I just watched the new Jenny Nicholson video on The Land Before Time movies, and I just realized something. There is a movie where some alien dinosaurs show up to tell the main characters about space. This is kind of a really big deal, because this implies that an intelligent species with interstellar travel has landed on prehistoric Earth and found living beings that they can communicate with. This suggests that The Land Before Time movies are not just stories told through the lens of normal dinosaurs, but Littlefoot and friends are actually intelligent creatures, the first on Earth before humans ever existed. Did the meteor eventually kill them all and erase them from history? Or is The Land Before Time a prequel to Dinotopia?
Also, the fact that the aliens are such similar looking dinosaurs to the ones found on Earth suggests that the particular way life developed here is the common way it develops everywhere. What are the odds of two intelligent species from completely different worlds looking land functioning the same, after all? The aliens were quick to try to uplift them, too, so assuming their presence is benevolent, they must have been convinced that the Earth dinosaurs were just as intelligent and capable as them to start exploring space.
But, before they could, an extinction level event destroyed them all, leading to the rise of mammals instead. Perhaps, on a cosmic scale, intelligent dinosaurs are the norm, and WE are the anomaly. Do you think that’s why we see so many UFOs but none of them have tried to contact and uplift us yet? Do you think those space dinosaurs are fascinated by this unpredictable turn of events, and are more interested in seeing how a rare mammalian culture would progress to space age without alien interference?
OR ALTERNATIVELY
Prehistoric Earth dinos DID get successfully uplifted, and they were able to leave the planet before the meteor struck, intending to come back after a few million years to repopulate their original homeworld once it has healed, only to find a bunch of weird ass mammals running around thinking that they own the place, and the dinosaurs aren’t not even mad, ‘cause that’s amazing.
Either way, this means that in The Land Before Time extended universe, inside of every blurry picture of a flying saucer there is a velociraptor looking down at us, scratching its chin in deep contemplative thought.
