#To try to find dinosaurs on isla sorna

[twelvebooksstuff]

This post and the tags make much a fantastic point! The intwntal lack of information causes everyone to be confused…except Malcolm who knows how this is going to end, from prior experience!

Love how fucking no one in The Lost World has any idea what is going on. They don’t understand how dinosaurs work. They don’t understand how InGen works. They don’t generally understand how being outside or using technology work either.

[ghostie-luther]

Okay jurassic Park was my all time favourite series as a child (and is still a huge hyperfixation), but as a child JP3 was my all time favourite for some reason. But carrying on;

Headcanon that after 8 and a half weeks spent on isla sorna, after he was rescued, Eric Kirby turned into a total adrenaline junkie.

Of course, nothing compares to the feeling of running away from velociraptors, spinos, rexes, but he does his best to replicate the feeling.

Adrenaline can keep you alive even when your body is on the brink of exhaustion. How many times had Eric had to start running when out on a supply run? Or if he was asleep and the slightest noise made him wake up, afraid that there was a dinosaur outside trying to get in? Add sleep deprivation onto malnutrition, and adrenaline is a pretty handy friend to have.

In my hc, when he was finally home safe, he was more afraid of the absence of adrenaline than having it. So he started to do things to make his heart race. He picked fights, climbed the highest trees he could find, jumped out of his window in the middle of the night and raced through the streets, pretending there was a pack of velociraptors after him, (which worked a little too well, and an early worker found him crouched behind a dumpster at 6am having a PTSD attack). Even petty theft once, to have the security guard chase him. (Never again, his mom started crying. But he was desperate).

Anyway, Billy who was still in contact with the kirbys, heard all about it. His solution? Rock climbing. Base jumping. Bungee jumping. Anything, you name it. And when Eric is feeling a bit too ansty in the middle of the night, Billy will be there with his motorcycle, to take him on a joyride. It normally helps when Billy practically flies down residential streets. Eric argued that yeah, motorways are good in theory, but there are less things to dodge, which Billy just nodded to while thinking 'fuck this Kid needs a new therapist'.

(When Eric turns sixteen, Billy will buy him a dirt bike. And Amanda and Paul will drop to their knees in anguish, because that look in their sons eyes is downright devious).

[agentcable]

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

Four years after "Jurassic Park", John Hammond loses control of his company to his nephew, Peter Ludlow. On the verge of bankruptcy, Ludlow plans to exploit dinosaurs from InGen's second island, Isla Sorna, with plans for a new dinosaur theme park in San Diego. Hammond sneds a team, led by Ian Malcom, to the island to document the dinosaurs and encourage non-interference. The two groups eventually come into conflict.

If you want to watch the movie for yourself, stop reading! This post contains spoilers to the storyline.

Four years after Jurassic Park, a rich British couple went on vacation on Isla Sorna, 87 miles from Isla Nublar. The daughter wanders into the wilderness and is attacked by Compsognathus.

The lawsuit against InGen leads to John Hammond resigning as CEO. His nephew, Peter Ludlow, takes over the company. Meanwhile, mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm reveals to the media that InGen is cloning dinosaurs. He can't support his claims because InGen will sue him.

Hammond asks Malcolm for help. InGen has another island, Isla Sorna, where they did the original research and made the animals. A hurricane forced the dinosaurs to be released into the wild. Ludlow convinces InGen's investors that a dinosaur theme park is a good idea. He decides to capture several animals and bring them to San Diego, where InGen is finishing construction on an abandoned Jurassic Park stadium. Hammond is trying to stop this. If he gathers experts to document the dinosaurs, he may get enough support to save them from captivity. Malcom first says no, but then learns that his girlfriend, paleontologist Dr. Sarah Harding, is already on the island. He reluctantly agrees to go to rescue Sarah. As he prepares for the trip, Ian is visited by his daughter, Kelly Curtis.

The rest of Hammond's team is made up of engineer Eddie Carr and wildlife documentarian Nick Van Owen. Ian meets his daughter Kelly in the garage. The two talk about their lives, but Kelly is unsure about her father going to Isla Sorna, which causes a rift. They arrive by boat and find Sarah in the wilderness. After escaping a herd of stegosaurus, the group returns to their camp and finds Kelly, who secretly stowed away on the trailer. Ian tries to contact the boat, but InGen has sent a second team to the island to hunt down the dinosaurs.

The InGen Hunters arrive with all-terrain vehicles and equipment, carried by helicopters. Roland Tembo and his hunting partner Ajay Sidhu are leading the InGen team. They came to the island to hunt a male Tyrannosaurus. Also on the team is paleontologist Dr. Robert Burke and Ludlow, who is in charge of the mission.

By nightfall, the InGen team had captured several dinosaurs. Roland and Ajay find a baby Rex nest and capture it to use as bait for the adults. As Peter prepares to stream to the InGen board room, Nick says that Ludlow has arrived and is capturing the animals. Nick must free them because Hammond wants it.

Nick is later revealed to be a member of Earth First!, a radical environmental group that engages in sabotage. Nick and Sarah sneak into the camp and free the dinosaurs. They also cut the fuel lines of the InGen vehicles. In the chaos, cars explode, setting off fires that spread through the camp. Pachycephalosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Triceratops destroy tents and injure people while they and the other dinosaurs escape. A burning vehicle is thrown into the air and headed for a tree where Roland and Ajay are standing. They jump to safety.

Nick frees the chained infant Tyrannosaur and brings it back to the trailer to fix its broken leg. Kelly gets excited when she hears the baby cry, so Ian takes her to the "high hide", a platform in the trees.

As Eddie and Kelly go up the high hide, Ian goes back to the trailer just before the dinosaur parents come to look for their baby. Sarah returns the infant to its parents, who attack the double-trailer because the infant is injured. The adults leave after forcing the trailer over a cliff with Ian, Nick, and Sarah inside. Eddie drives the SUV to the trailer and helps, leaving Kelly on the high hide. He ties a rope to a tree and throws it to Ian, Sarah, and Nick. Eddie hooks the SUV to the trailer and tries to pull it back. As he tries to save the trio, the T-Rex parents return and kill Eddie.

The trailer falls off the cliff, but the trio survives by holding the rope Eddie tied to the tree. The Hunters help them climb back up.

Ian, Sarah, Nick, and Kelly join the rival Hunters after their vehicles and communication equipment are destroyed. Sarah and Burke say the T-Rexes destroyed the trailers because they moved their infant into the camp and now feel the need to defend it. They have to go to the abandoned building to call for help. Peter says the area is close to a Velociraptor nesting site. Sarah says the T-Rexes will follow them as long as they think the group is a threat to the infant.

While trekking, Dieter Stark leaves the group to use the bathroom and gets lost. His friend Carter is listening to headphones and does not hear Dieter. Dieter is killed by a pack of Compsognathus while wandering.

