So, let's talk about the Indominus rex.
For those of you who don't know, the upcoming Jurassic World movie has a new dinosaur that is a biological hybrid of Carnotaurus, Giganotosaurus (which is a type of tyrannosaur), Majungasaurus, and a few others.
And possibly human DNA
I mean look at this thing. It just looks hideous. And not in a cool ugly, or a cute ugly...but just ugly.
I need to pick on this thing for a moment because it's bothering the shit outa me.
And it has to do with the rumored human DNA thing. It possibly has human DNA spliced in it.
And this is where I have to ask why. Why would you have this in the narrative? What point in the narrative does this make sense?
I get why you would want to unleash a new dinosaur attraction. This is a thing for many theme parks. When your visitation drops, to again bring in more people, you unveil something new.
Hell, it's one of the reasons why I tend to do images myself and even try to show off even unfinished works because it brings in viewers.
Also the reason why I did this too...
Yes, I need to do another Pony and Neltharion image.
Viewership is going down again.
But still, why splice the dinosaur with human DNA? Why make a dino-human hybrid?
Now, the theme of the movie seems to be the statement of that hybrids are bad. Like cloning dinos are bad and such.
Except we've done hybrids before. The liger is a good example. And there's nothing wrong with it.
The mule is a donkey-horse hybrid. It seems to be fine. Sterile, but fine.
Zebroids. You've seen them? They're cute! They're a donkey and zebra hybrid. And they are so adorable!
One statement I heard in the trailer was the issue of mixing carnivores together to make this thing.
Again, the liger. Mixing two carnivores together. And I've seen the cubs. And they are adorable. Hell, we have people working around ligers and tigons.
So it's not mixing carnivores together that makes this thing nasty. It's the human DNA people.
The I. rex is stated to be able to hunt for sport...kill for the sake of killing. Knows that she's being tracked with a tracking device under her hide.
She's smarter than the velociraptors. Able to problem solve on chimp level, pretty much.
And if anything else that would pretty much equate this thing as having at least primeape DNA in her...opposable thumbs.
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.”
― J.A. Froude
Yeah, I'm guessing the hunting for sport thing is the big factor that makes the I. rex more human than dinosaur.
Are we humans the only ones that really hunt for our amusement other than for our needs? I just have to ask that question.
Anyways, why am I focusing on the whole human DNA thing. I mean it may not even be true. But everything in the world is pointing towards it being true. So...for now...let's just say it is.
InGen, in its brilliant idiocy decided to go back to being stupid and do something illegal, that is human cloning. Yes, it is illegal to clone humans...which they did when they made the I. rex. It is in fact illegal in California, which InGen's HQ is located.
(Interestingly enough, it's not illegal in Tennessee to clone humans. InGen, you should have come here instead. I mean we have the TITAN computer, which could be used just for that purpose. It's a million times more powerful than what they used to originally clone their dinosaurs in the first place.)
So they, cloned a human to make this thing, which is illegal in California.
So, the unfortunate implication is that this thing can't even be seen as an animal, because it's human. And we're putting it on display without its say or even giving it proper compensation. Which another illegal thing to do. We're going into human trafficking territory.
Is there any reason why she's pissed off? Yeah, I'd release a bunch of pterosaurs to attack the tourists too.
But again, why put human DNA in it?
And the reason why I'm focusing on this is due to the fact that...this just sounds like something a 12-year old would think up.
Case in point, myself.
I did this story. I did this story when I first read the book in 1991.
An InGen scientist uses himself as the template to create a human-dinosaur hybrid. Actually, he turns himself into the hybrid.
Some of the rumors point out that I. rex may have Henry Wu's genes in her.
*sigh.*
I came up with this idea when I was 12. That is why I have a problem with it.
Give John Carter his due here, he is a nice guy. He pretty much was a version of Dennis Nedry, only not as douchey, and he sold his research out to the ODESSA because he was being so underpaid by Hammond and InGen. And then when he got in over his head, to keep the serum from getting into the wrong hands, he basically gave himself the stuff and turned himself into that. A mixture between Curt Connors and Nedry.
“I can vouch for that,” said John Carter. “The reason why I started my little mad science experiment in the first place, while supporting the nasty people who were backing many of the guerrilla insurgents in South America. Just cloning dinosaurs for an amusement park and safari retreat wasn't really paying the bills.”
Pretty much the plot of Jurassic Park 4..or what was going to be Jurassic Park 4.
Dinosaur-human hybrid super soldiers created by an InGen scientist. And I came up with that before the first movie came out. And then when I found out about Jurassic Park 4's script, I was like..."Okay, Hollywood, stop reading my stupid fanfictions! I get it, only I can make this crazy thing actually work. And that's the difference, between me and you."
So, you can see my beef with this Indominus rex thing.
It's something that a stupid 12-year old would come up. Because I should know. I was the stupid 12-year old who came up with it!
And even I thought it was stupid, which is why I kinda redid the idea and abandon John Carter in favor for A'shadieeyah.
Because the idea I came up with was stupid. Yeah, I kinda miss Sadie. At least when I revealed my dinosaur-human hybrid super soldier to everyone, it was through comedy. Which probably helped many of you accept the silly idea. Because it was so ridiculous, why not make fun of it?
This is making me facepalm all over the place.
So, Hollywood? Any other ideas you wanna snatch from my childhood stupid fictions?
And again, if you're gonna have this thing as a human-hybrid, it better have a good reason in the narrative to why it is the way it is.
I mean, with Sadie and John, there was a narrative reason. I came out and said it, the people creating these creatures were working for bad people who wanted to make super-soldiers.
And even then, even if that was an idiotic idea...at least the character of Sadie is interesting enough to ignore the stupid backstory. Which is another trick that needs to be done. Even the absurd can work if the piece itself is compelling to handwave it.
With John, it was again another one of my transformation stories where...yes...the transformation did not make the life of the human who transformed better. It made it worse. But unlike Tanya's transformation, where the reason why and how was never explained, and it wasn't her fault for becoming a dragon...John's transformation is explained. And he did to himself.
And because he did it to himself, his peers pretty much ridicule him, they blacklist him from the scientific community. His wife leaves him and takes the kids. He goes to live on Isla Sorna in exile for 4 years...basically up to The Lost World storyline. And John Carter has to live with what he did to himself and the consequences.
And I wrote that when I was 12. Now you guys get why I don't like reading escapist transformation stories which shows the characters living a happy life despite what had happened to them. And everything is wonderful because of the transformations.
Because I could not think, even as a pre-teen, even younger than that...how that could be a good thing. As a kid I knew there were consequences.
I hate sounding like I think I can do better than what is out there right now. But honestly, I can. A lot better. Because I asked those questions at an early age.
So...there's my big long rant, beef, whatever.
And I might make another journal about transformation stories again. To really talk about my history with them. Honestly, I'm taking a small break from Neltharion because since Jurassic World...I kinda started going back to John Carter's story. Writing a what is his life like 22 years after the park kind of story.
I wrote a trilogy of him. One that covered Jurassic Park, the one that covered Lost World, and then, the last one, Jurassic Park III. All for my amusement, I guess.
But I'm just amusing myself with this little story I'm writing. May not even show it because well...it's like the fourth story in a series that I was writing for over 20 years. I mean, to show this story off, I would have to rewrite the old story to explain how we got there and why these characters know each other.
The first story wasn't even all that completed. Just scenes here and there that I wrote. Second was completed, somewhat . The third...just as incomplete as the first.
But meh. 
