The way the show constantly highlights how abusive Daniel was to Kenji while ignoring that Brooklynn and Sammy were casually abused by their parents through intense neglect is driving me up the wall.
It took Brooklynn being presumed dead twice and losing a limb before her parents started keeping an eye on her. Before that she was posting videos about picking hotel room locks at 13, or even younger, and talking to god knows who online as a 13/14yo to 18yo.
And Sammy’s parents didn’t even know she, a 14yo girl, had left the country until she was already on the boat to Nublar. Shady people literally spoke to them about the possibility of trafficking her, and they just let her out of their sight around the time said trafficking would happen and weren’t worried about kidnapping apparently, and then they cut her out over her being right about them making a bad decision for striking up a deal with a dinosaur related company with a shady history for the third time.
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Ben’s parents are on thin ice ‘cause I have a lot of mixed feelings about them. Sending your incredibly anxious teen to a camp overseas that they don’t even want to go to, especially over the winter holidays, is super, super shitty.
But at the same time, when things were going alright, Ben was, for the most part, fine. He was anxious but he adjusted quick for how nervous he initially was, Most of his struggles weren’t because he was nervous and afraid, it was because people kept messing with him and not taking him seriously, particularly Kenji, Dave, and Roxie. (How those two even got hired in the first place is beyond me.)