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The Common Descent Podcast

Silver Screen Science - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (5/5)

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

Science, Natural Sciences, Education, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Part 5 of 5! This is it – the end of our series! We’ve now re-watched all the old movies and finally turned to the newest one for our “science reviews.” How do these movies handle such subjects as prehistoric creatures, the science of paleontology, and the portrayal of scientists? Fresh out in theaters – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org. Muscial Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Common Descent podcast.

0:05.5

But we digress.

0:08.4

Hello, Will.

0:10.0

Hello, David.

0:11.5

Hello, listeners, and welcome to part five of five,

0:15.5

the final episode in our Jurassic Park movie franchise June series all month. We have been working our way

0:24.9

through the Jurassic Park films and releasing our discussions every Saturday across the month

0:29.6

of June. And just this past weekend, the fifth movie Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom was released.

0:37.2

And we saw it, listeners, for you.

0:39.8

We were doing so, so well up till now.

0:44.5

As with the other episodes, we will be reviewing this movie from the perspective not of film critics, which we are not, but of scientists.

0:52.6

So discussing how the movie handles things like the scientists, the science,

0:58.2

the dinosaurs, how it fits into that broad intersection of science and pop culture. This episode is

1:05.3

going to be a little different probably than the others. We're going to have less details.

1:10.0

Yes. You know, we only saw the movie once. We just saw it in theaters.

1:13.5

So we won't, you know, we might get a few details wrong regarding the plot, things like that.

1:18.2

We won't have as much info.

1:19.6

Harder to take notes in a theater.

1:21.9

As with all the other movies, we are putting up the spoiler warning.

1:25.4

We will be discussing the whole movie.

1:27.2

Yep.

1:27.6

So if you haven't seen the movie and you want to see the movie and you don't want to be spoiled,

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