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Dragons Rising S3E8 introduces Lar, who was a fake elemental master of water, but after the Merge, he became the Elemental Master of Red Water (first seen in “Gangs of the Sea”). We meet him after he’s joined the New Ninja, but the episode ends with him merging with the (red) sea to defeat Mala-Wojira (different from Wojira) after she was awoken by Kalmaar (who survived and turned from purple to white).

Then the New Ninja pick up some chronosteel at Kreel’s junkyard, drain his power and he’s fine.

If the writers really wanted to, they could make lar a canon character... with all the new elemental masters showing up... he could be the elemental master of H2O or something...

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There's gotta be something more to the Blood Moon right?

It was associated with the Forbidden Five in ancient times and the curse on Egalt and Rontu, but even if there had been a Blood Moon when the FF ruled the Wyldness, it only would have lasted one night.

Ras describes the sacrifices needed to free the FF as sacrifices "to the Blood Moon" and when he addresses his master, he stares at the Blood Moon.

Lloyd's visions even post-Blood Moon still include it, and the Source Dragon of Motion herself attacks and destroys it (in Lloyd's head).

or maybe it's just a magical lunar eclipse who knows

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garmadon, they "will never set foot in Ninjago" even if you didn't banish them because NONE OF THEM HAVE FEET

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Reminder that Lloyd had no way of knowing that Sora had beat Frak earlier - for all he knew, he was the last Ninja standing in the tournament

also he might be "the king of putting too much pressure on himself" but this one is on the SD of Motion imo

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Kai hears that Nya felt left out when he and the other Ninja went on missions without her, learns that she's fully competent as a Samurai, and then next episode tells her to "head back to the Bounty and wait."

Seriously did he completely forget or something? No asking if she wants to join, just a command to go away.

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sincerely at a complete loss here. I���ve seen this battle plenty of times too so I feel like I should be able to tell if there’s a difference but maybe not?

Kai: Follow you? You're two beats off. Zane: Actually, 2.72 off the beat.

feeling like this rn

Wu goes from being concerned about his "old bones" to being turned evil, confronting a failure from his past, nearly aging to death, reliving his youth, confronting a failure from his past (again), regaining his motivation, and then finally directly confronting the embodiment of evil itself.

Underrated character journey is all I'm saying

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I keep listening to it and I hear no difference 😭.

I downloaded the video from that same Lego upload so idk why it would have changed (and didn’t apply any filters myself).

Wu goes from being concerned about his "old bones" to being turned evil, confronting a failure from his past, nearly aging to death, reliving his youth, confronting a failure from his past (again), regaining his motivation, and then finally directly confronting the embodiment of evil itself.

Underrated character journey is all I'm saying

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Wu goes from being concerned about his "old bones" to being turned evil, confronting a failure from his past, nearly aging to death, reliving his youth, confronting a failure from his past (again), regaining his motivation, and then finally directly confronting the embodiment of evil itself.

Underrated character journey is all I'm saying

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Wu goes from being concerned about his "old bones" to being turned evil, confronting a failure from his past, nearly aging to death, reliving his youth, confronting a failure from his past (again), regaining his motivation, and then finally directly confronting the embodiment of evil itself.

Underrated character journey is all I'm saying

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"Wasted [true] potential"

People love to say that [x] was actually a good idea but had "wasted potential" - I've seen this applied to basically any piece of Ninjago content that is generally disliked (eg. Hands of Time, Crystalized) or even stuff that is liked but could have been better.

This makes sense - usually if you dislike something, you can think about why you disliked it, and if you like the overall show, find a way to imagine how things could have gone better. But what's a Ninjago idea that was just bad?

No "wasted potential" - just something that was flawed from the start, and while theoretically it could have worked (since I think basically anything can be contorted into making sense), given the constraints of the medium, almost certainly would have failed.

Ideas:

Bringing back Harumi - could have been net neutral but I don't think anything could have been worth undoing her really powerful death scene

Reviving the villains in a 44-minute special. Unlike Crystalized bringing back old villains, where there was more than enough time to do something new ("wasted potential"), I don't think any version of DotD would have done justice to all the villains in just 44 minutes

The Jay/Cole/Nya love triangle. A better show could have pulled it off, and I'm almost willing to forgive it because "Versus" is such a good episode, but it did a lot of bad things to half the Ninja team and I don't think there was that much of an idea there to begin with beyond "let's invent character drama." It does lead into Skybound, which *does* have wasted potential (and some individually bad ideas) but the triangle in and of itself was just bad from the start

On the same note - the Wu/Garmadon/Misako love triangle. Even worse.

