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✨Out of Context✨ Lines from Ninjago Sins/Wins “Legacy of the Green Ninja”

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Everything Right/Wrong with Ninjago “Rebooted” E3: Blackout

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- At least the theme hasn’t been tainted by the love triangle ✅

- Given the angle that Lloyd is holding these rocks at, Garmadon must have glued them together to make them not fall ❌

- “I’m already the golden ninja. How much more power do I need?” That’d be a great argument… IF it had anything to do with Garmadon’s monologue, but it didn’t. All he was saying was that people grew too reliant on tech and it backfired. He makes the same point about Lloyd and golden power later this ep, but that has little to do with how much of his power Lloyd needs to tap into ❌

- Garmadon is standing on a tall, narrow pillar of rock. Where in the hell did he get this massive boulder from?? ❌

- The “cloaked figure’s” purple and black belt is actually pretty good foreshadowing ✅

- Triple foreshadowing points for the way he moves around (his hips swaying like the serpentine do when they slither), and his voice breaking in and out (almost making him sound out of breath at times) hinting he’s sick/injured ✅

- “You are vital to the mission! And you are vital to me.” Zane the rizz-droid✅

- “Judging from Perfect Match CompatibilityTM, perhaps Nya and Cole would be a better comparison?” Yeah, I’m gonna need a full MLA-formatted research paper with a works’ cited page in order to believe that one, Pix ❌

- Ed is in such shock from hearing about Cole and Nya that while his son loses his mind, Ed just stands there. Smiling. menacingly. ❌

- “Quiet in here. What’d I miss? Another signature Jay gut-buster?😇” This line isn’t even meant to be the punchline but the timing of it alone is so perfect that I don’t even care about the rest of the joke ✅

- But also, since when does Cole ever admit to Jay being funny? ❌

- “You rely too much on your golden power - let this be a lesson. Center yourself and move the mountain with your mind.” Being able to move mountains IS a part of his golden power - we know this because there is never any attempt to learn how to do it after he gives the golden power up, implying that he physically can’t. If Garmadon wants Lloyd to learn not to rely so much on his golden power, he should be telling him to find a way across the mountain w/o using any powers - just his own wits and combat skill. ❌

- I know I’ve been bashing on Garm’s goal this ep, but he does have a point about Lloyd needing to learn to rely on something other than his powers. After all, you can learn all the new skills ya want Green Bean, but ya never know when a group of writers are just gonna retcon half of em away… not that that would ever happen 🙂 /s ❌

- “I’m not the FSM, and I never wanted to be!” This line. This should be talked about more. ✅

- “I know… I was once like this too…” So should this! But this one’s counting as a sin because, unlike above, the writers actually had several perfect opportunities to talk about it and still never did. Seriously, how much more engaging and gut-wrenching could Lloyd’s fears of being like his father during the Wildbrain seasons have been if there had been more scenes/references showing us how similar they are? How much more character could’ve been added to their dynamic if we had seen them give the exact same snarky, one-line reply to something Wu said? How much better could we have understood Lloyd’s fears if we had heard just one or two lines like “your father used to say stuff like that.” How much more interesting could Lloyd be if we had seen just one scene of Wu or Misako watching Lloyd and Garm fight alongside each other, said watcher’s eyes glancing between the two and maybe shifting in concern as they note how similar the two’s fighting styles are. Not even just Lloyd! How much more could we understand Garmadon if we had seen scenes of him as a kid struggling to sit still and meditate, like we see from Lloyd in S11? One of my favorite things about Lloyd and Garmadon is that, when you really look at it, they are so similar. When you really look at the two as they play their roles as hero and villain (not their characters’ as a whole but their version of themselves they display to outside people), Lloyd is all the best parts of Garmadon and Garmadon is all the worst parts of Lloyd. Lloyd is wise, strategic, and reasonable. Garmadon is stubborn, untrusting, and easy to anger. All of the traits that one puts out to the world, the other locks behind closed doors. It puts the two in a perfect position to help each other accept and embrace the parts of themselves behind those doors, and it just makes me sad that we haven’t seen that utilized in the show❌

- “Well what’s the point in being a blue ninja? Unless you’re trying to hide out in some goofy clown college!” If they’re going to force this stupid love triangle plot onto us they could’ve at least made the insults good ❌

- Also, Cole has no reason to start throwing insults at Jay because we have seen nothing showing that he has any feelings for Nya. It makes it come off as though Cole only starts trying to win her over out of spite because he’s pissed off at Jay for attacking him and treating him like it’s his fault in the first place ❌

- That in mind, how much funnier would this subplot be if, instead of Cole and Jay fighting for Nya’s affection, Jay was constantly competing/picking fights with Cole, behaving as if there’s some rivalry between them based on the grounds that they’re both into the same girl, all while Cole just exasperatedly repeats “DUDE, I SWEAR I’m not trying to date Nya! I don’t even like her!!” Only for Jay to reply, “Tryin’ to make me let my guard down huh? Well it won’t work!”

- “There are reputable entertainers that attend clown college!” At least the unfunny insult led into a slightly funny joke ig? ✅

- Show tries to gaslight us into thinking that this fist fight is equally matched despite it being a guy with super strength vs. fucking Jay ❌

- “I don’t see why you wanted to settle this arm wrestling. You know I have super strength!” Show even acknowledges previous sin but still acts as if it’s just a minor detail ❌

- Wu revives the nindroids using some eels on a staff and I was gonna sin it because I didn’t think they could survive more than a few minutes out of water, but apparently eels can actually survive several hours on land due to the thickness of their skin. So, to save me from the shame I feel whenever one of my sins backfires on me, I’m just gonna say this is the third edition to our newest segment: “Fun facts with Vix!”

- I get that a lot’s going on right now but did NONE of them hear the massive car that Wu threw across the junkyard? Really? ❌

- “This macho stuff is making you both look like fools!” Show’s rating prevents Nya from saying dumbasses ❌

- “Maybe you belong together!” Nya introduces an entire generation of kids to the concept of gay. Good for her good for her ✅

- “The machines haven’t worked since the outage. What’s powering them?” “Nindroids!” No, the nindroids are controlling them, but they aren’t the power source ❌

- “They are after the technoblades.” For context, everyone is in Ed and Edna’s trailer, which is being thrown around in circles by one of those massive construction magnets. Everyone is pinned to the walls, screaming for their lives, and Pixal- beloved Pixal- literally from on top of Zane, says that line in the most casual, steady, normal voice I have ever heard. How can people not love her? ✅

- “Yeah well they almost hit MY MOTHER” Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing - stop. Go to Netflix, Ninjago s3e3, time stamp: 08:58, and listen to this line. Then look me in the eye and tell me that between the timing, the voice acting, the set-up, and everything else, this isn’t the BEST line in the season. You can’t. You can’t! Because it is. Hands down. I will fight about this ✅

- “Did ya make [a jetpack] for me?” “Uh, sorry honey. You hardly ever come to visit!” Get fucking wrecked Jay ✅

- “Your heart… splitting it must’ve inhibited your fighting abilities.” At least it does until it becomes inconvenient to the plot. At that point they’re fine again ❌

- In some clips, Wu’s forehead wrinkles transfer over to the metal plate covering his face ❌

- Mindroid is alive again by the way, so I’m pretty sure the writers genuinely forgot they killed him… and don’t give me the “he can be rebuilt” because my guy was fucking VAPORIZED in that beam ❌

- Teaching kids that it’s okay to punch glass ❌

- “It’s like we were made…” “… to fight together!” Inaccurate considering the only reason it’s like this is because of the very recent event of splitting Zane’s power source, but I see what they’re going for and it’s wholesome so I guess they can take their win ✅

- “Which color did you choose?” “Like I’ll ever tell!” Seriously?! All that and we never figure out which wire she cut? I’m genuinely convinced this entire subplot exists only to piss everyone off ❌

- Also, that line brings me back to the point of why Cole cares about what color she picked in the first place. He’s shown NO signs of liking Nya. He only starts acting like this because the writers wanted to force the love triangle ❌

- How is evil Wu THIS bad at fighting? It’s painful to watch ❌

- I heard somewhere that the writers regret having wasted the evil Wu arc and wish they could’ve redone it to make it better. I 100% agree with this. For example, instead of having him freed from the Overlord’s control, I simply would’ve made one of the ninja kill him. Ya know. For the plot.

