I thought they were the dinosaurs. The climate got inhospitable and they were dormant until we poisoned the planet making the climate more hospitable again.
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le nubian - Jul 16, 2013 9:29:26 am PDT #24941 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2013 9:33:43 am PDT #24942 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yep, that was my interpretation. But it's not as explicit as I thought. Newt says, "They tried before—the dinosaurs?" Which could mean, "That explains what killed the dinosaurs." The kaiju killed them and then the climate became inhospitable, and so on.
le nubian - Jul 16, 2013 9:39:25 am PDT #24943 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Even still I am NO dinosaur expert, but were any of them close to as vicious as the monsters in the movie? Besides the fictional second brain, did any of them have electricity flowing through their bodies? Because that is a scientific discovery!
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2013 9:50:35 am PDT #24944 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well, remember that they have been adapting (the EMP was new, for instance), and they've also had plenty of time to mess around since dinosaur times, so I don't think we have to assume that the kaijusaurs were all that different from our current conception of them. Well, except for the violence thing, maybe they were really nice at first but then got pissed off when the first invasion didn't work out.
le nubian - Jul 16, 2013 9:53:37 am PDT #24945 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I am still amused though. The aliens have all this technology to wormhole to the center of the earth. fuck it, just attack from above, aliens. We would be dead in no time.
le nubian - Jul 16, 2013 9:55:40 am PDT #24946 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I mean these are some PATIENT mfers. They are like Bill Murray on Caddyshack for like a billions of years.
Jessica - Jul 16, 2013 10:00:53 am PDT #24947 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think the answer is Guillermo del Toro doesn't actually know anything about dinosaurs.
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2013 10:10:09 am PDT #24948 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Which is surprising since he seems like exactly the sort of person who would have loved the shit out of dinosaurs as a kid and know more than his parents about everything from ankylosaurus to Quetzalcoatlus.
Dana - Jul 16, 2013 10:14:39 am PDT #24949 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I took it as the dinosaurs were the first try.
Scrappy - Jul 16, 2013 10:16:06 am PDT #24950 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I am with Dana.