User blog comment:BastionMonk/No feathers in JPIV/@comment-3213993-20130320231010/@comment-1791057-20130322050435

I'm not following you. This isn't some kind of big-budget documentary here, it's a franchise with creatures based off of 1980's perceptions. The creators seem to forget that, and instead decide to let Horner "accurate ALL teh dinoz!" The only way, canonically, that a new, more "accurate" raptor could really exist without challenging our intellect, is if they weren't created by InGen cloning processes. I'll accept different dinosaurs from a non-InGen company, but then... it really wouldn't be Jurassic Park, now would it?

Basically what updating InGen's dinosaurs would do would be thrusting 1980's dinosaur science into designs that wouldn't been seen for almost 3 decades after they were cloned. Doesn't take a genius to notice the time frames don't work. Heck, you wouldn't even need to be in high school to notice the difference. These aren't the dinosaurs that existed 65mya. These are the dinosaurs that have been recreated in modern day, and exist in modern day. They're modern dinosaurs. And people need to realize that these aren't nature's design, they're the design made from humans to match what the public perceived dinosaurs to look like at the time of their cloning. It's like dressing a frog up as a toad and then complaining that it doesn't look like a toad. I would think that having the most accurate you can get (which would still be at least 1-2yrs behind in it's accuracy from the rate paleontology is updated) would more or less "shock" the public. Ever see one of those TV sketches where they unfreeze a caveman and he goes ballistic from future shock? That's the scenario you can expect. Complaints of "giant chickens" and "6ft turkeys" will abound despite the accuracy or "badassery" of the animal in question. Unfortunately, I feel that the "6ft turkey" view will remain the criticism of the public until what is accurate now becomes the norm (which will likely take another 20yrs to catch on). Public perception of dinosaurs isn't as easily accepting to change as ours and that's something we have to keep in mind. It's better to ease the public perception than it is to run screaming into the crowd "GIANT PRIMORDIAL RAPTOR WANTS TO DISEMBOWEL ME!"