- “More like Tech Wu!” Was this supposed to be a pun? I- huh?? ❌

- “Who the heck was that guy?” “Or gal!” Nya supports feminism!…. But fuck the enbies, demigenders, agenders, bigenders, genderfluids, and anyone else who’s under the nonbinary umbrella I guess? ❌ /lh

- “Whoever it is, they turned our Sensei against us!” At least Kai supports trans rights ✅

- Climbing a mountain this steep is dangerous enough, but climbing it with LEGO HANDS has to be a death wish ❌

- “Wish you still had 4 hands? It would’ve come in handy!” It took me an embarrassingly long number of years to figure out that this was a pun. Idek who this sin is on anymore ❌

- “Your potential is great. NOT your sense of humor.” Imagine getting told your jokes suck by a literal dad ✅

- “Still won’t let me use the golden dreagon?” My biggest regret in life is not winning every single instance of “draegon” in the previous two seasons ✅

- “It’s going to know someone has touched its young!” “It? Who?” “Daddy.” Please, for all that is good in this world, do NOT let the Garmadon simps know that this line exists ❌

- “You’re not gonna fall on my watch😇🥰😉” “Your compassion is NOT helping!😡🤬” These two have such a good dynamic, and the show does a really good job of portraying it, and even post-evil Garmadon in general - which I’ll get into more during ToE ✅

- “You just moved a mountain son…” I can FEEL the proud DadTM energy coming from this line ✅

- “Whoever you are… I like you.” Gay ✅

Sentence: Watching the love triangle scenes on repeat

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Everything Right/Wrong with Ninjago “Rebooted” E2: The Art of the Silent Fist

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- Theme ✅

- How convenient for the animators that Wu’s memories are all in third person ❌

- “No robots…” Lloyd forgets that Zane isn’t dead… yet. ❌

- Where did Nya get a green suit for Lloyd? ❌

- “There’s a reason [Wu’s] lived as long as he has.” Yeah, because he’s part of nearly every mythical, immortal creature in the book. There’s so many different forms of magical DNA in this guy that, frankly, I’m surprised he isn’t radioactive ❌

- “You guys go ahead. I will stay back and watch [the blades].” Wow, they didn’t even try to argue with him, huh? The DISRESPECT ❌

- Wait, why does Nya like Cole? We saw that the two were assigned as a perfect match, but we never saw hints of Nya actually liking him and now we’re supposed to believe she’s suddenly in love with both of them? What?? ❌

- “But Cole… Cole is not Jay (positive)…” OOOHHHHHHHHH🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

- Seriously though, this is such an awful line considering Jay is her canon love interest. And don’t say they didn’t know Jaya was gonna be canon because I do not believe there was a second they were actually going to make Cole and Nya a thing ❌

- I’m not even gonna sin them for tweaking Garmadon’s design from the end of last season because this one is objectively better ✅

- “Check out the new Sensei… lookin sharp!” Jay is a Garmadon simp confirmed and I really don’t know if that’s a sin or not anymore

- “SILENCE” *WHACK* Ohoh, I’m gonna like him, aren’t I? ✅

- How did Zane not notice the blades being stolen from in front of him? He clearly wasn’t sleeping, and Pixal later even says she wasn’t built for stealth ❌

- “Pixal? What are you doing?” “Discontinuing an old droid!” D*mn ✅

- Was that even a Pixal scream? It sounded a lot like Nya ❌

- “How about we take her apart to find out!” Jeez Kai calm down. Imagine what the others would say if he wanted to dismember a human ❌

- “Relax, not a weapon!” Then why didn’t they just bring them inside in the first place?!?! ❌

- “These nindroids are so much fas-“ Give me perfectly timed cuts for 400 Alex ✅

- “wouldn’t that mean shutting down Pixal too?” “Don’t tell Zane!” The ninja don’t even seem to consider Pixal as a living entity. They only even take her into account as a reference to Zane, nothing else. You can’t convince me they would be this chill about taking out the power if a human’s life was on the line. Basically what I’m saying is the ninja are racist ❌

- “We are all different, but I do not feel so different around you…”⬇️ ✅

- “Ever since we left I’ve been worried about [the students].” “Oh, Dareth’s looking after them.” Was that supposed to ease Cole’s worries cuz I’m pretty sure it made them worse ❌

- “Ya know, Cole, you don’t get the credit you deserve. You always put others ahead of yourself! I know the other ninja get all the attention but I just want you to know, you’re a good guy.” This is literally just the writers trying to convince us to care about Cole at a point in which such a small amount of the fandom actually did. I love Cole, I always have, but I think anyone who was in the fandom prior to the Wildbrain era can attest to how ignored he was as a character. This went off on a small rant so to clarify, I’m not sinning this because of how underrated Cole used to be (personally I think that’s more the fandom at the time’s fault than the show itself). I’m sinning this because it felt awkward and forced ❌

- “Don’t tell Jay.” Why? There was nothing inherently romantic about that line, or this situation in general, so what is there to not tell Jay? ❌

- “This is where all of Ninjago gets its power.” Zane mansplains something that even Dareth should be able to determine Pixal already knows ❌

- “I will call you Mindroid!” *angry mindroid noises* Worry not, Mindroid. One day we will join together and seek vengeance against all those who mock us with labels like “fun-sized” and “vertically challenged.” We are living versions of the pocket knife - cleverly concealed until the final moments in which we are revealed to deliver the killing blow.

- “Stupid technology!” Kai said, to the glass case ❌

- “oh who cares about probability!” this is character development… I have absolutely no idea where it came from or how Pixal developed but it sure is there ❌

- How unlucky was Pix that she just happened to land on the ONE laser we’ve seen throughout this entire episode? ❌

- *Mindroid breaks into office* “Great! Now they come in fun-sized!” ✅

- “This is no time for a lesson, Kai!” Actually, the climax generally is the time for the lesson, Jay

- The nindroids might have Storm Trooper aim but that doesn’t make it okay for the ninja to dodge in the worst possible way just to show off ❌

- Lloyd - beloved Green Bean - you’re supposed to cup the water in your hands, sweetie… not just stick your whole face in the pond like you’re bobbing for apples… ❌

- “This is why I took an oath of peace!” Why? So you and your son could get mauled by a giant, robotic dragon?? ❌

- Mindroid dies, and although killing him is 100% sinnable by death, this is actually a sin because he appears unscathed later on multiple times ❌

- Why does it take so long for Pixal to lose power? ❌

- “Your mission was important. I was not. I am to assist; I assisted.” The show never acknowledges how tragic this scene is. Well, it does, but only with Pixane, not Pixal as her own character. We constantly get to see glimpses of Pixal’s insecurities, but rarely see them built on or developed. ❌

- The only source of power for ALL of Ninjago is operated by this one tower and no one thought that was a bad idea ❌

- “We are compatible?” “Yes, yes we are.” ✅

- Look, Pixane is my favorite canon ship, but I still hate the way it happened. It was rushed, under-developed, and just didn’t feel right. ❌

- But also, Pixal only has feelings for Zane once it’s obvious that he feels that way about her so… recipromantic Pixal canon? ✅

Sentence: Mindroid coming for your kneecaps

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Ninjago Sins/Wins but the biggest sin is my attempts at maintaining some sort of schedule ahahahahahahah

Anyways Everything Right/Wrong With Ninjago Rebooted E2: The Art of the Silent Fist being posted tomorrow!!!!!

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Remembering when I saw a TikTok saying Wrong Place Wrong Time was underrated and I had to just awkwardly scroll like I didn’t lose a piece of my sanity ranting about how much I hated that episode

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Everything Right/Wrong with “Rebooted” E1: The Surge

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- This season is titled “Rebooted,” get it? Cuz the show got rebooted for this season after it was supposed to end? And also the season itself deals with technology? And also if you’re anything like me this season makes you wanna reboot yourself so you can forget chunks of it ever happeneD- ❌

- Not my favorite intro or remix, but I still gotta admit it’s pretty cool, even if I do miss the family photo-like style of the OG ✅

- In the original intro it was just Cole, but now it seems that everyone except for Lloyd has lost their smiling privileges ❌ (the pic below shows everyone with their masks up but it’s taken from a later ep)

- The longer you look at this image, the more awkward the poses get… Seriously, look at all of them for a good while and try to explain what they’re doing ❌

- I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… this show knows music! 2 seconds into the actual episode and this score is already giving me goosebumps ✅

- ^ There’s a lot to say about this photo so I’m just gonna break it down here:

- Jay rocking the pose ✅

- Zane tried ✅

- Kai leaning on Jay… and maybe struggling to balance while doing so? ✅

- Cole is giving Dareth a piggy-back ride and I think we all wish we were Dareth right now ✅

- And Lloyd is very confused as to where the camera is apparently ✅

- “Ninjago City soon became… New Ninjago City.” Creative. ❌

- Also it’s never actually referred to as “New Ninjago City” much after this season, or even in it tbh ❌

