[deleted]

[deleted]

He really was dumb. Didn't even ever study up on which Dinos were dangerous and which ones weren't. He admits that in the novel.

I don't really see him as a villain, honestly. Amoral, to be sure, greedy and all around not a very nice guy, but he didn't, like, actually set out to harm people. He thought the electricity would be down for ten or fifteen minutes, tops, and everything could go back to normal. I can't really be bothered about him stealing from Ingen; Ingen was a typical nasty corporation which screwed over its own employees, Nedry included. Turning off the fences was obviously a bad thing and he shouldn't have done that. But in the book it was pretty clear that he thought he could get everything up and running again in a few minutes; he was just going to the dock to drop off the embryos, then he planned to head back to the control center and bring the system back online. Losing his way in the storm and running into a dilophosaurus screwed up his plan, and resulted in the shutdown going on far longer than he had ever intended. He probably had the same thought Arnold expressed in the book, that the dinosaurs had already learned to stay away from the electric fences and wouldn't go up to test them in the few minutes the power would be out. If so, he was wrong, and the consequences of this mistake were pretty much inevitably going to be severe. But I really don't think Nedry wanted people to die, or thought that his action would lead to people getting hurt and killed. The only injury he intended to inflict was to the Ingen corporation, in the form of the theft of millions of dollars' worth of dinosaur embryos delivered to a competitor. Things spun out of control, and Nedry certainly deserves the blame for that, but since it was unintentional on his part, I really don't think he quite qualifies as a villain.

Nope!!