The Tyrannosaurus duo found the camp at night. Carter screams, and everyone panics. Roland tries to shoot the male Tyrannosaurus, but he's missing the bullets. Nick stole them to stop him. He uses a tranquilizer gun instead. The female T-Rex pursues the hunters, steps on Carter, and traps the others behind a waterfall. Burke sees a snake and runs into the jaws of the Rex, who eats him. It was a harmless milk snake. The hunters travel through tall grass after losing the T-Rex. Ajay tries to warn them, but they don't listen and are killed by Velociraptors.

Ian and his group make it through the field and run to the operations building, while the raptors hunt the hunters. Nick goes into the building and calls for help while Ian, Sarah, and Kelly fight off three raptors. The group reunites and boards a helicopter.

On the flight out, they see Roland has taken the male Tyrannosaur Buck, which is being prepared for the journey to the mainland. Ludlow orders his men to find the infant and fly it to San Diego.

InGen invites investors and reporters to watch the T-Rex arrive. The ship crashes into the dock. Security guards board the ship and find the crew dead. A guard opens the cargo door to look for survivors. Ian says not to open the hold, so the T-Rex leaves the cargo bay and heads into San Diego. Malcom tells Peter, "Now you're John Hammond."

Ian and Sarah ask Ludlow where the infant is. He says the infant was flown in by plane and is at the Jurassic Park amphitheater. They get the infant from the amphitheater while the adult causes chaos in the city.

Ian and Sarah lure the male Tyrannosaur with the infant and take it to the ship. Ludlow orders the police to shoot the adult, then follows the couple onto the ship. They escape the ship, and Peter goes into the cargo hold alone to look for the infant. The infant's father returns and berates Peter for tampering with his child. Ludlow tries to run away, but the angry parent bites him and puts him back. Then, the infant kills it. Sarah shoots the T-Rex with a tranquilizer dart as Malcolm closes the cargo hold door.

The next morning, Ian, Sarah, and Kelly watch a news report on TV about the dinosaurs' return to Isla Sorna. John Hammond says the island should be kept isolated for thte dinosaurs. The dinosaurs need to be alone to survive. He also quotes Malcolm: "Life finds a way." The last scene shows the T-Rex couple with their baby, the stegosaurus herd on the move with their young, and a flock of pteranodons flying in and landing on a tree, ending the film.

[corvatrix]

Theories Are Just Fantasies | The Lost World (Jurassic Park #2)

RATING ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

💡 REVIEW

Admittedly it's been around a year since I last found myself adventuring through Crichton's fictional world, so I wasn't super fresh on the details of what happens in Jurassic Park. That's okay, though; the second installment is written well enough to stand alone. It's enhanced by your knowledge of the events in Jurassic Park but you can absolutely read it by itself and still enjoy the hell out of it.

Spoilers below. Please keep spoilers out of the comments!

😍 WHAT I LIKED

This was an incredibly quick read (a couple of hours on a flight + an hour or two, cumulatively, in the car back and forth while visiting family) and was gripping from start to finish. I didn't find myself glossing over paragraphs like I sometimes do with science fiction; indeed, I almost hesitate to label this sci-fi because it's so character driven and spends very little time on the intricacies of InGen's meddling, or Dodgson's ultimate plan, or Malcolm's chaos theory. I would've liked to read more into that, honestly.

The book's pacing is breakneck; once you start, you won't want to stop. Even the setup of the dilemma (Levine returning to Costa Rica and Malcom & Co. following to save him) seems fun and fast-paced as we unravel the mystery of what's happening despite already knowing what's going down (seriously, how does Crichton pull that off?) on Isla Sorna. We're invested in the characters from the jump and understand what's at stake--and feel the tension almost immediately.

Also, Ian Malcolm on morphine is an absolute treasure.

💩 WHAT I DISLIKED

Having the perspective of younger children again (a boy, Arby, and a girl, Kelly) helped make the science feel a little more accessible as a layman; however, having similar players to the first novel (two male scientists, a male bodyguard-type, a female scientist, and two kiddos) made this iteration feel very similar to the first book in a not-great way. I also cringed a bit at Sarah's girl power quips throughout the book (for example: "Absence of proof is not proof of absence. All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.") as they felt a little forced and a little weird coming from a male author. Having Dodgson return as the smarmy, no-good villain was...okay, but it was the same motivation as the first book, and I'm glad that he was bait for the Rex babies.

On that note, the dinosaurs involved are...one note. We've got the typical flashy Velociraptors, the annoying (and dino-rabies-ridden) Compys, several herbivore species, a couple of nesting T-Rexes, and a couple of chameleon Carnotauruses. The interactions between our heroes and these animals are always high octane, which is fun for a screenplay but not so much for a book, and I found myself wanting to know more about the animals and how they got there, even though a LOT of the book is centered around learning about their behaviors and way of life. At one point there is even a moment when a blood sample is taken--and nothing really came of it. I WANT MORE DINO SCIENCE DAMMIT.

In conclusion, this was a fine, fun read that got me through a very boring pair of flights and was familiar enough that one could zoom through it without paying too close attention and still come out on the other side feeling like they hadn't missed anything. It is my understanding that this is the only sequel Crichton had ever written for any of his works, and I can definitely see why he would be hesitant to give it another shot. It's a good popcorn book: it wouldn't be satisfying enough to serve as a full meal, but it's great as a snack or a quick bite in-between more full plates.

 🗝️ THEMES

The arrogance of educated people

Survival of the fittest

"You were so preoccupied with if you COULD that you didn't bother to stop and think about whether or not you SHOULD."

📖 TROPES

Returning to a dangerous place

"Ah shit here we go again"

Life-or-death stakes

Will-they-won't-they romance

Smart but callous guy gets schooled

Bad guy gets his come-uppance

[tossacointoyourhotmess]

Dr. Ian Malcolm

Born: June 29th, 1955

Significant other: Unknown status. Several ex-wives

Children: Kelly Curtis Malcolm + four other unnamed children

Occupation: Chaotician

Portrayed by: Jeff Goldblum

Along with Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler, Ian was invited by John Hammond to Isla Nublar as one of the specialists who was to sign off on the park, declaring it safe and ready to open for the public. Ian, however, had previously told Hammond of his many concerns regarding the park and believed that Hammond had invited him in order to try and prove him wrong.

Although continuing to express his concerns, he joined Alan and Ellie on the park tour along with lawyer Donald Gennaro and Hammond's grandchildren Lex and Tim. During this tour, the group came across a sick triceratops and abandoned the vehicles. Upon the arrival of a tropical storm the group, save Ellie, returned to the tour cars and began their journey back to the visitor centre.

While this was happening Dennis Nedry, the parks computer specialist and program designer, shut down the security systems in order to smuggle embryos out to a Biosyn operative. Due to the shut down, the tour behicles came to a stop outside the T-Rex paddock and the Rex was able to escape her enclosure due to the fences being unpowered.