The episode "True Potential" ironically enough falls into the almost-reverse category -- the category of having almost no "wasted potential" because it delivers on its potential so well. Love this episode

Snaketastrophy - suffice it to say I would appreciate its humor a lot more (because it is genuinely funny) if it didn't come at the expense of (inadvertently) gutting Harumi's character, which I think was unavoidable without completely changing the plot.

The magical storeroom gags in DRS2. The only "potential" they had was to be shorter

Agree? Disagree? What are some of your ideas on stuff that isn't "wasted potential"? Could also be things that have no "wasted potential" since the execution was really good and lived up to all the potential!

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Shatterspin is presented as a near unstoppable weapon in "Shattered Dreams." By "Rising Ninja," it can be countered, but such a counter (Rising Dragon) is presented as a big climactic moment. By "Elements of Betrayal," it's barely a nuisance.

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Okay Skylor gets a pass for taking a parachute despite having the Elemental Power of Gravity since she's evil at this point but Kai and Jay -- both of you have limited abilities to fly. Maybe at least *try* to use them before taking a parachute?

Also Sensei Garmadon would have been fine -- don't tell me he fell from a much higher height in "Spellbound" than in "The Day of the Dragon" -- the man was up in mere seconds after falling from a plane.

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just saying that with Nokt‘s power being brute force, there is a realistic chance that Zarkt‘s power is brutal dominance

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A normal True Potential requires confronting one's insecurities, weaknesses, and fears, facing them and learning to live with and overcome them.

The Gong of Shattering allows someone to destroy that which holds them back -- the good in their soul, forcing the progress they need.

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Taking all this information at face value:

The Serpentine came from Chima*

The First Spinjitzu Master created the Serpentine**

He did so at the time as when he created Ninjago**

Then when the FSM created Ninjago, he incidentally created Serpentine deep below the ground of Chima? And then they came to Ninjago??

The better interpretation of this is that the FSM created Serpentine in Ninjago based on the Serpentine in Chima, who I guess ended up going to Ninjago or dying out before the events of Legends of Chima. Even though Tommy's original tweet implies that his theory is that the Serpentine all came to Ninjago. Not to mention that the original impetus for his tweet was the fact that Pythor had a blue crystal in his chest, so maybe that's where he would place a chi orb.* But none of the other Serpentine (including the other Anacondrai) have that. Maybe Acidicus is just wrong when he says the FSM created the Serpentine (very possible) but Doc's post*** implies that he is still telling the truth.

But this is why you don't do canon changes by tweet/BlueSky post, because it will very likely end up conflicting with established lore. In this case, we have no reason to doubt what was established over a decade ago except for posts on social media. (the same thing happened with Lloyd's elemental power btw until Roby called it "life" - until then the names "power" and "energy" were equally valid) Also Tommy (who worked on both shows) never even canonized it in the first place**** so I don't even know what's going on here.

Don’t get me wrong, if lore inconsistencies are needed in service of a good story, then I’ll live with them. But in this case, I think it’s a better story that the Serpentine were created by the same person who created humans and both races come from Ninjago. The story of the Serpentine over the whole show is that despite their conflicts, by the end, they and humans have learned how to coexist and even become friends. Having the same origin hammers this home - they’re truly not so different.

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*Tommy's original tweet, which is in response to a question about Pythor's blue crystal

**Serpentine were created when Ninjago was according to "The Curse of the Golden Master"

***Serpentine came from Chima but also the FSM made them according to Doc Wyatt

****This was never even canon in the first place according to Tommy

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In Bricks By Mind's video we hear from the set designers that "Zane's Ultra Combiner Mech" is actually just Zane in the show* (he becomes big).

Imagining this as the transformation:

*Does that mean that the car the mech can transform into is also Zane? What about the jet? There's medium-sized Zane inside the mech but the mech is also Zane so does Zane become super big, then to demonstrate the transforming features of the mech, he becomes smaller but still leaves his shell (body???) behind to turn into vehicles? ahhhhhhhh.....

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DuckBricks's video has a bunch of reveals:

The Forbidden Five are looking for the five Prismatic Blades (which can be used to free "something", according the Bricks By Mind's video). This seems to debunk any "leak" that says the FF are looking for two blades

Dragonians are from the First Realm

To know what "Brute Force" is, "ask Doc" (lol)

The dragon on top of Ras and Arin's Super Storm Jet is robotic (maybe? not confirmed from the designers but that is what DuckBricks said)

Riyu's new set design includes armor. Will this be canon to the show?