- “And it became the center for great technological advancements.” Most of which will exit and re-enter the plot at any given time that’s most convenient for the writers because who needs continuity? ❌

- At first I was gonna ask who tf sings in the shower like this (Kai was just making random, loud noises - no actual words, and it didn’t seem like humming) but while typing I realized that this actually seems more akin to vocal stimming so… neurodivergent Kai canon? ✅

- “Brad got an ultra remote from New Ninjago City and it’s controlling Mr. Zane!” HOW? ❌

- “Mr. Cole is the worst!” Child echoes most of the fandom this early in the show’s run ❌

- Kai’s pudding cup was sitting in his bag with no lid or covering whatsoever ❌

- Wait, the ninja don’t have powers anymore because they don’t have the blades, so how did Zane freeze Jay’s pudding cup? I get that he’s a nindroid, but he doesn’t use ice powers for anything else until later this season when they officially get their powers back ❌

- “Why is it that whenever I teach, I get the feeling that none of the boys are listening?” Oh, I know the answer to this one!⬇️

- “I saved you some pudding.” “What did we talk about?” “Oh, right, boundaries.” You probably have some questions right now, like, “did Jay and Nya break up?” And “Why did they break up?” And most importantly, “are we ever gonna get answers to these questions?” And the answer to that is: No. live and die in wonder ❌

- They get clearance for a field trip that they have to take the day of? You could argue that Borg was in a rush to get the techno blades to the ninja and wanted to take this opportunity while he still could, and Wu really wanted to do this field trip so Nya jumped at it as well, and to that I say… that’s actually a pretty good argument. Well done.

- “If you ask me, people should concern themselves with the lessons of the past - not waste their time on disposable fads of tomorrow…” Of all characters, why would Kai have this sentiment? Especially since they already established Cole as the “lame” one. I guess I wouldn’t say it’s entirely ooc, but it still makes it abundantly clear that they had no idea what they wanted to do with Kai this season ❌

- Wu instructs Nya to “get a move on,” which she does, and immediately drives down a steep mountain, while Wu stands, unsupported, in the front of the bus ❌

- But ya know what? Nya saw her chance to attempt murder and went with it, and I can respect that ✅

- “Wow… you leave town a short while and-“ everything becomes tinted in blue?

- This bit where everything tech-related doesn’t wanna work for Kai is even funnier when you consider that it’s technically all sentient and controlled by the Overlord ✅

- “Your hardware is outdated and your processor is slow and incompatible with ours.” Line is not followed by air horns ❌

- “Even now, he is working on a digiverse…” foreshadowing ✅

- “They have a perfect match console!” Why do I feel a part of my soul dying?

- “What’s perfect match?” Seriously, why do I have this gut feeling that something very very bad is about to happen… like I’m about to witness a moment that will forever go down as this show’s worst writing decision ever?

- “It finds your perfect partner with flawless results!” Wait…

- “Hello, Nya…” No…

- “You are an independent, self-confident young woman who refuses to be in a boy’s club…” please… please don’t do this

- ^ OH GOD F*CKING D*MMIT ❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌

- “I would’ve guessed ninja to sneak in the window… not take the elevator.” Apparently, Borg wanted the ninja to rob him ❌

- There’s no way Jay was this big a fan of Borg but didn’t know he had prosthetic legs ❌

- Most people have heard by now that the inclusion of Borg being disabled wasn’t really done for the sake of representing disabled people so much as it was for the convenience of the situation, but you’d think at least one of the writers would’ve said, “hey, maybe this statue we’re making of a character who can’t use their legs SHOULDN’T be STANDING normally on those two legs?” Could it really have been that hard to work the wheelchair into that statue design? Really? ❌

- “First you call us pedestrians and now we’re assailants?!” Jay finds these both equally insulting, which is not only hilarious, but also in-character since Crystalized showed us the only thing that offends the ninja more than being considered evil is being considered average ✅

- “Let the elevator have the techno-blades Kai! I think its made its point!” Jay has the backbone of a noodle, which we knew but still

- “Looks like we just quit our day jobs!” Don’t think I didn’t just see Cole’s mouth move with Kai’s voice ❌

- “Why don’t boys ever listen to me???” D*mmit, Nya do I need to bring the misogyny gif back out?

- “It’s not sharp. Why even call it a blade!?” Good question ❌

- Also, did you really need to test it out to see it wasn’t sharp? Couldn’t you have just, ya know, looked? ❌

- *glass cracks* “Oh snap.” ✅

- Why would breaking the window cause them all to immediately fly out of it? Before someone who actually understands physics comes into my comment section and explains how this works, I’m gonna cut you off and say I refuse to believe there’s an explanation that wouldn’t violate at least one health and safety protocol. OSHA: my scapegoat so I don’t have to learn how science works! ❌

- “You tried to give them the only thing that could defeat me and thought I wouldn’t notice?!” You DIDN’T notice - not until the ninja broke the statue - and tbh, you really should’ve. I get Overlord had to be cautious so as not to reveal himself too early on, but he literally watched Borg invite the ninja to his office, tell them it’s better if Lloyd wasn’t there, then send them off with a massive statue as a parting gift. Hell, Overlord has constant eyes on Borg, right? Did he not see him making new suits and shoving them, along with the blades, into the statue? ❌

- “A PROMISE ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH!” Admittedly, I have problems with Overlord this season, but I will NEVER insult his voice acting ✅

- I really can’t tell if Borg is screaming or laughing in this scene, which is probably the only reason it made it past the censors ❌

- “Cole, throw me!” “Excuse me?!?” “Throw me!” ✅

- I know it’s just the first episode, but I’m curious as to what they’re gonna do for new toys sets this wave- “The techno blade must’ve hacked the hover-copter’s system! Zane controls it!” Oh, there they are

- “*lying* I always said Mr. Cole was my favorite!” Accurate representation of middle schoolers… I’m counting that as a sin ❌

- “Anyone else feeling all tingly inside?” No!… maybe… ✅

- “I have given you new outfits to help block the facial recognition software.” They never actually do this. ❌

- “Robots vs. ninja? Dare I ask?” Someone mentioned awhile ago that Lloyd enters like a guest star on a sitcom and honestly they’re right ✅

- Also family hug! ✅

- “With a 4.2% chance of success, I’d say hope is slim.” “That’s why it’s called hope, Zane!” I actually have a lot to say about Zane’s arc this season, but for now I’m just gonna win this as foreshadowing and move on ✅

- “We will, but only when you’re safe!” “He wants these weapons, and for some reason, he also wants you. Remember, this was sensei’s plan. They can’t break him!” “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has yet to come. We need to worry about today!” “You said it, Zane!” “We will come back to New Ninjago City, and when we do, we’ll be ready!” I get Jay isn’t really depicted as the wise one, but was it really fair of the writers to take four inspirational, end-of-episode lines and only split them among 3 of 4 characters? Come on, give him a little credit! ❌

- ^ No. assembly line system. Could ever. F*cking. Function like this. ❌

Sentence: Ninjago Reboot….. (1/4)

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Are you ready to discuss…

The implications of the Ninja’s internalized racism

Eel biology

PIXALLLLLLL

The goddamn love triangle

Then get ready for…

“EVERYTHING RIGHT/WRONG W/ NINJAGO REBOOTED E1: THE SURGE,” COMING TOMORROW, MAY 2ND!!!

Thank you so much for your patience during the (longer than expected) hiatus! I do want to let you all know that keeping a one-part-a-week schedule became overwhelming very quickly, so my new “schedule” will simply rely on me posting when I feel they are ready to be posted. Don’t worry, though! It won’t be too ridiculously long between posts - it just likely won’t be a single week either. I will be informing you in advance of when a new part is coming out! Remember, first part comes out tomorrow, so please reblog, comment, like, and/or give any form of interaction you can. I put a lot of energy into making these and the interaction helps motivate me.

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So I'm not the only one who thinks Garmadon was antagonizing Kai on purpose in that one episode where he stayed on the bounty right. He was definitely doing that just for shits and giggles

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Hi! I just wanted to let you all know that Ninjago Sins/Wins will be going on a temporary hiatus for a couple weeks. It shouldn’t be too long - I just wanted to take a little break so that I can make a backlog of posts for next season and won’t be rushing to complete them a day before having to post them lol. This should make it so that they’ll actually be on time each week, and will hopefully make the overall quality of each post better as well! Thanks for understanding!

