The Gang of Five
The Land Before Time => General Land Before Time => Topic started by: landbeforetimelover on April 19, 2007, 11:58:20 PM
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I think it is littlefoor because he talkes the best of all of them. Which do you choose?
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Yea I agree because he's more of the leader type.
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Definitely, Littlefoot. He always has the brightest ideas (well, not always. :lol:).
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i would also agree that littlefoot is the smartest as well
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Littlefoot.
I.Q. is the measure of one's ability to learn. Littlefoot has shown this the most out of all of the characters.
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Littlefoot, like lbt/cty_lover said.
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I.Q. is the measure of one's ability to learn.
However, Cera seems to learn at a somewhat rapid rate. Her stubborn nature might conceal her true intelligence.
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Littlefoot is indeed the most intelligent.
Cera is perhaps number two... but she has done too many stupid things to qualify for the highest position.
Chomper is too young to consideration as the most intelligent.
Ruby says things in an idiosyncratic way, and is often the victim of wrong reasoning.
Petrie and Ducky have speech impediments of some kind, and Spike doesn't talk at all, although I didn't see the episode "Through the Eyes of a Spike-Tail", so it may be possible that he has hidden intelligence under his mute demeanor.
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ability to speak doesn't define intelligence... plenty of autistic people are VERY smart, they're just not very capable with language
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That's why I said that Spike could be hiding intelligence under his lack of speech, although he rarely does anything intelligent.
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That's why I said that Spike could be hiding intelligence under his lack of speech, although he rarely does anything intelligent.
That also goes for Petrie and Ducky. I don't think you should judge their intelligence based off of speech impediments like that. Actually, now that you mention Cera doing "too many stupid things," hasn't all of the gang done stupid things at one time or another? Haven't we ALL done stupid things at one time or another?
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Mistakes actually show intelligence. Or lack of.
Look at it this way. Intelligence is the ability to learn. Mistakes show where learning is needed. The faster a person learns from mistakes, the more intelligent that person is. So all we need to do to check intelligence is to find mistakes that the characters made and figure out the time it takes for the character to learn from that mistake.
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Littlefoot
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Ducky can certainly be the voice of reason, so she isn't stupid....just mispronounces many words. We always know what she means. I think Ducky is actually the smartest....she's just not the lead character so you see less of her.
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I.Q. is not measured by the number of stupid mistskes one has made and there is no such thing as a link between grammar and intelligence. Fact of the matter is, there is no wrong dialect and the dialect/grammar-intelligence link theory is but a myth :angry:. I.Q. is based on what one has learned thus far and one's ability to think critically. LF is too optimistic and ideal, Ducky is naive and innocent, Petrie is gullible, and Spike has not displayed an incredible amount of intelligence yet. This leaves Cera out. Sure, she may lose all sense when she panics, but she's also the wittiest and most realistic.
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Littlefoot and Ducky looks like the only two right variants, because they have done less silly things, than Cera, Spike or Petrie. Because Littlefoot already have 20 voices by his side, i'm vote for Ducky. :)
Strange that Petrie have less votes than everyone else, even Spike. :huh:
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Definitely Spike. He's got all the answers, he just doesn't feel like sharing them at this time. Plus being an outsider means he can learn from everyone else's mistakes. "Through the eyes of a Spiketail" showed enough to convince me.
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Not surprising that no one's said Petrie yet.
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Like Ducky, because you often see less of Petrie and what goes on when he's not with the gang, its hard to judge what or who he's learning from. When he's with the gang, he naturally agrees just about all the time, which doesn't necessarily show intelligence.
Spike is an interesting example. All my special education background is screaming at me that just because he doesn't talk, doesn't mean he can't comprehend what's going on or isn't intelligent. :p He might be smarter than all...just choosing not to speak.
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Some of the time Cera seem to have to pull things up a little when Littlefott is lost and not sure what to do. Like in Wisdoms, it seem that all the rules and stuff that he wanted to be taught he started getting really muddlyed up until Cera and help from the others seem to clearfil his confusion.
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I cannot say anything about the TV series episode in which Spike plays a central role, but in the sequels there are somewhat contradictory scenes. There are cases where Spike shows a better judgment (and readiness to act upon it) than the others.
In LBT 2 he is not as taken with Cera's idea of hiding from the grownups as Ducky and Petrie are. In LBT 4 he is the one to make the decision (to trust Ali in spite of Cera's dislike of her) for Ducky and Petrie once again. In LBT 7 Spike is the one to end the debate about whether or not the gang should follow Ducky. I think there are more examples.
On the other hand there are also many scenes in which his stomach seems to get the better over his brain. The best example is his biting of the vine they are walking on in LBT 7, but he also doesn't care about keeping up Littlefoot and the others in the original movie once the leaves Petrie is dropping are falling out of his tongue's range. In LBT 5 the others sort of make use of Spike's appetite by making him the taster of the unknown plants on the island (just what exactly would they have done if one of those plants had turned out to be poisonous?). I guess there are different kinds of intelligence and stupidity and even otherwise highly intelligent people may be prone for certain types of stupidity (and vice versa). The thoughtfulness of Spike's actions seems to depend very much on the situation and on how recently he had his last meal.
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Also likely it depends on who the script writer is. I'd doubt there is any one person who has written down facts and forces all the scriptwriters to stick to it that says stuff like x is the overall smartest. It's likely just some vague stuff.
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I voted for Littlefoot, but I would also argue that Ducky could be in line for number 2. She seems to definitely be a voice of reason, but to me Littlefoot seems to know what is usually right, and is reuctant to do the wrong things. I know some of you would argue that Littlefoot does do wrong things, and I agree with that also, but he doesn't do them to the extent like Cera who usually doesn't think before she acts.
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I chose Spike .
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I don't know about this...I really don't believe in this....
There are all different sorts of IQ. It doesn't mean one IQ is smarter over the other, someone can be smart with words, another person can be smart with emotions, another person can be smart with music, and another can be smart with the mathamatics, it really depends. So asking me to choose who's the smartest of all of the characters is like asking me to choose with view point is best and is right. I just can't choose...
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I think Littlefoot because he's the leader of the gang and he always seems to have an idea up in the old noggin :lol: