Going Jurassic - Jurassic Franchise Deep Dive w/Tansy Gardam and Asher Elbein

Going Jurassic - Jurassic Franchise Deep Dive w/Tansy Gardam and Asher Elbein

From The Lorehounds by The Lorehounds

April 21, 2026 · 2h 4m

About this episode

A deep dive into the Jurassic film franchise with insights from guests Tansy Gardam and Asher Elbein.

David is joined by Tansy Gardam, host of the acclaimed Going Rogue podcast, and Asher Elbein, journalist and co-creator of the newsletter and website Heat Death, for a deep dive into the Jurassic film franchise — all seven films across 32 years. The conversation spans the paleontological promise of the original Park trilogy, the stagnation and franchise anxiety of the Jurassic World era, and the ways mega-franchise pipeline thinking has constrained the series' creative evolution. Asher brings his background as a science journalist to examine how Hollywood arrested popular dinosaur science in amber while the real field moved on, and Tansy unpacks the franchise mechanics that kept the series reaching back to the first film rather than forward into new territory — including the quietly radical queerness encoded in the very biology of the dinosaurs themselves. Check Out Our Guests Tansy Gardam - Going Rogue Podcast https://patreon.com/goingroguepodcast https://bsky.app/profile/tansyg.bsky.social Asher Elbein - Heat Death https://heat-death.ghost.io https://bsky.app/profile/asherelbein.bsky.social Contact Us Questions or comments? Send emails to: lorehounds@thelorehounds.com Or, send…

People in this episode

Host: David

Guests: Tansy Gardam, Asher Elbein

Topics covered

  • Jurassic film franchise
  • paleontology
  • franchise evolution
  • Hollywood and science
  • queerness in biology

Keywords

  • Jurassic Park
  • Jurassic World
  • paleontology
  • franchise mechanics
  • dinosaur science
  • queerness
  • film analysis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Going Rogue podcast, Heat Death

Books & works: Jurassic film franchise, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World

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