Ravens Home How Cami Connects to Thats So Raven

Raven’s Home: How Cami Connects to That’s So Raven

Raven’s Home’s Cami has a fun connection to That’s So Raven. Also, her character is another step towards better representation on Disney Channel.

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Ravens Home How Cami Connects to Thats So Raven

The following contains spoilers from Raven’s Home Season 5, currently airing on Disney Channel.

Raven’s Home Season 5 introduces a new cast of characters as Raven returns home to San Francisco, including a new class at Raven’s alma mater, Bayside High. Cami Rivera is one of those characters, and she has a fun connection to That’s So Raven. This spin-off brings back fan-favorite sets and familiar faces, but it doesn’t stop there. Raven’s Home creates exciting connections to the original series through its next generation of characters, as it does with Alice. Cami exemplifies this through a twist on one of the original series’ memorable dynamics. Plus, her existence bodes well for the future of Disney Channel.

That’s So Raven debuted on Disney Channel in 2003 and aired for four seasons, ending with 100 episodes. The sitcom followed Raven Baxter’s life as a teenage girl who experienced psychic visions of the near future. Raven’s Home premiered on Disney Channel in 2017 — ten years after the original series ended. The sitcom picked up with Raven in Chicago with her children Nia and Booker and Raven’s best friend Chelsea and her son Levi. Booker inherited his mother’s ability to have visions. Season 5 relocates Raven and Booker to Raven’s home city San Francisco to look after her father Victor after he experiences a mild heart attack.

Ravens Home How Cami Connects to Thats So Raven

Raven and Booker’s visit isn’t meant to be permanent, but all of that changes when Raven realizes Victor needs help adjusting to a healthier lifestyle. Raven prepares to let Booker return to Chicago (presumably to live with Chelsea, Nia, and Levi) in the Season 5 episode, “A Streetcar Named Conspire,” but it quickly becomes difficult for Raven to let go of her son. Raven sets out to convince Booker that San Francisco is a fun place to live by taking him to all the places she loved to go with her best friends, Chelsea and Eddie. Funnily enough, Booker struggles to connect with the new setting, even after becoming friends with Neil and Ivy.

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Everything changes for Booker when Cami walks into the Chill Grill. (Yes, Raven’s Home brings back That’s So Raven’s the Chill Grill, too!) Booker becomes convinced it’s love at first sight even though Cami doesn’t give him the time of day. Cami’s arrival is all Booker needs to stay in San Francisco, despite Raven’s best efforts to showcase the city’s appeal. By the Season 5 episode, “Clique Bait,” Cami (according to Booker) affectionately calls him “New Kid,” convincing Booker he must impress her. His dedication to doing so eventually reveals Cami’s connection to That’s So Raven when Booker winds up in Bayside High’s principal’s office.

In a scheme to retrieve Cami’s phone, Booker meets Bayside’s latest principal and Cami’s mother — Alana Rivera. That familial connection makes Booker’s crush more controversial than he could ever imagine since Cami’s mom is his mom’s high-school nemesis. But, Booker’s feelings for Cami help Raven and Alana see eye to eye for the first time in a long time, not that either of them cares to admit that. If anyone or anything’s going to bring those two together, it’s the love of their children. Of course, considering their contentious past, Raven and Alana don’t want their children to date, and they may get what they want. Cami doesn’t seem as interested in Booker as he is in her, especially in “New Kid on the Chopping Block.”

Cami moves on from using Booker’s “new kid” status to her advantage when another new kid named Liam arrives from England. However, even though Cami is romantically uninterested in him right now, Booker’s doesn’t waver. Regardless of Booker’s feelings for her, Cami’s identity as an individual is a step in the right direction for Disney Channel. Neil mentions that Cami only dates the coolest guys and girls upon her introduction to Raven’s Home. This line doesn’t explicitly label Cami’s sexuality, but it definitively confirms she is not straight. As this season progresses, Raven’s Home could explore that part of her more.

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Cami could evolve from the idealized version of herself Booker created in his head. The show could explore her dynamic with her mother, Alana, and follow Cami’s romantic feelings for whomever she likes, leading her to label her sexuality however and whenever she chooses if she so chooses. LGBTQ+ representation on live-action Disney Channel shows is not nearly as abundant as it should be. Cami Rivera joins only four other canonically LGBTQ+ characters — Charlie’s friend Taylor’s moms on Good Luck Charlie, Josh on The Lodge and Cyrus and his boyfriend TJ on Andi Mack. Raven’s Home is a gradual evolution of That’s So Raven, and hopefully, it can continue to contribute to the evolution of representation on Disney Channel.

New episodes of Raven’s Home air Fridays on Disney Channel.

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