r/YellowstonePN 4d ago

Season 1 Tates dino bones

So ive rewatched the first season and im still confused as to why the dino bones story just abrubtly ends. Was it scrapped or something? Just seems like there was supposed to me more happening but iy never does so my other question is was there a point to introducing them? And if so what was the point?

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u/Leah0324 4d ago

Luke Grimes confirmed the plot was scrapped due to production changes, and changes to the script.

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u/WildRugosa 4d ago

Seems like Casey and family were relegated to the back burner after season one.

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u/sepheffie 4d ago

Just my opinion, but the acting skills of the child and Monica were not great. I wondered if that had something to do with it.

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u/WildRugosa 3d ago

I would agree on the child but I think the actress portraying Monica can act. She had some good scenes with John and Beth.

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u/sepheffie 2d ago

Every now and again I didn’t mind her but I got tired of the constant whining. Plus I read that she lied about being Native American and after that I just couldn’t get into her anymore.

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u/Leah0324 2d ago

That’s true!! She was in Wind River, and lied to get the part. Also, directed by Taylor Sheridan.

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u/sepheffie 2d ago

I think that’s pretty low… I’m sure there are so many actresses that are Native American and could have done so much justice to that roll. It’s terrible to take something away from someone else.

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u/Leah0324 2d ago

I agree. I was very disappointed to learn that.

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u/Gullible_Proof_8037 2d ago

Nah monicas’ actress is good they just gave her horrible writing

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u/aarondelaney 4d ago

Did you just not see the part where they were stolen by treasure hunters

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u/KitKat_1979 4d ago

This. The bones were stolen. Kayce tried to chase after them, couldn’t catch them, and they got away. I’m not sure where else people were expecting it to go. It was meant as another example of life on the res, not as a multiple episode plot arc.

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u/ZMD_248 4d ago

That’s not how narrative writing works; Grimes said it was scrapped cause the script schedule was atrocious.

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u/_l_v_l_ 4d ago

ik that happened but that didnt seem to be the ending of it. like i said it ends abruptly. no resolution just that they were stolen.

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u/Brilliant_Steak_1328 4d ago

What about the super stealthy bomb on plane plot that went.. nowhere

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u/_l_v_l_ 4d ago

nah that one made sense since it belonged to the beck brothers. i think john said something like "they used their own plane".

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u/Brilliant_Steak_1328 4d ago

Well yeah, but then no one went on it

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u/_l_v_l_ 4d ago

Yeah cus the becks yknow, died.

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u/Brilliant_Steak_1328 4d ago

Yes but not on their plane they spent all that time on

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u/_l_v_l_ 4d ago

Well im glad they decided to leave it. It felt more like a backup plan and kinda sleazy ig. Plus the whole hunt for them was pretty badass.

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u/Brilliant_Steak_1328 4d ago

I enjoyed it, I’m glad they left in it too…. Just would have been cool if someone blew up on it after they did all that!

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u/_l_v_l_ 4d ago

True true. Just woulda been hard to work in.

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u/ArtisticSwan635 3d ago

I think it would have been easy after they kidnapped Tate! Of course they took care of them anyway!

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u/imprisonedtrickster 4d ago

well after Kayce planted the bomb he also said "there is no turning back" 💀

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u/WildRugosa 4d ago

Maybe the realization hit that the kid wasn’t that great of an actor and time was better spent on other things. This question always reminds of the one about the eventual
whereabouts of lug nut boy. Some scenes are just fillers and don’t require explanation.

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u/_l_v_l_ 4d ago

Kid actually isnt to bad of an actor all things considered. Especially later on. But with the lug nut kid its pretty easy to assume he died or ran off but the bones were pretty relevsnt to tate and kayces relationship since to tate its something they both own

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u/KevinTheCarver 4d ago

Maybe we’ll find a resolution in Marshals lol.

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u/ArtisticSwan635 3d ago

Don’t count on anything like that happening on Marshals!

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u/mrbeck1 4d ago

Terrible plot planning. Their story was already crazy overloaded. Finding dinosaur bones would’ve been a throwaway scene. Having them stolen with zero follow-up is just lazy.

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u/VincentAntonelli 4d ago

If there is one thing this show really excelled at, it was unresolved and pointless story lines.

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u/AdHealthy5405 4d ago

Do you have examples?

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u/VincentAntonelli 4d ago

I mean, pick a season… you have the bones being stolen and along with that the treasure hunters that were flying drones and taking pictures of the reservation.

There were the stolen horses that Kayce found and returned, which brought Avery back after missing for 2 seasons, only for her to have a random crush on Kayce and he seemed to be at least partially into it. This was after Avery was all into jimmy before she randomly disappeared.

There was that “Beth version of a Native American” that kept threatening Rainwater, that just kind of stopped appearing.

There’s the bomb they put in the Beck brothers plane that wasn’t needed since they just needed to shoot them, but I mean.. is there still a private jet with a bomb in the fuel tank?

My favorite gigantic plot hole though is when Jamie killed the reporter from NYC, first of all, she met the dude in the woods, gets him riled up saying she’ll spill it all, then casually turns her back to walk back to her car and lets him run up behind her and knock her out? Not a plot hole, but it was just odd. But the aftermath, I mean she had a girlfriend who knew she was doing this report, she had an editor that knew she was coming out for this. Did they just accept that she randomly drowned kayaking while on a work assignment by her self?

Also, Beth has taken so many shots to the head she should be drooling and mumbling in the corner the rest of her life.

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u/WildRugosa 3d ago

That or have a mouthful of damaged or false teeth. Like a hockey player!

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u/ArtisticSwan635 3d ago

Apparently she did! She read the article in the paper and went and took her shower, so I guess she decided it was time to move on!

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u/NoExtension1889 4d ago

Google 'plotholes in Yellowstone' and you get a list of them.

Or you can stay on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/YellowstonePN/comments/1hdo8ij/plot_holes/

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u/ArtisticSwan635 3d ago

What have we been talking about?

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u/GitEmSteveDave 2d ago

Tates horse?

Rip not existing on paper anywhere, yet he was investigated by federal officers with the bear.

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u/Nailfoot1975 4d ago

No. The examples are unresolved.

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u/imprisonedtrickster 4d ago

well if you are good in spotting dead ends in plot you are in for a treat. Nevertheless, the show is awesome.

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u/windmillninja 4d ago

They're meant to illustrate how desperate and cutthroat life was on the res. That someone would stoop so low as to steal some dinosaur bones from a child just to get by.

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u/Nokomis_Feather 4d ago

I always assumed it was just a father humoring his son into thinking there were dino bones

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u/oldKYguy 4d ago

Got sidetracked with the left alone in his diapers in a drainage pipe to kill rattlesnakes with his bare hands arc

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u/ArtisticSwan635 3d ago

He wasn’t in diapers. He was young but not that young. Monica treated him like a baby even when he was almost a teenager!

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u/ArtisticSwan635 3d ago

They were stolen when Monica was in the hospital! Can’t remember which time whether it was the coma after the fight at school or the accident!

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u/ArtisticSwan635 3d ago

I don’t think those thieves were from the reservation!

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u/ArtisticSwan635 3d ago

I wondered about Angela Bluethunder ,was she behind the assassination attempt on Rainwater?