Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-28579130-20170521182056/@comment-1259419-20170521204214

Old Memes &amp; Sweet Dreams wrote: I don't see a problem with it because they're all genetically modified in the first place. The raptors in JW did not belong to the original batch of raptors cloned in the 90s. The JW-raptors were cloned recently for the IBRIS Project. Since the JP-raptors had been cloned, InGen had performed 20 years of additional research into dino-DNA sequencing and cloning. It would actually have made more sense for all theropods to have feathers.

That being said. If the storytellers think that, for nostalgia's sake, the raptors should look more like the JP/TLW-raptors, they could still have given feathers to other theropods that people care less about, like Gallimimus.

They could have used the scaly dinosaurs to justify the existence of the Indominus and to teach an important lession in how we humans (dis)function. They could have added a few lines about that they once exhibited dinosaurs with feathers and that the visitors hated it, like people do in real-life. Therefore, they kept all dinosaurs scaly. And because they were already exhibiting fake dinosaurs in the first place, it was a small step to exhibit entirely made-up dinosaurs like Indominus rex.

A great line from the novels they should have kept in:

Henry Wu: "Entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality" (p. 136).

Right now the creation of the Indominus seems to be just the result of a few people wanting to earn more money. With a few changes the film could have shown that the creation of the supersized Indominus and the scaly dinosaurs were the results of humans clinging to outdated and incorrect shadows of reality that we grew up with, and disliking the real thing when in contradicts such beliefs. We accept the over the real.