The campers have a chance to go out in the gyrospheres to watch a herd migrate across Isla Nubar, but a storm means the dinosaurs are spooked…

The strong run for this first animated Jurassic Park/World spin-off continues with this episode that uses the gyrospheres from the first Jurassic World movie to good effect. The teenagers are split up into three groups, with “Dino-nerd” Darius stuck with Brooklynn (who feels the same way about being with him), Yasmina stuck with Sammy, who’s determined to make friends with her, and Ben and Kenji – who’s not going to be allowed to drive. The use of the gyrospheres is pretty much what you’d expect from the characters, with Ben noticeably slow and steady.

Things go wrong, as you’d expect, and the youngsters are cut off from Roxie and Dave, whose vehicle is offroaded by stampeding dinos. Darius is so sure he’s right about the way to deal with a marauding dino, but Sammy – who’s the only one of them with any actual experience of herding cattle – is sure that he’s wrong, and sure enough, Darius and Brooklynn end up caught in a mudhole. There’s also cause for mistrust between the campers at the end of the episode – and since we’re near the halfway point, hopefully this will ramp things up a further notch.

There’s a part of me that feels that I’d rather have had this “Back to the Future Part II” type tale based around Jurassic World than the movie we got (much as I enjoyed parts of that), and so far the writing has been a strong mix of characterisation, plot development and dinosaur-adulation.

Verdict: Characters bond amid disaster – and we know what’s coming for them! 8/10

Paul Simpson