.
[15:22] Henry Wu:
- Is it true?
[15:24] Ian Malcolm:
- Given the right set of circumstances, anything can be true.
- Time and perspective are key variables.
[15:24] Henry Wu:
- That's not a denial.
[15:25] Ian Malcolm:
- On that, you would be correct. Neither is it confirmation.
[15:26] Henry Wu:
- We are both survivors, Dr. Malcolm. But that status doesn't last forever.
- And it can change at any moment.
-------{{MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE, POSSIBLE}}-------
Participants: Kajal Dua, Ian Malcolm;
[18:42] Kajal Dua:
- Dr. Malcolm.
[18:43] Ian Malcolm:
- Dr. Dua, to what do I owe this honour?
[18:43] Kajal Dua:
- You don't hide your sarcasm very well, Dr. Malcolm.
[18:43] Ian Malcolm:
- Yeah... I wasn't trying.
[18:44] Kajal Dua:
- I know you've questioned my methods in the past, but with this new Director of Operations involved, I've been making good progress on stabilizing my research.
- Whatever you're doing to help them, it's working.
[18:45] Ian Malcolm:
- Which means even more dinosaurs are joining the modern world?
[18:46] Kajal Dua:
- Returning to it, yes.
[18:47] Ian Malcolm:
- Ah, what was once unimaginable has now become possible.
-------{{LISTEN CAREFULLY}}-------
Participants: Ian Malcolm, Owen Grady;
[22:04] Ian Malcolm:
- And Claire told you this?
[22:05] Owen Grady:
- She suspects that Dr. Wu's team is trying to create some weaponized hybrid.
- A hyper-hybrid.
[22:06] Ian Malcolm:
- Why should this concern you, Owen?
- Did you not think that your domestication program was anything more than the first step toward something more... kinetic with the dinosaurs?
[22:07] Owen Grady:
- Look, I know that these animals can be trained. I understand them. You just have to know how to listen.
[22:07] Ian Malcolm:
- It took thirty thousand years of evolution to turn the wolf into the Labrador.
[22:08] Owen Grady:
- So you're saying you won't help?
[22:08] Ian Malcolm:
- I'm saying I'll keep an eye on Dr. Wu.
[22:08] Owen Grady:
- Really? Didn't sound like it.
[22:08] Ian Malcolm:
- Maybe you just have to know how to listen.
-------{{MULTIPLE INCIDENTS}}-------
Participants: George Lambert, Ian Malcolm;
[09:33] George Lambert:
- There have been incidents.
- Multiple incidents.
- And you can assure me that this new Director of Operations isn't involved?
[09:34] Ian Malcolm:
- To the best of my knowledge.
[09:34] George Lambert:
- And how good is that?
[09:35] Ian Malcolm:
- Better than most.
- Much better actually.
- Isn't sabotage always an on-going concern on the islands?
[09:36] George Lambert:
- Outside threats I can deal with. It's the ones from the inside that worry me.
-------{{MISSING SCIENTISTS [1/2]}}-------
Participants: Kajal Dua, Ian Malcolm;
[14:22] Kajal Dua:
- Dr. Malcolm, we have another incident. I've had two scientists go missing. They've been gone two days now, I believe.
- Lambert went searching for them.
- They'll turn up, eventually.
- One way or the other.
[14:23] Ian Malcolm:
- Yes... the other. I can see how upset you are about this...
[14:24] Kajal Dua:
- Look, everyone here understands that there are certain dangers associated with our work.
[14:24] Ian Malcolm:
- But these scientists weren't working for you, were they?
[14:24] Kajal Dua:
- We are all part of a team...
-------{{THE WATCHER}}-------
Participants: Ian Malcolm, Cabot Finch;
[12:57] Ian Malcolm:
- I don't control them, Cabot. I only offer advice.
[13:01] Cabot Finch:
- So your new charge isn't spying on me, then?
