Join me in reviewing the chapter "Version 4.4" from Jurassic Park, as well as reviewing Tammy and the T-Rex with special guest and SNALE frontman Kristoph Ochs!
Tim laughs on the other end of the phone, "Typical Grant stubbornness."
"Of course it is Timmy. It's genetic."
OR
"And that was years ago. We no longer need paleontology, Ms. Grant."
"If that's all you have to say, Mr. Wu, I think I'll wait for Mr. Masrani to continue my tour. I came here to learn about your work in the labs, not get my life's career ridiculed." Emily stopped walking, hand on the door to prevent it from closing behind her.
Me: Oh, no! How did you find out that I really like the character type of middle-aged, misunderstood villains who realise their mistakes and try to redeem?
Mantah Corps. is the villain of Camp Cretaceous but honestly, props to them for making the only not deadly as fuck hybrid dinosaur.
Like, Wu was over here making; a horror movie monster looking dinosaur that has scorpion fish DNA and kills anything with a heat signature, a white dinosaur that managed to convince a pack of four raptors to betray the man that raised them and killed an entire field of brachiosaurus just for fun, and a third hybrid that was created by using a bone from the second hybrid and was designed to be a killing machine as a military weapon
Good on Mantah Corps. for not making a completely carnivorous hybrid. Even if part of the spinoceratops/sino-spinos DNA is most likely sourced from the JP3 Spinosaurus I'm at least hoping the Sinoceratops DNA could help them be more mellow.
Also Wu should've learned his lesson the first time when his first hybrid had completely erratic behavior and tried to kill him
Some say Crichton's 1990 novel layed the groundwork for them to be in the sequels - but ... let's be honest: Jurassic Park was never about "genetic engineering" and splicing bits of different animals together to encourage certain traits.
It was about cloning. Taking a dinosaur's blood, and cloning that dinosaur into a new dinosaur. Or, more specifically, the same dinosaur - a literal clone of the original! One is just tens of millions of years older than the other.
Are "hybrid dinosaurs" cool? Not really - but I went back in my files - and actually, there was a time when they were cool. When I was 11 years old.
Here's "Dinosaur Man," the super-hero dinosaur that's made of 10 different dinosaurs!
He was mutated by some "glowing water" (in homage to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), absorbed the features of the dinosaurs around him, and gained supernatural powers comparable to Beetlejuice (from Nelvana's cartoon show) and eventually had an adamantium skeleton (courtesy of X-Men the Animated Series)!
Later in the series, he journeyed into space, inspired by the panache of Spaceman Spiff (from Calvin and Hobbes!)
But the ultimate lesson here is - hybrids are childish! LOL