The Rex attacked the car containing Lex and Tim, the same car that Gennaro had abandoned. In an effort to rescue the children, Ian was wounded by the Rex and knocked unconscious. He was later found by Ellie and game warden Robert Muldoon, and returned to the visitor centre where he received what minimal treatment that he could. When it was decided that they would completely shut down the parks remaining systems, Hammond ordered everyone to the emergency bunker while it was rebooted. It was in this emergency bunker that Ian spent the remainder of his time on the island until they were able to contact the mainland and have a helicopter sent for them.

After the incident on the island, things took a bad turn for Ian. After trying to go public with what had happened, Ian was discredited by Hammond's nephew Peter Ludlow. Ludlow went to great lengths to make Ian appear insane which resulted in Ian losing his university tenure. His book only made matters worse as it was a direct violation of the non-disclose agreement he had signed after leaving the island. However, despite this, he managed to establish a relationship with Sarah Harding, an accomplished paleontologist.

Four years after the events on Nublar, Ian was contacted by Hammond who asked him to document the remaining dinosaurs living on Isla Sorna, Site B. Ian adamantly refused until he learned that Hammond had also contacted Sarah and that she was already on the island. Declaring it now a rescue mission, Ian began working with a team to prep for a journey to Sorna. It was during this time that his daughter Kelly was left in his care by her mother and, not wanting to be left behind, stowed away in the trailer.

After finding Sarah on the island, and discovering that Kelly had stowed away, his priority became removing the ones he loved from the island, fearing what would happen to them. The group, however, saw the arrival of another InGen group and discovered that Ludlow was rounding up dinosaurs for transport to the mainland so that they could appear in Jurassic Park San Diego. While he stayed in the trailer to contact a nearby boat, Sarah and fellow team member Nick Van Own went to free the captured dinosaurs and ended up bringing an injured baby T-Rex back to the trailer. This attracted the parents of the baby to the trailers and they attack the group, pushing the trailers off of the cliff and killing Eddie Carr. They are rescued by the InGen group who also found Kelly in the high-hide where Ian had hid her. The two teams teamed up to access an abandoned facility in the islands centre in order to contact the mainland.

After much difficulty Ian, Sarah, and Kelly reach the facility but are attacked by raptors. After fighting them off, they ran for the helicopter that had been called by Nick who had reached the facility before them. As they flew from the island, they saw the mother T-Rex sedated and loaded for transport to the mainland.

After reaching the mainland Ian and Sarah made their way to the docks to try and stop the arrival of the ship carrying the Rex. However they could not contact the ship due to all the crew members having been killed during the journey. The ship crashed into the dock releasing the Rex onto the San Diego streets. Realising that she was looking for her baby who was also in San Diego, Ian and Sarah learn from Ludlow that the baby was being held at the San Diego attraction. They go and retrieve the baby, using it to lure the mother Rex back to the boat and into the cargo hold before the authorities can kill her. Ludlow is killed by the baby T-Rex in the cargo hold. The ship is then escorted back to Isla Sorna where the Rex family live in peace.

Many years later, after the fall of Jurassic World and just before the imminent destruction of Isla Nublar by Mt Sibu, Ian appeared before the senate declaring his belief that the volcano eruption was a way of nature correcting itself, and that the remaining dinosaurs should be left to go extinct. After they were rescued and released onto the mainland, he appeared before the senate again declaring "welcome to Jurassic World."

By the events of Dominion, he is working as an in house philosopher for Biosyn. Sometime between the events of Isla Sorna and working for Biosyn, he had two more children.

Alan and Ellie bios coming soon

[raidbossmadi]

Edge of Chaos  Masterpost

A masterpost of my Jurassic Park AU fic-verse The Edge of Chaos , to be updated as fics come out 

Fic List : 

The Edge of Chaos   

John Hammond is sure that Jurassic Park is ready to host its first guests, Robert Muldoon disagrees with this sentiment wholeheartedly especially after the worker incident. He advocates the experts be brought in so that maybe John will finally do the right thing. 

Meanwhile Ian Malcolm has always preached that a system at the Edge of Chaos is in constant flux and one little tip in either direction of Order or Chaos will bring an entire system crashing to it knees. Little does he know he's about witness this concept playout right in front of him.

The New Normal

Change is a funny thing, sometimes you end up in the aftermath of a crisis and learn more about yourself than you thought you would. It's easier to deal with together than alone.

After the events of Jurassic Park Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant find they can’t abandon Ian Malcolm to recover from his injuries alone. They accompany him home to Texas as they deal with the trauma of their experiences. Nothing will be the same and the mistakes of the past loom large over everyone.

Familiar Path, Different Place

"We must consider the idea that with extinction being untestable and unsuitable for experimentation. It may not be a construct of science at all but instead an unexplainable act of the failure of other systems.” - Ian Malcolm

After Ingen destroyed his reputation Ian Malcolm was content to put the 1993 incident behind him. The universe, and Sarah Harding have other ideas though. Having no choice but to traverse the lost world of Jurassic Park's Site B, Ian must come face to face with his deepest fears.

Beautiful and Vulnerable 

In the aftermath of San Diego the survivors of the original incident in '93 are brought together once more. Ellie and Alan desperately want to be able to trust Ian again but things won't be as easy as they were the first time, everyone has been keeping secrets that they need to address. The shadow of the park still looms heavily over them all. Everything happens for a reason though and now that the survivors are together again it won't be so easy to pull them back apart.

While the world is coming to terms with Ingen's dinosaurs, Henry Wu will not settle for this being the end of the line for his work. With a legal hearing in the way of what will be done with Ingen's assets the genetics team is racing against the clock, yet soon they'll discover an unexpected ally in Simon Masrani.

Crossing The Rubicon

In 1999 under the supervision of Ingen's new benefactor, Masrani Global, Operation Trailhead is deployed. A handful of employees of the original park and a their new trainees are sent to Isla Sorna to reclaim the Island holdings and protect the animals that live there.

Illusion of Control 

After refusing to willfully aid the Kirby family in helping to locate their missing son, the Survivors of the Jurassic Park incident find themselves kidnapped and brought to Isla Sorna. To make matters worse they aren't the only people on the island who shouldn't be there as Lewis Dodgson has sent his operatives to try and retrieve Genetic stock from the animals on the island. They all just so happen to arrive at the same time as Henry Wu's wayward Spinosaurus has escaped into the ecosystem and She intends to carve her niche into the biosphere no matter who or what gets in her way.

[thefairlyoddhuman]

SPOILERS- JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION

I'm honestly really happy with the way things ended! While it may be the last movie of the franchise, I really think with the way things ended- there's a possibility to make one more installment that correlates with jurassic park 3.

I also love how they tied in the whole aspect of biosyn and dodgson from the books! In the first book they really tell you what biosyn is really about- in the movies they never really did that until now.