[13:01] Ian Malcolm:
- Far as I can tell, you've been watching them.
[13:02] Cabot Finch:
- I watch everyone.
-------{{A BROKEN SEAL}}-------
Participants: George Lambert, Ian Malcolm;
[15:46] George Lambert:
- It was Dr. Wu. And as far as I can tell, Dr. Dua. They've been hatching this plan for a while.
[15:46] Ian Malcolm:
- Hatching... yes. The, uh, perfect way to describe it.
[15:47] George Lambert:
- That hybrid is too dangerous to be anywhere other than the islands.
[15:48] Ian Malcolm:
- And it's too dangerous for the islands as well.
[15:50] George Lambert:
- So what do we do?
[15:52] Ian Malcolm:
- We wait.
- It is only a matter of time until it bites the hand that feeds it.
- Then we will know where to look.
-------{{HYBRID RESURGENCE}}-------
Participants: Claire Dearing, Ian Malcolm;
[09:42] Claire Dearing:
- Are you seeing this?
- Did you know about this?
[09:42] Ian Malcolm:
- I'm going to, need a little help here...
[09:43] Claire Dearing:
- The research into hybrids. It's happening again.
[09:43] Ian Malcolm:
- Okay.
[09:43] Claire Dearing:
- Okay?
- It's not okay, Malcolm.
[09:44] Ian Malcolm:
- I was acknowledging that I'm aware of the program. Not that I approve.
- Which, I don't have the power to do anyway.
- Nor would I want it.
[09:44] Claire Dearing:
- But this new Director of Operations you've been counselling, they're part of this research.
[09:45] Ian Malcolm:
- The security Division has always been a bit of a misnomer, if you will. We all know what they're really interested in.
- Pretending to be naive isn't your strong suit, Claire.
[09:45] Claire Dearing:
- As always, it's the blind leading the blind.
[09:46] Ian Malcolm:
- Correction. It's the blinded by ambition leading the blinded by greed.
- Present company excluded, of course.
-------{{WHERE IT ALL BEGAN}}-------
Participants: Ian Malcolm, Isaac Clement;
[16:22] Ian Malcolm:
- You are really doing it, aren't you?
[16:23] Isaac Clement:
- People are hungry for nostalgia.
[16:23] Ian Malcolm:
- Hungry, yes.
- Interesting.
- Appropriate.
[16:24] Isaac Clement:
- Hey, maybe this could be part of our marketing campaign.
- "Are you hungry for the past?"
[16:24] Ian Malcolm:
- Oh, I wish you wouldn't.
[16:25] Isaac Clement:
- Too soon, huh?
[16:26] Ian Malcolm:
- No, it's just, well... on Isla Nublar, the past is hungry for you.
-------{{ON SCHEDULE}}-------
Participants: Kajal Dua, Henry Wu;
[11:25] Kajal Dua:
- Things are proceeding as scheduled. This new Director of Operations seems to be on task.
[11:28] Henry Wu:
- That's good to hear.
- I'd say we are less than ten years ahead of the competition, and we're losing that advantage faster than I'd like.
[11:29] Kajal Dua:
- Then stable hybrids are the best shot we have to remain on top.
[11:29] Henry Wu:
- Correct. I've heard rumours a revitalised Biosyn has some significant investors behind it.
[11:30] Kajal Dua:
- That's concerning.
[11:30] Henry Wu:
- Maybe. Or maybe we need to find out how much they'd be willing to pay to get back in the game.
-------{{A CLOSE BOND}}-------
Participants: Ian Malcolm, Owen Grady;
[21:33] Ian Malcolm:
- You know I don't get involved with corporate politics.
- It's too chaotic.
[21:33] Owen Grady:
- I'm not worried about me, Malcolm.
- I'm a survivor.
[21:35] Ian Malcolm:
- Something I allow myself to also take some pride in.
[21:36] Owen Grady:
- It's her.
