This casting extends to Season 4's Mantah Corp island plot of dinosaur threats, robot dinosaurs, and corporate intrigue, where the group's ethnic and cultural markers are incidental but persistently highlighted through backstories and dynamics. More notably, the season advances the queer subplot between Sammy and Yazmina, building their close friendship into romantic tension that foreshadows the explicit kiss in Season 5, normalizing a lesbian relationship among main child characters in a dinosaur cartoon aimed at impressionable 8-12-year-olds. While not the central premise—dino survival and teamwork dominate—no major backlash targets Season 4 alone, but the series faces widespread parental outrage for injecting LGBTQ+ content into kids' media, with creators defending it against 'right-wing' critics amid Netflix boycott calls labeling it 'woke propaganda.' For children's programming, these elements—forced demographic balance and emerging queer arcs in prominent characters—carry outsized weight, compromising the pure escapist dino thrills with identity politics subtext that influences character bonds without narrative necessity.