• Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      What’s your argument? I’m all for twisting shit to make stuff isekai but jurassic park is just an island on planet earth with revived dinos.

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        10 months ago

        The dinos are the isekai.

        “I woke up as a copy of my 65 million year old self in a land of apes.”

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          10 months ago

          That’s also cyberpunk from the dinos’ standpoint.

          a bit of nitpicking

          But that would contradict trying to be at least vaguely scientific-like because no memory would have been preserved

          • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            They’re also not technically dinosaurs due to the heavy amounts of DNA splicing they had to do to make them viable, being more like a designer monster that resembles a dinosaur. There’s a ton of non-dino DNA in them.

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      10 months ago

      Because to make that argument, you have to reduce the definition to the point of uselessness. Jurassic Park isn’t Isekai/Stranger in a Strange Land because the island isn’t a strange, unknown land. It was created by the same people/culture the main characters are from. Isekai needs an independent culture with it’s own history and people.

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        10 months ago

        But then SAO also isn’t an isekai because all it’s inhabitants are just visitors from the real world and was also created by the same people/culture the main characters are from