Re: No Jurassic Park IV

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> Another thing by which I somewhat hated JP2: it was so different from
> the book!!

Depends. For example, the book is painfully Manichean: the bad guys say "Oh, 
_fuck_. [italics]", "what the fuck", "who the fuck", "why the fuck", "fuck 
knows what" and so on every three sentences, and the good guys never -- not 
a single time. I found that embarrassing when I read the book.

> I disliked not even mentioning the interesting character Levine,

...who was much more competitive than any scientist I've seen, and probably 
also more narcissistic. Good thing Levine was always right; had he ever been 
wrong, he'd have thrown a temper tantrum or maybe fed whoever was right to 
the raptors or something. Being involved in research on the origin of 
lissamphibians, I know what it looks like when scientists have vehement 
disagreements, and that's not it; it can get ugly, but not _that_ bad.

> not seeing the chameleon-like Carnotaurus of the book,

Pratchett's Law of the Conservation of Reality. Suspension of disbelief only 
goes so far.

> and changing RB and the other girl with the daughter of Malcolm!!

That was not nice. Crichton knew the second book would become a movie, wrote 
it for that purpose (shorter rants about chaos theory, two children...), and 
then they ignored most of the book...

> I liked T. rex running across the streets,

That can never fail!!! =8-)

> but think Malcolm should have talked more about complexity theory, as in 
> the book

Oh no. Definitely not. Crichton's understanding of chaos/complexity theory 
was no better than his understanding of science.