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Discuss: The brave longneck sheme
Topic Started: Apr 3 2008, 01:51:13 PM (2,449 Views)
Sleeping-force's-inside
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Let me write you a tale of our people...
I'm reviving all these dead topics here xD

Anyway, the way I figured that chase was developing was that the Longneck-herd was trying to have Chomper run to his parents, so that they'd be able to take both the child out and the adults they assumed would be in the Valley with him. Bam, problem solved! You can go home and tell the other dinosaurs you solved their Sharptooth-problem without having to worry them.

Or I am overthinking everything and giving them way too much credit, of course :p
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Petrie85
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I know Ali was horrible in the episode yes. And the whole build up to me was kinda pointless since they never did tell us where they did go or went. I thought the episode was poorly made and boring. They could have at least told us where they where going instead not tell us.
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Ducky123
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This is a very interesting episode to say the least. Let's begin with the things that I did NOT like: Well, first of all, who is that purple girl? Whoever she is, she is NOT the Ali we got to know in Journey to the Mists. This is actually the only thing that really bugs me... Ali behaves very different... and looks like a completely different dinosaur...
Now I'm talking about the things I DID like: Well, I have to admit that this episode, plotwise, might be the best or at least among the top five. There are various things that I do like in regard of the plot. First and foremost, the long-awaited return of Ali sounds very promising and it doesn't fail my expectations, regardless of the points I mentioned above. The idea behind Ali's unfamiliar behavior is actually good, albeit done poorly. A new friend shows up, causing jealousy among her old friends. Sounds good to me. Having Rhett (wonder where they picked up that name) as the braggart and the one who shows off, adds some tension and enables the whole "Chomper attacking scene". So, in a nutshell, I really dislike Ali's behavior but I do like the idea behind it. Now the actual idea of plotting against Rhett and using Chomper to show Ali how brave her little friend actually is, is probably what I enjoy most whenever I watch this one (it is, by far, the episode I watched most). The stampede of Ali's herd at the end adds a nice moral to the story in my opinion. One that many children nowadays aren't aware of *sigh* Last but not least, I also have to point out that this episode may have the best songs... the song where Cera and Littlefoot are introducing their plotting has a nice melody and fairly good lyrics and the Tv-series version of "Friends for Dinner" might be better than the one from LBT 5 because I somewhat dislike some voices in that one (Littlefoot's in particular, Dekker sung really in that one while he improved highly in later sequels)

So yeah, might be my favourite episode. Still got to watch about 10 of them.
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Malte279,Aug 26 2008
03:16 AM
One thing which I think we woefully lack in this discussion is the knowledge on how and why Chomper was accepted in the Great Valley in the first place. The dinosaurs of the Great Valley may (perhaps) be more tolerant than moving herds, but I don't see Cera's father happily accepting the idea of his daughter befriending a sharptooth, nor do I think that all the parents with young hatchlings would be glad about the perspective of having a young sharptooth around.
As for the others being not there right away to speak up for Chomper (they did turn up before long though) I think that it took them a moment to catch up with the chase. Seeing that there was only one small sharptooth at the moment the Old One may have planned to interrogate that one about the possible presence of other sharpteeth before alerting the rest of the Great Valley (which would also explain why they didn't trample Chomper down right away)... but no, there is a logic failure in that thought because the Old one did not expect Chomper to be able to speak leafeater language.

Who knows about Topps? Perhaps Cera got hurt from that bite in film II and he found out about it. If so, we can't exactly fault him for being wary. I mean, it could happen again, or worse, even if it wasn't intended.
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This episode was fairly good in my opinion; here is a list of pros and cons I have about this episode.

Pros: Ali's return since Journey Through The Mists; that's about it.

Cons: Ali's personality has changed; my first impression of her in this episode is 'who is this girl?', Rhett's show-off attitude and being a liar, The fact that Ali believed Rhett's lies and it took almost the whole episode for her to realize that Rhett is a liar.

That is all I have to offer for this episode; Ali's reappearance was disappointing; in my opinion.
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While it was great to see Ali at the start, overall I do classify it as one of the lesser episodes of the tv series.
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LittlefootAndAliTogether
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What makes me think Chomper is going to turn out all right or that he must be so is that he never seemed to have gotten it into his head to attack the Longnecks, even when they were about to stomp him.

I mean, I don't think the Great Valley residents could fault him too much if he started trying to snap at the Longnecks who were trying to kill him.

Yes, he pleaded, but that in itself is telling in that he tried reason rather than fight back with tooth and claw.

(The fact that he didn't try to attack back seems to show that he might rather die, at least at this point in his life, than attack a Leaf Eater.)

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Chomper wouldn't have been able to attack the leaf-eateres even if he tried. He's too small to do much damage. Also, this doesn't mean that he won't end up eating leaf-eaters in the future. Any smart predator would not attack something much bigger than it (unless it was in a pack or had some kind of secret weapon, both of which Chomper did not have). If Chomper were, say, an adolescent, he may be more inclined to attack, especially if it means defending himself.
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