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The following contains spoilers for Jurassic World: Chaos Theory season 4, now streaming on NetflixJurassic World: Chaos Theory closes the chapter on the Nublar Six, and does so with a bang. Picking up after the events of the previous season and running concurrently with the finale of Jurassic World: Dominion, the show's final stretch of episodes brings back the kind of tension inherent to the show's earliest episodes.
During an interview with ScreenRant, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory Executive Producer Scott Kreamer discussed the narrative arc of the show's final season, which character almost didn't survive to the end of the show, and the biggest surprises of his overall nine-season journey through the Jurassic franchise.
Ending The Story By Going Back To Basics
Coming into the final season of Chaos Theory, Scott Kreamer and the rest of the team were focused on "really landing the plane and telling a satisfying story for all six of our characters. After that, you get into the machinations of what happens in Jurassic World: Dominion." In many ways, the final season feels like a throwback to the tone of the earliest episodes of Camp Cretaceous.
It was about clearing out the way and watching these characters relate to themselves and each other.
According to Kreamer, that was a deliberate choice. "I always liked the idea of a bookend with season 1 of Camp Cretaceous, throwing the kids in with dinosaurs again, and having them only have each other to count on. Really, it's like every other season. It starts and ends with our characters, and everything else just comes in support of that."
"We did a lot of conspiracies, but I just like the idea of ending it with a back-to-basics approach. We have to survive dinosaurs! Sometimes, you can overdo it with plot. Sometimes, that can muddle the spotlight on these characters. It was about clearing out the way and watching these characters relate to themselves and each other."
It wasn't just a return to the early tone of the show that Kreamer and the other creatives embraced, however. There are even callbacks to the original Jurassic Park, including an unexpected T.Rex encounter in the final stretch of the action. "That was fun," Kreamer noted with a laugh. "I was really happy when we stumbled upon that idea."
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory Almost Killed Off Ben, Again
One element that wasn't as cemented at the onset of the season was the fate of Ben. After almost being killed off during the events of Camp Cretaceous, Ben went through a reinvention into a more proactive character. In the final season of Chaos Theory, Ben is wounded again and is only barely saved by the end of the day.
However, Kreamer revealed that the team went back and forth over whether or not Ben would survive this latest brush with death. "We were pretty close. There were a lot of conversations in the writer's room and talks with the head writer, Bethany Armstrong Johnson, about it. It got pretty close."
"At the end of the day, there's a part of me that wanted these kids to get a happy ending after everything we put them through... Ben is such a wonderful character, and Sean Giambrone is such a wonderful actor. I'm happy where we ended, but it got pretty close. He almost didn't pull through. Honestly, when we started writing season 4, we hadn't decided yet."
After nine seasons of television across two shows, Kreamer still feels honored to be a part of the Jurassic legacy. "It's amazing to be a part of this franchise in any way, and to be a part of a team that shepherded these characters throughout." When pressed about future fates for the characters, Kreamer admitted, "I'd be lying if I didn't say I have thoughts about where these characters could go."
"I don't know if it'll ever happen. If it doesn't, I'm really happy with how we ended their stories. I'd love to see them in a video game or a feature or another series, if it does them justice. It's like I said at the end of Camp Cretaceous. We ended this exactly how I always envisioned us ending it. I didn't see doing more back then. Then an idea came, and we could do more with these characters."
The Biggest Surprises Of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
While Kreamer is content with this ending and sees it as the end of the road, he's the first to admit he's been wrong before. After five seasons of Camp Cretaceous, Chaos Theory brought everyone back for four more seasons. "I've already said 'No, we're not doing any more,' and it turned out I was wrong. So I can't say we'll absolutely never see them again."
Reflecting on how the cast of characters changed and evolved over the years, Kreamer noted that "they've all been taking surprising routes in their arcs. If you go from episode one of Camp Cretaceous, Kenji has had a big arc, all this real emotional upheaval and deep change. But I want to say that for every character."
"Look at Brooklynn. She started as a stressed-out social media influencer, and then got such a dark arc. She's ended up confronting within herself who she is, acquiring a limb difference along the way. I don't know if I would have seen that from the pink-haired girl with the cell phone at the very beginning of the story."
"It's bittersweet," Kreamer admitted about the show's conclusion, especially because it means the end of this time with the cast and creatives who pushed the series forward. "It all starts and ends with people, with trying to portray our characters and show that we may look at things differently, but we're all doing the best we can. We're at our best when we're sticking together."
Saying goodbye to this amazing crew and cast, who are all just the best, it's hard. It's been all about making a show that we all love and are proud of, a show for the fans who have by and large really embraced us. This show has meant a lot to a lot of people, and that's what you hope for with something like this.
The dream is to know that you can impact someone's life in a positive way, and it feels like we've done that. There are no words to describe what that means to me. It's been the experience of a lifetime, and I'll forever be grateful to be a small part of this.
All episodes of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory are now streaming on Netflix.
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May 24, 2024
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Scott Kreamer, Aaron Hammersley
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Dan Forgione, Michael Mullen
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