Now I'll have to rewatch it again- but I believe that biosyn only saved the dinosaurs from isla nublar. I get that the eruption only happened on that island- but if their plan was to take the dinosaurs anyways, why didn't they take any of the dinosaurs off isla sorna? If they wanted all the dinosaurs in one spot- why not take the others. Although- I wouldn't want to be the one trying to track down a spinosaurus.

The one thing I don't like- was the introduction of Maisie in Jurrasic World 2. You find out that she wasn't just a clone persay in Dominion but was made by her own mother- Charlotte. You get the background of Charlotte- how she was working on the island back when the first jurassic park took place. She's never mentioned in the book- so in turn, having someone like Charlotte in the timeline doesn't really make sense. In the first movie you never even hear of her or her work. Unless for some reason she was kept a secret- she should've been integrated into the movies better.

If I think of anything else I'll be sure to add on! And if anyone has any input feel free to add on as well!

[charlesoberonn]

It is year 4021.

"People is still trying to find mistical Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna where legends say that dinosaurs still exist. The newest evidence may be, thanks to Third UN environment restoration program, on Sentinel islands that floated out of sea level in recent years. In old legends this Island was one of most dangerous that man could go but cause of this is lost in time."-from popular scientific program about mistiries of the this world.

"Amateur archeologist who claimed to find the gate to Jurassic Park is proven to be a hoax.

"Historian Lana Pertham quoted saying 'at this point we have so many fake Jurassic Park gates we could make a whole Jurassic Gate Park.'"

[asktheheirofslytherin]

I was talking to ine of my friends, and we were talking about the weirdest, out there, batshit crazy fanfics we've ever read. So I'm going to subject you to the memory I had locked away that was recently drugged up from the bottom of the ocean that is my middle school memories.

This was a fanfiction that was a Harry Potter/Jurassic Park crossover. During the Department of Mysteries battle, Harry Potter had grabbed Bellatrix's foot, and she panic apparated onto Isla Sorna. This was after the fall of the park, so everything was all overgrown and shit. They were walking around and Harry was trying to explain Dinosaurs to Bella, and she was like (exact quote) "I'm not fucking stupid Potter I know what a fucking Dinosaur is... but do continue". Eventually they get to talking about how to escape because I guess Bella couldn't apparate them back? Well the solution was to build a raft. So they were talking about how to get all that working, and Bella was like "ok, but what the fuck are we going to eat while we float around in the mother fucking ocean???" (She said fuck a LOT in this fic). Well, I shit you not, the solution Harry thought of was that he could get her pregnant, and they could drink her breast milk to survive. Yes, her breast milk. The fic ended there, it was never finished, and I haven't been able to find it since. Now you get to have this live rent free in your head for the rest of time. You're welcome.

Someone obliviate me.

[swan2swan]

So, where do we go from here? 

Camp Cretaceous Season 4 Prediction (LONG): 

As much as I’ve argued that we need to stay on Isla Nublar the whole time, turning right back around after that final sendoff would be too much of a forced “Return to Status Quo” for a story that has propelled itself forward so much. The kids did it. They won. They got off the island. I feel like we've explored almost everything we needed to (what's left? The bamboo forests? The gardens?), and though we never saw Triceratops or Stygimolochs or got chased by Gallimimus, we can't just go back after everything's increased. The only Big Challenge remaining on the island is the volcano, and that's six months out.

But the story’s nowhere near done, because we have four major plot threads that need to be addressed before the show ends:

1. Most immediately, we have the dinosaur in the closet. Is it a baby Scorpios? Blue? A Monolophosaurus? A Dilophosaurus? A baby Ouranosaurus? A baby Baryonyx? Jeanie? We don’t know, but odds are that it’s going to throw a wrench into the kids’ plans to return home. 

2. The state of Sammy's family and the ranch are still in flux; what will happen to them? Did they get all the money they needed from lawsuits? Does Mantah Corp have dirt on them? Are they going to try to interfere with Sammy because she Knows Too Much? They were set up as villains for a reason.

3. Darius and Kenji's strained relationship is a setup for future conflict.

4. We need to see Bumpy again. This isn't something that “needs” to come up, but the fact is that she's one of the main characters—bringing her back is essential to the story's quality, and we're not missing that thread. She either needs to get off the island, or we need to see that she lives afterwards.

Considering all of these things, I can rule out a lot of options: we're not getting chased right back by the Mosasaurus, and the creature in the ship isn't just going to wreck the engines and send them back. They're less than a hundred miles off of Costa Rica, so even if they're cruising at a cautious ten miles an hour, they should be able to see the shore within twenty-four hours, which means we're not going on an island-hopping adventure, either. You need dinosaurs, too, so nothing generic will happen.

Thus we can consider:

1: The kids are on the mainland of Costa Rica, and lost in the jungle or mountains. Just because they found their way back to mainland doesn't mean that they're going to find a port, and if their stowaway or the Mosasaurus causes problems, they can crash easily. If it's a Scorpios Rex baby, they'll have to hunt it and capture/kill it to finish their mission from this season. The problem with this option is that it just retreads the threat from the last season, which is boring; if it's a Monolophosaurus (or two), then it might not even impact things...so, I don't think the “kids in the jungle” plot is going to stick. I give this one a “D”.

2:  The kids run into a patrol vessel before landing. Isla Nublar is under quarantine. While they're on the boat, their rescuers/captors unleash the creature (which could be Scorpios!), and now there's a tight opening adventure on the boat. Thrilling, but not much of a big season if it's just a navy vessel...which leads me to:

3:  This is the only way I think we go back to Nublar, and that is if they meet up with a patrol boat, and then the creature in the hold (a small Scorpios???) rampages through the ship. They put it down, but the noise attracts the Mosasaurus, which wrecks the boat and puts them right back on Nublar—separated and with a bunch of adults alongside them. With a cast of much-more-plot-vulnerable adults to care about now (perhaps including Roxie, who joined the crew?), the stakes are higher and the kids are guides—maybe even separated at different points on the island. Not a big fan of this idea, though—again, it's retreading, and the number of excuses for “military-trained adults can't radio for help” is slim. So, I give it an “F”. But let's refine it a little further:

4: The kids get picked up by a patrol boat that is actually working for Mantah Corp—and they discover the dinosaur that has snuck aboard. Seeing an opportunity, Mantah Corp excitedly takes the kids to their secret base...on Isla Sorna. Though the dinosaurs on the island are mostly extinct and sick from disease, the abandoned island was perfect for a field laboratory. Specimens to study, buildings that already existed, a quarantine keeping prying eyes away...there's a whole organization here now. The kids escape from captivity (as they do) and find themselves wandering around a new island with new dangers: all around them are long-decayed skeletons of dinosaurs from the past, and hunting them are bizarre creations from Mantah Corp's labs. It's an island of ghosts now, and the kids need to escape...and perhaps, when they do, they find that they only have enough fuel to make it to one place: and it's the place they never thought they'd return to.