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Everything Right/Wrong with Ninjago “Legacy of the Green Ninja” E13: Rise of the Spinjitzu Master

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- Final appearance of the OG intro! ✅

- Technically the title should be “Rise of the Ultimate Spinjitzu Master,” considering that all the ninja are referred to as Spinjitzu masters. Granted, the title of this post is already much longer than it needed to be, so leaving it out kinda does me a favor… except I don’t care soooooo ❌

- Dareth survives this. That’s not a sin because it’s unrealistic, but because I didn’t want him to ❌

- “But I don’t remember my father any other way.” Sure, Garmadon was always an evil warlord bent on destruction, but he still cared deeply about Lloyd, which is a stark contrast from the Overlord that you’d think Lloyd would pick up on. ❌

- “For once, I am afraid there is nothing to learn.” Wu thinks that just because he can’t pull some contrived lesson out of his a*s it means that there is no lesson to be found at all. Wow, it’s been awhile since I’ve properly sh*t on Wu for no real reason other than I want him to burn… feels nice to be back in practice ❌

- “And when [the FSM’s] back was up against the wall did he quit? No, he found a way to keep the fight going.” Yeah, by forcing it onto a bunch of kids in the future so he wouldn’t actually have to deal with it. I get that if he couldn’t win, it was the right choice to extend the fight, but you can acknowledge something as being the only viable option while also not treating it as this massive sacrifice because ultimately, he’s the only one that didn’t get hurt ❌

- “He passed his elemental powers onto us - of all people! A bunch of kids! There’s must’ve been a reason he chose us…” I get that the writers didn’t know there’d be more seasons but watching this knowing what we know now about elemental masters… it falls a bit flat ❌

- “And ninja never quit!” He said it guys! He said the line!! ✅

- Also, Kai was the first to float something resembling the “ninja never quit” line back in S1, and I find it adorable that Lloyd listened well enough to actually remember ✅

- But also, Lloyd plagiarizes his brother. Where’s your in text citation, Lloyd? WHERE? ❌

- How did the Falcon know about the mech? ❌

- Not a single one of the ninja puts their sword into their respective slot ❌

- ^(I swear that wasn’t meant to be a s*x joke)

- I get that Garmatron was big, but how the f*ck did it turn into that tall a building??? ❌

- “I can’t wait to see the look on the Overlord’s face when he sees us!” “Is that the look you were hoping for?” “Zane… no.” Well, look who found a sense of humor! ✅

- “I know we’ve always drawn a crowd, but this is ridiculous!” I know early Jay was an a*shole but I still miss him ✅

- “Where’d ya get [elemental blades]? I want one!” Same, Dareth ✅

- You know that meme where it’s like “the final boss when you fight vs. unlocking them as a playable character?” The Stone Army is the embodiment of that meme ❌

- I will never not be emotional over Jay literally pushing Lloyd away and taking the hit for him. ✅

- “No, there’s only one green ninja!” Kai’s character development ✅

- “I have come here to fight you!” Really? D*mn, this whole time I just thought it was game night ❌

- “You don’t even have a sword!” “I don’t need a sword.” AU where Lloyd pulls out a gun

- “Then all I have to say is… goodbye.” ✅✅

- “I am the Ultimate Spinjitzu Master!” Amazing, the triple zoom-ins, the cinematography, the suit change, the line delivery - flawless, spectacular, perf- ✅

- “Where there is light, there will always be shadow!” “Unless my light is bright enough!” Green bean I love you but… that’s not how light works… D*mmit, Wu, this is what happens when you pull kids out of grade school! ❌

- Was the fight itself a bit underwhelming? Yes, it was, but you know what? The drama of it, the music, the cinematography - all of it well makes up for the relative lack of action ✅

- Alas, I have to do me and mention the lack of Lloyd’s character development. S1 (while not perfect) did a good job of giving each ninja a respective arc and episode that made their true potential feel earned, deserved, and personal to each of them, but that feeling just isn’t there for Lloyd. As much as I love over-analyzing, the importance of this scene and what it meant for Lloyd and his character shouldn’t be implied. ❌

- “Should the Overlord decide to show his face around here… we’ll be ready!” “And next time we’ll be a little more humble.” “And a little more wise.” “And with better catchphrases!” Why the f*ck am I crying ✅

- Also, I can guarantee they won’t ❌

- “You think we should dog-pile em?” Yes! “Let’s give them their moment.” D*mmit! ❌

- “Speak for yourself! I’m looking forward to doing a little more inventing, dabble in model-building, little bit of poetry-“ Pilots reference! ✅

- Sure is sad that Ninjago only got two seasons, I mean, doing this for every episode was fun! But I supposed everyone has to move on eventua- wait, what do you mean there’s more seasons? How many? 15 AND A HALF?? WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!? YALL IM COLLEGE SEARCHING RIGHT NOW. AM I GONNA BE DOING THESE POSTS WHILE STUDYING FOR MY MAJOR?!? AM I EVER NOT GONNA BE OBSESSED WITH THIS F*CKING SHO-

- Anyways, I’ll see y’all in season 3!

Sentence: Not Final Final Battle

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Everything Right/Wrong with Ninjago “Legacy of the Green Ninja” E12: Return of the Overlord

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- In case anyone is wondering about my mental state, I’m writing this pretty much right after watching the Crystalized finale and now listening to the intro is making me cry ✅

- Yada yada, beginning of this episode is different than the ending of last episode ❌

- “Red doesn’t seem to be your color. I think it’s time we try on a darker shade…” a darker shade of red is still red. ❌

- “Who cares about Ninjago!?” Blasphemy. The fandom is coming for you, Jay

- “Nya was my… my…ya know…” show treats the word “girlfriend” as if it’s as scandalous as saying “woman I occasionally f*ck ❌

- “I can’t fight him…” This is a tough predicament for Lloyd to be in - I wonder what familial comfort, or wise advice Wu is going to give him in these trying ti- “You must!” Yeah I really don’t know what I was expecting ❌

- “You have my fire!” “And my earth!” “And my ice!” “And lightning!” I don’t even care if this is a Lord of the Rings ripoff - Ninjago did it better ✅

- Also, Lloyd doesn’t have Jay’s lightning apparently. He just has lightning in general, but it’s not Jay’s ❌

- “We’re all in this together, kid!” Kid ✅

- The army may not have been there but it was a 10/10 entrance ✅

- “And here I was all ready to release the thunder!” Cole forgets his element ❌ (I’m hilarious I know)

- ^Lloyd! Didn’t your mother teach you not to change costumes in the middle of dramatic moments!? Kids these days ❌

- “He always wanted to turn Ninjago into his own image. Now we know how it’ll be done.” “But if he starts turning things evil…” Wait, how did we get from “he’s gonna use the weapon on Ninjago” to “he’s turning people evil?” Wouldn’t it be more likely that he’s just gonna nuke everyone or something? ❌

- “You go on without me.” No joke, when I first watched this scene all those years ago, my gut instinct was that Julien was gonna die, like right after the ninja walked away. Like we’d see the ninja fight the Overlord, then later we’d hear about how during said fight he, somewhere offscreen, had just dropped dead. To this day it is still my first thought every time I watch this.

- “Has anyone else been thinking about how this might be our final fight together?” “It’s all I’ve been thinking about.” Oh no I’m gonna start crying again, aren’t I? ✅

- “Remember that time Kai thought he was the green ninja?” *all start laughing* “He was SO NOT.” RIP Kai, burned to death by his brothers’ roasts ✅

- And, really? “Time?” As in one, SINGULAR moment when Kai thought he was the green ninja? ONE? ❌

- “You just had to destroy my tree house!” Lloyd, salty since episode 2 ✅

- “I thought [Wu] was a goner!” *bonk* “Wrong again mr. Empty head!” D*mn okay 😭 ✅

- We just glossed right over Nya learning Spinjitzu, didn’t we? ❌

- *Nya trips Lloyd* “No one does that to the green Ninja!” It’s a good thing Lloyd doesn’t go to school because Kai would murder any and all who dare bully him ✅

- “He must’ve used the ultimate weapon to turn her into his own evil image!” “Ahgjgjghg!” oh nO she groWLs😱 ❌

- “But… you said you’d always be behind me!” And they already screwed that up - they’ve been running in front of you this entire scene ❌

- Fun fact: Nya was originally going to be the master of wind, not water, which could explain how she does this sonic-like thing and stops Cole in midair, but now that her element has been changed to water it doesn’t make much sense, does it? ❌

- “So the balance has sent my son, my brother and wife to try to stop me?” Remember a few episodes back when I said you could replace words like “destiny” and “balance” with “plot convenience” and it’d actually make more sense? This is what I was talking about ❌

- “It looks like my little surprises kept the ninja busy!” Surprises? You only sent Nya. Is there another innocent civilian forcibly turned into an evil zombie just chilling around the island that no one ever found? Are they still there currently? *gasp* Ninjago: United plot line revealed?!?!👀😱 ❌

