The Dinosaurs are Dead

The new Jurassic Park movie will involve a 'genetically manipulated dinosaur that goes wrong'. As if 'real' dinosaurs weren't interesting enough!

This is another example of expectation inflation: the self-fulfilling assumption that people have such short and impatient attention spans that even the marvellous is not enough, and the recognition that if there's money to be made from the fact, then that's quite OK.

And I hadn't even seen an Ankylosaurus yet.