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36. Jurassic Park/Jurassic World · The Book-Watchers

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Be on it those hours. Hi. Hello, what welcome two? What
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are we doing? Oh yeah, I don't book watchers. We're welcome to
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the book watchers where we read books. I watch movies. Yeah that movie.
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That yeah, that thing right there. Yeah. Anyway, I'm joined
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today with the who are you? Well, I don't know who are you?
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Who are you? Well? I'm Jacob, but who the fuck you?
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I'm your worst fucking nightmare. Hi, it's a boy. Uh David,
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let's go. What's popping? Yeah? You know, you know,
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you know my lower back and my knees. Oh oh, I feel that,
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I feel that, I feel that. Yeah. Yeah, we were
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talking about today. Yeah, we come to you live prerecorded in a month
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in advance to bring bringing you Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park. Oh my godnostaurs.
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Yeah. Today we're gonna be talking about the heck and big lizards and the
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story written by Caution, written by a very acclaimed Michael Crichton. So yeah,
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I had to do a little bit of let me see here, I'd
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do a little bit of research because, like I wanted to double check,
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like is this the novelization of the movie. Were these books the novelization of
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the movies or they were they like, just were the movies based off the
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books? And I'm happy to report the movies were based off the books.
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Yes, so so Jurassic Park and it's a subsequent sequel, The Lost World
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is really a cautionary tale about genetic engineering because in the nineteen nineties, genetics
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and other things another ship like that, the study of DNA was really beginning
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to take off, like started in it's genetics has been. The study of
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genetics has been around for like a long time. I don't know how long.
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I'm not a scientist, I don't ask me, But it wasn't it
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wasn't like the the late twentieth century whence when the study of genetics became more
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mainstream, more popular, and just more and more scientists were focusing on it.
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And just like with the Manhattan Project and all and other things like nuclear
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power, there there came those who became who became who came to fear these
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kinds of trade of study. Yeah, so Jurassic Park was one of those
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books that was written as a way to as a caution because if let's say,
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we were able to find preserved DNA, perfectly preserved DNA of a dinosaur.
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What the what do you think is going to happen? Do you think
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a scientist is going to pass up the opportunity to like not you know,
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I mean they're already kind of doing that, like wooly mammoths and ship Oh
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yeah, they're trying to bring back to wooly mammoth and I'm trying to bring
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that from extinction. Yeah, and they're trying to bring back other animals too,
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Like there are certain animals that yeah, definitely, but like dinosaurs.
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Fuck no, but they really shouldn't. But that's pretty much what what this
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book was written to be. Yeah, So as many of you so,
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as many of you already know, if you've if you've seen the movies,
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you pretty much already know synopsis. The book and the movie don't really have
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much differences. I will say there are a few things that were in the
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book that weren't in the movies, probably because they wanted to keep the movies
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pg. Thirteen. Yeah, and there are a few things that the movies
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had that the books did it. So it was one of those, uh,
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it was one of It's one of those cases where while the movie was
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very faithful to the book, the movie ended up adding a lot more to
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it. So to start this, the story takes place in nine in nineteen
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eighty nine, and there's the book has a lot as a good lead up
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to the to the big reveal of Jurassic Park itself. See it takes place
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on the park itself was built on an island off the coast of the South
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American nation of Costa Rica, and the island itself the park is located on
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the island of Ela Nublar. Now the start of the book, the book
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starts pretty much starts off with like in a small village on the coast of
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Costa Rica. There's there's a there's a doctor, there's a small practice like
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an urgent care area urgent care, and some construction workers were brought into the
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urgent to this into the urgent care because they were injured. They were injured
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during a construction project on the nearby island. The thing is is that when
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the doctor was looking at the construction workers wounds, they noticed that these wounds
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were not caused by like a collapsed uh wall or wasn't caused by construction as
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they as the as they claimed. They noticed that the tears and the flesh
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were very similar to a bite though, even though they weren't exactly sure what
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like what caused the bite. But the u but the foreman who brought the
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but the foreman who brought the construction worker in pretty much brushed everything, any
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questions off and tried their hardest to sweep everything under the rug. It's later
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confirmed that this construction worker was attacked and subsequently killed by a by one of
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the dinosaurs, particularly an escaped for a loss or raptor. And and also,
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and not only in this incidant isn't the only case of a dinosaur attack.
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As it turns out, some of the dinosaurs that were bred on the
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island managed to escape to the neighboring nation to the to the mainland. And
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that's and the ones that were able to escape were the small animals called the
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procompsdnathus. Now, if you're a paleontologist, you probably know what that is.
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For those of you don't know, it's a compy. So compies are
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small. Well, in the book and movies, they're described as small green
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dinosaurs. They stand on their their bipedal they have they have like about it.
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They're about three feet in length and their skin is green. These guys,
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these little guys, these compies are scavengers and uh, right off the
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bat, this there is a scene in the book that was left out of
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the movies for a good reason because the compies because they had they were they'd
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been escaping from the island by sneaking onto cargo boats leaving to going to and
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from the island. The compies got to the mainland, and they think about
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the compies is that they are what you would call nest eaters. So if
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a if a dinosaur nest is unattended, the compies would come in and eat
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the eggs. They would sneak in and eat the eggs and or eat any
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babies that are left unattended. Well that's exactly what happened. And one of
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the villages, one of the coastline coastline villages of Costa Rica, the compies
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actually attacked like they they snuck into a house and ate a baby right out
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of his crib. Oh. Yeah, that's some fucked up shit right there.