- “I don’t wanna fight you but I will if I have to. This is about more than just us - this is about what is right!” Solid line! Wait… we’re about to have a Garmadon monologue, aren’t we? A Garma-logue, one might call it? H*ll yeah I love those! ✅

- “Don’t you see? I will never do what is right - the evil in my blood can never go away! It has corrupted every ounce of my fiber, every bone in my body!” Oh it’s about to get really good isn’t it… this is like waiting for a beat drop ✅

- “I AM LORD GARMADON! Destiny took my family from me, and the only way for us to be together is to turn everything in this world into my image! Then you’ll all see what I see, feel what I feel!” ✅✅✅✅

- “You could’ve warned me it had to warm up!” “How could I? You were monologuing.” The Overlord believes in the integrity of uninterrupted Garma-logues ✅

- What is Misako’s bag made out of that it shields her from blaster fire??? ❌

- Yes, it is small, but this is the first moment that they’ve ever physically fought with each other! The slow-mo, and the way Misako gets distracted and just stares at them - I can’t even express how powerful this is ✅

- This too! We’re seeing people scream in fear before getting turned into zombies, and the “We’re losing” followed by “I win!” ✅

- “It’s four against one and I think she’s winning!” You THINK? Cole, you’re literally hanging upside down! ❌

- “Maybe we can use our powers without hurting her!” It’s taken them this long to figure out non-violent ways to use their powers? No wonder this show is rated as “fantasy violence” ❌

- “You stole that from my playbook!” Which is probably why you should’ve seen this coming sooner, especially when your entire family was literally just warning you about this exact thing ❌

- “Ninjago is mine!” “No… it was never going to be yours… IT. IS. MINE!” ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅

- I also love that when you see everyone’s faces, you can see Wu and Misako are scared but Lloyd is ready for a fight ✅

- “The metamorphosis HAS BEGUN!” ⬇️

- “Metamorphosis? What does that mean?” Kai skipped sixth grade ❌

- Overlord’s mouth movements aren’t synced with his words at all ❌

- “All this time… everything has led to this…” Not me getting goosebumps ✅

- “I’ve been planning this for thousands of years-“ “EAT GREEN!” Remember how Overlord believed in allowing others to finish their monologues? Lloyd doesn’t ✅

- “You are all alone!” “No! I’m not! My father is still in you - he won’t fight with me!” ✅

- “He is the green ninja!” Yeah, no sh*t?? Kai, where have you been the last entire season????? ❌

- ^ Jay ✅

- “Your father is… GONE!” F*ck! I’m supposed to be giving commentary but I don’t even know what to say to this ✅

- “But… the prophecy!” “Easy, kid! You’ve been through a lot!” Kid ✅

- “Destiny showed us who was stronger today… but destiny also wanted us around to fight another day. We didn’t lose the battle. Today, we just lost the fight.” ✅✅✅✅

Sentence: Get Overlorded lol

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Everything Right/Wrong with Ninjago “Legacy of the Green Ninja” E11: The Last Hope

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- I think I might need to find a more creative way to win the intro each episode… ✅

- “I still have to battle my son…” “Battle, AND DEFEAT!” Well gee Overlord, thanks for the comfort /s ❌

- Actually, why does he bother with the whole “and defeat,” thing? His plan is to possess Garmadon’s body and fight from there, so he doesn’t have a reason to get so heated over the idea that Garm might not want to. ❌

- ^Screenshot exists solely for middle schoolers to thirst over ❌

- Zane dresses like my middle school PE teacher. Next thing I know he’ll be lecturing me about wearing open-toed shoes to class and correcting me on my attitude ❌

- Also, Jay didn’t bring extra underwear but he did bring beach attire? ❌

- “Are you trying to reveal our hidden location?” Yeah, there is no way it’s still hidden. ❌

- Cole does not apologize for almost murdering Zane’s pet ❌

- “They’re good, but they’re not that good.” “I know.” Get rekt

- “I’ll just need a little help.” Misako leads the ninja away from the group, for really no reason ❌

- I get they’re desperate, but none of them even bring up the question of what exactly happens if the Final Battle just… doesn’t. The writers are trying to establish destiny as it’s own force, then establish certain rules for it, and then show the characters acting in ways that contradict those rules, and there are effective ways to do that, but this just… isn’t it for me? I’m just really confused ❌

- “What good is an ultimate weapon if I’m not around to use it!” This is the 3rd time in the past 2 seasons that a villain has pretty much used this exact line ❌

- “Never doubt my evil again! Not if you wish to remain my ally when I rule!” Obviously, Garmadon was peak threatening villain in the pilots, and never really reaches that state again, but he never really needed to. Because of the way Garmadon’s written and meant to be perceived now, trying to throw him back into that mysterious/ominous “shadow king” role would never work at this point, and that’s okay! But even so, moments like this, even if it’s small, make his character for me in ways that I can’t even put into words. ✅

- “Tick tock, tick tock!” Zane quotes the title of his true potential episode, which would be a nice reference if it weren’t for the implication that Zane is aware of the recording, titling, and streaming of this particular day in his life, as well as that he seemingly has no problem with this massive breach of his privacy. ❌

- After seeing Misako, Garmadon self-consciously glances at his arms, because evil warlords can get insecure too, Margaret. ✅

- “I know you too well, Misako. Why did you allow yourself to get caught!?” Love a husband that just knows his wife’s a bad*ss ✅

- “Lloyd doesn’t want to fight?” I can assure you I am very normal about how Garmadon thinks his son hates him by now and am not emotional about this whatsoever ✅

- “It is our destiny… I don’t care about him!” 🚨Warning🚨 Your brain has now constructed a premise for an angsty oneshot that makes little sense in the canon timeline and that you will likely get attached to, but never actually write. Proceed with caution! ⚠️ ✅

- “Then you’re not the man I married. I should go…” Misako looks surprised when Garmadon stops her, meaning she was ready to abandon the entire plan and just walk out, no helmet at all. ❌

- Cole has super strength, so why would he take this much damage from a few barrels? And shouldn’t said barrels be moving much more than they are? ❌

- “Being evil these days is really unappreciated!” Garmadon is an advocate for villain appreciation ✅

- I get that the Stone Warriors have built like a hundred vehicles by this point, but it still catches me off guard that they have an alarm system for the helmet in the middle of a previously uninhabited island ❌

- Kai just got punched square in the face with the hand of a giant metal samurai mech - how is he still talking right now??? ❌

- “Well we better think of something quick cuz… I’m out of lines!” ✅

- Look, I could handle it when it was just one-off clips, but I’m supposed to take Garmadon seriously when he spends over half the episode with this awful f*cking hair ❌

- If we compare how long Jay wears the helmet to how long Dareth wears the helmet later on, then either Jay should have control of the army by now, or the Stone Army don’t later listen to Dareth because of the helmet, but because they just genuinely respect him and his authority. Either way it’s a sin ❌

- “I finally have you ninja in the palm of my hand!” “LET THEM GO!” F*CK YEAH, GREEN BEAN- er, I mean, I’m not invested in this at all ✅

- “Holy cannoli! Lloyd and Garmadon in a face-off! Take the shot, Lloyd!” “He’s vulnerable!” “Do not hesitate!” “Strike now!” I love this! They’re coaching him through this because, even though they know they can’t help him in the Final Battle, they still wanna help him and coach him through the best they can because he’s their little brother and they’re not gonna leave him alone! (Side question: do any of you actually read when I go into little rants like this or are you just used to scrolling past them lmao) ✅

- AND LLOYD LOOKS BACK AS THEY’RE TALKING BECAUSE HE HEARS THEM AND HE KNOWS WHAT HE HAS TO DO ✅

- “I’m sorry, father, but you leave me no choice. It is our destiny.” AND HIS VOICE IS SO DRY AND DETACHED AS HE SPEAKS ✅

- AND GARMADON JUST STANDS IN DEFEAT AS LLOYD’S RESOLVE SLOWLY GIVES AND HE JUST CAN’T DO IT ✅

- “Wow, this clock is a mechanical masterpiece!” Yeah, and a toy set no one is brave enough to build ❌

- Cole climbs up this entire clock to reach the helmet while everyone else just stands and stares ❌

- You’d think these highly trained, athletic ninja would be better at catching ❌

- See, I just couldn’t possibly understand why people are so insistent that Kai and Nya need more sibling moments. Look, they hugged right here! It was shown for a whole 1 second! What more could you want? Sweet moments? Acknowledgment of the almost parent-like role Kai tends to take over Nya? Anything beyond the occasional comment that they are, in fact, siblings? I just think you’re being needy /s ❌

- “It’s just the way the cookie crumbled.” This line hits a little different after Seabound, doesn’t it?

