Warning: SPOILERS for Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Season 5
A plot point in Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. In its fifth and final season on Netflix, Camp Cretaceous sees the teenage campers still stranded on Mantah Corp Island, where they learn the CEO of the evil corporation is Daniel Kon (Andrew Kishino), the father of Kenji (Ryan Potter). After surviving numerous dinosaur attacks on Isla Nublar, the kids have realized the importance of protecting dinosaurs from Mantah Corp, which has developed technology to control the cloned animals and make them fight each other.
In Jurassic World Dominion, Gigantosaurus had its final battle with the T-Rex. BioSyn being able to control the dinosaurs was a minor but important plot point that the film failed to fully explain.
However, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous seasons 4 and 5 are primarily devoted to explaining how and why BioSyn had the technology to control dinosaurs in Jurassic World Dominion. After Kenji, Darius (Paul-Mikél Williams), Brooklynn (Jenna Ortega), Ben (Sean Giambrone), Yasmina (Kausar Mohammed), and Sammy (Raini Rodriguez) escaped Isla Nublar, they became stranded on an island owned by Mantah Corp in Camp Cretaceous season 4. This new terrain was terraformed into several different environmental sections and not only housed dinosaurs, including Jurassic Park III's Spinosaurus, but other prehistoric beasts like a sabretooth tiger. The Campers learned that a scientist named Dr. Mae Turner (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) developed the technology to control dinosaurs but it was all so Mantah Corp could find investors to finance their plans for a dinosaur fight club. In Camp Cretaceous season 5, Mantah Corp sold their technology to BioSyn, with Lewis Dodgson (voiced by Adam Harrington), personally coming to Jurassic World to buy Mr. Kon's tech.
Jurassic World Dominion Failed To Make Camp Cretaceous Important
While audiences watching Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous benefit from getting the full story of the Jurassic World saga, Dominion didn't reference the Netflix animated series at all. How BioSyn could mentally control dinosaurs was an important element that Jurassic World Dominion skims over, trusting that the Netflix animated spinoff will fill in the blanks weeks after the movie hit theaters. But the greater Jurassic Park but the majority of Dominion's audience won't know the answer.
In this way, Jurassic World Dominion actually shoots itself in the foot by failing to reference Camp Cretaceous' existence, especially since the movie relied on the Netflix show to fill in so many blanks. Further, there's no mention at all of Darius, Brooklynn, Kenji, and their friends in Dominion when it would have been easy to highlight the remarkable fact that six teenagers survived on Isla Nublar for months after Jurassic World fell. Considering how much Camp Cretaceous serviced all three Jurassic World movies with tie-ins to the main stories and by deepening characters like Dr. Henry Wu (BD Wong), it would have been far smarter for Dominion to point movie audiences to watch Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous instead of pretending like the animated show doesn't exist.
All 5 seasons of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous are available to stream on Netflix.
