Today, my mom and I have watched the first half (first five of ten) episodes of Season 2, with an incredible amount of stuff to talk about.
The guys, for over a week, have been on the ship they stowed away on, where the last season left off. On it, was the new dinosaur and dinosaur character: The Majungasaurus - Major, but unnamed on-screen. Incredibly, they made a reference of the dinosaur's proof of cannibalism when a second Majunga was kept in the same crate which Major killed. Also, they, the Broker's men, have somehow retrieved Bumpy's egg, along with other dino eggs. How did it get into the hands of the Broker's men and away from Mateo who promised to protect it and Bumpy herself in the last season is anyone's guess.
After some mishaps on the ship during a storm, they get on a lifeboat to save Kenji and the eggs overboard. Kenji himself has become rather impulsive (as Yaz described) and "suicidal" (but not the "suicidal thoughts" kind).
They wash up to West Africa, in the country of Senegal. There, they meet the new girl who is indeed named Zayna. Her full name is "Zayna Mballo". She lives in a farming home with her mother Aminata, their pet Gallimimus Geba whom they raised from a found infant, and a herd of Stegosauruses whom they use as protection against a rouge Suchomimus who is apparently a dangerous menace to their home. The dinosaurs came from upriver from their home, where the guys believe is the "upriver" they overheard back on the ship, meaning the Broker and their shady rig is likely involved in the nearby area somehow. Gebu is captured by presumably the Broker's men, and the eggs are stolen by them too, so the guys and Zayna set out upriver to rescue them.
Meanwhile, Ben as found out that Brooklyn is alive, and after many attempts to get signal and battery, he makes contact with her, just as when she was in danger too, but has kept all of it a secret from the others.
The season also explores a secondary arc about Brooklyn, starting with a flashback episode, and in the present where it simultaneously cuts between her and the guys.
In the flashback, prior to her supposed "death", it is revealed that she was always on her phone because she was trying to exploit the shady buisness that's been going on, but has kept it secret from everybody else, which also resulted her breakup with Kenji in the last season. It also explains why Darius was so insecure of meeting her because of his crush on her: He slipped up about mentioning "Love" during a conversation they both had shortly after the breakup and before the Allosaurus attack.
Speaking of which, that also comes with an incredibly unforeseen twist. The Allosaurus was not responsible for injuring Brooklyn. In fact, it didn't harm her in any way, shape or form. It was completely innocent all this time! When she was spotted by the Allo, it stopped chasing her when it heard the whistle of the adversary from the last season - The Raptor Lady. She had been there too with her Atrociraptors, and it was Ghost who attacked her arm instead. But rather than having it bitten off like we initially thought, her arm was actually badly mauled and was amputated afterwards by Ronnie, Darius's former DPW boss who was revealed to have been in contact with her in the last season, who rescued her just too little too late to prevent her from being harmed. Ronnie also has a cone collared Compsgnathus named Gordon, who also has an amputated limb (a foot) which I did not expect, and who was first revealed in the toyline packed with Yaz and a Monolophosaurus.
After the attack she survived from, she chose to keep her status as "dead" to the whole world to protect herself, the guys, and Ronnie. Together, the ladies attempt to exploit who is responsible for this whole evil plot and why.
In the present, laying low as an undercover spy, she "joins" a rather extremist animal (or rather, "dinosaur") rights group called the Dinosaur Liberation Now, or DLN for short, under her secret identity "Sydny", to get more information about the Broker themself. The DLN is composed of members who wear Velociraptor masks, and the only purple one, who was also seen in the full trailer of the season, is the leader of the group named Earnest.
After getting enough info from her undercover mission, she abandons the DLN and heads for a ride that takes her straight to Dubai, on the other side of the world. After being there for a while, she tracks someone who she believes is the Broker, who is revealed to be quite a painter artist. The person she has tracked is, non-other than, the one and only Soyona Santos herself from Jurassic World Dominion.
Soyona reveals her love for dinosaurs and has even revealed her mother was part of the expedition who excavated the very famous, and very real, "Fighting Dinosaurs" fossil specimen of a Protoceratops and Velociraptor lock in combat from Mongolia (a fossil which I've known for decades myself, thanks to the documentary called "Dinosaur Planet"). She even has a JPIII raptor horn as a decoration in her apartment as well, making those things pretty prominent easter eggs in the animated series saga. AND, she also has an Atrociraptor herself in her apartment: Red. Turns out, Red was with Soyona all this time. With Brooklyn's true identity exposed, due to how smart Soyona is, and telling Brooks that her five friends are in danger (implying she never knew what the other guys have been enduring since Season One), Brooks narrowly escapes and finally reaches out to Ben, but only for a short period of time.
Back in Camp Cretaceous, all of the main "big bads", humans and dinosaurs alike, were original characters exclusive to the animated show saga, hence is why I didn't believe the Broker, undoubtedly the main big bad of Chaos Theory, could be a live-action debuted character. But now, I'm starting to think I might be absolutely wrong on that. Because, after everything that we've seen so far...
Could Soyona be the mysterious Broker?
Tomorrow night, as we (me and my mom) always do, will watch the rest. There's also something I'd like to talk about regarding the toylines until then, since I believe it should warrant an update from what I previously said, including one detail of which I believe we've made a potentially big mistake worth addressing, again, until then.
