Maybe the dinosaurs are the apes to the African Grey's man. Less smart, the intelligence came much later. Really though, their intelligence is hard to know, beyond assumption of brain size and comparison to their bird grandchildren. I doubt they ever became self-aware and sentient like us, but anything else on the…

Nope, they didn't have any subtleties like that in the movie. That's what bugs me about the movie. The movie dropped most of the pre-existing park problems and made it all about Nedry and the storm. Spielberg stripped the message of the book out just to make a slightly more elaborate than usual monster movie. It was…

The 1000 thing might've been from George. I vaguely recall the George-written preface to TPM's novelization that created Darth Bane and the Rule of Two. That seems like a George thing, to make Darth Bane's thing exactly 1000 years before like that. At least other eras make numbers less exact. KotOR is set in 3956 BBY,…

Omg why is FFXII fishing so hard. I've been playing through it recently, and I can never make headway past the second spot on the Nebra river. How do people make headway on that? Has anyone completed that minigame? ><

Real life chaos taking over a system, the best part of any Crichton story, gets shown. The first movie didn't even do that well, while it was explicit in the novel.

And tweak them beyond that gap-filling too. The book talked about how they could easily modify all the carnivores to be docile for safety's sake. Hammond balked, wanting "real" dinosaurs, but Dr. Wu pointed out they're already not "real" dinosaurs. Hammond didn't care.

Is there any harm in verifying people who aren't famous? If a friend of mine makes a twitter account pretending to be me to screw with me, does that officially qualify me for a verification tag? Surely there's no such thing as too much verification.

But watching Rookies would be in order! It's fun to see how much better the show gets as it goes on, watching it in order without skipping any bad episodes. Very few episodes are unwatchable turds by the end, just that D-Squad arc. I loved seeing the characters all switch to their Episode 3 gear, the clones upgrading…

The EU's had to make retcons to even fix movie screwups. In ANH Obi-Wan says the Jedi were guardians of the Republic for a thousand generations. In AotC Palpatine says the Republic has stood for a thousand years. A thousand generations and a thousand years are not the same thing. George screwed up. So the EU had to…

Devastation Station?

Like Whovian said, the DS2 didn't have the same flaw as the first one. It was destroyed by going through unfinished parts of the superstructure to blow up the reactor directly. And if you're into the EU, they fixed the thermal exhaust port flaw of the DS1, replacing them with millions of millimeter-wide channels to…

I'm hoping the Thrawn Trilogy at least stays canon in some form. There's 35 years between RotJ and TFA. That's a lot of time period to fill in. Change some of it as necessary, like no Solo children births if they're younger or different or non-existent. But it wouldn't kill them to say the New Republic faced an…

Yeah, did they not even watch the movies? Red Squadron was in ANH, Rogue Squadron was in ESB. There's a clear and obviously timeline here on when Rogue Squadron formed. It wasn't around as late as ANH, fact. That's not even EU, that's just listening to callsigns in the movies.

As far as retcons go, having each rebel team steal only a piece of the total plans that were combined to form the total plans seen in ANH at Yavin Base isn't so bad. You think you can fit the plans to a moon-sized space station on a single Space Floppy? It was a bit silly to justify all the attempts to steal the…

And if you only watch A New Hope you'll know nothing about Yoda or the Emperor or Darth Vader or Lando or Boba Fett. Just by ANH Darth Vader was this mysterious armored figured who killed Luke's father, who was a simple navigator on a spice freighter. We can play this "ignorance is bliss" card much harder. How far…

Rookies first. Because Clone Cadets comes two seasons later, and it's helpful to know who these guys are ahead of time. Notice how "Clone Cadets" aired back to back with "ARC Troopers", one taking place before Rookies and the other taking place after Rookies. They really intend you to know them already.

Ventress' TCW path was toward being an anti-hero. Would you really want to see her 16 years later firmly back in the grasp of the Dark Side as a minion of the Sith? That'd be very not-compelling for her story arc. I'd rather her come back as a rogue agent of neither side than just another Inquisitor. Leave Barriss…

Or his skill as a pilot to navigate around black holes. I think it's pretty impressive that he could "thread the needle" through black holes when most pilots would play it safe and go around. If Han was truly full of it, why didn't Ben and Luke pick another pilot? Mos Eisley has to be full of pilots.

The fact that an assistant writes Neil's twitter seems to defeat the point of having verified accounts doesn't it? That whole system of verification bugs me, with how it gets to decide who is famous enough to deserve verification and who isn't. If I had a twitter, why can't I verify that it's really mine? Because less…

Meh, I thought it worked. If you can go somewhere with minimal distance traveled, you must know some pretty slick shortcuts. Like Google Maps, you can take a quicker route or a shorter route. If I said I found a way to get from NYC to LA in only 3 hours without a plane, you'd wonder what shortcuts I knew to make the…