Do, I Just finished watching JWCC season 1. It anoys me how many dinosaur species are represented in figure form in the series's toyline, yet don't appear in the show itself. I mean those people even bothered to give some of them names! What's the point of giving something a name just for ONE SINGLE TOY? (I'm talking about Baryonyx Limbo).

After binge—watching the season in a single evening, I leave you with a little review (beware, it contain spoilers). First of all, I precise that I had no expectations for the series as the combo Jurassic World + kid show didn’t attracted me at all, and the trailers have done nothing but confirm my fears.

Let’s start by the positive:

- Amidst the cringefest that the first episodes were, the scenes with Darius back home stand out from the rest by their quality as they are centred more on drama and character development and not on clumsy comedy like the scenes on Nublar. The idea of getting an access to Jurassic World and Camp Cretaceous as a reward for beating that virtual reality game reminded me the recruitment of Eli Wallace by the SGC at the very beginning of Stargate Universe.

- Starting from the beginning of the season’s second half, the series gets better and a little more mature in its unfolding and writing, up to the point where it doesn’t seem targeted for young children but rather young teens. Some dumb scenes remain however (like the one of the geneticist Eddie, abandoned in the lab with the sole company of his birthday cake).

- There is a few action and suspenseful scenes that aren’t bad in the second half with, among other things, a hide-and-seek game with the Indominus amidst the containers, a part in the tunnels that can remind some people of Telltale’s game, a monorail attack by the pteranodons which should have deserved a live-action treatment, and a climax in a storage area where the protagonists have to use their wits in order to defeat the carnotaur and escape from the underground network. On the matter of the carnotaur, one can note a nice paleontological reference with its difficulty to turn when it is chasing prey.

- Of all of the characters, Roxie is the most realistic, responsible and reasonable one (and the only tolerable one in the first episodes).

And let’s bring now the negative aspects:

- On the matter of the original soundtrack, I don’t remember any of the original themes sadly. As I had the same problem when I viewed The Witcher though (I didn’t liked its first season but I rather well appreciated its soundtrack following a separated listening), I will wait for the release of the soundtrack before criticizing it further.

- The first episodes are a total farce with a succession of all kinds of nonsenses with the bunch of stereotypical buffoons that the kids are that are involved in stupid acts by the night of their first day, acts that fall under Reversed Darwinism (the survival of the most idiotic like Grant would say in Jurassic Park 3) and that gave me the desire to give some slaps and send those Kennys to a firing squad (for the crimes of property destruction and, above all, endangering dinosaurs and employees); the infringements during the activities of hygiene and security rules that are applied in many theme parks and laboratories around the world (with the kids wandering around in the lab and touching to everything in a total dissidence; running down a zipline and brushing past brachiosaurs...); the counsellor Dave which talks to Wu like if he was an old pal of his while Wu is one of the highest corporate executive around and someone famous and respected in-universe; Wu being depicted with the subtlety of a fat beer-drunk sea lion (with his mannerisms and attitude worthy of a James Bond villain, we know right away that he is bad); cartoony action scenes (I mean bloody hell. Look at that Parasaurolophus that jumps off the jeep’s roof like he was a f**kin’ kangaroo while the jeep itself wasn’t miraculously crushed under the hadrosaur’s weight); the employees and the park’s security being shitty (one enter so easily in the underground network that Biosyn could organise rave parties there right under InGen’s nose; Darius and Kenji being left with no supervision in the middle of the jungle while they are supposed to shovel shit as a punishment); the dinosaurs that passes too as incompetent for failing to kill the kids while such situations in real-life or in the first films would have unforgiving or barely forgiving but only at a certain cost.

- Despite the ordeals they are going through, the kids seems to be never traumatised or at least shaken like the Murphys, Kelly Malcolm or Maisie were respectively in JP, TLW and FK since here, they seems to be in shock for a moment or two before starting again to squabble or quipping once they are away from danger.- At the end of the monorail attack scene, I thought that the writers had the balls to kill off Ben and I would have tipped my hat to this narrative decision and give more credit to this kid show if we didn’t had the reveal at the end that he was still alive. At the end, we just got another Billy Brennan situation.