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Yeah. I was like and uh, oh, and here you know
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what's fucked up is that the uh when the babies, when the baby was
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discovered debt the nanny, it was a nanny that discovered the baby, and
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she saw the compies eating eating the baby, but she didn't want the family
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to find out, like she she figured she figured that the family wasn't gonna
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believer when she SAIDs these green lizards attack the baby, so she played it
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off as like some sort of disease that killed the baby. So she like,
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basically, yeah, I know, she covered it up, and I
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was like, the fuck and the it was she was It didn't seem like
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she was concerned about the baby's death at all. Really, she was trying
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to cover her own ass. But either way, these dinosaurs, these escape
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dinosaurs, do come to start, they do start to draw attention to them.
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They're a paleontologists working in Costa Rica that there's a I'm sorry, there's
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a paleontologist that was working in Costa Rica and he notices that he finds the
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carcass of one of the copies. It had been eaten by the local wildlife,
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and he sent it to He sends it to the US for a second
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opinion to get it identified. Let's see here, just going through my notes
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real quick. So yeah, this, yeah, so the paleontologists he sent
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he not only sends it to the US for tests, sends the car the
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Compis Carcass to the US for testing. But he also calls in fellow,
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his former colleague, paleontologist Alan Grant, who was yes the main character of
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this show of this book, and his paleobotanists graduate student Ellie Satler now needs
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to He asked these two to confirm the I the identity of the compies and
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so just to confirm that these are compies. But before they can do anything
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of the sort, they are approached by eccentric billionaire John Hamman. He is
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the founder and chief executive officer of the International Genetic Technologies or ENGEN. So
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John Hammon he invites them to for a weekend visit to what he calls a
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biological preserve that he established on Elnublar. So he takes them all the way
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down the down to Costa Rica into the island, and it is there that
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he reveals Jurassic Park and by taking him through a quick he takes him through
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a quick tour the facility. Now in the book it doesn't have For those
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of you who've seen the movie, we all know the iconic scene where Hammon
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takes him for a drive through the park before before he introduces them to the
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park's facilities, and that's where we see the giant, the massive Bronzosaurus and
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all the other herds of dinosaurs on the island. Yeah, we all know
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that scene with the iconicnnnnn music. That scene was actually something added into the
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movie. The book itself doesn't have that kind of scene really. Hammond takes
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them to the park shows and tells him that he found a way to clone
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dinosaurs thanks to thanks to the thing called amber. So Hammond discovered that there
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that some fossilized tree sap called amber. Amber can contain will sometimes contain insects
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and other microorganisms that may have fed on dinosaurs back in the day, and
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as results, the amber perfectly preserved that DNA, allowing them to extract it
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and clone the dinosaurs when they first When he first reveals that dinosaur DNA had
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been extracted and they successfully clone these dinosaurs, there was a lot of skepticism
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until Hammond showed them the process. He also showed them the act, took
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him on a tour of the of the park itself. He does there's a
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lot in the book has a lot to do with genetics. So there's a
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lot of talk about the gene sequencing back in the nineties or was. There's
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a a lot of advanced tech that that John Hammond managed to acquire in order
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to sequence to sequence the DNA of the dinosaurs, and in many cases because
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of how old and how degraded a lot of the DNA he find he found
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was they had oftentime had to fill in the gaps of the genetic code using
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compatible reptilian, avian or amphibian DNA. So they find t Rex's DNA,
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but it's missing a few proteins. So they're like, all right, well,
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chicken has a similar protein, so we'll just fill in the blank right
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here and there and boom, you got a dinosaur. So the reason why
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Hammond invited Alan and Ellie and also mathematician ian Malcolm, who is a total
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prick by the way, he invited them to the park as a way to
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prove to his investors that the park is safe and ready to open, because
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Hammond got a lot of investors from overseas, like from Japan and other nations.
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And the thing is is that they keep Hammond keeps running into different problems,
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like, for example, the veloss raptors proved to be too violent and
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too vicious to be allowed to be used for any kind of park activities.
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They've proven to be to be very intelligent and particularly vicious, so much to
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the point that they've attacked several several park associates, one of them resulting in
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a death and him and is desperate to not only get the park up in
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running, but to prove his investors that it's safe. So he puts Alan,
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Sarah and Ian through a whole through the whole parks tourist just to show
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him everything. The dinosaurs show them all. The dinosaurs show them park systems,
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like, for example, the park is basically gonna the way the park
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is set up is basically Safari style. So the animals, so they are
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in it's almost like a like an amusement, right, So they're putting into
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they're put into these automated jeeps that will drive them through different sections of the
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of the island where the dinosaurs are. And yeah, there's a little tour.
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There's like you know, a prerecorded tour guide like, oh this dinosaurs
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here, these are those dinosaurs and really it's it's very interesting. But to
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be honest, like the books. These two books, I have to say
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this is one of the few cases where I prefer the movies over the book.
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I have to say that I'd prefer the moving yeah, because really,
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as I'm looking through my notes, as I'm just thinking about everything I've read
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so far about the books, I'm just thinking, Man, the movies did
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way better, did a better job, not just because of the visual effects,
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but because they made the story a lot more interesting, and it was
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all the more. There was a lot more at stake when it came to
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these movies to the story books. While Jurassic Park the movie was very faithful
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to the plot of the book, there were just several key differences that I'd
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like, I'd rather just go over, Like, for example, so yeah,
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like the movie, So Yeah. In the book, there is a
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hurricane that sweeps through the island, and when this happens, it causes a
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lot of issues. But the biggest issue comes from what was his name?
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I forgot his name. He was he was the big dude. Yeah,
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So I don't remember his name. His name is Dennis Nedri. So Dennis
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So. Dennis Nedri is a software is Jurassic Park's controlling software engineer, and
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he was approached by a rival company of engines called Biosin. He was approached
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by geneticist Lewis Dockson to with an offer. He was approached by a Docksin
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for with an offer to steal engines research and genetic material on the dinosaurs so
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that way Biosin can create their own dinosaurs and be able to compete with engine
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So he was basically recruited to attempt corporate as espionage for a rival company.
