Tonight, me and my mom have finally watched the first five episodes of Jurassic World Chaos Theory. Just like we both did with Camp Cretaceous, we plan to watch the first half of the episodes first, and then the last half the next night.
Spoilers below for the summary, not a review, of the first five episodes, but I will say this before it: This show is a lot darker, and a lot more family dramatized, than I previously thought.
Darius Bowman, the main guy of the Nublar Six, is a former Department of Prehistoric Wildlife (DPW) employee. The DPW is the in-universe organization who are the founders of the Dinotracker website, the viral marketing campaign for Jurassic World Dominion.
For a while, he's been after a single specific Allosaurus - a dinosaur that has apparently attacked and killed Brooklyn. After a failed attempt to capture it, he is visited by Ben, who is surprisingly the tallest of the guys now. He reveals, while on Dark Jurassic, a website of conspiracy theories, he sees a pattern of a dark force that's out to get them. In addition, he has gotten messages of suppose threats to him.
It wasn't long where, after a supposed "prank call by Ben" that wasn't, Darius' cabin has been sabotaged and a pack of three Atrociraptors, who surprisingly have a camouflaging ability which I did not see coming for that species, attack them. The three raptors are Ghost, Panthera, and Tiger. Red, the fourth one, is not present for some reason.
Ben has been theorizing and trying to find answers about what is going on from his van, who he has transformed into a min-base of sorts.
The next of the guys they meet up with is Sammy from her farm in Texas. It is revealed she brought Bumpy, the Ankylosaurus from CC, over to her farm to keep and look after. She apparently had Bumpy snuck out from Mantah Corp's former Island when that place was being investigated, which I presume was the government. Yet again, the three Atrocirtaptor's attack, with Bumpy fending them off to let the guys escape, before she is eventually captured by the DPW. Where they will take her now, I do not know yet. The raptors have also killed off Sammy's disgruntled neighbor who hates dinosaurs and who's property gets ruined by Bumpy every now and then. The DPW has also revealed to have captured the Allosaurs that went after Brooks and are taking her to parts unknown.
Whomever is after them is dangerous. They apparently are tracking the guys through their phones. They also apparently sabotage the power to their whole homes, as the same thing with Darius' happened to Sammy's as well. They know everything somehow. They also seem to be everywhere they go, because when Ben and Sammy, who have split up together after meeting up with Kenji after the ordeal at Sammy's to look for Yaz, rescue a trio of Stygimoloch from an abusive animal tamer, "Nublar Bobby", who has a rather cheap park with a salvaged gyrosphere and a "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" banner, Bobby may be working with the conspirators.
It does seem to explore the human interactions and relationships with the dinosaurs all over the world in the aftermath of Fallen Kingdom.
The three guys meet Kenji at a trailer home. Apparently, he broke up with Brooks when she couldn't enjoy when he liked because she, who apparently became an investigative journalist, was always on her phone and ignoring too much. Despite this, her "death" has upset him. It's also clear that, when Darius apparently wasn't there to help her, it severed his relationship with Darius and the rest of his family, greatly. Which is very sad to see because it's not the Kenji we all know, and it's also very scary because things like that can actually happen in real life where the best friend or best family member you know most becomes untrusting and depressed in their life because of traumas you may have been involved with or not taken responsibility for when they believe you should have. It also hits close to me too, in a way.
It's a family and friendship issue going on with Kenji, and I hope to see it be rekindled one day. Well, I actually know it will no doubt, because the kind of vibes I get from experience are "obvious" type vibes. The questions I have are when and how?
Brooklyn apparently left a clue for the guys, however. A jacket of hers which Sammy kept has a map and directions about what she was tracking. She left notes on what to do, as well as some things she did, like taking a visit to Kenji's disowned father, Danial Kon.
Darius and Kenji go to visit Danial's halfway house, which is not far away from Kenji's trailer. Since his off-screen arrest in the previous series, Daniel was in prison for five years and became a disgrace to the whole world for his actions. Brooklyn visited him thinking he is responsible for something "dangerous" she's been tracking, but he wasn't, and was just as shocked as the guys were when he heard about her "death".
Shortly after a tough visit though, the conspirators find them once again, and kill Daniel Kon with the Atrociraptors after he saves the boys from them. This was shocking because I thought if he was going to die, it would be much later in the series and not this soon! It also showed, as much as he did abandon his own son and friends in CC, as well as being the greedy overlord of both evil and delusion in said series, he still had a heart to save their lives, and his death hurt Kenji himself too. He even spoke "Dad" in Japanese, despite being annoyed by it initially from his dad. Even I thought his death was so sad...The boys are eventually rescued by someone unknown.
It is revealed the person who is letting out the Atrociraptors is not Soyona like I previously thought, but a mysterious woman who calls them with a whistle. They are loyal to her, and she is not like any person I've ever seen before. She has an odd facial expression which doesn't change, and she moves very oddly, almost like a robot. The only thing that I can describe her as is "mentally ill". Very mentally ill.
I've also just found out that Brooklyn's voice actor is indeed not Ortega anymore, but someone else named Kiersten Kelly.
Tomorrow night, we will watch the rest of the five remaining episodes to continue this very interesting show and share what we've seen then.