Is Broken Jaw shaking off Rhamphorynchus and seconds later trying to eat him during the "farewell" scene where all the animals leave the watering hole is because he's only prey animal left in the area now, or because BJ (due to his tragic past and everything that had happened to him when Torvosaurus showed up in the watering hole) is emotionally unstable and him chasing off Rhamphorynchus is him declaring "if they are leaving me alone, then i want to be alone!"?
Does Broken Jaw saved Woodstock's son from Torvosaurus because he wanted a revenge on bigger predator for taking over his spot under tree and biting him in the groin, or does he saved him because he reminded him of himself, due to also having crippling injury (limped leg)?
Does Broken Jaw mother abandoned him because she didn't wanted to take care of offspring with such a grotesque jaw, or because she did it due to the fact that she had other offsprings to protect and couldn't pay extra attention to her handicapped son, or didn't know that her son will survive despite his fatal injury? The latter two could be confirmed due to narration leaning into them.
Broken Base: Despite Viewer Gender Confusion below, fans of the show still can't decide which gender Woodstock is. The fans who think of them as male think that duller Dinheirosaurus in their herd are females, while those who think of them as a female give counterarguments by citing the theory that in this show Dinheirosaurus live in matriarchal herds like elephants.
Broken Jaw the Allosaurus is easily the most remembered character from the series, due to being an Iron Woobie who beats the odds.
The elderly grandpa Protoceratops. It helps that his segment is largely devoid of the controversial comedy and has a beautiful Tear Jerker ending.
Fanon: If Dinosaur: A Prehistoric Park Adventure is anything to go by, fans of the show portray Broken Jaw as being emotionally unstable due to all bad things that had happened to him.
Iron Woobie: Broken Jaw in the second episode. His crippling accident is a Tear Jerker, but he manages to heal, survive to adulthood, and kick ass.
The headless Ornitholestes running around may seem amusing at first, in a highly morbid way, but then when it stops, slumps to the ground lifeless and trembling, spilling blood everywhere... yeah.
The very Gorn-y death of Jack. Ouch... Ouuuuuuuuuch...
In Episode 4, the female Troodonreturns to her nest and mate and nudges him, only for her mate to fall over. He's been frozen solid.
We see from the point of view of the young Protoceratops as one of the Velociraptor looms over its parents' bodies and starts feeding. Then it looks up straight at the camera, as if saying, "You're next". The raptors' design and colorations also makes them look downright demonic, showing just how scary feathered raptors can look.
The first episode is ripe with these, but a few particularly bad effects stand out, such as the "disintegrating" Inostrancevia and the fake lava splash, the Saurosuchus tail that very clearly phases into solid ground as the animal gets up, and the Zalambdalestes family who, instead of running convincingly, simply slide and turn in the air above the ground with their feet moving as if they were running in a straight line, and also disappear/reappear between shots.
The primary feathers on the deinonychosaurs in episode 3 frequently merge with the scenery and other animals.
The Devil Frogs are pretty badly animated.
The flock of birds during the last shot of Episode 4 looks like it belongs in an episode of Sesame Street.
Running animation in general is messed up. Most of the time, the animals just slide across the landscape, with their legs doing their own, independent jiggling. In fact most of the motions in episode 1 & 3 have a jarring artificial and stiff quality to them. Only thing missing is visible cursors moving the animals around.
At least one Utahraptor runs through a bush, and the way the Utahraptors are imposed onto the environment looks very artificial
We see a mosquito sucking blood from the eyeball of a reptile carcass.
The Tyrannosaurus use their feces to build a nest.
A Beelzebufo is stepped on by a titanosaur. (Also, the Beelzebufo has just eaten a young Majungasaurus, so we can somewhat make out squashed remains of the frog's last meal mingled with the squashed frog itself.)
Uncertain Audience: Definitely the main reason why the show was controversial with viewers. The often excessively goofy and/or whimsical tone would indicate that this series is aimed more at children than adults, but at the same time, the notable amount of Gorn, Black Comedy, killing of baby animals, and outright Nightmare Fuel is bound to scare children. Likewise, the amount of Shown Their Work certainly shows that the producers were trying to appease paleontologists and paleontology enthusiasts (while young children, even those invested in paleontology, are unlikely to care or pick up on it), and they certainly accomplished that on a conceptual level, but again, the aforementioned execution can severely undermine that effort. The fact that the show tends to take both the darker and lighter elements up to incredibly exaggerated levels also creates a lot of Mood Whiplash.
Ugly Cute: The mosasaur babies. The Troodon, the Anhanguera babies, the Probelesodon, the Ornitholestes, and a variety of other critters stand somewhere between here and Ridiculously Cute Critter.
Viewer Gender Confusion: For a while it was thought Woodstock the Deinheirosaurus was a female, but he's a male.
Visual Effects of Awesome: What the creators have been bragging about for quite some time, since the first snippets of information about the show had been released. They managed to succeed, partly. By this, we mean the look of the show clearly indicates that it had more than one animation team working on it. The first and much of the third episode was animated by one team, and while they're passable for a run-of-the-mill TV Documentary, the graphics sadly come off as quite pitiful considering all the hype. Thankfully, the other two episodes play this trope straight with some of the best looking TV-budget dino effects of recent times.
The lizard from the first episode. Killed by a bunch of mosquitoes.
The rooster Eoraptor and Gigantoraptor, also from the first episode. At the least the former gets the mate and has a chick, the latter fails when his courtship display is ruined by unstable ground tripping him up.
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