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And he agrees to it because they paid. Because Biosin offers to pay him
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a fat load, just a lot of money, they decided to they want
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to pay him a lot of money. So while Hammon is busy cowording around
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the island showing off the park systems and the dinosaurs like the Toynosaurus, the
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hold on, I forgot, I forgot to take a list of all the
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dinosaurs. Let's see. So there's the apatosaurs, which are actually more which
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we know him as bronze sources, the pterodactyls, the dilophosaurs, the duck
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oh yeah, the duck build dilophosaurs. The t rex is diagnosaurus but like
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all different kind of while all these animals are being presented to the park's first
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guests. Nedri uses his back uses a backdoor they wrote into the park's computer
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system and he shuts down its security systems to steal frozen embryos from the parks
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freezer. However, when he does this, this also shuts down pretty much
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everything the security systems, the little jeep, the little jeeps that drive the
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that drive the tourists around the island, and it causes a lot of issues.
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And because of this, it also shuts down the safety systems for like
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the dinosaurs electrified enclosures, so a lot of the dinosaurs are put into like
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different enclosures with electrified fences, and when Nedri interferes with the system to steal
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the embryos, they shut down and some of the more the more dangerous dinosaurs
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escape, particularly the velociraptors and the t rexes. And there is the book
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does include include the iconic scene of the of the Tyrannosaurus escaping from its enclosure
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and attacks the jeeps, and we do see the first death and the first
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real the first character's death. And the book this dude is I believe his
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name yep Donald Jannaro, So Donald Jnaro was one. It was a lawyer
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representing the investors for a Jurassic park, and poor dude gets eaten by the
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Tarannosaur. Meanwhile, while all this shit is happening, Tarasaurus is attacking the
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main characters, including John Hammond's which will also include John Hammond's grandson and granddaughter.
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Nedri attempts to escape the island, but he gets turned around during when
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the tropical storm comes in and he gets killed by the Delaphosaurus, which,
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for those of you who don't know, a delapasaurus is this huck. How
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do you describe the dilaphosaur. It's the one that spits that venom in your
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eyes. It's like it has these like it has these frills that like it's
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like a fan that it makes itself. It makes itself look it's like those
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road runner lizards that when you come up to it, it will fan out
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these it's like a frill will fan out and shake them and try to be
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bigger than it actually is. The kind of ward off predators yep, and
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the die off and they spit fantom at your at your eyes. And so
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anyway, Natri gets eaten by one of those and basically and because he uh
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used his backdoor to shut down the park systems, the dinosaurs are now no
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longer being able to they're no longer being contained by the electrical electrified fences.
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So the adult Tyrannosaurus attacks the guests on tour. And there's another grandosaurus in
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the movie. It's in the book. It's a juvenile and it kills the
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uh let me see here, it kills one of the park the Oh yeah,
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it kills the public relations managers. So that's a it's gonna be a
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bad image. Well shit, yep. In the aftermath, Alan Grant and
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the children they become lost in the park and he has to help get them
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all the way back to the park's main compound where they be safe. Ian
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Malcolm is greatly injured from the by the attack, but he's found by the
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other by other survivors and they spend the remainder of the of the novel.
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I'm sorry not they Malcolm. He was, Yeah, he was greatly injured,
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and he spends the rest of the book slowly dying dying, but he
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does in the end survive unfortunately. Yeah. I'm gonna make it clear I
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don't like Ian Malcolm's character. He's described as a chaos theorist. He's a
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mathematician. He uses number Yeah, he muses numbers to predict outcomes and things
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like that, and he is a firm beliat and chaos theory, which is
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hang on, hang on, let me pull up, let me pull up.
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The definition of chaos theory is an interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch
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mathematics focus on under lying patterns and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly
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sensitive to initial conditions, and we're once thought to have completely random states of
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disorder and regularities. I'm not ever going to repeat that sentence, so if
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you want me to, if you want to hear that again, just rewind
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this episode. I don't give a shit anyway. So yeah, so I
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is badly injured and Alan Grant has to make his way across the island and
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navigate the different dangerous dinosaurs. So though most of the time it's just he
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has to just navigate around some of the herbivore dinosaurs, they don't bother him.