- Also, the Stone Army kidnaps Nya, and Kozu says “or what? You’ll make a big splash?” A Big Splash is the title of the first episode of Seabound, and then right after we get the cookie crumbles line… This is quite a few coincidences at one time.

- ^ Obsessed with the fact that Jay was about to deck Cole ✅

- ^ and now he’s just laying on top of him ✅

- “Come on, Lloyd. Let’s go home. You’ll get your chance.” I think you’re missing the point, Wu. He doesn’t WANT his chance. ❌

- “I give you… Garmatron!” The Overlord got his naming skills from Dr. Doofenshmirtz ❌

- “It’s more beautiful than I could ever imagine!” In all the time the Stone soldiers were building this, did Garmadon never go to look at it? ❌

Sentence: Emotional damage

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Everything Right/Wrong with Ninjago “Legacy of the Green Ninja” E10: Island of Darkness

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- Intro ✅

- “Ultimate Spinjitzu Master?” Ultimate Spinjitzu Master is either the coolest or dumbest title I’ve ever heard. ❌

- Lloyd has dragon powers now because aromantic Lloyd canon ✅

- “Hahaha, jealous?” Yes. ✅

- “This sounds too good to be true… what’s the catch?” Knowing this show, probably trauma

- By s8 we’re supposed to believe that the FSM represented balance between both oni and dragon, but based on the dragon powers, dragon-shaped islands that make up Ninjago, and overall dragon-like theme to most of his belongings, I think he might’ve been a bit biased ❌

- “If you come across your father, it could prematurely start the Final Battle.” But the Final Battle is a prophecy, right? Seemingly with a time, location, and outcome all set in stone, based on the way you all seem to talk about it, so there wouldn’t be a way to start it “prematurely” ❌

- Also, this show acts as if the idea that destiny is inevitable is common sense. Therefore, what’s even the purpose of attempting to stop it if it’s already certain that you can’t? ❌

- “I could use some help around the shop!” What shop? You’re on an island! Old age really is getting to Julien, isn’t it? ❌

- “We should get working on vehicles that might help give us a fighting chance!” Julien says vehicles, plural, but then only makes one. No wonder he gets killed off by next season - you don’t tease lego with ideas for toy sales and then only deliver on one! ❌

- “Have you ever known us to veer from a plan?” Funny, but technically, they don’t veer from plans because they usually never have one in the first place. They usually go in 98% blind, and when they do have some sort of plan that goes off the rails, it’s usually not their fault. ❌

- “Then tell him…” Apparently, he didn’t have to tell him because the soldier responded to Garmadon, no translation from Kozu needed. ❌

- “Should I have shaken my fist more? Maybe dramatically thrown over a table! Or kicked over a-“ “NO YOU MYOPIC MORTAL!” This is so f*cking funny ✅✅✅✅

- “Look! This must be Garmadon’s camp?” “No, you think? I thought it was a takeout restaurant!” Fun fact: Garmadon owns at least 8 Taco Bells’ ✅

- “Quiet you bozos!” Why is so much of the dialogue this episode so good? ✅

- “So, how did you meet him?… no, my father.” “You know, he wasn’t always evil…” Misako goes into this rant because it was less awkward than telling Lloyd about the strip club ❌

- This fight scene is cool, and really shows off how much Lloyd’s powers have grown, and we’ve seen it all throughout the season. At least, we were supposed to, right? That was the point of the filler episodes - to show us how his powers grow and develop, and we did see him training, but at the same time I feel like we just… didn’t, ya know? ❌

- “I spy… another tree!” “Jay, how did you ever become a ninja, seriously?” This is one of my favorite lines in the entire show ✅

- “If we go in there, they’ll know we’re here too!” As oppose to what - them thinking one of the members of the team is here, on this dangerous island swarming with indestructible soldiers, without any backup whatsoever? Come on, the ninja follow each other around like lost puppies pretending to be wolves! ❌

- “Why don’t we ever listen to [Wu]?” Because he rarely gives you anything to listen to, and when he does, he’s cryptic about it, and you’re only meant to understand it moments before certain death. ❌

- Where did Garmadon get popcorn from?? ❌

- “Uh, we jump into that hole!” Jay was moments away from dooming them all. ❌

- This entire escape scene with the boards is awesome, especially with the soundtrack ✅

- “Perhaps it can be of use?” Was that a reference to the bus token thing from Pirates Vs. Ninja? ✅

- ^Zane is wearing the suit he has yet to get ❌

- ^Unlike Julien, lego must love Nya

- The Stone Army’s vehicles are currently driving up what’s nearly a 90 degree angle ❌

- “Hah! We made it to the top!” Jay has a very delayed reaction before saying this ❌

- Also, they are very obviously not at the top ❌

- ^ Cole, I love you ✅

- “No one move!” Zane says, in Cole’s voice ❌

- It’s at this point that I implore you to watch this episode, or at least this scene, because it never gets old. The music, the framing - everything is on point. Even the suit designs look epic. ✅

- and the way the music rises as Lloyd does this spinning thing ✅

- And then he drops to the ground and Kai is worried about him ✅

- And all of them getting separate segments to show off their powers! ✅

- I know I’m a winning streak, but I can’t just ignore the fact that Jay’s lightning conducts through wood ❌

- And then they casually throw this Cole dancing thing in here ✅

- “My turn” oh sh*t- ✅

Sentence: It’s Lloyd’s turn on the Xbox

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Everything Right/Wrong with Ninjago “Legacy of the Green Ninja” E9: The Last Voyage

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- Intro ✅

- Opening shot makes it look like the entirety of the Dark Island is beneath these ominous clouds, but by the time we get there we see that doesn’t actually look to be the case ❌

- “We just got our tails handed to us!” Kai will say anything in order to avoid cursing in front of Lloyd ❌

- “What’s my elemental power?” Haven’t you said multiple times it was animals? ❌

- “Um, hot air?” “So I command the wind!” Morro has competition

- The biggest sin is on the fandom for not properly acknowledging the child-and-his-pet dynamic between Lloyd and Ultra Dragon ❌

- Don’t get me wrong, I fully understand Zane’s struggle, but he’s not the only one that got the short end of the stick. I mean, Kai and Nya got stuck with saying goodbye to Dareth! ❌

- ^“There are a few people who’d like to say goodbye to you.” Oh look, the fandom found its way on set

- “I wonder what’s on the island.” “Never before seen ecosystems?” “Never before seen creatures?” “Vegetables that taste like dessert?” None of these things are on the island. ❌

- “I wonder if this is the end of our destiny…” Well that was awful morbid for an 11 year old

- “Well if it is, there isn’t anyone else I’d want by my side.” “You said it!” “Here here!” I can’t. They are ready to die together because that’s what they do! They live together, they fight together. Whether they be fighting snakes or getting sh*tty, minimum wage jobs, they do it together because they’re a family and it just makes me emotional every time ✅

- The Falcon had plenty of time to dodge that weapon ❌

- Lloyd and Misako help Wu to stand but there is no possible way he could actually need their help with that ❌

- “He’s… gone.” “We don’t know that.” “Oh, Zane, I’m sorry.” “We’re not gonna let him go in vain!” Wu attempts to reassure Zane by saying that they don’t technically know the Falcon’s dead, but it seems Kai and Nya have already planned the funeral. ❌

- “This ‘mud’ is condensed evil…” The Overlord played with slime before it was cool

- “Ah, I’m starstruck!” Never in my life have I heard a throwaway line that I wanted to sin and win at the exact same time… ❓❓❓

- “Sink your teeth into this!” Kai knows he’s supposed to say the quip before doing the attack that accompanies it, right? ❌

- Oh no! One of the starteeth is still on board! Wait, no, that’s just Kai’s hair.

