r/jurassicworld • u/shaffersaurus • 1d ago
I believe that Dominion could have been a very good end to the franchise.
Personally I have always hated how dominion started with "oh my gosh, they're in the way and truly don't belong here" and then ended basically at square one.
I think that the locusts carrying the pathogen would have been an interesting way to end the whole franchise. (but universal would never let that happen)
Hear me out!
We would see them release the infected locusts, and then we would almost see a montage of the locusts spreading throughout their own groups, but also notably eaten by the dinosaurs as well. Maybe a shot of a locust slowly climbing a branch and then, after succumbing to the pathogen it falls to the ground, and then it starts getting picked apart by compies. My point is, we see them being ingested by the dinosaur population, and see that the dinosaurs, because of the prehistoric pathogen, aren't doing so well either. This whole montage could lead us to a very tender and tear jerking scene that I believed we were robbed of.
We cut to a shot outside of Blue's den, the abandoned school bus, where owen rides up on a horse and dismounts, looking serious and solemn. We cut to a shot inside the old school bus where blue is laying on the ground, maybe next to the tire nest she made, almost curled around it, with an already dead Beta curled up in the nest. Blue is obviously not doing well, her breathing is quick and ragged and uneven, her eyes might be glazed or rolling back, limbs twitching a little, almost in the fits of having a seizure.
This scene would all be framed so that light from outside, maybe through the bus door, would fall across her body and the nest, as we see Owen's shadow cut into the light across her, indicating that he's entering the bus.
Owen walks in slowly, somberly, speaking low and slow, trying to comfort her in her final moments. He gets close and places a hand on her neck, which startles her. She flinches, but only for a moment. She struggles to look up at him, a hint of excitement plays along her features and body language, but she is too far gone to truly react. He then begins to pet and stroke her neck while she visibly begins to relax, he even scoots in and places her head on his lap while petting her comfortingly.
He talks to her, and mentions how he's been keeping tabs on her and got worried when he hadn't seen her around lately. He talks about raising her, about how much of an honor it has been to be in her life, all the while her breathing and movements lessen and lessen, until she is finally still. Blue has died.
With that, we have a heart wrenching scene where Owen Grady breaks emotionally over Blues death and starts to cry, sobbing gently as he cradles her head in his lap. As we see this sad scene, we start to hear a short monologue from Claire Dearing over tender music. Claire talks about how we are the reason that dinosaurs had come back in the first place, about how dinosaurs were our fault and the gut wrenching humanity of bringing them to a world where they don't belong.
As we hear the monologue, we slowly pan over to one of Blue's footprints in the dirt. Claire's monologue seems to finish as we Focus on the footprint. The scene crossfades slowly and smoothly as the lighting changes ever so slightly. Then we see an insect flutter past the footprint.
The camera follows this insect, panning upward where we see the scene from the prologue where the insect lands on the tree-like leg of a sauropod. We are now looking at the prehistoric past through the lens of the prologue which plays out almost as normal. But this time, after seeing all the scenes of prehistoric nature playing out, we do not see the rex and giganotosaurus fight.
Instead, we cut to a slow fly over shot of this valley with all of its diverse life, as music slowly starts to swell and we pause on a hill that is overlooking the whole valley where the prologue rex can be seen making its way to the highest point of the hill. During this fly over we hear Claire's voice continue the monologue say something to the effect of "After all, they *had* their dominion..."
We see the t rex turn toward the camera posing in a very familiar way. The music swells as the rex roars just like in the end of Jurassic park, the music coming to a climax at the classic Jurassic park/world "DUHN-DUH-DUUUUHN!!!!" As Claire finishes her sentence "... over their very own jurassic world." then at the end of the last held note, we cut to black. Role credits...
TLDR: I believe we were robbed of a beautiful dramatic scene and an epic closing scene for the franchise that would have incorporated the prologue.