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He realizes pretty quickly that the velociraptors that were supposed to have been locked
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away in an enclosure some of them had managed to escape their enclosure and under
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the nose of John Hammond even before the security systems went down, and then
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they had actually been breeding. So one of the things that John Hammond pointed
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out was that the dinosaurs are all female. There's no males on the island,
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so there's no way for them to breed. And also he thinks to
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like a little genetic tampering and tweaking these all the dinosaurs are supposed to be
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sterile while at the same time totally dependent on a specific a specific specific vitamin
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or a compound that has to be put in, like a certain kind of
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vitamin that needs to be put into their food, so so and the so
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if these dinosaurs don't get it, they actually will start to die, which
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is kind of fucked up, but it's a hell of a safety measure to
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keep to make sure that the dinosaurs don't you know, escape and cause like
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an ecological disaster. But anyway, they Doctor Grant realizes that some of the
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velociraptors had actually escaped from their enclosure a long time ago and they had been
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breeding, secretly breeding on the island. Thing is it went under the it
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went right under the noses of the park execs because while there is a special
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I guess it's like a tracking system that the that the island has that keeps
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track of the dinosaurs populations, but really it only keeps track of the dinosaurs
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that have special tags on them, So it scans the island for the tags
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and if it detects them, it'll keep record of them, and if any
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of them die or go missing, it'll also log that as well. But
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with a quick tweak, the island system can actually detect other animals based on
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like just different scenarios things like that, like food habits and a few other
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things. And they realize that the dinosaurs, that not just the velociraptors,
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but the dinosaurs themselves, were actually breeding and there's a hell of a lot
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more of them than they thought before. So there's a lot more velociraptors on
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the island, which is not good at all. The reason why the parks
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the park execs never realize this, like the handlers didn't realize this, was
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because the velociraptors being the smart little buggers they are. They're actually not,
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it's not really smart, but it's just more of them being nocturnal. They
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only came out at night. They they would eat some of the other excess
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animals but the but no one really noticed because technically the parks system still registered
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the same the same population as before. And so the story goes back and
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forth between doctor Grant and the and the kids and John Hammond, Sarah Sarah
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and the others at the park's main compounds. They're trying to help Grant get
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back to the main compound as quickly as possible. They're using and they're while
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at the same time trying to override Nedri's backdoor because when he shut down the
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system, he codeded a complete lockdown on the on every park system, so
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no one can really access it right now. So while they're trying to figure
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that out, the main compound soon comes under attacked by vicious velociraptors, so
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it really makes it's making their lives way harder. And because of how smart
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these vlocci raptors are, just closing and locking the front door isn't going to
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be enough to keep them out forever. So while they're dealing with that,
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doctor Grant is manages to find manages to find one of the park's boat houses
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and uses it to navigate down the one of the rivers going through the island,
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which will lead them closer, which will lead them directly to the main
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compound. Now here's something that's in the book that we actually don't see,
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we're actually not supposed to see until the third movie, and that's a scene
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with the pterodactyls, the pterodactyl enclosure. So the thing is, Michael Crichton
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only wrote two books for Jurassic Park, and that was Book one and then
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the Lost World. Yeah, Jurassic Park three, and then of course the
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New Jurassic World series. Those don't have any books written by Michael Kratt Crichton,
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and I know because I made sure to check. But so, even
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though the even though the pterodactyl scene wasn't seen in the movies until Jurassic Park
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three, in the book, the while Alan Grant and the kids are going
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down river on the boat, on this boat that it does take them through
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the pterodactyl enclosure and they almost get speared by the pterodactyls, which is not
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good. After they come out of the pterodactyl enclosure, they are chased down
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by both the adult and juvenile t rex. Hang on. Sorry, the
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hell's going on outside my house? Outside your house? Oh? Oh no,
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it's just my cousin Joseph, and this big ass white truck just pulled
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up right next to this car, and I'm like, the fuck they doing
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being all nosy mm hmmmm ah. It's probably a dealer or something. But
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all right, Joe getting getting your weed express delivered to the house. Okay,
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future Devin edit this part out. Yeah, anyway, So, Grant
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and the kids do manage to make it back to the main compound, but
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they themselves are also attacked by the velociraptors. Several other people a lot of
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the park's employees do get killed by the velociraptors and the tyrannosauruses. Grant,
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Sadler, and Malcolm, along with the two kids, they do manage to
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escape the island thanks to the arrival of It wasn't the military, I'm sorry,
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Oh yeah, it was so. One thing that they didn't that they
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left out in the movie was that in the movie they make it seem like
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personality wise, John Hammond, while eccentric, was actually a very kind man.
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He just he had a very child He had a very childlike dream of
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as erecting dinosaurs and bringing the joy and knowledge, this kind of joy and
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knowledge to the world. But in the book him and is more narcissistic.
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He's very he's more self centered. He doesn't really care about his grandkids.
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He was just in it because he wanted to be the first one to do
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it when he realized when he discovered that there's preserved dinosaur DNA in the in
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fossilized tree sap, he wanted to be the first one to sequenced resequenced dinosaur
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DNA and bring him back to life through cloning. And because of this,
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like when as the park is starting to crumble, the systems are shut down,
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the velociraptors and the t rexes and the pterodactyls are escaping and attacking everybody,
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he's over here like he's basically like he's in denial. He's like like
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this, he's shifting the blame. He's not taking any response ability. And
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at one point he gets separated from the main group as they're trying to escape
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the island and he ends up getting eaten by the velociraptors. So yeah,
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how funny. Yeah, so heman does die and let's see here, Oh
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I'm sorry, I misread my notes. It wasn't the it wasn't the velociraptors.
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It was the it was the compies. Because he was an old man,
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he like tripped, he got like uh. He he noticed that there
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was a t one of the t rexes was near, and he got started,
35:44
he got startled, and he fell and he fell, and that's when
35:47
he got attacked by a bunch of compiesh yep. And there they are and
36:00
they were able to get word out to the mainland and the Costa Rican Air
36:04
Force does rescue them from the island. But because the Costa Rican government discovered
36:10
that there was technically illegal experimentation going on on this island and now and now
36:19
the island is filled with potentially hazardous and potentially hazardous and unsafe life forms,
36:29
the air for the Costa Rican military ends up fire bombing the entire island.