[21:36] Ian Malcolm:
- Claire?
[21:36] Owen Grady:
- Blue.
[21:37] Ian Malcolm:
- Oh. Yes, of course.
[21:37] Owen Grady:
- Masrani Global had a plan.
- And it didn't die with Simon.
[21:38] Ian Malcolm:
- Man is mortal.
- Ideas can last forever.
[21:38] Owen Grady:
- Blue's basically the apex of the apex now.
- And with Ingen needing new sources of income, they're going to try creating a lot more of her.
- That's my guess anyway.
[21:39] Ian Malcolm:
- You're worried that they'll take her away from you?
[21:39] Owen Grady:
- She doesn't belong to me.
- But, yes.
[21:40] Ian Malcolm:
- Owen, you realise that what you and Blue have, however you want to define it, is unnatural, right?
- This is a relationship that shouldn't exist.
[21:40] Owen Grady:
- So you're siding with them?
[21:41] Ian Malcolm:
- No, I'm on the fence.
[21:41] Owen Grady:
- Malcolm, you and I both know from personal experience that fences don't last forever.
-------{{INTERNAL CONCERNS}}-------
Participants: George Lambert, Ian Malcolm;
[11:13] George Lambert:
- As crazy as it sounds, I'm convinced that some of this sabotage is being perpetrated by in-house actors.
[11:15] Ian Malcolm:
- Doesn't sound that crazy to me.
[11:16] George Lambert:
- Yeah, maybe.
- It's happened before.
[11:17] Ian Malcolm:
- That's, not a question, is it?
- Because, yes, it has.
[11:17] George Lambert:
- Why?
[11:18] Ian Malcolm:
- Motive and opportunity.
- And passion.
- Oh, and one other thing... the new Director of Operations.
- They're proving things can be done differently.
- Success, can be threatening to certain individuals.
[11:18] George Lambert:
- That sounds like something Hammond would say.
[11:19] Ian Malcolm:
- Hmm... yes, it does.
- And as much as I disagreed with the man, I'll take it as a compliment.
-------{{TRUST ISSUES [2/2]}}-------
Participants: Ian Malcolm, Claire Dearing;
[10:11] Ian Malcolm:
- Trust issues, is it now?
[10:11] Claire Dearing:
- Now and always.
- You know my concern is the well-being of the dinosaurs.
- Those animals have rights that need to be protected.
[10:11] Ian Malcolm:
- Rights, Ms. Dearing?
- These animals shouldn't even be, well, anything.
[10:12] Claire Dearing:
- Chaos theory says otherwise, doesn't it, Doctor?
[10:12] Ian Malcolm:
- Ah... perhaps you've been paying attention to my reports after all.
[10:12] Claire Dearing:
- Look, we both care about the same things.
[10:12] Ian Malcolm:
- Do we?
[10:13] Claire Dearing:
- Yes. I believe we do. In fact, I know we do.
- And someone is up to something on the islands.
- What and why is my interest here.
- Maybe this new person is the problem. Or maybe they can help us idenitfy who is.
[10:14] Ian Malcolm:
- Well, if the problem is me, then this whole plan... scheme... of yours has already failed.
[10:15] Claire Dearing:
- Well... has it?
[10:16] Ian Malcolm:
- No.
[10:17] Claire Dearing:
- Good. I'll be in touch again.
- Soon.
-------{{MISSING SCIENTISTS [2/2]}}-------
Participants: Ian Malcolm, Kajal Dua;
[14:25] Ian Malcolm:
- A team, yes. You and Dr. Wu. History repeating itself. I've seen this all before.
- First, the disappearances.
- Then the hunting...
[14:25] Kajal Dua:
- Look, if... and that's a big if... if Dr. Wu created a new hybrid, your Director of Operations helped him. So we're all in this together.
[14:25] Ian Malcolm:
- And then comes the running.
- And the biting.
- And the dying.
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