Tell me about what you thought of it/about dinosaurs. I am ready and willing for the infodumping. My favorite is, though rather generic, the spino… I guess Jurassic Park III altered my brain chemistry.
’Ello there, lmao—glad to provide some vindication! As for my thoughts on the book, it’s admittedly been a while since I’ve read it (’twas back in high school; I lent it to a teacher over the ensuing summer, only for neither her nor the book to get back to me), but what I do remember was a weird experience throughout that first dive in. It was my first foray into outright xenofiction as far as I can recall (unless a Warriors graphic novel counts, which I’d say is debatable), and the atmosphere conveyed through the prose came across as almost uncanny to me—in a good way, mind. Beyond the raptors themselves, the white pterosaur, Acrocanthosaurus (especially that shoreline scene—you know the one), and whip-tailed sauropod stuck out to me in particular as extensions of the perpetually-on-edge, vaguely ‘grungy’ vibes I got from it all.
As for dinosaurs in general—thank you for the go-ahead, by the way—Jurassic Park (the movie, that is) and The Land Before Time (sequels, that is; I’m still not actually sure I ever watched the original film…at least, not in full) are what I can cite as the collective spark for my ever-enduring adoration of them. From then on I was practically a fiend for paleodocs throughout my youth—Walking with, Planet Dinosaur, Jurassic Fight Club, you name it maybe don’t name that last one though—and I found myself scouring the net on many an afternoon for more media portrayals that I could sink my teeth into besides: Zoo Tycoon (1 and 2) scratched my Hammondian itch for a while until I figured out how to download more than a demo for Operation Genesis; meanwhile, the demo of Paraworld that I managed to nab in the meantime taught tweenage me that I was nowhere near ready to play an RTS; Dinosaur King and Fossil Fighters stood toe-to-toe with Pokémon in my mind for a long while; Primeval is still a series I owe it to my once mind-blown self to watch in full someday…
I still keep an eye out for stuff in that vein nowadays, but I’m a bit less enthusiastic about it as of late—thanks in part to varyingly deep burns from the likes of ARK and…essentially the entire ‘survive as a dinosaur’ subgenre (which I realize at this rate might be an inherently sketchy concept to strike gold with). JWE2 was pretty fun for a time, though, and the full release of Prehistoric Kingdom is one of my most anticipated games this decade—and outside of games, I’ve heard dino documentaries are having a bit of a resurgence as of late, so that’s nice.
That being said, I mostly just appreciate the actual academia nowadays—(summaries of) papers, more science-minded paleoart and such.
…Oh yeah! My favorite’s Allosaurus jimmadseni, for the record; yes, Big Al is a big reason why.
Ghost Stories unironically the best dub ever.
For the questionable circumstances surrounding its coalescence, what came out of it all genuinely inspires me as a creative—as a snarky, self-referential, and utterly absurd dramedy-of-sorts it has probably my favorite overall sense of tone out of any piece of media I’ve consumed, to the point I think that just clipping the funny bits doesn’t truly do it justice. That being said, I never did actually finish that first bingewatch of mine…
(Also, softcore mood on some of the weird cognitive dissonance in… well, either direction. Ugh.)
Yeah—a bit of, well, cognizance would be nice (or consistency, at least, in how responsible one wants to say a piece of media is/isn’t for people’s reactions to it)
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’Ello there, lmao—glad to provide some vindication! As for my thoughts on the book, it’s admittedly been a while since I’ve read it (’twas back in high school; I lent it to a teacher over the ensuing summer, only for neither her nor the book to get back to me), but what I do remember was a weird experience throughout that first dive in. It was my first foray into outright xenofiction as far as I can recall (unless a Warriors graphic novel counts, which I’d say is debatable), and the atmosphere conveyed through the prose came across as almost uncanny to me—in a good way, mind. Beyond the raptors themselves, the white pterosaur, Acrocanthosaurus (especially that shoreline scene—you know the one), and whip-tailed sauropod stuck out to me in particular as extensions of the perpetually-on-edge, vaguely ‘grungy’ vibes I got from it all.
As for dinosaurs in general—thank you for the go-ahead, by the way—Jurassic Park (the movie, that is) and The Land Before Time (sequels, that is; I’m still not actually sure I ever watched the original film…at least, not in full) are what I can cite as the collective spark for my ever-enduring adoration of them. From then on I was practically a fiend for paleodocs throughout my youth—Walking with, Planet Dinosaur, Jurassic Fight Club, you name it
maybe don’t name that last one though—and I found myself scouring the net on many an afternoon for more media portrayals that I could sink my teeth into besides: Zoo Tycoon (1 and 2) scratched my Hammondian itch for a while until I figured out how to download more than a demo for Operation Genesis; meanwhile, the demo of Paraworld that I managed to nab in the meantime taught tweenage me that I was nowhere near ready to play an RTS; Dinosaur King and Fossil Fighters stood toe-to-toe with Pokémon in my mind for a long while; Primeval is still a series I owe it to my once mind-blown self to watch in full someday…I still keep an eye out for stuff in that vein nowadays, but I’m a bit less enthusiastic about it as of late—thanks in part to varyingly deep burns from the likes of ARK and…essentially the entire ‘survive as a dinosaur’ subgenre (which I realize at this rate might be an inherently sketchy concept to strike gold with). JWE2 was pretty fun for a time, though, and the full release of Prehistoric Kingdom is one of my most anticipated games this decade—and outside of games, I’ve heard dino documentaries are having a bit of a resurgence as of late, so that’s nice.
That being said, I mostly just appreciate the actual academia nowadays—(summaries of) papers, more science-minded paleoart and such.
…Oh yeah! My favorite’s Allosaurus jimmadseni, for the record; yes, Big Al is a big reason why.
For the questionable circumstances surrounding its coalescence, what came out of it all genuinely inspires me as a creative—as a snarky, self-referential, and utterly absurd dramedy-of-sorts it has probably my favorite overall sense of tone out of any piece of media I’ve consumed, to the point I think that just clipping the funny bits doesn’t truly do it justice. That being said, I never did actually finish that first bingewatch of mine…
Yeah—a bit of, well, cognizance would be nice (or consistency, at least, in how responsible one wants to say a piece of media is/isn’t for people’s reactions to it)