36:37
So that's what That's something that the movies don't mention is that is is Lublar
36:45
is completely destroyed by the Costa Rican government and the whole affair ends up getting
36:52
covered up. So all the deaths, the dinosaurs, the genetic experiment,
37:00
it was all covered up by the Costa Rican government. The reason why they
37:04
did this. It wasn't because like, oh, well, we don't want
37:08
corporations around the world's get wind of the fact that it's possible to clone dinosaurs
37:14
now. It was more of the fact that they wanted to protect their tourism
37:17
industry like Costa Rica at the time. And I'm not entirely sure if this
37:24
is true, but the Costa Rican govern the Costa Rica, a lot of
37:31
their capital comes from tourism and if let's say word gets out that dinosaurs are
37:38
now roaming Costa Rica, it could potentially damage their tourism, their tourists,
37:45
their country's image as a tourist destination, and really impact their economy. Yeah,
37:53
so they wanted to cover it up. They destroyed the island, and
37:58
they basically forced the survivors into like nondisclosure agreements, never to really discuss the
38:05
events that happened are in the island. However, several several weeks after the
38:15
destruct the events of that happened at the park, Alan Grant is visited by
38:22
the by the paleontologists that contacted him in the first place to identify the compi's
38:30
corpse that he found. The paleontologist name is doctor Martin Gutierres. Gutierres visited
38:38
visits Grant and informs them that an unknown pack of animals has been migrating through
38:44
the Costa Rican government eating this eating crops and other animals, and basically he
38:53
hints that dinosaurs are The dinosaurs are still alive and they may have his gate
39:00
the island, and that's pretty much where the book ends. Like I said,
39:04
I was pretty disappointed by the books. There were so they had a
39:08
lot of the same scenes as the movies, but the movies definitely did the
39:12
books a lot more justice. They definitely made them more dramatic, more more
39:19
thrilling. If I'm being honest, I forgot to mention there was this they
39:25
did include the book. In the book, there was the scene where the
39:29
velociraptors chased the kids into the kitchen, that one kitchen scene, so that
39:34
was there. But if I'm being all honest, the movie made it more
39:39
didn't did a better job with that scene than the book did. And so
39:49
yeah, as part of this episode, we're gonna go ahead and talk about
39:52
the sequel, because the plot the sequel, the Lost World. I'll be
40:00
totally honest, I definitely liked the first book better because I like the fact
40:06
that the movie was very faithful to the plot of the first book, a
40:08
lot of the same a lot of the elements in the first book were used
40:12
for the movie. But The Lost World was definitely more disappointing to me because,
40:19
for one thing, Ian Malcolm is the main character, is the main
40:24
character of the book. And the thing about Ian's character is that he's very
40:34
I told you so, like he had. His attitude is like I like
40:38
I could have told you that, like I already knew, Like yeah,
40:42
I know, I've known this way before anyone else did. Like, and
40:45
because he's a mathematician that specializes in chaos theory, he has this idea that
40:52
here he knows everything, like he like he can predict anything that's going to
40:54
happen and acts like nothing surprises him anymore, and honestly, I kind of
41:00
know it all personality that really just makes me want to just shoot him in
41:06
the fucking face, like like when I started reading. When I started reading
41:13
The Lost World, the first few chapters really didn't have was nothing was nothing
41:17
but a lot of exposition. It was just build up to the actual events
41:22
that occur on the uh that take place with the dinosaurs. Like now,
41:30
just like the first book, they're dealing with another eccentric scientists. This dude
41:37
believed that there is a loss, a lost world out there, a basically
41:44
a biosphere containing relics from the uh let me see here, let me pull
41:54
up my notes for the lost world. So so now this this this other
42:07
dude, We're dealing with another wealthy individual similar to John Hammond, except this
42:13
guy is pale is wealthy paleontologist Richard Levigne. Lavigne believes that there isn't There
42:20
is in fact a lost world out there, you know, filled with prehistoric
42:23
animal life, and it's somewhere off the coast of Costa Rica. So we're
42:29
back to Costa Rica and Lavigne it finds evidence of these animals in Costa Rican
42:39
in the Costa Rican Jungles. However, any evidence he finds it is immediately
42:45
tracked down by the Costa Rican government and it's destroyed, which greatly frustrates him.
42:52
But he soon realizes that the now defunct company of engen As somehow has
43:00
connection to these to these prehistoric animals, so he starts buying up a lot
43:07
of jens and old tech, old records even though Engen destroyed a lot of
43:13
their records concerning Jurassic Park, they didn't. Leavin I was able to surmise
43:20
that Engen had several big projects off the coast of Costa Rica. He is
43:30
aware that Easel Newblar was firebombed by the Costa Rican government, but he doesn't
43:36
he didn't really understand why. But thanks to him being able to But because
43:43
Leavin recovered a lot of Engens old technology, old computers, he was able
43:49
to restore several supposedly deleted files and he learns that there was in fact a
43:55
Site B. So there was Site A, which is Jurassic Park, but
44:04
there was another site called there was another place called Site B. And that's
44:08
where this book really focuses its attention to. So it's it's attention on.
44:15
So Jurassic Park itself is gone, there's nothing left of it. But the
44:22
protagonist of the book, Levigne, Malcolm and several others, they deduced that
44:30
Engine had a second facility, one of Site B, which was on the
44:35
island of Elasorna. So Sorna was considered the production facility where the where Engine
44:45
grew and hatched the dinosaurs for Jurassic park, so new Blar was the park,
44:53
Sorna was the was the farm and Malcolm. He ends up getting roped
45:01
into this whole ordeal because Lavigne learns that he has some he has a lot
45:07
of experience with He has experience dealing with this and believes that he can help
45:12
him out. Lavigne, once he realizes that sight Be is on Elasorna,
45:20
he takes He goes there by himself with a local guide, but shortly after
45:25
arriving, the two are attacked by carnosaurs and Lavigne is almost killed. His
45:32
guide is killed, but Levine is trapped now trapped on the island and is
45:38
having to avoid all the dinosaurs and really wait pretty much wait for rescue.
45:46
But but like the dumbass he was, he didn't really tell anybody that he
45:52
was going to the island. He just was like, oh, I'm just
45:57
gonna do it, and he did it because of course. And it's the
46:01
same it's the same thing with a lot of scientists, a lot of them.
