It makes me crazy that they say there have been no people on the planet for however long, so all the animals have evolved to kill humans. Is that not the opposite of evolution??

Yeah, like remember when rabbits were introduced to Australia and the native ecosystem was so unfamiliar with them that the rabbits were all instantly killed by wallabies? Like that!

Trek was better the second time around, and the HUGE GAPING plot hole that had been bugging me is actually not as huge or as gaping as I'd thought. The plot is still silly and convoluted, but that one specific thing is explained ok.

(Once the movie comes out we can talk about the scene where my suspension of disbelief broke into tiny pieces and fell to the floor. Not a major plot point, but an insignificant little bit of actor business.)

Living on a planet where the megafauna can kill you sounds UNREAL. that'll get me in the theaters!

My bet is that the Smiths are, like, cows all along and it's all a dream. MAKES YOU THINK!

(Holds up mirror) The apex predator is YOU!! It was YOU ALL ALONG!!!

Yeah, like remember when rabbits were introduced to Australia and the native ecosystem was so unfamiliar with them that the rabbits were all instantly killed by wallabies? Like that!

The wallabies will cut you, yo.

Oh wow, I loved Dot and the Kangaroo when I was a kid - haven't thought about that movie in years!

It's quite a charming piece of Australian film history. The platypus song - sung by Spike Milligan - proclaims its scientific name to be Ornithorhyncus paradoxus. It's now been determined (there are rules, you know) that its name should be Ornithorhyncus anatinus. (It's Ornithorhyncus, not Platypus, because Platypus had already been made the genus name of a group of beetles.)

There were a bunch of (I suspect rather dubious) sequels made, including one where Dot winds up in Hollywood. For some reason.

Yeah, like remember when rabbits were introduced to Australia and the native ecosystem was so unfamiliar with them that the rabbits were all instantly killed by wallabies? Like that!

Which makes me wonder, are rabbits immune to poison or something? Australian fauna seems to have adapted quite nicely to killing human beings over the past 50,000 years...

Which makes me wonder, are rabbits immune to poison or something? Australian fauna seems to have adapted quite nicely to killing human beings over the past 50,000 years...

I am at this moment watching the series Planet Dinosaur. There was a small gliding dinosaur in China named Sinornithosaurus that has been hypothesised to have had a venomous bite.

Meanwhile, Australia has a longer life expectancy than the US, and indeed most countries on Earth. I blame bears.

I assume there are cardiovascular benefits to fleeing from all the poisonous animals and deadly birds.

It came to mind today, and I tried another search. All I remembered was an animated joey and a girl and such supreme loss. I think I finally found it, and it might be Dot and the Kangaroo. I'd thought for the longest time that it's been an animated TV show. But this makes more sense.

YES! I had the same experience: the vaguely remembered but deeply moving scene that lingered in my mind for years and years, the searches that never found what I was looking for. I finally found out that it was Dot and the Kangaroo a couple of years back, and it was oddly satisfying just to know that the movie actually exists. I don't know if I would want to rewatch it, but it made a huge impression on me as a kid.

so this flowchart of what to watch on Netflix is just stupid, yes?

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DH's Trek review is up:

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Warning - SPOILERS. Lots and lots of them.