This plot covers pretty much every base—the stowaway, Mantah Corp, the relationships, and a chance to return to Bumpy—and gives them a proper, probable reason to go to Isla Sorna that isn't “Fate decided that it would be fun if they went to a different island”. I give this one “B-to-A” probability.

However...

There is one other major option:

Three. Year. Timeskip.

There are only two things holding me back from leaning into this: one is that it would deny us the sight of the kids reuniting with their families. We need that. We need some sort of triumphant return home. The other, simpler, more obvious problem is the monster in the hold; that kind of cliffhanger seems like it should come up. Obviously both of these problems can be solved via flashbacks, or a prologue, but...the need for new models and such would be an issue, because “budget” has always been a thing.

The other major problem, obviously, is the fact that the kids would need a reason to come back together. Maybe they all gather together for an anniversary and a dinosaur attacks them; maybe they're all being interviewed; but a far more interesting, compelling, and obvious motivation would be this:

Bumpy is alive and in danger.

Thus, all six kids (well...at least two would be adults now...) go running off to find and rescue Bumpy. They're bold and independent, rebellious and reckless: they each go to save their dinosaur friend, and they end up running into each other and ultimately facing Mantah Corp, who is one of the major power players in the prelude to Dominion.

This one has the ultimate story potential, in my opinon. You have Kenji and Darius meeting again with death glares because they left on poor terms. Ben has adjusted. Yaz and Sammy have had three years of yearning, notes, and problems (or maybe Sammy vanished...). And Brooklynn has had to forge a completely new life for herself, because she can't deal with internet fame anymore—everyone asking her about the island wherever she goes was just too much.

It directly sets the stage for Dominion, allowing glimpses of the world as it will be in the movie. Maybe the kids set more dinosaurs loose from Mantah Corp's (land-based in this one) laboratories as they free Bumpy. Maybe they become renegades and outlaws—forced to live in the wilds of California, Nevada, or Mexico. They're no longer looking for rescue, but for refuge. Maybe Claire has a sanctuary, a real one, that they have to get to. This would make it a full-scale adventure in a world filled with dinosaurs. Whatever they brought back with them is out there, too...and perhaps an old, scarred nemesis they never thought they would see again.

The biggest drawback to this is that the show hasn’t been running long enough for kids who started it to connect with the grown-up forms of the characters, but also...at the same time...it could work? I dunno, I give it “B” probability, A+ potential. 

Other thoughts that could work in any of these:

Roxie is working for Mantah Corp. She's unemployed, combat ready, and bitter at InGen...also, she'd look great in a uniform.

Brand is involved in any mainland shenanigans.

Dodgson. Dodgson. Can we get Dodgson here?

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The Lost World: Jurassic Park

“The Lost World: Jurassic Park” loses all nuance and self-awareness to deliver a seriously unengaging movie.

Ian Malcolm is asked to travel to Isla Sorna to document the dinosaurs that were not part of the original theme park and have been living in isolation for four years. Malcolm refuses, stating John Hammond is just making another mistake, but is coaxed into returning after finding out that his girlfriend is there. When he gets there, he’s met with his new research team. What they find out is that they’re not the only humans on the island. Hammond’s old company is now trying to capture dinosaurs to open a new theme park. It quickly becomes apparent that everyone has bit off more than they can chew.

Finding out that Sam Neill wasn’t coming back for this movie as Alan Grant was disappointing, to say the least. I thought having Jeff Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm as the new main character was an interesting idea... until I realized how boring he is as a character. Don’t get me wrong. I like Jeff Goldblum. I just think that his character in this movie wasn’t all that interesting. In the original movie, Ian Malcolm was just that guy who warns everyone about the dangers of what they were doing. In this movie, he’s still doing that, but this time he does it constantly. He’s much less of a rock star in this movie too. He has a girlfriend and a daughter from a previous relationship. I get why the choice to give him this family was made. It’s so that he has something to potentially lose throughout the film, but it really went against his character in the first movie. Admittedly, I like how getting Ian Malcolm back on the island was handled. The movie does a good job at setting things up, but never really delivers further than that. The whole second act of this movie is just one long survival sequence. They get attacked by dinosaurs, the dinosaurs just leave, the crew rests, the dinosaurs come back to attack, and the cycle just continues. It’s seriously unengaging to just watch that happen over and over again, especially when the kills are tainted by weird or dumb choices. There’s a scene where Ian, his girlfriend, and Nick are hanging from a rope over a cliff. The person that’s supposed to save them is this bumbling idiot who makes all the wrong choices. I can’t tell you how many times I smacked the center of my forehead watching him try to tie cables around various objects. When he eventually gets ripped apart, I couldn’t help but feel glad that his stupid antics were finally over. There’s another scene with these baby Velociraptors that nibble a bit on the bad guy and then back off. They do this again and back off again. It’s only until he conveniently falls behind a log, obscured from the camera, that the tiny dinosaurs devour the man. I get it from a filmmaking standpoint. It’s to show a little taste of what the baby dinosaurs are capable of to then let the audience’s imagination do the rest of the work. It just doesn’t make a lot of narrative sense. At a certain point, the movie ditches the idea of the dinosaur attacks being thrilling and tries to opt for comedy. There’s a scene where Ian is double-backing between a door to avoid a Velociraptor. There’s also the infamous gymnastic scene that truly felt like a low point for this already frustrating movie. Finally, the movie rushes to get to something that thought would be cool without actually earning it. The Tyrannosaurus wreaking havoc in the city sounds cool, but if you don’t earn it, it doesn’t feel good. There’s a massive plot hole that allows for this to happen and it’s indicative of the mindset the filmmakers were in when coming up with the ending. Do anything to make sure the T-Rex is rampaging in the city by the end, even if it makes no sense. I’d be madder at this movie, but there are still good aspects sprinkled inside. The use of animatronics is still here, so it’s nice to still see impressive puppetry. The directing in this movie is still top-notch thanks to Steven Spielberg. I know that the next movie is commonly known as the worst movie in the franchise, so I can’t wait to see what’s in store.

★★★

Watched on June 7th, 2022

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Setting Sail Into Dangerous Waters with Camp Cretaceous Season Four | Where Will They Go?

At the end of Season Three of Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, the camp fam set sail into the vast unknown in search of rescue from Isla Nublar and the fallen Jurassic World theme park. With only a compass to lead the way and Kenji at the helm, the six kids set out to rescue themselves with a ship left behind by Season Two's villains, Mitch and Tiff. Nothing yet has been revealed about where these kids will call their next port, but I'm sure they are intent on making it to mainland Costa Rica... but will they actually make it there? There are a lot of variables in the mix, so let's take a look at some of the routes our camp fam may take on the way home.

