Plotholes/ continuity errors/ anachronisms in the game (spoilers!)

[tope1983]

Originally Posted by Emo Hoe

Wut?

In the opening jess scene you can see the tour road in the herbivore area, with where the sick trike are is found.
Later on you are on a service road outside the herbivore area.

No fault there, the herbivore area is entirely enclosed but the tour road goes through it, as herbivores pose no threat.

this is wrong in several ways....
first of all you don't see the tour road in the opening scene with jess and harding. there's no track visible, so it's just a normal service road and a gas powered jeep is parked there.

Later on Harding and Jess actually ARE on the tour road which PASSES the paddock but is blocked by the little trike and the open gate. Here you can see the track and in the morning afterwards Dr. Sorkins picks them up with a tour vehicle.

Last but not least: the trikes pose a threat especially to cars which is the reason why the gas powered jeeps of the park's staff have a red stripe on it: it usually prevents the trike from attacking the car (unless Lady Margreth is irritated by the horn ).

So a little continuity error here... unless the sick trike of the movie was outside its enclosure.

[MrSeyker]

The flub is carried over from the film, there's not much they can do about that.

In the movie, they ARE in the Trike enclosure.

[tope1983]

Originally Posted by MrSeyker

The flub is carried over from the film, there's not much they can do about that.

In the movie, they ARE in the Trike enclosure.

Yeah, in the movie it's not made clear if the Trikes do have an enclosure that's surrounded by fences. But the game mentions it.

[Kone19]

I know it's really picky, but the sound bite for Harding unloading the tranquilizer after waking up from the Tyrannosaur/Triceratops fight has a shell casing drop noise.

[Final Fall 0]

Originally Posted by Kone19

I know it's really picky, but the sound bite for Harding unloading the tranquilizer after waking up from the Tyrannosaur/Triceratops fight has a shell casing drop noise.

I always wondered what that was about...

[FinalBlink]

Heres one, when Jess is looking through the binoculars and spots the jeep. Harding mentions Alan Grants team, but they werent in the gas jeeps when they were near the triceratops they were the green jeeps.

[MrSeyker]

Originally Posted by FinalBlink

Heres one, when Jess is looking through the binoculars and spots the jeep. Harding mentions Alan Grants team, but they werent in the gas jeeps when they were near the triceratops they were the green jeeps.

Harding ASUMES that Jeep must be the visitors.

We know for a fact that he was leaving Jess at the VC first, and then he was heading back to tend for the sick Triceratops (and meeting the Grant and company).

Knowing the scene takes place earlier in the day, and with the complete timeline in mind, it becomes evident that's not Grant's group.

Who was in that jeep, then? Probably some staff mantaining the roads or something.

[sebastiaan.raats]

What bothered me was how the blurb in the field guide mentions grasslands as a habitat for dinosaurs as part of the recreation of the prehistoric world, while it is a well known fact that grass didn't appear until long after the age of the dinosaurs.

[BlankCanvasDJ]

I think it's hinted in the book and the film that, despite what they may tell visitors, a lot of the vegetation was chosen for aesthetics, rather than accuracy.

[Barycarnosaur]

no one seems to notice that the radio looks different from episode one to episode two, or am I just mistaken

[Maniac536]

Ok I found one while messing around in episode 1. When accessing the tour vehicle system to get a car to pick up the Hardings you can get either tour car 3 or 4 to pick them up (1 and 2 are listed as having catastrophic failures, ie Rex food).

However the tour car they ride in has a 02 on the side even though I picked car 3.

[Final Fall 0]

Originally Posted by Maniac536

Ok I found one while messing around in episode 1. When accessing the tour vehicle system to get a car to pick up the Hardings you can get either tour car 3 or 4 to pick them up (1 and 2 are listed as having catastrophic failures, ie Rex food).

However the tour car they ride in has a 02 on the side even though I picked car 3.

Actually, I'm pretty sure it is your second choice every time, no matter which numbers you choose. Once i picked car one, then car two and Sorkin sent the second one. I never noticed that the tour vehicle actually has a number on it, though, so that might be an error for sure.

[Maniac536]

Originally Posted by Final Fall 0

Actually, I'm pretty sure it is your second choice every time, no matter which numbers you choose. Once i picked car one, then car two and Sorkin sent the second one. I never noticed that the tour vehicle actually has a number on it, though, so that might be an error for sure.

