YMMV / Dino Squad

• Broken Aesop: "Howa Loa Can You Goa" has a Green Aesop that gets ignored at the end. The mutant worms that were the Monster of the Week are identified as being native to eastern North America, even though the heroes are in Hawaii for this episode and they just let the de-oozed worms go into an unfamiliar ecosystem.
• Fanfic Fuel:
  • Veloci never learned the truth about "perfect dinosaurs". So, how's he gonna to react when he will learn that this group of teens that he has met a few times are the "perfect dinosaurs" that he was hunting?
  • Peter, the guy who Victor injected with ooze in the first episode, never appears again. Naturally, he shows up in a lot of fanfics, usually still working for Victor.
  • The fact that primordial ooze - besides one episode - didn't affected any other humans after changing protagonists DNA in the first episode. This could also be a opportunity for fanfic writers to introduce new members to the Squad, or villains with the same powers as the heroes.
  • The past between Ms. Moynihan and Victor Veloci. were the two raptors enemies? Or were they mates?
  • The Squad's future adventures and fights with Veloci given that he wasn't defeated in the final episode.
• Fanon: If fan arts on DeviantArt and fanfics have anything to go by, many fans of the show agree that if Terri had gained a dinosaur form, it would have been a Baryonyx.
• Inferred Holocaust: In the very first episode, the mutated shark sinks a boat, and none of the people on board are seen escaping. Rather shocking, considering how much the show usually goes out of its way to avoid real violence.
• Memetic Molester: Veloci, in the episode "The Lost World Wide Web" takes on the characteristics of an internet predator as he lures Buzz into a trap by posing as an attractive woman in an online game and extracting personal information from him.
• Paranoia Fuel:
  • Who's to say that your teacher, your friend from school, your neighbour or even a random pedestrian on the street aren't actually humans, but dinosaurs who survived a cataclysm that supposedly wiped them out and are living in the shadows of your kind, who rules the Earth only by a few thousand years, while they were doing it for millions before you? You're gonna be really lucky if they're not all the same like the Victor... And what if some of them were actually humans who get exposed to Veloci's ooze and now have to adapt to their new double life, essentialy lying to their loved ones to avoid exposing The Masquerade. And if that happens it either leads to: a - your loved ones kicking you out due to being a monster, b - them accidentally leading Veloci to you or c - Veloci kidnapping them so he can get you by trading places with them. The same kind of situation applies to Cretaceous survivors who had befriended and even raised family with humans. In general this show opened a huge can of paranoical worms with it's innocent premise.
  • While on a camping trip, Caruso wonders if there are threats Veloci would send after them that are too big for them to fight even in Dino Mode. He then goes further and puts out the idea that there could be a threat so tiny that it could crawl inside their heads and harm them from inside.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Liam from the first episode of season 2, "The World According to Liam". Despite his autism setting him back a degree, he proves fundamental to solving the episode's mutant bee problem, and even learns the group's secret. Yet even though they sit together for lunch at episode's end, he never shows up or gets mentioned again that season. Had he did, he would have no doubt proven further useful in solving various episodes' problems in the future, and in addition, his debut episode's Aesop would have been better reinforced via consistency, and Liam himself would not have had the unfortunate fate of coming off as a mere Aesop plot device (and the show could have used more supporting characters aside from Fiona's sister).
  • Peter is seen in the first episode, joining Veloci's company willingly and getting an an injection of what's implied to be the same liquid that gave the Dino Squad their powers. His eyes turn into dinosaur eyes... and then the scene cuts to the protagonists, and he's never seen again. It would have been interesting to keep him around, not just because it would have given Veloci a henchman who wasn't a faceless goon, but also because it would have given the series a villain with the same powers as the heroes.

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