- Bumby is useless in this season, aside from encouraging toy sales and being the show’s cute caution and still, it’s relative as her closeups along with Brooklynn’s creepy face in episode 2 have scared me more than the predators’ attacks in the season’s second half. And her growth rate is so f***ed up as she hatch in episode 2 before reappearing in episode 5 I think which is supposed to be set two days later, where she is already the size of a bulldog. And the scene where she cries while the kids are being kicked off the lab (for understandable reasons) is so ridiculous...

- Aside from in the action and suspenseful scenes mentioned above in the positive aspects, the use and depicting of dinosaurs is either anecdotal, either WTF with the Sinoceratops being almost as gentle as a lamb (try to do with a hippo or a rhino what the Kennys did with the sino, I wouldn’t mind some funny antics...). I’m not a fan of the bioluminescent Parasaurolophus and their scene either. It seems like they wanted to copy the Na’vi River Journey’s attraction from Animal Kingdom in Orlando, with semi-aquatic parasaurs worthy of some outdated depictions from the last century.

- Visually speaking, the universe and the artistic direction are poor. The jungle has the same look everywhere on the island (with trees of average height being relatively spaced from one another while the ground is covered with grass) and its scenery never seem foreboding or ominous while Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna were, in some way, entire characters in the films that sometimes aroused an eerie sense of mystery and danger, at east in the original trilogy and Fallen Kingdom. The park itself is quite empty too, even before the evacuation. There is only scene with a large amount of people and the latter seems to all share the same model and the same animation in addition of being blurred (probably as a camouflage for the lack of budget) and we don’t believe in this world as nothing grand comes out of the visited locations (aside from maybe the eponymous Camp Cretaceous) and that everything seems so bland, with even the employees being of the same corpulence, age group and behaviour except for a few exceptions.

- Finally, let’s discuss about the coherence with the Jurassic World film, of which this show is supposed be a canon interquel. Even though if there is several nods to some of the latter’s events (Masrani’s helicopter is seen a couple of times; the Kennys take the ACU’s van; they walk past Zach and Gray’s destroyed gyrosphere and the killed ankylosaur’s body...) as well as other materials of the franchise, including JP3 and Masrani Global website, like if the show wanted to tell us “Hey look! I did my homework!” in order to please the fans. It’s one thing to make references to the rest of the saga and it’s easy actually, but it’s another to use them for something else than just fan-service. Despite all this, Camp Cretaceous has its share of inconsistencies with Jurassic World. I won’t list them all since it wouldn’t be that interesting but among other things, we have the mention of fences falling apart across the entire island while nothing like this happened in JW (it seems they mixed up the JP and JW incidents) or at least not on this scale; the kids visit a lab somewhere north of the park whose existence seems a bit off as the Innovation Center’s lab can do everything that lab does, in addition of housing Wu’s secret lab; the surroundings of the mosasaur lagoon which seems empty by the end of the afternoon while chronologically speaking, the scene is supposed to happen just after the pterosaurs attack (and thus the area should be crawling with employees that are looking for eventual late visitors, or the still running security cameras could have spotted the kids) and why did those foolish Kennys didn’t thought of going to the nearby hotels right after the ordeal with the mosasaur instead of hanging around in the bleachers up until sunset, hotels where a large number of visitors are supposed to be found up until quite late in the night according to the Jurassic World film?

Anyway, Camp Cretaceous might have got a kick up the backside halfway through and the quality of the episodes did increased little by little but the whole season stays nevertheless mediocre and the viewing of the series is honestly quite dispensable, especially if you were disappointed by the Jurassic World films. Some will probably tell me that I’m being too hard with a kids show but actually, the fact that it is targeted for kids is no excuse for some flaws like a lack of ambition in the artistic direction, the shitty humour or the wtf scenes. Whether a work is for adults, for all audiences, or for kids, the creative investment and the work quality should stay the same.

What you think would happen

When I first heard of Camp Cretaceous I wasn't too escorted about it, but soom after the trailer was released and I was hooked. I already finished it and I loved. I will definitely rewatch it a couple of times. I give it a 9/10. There are some cringy moments in the first part but I can live with that as the rest of the show was pretty great.

Lets say they been living in the wild for 30yrs or more will the animals that are native to the wild like reptiles, birds, bugs, fishes and some mammals will they adapt to the environment and the invasive dinosaurs

In my school, I did something on empathy. I did that scene in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Then I remembered Delta, Charlie and Echo died. I wanted to pay my respects to them. R.I.P Delta. Burned to death 2012-2015. R.I.P Charlie. blown to bits 2012-2015. R.I.P Echo. Killed by the Indominus 2012-2015

I love it so far! I’ve watched the first four episodes and it is amazing! Please don’t spoil the rest, though. The graphics are great, especially on the scenery and dinosaurs. If there is a shot with no people sometimes it looks real. Also, every episode ends with a cliff hanger which is really smart. This is all I wanted to say. Bye!

