#jwcc s4

[unnecessary-dinosaurs]

happy 1 year of this scene

[gingericywolf]

Rewatched some episodes, can you guess which ones?

[madokast4r]

They own this acc, end of discussion

[alltheboysandgirlsiloved]

the most important aspects of season 5 of camp cretaceous

yasammy canon

kenji looks comb in the suit

bumpy and ben reunion will outsold the show

[themperor-rome]

Rewatching the child abandonment show✌😗

[livsmessydoodles]

redesigned/updated my campersona for chaos theory!!! i miss these kids sm 😭😭😭

[andi-does-stuff]

can u tell I'm counting the days till chaos theory🤭

[mangosaurus]

one thing that's. erm. not crazy to me, but i guess. a little odd? a missed opportunity of sorts. is the framing of the "people are having nightmares?" scene. and i know that has a lot to do with the actual subject of the nightmares being dinosaurs, but ... darius is no stranger to nightmares. before yasmina, darius is actually the first person we see struggle to grapple with the trauma that's been inflicted on him during his time on nublar, going as far back as s2e01. and when darius wakes up from his nightmare, yasmina just so happens to be the person who's there to comfort and look after him. so it's just. weird, to me, that this plotline doesn't get brought up once when yasmina's PTSD emerges, especially since darius's guilt over ben is such a major driving force behind so many of the actions darius takes in seasons 2 and 3. that guilt may have been resolved by the end of s3, but that doesn't mean an incident like this one couldn't reinspire old pains for darius's character. what i'm trying to say here is that in trying to position darius as the noble, well-intended but ultimately somewhat flawed leader of the group, the writers neglected to acknowledge darius's own damage, which inadvertently robs him of a lot of the dimensionality this moment should offer his character, but ultimately fails to deliver on. and to be clear: i am NOT saying that darius's choice to prioritize the dinos was bad writing, but what i AM saying is that the way the writers dealt with the emotional consequences of his actions just felt kind of ... weak, to me. that's all.

[duchezss]

Honestly I think jwcc is gonna be roman empire forever, more specifically S4 and 5, because of how much the writers ruined all of their characters arcs and growths.

I think S1-3 were just perfect. Ok maybe they weren't actually perfect, but for they were setting out to do it was superb. The writers were establishing dynamics and relationships and conflicts, external and internal, so well. It's almost hard to believe that such a grounded brilliant story fell apart in the last two seasons. I generally cannot fathom how they were the same writers. For example, in S3 Ben and Darius have this long arc about forgiving each other and coming to understand each other after the monorail. It was beautiful and slow paced and just a great character study. So when the end of S3 happened, and Darius and Kenji were clearly fighting, I figured they would kinda do the same thing for them. Instead the two forgave each other in less then five minutes and then they just never speak on it again. I can't be only one that just finds that so odd?

Another thing I think really ruined the show was the forced romance between Brooklynn and Kenji. It was out of left field, it didn't make sense, and it completely undermined their characters. To me, the show always presented their bond as brother and sister, but honestly if the writers had done it better maybe (MAYBE) I could've gotten behind it. They just made it so hard to route for them. First of all because of the romance, the two of them weren't really allowed to interact with the others. Like yes they did, but not in meaningful ways like they had before. Also something that irks me to no end is them playing off Kenji so vigorously trying to save Brooklynn at the end of S3 only because he had a crush on her. That's such a misinterpretation of his character, because S3 Kenji would've acted like that if ANY of the crew were in that situation. They became the only family he ever had, and to say that all of that was just because of a crush? Oh don't get be started. Also it just made Brooklynn a shell of the character she once was. I was so upset in S5 when the only thing she got to do was mope about Kenji's betrayal. She deserved more development and screen time, and just everything really. Their romance did a huge disservice to them both.

Third point, I really hate how they played off everyone not having PTSD, especially Darius. I was very happy that Yaz had that arc in S5 and how they showed how it really got to her. But when the rest of the group said everyone was fine, especially Darius? The same Darius that felt endlessly burdened with leading? The same Darius that had nightmares about his father and Ben after he lost them? The same Darius that let everything get to him even when he knew it shouldn't? THE SAME CHARACTER THAT WAS ALONE ALL OF S4 AND THE WRITERS DID NOTHING WITH??? Ohhhh one day these writers will pay for the way they sidelined THEIR MAIN CHARACTER. Darius deserved that arc, and he deserved an arc that allowed him to step out of the leadership role. Like yes that was technically S4, but it was handled in such a bad way and it really didn't present any growth for him or the crew. Just a wasted opportunity.

I think at their core, the problems with S4 and S5 lie with the direction the writers wanted to take it. As soon as the group ended up at this highly technological island I knew it was over. Not to say advanced stuff is bad, the hybrids were always sick, and I even thought the mind controlling was a good moral dilemma, but everything else? It was so tiring and frustrating, like damn I don't care about the brads or this island, or these random ass characters you introduced. I think the writers just really lost sight of what made the show so great in the first place, the main characters. Yes the plot was amazing, but the brilliant cast of characters and their ever changing dynamics and lives was what really brought it home. When you erase all of the development you've been building up for three seasons in favor of a incredulously complicated and over done plot that side lined your main cast what can you expect? It seems voltron was in fact a harbinger for this show. One day dreamworks will learn how to not fall off mid show, but it appears that's not any time soon.

[campbenji]

one part of me desperately wants for the kids to get to live their lives as normal as possible after the island. the other wants all 6 of them to come back and be relevant in Chaos Theory

[bendarius]

a parallel frame by frame ohhh this is real

[unnecessary-dinosaurs]

i will never understand the massive wave of jwcc fans that left after season 4. you can think s4 is bad, sure, in a lot of ways i’d agree. and you can dislike brookenji. but to completely give up on an otherwise very good show because of one ship you don’t like or one lackluster season is just really odd…

[gingericywolf]

Crying laughing right now.

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??"

Yeah it was hilarious.

[rupphiremoyo]

Sammy: Speed, strength, brains, a bright artistic future... what doesn't this girl have?

Yaz: The courage to ask you out.

Sammy: What?

Yaz: What?

[alltheboysandgirlsiloved]

well, well, seeing as Bumpy will most likely be controlled by a chunk of season 5, I hope that the show will give us not one but two Ben-Bumpy reunions 

The first one when Ben runs to Bumpy when she’s controlled hence she can’t react the way she wants to (if I remember correctly dino’s feelings are still reflected in their eyes when they are under control so, like, imagine the possible angst)

And the second one when both of them are just free to react the way their heart wants them too

[suckerforyasammy]

Yaz: *throws door open*

Yaz: you two ARE having sex!

Kenji and Brooklynn: *laying around innocently and reading *

Brooklynn: We are? Kenji, why didn't you tell me? I would have put my book down.