Costa Rica

Isla Nublar lies 120 miles West of the mainland, so with enough luck and fuel, the kids of Camp Cretaceous certainly hope to make it to Costa Rica. It's their salvation. In the canonical timeline of Jurassic World, the campers set off of Nublar about six months after the events of Jurassic World, which means the hangar at the end of the 2015 film would no longer be ground zero for rescue operations. After six months of no rescue, it seems as though no one is looking for the lost children anymore. Hopefully they can find safety with the authorities or someone that may have heard about the missing kids from the Jurassic World incident. This outcome is their safest sanctuary. It's the ultimate goal.

There is one issue with this goal - what is on the boat? We certainly heard what seems to be a dinosaur within the locked cabin, so our campers could be responsible for a dinosaur loose in Costa Rica. It could make for an interesting tie to the original Jurassic Park novel with loads of reports of small lizards harming people around the coast. Ultimately, would one dino lost on the coast of Costa Rica be all that interesting? Depending on what the dino is, it could be interesting... but I think there are better alternatives.

Back to Nublar

This option is certainly the least interesting of the bunch. With the kids setting out for a hopeful future, having them backtrack to Isla Nublar would be a huge step backwards for the show. We've already spent three seasons trying to escape the island, so setting course for somewhere new is the best option. Of course there are still plenty of unexplored sections of the island, but it feels like it's time for a change of scenery.

The Mosasaurus

At this point in the franchise timeline, the events at the beginning of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom have occurred, which means that the Mosasaurus has escaped into open water. Our camp fam set out on the open seas, hoping to head to safety, but what if something got in their way? It's highly possibly that along their trip towards the mainland, they encounter the Mosasaurus. This outcome could be utterly dire for our campers, as the Mosasaurus outsizes their yacht and could capsize them in an instant. While nothing too drastic will happen to our core group, I wonder if this encounter sets them off-course... potentially to another island.

Isla Sorna

The campers set sail with hopes of floating eastward towards mainland Costa Rica... but what if they went the wrong way? The Mosasaurus could be the perfect catalyst for them chartering the wrong course, but it's already been hinted at that they could easily lose their way. During Season Three, Kenji couldn’t figure out how to use the compass that they picked up from his dad's penthouse, so who's to say he won't get turned around again. Isla Sorna is one island in the Five Deaths island chain, 87 miles West of Isla Nublar - 207 Miles West of Costa Rica. If they hit Sorna, they are heading in the wrong direction. The wrong direction for the kids, could be the correct direction for the show. Let's consider all Isla Sorna has to offer.

The island originally seen in The Lost World: Jurassic Park and further in Jurassic Park III could be the answer many secrets this franchise holds. It's an island shrouded in mystery and potentially even lies. As we've been told, Isla Sorna is supposedly vacant. The DPG website repeatedly mentions the animals being shipped from Sorna to Nublar to populate Jurassic World as the park was building up operations, but also for the well-being of the creatures on an ever growing mysterious island. Did they move all the animals? That's to be foreseen, but at this point it seems unlikely.

One animal that could still be roaming Isla Sorna is the formidable Spinosaurus. The Spinosaurus could hold the key to the origin of hybrid dinosaur testing, giving the kids something to solve. The Spino's story was unresolved in Jurassic Park III, so it would be welcoming to see what happened after Paul Kirby sent a flare hurdling towards the vicious creature, setting the lagoon ablaze. According to the DPG, the dinosaur could be the reason for decreasing population and well being of other species throughout the island, so is it alone or does it have any island-mates?

There's also the possibility of animals lurking around old research facilities or creating nests near the coast lines - the Velociraptors of Isla Sorna. We have seen three variations of Velociraptor on the island - the male Tiger raptors of The Lost World and the white females and quilled males of Jurassic Park III. It seems doubtful that these variants would have been killed off by the Spinosaurus or shipped to Isla Nublar for the park opening, so the opportunity still exists for the raptors to be alive on the island. It would be wonderful if the campers stumbled upon the answers regarding why there are so many variants of raptor.

One problem with heading to Isla Sorna is how similar it looks to Isla Nublar now. The campers lived for months at their fallen Camp Cretaceous tree house, which was set among Redwood style trees, a look synonymous with Isla Sorna. At this point, how would Dreamworks Animation distinguish these two islands, as to make it seem like they are not just back on Nublar?

Shipmates

Let's further consider the Camp Cretaceous crew's current situation with a stowaway on board. It sounds like a dinosaur locked in the onboard cabin and I've heard speculation on everything from a young Scorpios, to a Troodon, a Baryonyx and Hap, the mercenary from Season two. I do like to consider the dino on board to be a baby Velociraptor bred directly from Velociraptor Blue due to parthenogenesis. It's been alluded to in the Jurassic World Aftermath VR game that Blue may have been able to reproduce asexually, so this could be a fun way to further that concept see in Jurassic Park and in Season Three of Camp Cretaceous with the second Scorpios Rex. Anyway, that's all besides the point, because a dinosaur is on this boat and it will have consequences.

Does the dinosaur on board force them to turn back to Nublar? Will it sidetrack them to a different island? Does it somehow signal the Mosasaurus toward their yacht? Will this dino cause mischief on the mainland? Pretty much all options are on the table when you have a dinosaur on board, but ultimately I hope it becomes the next Bumpy. Season three seemingly gave us a send-off for our favorite young Ankylosaurus (until the future, we hope), so we could use another fun dino side-kick. If it's a sweet young dinosaur, then maybe our camper friends won't get too sidetracked, but will still need to deal with the consequences once their arrive at their final destination.

Mantah Corp

Our final option sends the campers directly into the hands of the enemy. Mantah Corp have been on the peripherals of the Camp Cretaceous story from the beginning. We've seen their drone pop up in season one and in season three, plus we've heard their stories and connections. So when do we actually see Mantah Corp play a larger role? From what has been relayed within the series, it sounds like Mantah Corp has been in the shadows from the very beginning - even before Jurassic Park. Mantah Corp has wanted dinosaurs since before Wu made the first cloned creature, so we know they are dead-set on getting the DNA or better yet, some dinosaurs themselves.

From the previously outlined concepts, there could be a few results here for Mantah Corp. If our camp fam does encounter a Mosasaurus in the ocean and needs rescue, who better than Mantah Corp? There's also the chance of Mantah Corp setting up shop at a nearby island - Isla Sorna anyone? The team from Mantah Corp has to be close to Nublar, as they sent drones on recon missions to grab data and spy on the dinosaur activity. Sorna would give them a great base of operations. Let's say that Mantah Corp doesn't have the means currently to transport big dinosaurs off the islands, but they could have the capability of smuggling something small, a baby perhaps? I think Mantah Corp has to play a big role in Season four and I'd love to see it all play out on Isla Sorna.

What do you think? Are there any other alternatives that interest you? The kids from Camp Cretaceous certainly will have an adventure ahead of them in Season Four and I can't wait to see how it all plays out. I'd love to hear from you in the comments below.