- “Zane! Is it really you?” This plot twist blew my mind as a child ✅

- “I thought I was kaput! But as you know in Ninjago,” No one ever stays dead? ❌

- “The past is the past…” that is rarely ever true ❌

- In the flashbacks from S1 we saw Zane wake up with Julien’s dead corpse still on the bed beside him, but now the show is trying to convince us that the body was already gone. Also, even if this new sequence of events makes more sense than the last, it doesn’t explain how Zane could wake up in a random house, think he had no connection to it, and then stumble upon it years later, seemingly with no memory of it ❌

- “I began to question if you’d ever want to see me again… I was afraid you’d think I was a monster…” Zane doesn’t acknowledge Julien’s concern in the slightest, and this entire conflict is never even brought up again. You could say the “no one deserves to be held captive, not even a monster” line later on, which serves as the resolution, to be a parallel (with the “monster” being both the Leviathan and Julien) but calling Julien a monster just seems extreme in context - not only was he forced to build everything he did, but he only built a few cars! It’s not like he made them a lifetime supply of grenades! ❌

- I love the designs on the leviathan’s tentacle-eye thing. It just looks really smooth, and I also like the sounds it makes when it blinks ✅

- *Humming the theme song* “What? It’s catchy!” Cole is me ✅

- “Where did you learn to cook?” Um, you taught him? We saw it in the flashbacks ❌

- “I see no reason for me to have a memory switch. I happen to like my life, and don’t want to ever forget you again.” “We will both never forget.” Julien completely ignores Zane’s very reasonable request by making an on-the-nose and inaccurate reply ❌

- “Release us you MONSTER!” Well that was rude ❌

- Lloyd just used his energy powers to force the leviathan to release them, so can’t he just do that again? ❌

- The lighting throughout this entire episode is really good ✅

Sentence: Julien after leaving the lighthouse:⬇️

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Everything Right/Wrong with Ninjago “Legacy of the Green Ninja” E8: The Day Ninjago Stood Still

Shorter than usual this week! Disclaimers: Show owned by LEGO. This is not a professional review/critique - it’s mainly intended for comedy!

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- Intro ✅

- This opening shot implies Skales’s tail to be much longer than it actually is ❌

- It’s very nice that all these snakes, including the tribe generals, just let Skales rule them all and don’t even attempt to challenge him. Clearly, they have all watched the show and seen that he’s been through way too much sh*t trying to accomplish this one goal for the last 2 seasons, and failing at every possible turn, and have decided to just be nice and hand it to him. Surely this won’t go wrong in any way. ❌

- “Hey! Open the window, let me in!” Jay yelled, standing less than two feet away from the front door ❌

- “I’d forgotten how pale Garmadon was before his turn to evil was complete.” Dude looks more like a ghost than the actual ghost characters in this show, so I don’t know how you forgot that ❌

- “My, there’s so much [research about prophecy].” There’s 8 scrolls here, which could be a lot considering the Overlord stuff is really old and most written knowledge is probably lost to time, but Wu claims that looking through all this stuff will take days, and that could only be accurate if these two read at the same speed that my grandparents type. ❌

- “I should’ve chosen you.” Misako doesn’t have an “it,” but it still needs to stay in her pants. ❌

- People like to say that Misako shouldn’t flirt with Wu here because she’s technically still married, and I get that, but at the same time, Garmadon turned evil, got himself banished to the Underworld, and has done some pretty f*cked up things pretty much the moment he got back, so honestly, I’m not really gonna hold it against her too much.

- “Lloyd’s father is evil, but he would never do anything to put his son in harm’s way.” Except for the fact that he’s been doing it this whole d*mn season. Leaving a child orphaned and traumatized is still harming them! ❌

- We just saw Skales following right behind the digging Constrictai, but the next shot shows him to be several meters back ❌

- “My plan has been in the works since the beginning of time.” We know that the battle between good and evil took place before time had a name, and if you think about it hard enough, the Overlord’s line here could imply that the moment after that first battle was the very moment that time was given its name. I know it’s probably not meant to be thought of like that, but I’m still winning it because I think it’s a cool concept. ✅

- I still f*cking love this ninja-chain thing they do sometimes. Idk, it just shows great teamwork and how much they know and trust each other and AGHH ✅

- “A few more inches, guys!” It’s moments like this when I need to question if my audience would or wouldn’t like the occasional s*x joke

- Also, right after he says this, Cole ignores Lloyd’s order and steps backwards, probably to spite the writers for forgetting that he was technically the leader ❌

- This tomb is decorated with scorpion symbols, an animal that has nothing to do with the Overlord. ❌

- Skales has been gunning for leader since s1e1. It was his definitive character trait throughout his whole arc, yet he failed each and every time. He became the general? Sorry, now the tribes are being taken over by Pythor, and he’s better off just being second in command. Wait, now Pythor is gone and he wants to be their king? Nope! Here’s Garmy! But it’s fine because the other generals went with him and wait, no. Now he’s in jail and they’ve gone with Garmadon. Now he’s out of jail but has to work for Garmadon, and now he’s finally got what he wanted and not 20 minutes later he’s landed his entire race into the same f*cked up crisis that they were in for decades and just got out of. Remember, the show was supposed to end after s2, so this was resolution to Skales’s character arc. This is hilarious in the most morbid and tragic ways possible and it doesn’t get talked about nearly as much as it should.

- “Do you wanna be my new cameraman?” “Not really.” “Great!” Gayle Gossip I love you ✅

- “Stay strong, show no weakness!” *Lloyd runs soldiers over* That moment when your little brother suddenly has the skills to outshine all of you at once ✅

- We just saw Mother Doomsday flee from his store, but now we saw him hiding inside it ❌

- “It’s unwise to take the elevator during an emergency, Dareth.” Which educational consultant do we have to thank for that line?❌

- Is the soldier that scared Dareth floating? ❌

- The ninja are supposed to be slowing the soldiers down, but they actually spinjitzu well past most of the army in the stairwell. ❌

- “They just keep coming!” Look, if they don’t want me to make 2 s*x jokes in one episode maybe they shouldn’t make it so easy!

- This is supposed to look like a mass amount of destruction but given the states we’ve seen Ninjago City in in later seasons, this is practically nothing, and in-universe that is a horrifying reality. ❌

Sentence: Skales’s irony

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Everything Right/Wrong with Ninjago “Legacy of the Green Ninja” E7: The Stone Army

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- Intro ✅

- “… a fabled Dark Island,” Wait, something mentioned briefly at the beginning of the season is actually coming back and playing an important role in the plot of this kids show? ✅

- I like how Lloyd’s bed is just thrown in the middle of the room, as if the ninja just said “well you gotta sleep in the bid kid room now” and dragged it in there ✅

- Also, Lloyd has joined the squad of matching pajamas ✅

- Rumor is the ninja have a closet full of spare alarm clocks due to how many Lloyd has set on fire ✅

- “Good morning, morning morning!” There is nothing worse than waking up, eyes sore in a groggy morning haze, only for some loud-mouth b*stard to come in and start shouting about how it’s “such a good morning” and “time to wake up.” If you do this, you’re a horrible person and you deserve a spot in h*ll ❌

- “It looks like a 2 person job,” Yet Lloyd, who’s pretty much half a person, handles it just fine ❌

- Ninja change clothes impossibly fast ❌

- “But I’m grown up now,” buddy, you’re like 11 now - chill ❌

- “We need to settle this like men…” because that is what we are! Yep, 5 cisgender, heterosexual, allo men and I don’t know where you would’ve gotten any other ideas from cuz nope could never be us-

- If Lloyd is rock and the rest are paper, wtf does “clamp” look like??? ❌

- “Having a pet dragon requires a lot of responsibility!” Which is why we have forced all of said responsibility onto you with a royalty-free parody of Rock, Paper, Scissors! ❌

- “I spent my whole life at Darkley’s boarding school.” But didn’t you say you remembered your first day there? How could you remember that so well, but not your mom? ❌

- Also, did the ninja never think to ask about Lloyd’s mom earlier? I’ve joked before about how they kidnapped him but that was always with the assumption that they thought his mom was dead or something. However, if that’s not the case, I’m a bit concerned about the moral compass of this team… ❌

- This venom thing makes no sense. At first I thought it affected every object, but that’s clearly not the case since there are plenty of statues and dinosaur bones in this room and the soldier guys are the only thing alive right now. Then I thought “maybe it only works on the stone soldiers because of something the Overlord did to them,” except that doesn’t make sense because aren’t these tiny guys just merchandise made by the museum? I doubt a bunch of bobble heads would’ve helped the Overlord at the time of the battle. ❌

- Also, what kind of gift shop is this? There’s not even a register or place to buy stuff! ❌

- This is the second time in this series that Cole and Kai have fallen for that stupid gumball trick! Come on, guys! You’re better than this ❌

- The ninja demolish this gift shop. Ya know, guys, sh*t like this is why you get replaced by a 5-pack of colored sharpies in 14 seasons from now ❌

- I knew we were gonna get to this eventually, so, let’s talk Misako: the writers did not give a sh*t when writing her. Like they just threw the most half-a*sed explanation for her being gone this whole time that they had and said “yeah that works” and did not look back and I will never forgive them for that ❌

- Further, they could make her so much more interesting! Imagine if we got an adventurer who craves knowledge but has absolutely no concept of her own personal safety. In “The Island,” she went into the Storm Belt - which Pix notes as extremely dangerous - for funsies! I just think she could’ve been so much better if they leaned more heavily into that characterization! (And also stopped using her as just a plot device) ❌

