#“No that's mean....what if we give Bessie a CALF and kill that?”

[swan2swan]

I just had a dark humor au thought (which was more of a quantum leap into the writers' room, bc this seems like a joking pitch) where during the attack on Sammy's ranch, Ben or Darius ends up in the barn and sees one of the Atrociraptors munching on Bessie's calf.

It's one of those things that would be tonally in-line with the dog being eaten in Jaws or The Lost World (Spielberg...), though a little more horrific. Too horrific, in fact, and mean-spirited, but Sammy did drop that verbal mention earlier in what would have been a perfect setup.

Obviously, doing that would have not just been too mean for a kid's show and probably violated some rules or another (which is why I'm sure someone jokingly pitched it), but it would also have required more assets...you would want a distressed Bessie, and one cow probably means other cows, so now you have to animate a bunch of cows, you need your silhouette of a dead calf, all sorts of stuff.

So instead, they just killed Carl.