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For a special attempt at relevance, the Pavement Pounders discuss Jurassic World, currently chomping through box office records and in no way in need of their endorsement. Still and all, they discuss in what sense (if any) the movie is adapted from the original Jurassic Park novel, just to give lip service to the whole “Reader” thing in their title.
Slowness of aging T-Rexes discussed! Lack of a clear protagonist dissed! Emergence of Indomitus-Rex’s traits disbelieved!
No rankings this time, though all the Pounders believe this movie is a more worthy sequel than any of the previous ones. Worth seeing as a popcorn movie. Ish.
Notes:
- TMTYR episode about Jurassic Park: http://pavementpodcast.com/podcast/tmtyr-episode-8-tranny-saurus-philosoraptor/
- Sci-Fi OnScreen podcast (http://www.scifionscreen.com/), mentioned in the show and possibly soon coming out with a contrary opinion (based on Facebook posts).
- Hey, Do You Remember podcast (http://27thletterproductions.com/hey-do-you-remember/2015/6/11/jurassic-park), mentioned on the show, recently did Jurassic Park (NSFW language)
- Phil Plait on the science of Jurassic Park: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/06/11/jurassic_park_science_and_the_lack_thereof.html
- New data on how prevalent feathers were: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/most-dinosaurs-were-probably-scaly-not-feathered
- Yet more panning of JP’s science: http://io9.com/yes-jurassic-parks-bad-dinosaur-science-still-matters-1710655652
- io9 review of Jurassic World: http://io9.com/jurassic-world-is-all-park-and-no-bite-1710793605
In Episode #23, the Pavement Pounders are joined by Emily (James’s better half) to discuss Ira Levin’s 1972 novel The Stepford Wives and its two film adaptations, from 1975 and 2004.
In honor of Leonard Nimoy, the Pavement Pounders briefly discuss two episodes of The Outer Limits, both starring Nimoy, and also discuss the Eando Binder short story I, Robot on which the episodes were based.
