The fourth episode of Marvel’s ‘Runaways’, ‘Fifteen’, got
aired, and what of it?
One of the more important notes was that Old Lace got his
proper revealing: the bioengineered dinosaur certainly got character, and-
And here is where the rant about ‘Jurassic World: Fallen
Kingdom’ dinosaurs has inserted itself. Let us be fair: both ‘Fallen Kingdom’
and ‘Runaways’ are equal, when it comes to paleontology, neither the movie
franchise nor the TV series/comics are concerned with science or education;
they just want to entertain, and here the ‘Runaways’ of TV/Hulu have done a
very important turn of the plot: they are introducing new, original content
into the old, initial plot, as depicted in the comics. They are creating
something new that wasn’t there before, just as the JP3 movie did with the
initial franchise – as it was written in the past, back then the JP franchise
broke the formula that got established by then by introducing Spinosaurus as a
newer, bigger, better monster than a T-Rex, and by giving the pterosaurs –
Pteranodons – a moment to shine. ‘Fallen Kingdom’ did not introduce anything
new, it just recycled the JP3 elements – both the pterosaurs, which now are
playing a more active role in the franchise and Spinosaurus’ replacement – that
is either Baryonyx or Suchomimus.
The latter is a relative of Baryonyx; even though it lived
during the early Cretaceous in Africa, just as Spinosaurus did, right now –
2017 – scientists have established that the two dinosaurs in question, Baryonyx
& Suchomimus were more closely related to each other, than to Spinosaurus.
That said, Suchomimus was physically very similar to Spinosaurus, only smaller –
about 11 m in length on average – and without the trademark sail on its back.
Thus, if Rexy were to fight it, this would be the T-Rex vs. Spinosaurus fight
from JP3, recycled, revisited, and reset – and that is not good. Lack of
original content can be very problematic, for both movies and TV series – just look
at AoS: the 5th season’s premiere has started with some very low
numbers, the lowest of any of season premieres ever; as a movie, ‘Fallen
Kingdom’ is a very different beast from AoS, but if it continues to recycle old
ideas instead of generating new ones, then it will also develop problems,
(given the appearance of their Baryonyx, already available to the public, maybe
those problems have already begun).
Back to ‘Runaways’? There isn't really anything to criticize - they are actually doing better than ‘Fallen
Kingdom’, they have no problems with the original content (and featherless
dinosaurs), and they are going strong, (good for them!). Hopefully too, they
will continue in this vein and continue to satisfy their viewers…
See you later!
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