User blog:BastionMonk/Jurassic Park is overrated

Why is Jurassic Park soo popular?

I would really like to have a real answer to that question. I like Jurassic Park solely because I am fascinated by the resurrection of extinct life. Until Primal Carnage Genesis is released, Jurassic Park is the only franchise that covers that subject.

I know for sure that I am an exception in this. Based on all the fan fictions on the fanon wiki and the edits on this wiki, I know for sure that most Jurassic Park fans don't care about science. All they want to see is dinosaurs killing people.

I want to know why is Jurassic Park so popular among dinosaur fans. When Jurassic Park was rereleased in 3D Universal made $10 million in the opening weekend. In contrast, dinosaur shows like Primeval, Primeval: New World and Terra Nova were cancelled.

Some say that the Jurassic Park films had a better overall story. I dare to doubt that. All Jurassic Park plots have human stupidity at the core of their plot turns.

Imagine you want to have a scene of humans lost in a jungle hunted by dinosaurs. If you want this scene in any Jurassic Park film you need a lot of stupidity from the human's side. You need a git who accidently disables to security fences while turning of a security camera, or short-term-thinking-eco-terrorists who release the dinosaurs from their pen and let them destroy their equipment, locks that magically unlock or tourists the parasail amoung the dinosaurs.

In Primeval or Terra Nova a time portal appears and send the humans back to a primeval jungle. The humans don't have to lose their guns by some boneheaded stupidity, they never had guns because the portal caught them by surprise and totally unprepared.

The same is true if you want a scene in which a T. rex runs havoc through a city. In Jurassic Park media you need people to ship the creature all the way from Isla Sorna to the town in question. And while they have the tech and money for the shipment, they are incapable to sedate the creature properly. And ofcourse they don't have a emergency plan in case the T. rex would break free.

In Primeval or Terra Nova a time portal can just appear in a shopping center and let the creatures loose. The emergency response unit of the ARC knows when a portal appears, but always need some to to get there and figure out what kind of threat they're dealing with.

My theory is this:


 * Jurassic Park is overrated

Until Terra Nova was released, Jurassic Park was the only franchise in America with good dinosaurs in it. The dinos at Discovery Channel were a joke. I doubt anyone in the USA knew of Walking with Dinosaurs or Primeval when it first appeared. Therefore, every kid that wanted to see dinosaurs watched Jurassic Park. The fact that most fans wet their pants when the Spinosaur killed the T. rex in a battle shows me that most fans have no room in their heads for new ideas. If I ask in a poll what should be the main carnovore in JP4, 90% answers "T. rex". If I asks which actors should appear in JP4, the answer is "the original cast". To what place should we go in JP4? "Isla Nublar". What raptors should appear? "The ones from the first film".

Therefore, when other dinosaur films were released, like, or , fans solely didn't like them because it wasn't Jurassic Park.

So, any new dinosaur film or series is doomed for extinction because it isn't Jurassic Park. However, Jurassic Park plots need a huge amount of stupidity to put the protagonists in peril. Therefore, any future JPIII sequels is doomed for extinction because they look stupid for non-geeks.