Bevendre

I know, I want him to be Timmy so bad but if not oh well.  

As with most movies people need to settle down about the choices in the movie until after they’ve already seen it.  I’ve already seen complaints that Raptors couldn’t be trained, and that the hybrid-dino idea is dumb, but both are rather moot points.

Raptors in Jurassic Park are social creatures with avian behavioral aspects.  It’s well within reason that a pack of what we can assume to be females (all raptors in the trailer had the coloration and lack of plumage indicative of females in the last movie) could imprint upon a person and be trained. Barring that, it could be that a clutch could have been manipulated into being less hostile as genetic engineering and modification have always been a major part of the series.

As for the hybrid dino, that fits with the Jurassic Park ideals as well.  The original movie explored the hubris of man, and of science.  It was about doing something because you could, but not considering whether or not you should.  This is that in a nut shell, and it’s something that we see in the real world with species with which we haven’t completely cracked the genome.

People need to settle until they’ve seen it.  The ideas are solid, and the presentation is beautiful.  The only complaint I have after seeing the trailer is that the park is open to the public after the events of the first film, but after 22 years (and without the events of the actual book) it’s not surprising that a company would want to capitalize on all the work done, especially when dinosaurs have been seen and acknowledged by the wider world.  It’s an amusement park now, but it’s also a natural preserve.

This is going to be the first entry in the series since Michael Crichton died, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be bad.  I’m as big a Crichton and Jurassic Park fanboy as anyone, and I’ll say now what I often say about movies.  Shut up and hold judgement until you’ve seen it.  Until then, enjoy the trailers and maybe even get hyped.