Episode 2: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

Simon and Jim arrive at the mysterious Site B to discuss Steven Spielberg’s sequel to his blockbuster hit analysing the interesting things that this film does as a sequel, the themes around animal rights and exploitation that the film could have explored better, how the film sets up ecological management questions that subsequent films are never interested in discussing, and some of the film’s more baffling decisions around casting and the epilogue.

Content warnings: death and mutilation, animal abuse and hunting, brownface, colonialism.

Our theme song is Jurassic Park Remix by Gabriel Filósofo available on SoundCloud: ⁠https://soundcloud.com/gfilosofo/jurassic-park-remix⁠

Full references for this episode available in Zotero at ⁠https://www.zotero.org/groups/5642177/take_one/collections/RX7TFTS4

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