Jurassic World: 5 Reasons Why Dinosaurs Shouldn't Have Feathers

5. The Original Didn't

The simplest justification for why the dinosaurs should have feathers in Jurassic World is one of legacy. Jurassic Park was, for the time, rather progressive in terms of our understanding dinosaurs, but that's not to say Spielberg didn't shy from embracing some more traditional iconography of dinosaurs, setting a franchise precedent that hasn't really been messed with at all since. And while it's churlish to halt scientific advancement just to maintain continuity between movies (heck, Mad Max: Fury Road showed you can build an incredible sequel by completely ignoring the events of the franchise thus far), it's likewise questionable to suggest a fundamental part of a series (in this case the design of the primary antagonists) should be altered. Star Wars fans were up in arms about the crossguard lightsaber (and a black Stormtrooper, but let's try and forget those people) in the teaser for The Force Awakens because of its lack of justification from the previous films and it's not too different a case here. It may have strong roots in reality, but Jurassic Park is, at the end of the day, science fiction, so deviations from reality can be accepted much more readily as long as it fits within the world presented, which scaled dinosaurs certainly do.