Written by: Brad Jost

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Headcanon for Julia and Alan interactions?

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Julia Simmons & Alan Grant: Interactions

- In the first movie, these two have minimal interaction limited to the official meeting and presentation and than the first half of the tour. They than split up to follow different storylines before reuniting at the end before Alan and Ellie go off to get the kids while Ian and Julia go off to find Hammond.

- They both share a very dry humour, not ones to be very loud or talkative in conversation unlike their counterparts Ellie and Ian.

- They mostly stand in the background and get lost in their own thoughts and observations. Sometimes Julia will even overhear Dr. Grant's mutterings and quietly answer them, filling in the gaps or adding her own opinions.

- However, they are very much opposites when they come to Raptors. Alan specializes in them so he has this facination that is a mix of admiration and a thrill-like fear.

- On the other hand, Julia absolutely detests the creatures and would rather go face to face with a pride of lions than a pack of Raptors.

- Safe to say, when it comes to inspecting the Raptor paddock, Julia is standing as far from the wired fence and looks quite ill while Alan badgers Muldoon about their eating habits, their speed, their intelligence etc.

- Unknowingly, it is something Alan says that causes a rift between Julia and Ian. That is all I'm going to say on that without it being a spoiler.

- Julia joins Alan on Isla Sorna in the events of Jurassic Park III after she is persuaded into helping the Kirby's search for their son (being the only person who has been on the island willing to hear them out). She and Alan are a team as they navigate the island's many dangers and try to find and rescue Eric Kirby before it's too late.

- I think they tend to be very serious people and are very passionate about their individual interests.

- Their thought processes tend to be very similar, they usually come to the same or similar conclusions. Thus they make a good team in really stressful situations. They have good survival instincts, quick on their feet and don't really need to stop and explain their plan to each other.

- However, Alan takes a very educational stance, wanting to share facts and helping people get to the same conclusion he has while Julia doesn't really keep everyone in the know, just marching on ahead and putting her plan into action without much input or information to anyone else.

- So while Alan is giving a little lesson on which dinosaur is about to eat them based on the sound of it's oncoming roar, Julia is already sprinting with a plan in mind on how to escape the Spinosaurus coming their way.

- By the end of Jurassic Park III, Julia and Alan have a deep respect for each other, and he is one of three people that she informs when the dinosaurs are taken from Isla Nublar following the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

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One of the things that frustrates me the most with Jurassic World and the overall direction of the franchise is how revolutionary Jurassic Park was.  Jurassic Park triggered a cultural shift in how the general public views dinosaurs. 

When they first see the dinosaurs, Grant says “This doesn’t live in a swamp!” In the 80s, the idea that sauropods were so big and plodding that they had to live in water to support their weight was still the general idea.  Paleontologists were changing their views in the 80s, but the general public hadn’t caught on (I remember an educational ‘dinosaur adventure for kids’ cassette tape from the late 80s that reiterated this “fact” about sauropods).  In the early stop-motion tests for the raptors in the kitchen scene, their tongues flick out like snakes because even the people working on the movie couldn’t shake the idea of them being big lizards. 

Crichton’s book was one of the first mainstream depictions of dinosaurs as something that could be fast, dangerous, and intelligent.  The movie revolutionized how the general public perceived dinosaurs.  In the book, Hammond and Wu have a lengthy discussion about how Wu wanted to modify the DNA to make the dinosaurs easier to control, but Hammond wouldn’t let him and insisted on creating “real dinosaurs.”

And now, whenever anyone critiques the portrayal of dinosaurs in Jurassic World, either their wonky anatomy (did they even try to make a realistic baryonyx?) or especially their behaviour as monstrous killing machines, the response is always “oh well they aren’t really dinosaurs, they’re Theme Park Monsters.” 

Yeah, they are now.  The creators have made it very clear that they’re only interested in making Scary Dinosaur-Themed Monsters to chase Chris Pratt around. Grant didn’t make that statement until JPIII.

[And there’s a whole side conversation to be had about how earnest he was there.  He said it to deflect from the possibility of ever going to Isla Sorna.  Did he really think they’re just “theme park monsters”, or did he just want to shoot down any possibility of revisiting a traumatic experience? If he didn’t think the animals on Sorna had any relevance to actual dinosaurs, why did he assume using the raptor’s vocalizing chamber would work?]

Michael Crichton didn’t write a book about “theme park monsters” and Steven Spielberg didn’t make a movie about them, either.  The original Jurassic Park was based on the latest findings and attempts were made to depict dinosaurs as they may have been in real life.  The inaccurate size of the velociraptors is because at the time of writing, velociraptor was used as the name of the clade that contained deinonychus, and the raptors from the book and movie are very accurate to deinonychus. 

The venom spat by the dilophosaurus is not meant to be an example of “mixed up DNA from lots of species! genetically engineered! not a real dinosaur, theme park monster!”  The point was that in bringing extinct creatures back to life, there are aspects of them we could never expect to prepare for because venom glands wouldn’t be fossilized.  That dinosaurs might be stranger and more interesting than we could ever know.  (And their inaccurately small size/the frill is purely Spielberg’s fault and done for visual interest in the film/to differentiate it from the raptors)

But instead of saying “This movie/book was created in the early 90s, and paleontology has progressed in the last 30 years and we know realize that what we thought was accurate then actually has errors,” the Jurassic World writers have gone with “actually it was never accurate, it was all just genetic engineering and you’re dumb if you ever thought of them as realistic dinosaurs.”

Jurassic World resurrecting the franchise after fifteen years could have been an opportunity to create another cultural shift in dinosaurs.  I’m not pushing for feathers on the raptors/rex because I realize those are staples of the franchise and their Look is deeply ingrained in the image of the franchise, but why not any of the new dinosaurs?  Why have two movies in a row focused on “one villainous dinosaur-themed genetically engineered monster” with actual dinosaurs in the background?  Why present the dinosaurs as dumb monstrous animals that just want to kill humans even at the expense of fleeing from an erupting volcano?

The series will just do whatever it wants to make a Cool Monster and pay no attention to actual paleontology, or animal behaviour, or implementing any of the super cool discoveries made about dinosaurs in the last 15 years.  “They’re not really dinosaurs, they’re genetically engineered them park monsters.”  Yes, they are, but they weren’t always, and I’m bitter that that’s the direction the series has gone and even more bitter at both creators and other fans trying to convince us that that’s how it’s always been. 

Obviously I’m still going to watch Dominion, because I am a simple man who takes great joy in monster movies, but Jurassic Park is my favourite movie because it’s not about monsters.  And I’d watch The Mist before either Jurassic World movie, because if I’m going to watch a movie that’s about made-up scary monsters eating people, at least The Mist has cooler monster design and a more tense story. 

