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sigmastolen · 3 years

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it only took me a week to finish this post nbd

regarding indigenous wildlife:

@renee-mariposa:

Re: the lack of modern animals - it just occurred to me that Hammond probably hired a fleet of exterminators to get rid of the “”pests”” (I.e. everything native on the island) because they “might disturb the guests” LOL

you’re right, that sounds like something hammond would do

@evilasiangenius had a similar idea and then ran with it:

eag: have you considered maybe the animal noises in the background are piped in? and that maybe they custom-cleared this island by taking off any endangered species and then wiping out the rest, because they were concerned about disase affecting their expensive-af dinosaur clones? eag: like, would just take one stray frog or lizard with some weird fungus or parasite or pest to sicken their expensive fucking dino clones, makes more sense to literally clear out any vertebrate life on the island (and maybe the invertabrates too?) and replace them with recordings for /ambiance/ eag: i'm tired enough to be wondering if there is some kind of chicken distemper disease that dinosaurs can catch from birds. oh man, imagine the kind of precautions they'd take to keep birds from landing in the park, cuz avian flu eag: i bet if you paid for the 'pet the dinosaurs up close' experience, they'd probably test you for all sorts of bugs like the flu, or make you wear a mask or both eag: i wonder if they purpose-built their own island? or just found one that was like, newly volcanic formed island, and added soil, plants, fake trees, etc eag: oh or did that thing China did, like find some coral atolls and add soil/rocks/etc

sigma: i'm pretty sure that in canon (of the book if not the movies where i don't think it's addressed), isla sorna and isla nublar already existed and were purchased from the costa rican gov't? sigma: on the one hand, there is biosecurity but on the other is consumer demand for a "normal" petting zoo experience and i am 100% certain ingen wouldn't come down on the side of biosecurity

eag: ohhh ok. then 'cleaned up' biologically, is my guess? move off any special/protected endemic species and then sterilize the whole place eag: i wonder if they have some dinos that they have that are like, the equivalent of sea stars and urchins at an aquarium: fairly easily expendable and okay to be in a petting zoo while big dollar dinos like the t-rex are kept in strict biosecurity? eag: like, maybe some small, docile, fast-reproducing dinosaurs that are the equivalent of guinea pigs or hamsters, easy enough to replace if they get sick or die, won't bite anyone eag: plus they could probably be used to test how susceptible the dinosaurs are to human diseases

what if: the “petting zoo” concept becomes a major bugbear for the scientists and planners. they were considering the compsognathi and were very dismayed to discover the pack hunting behavior and venomous saliva lmao; alternate choice of juvenile maiasauri was also problematic as they imprint strongly on “parent” figures and became very distressed when separated from their keepers, who eventually had to dress up as adult maiasaurs so the juveniles could eventually be released into a paddock. issue still unsolved by the movie’s timeframe. alternate alternate choice: juvenile brachiosaurus rides?

i can see it being more-or-less possible to eliminate land-dwelling animals from the island(s), but yeah, birds would be potentially impossible but yes, also the most vital bc of the potential vulnerability of the dinosaurs to bird diseases. frankly, they don’t even really know if the plants might be harmful, as we see with the triceratops and the lilac berries, and they clearly can’t eliminate all the plant life. ecologically the whole thing is a nightmare

general yelling:

@whitmerule: the visual effects are awesome everybdoy can fight me

renee-mariposa: I had a film-buff roommate who didn’t care for this film and that still baffles me to this day. This film is a LEGIT MASTERPIECE, wtf did he not like about it????

the visual effects are especially awesome for 1993 i mean ???? the big cgi shot of the lake is perfectly integrated and still holds up today, and the practical effects are fun and convincing. the choices this film makes and the themes it highlights are smart and well-executed. the main cast all give top-notch performances (especially the kids omg), and it’s full of shots and sequences that are still iconic over 25 years later. i don’t even have a bad word to say about john williams, and y’all know i’m a snob. that roomie maybe just had bad taste

whitmerule: GRANT/MALCOLM/SATTLER YEEEES

YES!!! the internet provides...

renee-mariposa: God id forgotten how much I love this movie!! Thank you for the live-blogging. Also, you’re right about the grant/Muldoon chemistry

you’re very welcome, yelling about jurassic park is my genuine pleasure

... however, the internet has not provided me with grant/muldoon arg i hate it when i have to write things myself (probably it’s bc there’s virtually no window of opportunity between them meeting and the t.rex attack/muldoon getting killed but that just means we’ve got to get creative *slams fist on table*)

BONUS: on sam neill’s accent:

renee-mariposa: Oh my god id never noticed! I’ll hear it every time now lol

lol sorry/not sorry. i don’t think i noticed it until the past year or so; hopefully it won’t haunt you too much!

#chitchat #renee mariposa #evilasiangenius #whitmerule #dinosaurs eat man. woman inherits the earth.#gif warning

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