Don't forget that all 5 of them were hungry, and had been hiking for days. Since we are all sitting, well-fed and watered (and hopefully not in any immediate danger) in front of our computers, we have the luxury of unlimited foresight and a clear head. When one is in a dangerous situation, one tends to lose the ability to think absolutely clearly. I believe the desicion was much more on-the-spot than we imagine.

When I try to put myself in Littlefoot's case, I think of when I was 15, and got lost in a forest outside my old house. I had dozed off in a large tree, and woke up to find it about twilight. Remembering that dad said never to panic, I calmly slid out of the tree and thought about where to go. I thought: "Due to the Coriolis Effect, my body is tuned to walk counter-clockwise, since I live in the Northern Hemisphere. The sun is setting to my left, and in the morning I can see it from my bedroom window, which faces east. Therefore, east (and home) is to my right, and I should follow any paths that lead clockwise from my current position, since I want to retrace my path."

While it sounds like I had thought this through really well, in reality, I was cold, hungry and wanted to get home. I wasn't exactly sure what I was doing, and the logic was proably reall flawed, but I thought, "Screw it, I gotta do something." Also, I didn't have the luxury of double-checking my logic, and making sure I knew I was right: daylight was almost gone, and I needed to use it while I had it.

Also, to follow my unblazed clockwise direction, I strayed off the path and did some risky things I certainly wouldn't have tried during the day, in a safer stuation. However, once I had made my original desicion, I didn't think enough to even consider changing course. Evey move I made was calculated to shave as much time off of my journey as possible, regardless of the consquences if I misstep.

I wound up exiting the forest and finding myself downtown, which was petty far away from my house.

Anyway, the point is, Littlefoot and co. couldn't afford to think clearly, and weigh the possible solutions anymore than I could've 5 years ago. They needed to make a desicion and stick with it. Littlefoot conjured in his head a possibillity of a way to eliminate Sharptooth, and once it was fully formed, he implemented it. If the others had had any better ideas, they would've said them, but they obviously didn't. And then they fell into place behind him.

Also, if anyone says that Littlefoot didn't look tired or exhausted, trust me he probably was. One of the marks of a good leader is the ability to hide one's own exhaustion, and put on a brave face for the others in your party. since Littlefoot had shown in the past that he was going and willing to be their leader, he knew he'd have to act the part completely, to keep the others going.

When I first looked at it, she was going counter-clockwise. Then I read the bit of information on the left and it said most people see her going clockwise. I looked again, and plain as day I could see she was going clockwise! Five minutes later, I couldn't change her direction back.  

They weren't wet when we see them next on the log.
 

Due to the animation, it's impossible to tell when any characters are wet or not. After getting dunked into the water, both Cera and Petrie looked completely normal mere seconds afterwards.

I think it was in the first one. And on Wikipedia it says Jeff Bennett played Petrie and the narrator/spokes dinosaur in LBT 7 (ironically the one you're missing   <_<  )

It would be hard to get protein though seeing as the dino's certainly wouldn't allow me to eat meat.

Well, Chomper pulls it off somehow, and there are humans who eat insects (like chocolate covered ants, my aunt used to love those   ).

As for me, I'd be a swimmer like Ducky. I've always loved the water. And actually Ducky's family is the closest species to looking and having the same body structure as a human (not to mention opposable thumbs, who nobody else gets), and hadrosaurs were thought to be good mothers.

Also, to counter the boredom problem, I'd simply have to be born in the Great Valley, and live my life not knowing about the modern world I'm missing.  Ignorance is bliss, you know.

Besides, if I live in the same period of time as Littlefoot & co. there'll be plenty of action to live through (how many storms have they gone through by now?) and with the exception of that one song from Journey to Big Water, the real characters have never seemed bored for too long.

Since I don't normally watch TV, the only one I've seen is "The Hidden Canyon," which was an extra on the LBT13 DVD. It was pretty good, and I wish I could see more, but unless there's any available online I have no way of watching them.

Also, on Wikipedia it said that Ruby has an odd way of talking, but in this episode her grammar and syntax were perfectly normal. Is it different in most other episodes (cause even Yoda sounded right sometimes   )

Definitely the original. That guy just wouldn't quit. Chomper would be my 2nd pick, only because when I read the title of this forum, I didn't even think of Chomper (he's never really qualified as a bona fide sharptooth in my opinion).

Ducky's an awesome character to have a crush on. I didn't care about LBT in the period of my life where I developed crushes, but if I had, Ducky would've been the one I chose too (kinda helps that she's my all-time favoite character )!

mcr mad, you should add  : to your original post.

I hope I'll be able to watch it. It'll be my first TV episode I've seen!

The poll needs to be expanded. Almost everybody joined when they were over 17.