Paleontology

  UPDATED 8/12/22 I got to watch what was supposed to be the huge reveal on Primal. I waited a bit to watch it on my birthday today, and--- What? It really WAS a big surprise, right from the very first frame. You'll know from the start why they needed to not show anything. Only it was completely different kind of surprise we were expecting, and everyone seems to feel the same way. It reminded me of the philosophy Joe Kubert used to talk about that lay behind the comic book Tor . I have already compared primal to Kubert's caveman hero for obvious reasons. Kubert would always talk from the panel about modern man's civilization is a veneer. Given the right circumstances, we can easily revert to the primal. Particularly if our survival is threatened. Something similar happens en masse in movies like Frank Darabont's The Mist. The whole idea behind both Tor and Primal. POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD It was certainly a surprised that Charles Darwin was actually in this (yes, I do

 The above painting is by famed stop-motion animator Willis O'Brian for the 60s remake of Conan Doyle's The Lost World. As shown, it would have been a far different movie than the rather infamous version that got made. There is a pair of Triceratops , some Brontosauruses , one attacked by an Allosaurus , a Protoceratop s, a Stegosaurus , even a Dimetrodon ! All would have been stop-motion, no giant lizards. Below that, O'Brian and Irwin look over some designs for a stop-motion dinosaur movie that did get made , The Animal World.  Willis O'Brian, the famous stop-motion animator behind King Kong , the aborted Creation , Mighty Joe Young , and many others, very nearly made Irwin Allen's 1960s remake of Conan Doyle's The Lost World , one of the greatest dino-mation films of all time. The above production painting gives a hint to want it might have like.  Unfortunately, it was, of course, scrapped in favor of lizards and gators with fins and plates stuck on their bac