Yeah the car number is listed on the side of the vehicle right behind the rear set of doors.

[Kone19]

Originally Posted by sebastiaan.raats

What bothered me was how the blurb in the field guide mentions grasslands as a habitat for dinosaurs as part of the recreation of the prehistoric world, while it is a well known fact that grass didn't appear until long after the age of the dinosaurs.

That's actually not true anymore. Grasses were put around 55 million years ago, but new fossils say it they were probably around in the late cretaceous or earlier. Those found were probably more like rice or bamboo though rather than more familiar modern grasses. Either way they wouldn't have been able to remove all grasses from the island anyways before introducing dinosaurs.

[Kone19]

Originally Posted by MrSeyker

Harding ASUMES that Jeep must be the visitors.

We know for a fact that he was leaving Jess at the VC first, and then he was heading back to tend for the sick Triceratops (and meeting the Grant and company).

Knowing the scene takes place earlier in the day, and with the complete timeline in mind, it becomes evident that's not Grant's group.

Who was in that jeep, then? Probably some staff mantaining the roads or something.

I think it was just meant to reference that the group would be seeing the Brachiosaur in the jeeps around then. Since there weren't two and it didn't look like any one was in it, it wasn't them so who ones who it was.

[Kone19]

Originally Posted by sebastiaan.raats

What bothered me was how the blurb in the field guide mentions grasslands as a habitat for dinosaurs as part of the recreation of the prehistoric world, while it is a well known fact that grass didn't appear until long after the age of the dinosaurs.

That's actually not true anymore. Fossils from the late cretaceous have been found that resemble rice and bamboo. Either way they can't just remove all grass from the island and if they added it BlankCanvasDJ has that.

[Lord Raptor]

This probably isn't a plot hole, just something I probably missed or didn't catch from episode 4...
We see Jess' Dad telling her they didn't clone anything that lives in the water because mosquito's can't bite them...and then in the next scene we have one swimming around, and I didn't see ANY explanation of how it was cloned...what did I miss?

[Scnew]

Originally Posted by Lord Raptor

This probably isn't a plot hole, just something I probably missed or didn't catch from episode 4...
We see Jess' Dad telling her they didn't clone anything that lives in the water because mosquito's can't bite them...and then in the next scene we have one swimming around, and I didn't see ANY explanation of how it was cloned...what did I miss?

I was thinking the same thing.

If there was any explanation of where the Mosasaur came from, I missed it.

[Sinaz20]

Originally Posted by Scnew

I was thinking the same thing.

If there was any explanation of where the Mosasaur came from, I missed it.

So, I remember that we had a clear in house idea of how a Mosasaur could be cloned-- the consensus being that a Mosasaur might occasionally beach itself to bask-- and could have been fed on by mosquitoes then. I remember there being mention of the Mosasaur as a happy accident-- a sort of 1 in a million find.

Ultimately, the dialog around the Mosasaur paints a vague picture of implausibility-- but I didn't feel that the Mosasaur needed to be outright explained.

So, it probably is a plothole for the die-hard fan. The explanation is that DNA was cataloged from a mosquito and cloned-- it produced a Mosasaur. The mosquito fed on a Mosasaur prowling shallow waters or basking.

When the Mosasaur was hatched, they realized it was a marine reptile and hastily put it in a small aquatic habitat. As the Mosasaur thrived, John Hammond ordered the waterworks pumping station to be expanded into a marine facility to house the Mosasaur and efforts put into trying to find any other marine reptile dna.

Also, while I'm on the subject-- why didn't Gerry know about the Mosasaur? He was hired for his work with elephants and veterinary expertise around large land animals. As the Mosasaur and Marine Facility was being developed, InGen sought out a marine biologist/veterinary expert to fill the gap in expertise. InGen's level of secrecy is compartmentalized-- so Gerry would only be made aware if they decided he was the right man to care for the Mosasaur or the facility was put into full official operation and the information formally distributed to InGen general awareness.

All good?

PS: @LordRaptor: If I recall, I think Gerry was really just musing that it would be improbable to clone something that spends it's life underwater by Jurassic Park means-- not that they specifically "didn't." I know there's a lot of "let's not jump to any conclusions" lines throughout the episode-- that's mostly because I saw Gerry and Laura as being rational science minded individuals who aren't ready to just make snap judgments without evidence.

[Shadowknight1]

Sinaz, was there ever an explanation for the Pteranodons and why they were flying free?