You saw them frozen to death.’ I'm like, ‘No. I was wrecked.’ And I said, ‘Well, to be fair, we didn't kill them.’ You just saw the dad's like, ‘We've been around for a million years, what could possibly go wrong?’ And it was snowing, and they didn't see them frozen to death, but it's funny, in kids' minds - well, who are now adults - but they're like, ‘No, they died. I've had probably over a hundred millennials, anyone who's like 30 to 35, come up to me over the years and say, ‘You destroyed me. So yeah, we shot it, and it was, I thought, the perfect ending. It was very on-point with the premise, that this kind of thinking will get you in, I would say hot water, but in this case, cold water. It was about dinosaur-thinking that could cause your own demise. It worked as a thematic end to a show that was about exactly that. “he whole story, back to when Jim and I were brainstorming, the whole series was dinosaur-thinking, and thinking that you could do whatever you want, and you're the apex predator and the planet is yours, and it doesn't matter what you kill, or eat, or destroy because you're the biggest SOB in the valley. Thatcher also mentions that no one was opposed to the dark ending because the series constantly critiqued human disregard for its own existence in its episodes, and the accidental nuclear winter was a perfect fit to the series: The episode never shows the dinosaurs freezing to death, but it’s pretty easy to see that this is the direction that the story goes after the credits roll. This ends up creating an environmental chain reaction that starts an Ice Age. In the story, a species of beetles goes extinct because their breeding ground gets paved over with a parking lot for a wax company. If you can’t remember, the episode centers around an environmental crisis created by corporate greed. In the interview, Thatcher reveals the episode was based on a story that he wrote, and the whole team was on board.
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