[OT] Jurassic Park II, or How Druids can be Evil

[RangerWickett]

I'm watching Jurassic Park II on FOX right now, and I'm just reminded of how much that photographer/eco-terrorist guy really peeved me off. The whole problem of the movie is to be blamed on him, simply because he'd rather get dozens of people killed off, instead of letting proper channels of protest and law handle his concerns. He lets all those dinos free because he doesn't want to see them in a zoo, but if not for him, dozens of people get torn to pieces, trampled, or eaten.

And he feels so happy about it. The movie never even shows the guy being punished for what he did. If I'd directed the movie, the guy would've been sued by InGen several dozen times over, until he was forced to live in a zoo himself just so he could get food to eat. Punk.

I'd say worse, but I've already offended the mods enough times in the past week.

Anyway, this was just a musing, and I'm sure it could have something to do with different types of characters you could make in D&D. Y'know, militant druids and such. Also, it shows how villains in D&D might not realize they're the bad guys. Most PCs would be more akin to the InGen folks, rather than the enviro-mental patients, and so having some druid basically attack them for trying to get rid of dangerous monsters would incur their wrath.

Punk.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Salutations,

I thought it showed how Michael Crichton was the bad guy for not giving his good idea to a good author in the first place.

To show his villiany-

He killed the chaotician in the first book, but he is alive to star in the second book.

The biggest shame about the JP2 movie is how they did not use some of the few good scenes from the book.

Oh well- at least it had plot holes big enough to get a T-Rex through so it could trash a city.

FD

 

[RangerWickett]

However, as a mild rebuttal to myself, in Four-Color to Fantasy, one of the sample characters (in a Victorian, fantasy London) is an Elvish druid, former eco-terrorist turned hero when she comes across a more technologically-inclined terrorist. Seeing the pain he causes, she realizes that she herself is no better than him. They both hurt others because they value something that is unthinking, and that could never care about them in return. She realizes that, though she still wants to protect her Elvish heritage, people deserve to be protected more. I'll have to write more about her some day.

. . .

Ah, and yes, we just got to the scene of true heroism in this movie. The fat, unattractive, bald guy . . . y'know, the one who isn't real Hollywood material? He sacrifices his life to rescue the main three characters when the Tyrannosaurs attack them. But do they mourn his death, commend his spirit, or even say, "Dang, we'd be dead if not for him"? Nope. They argue with the InGen folks about how the dinos are too important. The pretty (punk), villainous (punk) eco-terrorist (punk) survives, while the truly heroic bald, fat man, who isn't handsome enough, gets killed off without a second thought.

I weep. The movie is fun, but it commends the people I loathe the most.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

I weep. The movie is fun, but it commends the people I loathe the most.

What did pretty people do to you?

FD

 

[RangerWickett]

Okay, to be fair, Jeff Goldblum did briefly say that Eddie saved their lives. But still, the whole thing is to be blamed on the punk. The punk.

Sorry if I'm coming across a little mean. I'm just trying to be silly.

Oh wait, and the punk guy just decided to switch out the hunter's bullets, so the hunter will get himself killed by the T-Rex. This is certain and clear evil intent. The man is evil, and should be beaten on the head with a fossilized femur.

 

[rounser]

The Shadow Druids from the 2E Complete Druid book fit your description. Evil extremists who place no value in the lives of people, but will deliver pre-emptive strikes against those they consider threatening to the land, and will exact far more than an eye for an eye towards those who actually harm it. They make excellent villains.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Sorry if I'm coming across a little mean. I'm just trying to be silly.

Hey, I would agree with you, but I could not do so without touching on politics..

FD

 

[Elder-Basilisk]

I think I emphatically agree with you but I can't say for sure since my mind seems to have blotted out all rememberance of the miserable two hours too long trauma that was my experience of Jurassic Park II. Oh wel. . . .

 

[RangerWickett]

Actually, this should be in the Non-RPG forum . . . the movies one. Sorry.

 

[RangerWickett]

Oh, and now they're going to kill off the nephew of Hammond, just because he has good business sense and wants to kill the rampaging monster. But nooooooooo, he wants to harm the pretty animals (that killed dozens of people). He deserves to be killed by the T-Rex too, because of course Hollywood people care more about saving the environment than about making money. They're nothing like the In-Gen folks.

Man, I never realized before how much this movie offends me.

And how does it end? All the main characters are happy, all smiles, now that they've saved the rampaging monster, so it can threaten more people in the future! Yay!

The 90s were truly a time of dark morality, when the life of a murderous beast is valued, but good, kindly business sense deserves to be horribly eaten. Grr.

I need to go roll up an 8th level fighter so I can go hunt a nice T-Rex. It will really help me vent.