Update: finished the show! I won’t spoil it to those that haven’t yet, but if you want to you can discuss it in the comments.

I'm going to get the spoiler warning out of the way here and I'm going to do the same thing I did with the last spoiler-y post I did by using random JP screenshots as a buffer between this and the spoiler content. If you want to go into CC fresh, don't look past the pictures.

Alright, enough of that, onto notes. I'd like to preface that I haven't looked at any reviews or analyses yet, these are just things I memorized while watching the show:

• The first scene of the first episode is not only Rexy's only appearance in the whole season past the intro, but it's a great big reference to the climax of the Jurassic Park III script!

• There's a lot of barf humor - none of it worked for me.

• Darius and Yass (is that her name? Yass? the introverted girl) were the only two kids that I walked away actually liking, I thought the others were varying degrees of annoying (though I didn't actively hate any of them... aside from Kenji at points)

• I appreciate the variety in the dinosaur designs; the three thoughts that most often ran through my head during dinosaur herd shots were "these would all make good JWE cosmetic genes", "some of these look like JWE cosmetic genes" and "these are good excuses to sell more toys, ka-ching ka-ching Mattel")

• This specific detail is hazy; I believe Kenji says that Carnotaurus were removed from public display because they were too aggressive before he leads Darius into Toro's paddock.

• Aside from Indy and the pteranodons, the only recurring ornithodiran threat was Toro - what happened to the Baryonyx trio that had the toys made of them?

• The animation isn't that bad; the cartoon humans and environments and the realistic dinosaurs don't actually clash too much, and some shots of the dinosaurs (especially a shot of Toro in the big climax) are very good-looking.

• Dr. Wu is not voiced by B.D. Wong.

• Bumpy is cute, she reminds me of an ankylosaur version of Spike from The Land Before Time.

• Is the dinosaur growth acceleration aspect carried over from the novels?

• The only scene that I thought was really stupid was the one where Sami uses her ranch powers to friendlify a Sinoceratops; that felt at home in a Jurassic World movie in the worst possible way.

• Alright, that aside, there is a healthy amount of herbivores being threats and I strongly appreciate that.

• Dr. Grant published a paper saying that theropods fought a lot (that detail is hazy too, someone back me up here); not only is he a crank when it comes to his theories on dromaeosaur behavior, but he's an awesomebro too.

• Sattler gets namedropped too.

• A Brachiosaurus dies extremely unceremoniously and quickly at the claws of the Indominus Rex.

• Far more importantly, Anchiornis (pronounced ank-ee-ornis and not an-chee-ornis) is namedropped in the context of Darius wanting them to be exhibited at Jurassic World while he is talking with his father in a flashback. (though, knowing Masrani, their Anchiornis clones would probably look something like this... at best)

• A lot of the brutality is fun to watch; the Indominus shines.

• The entire scene where the kids meet up with Bumpy plays out next to the corpse of that Ankylosaurus from Jurassic World - while I'm on the note of that movie, Apatosaurus and Dimorphodon are strangely absent.

• I like the crazy genetics guy with the birthday party; his scene did a good job of balancing being amusing with being unsettling.

• Manticore; is it its own rival genetics company or is it an alternate name for BioSyn like what Grendel Corporation was supposed to be?

• Toro on the stairs is wonderful.

• Pretty heavy-handed Lost World parallels in a scene where Kenji has an ACU stick and is faced with a legion of compies.

• No main character deaths, they don't even off the camp counselors like I was expecting them to (and kind of hoping for, I thought the dude one was annoying); I wish they didn't wuss out of offing Ben (and to a much lesser extent Bumpy).

Thoughts on the season; I enjoyed it, but I'm probably not going to rewatch it any time soon. 7/10

Spoilers for jwcc do not look past the not related pictures

1. Toro was a Great dinosaur villain even better then the indom

2. Where is the apatosaurus, ceratosaurus and Baryonyx along with triceratops

3. Great action and animations

4. rexy in the intro just shows that rexy ain’t messing around

5. velociraptors were meh in the series

My rating 9.5/10