Not sure, but does anyone notice that Ichy says
"Don't
swallow Dil, it's me Ichy!" when he falls into her mouth when Spike whaps him with his tail. For years, I never noticed the oddity of what he said, but a few days ago, it finally occurred to me.
Why use the word
swallow ? Don't most Sharpteeth (and most dinosaurs in general for that matter) chew their food FIRST before swallowing? Was this a slipup on the writers's part or does Dil actually swallow some prey whole if the prey is small enough (i.e. Petrie, Ichy, or Ducky sized) and let the poor critter be digested alive in her stomach?
If so, I'd admit she's gotta be the most twisted villain in Land Before Time!
I guess, like Chomper's parents saying they viewed any friends of Chomper's as desert, despite never bothering to ask what type the friends were, that this is just another very disturbing comment of a character in the series that they put in there and didn't bother to explain, perhaps hoping nobody would notice?
These two aren't the only disturbing quotes in the films. In film 7, when it appears that Ducky falls to her death, and Pterano expresses sorrow over it, Sierra says
"So what? You should be used to this sort of thing by now!" What the heck did he mean by that?
Has Sierra killed others before and is basically saying "I've done this before often. Why do you suddenly care all of a sudden?" or is he saying "This isn't the first guy we've knocked off.", indicating that Pterano might not be an anti-hero, but a murderer? Or was he simply referring to the situation with Pterano's followers, which he may have heard of, and saying "You saw your followers all die. Why so much sadness over the death of a single young swimmer? You should be used to others dying around you by now." or is he saying something else entirely that isn't listed above?
Also, in the second film, there is something very bizarre about Ozzy's behavior when he finds out, or so it appears, that the egg he was after hatched. He freaks out, and, even his brother tries to get him to calm down, but he is so irate that he lost his dinner (Get over it dude! It was the previous night!) However, he asks about the egg, despite standing right on the egg shells when he is addressing them. Is he that blind????
However, the most disturbing of all is that he doesn't seem to say "Well, it hatched. Probably was no good to eat anyway." and just walks away. I mean, if Ozzy loves to eat egg yoke and Chomper was mostly developed, if not nearly fully, by the night before, surely he'd have gotten nothing, except perhaps bitten, were he to try and break open the egg and eat it. Does Ozzy actually eat both the partially developed dino as well as the yoke? One almost wonders that as his behavior seems so bizarre, not to mention that he doesn't seem to give up after learning how to close to hatching it was nor does he seem to admit defeat, having seen the egg shell and perhaps, for all we know, knowing that the egg hatched into a Sharptooth.
The final disturbing incident I can think of happens in the TV Series. After Cera is found not to be such an Amazing Threehorn Girl, it seems some of the dinos were singing that she should leave. Does anyone find it odd that they'd suggest banishment for someone as young as Cera and for such a minor crime as her's or is it just me?
(Of course, there is a non-spoken, for the most part, disturbing scene too, where it shows baby Chomper biting Cera. It actually, if you take a still of the movie, appears quite frightening and it looks like the teeth should have cut her open and made her bleed. Yet, though hurt, she doesn't appear to be crying from the pain, just really irritable. When a Sharptooth bites himself in the tail later in another scene, perhaps of another film, he actually cries from the pain.) Also, Strut doesn't appear to be hurt too much by being bitten either. One might surmise that Chomper's teeth aren't sharp enough yet to cut the skin on a dino and he can only cut open bugs, as of yet, but I didn't see blood even when he bit the bigger Sharptooth in the fifth film, despite them actually being willing to show blood in a later scene in said film.)