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TW: Dinosaurs, messing with genetics, black market deals, double crossing, near death experiences with dangerous predators, death, animal theme/reservation parks, fictional science, kidnapping

Welcome to the Librarian’s Suggestions!

The librarian is aware that there is an existing chatbot with themes for the Jurassic World series, @taeyongxowengrady. This suggestion post focuses on the original trilogy for Jurassic Park.

Today’s Theme: Jurassic Park (films)

Plot: Two doctors with paleontology and paleobotany backgrounds are recruited by an eccentric man who has created a theme park with dinosaurs to observe the cloned breeds prior to opening to the public. (To ensure the operations are safe for outside visitors.) They are amazed to discover that the man has worked with scientists to bring these creatures back to life, using DNA from West African frogs to fill in the missing parts of the DNA strands. While the pair, along with a chaos theorist and lawyer go on a tour of the park, an employee of the park cuts the power to the systems and park, while trying to steal dinosaur embryos for a rival company. This stops the vehicles the group are in, as well as powers off the electric fences, which allows some of the more dangerous breeds to escape.

In the sequel, the plans for the park on a remote island are scrapped and it is revealed the dinosaurs from the first film were created on a sister island not far from the other one. The eccentric man who planned the original Jurassic Park has lost control of his company to his nephew and reaches out to the chaos theorist to join a documentary crew to the sister island to show the creatures in their natural habitat. The theorist runs into his girlfriend on the island who was there to observe the dinosaurs. Eventually the pair, along with a documentary activist, discover that the nephew is capturing the dinosaurs and transporting them secretly to an unfinished Jurassic Park theme park in San Diego.

The third film focuses on the paleontologist from the first film researching the intelligence of velociraptors and trying to get funding for his research. He is recruited by a couple who pretends to offer to help fund his research, only to be kidnapped by them to help them find their missing son and his friend, who were last seen parasailing over one of the islands. The group lands on the island where the dinosaurs were created, and try to navigate their way around, while avoiding the more dangerous predators.

Characters

Dr. Alan Grant: A paleontologist who works alongside his partner Dr. Ellie Sattler. He specializes in velociraptors and believes that dinosaurs are closely related to birds. He is introverted and slightly adverse to kids, but eventually warms to them when he is forced to protect the grandchildren of John Hammond from a T-Rex. He is a bit skeptical of the concept of Jurassic Park, believing the creatures roaming Isla Nublar are genetically engineered theme park monsters, versus real dinosaurs.

Dr. Ellie Sattler: Dr. Grant’s partner who specializes in paleobotany. She is sharp, yet caring, as seen in how she treats Hammond’s grandchildren upon meeting them. She grows concerned for the dinosaurs when she notes poisonous and dangerous plant-life growing in areas of Isla Nublar that could harm them. (This is observed in a sluggish female triceratops found roaming freely in one of the areas of the park.) She was dating Dr. Grant during the first film, but ended the relationship by the third film and has married a US State Government employee.

Dr. Ian Malcolm: A mathematician who specializes in chaos theory, brought to Jurassic Park to assess if it is safe for outside visitors. It is implied that he is a bit of a ladies man, as he mentions having children with different women. The events of the first film leave him haunted by the near death situations and he loses credibility for saying that dinosaurs are back. He agrees to assist John Hammond with proving that the dinosaurs on Isla Sorna can live in harmony and should be left alone, with the hope that he can persuade his girlfriend to leave the island. He is able to help the team stop Hammond’s nephew from trying to open a Jurassic Park in San Diego and regains his credibility.

John Hammond: A kind, eccentric businessman who dreams of opening Jurassic Park to spark interest in families and people who wish to see and learn about something. He is not as well versed in science, which is why he relies on the experts to help. He means well, but fails to realize that the creatures created are not as easy to control and could pose a real threat to people. Eventually, he and the others are rescued from Isla Nublar and he ruefully concludes that his planned park is merely a dream and must not be finished.

These are a few of the characters. Please refer to the respective Jurassic Park Wiki for more.

Possible Plots

Your muse is invited to preview and assess the safety of a future theme park, centered around dinosaurs. Initially they believe they are seeing highly advanced animatronics, but are shocked to discover that they are living, breathing creatures.

Your muse has survived a near death experience with genetically engineered dinosaurs and has tried to put the events at the back of their minds. Unfortunately, they’re called back by someone who needs their help in proving that the dinosaurs left on the island are safe, provided no human ever enters that land.

Your muse is dragged into a situation to find someone else’s loved one, who went missing near one of the islands inhabited by dinosaurs. However, you’re not familiar with this area and have to wing it, all without becoming a dinosaur’s next meal.

Notes

While the series is set in the 1990s, this can be adjusted slightly.

Good variety of characters to choose from.

Genders can be swapped or changed, based on your face claim and character you wish to base your muse on.

Great for those who want a science-fiction theme with action/thriller elements.

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😃😃 Tell me more about the Jurassic Park aus??? Pls pls

Jurassic Park AUs!

God I love these movies, I could watch them every day.

So there are two that I’ve been pondering, one based on the older three and one based on the newer characters/storyline.

I’m trying to get elements from all three of the original films into one (compressed) storyline; even though JP III is the weakest of the bunch it has plenty of salvageable bits that I want to steal. The John Hammond character, who is utterly enchanted with their dinosaurs and resistant to any idea that the park might be too dangerous for visitors, is Daenerys. The genius scientist who helps her bring them to life and care for them (not sure if he would still be a geneticist? need to work out the science aspect of it and the scope of his job) is Tyrion. I feel pleased with both of these choices because of their respective canonical feels about dragons.

The equivalent of Isla Nublar and/or Isla Sorna is an uninhabited island off the coast of Naath, canonical home to foot-long killer butterflies, which idk feels like just the right VIBE, ykwim? I wanted something in the tropics for Reasons, and was idly casting about for a worthy candidate, and lo, there Killer Butterfly Island was. It was meant to be.

Scientists paleontologing, people lounging around shirtless and injured, dinosaurs going chompy-chomp, maybe even some of those intense 90′s Laura Dern shorts that go down to the knee? It’s a whole thing, it’s gonna be great. Also if Jaime doesn’t jump between Brienne and a dinosaur at some point then what are we even all doing here.

As for the other one, I don’t want to say too much because the premise is very silly but I am going to try to make it...not entirely slapstick and ridiculous? And I feel like anything other than like a lengthy spoiler-y explanation will just sound like 100% crack, rather than the more accurate 75%. So I will just name some specific points of inspiration for now and you may extrapolate as you wish.

*Actual canon from Jurassic World and its sequel/ancillary canonical materials

*A conversation I had with a friend in which I opined that although I loved Bryce Dallas Howard, I really didn’t find her romance with Chris Pratt’s character in Jurassic World to be very compelling.

*This truly excellent short story about dinosaurs and fairy tales

*This video about a National Geographic photographer meeting a leopard seal