“I’m simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.”

Dr. Ian Malcolm, master of understatement

Oh those silly humans in the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies. When will they ever learn? You’d think that maybe after the events of the first film they might take a breather on trying to mess with nature, or at least with dinosaurs specifically, but nope! But if they did, we wouldn’t have all these fun movies where said humans get their just desserts as, um, dessert for all manner of resurrected dinosaurs.

The quality of the assorted sequels in the Jurassic Park franchise are a mixed bag, but the original 1993 film? That one is a pretty unassailable summer movie classic, and it’s the one that we’re focusing on for this week’s episode. Specifically, we’re diving in to the question of how the dinosaurs, engineered to only be female, changed their sex to male in order to breed and thus create an entire host of new problems for the unwitting scientists.

We also, as you might expect, take a look at the “your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should” of it all. Get your running shoes on (how does that old saying go? “I don’t have to outrun the velociraptor, I only have to outrun you?”) for the latest episode of Does it Fly? right here…

https://youtu.be/-oE2KLOj5-s

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SUGGESTED VIEWING

We’re only really discussing the first Jurassic Park movie in this episode, so that makes it easy on you. But the franchise now encompasses both movies and TV shows, and they aren’t all handily numbered like some sequels are, so here’s a quick guide to the order they all take place in, for those viewing order chronology obsessives out there!

Jurassic Park (movie)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (movie)

Jurassic Park III (movie)

Jurassic World (movie)

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (Netflix animated TV series…and a really good one, too!)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (movie)

Battle at Big Rock (short film)

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Netflix animated TV series…also quite good!)

Jurassic World Dominion (movie)

Jurassic World Rebirth (movie)