YMMV / Prehistoric Park Reimagined

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Judging by former Prehistoric Earth co-writer Luczynski's comments on the matter in his reviews of the first six missions, both Nathanoraptor's plans for Drew (the character) to be a Deconstructive Parody of the original Prehistoric Park's version of Nigel Marvin and characters similar to him as well as the subsequent current execution of said plans leaves the character heavily open to this:
  • For starters, judging by how rarely he engages in blatantly antagonistic and mean Jerkass behavior (that is at least seen so far anyway), is Drew truly as much of a dick as Alice and Jack (and, to a minor extent, possibly Adrian) consider him to be? Or is he just a reckless idiot that perhaps occasionally engages in the odd bit of Innocently Insensitive behavior every now and then but is still otherwise a perfectly decent guy in his own right?
  • His plan to use Leon as live bait for the escaped adult male torvosaurus, to the point that he has Leon unwittingly volunteered into serving this role without even telling him that this is the plan until right when it's time for him to start serving this role, only opens another can of worms related to the above debate. Is this just a case of his natural excitement and thrill seeking nature slowly starting to get the better of him to the point that he seemingly grabbed the Jerkass Ball in the heat of the moment? Or has he always been a 'dick' underneath his seemingly more upstanding outer appearance, and the escape of the torvosaurus allowed it to finally briefly come to the surface? Or worse yet, is this truly the first time he's engaged in this level of reckless behavior towards other's lives? The fact that, judging by how he typically behaves in all the scenes prior to this moment, he could have easily used himself as bait only further complicates things.
  • On a similar note, just how does Drew feel about Leon and the rest of his friends and fellow rescue team members? Does he truly care about them and consider them friends and good coworkers? Or does he just view them as expendable pawns that he allows to work alongside him just for the sake of looking good in the eyes of Theodore.
  • And on yet another related note, judging by the above matters, is he truly working to save the extinct prehistoric animals for the sake of altruism and genuine heroism like Theodore himself is wishing to have them rescued? Or is he just a selfish thrill-seeking glory hound acting out of a desire for excitement and adventure?
• Fridge Horror: When Nemo the juvenile nothosaurus is first introduced, he is seen frantically swimming all alone in the Triassic Switzerland ocean as if its trying to escape from something. The narrative never clearly establishes why he was acting this way, but judging by him being so young and all alone, one can't help but wonder both just what happened to his pod, and whether whatever creature that scared him and potentially killed his pod was perhaps still chasing after him somewhere in the distance at the time Drew and Alice first saw him.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The fact that Jack's malicious nickname for Leon is 'Dolittle' becomes this when you realize that the actor hypothetically portraying Leon had previously voiced Jip the dog in the 2020 film of the same name.
  • With Mark Sheppard being hypothetically cast as Calum, the security team effectively has two members named Willoughby.
• Ho Yay: As one reviewer notes in a review for PP: Extras, Leon's Undying Loyalty, devoted friendship, and subtle idolization of Drew comes across a lot stronger in some ways than the writers intended. And the fact that he apparently felt the way he currently does for Yolanda for someone else once before he started working at the park, yet also explicitly refers to her as 'the very first girl he's ever felt this way about' certainly adds fuel to the fire...
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Leon. He can be very emotionally guarded and sometimes fairly rude in ways that his autism alone isn't sufficient justification for. But at the same time, considering how lonely he was prior to his diagnosis and befriending of Drew and Adrian, all the teasing he underwent during that same period of time, the fact that he ended up having to wait until the summer after he befriended Adrian and Drew to finally become aware of the fact that he had autism, his unfortunate string of bad luck in his search for a job, and how he's already ended up singled out and solidified amongst the majority of the staff (and potentially even in the eyes of Drew himself) as The Load to the point that they seem at times to refuse to even allow him the chance to try to improve his standing as a direct result of a single screw up that only happened once, it's not entirely hard to feel bad for him despite his occasional bout of rude behavior.
  • Jack himself also qualifies when certain aspects of his character are taken into consideration. As much as he may act like a complete ass to Leon and be not at all afraid to voice aloud his opinions on the autistic, he also has such a low opinion of himself and borderline nonexistent sense of self-worth. And even with his sister Alice and several friends amongst the other reptile and amphibian keepers, plus his similarly strong friendship with Yolanda and budding romance with Colette, he is still all too desperate to get more friends and 'validate' any and all positive comments sent his way by figures of higher authority. And when all this is taken into consideration, it is all to easy to view his constantly putting down Leon and seemingly trying to edge him out of the rescue team (if not out of employment at Prehistoric Park entirely) as Jack desperately trying to reassure himself over not being worthless and acting out on fear of being rejected the chance of friendship and implicitly being considered not a useful and worthwhile member of the team by Drew.
• Moral Event Horizon: Judging by his particularly angry sounding response to it in his review of Return of the King, Luczynski potentially considers Drew's using Leon as live bait for recapturing the escaped torvosaurus without giving Leon fair warning about this being the plan beforehand to be this.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: Several reviewers have pointed out that the prologue is almost a complete redo of the prologue from Prehistoric Earth.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The reaction that DaDog appears to have had on this story in comparison to the original series judging by his comments on it. More specifically, he considers the human characters to be too difficult to keep track of due to both the sheer number of them combined with the entire cast consisting of original characters (all while familiar faces like Nigel, Bob, and Suzanne are nowhere in sight). He also views the relatively high ease at which several animals are rescued, combined with a large number of them having enough numbers rescued to provide stable breeding populations on the first try to also be a strike against the story due to being too unrealistic in his opinion to warrant Willing Suspension of Disbelief. He also doesn't like the fact that the gang more or less rescues every species they encounter in this story due to having personally liked how 'suspenseful' the original series could get in regard to whether Nigel would rescue certain animals or not and feeling that the lack of suspense in this regard in PPR makes it almost impossible for him to care all that much. Similarly, he also believes that the sheer numbers rescued amongst even single species further makes it difficult to care about specific animal characters by way of Uniqueness Decay (citing that, in his opinion, the animals rescued are all not that different from the ornithomimus in the original series, which he cited to be animals that viewers could feel concerned about by way of them being park residents, yet not truly care about in the way they would for Martha the woolly mammoth (who suffered from loneliness due to being the only member of her kind at the park in the original series) or Terrence the t-rex (due to the abuse he suffered at the hands of Matilda). That being said though, he has also expressed willingness to respect the opinions of those who do enjoy this story for what it is and simply ignore the story in favor of focusing on other things so as to allow them to enjoy it.

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