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Prehistoric Emergence Is Bad Part 2

Part 1 Later they add in Wooly Mammoths with no explanation on how large herd mammals that once migrated across an entire continent have survived underground this entire time.

They also introduce Livyatan and treat it like some kind of 1v1 versus match between it and Megalodon which you see from slop channels. All while treating the Livyatan's emergence as a good thing to help humans defeat Megalodon, even though Livyatans were known to eat large marine animals such as whales as well.

Quetzalcoatlus at least has it's pycnofibers in some of the images and videos, it still has inaccuracies like it's wings not being rounded. They also treat them like they would actually hunt humans, when just taking into account what other people have discussed about if pterosaurs would hunt or eat humans it is unlikely. They could have opted for one that could have like Cryodrakon, but how well known is that name as opposed to the one that showed up in Jurassic World.

Of course not beating the popular creatures claim Tyrannosaurus Rexs were introduced and ate several humans. Even though T-Rex probably would not have hunted let alone eaten humans, wasting energy to hunt them. But rather they would probably have gone after large game and farm animals given they did hunt Edmontosaurus Annectens. Speaking of which why weren't they introduced? As one of their main food sources shouldn't Edmontosaurus also be showing up? Especially since T-Rex has been underground for millions of years according to this series, so what did they eat? Again not even the bare minimum. Also, if they wanted a dinosaur to hunt humans why not any of the abelisaurs like Carnotaurus? Or even Deinonychus, you know theropods that would have made sense to have tried to hunt humans. Lemme guess name recognition for the most popular dinosaur???

The T-rexs that are used in said video are of either images from online that are inaccurate, or mostly accurate in videos because the footage was taken from Prehistoric Planet. Also, these creatures would have been evolving underground for millions of years, so should they look very different from their ancestors? Of course something that they didn't think of not implement.

The whole time they just keep using videos and images other people made in their video, instead of making it themself. Even using pictures of either Komodo Dragons or some random Monitor Lizard for Megalania showing the lack of effort.

All that being said the script reads like they didn't even try to do the bare minimum to create Prehistoric Emergence and just used the popular prehistoric animals with all the inaccuracies. Or who knows maybe they got an "ai" to right the script which would explain the laziness. On top of basic analog horror tropes of a news broadcast, glitches, static, audio cutting out over something spooky, and spooky silhouette images doing spooky things instead of original footage.

If I were to give any advice to the creator it would to drop the "ai" nonsense, stop using the work of other people, and make your own models or practical effects to create footage and images. Drop the basic analog horror tropes that people are tired of seeing and use what works. Not what seems scary. Do the bare minimum of research when creating not just the prehistoric animal designs, but actually research how they would act and what they ate. While taking into account how they would have lasted this long and how they would look. While not a perfect book, take a look at If Dinosaurs Were Alive Today. Said books has moments where Baroynx is eating fish like Grizzlies do, Tyrannosaurus hunting herd animals, and Mosasaurus getting caught in a fishing net as it was hunting Ammonites. Stuff they would make sense. If not that, take a page out of Weird Birds' as does this concept well and even has it where the reason the animals look like their ancient counterparts is because of time travel. Let alone the fact they put in the effort to make accurate feathered dinosaurs. Heck with all that maybe even try to redo the series, update it to be better.

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Prehistoric Emergence Is Bad Part 1

So I have came across a few people promoting a analog horror series called Prehistoric Emergence as a good piece of analog horror or dinosaur horror, without putting any actual criticisms in and ignoring glaring issues. So I decided to do it myself. Keep in mind the information in this post should be used to harass the creator of said series.

So first off the most major problem with this series is it uses "ai." When watching the videos it clearly use images that can be found on the web. Said images are moving a bit but not really and have a certain uncanniness to them. This is because the images were placed into one of those "ai" programs that turns a image into a "animation." While of course not letting it last long enough to hallucinate. The voice over might be "ai" but I can't tell all the way.

That being said aside from being lazy for just using "ai," it is lazy in another way. It doesn't go through any effort to create any original images, art, or models of these creatures. Instead opting to just use other people's hard work and basic Jurassic Park renders. And since it is not actually animating anything and just using images, it is on the lower end of analog horror with the lowest level of effort. In comparison you have The Invasion of Godzilla by Jacob Animations which actually goes through the effort of hand drawing and at least animating the kaiju. Or Godzilla Found Footage by Lost Utopia Films which to my knowledge is using their own animated models. Or even Weird Birds by Archesuchus which is done in the style of a unfiction blog making updates and photos of dinosaur done using practical effects.

Some while there is some video footage, it is all taken from other people's video such as Sea Monsters Dangerous Dives.

Now for the main part, scientific inaccuracies and bad world building. So while the concept is interesting and plays off of the idea seen in Journey to the Center of the Earth, but it executes it poorly.

For starters, you have several different animals coming out of the same location, each of which not only come from different periods but different eras. For example, Mosasaurus from the Mesozoic Era, Dunkleosteus from the Paleozoic Era, and Megalodon from the Cenozoic Era all coming out of the same hole. How did all the creatures all end up in the exact same location.

On top of that how did they survive all this time? what were they eating? Because there is no mention of things like sharks, ammonites, and whales also coming of the Blue Hole? So what have they been eating this whole time?

It also seems like these 3 were only chosen because they are popular and well known, as opposed to what would make logical sense. For example, Megalodon would not make sense as a threat to humans to the point where we would have to avoid the waters. Sharks already don't attack(shark accidents don't count) let alone eat humans in the current day. So why would a shark that primarily fed on large marine life such as whales have any interest in eating a human. On top of that most animals don't really try to eat humans let alone would waste the energy to try to if they very large. So why is Mosasaurus a problem? The only one I could see possibly trying to eat humans is Dunkleosteus. That being said why not opt for a smaller species of Mosasauridae or other prehistoric marine creatures? The answer is obvious and that is because the other species aren't as well know so they opted for the more popular one rather than what would make sense.

Speaking of Mosasaurus Hoffmannii, due to them just using random images they have several conflicting depictions of Mosasaurus either like their tail fluke, counter shading, chunky body, or smooth scaly skin. I also recall Dunkleosteus has been found to have skin over it's teeth which makes sense. Note, I am not going to go over every single inaccuracy.

Part 2