46:06
I mean, if you're a scientist, I'm sorry whether this is true
46:09
of you or not, but a lot of scientists they really are focused on
46:14
being the one that discovers something new, of course, because that's what makes
46:17
you the most money. Yeah, exactly. They want to be the next
46:22
Isaac Newton. They want to be the next Albert Einstein, all right,
46:27
the next the next Stephen Hawking. They want to be the next person that
46:30
their name will be forever immortalized as the as the dude that discovered the next
46:36
big discovery. But and that's what Lavine wanted to be because he wanted to
46:42
discover. He wanted to be able to prove that dinosaurs existed. He didn't
46:46
fully understand that these dinosaurs, these modern day dinosaurs, aren't in fact,
46:52
aren't really like survivors from the you know, these prehistoric eras where dinosaurs came
46:57
from, but rather clones grown and bred and genetically engineered by modern technology,
47:06
by capitalism, really capital capitalism. Uh huh. And eventually Malcolm learns that
47:16
Lavine went missing on the island. He then goes to the island with the
47:22
rescue team consisting of former engineer Jack Thorne and retired university professor Eddie Carr.
47:31
The thing is like the movie. In the movie, it made it seem
47:36
like there was this whole, like this big gass operation that was going to
47:38
that was going down to visit the island and to capture these animals. That
47:44
way they could be used for study and also other purposes, like mainly for
47:47
making money. Right, But in the book it's just a rescue mission.
47:53
Lavine did plan and was planning a research operation like he did contracts Uh,
48:00
he didnt contract doctor Thorne to build him a bunch of specialized and reinforce research
48:07
equipments, including specialized trailer that will be air dropped into the island and other
48:15
like vehicles and equipment that are designed specifically basically, they're designed to withstand the
48:23
dangers of dinosaurs. Yeah. Right. And although Malcolm and Thorne go to
48:31
the island with a small with a small team to find Levine, they do
48:37
take the trailer with them and a few of the vehicles, but really it's
48:42
just them. There's no big gass expedition, there's nothing like that. They
48:45
get to the island and they do find Levine, but Levine is like,
48:52
nah, bitch, I'm not leaving. I'm just I'm gonna stay here.
48:55
I came here to research, right, do search to study these animals,
49:00
and That's what I'm gonna fucking do. But the thing is is that when
49:05
they came to the when they contracted the when they contracted people to take them
49:10
to the island, the contract was that they drop them off and then they're
49:15
going to come back in a couple of days to pick him up. And
49:17
after that that's it. We're not coming back. So if they missed their
49:22
rendezvous with the helicopters, that's it. They're left behind and uh the spot.
49:31
Now. The story also, like the first book, is split,
49:36
is kind of split into between two different groups. So in the in the
49:40
first book, a certain character is introduced, and that is Richard Dogson.
49:45
I'm sorry, Lewis Dogson. I'm sorry. So. Lewis Dogson is a
49:52
geneticist and celebrity. Basically, he's he's a bad He's a bad. He's
50:00
infamous for not only cutting corners, but stealing the work of other geneticists and
50:08
other scientists in general. He plays it off as like it's just business,
50:15
all right. You gotta do what it takes, you gotta do what you
50:16
gotta do to get on top things like that. He's the one that hired
50:23
Nedrief, the software engineer, to to sabotage Jurassic Parks security systems in order
50:34
to steal their research and their embryos, and now because that failed, he
50:39
wants to go He wants to go to the island him the sighteb Island himself
50:45
in order to capture live specimens. And while he does, he really just
50:52
takes a small crew with him and they when they get to the island,
50:57
they managed to steal a few eggs, but they all also make the mistake
51:00
of stealing an egg from the transaurs nest and the transtaurs basically chase him down
51:07
and he is eventually killed. Him and his team they're all killed, and
51:13
this causes problem for the main team including Malcolm and Thorne and Lavigne and the
51:23
iconics. Really, the only scene that we that this book has that the
51:31
movie has is the scene where the tent the tyrannosaurs. They they destroy the
51:40
trailer and push it over a cliff. That's pretty much it. There's just
51:46
a lot of like, yeah, they get attacked by the time the transtaurs,
51:52
they do get attacked by a pack of velociraptors. So in the movie
51:59
Malcolm, Malcolm has a daughter who sneaks onto the expedition to the island,
52:05
but in the books he doesn't have a daughter. Instead, it's these two
52:09
middle schoolers who were being mentored by Richard Levine, and when they learn that
52:17
Levine is in trouble on the island they met, they sneak onto the expeditionary
52:22
crew to Costa Rica and now they're involved in this whole debacle and they nearly
52:30
die several times, and I'm just like, Okay, these kids, this
52:34
is kind of this is pretty dumb, because I just thought this was really
52:39
dumb because, like, I feel like these kids were thrown in to add
52:45
like a like a friendlier element to the book. They really didn't provide much
52:52
to the story. One of the kids, he is a bit of He
52:55
is a math whiz, and he's a genius with software, you know,
53:00
with computer systems and things like that. And it's thanks to him that they
53:05
managed a hack into Elosorna's security systems. Because even though there's no one else
53:13
on the island besides this, besides our main characters, they do discover Elisorna's
53:21
production facility where they grew and hatch the dinosaurs, but there's no personnel there.
