Tonight, my mother and I have watched the first seven episodes of Camp Cretaceous, Season 5, the final Season for Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous! So, this will contain spoilers for those who haven't seen Season 5's seven episodes yet, and only these episodes.
The first episode starts off where the last episode of Season 4 left. Daniel, Kenji's father, was revealed to be the CEO of Mantah Corp. But he only became so when Jurassic World fell. Kash black mailed Sammy's family to do the deal she was forced into, but not Daniel himself, and her family is okay, but Daniel did buy the farm which is where the facility's meat supply comes from. At first, he seemed like a charming, nice guy, but he has a hidden, darker ambition in truth.
Daniel wants the dinos to fight, among others for something "new" for his investors. A way to gain money for himself, his son, and his company. The control chips aren't really "mind control" like they take over a victim's awareness or so on, which was already known since Season 4 when tested on Firecracker. The dinos, instead, are perfectly self-aware, yet can't move at all in their will unless manually controlled by a user's controller connected to the chips. So, this is corporate greed with the exploitation of unethical animal cruelty, just with a rather delusional agenda mixed in with it.
Three investors came to the island, but two, and even Kash, were killed by the first group of dinos chipped with the implants. Kash himself by the Velociraptor pair. The remaining investor, a woman named Mileena, who's real investor group is Biosyn Genetics, wants more by going back to Isla Nublar.
In the course of the story, distrust and confusion takes over the heroes when Daniel, who is a genius master manipulator, manipulates Kenji and his friends' relationship to keep them away from the Kons, as Daniel is that dangerous to put their lives in danger to get what he wants, and keep his son with him from finding out about the truth of everything going on. (Daniel does care for Kenji dearly as any father would and should, to the point of even having him help with his plans to varying degrees, but can be easily disappointed as hinted throughout the entire show) Especially when the kids see Kenji get comfortable of controlling Toro, implanted by Hawks, who is brought in alongside others to help capture dinos from Nublar to please Biosyn.
Especially Lewis Dodgson.
Dodgson arrives to Nublar to help with selected dinos he has listed, and is the one who finds the Barbasol can from the first film. Explaining how he got it in Jurassic World: Dominon. It is he who is interested in the implants, and is maybe how he got something similar in Dominion. But of course, there are shady actors in the group, when Mileena attempts to steal the can for herself for the black market, another theme highlighted in Dominion itself, but not before she is killed by a pack of compies, even demonstrating their venomous bites for the first time on-screen.
Meanwhile, the kids on the island do what they can. Conflicted by who Kenji may be at heart, after he himself is consumed by the love for his parent and the latter's manipulation on him about his friends, the remaining kids try to protect the dinos for when the others arrive, but in the process damaged the main core of the base. The first signs of the danger were two powerful earthquake-like shakes which spooked the Eaties, and can be felt just as powerful all the way on Nublar. Mantah Corp's island has become ticking time bomb...
All the dinos, including the Eaties, are taken care of by the kids. They also find themselves encountering a new dino on the island, as well as the show in general. A Nothosaurus, a lizard-like reptile from the Triassic seas. Earlier, I speculated that an unknown creature in the novelization of Season 4 may be a crocodilian, but instead of one in the actual show, it is a nothosaur. Though, I can't say that is what those things were in the book...
During these difficult times, Yaz is having struggles about how she feels for Sammy. It was already tamely hinted throughout, until now.
Also meanwhile, Brandon, Darius' older brother, and the two camp counselors from Season 1, have arrived on Nublar in hopes of finding Darius and the others. It’s only a matter of time for them to realize they are no longer on Nublar, but Mantah Corp's top secret island.
I know Kenji and the others must restore their trust and friendship, as well as repairing his and Brooklyn's broken heart. The question is how exactly?
Normally I would watch the rest of the 5 remaining episodes with my mom the next evening as before, but I will be out of town for much of the weekend. So, we will hopefully watch the rest on Sunday night. I won't talk about the remaining episodes until then to see how it ends and talk about what's new for Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous in general.
