#kentrosaurus pierce

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< Thursday, July 14, 2016 >

Everyone wakes up on a peaceful island. Little Eatie greets her battered mother in the jungle biome; Brooklynn goes down to the gas-free drill and stabilizes it; the one-day girlfriends take the kids to their snowy home (Ben is there, too); and Kenji finds that Toro spent the night digesting his prey in a frozen stasis, and smashes the controller to free the poor lad now that the Tyrannosaurs have returned home.

Having repaired the doors and shuffled all the dinosaurs back to their homes (and having found a third Velociraptor lurking about somewhere), Darius and his friends sit happily at the end of another productive day. Kenji even works up the courage to get himself back in Brooklynn's good graces...but the day is not over yet.

A boat arrives from Isla Nublar--after a day's trek back across the island and a careful navigation to the northeast, Mae has led Dave and Roxie back to their kids...and Brandon Bowman back to his brother.

Darius and Brand are reunited.

The kids are saved.

They make sure the dinosaurs are safe before setting a course for Central America; calls are made, and Brooklynn tells Kenji that one of them was for Daniel's arrest. She sticks with him, reminding Kenji that none of them are going to be alone from now on. Their isolation is behind them: the rest of the world lies ahead.

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July 7th 12th, 2016: "The Leap"/"Clean Break"

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< Wednesday, July 13, 2016 >

Sammy and Ben take care of the dinosaurs in the forest biome while Darius and Brooklynn set up a drone to alert them for when the Kons return; Yaz goes for a run and realizes that she wants to commit to her feelings for Sammy. Her intentions are thwarted by another earthquake--which the kids realize is coming from the unstable core. Stuck between fixing the core and rescuing the local Nothosaurus, the CampFam decides to split up. Danger once again presents itself, Darius has to rescue Brooklynn, Yaz and Sammy have to rescue each other, Ben is there, too, and in the end...Yaz confesses her feelings and Sammy gets the girl!

But before they can live happily ever after, Kenji and the Mantah Corp mercenaries return with their saurian cargo. Unprepared and caught further off-guard by the presence of Bumpy, the kids scramble to locate a flash drive containing Mantah Corp's backup files and rescue their club-tailed friend. Ben manages to break Bumpy free through the power of love and friendship (Kenji helps to distract the mercs), but Darius and the girls lose the flash drive when Hawkes subdues the Spinosaurus.

Holing up in their familiar forest biome, the kids grudgingly accept Kenji back on their team, and try to scatter the dinosaurs--but Big Eatie has no intention of ceding her territory to some interlopers, and a tremendous battle begins. Brooklynn and Ben skirmish to delay the enemy while Yaz and Sammy get the smaller animals to safety, with the latter getting a hit in on Daniel Kon himself. Darius and Kenji get two of the mercenaries killed, but Daniel takes control himself and gravely wounds Big Eatie, scattering our heroes throughout the facility.

The Nublar Six form one final plan, but Darius is caught before they can put it into action...thankfully, the recovered Tyrannosaurs come to his rescue, and Darius and Kenji trick Daniel into leaving the island by faking an imminent core implosion. With all their enemies driven off, the kids and dinosaurs finally have a chance to rest and regroup.

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I like that the Pierce-Big-Eatie fight quickly becomes "Pierce just starts Walloping Mr. DNA Right Out Of Big Eatie's Genes", that poor Tyrannosaurus did NOT want this.

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Queerplatonic flag but there's a dinosaur.

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One day, Pierce is minding his own business, just being a Kentrosaurus, living his best Kentrosaurus life.

The next, he's a father of two for some reason.

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....might have made a mistake pushing ahead with this season.

"Our heroes must use snowmobiles to drag a Kentrosaurus to safety while pursued by a security robot" is actually a Peak Moment in the franchise, this is what this whole thing is about, and if this was a live-action scene that cost two million dollars to make (cheapest parts being the fake [?] snow and the vehicles, also the child actors, and then most of the money being snow effects, the robot, and the giant animatronic dinosaur, and also the animation), it would universally be recognized as such.

But this CGI animal is superimposed on a computer-generated snow background, so it's Terrible.