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Jurassic World Rebirth And Living Up To Hype

By Cynthia Sax on January 2, 2026

Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Jurassic World Rebirth and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this dinosaur-filled movie, you might wish to skip this post.

I LOVE dinosaurs and I’ve enjoyed all of the Jurassic Park/World movies.

Yes, even the second one. (grins)

Jurassic World Rebirth is my least favorite.

It has moments of wonder in it. I loved the saved family, especially the boyfriend and his character arc. I thought the scene with the Titanosaurus was absolutely beautiful.

My big disappointment was with Distortus rex.

Every Jurassic movie has a new ‘terrifying’ dinosaur. This dinosaur is usually bigger and scarier and more deadly than any we’ve seen thus far.

And this is set up to be true in Jurassic World Rebirth.

We first ‘encounter’ Distortus rex in the first scene. We don’t see her but we know she’s huge and deadly.

And I was waiting excitedly the entire movie to finally see her.

When we did see her, toward the end of the movie, she was a let down.

She definitely didn’t live up to the hype.

She was hard to look at. She was so ugly. She had numerous arms but we didn’t really see how that was much of an advantage.

Because her scenes were few. And the fight was over quickly.

We weren’t shown how she was a better predator than the T-Rex, one of our favorites.

She had no endearing aspects or traits, nothing to give us a connection to her.

And I’m not interested in seeing Distortus rex ever again.

If she is the future of Jurassic dinosaurs, I’ll give that beloved franchise a pass.

This is a reminder for myself and writing buddies.

If we build hype, we have to deliver on that hype.

If we tell readers, for example, our hero will do ANYTHING to protect his love interest, we have to show him doing some serious sh*t to safeguard that being.

If we hint that sh*t will hit the fan if anyone found out about their relationship, someone has to find out and sh*t has to hit the fan. Hard.

Live up to the hype.

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Meg 2: The Trench And Expectations

By Cynthia Sax on April 12, 2024

Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Meg 2: The Trench and will contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this fun fantastical movie, you might wish to skip this post.

The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I recently watched Meg 2: The Trench and we both really enjoyed it. It was fun and action-packed and a bit silly in parts.

But that was great because all that was expected.

Meg 2: The Trench is an example of how to give people what they expect.

We expected huge sharks. We got huge sharks. Plural.

We expected Jason Statham in an action role. We got Jason Statham in an action-packed role.

There were the expected bad jokes and comradery and all of the beloved characters survived.

The visuals were awesome. The antics were over the top.

And there were DINOSAURS. Because the creators knew the viewers who love giant sharks also love dinosaurs.

Meg 2: The Trench was fun and that was exactly what we wanted in a movie.

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Strike Zone

A cyborg devoted to duty…and to her.

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While attending a party, Kesser, the daughter of her planet’s leader, witnesses the abduction of her best friend and her best friend’s mate.

She’s determined to rescue them. Preferably without fracturing the fragile peace agreement her mom has crafted with the abductors’ planet.

The only issue is…she has never participated in a retrieval mission.

Searching for assistance, she approaches the mate’s guard. The male, with his big broad shoulders and deep growly voice, affects her like no other being ever has.

Kesser wants him. She trusts him. And she requires his stealth combat skills.

Desperately.

Strike is no guard. The D Model cyborg has been sent to the sector to discreetly investigate a potential planet-destroying situation.

When a curvy human female with big brown eyes requests his help with a rescue, he doesn’t hesitate to say yes. She’s his genetic match, the one being he was manufactured to protect.

She’s also traveling to the next planet he has to search. He plans to claim his female while he fulfills his responsibilities to his kind.

Neither Strike nor Kesser realizes the dangers facing them are far greater than they imagine. Their enemies are converging, and one failed mission could doom the entire universe.

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Strike Zone is a standalone, mistaken-identity, Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

It features a cyborg warrior with a finely honed sense of honor, a human support being taking on her first dangerous mission, and an evil that threatens everyone in existence.

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