As fun as Jurassic Park and in fact most of Crichton’s books are, it’s still basically “the manly maverick cowboy chad paleontologist owns the cringe woke soy corporate IT guys with facts and logic and a flamethrower.”
I’m hamming it up a bit, but there are some good things to it. Like that, and the cynicism towards corporate bullshit in general. Crichton had brainworms, but they were more that specific libertarian sort that’s distrustful towards any sort of institution or power figure including corporations and rich people.
It feels like all his books really followed that one formula of some kind of manly maverick nerd consulting on some kind of corporate/government project run by soy conformist nerds who make dumb mistakes like not counting dinosaurs good or letting the nanobots do data storage and the manly maverick nerd instantly sees through them and saves the day, though.
As fun as Jurassic Park and in fact most of Crichton’s books are, it’s still basically “the manly maverick cowboy chad paleontologist owns the cringe woke soy corporate IT guys with facts and logic and a flamethrower.”
Though at least Hammond was treated with the contempt he deserved.
I’m hamming it up a bit, but there are some good things to it. Like that, and the cynicism towards corporate bullshit in general. Crichton had brainworms, but they were more that specific libertarian sort that’s distrustful towards any sort of institution or power figure including corporations and rich people.
It feels like all his books really followed that one formula of some kind of manly maverick nerd consulting on some kind of corporate/government project run by soy conformist nerds who make dumb mistakes like not counting dinosaurs good or letting the nanobots do data storage and the manly maverick nerd instantly sees through them and saves the day, though.
There is only one Hammond in Sci Fi that gets my respect. Hammond…of Texas.
The part of Stargate which requires the greatest suspension of disbelief is that they’re in the USAF.
I thought this was Bobby Briggs dad from Twin Peaks lol
Same