Fans are gearing up to return to a world full of dinosaurs with the release of Jurassic World: Dominion. The aftermath of the dinosaur auction is being explored in this new installment, with dinosaurs roaming free all over the world. Good thing the Department of Prehistoric Wildlife has an online tracker of sightings and incidents. With everything that happened in the third act of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, you may have missed the hidden twist in the film: Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) is a human clone.
The trailer for the third film in the Jurassic World saga appears to show that Maisie is living with Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard). She goes on the adventure with everyone as they try to rescue Blue's baby from whoever took it, but there are no hints or callbacks to the revelation from the previous film. Will human cloning come up in a world worried about dinosaurs?
Dominion is hitting screens soon, which means viewers will find out if human cloning and Maisie are explored more either by researchers or the world. Will someone find out about Maisie? Will there be a storyline about human clones? Probably not. The Jurassic Park franchise has a ton of ground to cover in Dominion, and it's unlikely they'll spend any time on the subject. Buckle into a leftover gyrosphere as we discuss why the human cloning storyline probably won't be resolved in Jurassic World: Dominion.
Jurassic's Human Clone: The Story
How would the story include a conclusion to the human cloning revelation? Based on the trailer, there won't be any space to include it. From Blue having a baby to all the new dinosaurs that are out there to people still trying to capture them, when could human cloning actually make an appearance. Maybe the people after Blue's baby are aware of Maisie and what she is, which becomes a problem. Maybe someone lets it slip in front of the wrong people. There are ways it could come up despite what appears to be a packed plot.
Even if there is room to discuss it, what would a conclusion actually involve? Does someone find out and decide to try it for themselves? Does she become a scientific oddity, everyone wanting to study her? If the world found out that one-half of the duo responsible for dinosaurs being present in the 21st century also cloned humans, what would the reaction be? It's unlikely the writers will answer these questions. In fact, the easiest way for them to bring it up is to somehow retcon it, saying it wasn't actually cloning. It was a saved embryo they modified or something of that nature. That brings up an entirely new set of questions, but retconning may be the only way to mention it without creating a movie that covers too much.
Jurassic's Human Clone: The Metaphor
Fallen Kingdom seems to use Maisie's presence as a clone as a metaphor for dinosaurs and their impact on the world and society. When her character is introduced, how she exists is intentionally obscured, almost like the process behind cloning dinosaurs. Throughout the franchise, how dinosaurs are made, like what's used to fill in the DNA sequences, is kept a secret. These omissions usually result in a detrimental cost, especially in the case of the Indominus rex in Jurassic World. In Maisie's case, when it's revealed she's a clone of her mother because her (grand)father wanted his daughter back, her face says it all. It's not a problem for the world to deal with, but it's something that's turned her world upside down.
When she refuses to go with Mills (Rafe Spall), another connection is made between her and the dinosaurs. He wants Maisie not because he cares about her wellbeing or because he wants to be her guardian, but because of what she is. She's unique, a scientific goldmine that would impress the world. It's the same reason so many people have wanted the dinosaurs over the course of the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World franchises: she's considered an asset. The metaphor of Maisie is too important to close off yet, even if it means having a lingering storyline.
They Don't Have To Resolve the Story
At the end of the day, the writers don't have to resolve the storyline if they don't want to. Maybe the resolution was Maisie finding out that she is a clone. Instead of having to live the rest of her life wondering if she was just a daughter that had an uncanny resemblance to her mother, she understands why everyone looks at her the way they do. It could be a bottled storyline that stays in Fallen Kingdom, never meant to do anything other than add subtle shock value and show that people had misused the technology in ways the audience didn't know about yet. With dinosaurs around the world, there are plenty of other storylines and issues they can and probably should focus on before coming back to the human cloning issue.
While you wait for the conclusion of Jurassic World to hit screens, you can catch up on Camp Cretaceous because director Colin Trevorrow confirmed there will be connections between the two.