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January 11, 2002
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Modern technology enables a pretty, unmarried scientist to recreate a dinosaur. (Should the scientist have long blonde hair? Maybe: but consult market research people.) The dinosaur reaches adulthood quickly, and escapes from the scientist's lab to launch a career selling mobile phones. Having been abandoned by the creature, the scientist spends a great deal of time shampooing her hair. (I'm visualising something similar to the shower scene from Psycho, minus the stabbing.) Left to his own devices, the dinosaur is amusingly bewildered by everything in the modern world, except mobile phones. In the tearstricken climax, the dinosaur dies from over-exposure to electromagnetic radiation, and the scientist arrives at the funeral with a new hairstyle. ... Problems: character names. Rachel is fine for the scientist, but what do you call a dinosaur whose life starts with a technological miracle, progresses to teen comedy and ends with extinction? Cyril? Posted by Sean Hegarty at 10:46 PM in the Mad scientist storytelling category | Comments (0) |
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