Ohhhh goodness, unpopular opinion time, I unashamedly like Brookji/Kenlynn. I could write an essay on why, but no one cares so I won’t :)))) I’ll just sit over here alone and cry that content is mostly nonexistent and make my own ;0;
But let's focus on the important things here: 1) I can’t draw backgrounds to save my life and (2) I feel robbed that we only got to know Kenji’s pink shirt for half an episode…….
With the recent news of jw chaos theory, let’s pray that kenji and brooklynn AREN’T an item anymore bc their romance was actually atrocious and really weird 😁
Season 4 had a lot of bad takes when it came to romance, from Brooklyn thinking Kenji’s tantrum towards Darius was “kind of adorable” to Yaz telling Sammy that she was the only reason that had any feelings at all.
I also hate how the ships started from a lack of basic respect of personal boundaries on Sammy and Kenji’s end. Like when Yaz told Sammy she wasn’t really a hugger and Sammy told her that she was now. (We can see that Yaz actually appreciates the hug but Sammy can’t.) and when Kenji continued to flirt with Brooklyn after she repeatedly turned him down and was visibly annoyed with him doing it.
Like sure, it all worked out for all of them, they became close friends getting together, and the relationships are healthy, but those takes and starting points still irk me. Especially since this is a kids show.
I have many thoughts about this. You're right about Kenji, he flirts with Brooklynn and Yaz a lot in s1 and is generally a jerk. And the show acknowledges that to an extent, it's played for laughs and then he gets Character Development™️ so the show sort of lumps all his past asshat behaviours together and writes them off in one go, so we're expected to forget about the persistent flirting? Made more annoying by the fact that he does "get the girl" in the end anyway. Yeah it's after he's mellowed out and he's more sincere by then, but still. It's worth pointing out that it feels a bit icky.
Sammy is an interesting case because the show never acknowledges her boundary pushing with Yaz as something that's bad. In fact it's seen more as a good thing because it "pays off" and even Yaz is grateful for it in hindsight. I do hate how Yaz's development is credited all to Sammy. Feels like an unhealthy over reliance on a single friendship turned relationship, which yeah can happen irl but an episode exploring that would've been great. Let Yaz realise she needs more than one solid relationship (platonic included) to be truly emotionally fulfilled.
Fact is they're all teens with shitty teen behaviours made worse by a shitty survival situation. And that's cool, if the show was intended for a slightly older audience then maybe they could've delved way more into that. They can do shitty things and get called out on it and grow from it. But because the target is much younger kids then it's all just brushed off or treated as not so serious.
If they did go for a more mature and realistic representation of teen dynamics then we probably would've got more love triangles and break ups and relationship drama and idk I'd rather just have more dinosaurs
yeah i know brookenji's development wasn't perfect and i know their relationship ate up a lot of time in s4 that could have been dedicated to more pressing matters. but that's a girlboss and her malewife. and you could never get me to hate on a girlboss and her malewife
Contex: They are airing the last two episodes of season 4 on a TV channel right now.
My mother didn't even understand that kenji and brook got together in the moment it happened (and she likes/ships them) It was kinda funny. She was really like "when did that happen??" And Me like "The previous episode" "No??? When??"
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous movie sequel idea (JUST FAKE!!! NOTHING IS OFFICIAL!!!!)
Title: Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous: Return to Nublar
Rating: PG (Or PG-13? You decide)
Setting: A year or two after Dominion
Inspiration: Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Jurassic World franchise
Changes: Casey is 25 now, Kenji and Yaz are now 24, Ben and Sammy are 23, Brooklynn is 22, and Darius is 21. Dave and Roxie are married. Mae has a girlfriend now. Tiff is still alive.
Antagonists: The Ultra Rex (A combination of the Indominus, Indoraptor, Scorpios, and Gigantosaurus); Tiff; Edie, a dinosaur smuggler; Audrey, a former member of InGen; Tommy Oliver, director at Ultratech
Premise:
In 2023, the Camp Fam’s lives could not be any better, Darius and Ben are dating; Kenji and Brooklynn plan to get married; Casey and April are planning the same; and Yaz and Sammy are married. Life could not be any better than before…until April and Caroline (Casey’s mother) are kidnapped by Ultratech, a company that plans to rebuild Biosyn from the ground up again and build an army of human-Dino hybrids with April’s blood. The situation is even worse when the ex-campers learn that the factory is built on a now restored Isla Nublar.
With no other option and with Claire, Owen, Maisie, Alan Grant, Ellie Stantler, and others busy with law things, the heroes have to travel back to Nublar and save April and Caroline. During the journey, they go through an emotional and physical journey to accept the harsh realities in where they come from and are forced to fight enemies new and old.
Excerpt Quotes:
Darius: “We’ve been running from who we are our entire lives…”
Casey: “D…I’m done running…(cocks shotgun)”
Yaz: “I love you no matter what, Samantha Gutierrez…”
Sammy: “I love you too, Yasmina Fadoula…”
Ben: “I’m sorry, guys…”
Casey: “It’s okay, Ben…”
Kenji, seeing the Ultra Rex: “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!?!?”
Casey and Sammy both: “Well, it ain’t Barney the Purple Dinosaur!!”
Casey: “We’ll all fly away together…one last time…into Heaven…and Hell at the same time…”