REASONS WHY I LOVE THE JURASSIC WORLD LIVE TOUR, dumped here because I feel like sharing (guess why):
1. The dino props are really really really cool. Yes, the raptors and probably Jeanie are all off-scale and too big, but Rexy is deliberately in-scale, I think Trike and Stego are Close Enough.
2. The cheesiness works pretty well, especially the fourth time through. Trust me. It’s a stage show. The voice-acting is not on-par with Camp Cretaceous and pretty much any cartoon, but it works (honestly, my biggest criticism isn’t the acting itself, but the fact that Oscar and Riley’s voices are too similar and aren’t Extemely Different, the same for Reave and Doctor Bordoff).
3. The Kate Walker vs Reave fight is BRUTAL and very well-choreographed. But mostly brutal. Like, when you get down to it and think about it, it’s, like...really brrutal.
4. The choreography is 10/10 all around. Or at least 9/10. I watched Oscar during one of the fights, and he ducks a riot-shield swing that looks like it should strriaght-up decapitate him. I know it’s a stunt show, but it’s great.
5. This won’t be the last of it, but the woman whose hand gets ripped off by a Velociraptor and then panic-runs away into the teeth of another Velocriraptor and gets mauled to death. You might not notice it, but it’s there, and it’s brutal, aand it’s great.
6. How smoothly they work Bumpy into the show. I don’t CARE how much it conflates with the canon, the dialogue works, and it’s believable, also, I’m just glad to see Camp C getting the nod.
7. I love the Jeep. Blue stripes, Number 93, clearly Oscar’s pet project retooled as a vintage car and kept in a private garage that the kids never found...precious baby.
8. There’s a glowing purple Stegosaurus and a baby. It blew my mind the first time, and I love seeing it every time, it’s Pure Lore.
9. The Dino Decoder plotline--which is, really, the whole show’s plotline--is all foreshadowing for the mind-control plotline in Camp Cretaceous. The whole reason why Jurassic World existed in the first place was because a bunch of power-hungry scientists were interested in making mind-control devices and needed test subjects outside of ethical restrictions and within their own designs. This is the link between it all. And stooges like Owen Grady and Kate Walker were convinced that “ohhhh this is just for EMOTIONAL connections and BEHAVIORAL studies, we’re just here to make FRIENDS” those SAPS didn’t realize that this was all intended for BRAINWASHING.
10. Jeannie and Blue have a bond because they’re the two smartest creatures on the island. Blue watched over Jeannie’s eggs and kept them wam and safe. Possibly. They’re not friends but they are girlfriends, it’s complicated.
11. It’s all about the Kid Reactions. And the kids love it.
12. The music is just...*chef’s kiss*....used perfectly throughout. There’s touches of The Lost World, the original majectic JP theme, some good “Owen and the Raptors” music, and BY GOLLY, they USE THE JURASSC WORLD MAIN THEME THAT NOTHING ELSE USES, DESPITE IT BEING ON-PAR WITH THE ORIGINAL JURASSIC PARK THEME, MICHAEL GIACCHINO GAVE US GOLD AND PEOPLE SHOVED IT ASIDE LIKE THEY WERE THUNDERCATS (NO ONE WILL GET THAT) JUST SO THEY COULD FEED ON NOSTALGIA, THEY ARE TWO VERY DISTINCT THEMES THAT CONVEY DIFFERENT EMOTIONS AND THE WORLD THEME IS FAR BETTER IN MODERN CONTEX