53:29
There is power, and that's pretty much why how he was able to
53:31
figure out that, like, oh, there's a computer system here, like
53:36
an entire security system, and this kid hacks into it and gives them access
53:39
to the to the island's camera system, security camera system. But really that's
53:46
all he contributes. He actually almost dies several times, like at one point
53:52
he almost gets killed by the velociraptors, and the girl that's supposed to be
53:57
Malcolm's daughter, she's not his daughter, gets she almost gets killed by the
54:01
velociraptors too, And it was just really like like it was just a it
54:07
was just a mess, and there's just not much going. There was not
54:12
much going for this book or its story. A few like there was a
54:17
lot less people, a lot less characters in this book that died and gets
54:22
killed by the dinosaurs. There's just a lot of just to me, there
54:29
was just a lot of Malcolm going on about chaos theory and like extinction and
54:37
talks of extinction and things like that, and to me, it just bored
54:42
the funk out of me. Yeah. Yeah, not saying that it was
54:45
poorly written. I'm just saying that this story wasn't as great as the first
54:49
book, and the movie did did a way better job. Ladies, We're
55:00
We're joined by our new mascot, nib Nimba Nimba three at three legged furball,
55:08
who likes to voice her opinions when no one asks m h, I
55:14
mean hey, I mean hey, spill the tea queen. And she has
55:20
a lot of day to spell apparently. And we're of course always joined by
55:25
the original mascot, Shelley, but she's currently shirking her duties and taking a
55:30
nap. Oh yeah, but she she's an old dog, so I'll get
55:37
her pass anyway, So I don't really have I'll be honest, I don't
55:45
really have much to say about the book. There, they do encounter several
55:51
new dinosaurs, like the Carnoturs. Turns out the carnaturs in the book,
55:55
unlike in the movie because we do see the Carnoturs, but really not until
55:59
the third book the third movie. But the Carnotaurus in the book they have
56:06
a a chameleon ability so like so like chameleons, they can camouflage themselves and
56:12
their skin. The pigment on their skin can change color to match their surroundings,
56:17
but it's more adapts. But the Carnotaurus, They're camouflage is a lot
56:24
more effective because we're a chameleon. When they when their skin changes color,
56:31
it's very slow, and it's very slow and gradual. So chameleons have to
56:36
move very slowly in order to effectively camouflage themselves or antaurus they're they pretty much
56:45
they can adapt to any surrounding very quickly. So when the Carnotaurus are first
56:52
encountered, the main characters didn't even realize they were there until like, because
56:57
this was in the middle of the night, and they were in a like
57:01
one of the facilities convenience stores, and they managed to turn up get they
57:07
managed to get some power into the they managed to get some power onto the
57:13
convenience store, and when the lights came on, its shined on the Carnotaurus,
57:16
and that's when they saw them, like, holy shit, there's two
57:19
fucking dinosaurs there. But almost immediately they fade back into the background. Yeah.
57:24
So, and so they realized that the Carnotaurus they shy away from like
57:29
bright lights or changed, like anything that changes causes them to change their skin
57:34
patterns too fast. It makes them nervous and they end up running away.
57:37
But either way, they're only on the island for about a day or two
57:45
several people die, Malcolm Thorne, another pit, another wildlife. What's her
57:54
name? Sarah Harding? She doctor Sarah Hart Sarah Harding as an aithologist who
58:02
studies behaviors of animals. She gets roped into this by Malcolm and she almost
58:09
gets killed by Dogson the other the other guy, the bad guy. But
58:16
in the entire when she's like when she finally like gets h manages to meet
58:22
up with the rest of the like Malcolm and the others, she ends up
58:25
pretty much taking charge and like leading them out of there, and they do
58:30
manage to escape the island via boat because when excuse me, when the when
58:36
the helicopters returned, they were too late and they take off without them,
58:40
so they end up having to escape the island via boat. They're chased by
58:44
velociraptors almost relentlessly. But during this time, at one point one of the
58:52
kids, uh, we see one of the equipment that the that Richard Levine
58:58
had commissioned to be built was accustom made shark cage, except this cage is
59:02
meant to be used on land instead of in the ocean. So like if
59:07
any if they're ever attacked by like a veloci raptor or any other dangerous animal.
59:12
They could just lock themselves in the cage and it should protect them,
59:15
and it should protect them. But when so one of the kids, he
59:21
gets attacked by the velociraptors and he locks himself in the cage, but the
59:24
velociraptors ending end up dragging the entire cage down to their nest. And while
59:31
they're running around trying to save While everyone else is running around trying to save
59:36
this kid, they notice that a lot of the dinosaurs are very young.
59:40
There's not a lot of older dinosaurs. And they also notice that there's a
59:44
lot of dinosaur carcasses around the island. There's way more, there's way more
59:49
velociraptors. Like doctor Harding Sarah Harding being a animal behaviorist, she studies the
1:00:00
natural balance in an ecosystem when it comes to predator and prey. So usually
1:00:06
in order for the ecosystem to support one predator, there has to be like,
1:00:10
oh God, like several hundred prey animals are to viably support these predators.
1:00:19
But she notices almost immediately that there's way too many velociraptors and there's not
1:00:23
enough like prey animals like bronzeo sours. Uh the duck build dilophosaurs or the
1:00:36
arms are not the duck builds other animals. Like that, there's not enough
1:00:42
for there to be a proper balance in the island. And they also when
1:00:50
that little let me look at business, what was his name? I am
1:00:54
so terrible with fucking names, Arby. So the two stowaway kids were RB
1:01:02
Benton and Kelly Curtis. So RB being the little math genius he is,
1:01:07
he when he hacked into the facility systems, they find records and they notice
1:01:14
that there are several veterinarian notes concerning an outbreak of concerning an outbreak of a
1:01:22
certain disease us. So, as they're exploring the island and they see all
1:01:30
these uh just just they all noticed that there's an imbalance to the dinosaurs ecosystem,
1:01:37
like there's too many prey animals. There's too many carnivorous animals and not
1:01:43
enough prey animals to support them all. So they're starting to notice like something's
1:01:47
off here. And when they when the survivors managed to escape the island using
1:01:53
a using an emergency boat, uh, they're they're reveal that these dinosaurs,
1:02:00
even if they just even if Richard Levigne were to return to the island with
1:02:06
a bigger research with a bit a bigger expedition team and more resources, there
1:02:13
won't he won't have enough time to study the dinosaurs before they all die because
1:02:20
there had been an outbreak of a of a disease caused by a certain form
1:02:27
of sheep extract called prions. This causes this disease shortens the greatly shortens the
1:02:35
dinosaurs lifespans and infects their brains. So although this disease had been contained,
1:02:42
it spread once it spread to all the dinosaurs on the island, so it
1:02:47
will lead to the eventual re extinction of the dinosaurs on Elis Sna. This
1:02:54
is pretty much where the book ends. Once they just once they escape the
1:02:58
island on by boat, that's pretty much it. They revealed that the dinosaurs
1:03:02
are all going to die anyway because they're all infected with the disease that's going
1:03:05
to kill them. And that's it. This book, while interesting scientific and
1:03:14
engaging on a scientific in a scientific way, it's not very exciting, I
1:03:22
guess for I guess my mistake when I came when I went into reading this
1:03:27
book, I was expecting it to be as exciting as the movie, because
1:03:30
the movie was just phenomenal. Uh, you know, we had the icon,
1:03:36
We had so many different amazing scenes like the chase where the velociraptors chase
1:03:43
the expeditionary teams through that tall field of grass, when when the t rexes
1:03:49
bite that dude in half, when the t rex is when one of the
1:03:54
t rexes rampage through that town. It was just so much that I could
1:04:02
tell. I could see why, like even though Michael Crichton wrote this book
1:04:05
first, when the movie, when it was adapted into a movie, they
1:04:11
definitely did a lot to They did a lot to add to the story.
