Sorry for being off for a while. Been getting battered by programming and database design classes badly.
BUT! Not quite a link to an interesting site, but a potential source of a story as I just got done finally watching Jurassic World.
And it's totally a potential fen story with tweaking (even in universe for it). The dinosaurs? Wu was an early mad who went undiagnosed because nobody even knew handwavium existed at the time and he was exposed to the honey variant. He went through a visibly mad phase before seemingly returning to normal before anyone started thinking about it, and went Boskonian over the years.
You could tighten up Vic's character by having him serve as a contractor during The War, and dealing with 'murdersaurs' which were boskonian twisted raptors that went relatively unrecognized before he returned back to serve with Ingen's forces. His spiel about the vulnerability of electronic assets works better in a verse with actual AI, as does his crazy idea for turning raptors into a new weapons system. It works when you actually think about taking the time to carefully iterate raptor generations and tweaking them with dog genes to find the right sequence to recondition them to accept humans and turn down the prey-drive. And you could turn down his outright villainy into more 'doesn't realize he's fallen in with boskonians' and well-intentioned extremism. He actually gets pissed with Wu when he starts realizing what Wu really made (A better Murdersaurus for his employers), but dies/gets horribly maimed for a lot of the same reasons as in the movie (disrespecting the superior predators).
Owen works still, and could be tweaked to be a SEAL who went fen during the war and became a Warsie after a discharge for some reason, then got picked up by Vic for also managing to contain and control some of the boskonian bio-terrors. Other than having some better gear, and a slightly different relationship with his raptors he'd likely work much as he did in the actual movie. Maybe a little bit of trauma from those bio-terrors but otherwise generally the same guy.
Claire could work pretty much unchanged, as could the nephews.
A big thing would be that instead of just losing attendance from boredom, in the fen-version of the movie it's because it's got competition from fen parks which can do similar things without some of the costs. But at the same time, they're ignoring that the fen would rather actually work with them because they're totally fine with the park and want it to survive because frickin dinosaurs. So, they let Wu off the hook and tell him to have fun with the Indominus, and... yeah. Basically the same thing as the current movie version, but faster and better resistant to that whole 'getting shot' thing (more than it already is), and all-around nastier.
And another thing is that I could totally see them accidentally building an actual Jurassic World with Fen help, and building all the dinos (either through actual mad's creating actual clones, or through super-animatronics) and then ending up shrugging and opening the real park afterwards. More interestingly, the idea of actually accidentally making self-aware raptor androids by mistake sounds like it might be a fun little complication.
Seriously, totally works as a fen movie and as a dane movie with minor changes to the existing version we have, and it's a nice way to create a fun thing in Fenspace.
BUT! Not quite a link to an interesting site, but a potential source of a story as I just got done finally watching Jurassic World.
And it's totally a potential fen story with tweaking (even in universe for it). The dinosaurs? Wu was an early mad who went undiagnosed because nobody even knew handwavium existed at the time and he was exposed to the honey variant. He went through a visibly mad phase before seemingly returning to normal before anyone started thinking about it, and went Boskonian over the years.
You could tighten up Vic's character by having him serve as a contractor during The War, and dealing with 'murdersaurs' which were boskonian twisted raptors that went relatively unrecognized before he returned back to serve with Ingen's forces. His spiel about the vulnerability of electronic assets works better in a verse with actual AI, as does his crazy idea for turning raptors into a new weapons system. It works when you actually think about taking the time to carefully iterate raptor generations and tweaking them with dog genes to find the right sequence to recondition them to accept humans and turn down the prey-drive. And you could turn down his outright villainy into more 'doesn't realize he's fallen in with boskonians' and well-intentioned extremism. He actually gets pissed with Wu when he starts realizing what Wu really made (A better Murdersaurus for his employers), but dies/gets horribly maimed for a lot of the same reasons as in the movie (disrespecting the superior predators).
Owen works still, and could be tweaked to be a SEAL who went fen during the war and became a Warsie after a discharge for some reason, then got picked up by Vic for also managing to contain and control some of the boskonian bio-terrors. Other than having some better gear, and a slightly different relationship with his raptors he'd likely work much as he did in the actual movie. Maybe a little bit of trauma from those bio-terrors but otherwise generally the same guy.
Claire could work pretty much unchanged, as could the nephews.
A big thing would be that instead of just losing attendance from boredom, in the fen-version of the movie it's because it's got competition from fen parks which can do similar things without some of the costs. But at the same time, they're ignoring that the fen would rather actually work with them because they're totally fine with the park and want it to survive because frickin dinosaurs. So, they let Wu off the hook and tell him to have fun with the Indominus, and... yeah. Basically the same thing as the current movie version, but faster and better resistant to that whole 'getting shot' thing (more than it already is), and all-around nastier.
And another thing is that I could totally see them accidentally building an actual Jurassic World with Fen help, and building all the dinos (either through actual mad's creating actual clones, or through super-animatronics) and then ending up shrugging and opening the real park afterwards. More interestingly, the idea of actually accidentally making self-aware raptor androids by mistake sounds like it might be a fun little complication.
Seriously, totally works as a fen movie and as a dane movie with minor changes to the existing version we have, and it's a nice way to create a fun thing in Fenspace.