If she had merely been hauled off by a Pteranodon, then okay. But the fact that her death was the most brutal and long winded, especially compared to those who deserved worse, isn't entertaining. It's just needless and offputting.
It's also a disgrace to the the franchise's more impactful death scenes and the suspense around them. Spielberg and even Johnston didn't need a lot of blood or overly long, brutal death scenes to make an impact. They had slow build-ups and forshadowing that made deaths all the more terrifying. Muldoon's death in Jurassic Park was undeserved as well, but it was more terrifying in that it showed how smart these creatures were. Was there any blood? No. Was it a particularly long scene that had the character bombarded with raptor after raptor? No.
Udesky's death in JP3 by the raptor's was both undeserved and brutal, but fairly bloodless and more shocking as it left more to the imagination and, again, served as an example for how smart the raptors were. (Setting a trap.)
Zera's death was not forshadowed, overly violent, overly long, unnecessary and hardly entertainment. It was in poor taste and, worse, one of the most inferior and unworthy deaths in the franchise's creative stock of well concieved character ends.
Typical, modern day over-the-top death fodder. The makers of Saw must be proud.
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