1:04:18
Yeah, So I'm sorry if there was I didn't go into much detail about
1:04:25
either books. Like I said, they weren't while they while the first one
1:04:31
was good and the second one was decent, their stories weren't as exciting.
1:04:38
And like I said, my mistake was going in expecting them to be as
1:04:42
exciting as the movies, and I ended up disappointing myself. So that's on
1:04:46
me. But I can definitely see where what inspired these movies in the first
1:04:54
place. I can also see why how they act as a warning to this
1:05:00
to the new power that is the study of genetics. But really there's could
1:05:09
there's definitely more that could have been done, but which technically was done when
1:05:14
they were adapted into movies. These books were definitely good enough to have weren't
1:05:19
not just one, but six movie adaptations, and four of them aren't even
1:05:30
based off the books. Aren't even based off books. They're just like Hollywood.
1:05:40
They took this the original story and they went with and they went from
1:05:44
there. Yeah but yeah, so anyway, so as far as the books
1:05:54
and movies, since only the first two our actual adaptation of the first two
1:06:01
Jurassic Park movies are adaptation of books, and next week's episode, we're definitely
1:06:10
going to go over Jurassic Park and the Lost World of Jurassic Park, and
1:06:15
we might give some honorable mentions to Jurassic Park three because there are elements of
1:06:21
Jurassic Park three that were taken from both the Lost World and Jurassic Park.
1:06:29
But really, Jurassic Park three, as well as the sequel series of Jurassic
1:06:32
World, those are all on They're they're all done on their own. They're
1:06:42
not they aren't adapted from any of Michael Crichton's books. I don't even think
1:06:50
he's alive still. I don't think so either. Yeah, he passed away.
1:06:57
Oh wow, he passed away at sixty six. He died on November
1:07:00
fourth, two thousand and eight. So yeah, even if he were to,
1:07:08
even if he were still alive, I'm not sure. If I'm not
1:07:11
sure if he wrote was going to write any other books. It kind of
1:07:14
looks because like I remember when Drastic Park three came out, that was like
1:07:17
in the early two thousands, and ah, let me see what books did
1:07:27
he right, I'm gonna like look up what other books he wrote, because
1:07:32
I could have swore, I could have swore Michael Crichton wrote other Durassic Park
1:07:40
books, But when I looked it up, he didn't. So yeah,
1:07:45
I don't think he did, but I know other people did. Yeah,
1:07:50
other people definitely, I guess, like Jurassic Park definitely became that that kind
1:08:01
of story that just took off. So it's something like I guess you could
1:08:06
say it's something like Warhammer or Star Wars. Even though the original story was
1:08:12
created by George Lucas, so many other artists took inspiration and wrote their own
1:08:17
stories that connected to this. So anyway, yeah, that was Jurassic Park
1:08:27
and the Lost World. I do again apologize that the this review wasn't as
1:08:31
long or as descriptive as previous episodes, because, like I said, the
1:08:36
stories weren't very like for lack of a better word, they were pretty disappointing.
1:08:45
The stories were pretty disappointing, especially if you've been spoiled like I have
1:08:49
by the movies. So these books were definitely one of the few books that
1:08:56
I would say were the movies did a better job than the book, But
1:09:00
they definitely have their value. These books do have a lot of value to
1:09:03
them just because they were written by They were written as a way as a
1:09:10
warning to the dangers of genetics, and you know, this definitely puts them
1:09:16
in that category of you know, stories warning about new kinds of power,
1:09:25
like for example, Godzilla, my favorite movie, Monster was created as sort
1:09:33
of a warning like this is like this is meant to represent the dangers of
1:09:40
nuclear power, and Jurassic Park was was written to represent the dangers of genetics,
1:09:49
and you know, it's like it comes down to like humanities trying to
1:09:55
play god and this and we suffer the consequences for it. Yeah, But
1:10:02
aside from that, thank you guys for listening in. I hope you guys,
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I hope you enjoyed this a little short episode and join us next time
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as we next episode be talking about the movies. The franchise is a whole
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just kind of geeking about that, not just the first few films, but
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the whole lot of them and whatever else drafs Park has done since. Then.
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Is Jurassic Park on any streaming services? Because I do want to watch
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at least the first two. I think I'm pretty sure it's on Pizza.
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If it's anywhere, it's probably all right. So the original one is on
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HBO Max on Drett's Park. Loss World is on HBO Max. Cool sick
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three, I know, the Drastic World series on Peacock. The first three
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are on HBO Max. It looks like yeah, yeah yeah, and then
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and then Drastic World ons on Peacock. So yep, they're all on some
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of you want to go watch the movies and uh, get ready for next
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six episode HBO Max and Peacock for the whole franchise. But until then, bye bye