Thread:Love Robin/@comment-24618333-20160319100653/@comment-366087-20160319143602

About 15 minutes into the first movie…
 * [Dr Grant responding to an unimpressed 10-year-old] "Now try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this 'six foot turkey' as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T. rex; he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him… and he just stares right back.


 * "And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side. [brings two fingers together with a whooshing sound] From the other two raptors you didn't even know were there. [beat] Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this: [produces a claw] a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, oh no… he slashes at you here [makes slashing motions below the child's chest] or here… [above the groin] or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you. So, you know… try to show a little respect."

Now, at that point Dr Grant had never met a live dino, much less a v-raptor. That's information allegedly garnered from 65 million-year old collective fossil evidence. And that scene is meant to be exposition for the audience about how raptors act.

He is laying out for us their normal nature and behavior. And that is exactly how they act all throughout the franchise.

Nature. Not malicious, evil, or wicked.

In other words, no more "evil" or unnatural than a pack of wolves hunting prey. Even if that prey is human.

Oh, and carnivorous dinos on the hunt? The "idea" of "humans being no threat to them" is, frankly, stupid. Their natures as meat-eating predators only see humans as "meals on the hoof" like any other animal. They don't process us against any sort of "threat scale".

Indominus rex is another thing altogether''—although I reserve the right to disagree with the decision it stays. I. rex was bioengineered with traits from several distinct hostile species. It was completely unnatural from the egg-up, nothing like it having ever walked the earth. It was attributed far too many anthropomorphic reasonings by the "dino expert" and the story presented as having motivations of rage and non-food hunting.

Personally I feel I. rex should be bounced, but I can see why it's currently staying.