Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-13359-20150717040308/@comment-13359-20150717082852

I'm afraid adding raptors to the scenario only complicates things. The visual evidence tells a straightforward story. Papa Rex busted free of his harness thing, went bananas and got sealed in the hold by someone before he (the guy) died. This couldn't be any simpler. All the evidence is there, backed up by what InGen guard Hampton tells Ian and Sarah about the the crew accidentally overdosing him on amphetamines.

The only thing the T-rex couldn't have done is dismember the guy(s) in the wheelhouse without damaging the structure (that we see). But it alone doesn't negate everything else. Everything else adds up neatly, allowing me to easily dismiss this one inconsistency as an error on the filmmakers' part.

So we have a simple, straightforward backstory of an overdose, a breakout, a rampage and finally a trapping, while the now pilotless ship heads full speed into the docks to crash spectacularly. Adding raptors to this only complicates the narrative needlessly.

Where did they come from? How did they get aboard? Why did they wait until what had to have been the last leg of the voyage to attack people? What did they do during Papa Rex's drug-induced kill frenzy? And most importantly, where did they go? I'm sure there's a lot of perfectly logical answers people could give to those questions... all of which would be pure fanon and require a lot of mental gymnastics for the sole purpose of justifying the presences of raptors aboard without any visual evidence beyond "the wheelhouse wasn't damaged."

I have to take what the movie presents to me at face value because of the visual story told by the visuals (broken apart harness, dead guy clutching the controller, Papa Rex trapped in hold). It's just much simpler.