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This episode features advisement by the following paleontology consultants:
This episode is easily the most fanciful in its interpretations. It pushes a modern-day paleontology myth about a highly temperate Mesozoic that is worthy of a blog post all of its own. I’m keeping things tight here for the sake of the sin theme, but I’ll likely revisit this topic again in the future.
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This has been an idea that I toyed around with ever since the original marketing push for the show. It was clear to me then that the show was going to portray a very distinct narrative regarding dinosaur paleobiology and paleoecology. When the series originally came out I watched it, took my notes and then sat on it. I did this in part because I knew that most people would view the criticism as petty whining or complaints about dinosaurs not looking the way that “I” think they should, or any of the other complaints I received the last time I shot down these “documentaries”. So I let it go.
The first season of Prehistoric Planet came and went with a bunch of fanfare from the paleophile crowd but very little movement on the pop culture barometer (being shackled to Apple TV+ really limits the reach of the series). No harm no foul. Except that to date no one has really tackled the myriad problems with the show’s factual accuracy. As far as internet history is concerned, Prehistoric Planet is a resounding success for paleontology and science communication.
Then “season 2” came out to a similar amount of hype. I was intending to release this post during then but sat on it again. This time was because I got too busy IRL. Now, here we are some two years after the original came out and with us on the cusp of a new Walking with Dinosaurs series, I’m finally publishing this.
This post is the first of an 11-part series done in the style of the CinemaSins YouTube series. Each installment covers an episode. This installment covers the MLQs or Most Likely Questions (can’t be an FAQ if no one has asked it yet). The goal is to cut off some of the most common questions before I (inevitably) see them in the comments.
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