I've watched the five seasons of "Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous" with my son and despite the rapid speed which the show has been churned out, and the fact that the last couple of seasons have pushed at the boundaries of credibility a little bit, overall, he, and I, have very much enjoyed it.
Kenji (Ryan Potter) is delighted to find his father Daniel (Andrew Kishino) on the island, though they are all shocked to discover that he is the controlling officer for Mantah Corp. This puts Kenji at odds with the group and particularly against Brooklynn (Jenna Ortega) seemingly ending their budding relationship. But even Kenji struggles with his fathers plans to place control chips in all the dinosaurs and to manufacture these control chips for export. Investors from another company, BioSyn, come to the island - including their leader Lewis Dodgson (Adam Harrington).
You have to be impressed with the way this series has wound itself around the revelations of the movies, including here bringing Dodgson ("We've got Dodgson here!") back into the series chronologically before his appearances in "Dominion", although this comes out after. As with the last run, there are some leaps in technological logic in order to keep the story going. The BRAD robots are less prevalent here, instead the threat is often our "hero" dinosaurs manipulated by a chip embedded in them and controlled by a standard games console controller. Though to make these criticisms in the first place, ignores the idea that this is a kids show.
It's still a good show though. The individual episodes are filled with decent action set pieces and nice character moments. I'm not 100% convinced we needed a second relationship between the campers, but that relationship between Yaz and Sammy is nicely played.
For a show that could easily just have been a cash in on the Jurassic franchise name, there's a lot of care and thought that appears to have gone into this show, which for my money is the best thing that the series has done since 1993.
Kenji (Ryan Potter) is delighted to find his father Daniel (Andrew Kishino) on the island, though they are all shocked to discover that he is the controlling officer for Mantah Corp. This puts Kenji at odds with the group and particularly against Brooklynn (Jenna Ortega) seemingly ending their budding relationship. But even Kenji struggles with his fathers plans to place control chips in all the dinosaurs and to manufacture these control chips for export. Investors from another company, BioSyn, come to the island - including their leader Lewis Dodgson (Adam Harrington).
You have to be impressed with the way this series has wound itself around the revelations of the movies, including here bringing Dodgson ("We've got Dodgson here!") back into the series chronologically before his appearances in "Dominion", although this comes out after. As with the last run, there are some leaps in technological logic in order to keep the story going. The BRAD robots are less prevalent here, instead the threat is often our "hero" dinosaurs manipulated by a chip embedded in them and controlled by a standard games console controller. Though to make these criticisms in the first place, ignores the idea that this is a kids show.
It's still a good show though. The individual episodes are filled with decent action set pieces and nice character moments. I'm not 100% convinced we needed a second relationship between the campers, but that relationship between Yaz and Sammy is nicely played.
For a show that could easily just have been a cash in on the Jurassic franchise name, there's a lot of care and thought that appears to have gone into this show, which for my money is the best thing that the series has done since 1993.