*****SPOILERS*****
False
Alarms: Science (Dinosaurs/Gas)
These
are false alarms because they are non-problems: at first glance, they seem like
obvious mistakes, but just a bit of thinking reveals clever justifications for
their existence.
There
were two false alarms with the pachy.
The
pachy looks different from those in other films, in regards to the head spike
length and overall colour. Some could claim this lacks consistency. Perhaps
this shows a different species or sexual dimorphism? Indeed, the headbutter
here is Stygimoloch spinnifer, whereas those in the rest of this franchise are
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis. Yet some palaeontologists believe these two
species are actually the same species. So that doesn’t answer my query, only
reaffirms that the guesses were in the right direction.
The
pachy headbutts a guard who goes flying. If enough force sent the guard that
high and that far, that guard would have serious damage. Yet this one looks
dazed, not injured. Perhaps the guards wore body armour? That would make sense,
especially considering the room was full of dangerous people.
Whilst
the volcano is exploding and all the dinosaurs are fleeing danger, a t-rex and
another predator fight. Some say this is unrealistic. However, the most common
threat to any predator is other predators. In real life, predators will fight
each other in the middle of bad situations because, statistically, other
predators are the deadlier issue than environmental disasters like volcanoes.
A
stray bullet hits a cannister in the lab, letting out hydrogen cyanide gas to
poison the dinosaurs. Many complained about this gas even being there, even though toxic chemicals
are used every day in science.
Also,
if any of the dinosaurs weren’t sold, they’d cost a fortune to feed; they were
brought here specifically to make money, not cost money. So having poisonous
gas ready to kill of ‘surplus’ dinosaurs would make sense for money-grabbing Miles.
Plus, the longer the dinosaurs are there, the more likely the authorities would
discover them and thus punish Miles. So any surplus dinosaurs would be a threat
to Miles’ liberty, not just his wallet.
On
another note, hydrogen cyanide is proposed to have played a role in the
creation of life. Plus, it is confirmed to make the so-called ‘building blocks’
of DNA and proteins, without which InGen couldn’t have made the dinosaurs in
the first place! So this gas is a nice nod to those areas of science. (Even if
hydrogen cyanide isn’t typically used in genetics research.)
False
Alarms: Blue
Blue
attacks the Indoraptor the very first time she meets it. How did she know the
Indoraptor was a danger? Perhaps she heard all the scuffling whilst she was
following Owen’s scent. Sure, but rather than being the true motivator itself, this
would have reinforced what was actually the true motivator: Indoraptor scent.
Now,
the Indoraptor was made of Blue and the Indominus-rex, meaning the Indoraptor
would likely smell a little like both. For something to smell like you, it
would most likely be family. Blue is part of an intelligent social species so
of course she would be curious about possible family. That alone gives her a
good enough reason to investigate the Indoraptor’s scent.
Also,
the Indoraptor smelt like the Indominus-rex, the creature that killed her pack
mates and who threatened Owen. Naturally, Blue would be wary about anything
that smelt like the I-rex (including the Indoraptor).
Furthermore,
Blue would have scented the Indoraptor on the corpses throughout the manor. So
Blue knows the Indoraptor is a danger. Blue has shown before that she’d defend
Owen from danger, so leaping on the Indoraptor is a given!
When
Blue was a baby, she was paler than her adult form and more of her body surface
is blue in colour. Why?
Perhaps
this was done so that the audience could immediately recognise the baby as
Blue? A paler background colour would have contrasted with the blue better than
Blue’s adult background colour. Plus, baby Blue having the same percentage of blue
coverage as her adult form would’ve made it unnoticeable due to the smaller
size. In both these cases, it allows the blueness of baby Blue to stand out,
meaning it’s much easier for the audience to actually identify her as Blue
immediately.
However,
this could also just be a case of animals changing colours as they age. Babies often
have different colourings to adults to help the adults keep track of them. This
includes bird chicks, the dinosaur’s closest modern relatives.
Blue
cries a tear. Did dinosaurs have tear ducts? Is it something that can be
deduced from fossils? Was this just a detail put in for compassion rather than
accuracy? Although I suppose when Wu was filling in the dinosaur genomes he
could have added a tear duct (this would be beneficial so it’s not out of the question).
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