- Misako has been in Ninjago City this whole time and hasn’t thought to check on her kid? He’s been on tv, lady! ❌

- “You’re so much bigger than I remember…” Has she been keeping track of the years since she’s been gone? You’d think she’d know he looks older than what he’s supposed to be ❌

- “Ooh, there! Is that the island?” “Where?!” *pushes Garm off helicopter* “AUUGGGHHH” I’m sorry, I know I shouldn’t be laughing rn but,,, come on. It was so? Easy?? And quick and why is this clip never put in any out of context compilations? ✅

- “There’s nothing you could say…” “Well, I’m going to talk anyway.” Please, Lloyd! She just wants to reach you about your car’s extended warranty! ❌

- “Long before Wu ever knew who would be the Green Ninja, I knew it would be you!” Misako watches more movies than any other character in this entire show ❌

- I’m still confused as to why she dropped her kid off at an EVIL boarding school ❌

- “Long before time had a name…” every time. Every d*mn time this line comes up, followed by the music, it gives me goosebumps. ✅

- “I had hoped if I had kept the secret, that name would never be spoke again…” I. Hate. Wu. ❌

- “Instead of losing the war, he divided Ninjago in two.” So, would this be a god-like being’s equivalent of flipping the chess board when your opponent is about to win? Cuz I can’t get that imagery out of my head.

- “But faced with saving you and the world, I had no other choice.” There were a few other choices, but this is getting a bit long so ❌

- “WOAH! Excuse me, will someone please tell me… WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!?” Jay’s voice actor goes OFF and I ADORE it so much ✅

- “Wow. In my mind’s eye I saw that playing out entirely differently.” Kai ✅

- Lloyd helps Zane up because brothers :) ✅

- “Pick up the pace!” Lloyd, you’re the only one lagging behind ❌

- I know they don’t have much other choice, but the ninja still have far too easy a time condemning one of their own to death ❌

- “I say we give the kid a shot!…” The kid. x2!✅

- “Be careful Lloyd, and good luck!” “Thanks, mom.” Was this supposed to be a resolution? Cuz it was a terrible one ❌

- The Overlord’s voice mixed with the way the camera switches from regular to almost infrared-looking vision is amazing at setting the scene! ✅

- I have no idea how Lloyd manages to set up this trap in such short time, or where he got the materials for it ❌

- “Paper beats rock!” Okay, writers. I see what you did, and it was clever. ✅

- “I feel like the balance has brought us together.” If you take literally ANY sentence from this episode to the S2 finale and replace the use of the word “balance” with “plot convenience,” you will find that the meaning stays exactly the same. In fact, it actually makes MORE sense! ❌

- “If that’s okay with my son.” Ya know what, at the very least, this episode does the bare minimum by having Lloyd’s consent for Misako to stay. I’ll give it that ✅

- “4 hands. Is that a coincidence?” Garmadon steals my job ❌

- The Dark Island and the island of Ninjago both form dragons that are intended to mimic the yin and yang symbols, which is a nice detail ✅

- However, (please correct me if I’m wrong) yin and yang aren’t meant to represent good and evil so much as they represent opposite forces. Ex: summer and winter, day and night, etc.. So, doesn’t that mess with the metaphor? ❌

Sentence: Get paper-ed

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Everything Right/Wrong with Ninjago “Legacy of the Green Ninja” E6: Wrong Place, Wrong Time

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- This episode f*cking exists ❌

- Intro ✅

- Why is Nya carrying a whole-a*s watermelon into the training room? ❌

- “If I had focused more when I was little I would’ve seen that coming.” Buddy chill, you’re like 11 now ❌

- “We cannot change the past, but we can improve for the future.” Get it? Cuz it’s about time? And this is a time travel episode? GET IT???? ❌

- Wasn’t the City of Ouroboros destroyed? ❌

- “We’ll head straight for them.” Golly, this episode sure is moving fast! Surely this means we’ll have more time to flesh out and explain later events that happen, right?….. r-right…? ❌

- Wait, why did Nya come to the fight without her suit? I know she can fight without it but it’d still give them better chances ❌

- Garmadon reacts way too casually to seeing his son double in height in just a few days ❌

- “If only [the ninja] never existed!” If Garmadon was really smart, he’d go back to before they were born and kick Ray in the n- ❌

- “Now, to finish the ninja once and for all, so that my son never becomes the Green Ninja!” Or so that he never lives past age 8 but go off, king ❌

- “Garmadon’s gone back in time to make it so Lloyd never turns into the Green Ninja!” Well that was a quick conclusion based off of limited evidence… ❌

- “Remind me to pack a helmet next time we time travel…” No one reminds him. ❌

- “But we can’t let the old Kai or Nya see that we talked to [Wu],” The ninja get that Kai and Nya can’t see them, which means in order for them to not come to same conclusion for Wu, they have to all consider him some separate, omnipotent being instead of an actual person. Realistically, this wouldn’t be Wu’s fault and would be the result of the ninja just being idiots, but I’m gonna blame Wu anyway ❌

- “I believe a big uh-oh is in order.” Little late for that, Snowflake ❌

- Wu sympathizer I am not, but even I have to admit that Wu is going through it this episode. My guy has NO idea what’s happening and I don’t blame him ❌

- “I’m wise…” Let’s agree to disagree ❌

- Why do Jay and Zane’s poses in the photo remain the exact same even when Lloyd (who they have their arms around) fades completely out? Also, wouldn’t Kai not be in the pic? In this reality he never joined them, right? ❌

- Wait, if, back in the pilots, Garmadon baited Kai into grabbing the Sword of Fire, which ultimately led to Wu (and the golden weapons) being taken to the Underworld, which led to him escaping it, and now in the reality he’s trying to create, Kai wouldn’t join the team… does that mean he never escapes the Underworld? Has he thought this plan through? ❌

- “You have to convince Kai to go with you.” “Why?” Jay either forgets why they’re here, or just hates Kai. ❌

- I know the Skulkin are morons but how do none of them recognize Garm’s helmet? ❌

- Past Kai reacts way too casually to being sh*t talked by his own reflection ❌

- Also, Infinity Train’s “Chrome Car” episode looks different here (pls someone get this reference)

- Cool fight scene and all, but it directly implies that Jay, Cole and Zane’s fighting abilities haven’t improved at ALL in all this time ❌

- The only good thing in this entire episode is getting to see Kai deck his pilot-self in the face. Instant relief let me tell ya ✅

- In the pilots it takes about a week to get to this point. The ninja have been here for a week. The skulkin haven’t returned home in a WEEK. ❌

- “I don’t understand… I have 4 arms…” WHY IS THAT ALWAYS THE PART PEOPLE FIXATE ON?!?!?! ❌

- “Great😦 Scott😥” GREAT SCOTT?!?!? With each second of this episode I can feel my brain deteriorate more and more! ❌

- “Why are we still here?” Where tf are you planning to go?!?!? YOU HAVE NO PLAN TO GET BACK TO THE FUTURE!!! ❌

- “I don’t stand a chance against Garmadon’s 4 arms!” Past Kai has been a ninja for a couple weeks. Garmadon has been training to fight for actual CENTURIES. Yet, our biggest f*cking concern right now IS HIS GODD*MN ARMS?!?!?!?!? ❌

- “2 Kais?” “Yeah!” WHY IS PAST KAI ACTING SO NORMAL ABOUT THIS???? ❌

- “It could be possible to erase the events that have transpired so far by destroying the Mega Weapon that brought us here in the first place.” WHAT. ❌

- the Garmadons are doing this handshake for nearly HALF. A f*cking. Minute. I timed it ❌

- “No time to find out how you got [the golden weapons]!” WHAT? WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW?!?! ❌

- “Return to the future?” I’m not dealing with another godd*mn voice mix-up after this sh*t ❌

- “My father has a mega weapon???” *very, very long sigh* If the mega weapon doesn’t exist, Why. Is. Lloyd. Not. 8. ❌

- I have no idea how Lloyd makes a dragon out of this watermelon slice but I also don’t have the energy to come up with a joke for it ❌

- “I think some things are best left in the past. Come on, let’s just prepare for the future!” “I don’t get it.” Me either, Green Bean… me either ❌

- Foreshadowing. Because of course, this is going to be the one episode that is brought up again in the future ❌

- Let’s be honest here: this episode was just an excuse to get rid of the mega weapon because it was too OP, and now that we’re getting into the actual plot of the season, the writers had no clue what to do with it ❌

Sentence: I’m gonna go lay down