Holy shit dude, Peggy haters on this webbed site have the weirdest fucking takes

I mean honestly, talk about willfully ignoring canon to form your own (wrong) opinions about a character...

I wish paleontologists didn’t get rid of the old theory records.

DNI

After I showed my friend Primal last month I decided to show her the dinosaur/Rite of Spring segment of Fantasia and afterwards we ended up getting into a conversation about Paleontology and how theories have changed over the years.

One of the little factoids people throw around about the RoS segment of Fantasia is that the reason we see the dinosaurs wandering the desert and slowly starving to death instead of getting wiped out by a meteor is because the film was made before that was a widely accepted and proven theory.

Supposedly (I’ll get back to the supposedly) when the film was released the biggest theory was that a world-wide drought happened for whatever reason (again, I’ll get back to this) and because of that, all the big herbivores and carnivores died slowly as the food chain wasted away from the ground up.

The thing is I can’t fact check if that’s real or read about that theory because it’s literally fucking impossible to find those theory papers or journals because they just. Don’t easily exist on the internet. No one that I found thought to scan those in or release them to the modern public.

And every decade or so BBC or the Discovery Channel or Animal Planet will produce and publish some new dinosaur documentary with ✨brand new graphics✨ and ✨the most accurate info ever✨ and will pull all the old stuff from circulation and that SUCKS!!!

Like yeah, I loved seeing the Carnataur dance like a tropical bird in Dinosaur Planet, but now the only way for me to watch my favorite dinosaur documentary, Plant Dinosaur (man, BBC doesn’t have a lot of naming idea for Dino docs,) is in segments on YouTube that could get copyright strikes any day now even though there’s literally no legal way to consume it anymore so BBC wouldn’t actually make any money off it.

I don’t care if Disney animated the T-Rex standing upright with its tail dragging on the ground. I don’t care if a plesiosaur skull got stuck on its ass instead of it’s neck. I know it’s all incorrect and science has evolved but I want to watch it evolve.

At this point it kind of feels like human history is going the way of the dinosaur. There’s entire libraries of old studies now that are just lost to time because they’ve since been proven wrong and that sucks! This is the intersection of anthropology and paleontology and it barely exists now aside from a few rumors without anything to back it up.

Tl;Dr: Even if a scientist got it wrong, they shouldn’t toss out their journal. Some people will still want to see their work. (EDIT 08/09/2022: SO this actually isn't up to the paleontologists but more about copyright law and the lack of time and funding that goes into paleontology! If you live near a museum or university some journals might still be around but online it's kind of slim pickings for accessible stuff aside from websites like Internet Archive.

And I also made it sound like I was blaming paleontologists for pulling docuseries and while that wasn't what I meant, I'm still sorry I wasn't clear! That's more of a corporation and copyright thing but at this point I don't think there's much of an excuse for something not to be on a streaming service.)

What everyone is saying that you’re not is that Disney is being stupid and hasn’t made an animated movie in what feels like forever just keeps remaking sequels are doing the hero movies so my standards are to the floor right now and also it’s nice to see some POC rep and the story not about romance

That's fair, the rep and non-romance is cool! and i am admittedly quite a snob in my media tastes. Representation is important and needs to be supported, so im glad Encanto exists at all, but that alone doesn't make me like a movie

tho I don't agree with disney not making an animated movie in a long time: if you look at "disney animation studios" (which made Encanto) specifically, they've very consistently been creating movies at a rate of about one a year, which is an impressive pace considering an animated movie takes several years to make. Most of those have been originals, its just that the Frozen and Wreck it Ralph sequels came out back to back. (the only sequels theyve made to date, btw - im not counting the home video animated ones cause while those were made by disney the corporation, they weren't made by their in-house studio)

Pixar has been more on the sequel path lately, but they also make at least 1 original for every sequel, amongst which Luca and Coco, which were both lovely little movies (and also not very romance focussed) -so eh. Don't get me wrong, Disney the megacorporation sucks, and if it were up to me they'd stop making cash grabby sequels altogether, but they can and do still make quite a few original movies

hot take: the mcu kinda sucks, don't get me wrong i used to absolutely love the mcu, i would watch all the actor interviews and everything i was kinda obsessed but then i started watching more dc movies and tv shows and reading marvel comic books, that being said in comparison it made the mcu seem kind of stale, not to mention there is basically no marvel movies or tv shows made outside of the mcu,, don't get me wrong a lot of dc movies and tv shows suck ass, but there are some really good ones that i think they couldn't have done within their cinematic universe,, nowadays when i see another marvel trailer i'm just like "wait they are still doing this" i didn't even notice when the hawkeye series released, and when it was first announced i was excited for it but now i just don't care, i don't even have the slightest desire to watch it, the mcu seems so stale and corporate and safe especially nowadays, plus the business practices are kind of really gross, the actors most of the time have no idea what they are filming for and everything and green screened and cgi bc costume and set designers have unions and cgi artists do not, the only thing that the mcu released recently that i gave a shit about was spiderman far from home, but that movie was way more sony's doing than disney,, disney has shat on the mcu so much and i don't think i'm the only one to notice, a lot of people have been more critical of the mcu lately and i honestly think they should be instead of loving anything with a way to long marvel logo at the beginning

tl;dr mcu bad bc Disney is overly corporate go read some pirated comic books instead