#AND AND AND more nezha and red son screentime

[ritz-writes]

if we dont finally see what happened between macaque and wukong in s5 i think i might actually explode

[poppyplate]

minor season 5 spoilers for lmk!!!

(some sketches + my thoughts on the new season :0)

this season was so good!! i'm gonna put my long rant about my thoughts below, just cause i have a lot of things i wanna talk about :3

animation: ik the animation change was jarring for some people and i did almost cry about flying bark leaving the show when the news first dropped, but i honestly think wildbrain did a great job and the animation is still super cute and fun. it's definitely different and you can tell, but they still do all the silly animation things that flying bark did and this season honestly had some of my favourite humor (visual and otherwise).

i'll definitely miss the old animation, fully hand drawn 2D animation is becoming harder to come by in cartoons now so it's sad to see this show lose one of the most exciting aspects of it, but i'm looking forward to seeing how wildbrain does in the following season(s?). i'm honestly just glad we're getting more monkie kid content.

plot: i did enjoy the plot they set up. this season did feel different pacing wise? if that makes sense. not that it's necessarily bad i just noticed it felt a bit different. i'm really excited to see more about this whole chaos thing.

ik li jing wasn't necessarily a villain, but he was an antagonist for a bit so i'm adding my two cents about him and nezha. i didn't love what they did with their story arc, but ik there's only so much that can be done in a 10 episode season where each episode is only 10 minutes long. i think their arc would've just benefited from more time :(

villain(s): i think the nine headed demon is such an interesting character (even though he did confuse me a bit) so i hope we get to see more of him. probably my favourite big bad so far personality-wise.

main characters: i'm glad sun wukong had more screentime this season!! he always either isn't around or gets trapped, so it's nice that he was present again.

i definitely felt this season focused a lot more on the monkie trio, which was bound to happen, but i like them so i was fine with it. idk how much of a redemption arc macaque is trying to have, but i kind of hope it's not a standard redemption arc. not that i didn't enjoy macaque's character this or any other season, i do like him most of the time. i just personally hope they keep him as more of a neutral figure even if he does stick around with the group.

i don't have much to say on mk that hasn't already been said. i love the guy and i hope he gets to be happy again soon T^T

side characters? ig: i thought mei and red son's episode was cute. i love dragonfruit interactions a lot, but i do hope red son gets some more screentime next season cause i miss him </3

i am happy sandy got some more screentime though, his episode with mk was cute. also tang was so real this season, he's just like me fr (i hate manual labor).

other notes and whatnot: this season felt shorter somehow, even though it wasn't and i'm not sure if we'll be getting a special like we always do or if they're just going to move on to the next season. either way, i'm excited to see where it goes from here.

although i wasn't in love with the ending of this season, it just felt a tad rushed and i definitely think we would've benefited from a few special episodes again.

i'd give this season a solid 8/10. i would love to go through all the episodes and share my thoughts on them, but i'm just gonna share my ranking of the episodes.

(i feel pretty even with 1-2 and 3-5)

1. collar the king

2. temple of the goddess

3. the cage

4. sacrifice

5. strings that bind

6. into the pagoda

7. claim to flame

8. harbinger

9. the storm within

10. festival fugitives

[thrandilf]

Oof, yeah. People in fandom spaces really love making every parent abusive, and the way they so desperately want to pretend that it‘s canon is exhausting.

I‘m baffled every time I see it. Parent barely raises their voice, and doesn’t immediately whisper an apology?

ABUSE

Parent puts their foot down in any situation where they are at odds with their kid?

ABUSE

Parent grieves a little too hard for a little too long, and isn’t present at 100% capacity?

ABUSE

And it always feels like surface level teen angst that is blown way out of proportion. It‘s especially telling when you notice the pattern of 'the child has never done anything wrong, ever, in their life.' Because at that point the projecting, and not wanting to take responsibility for their own actions becomes painfully obvious. Because blaming the parents is easier than accepting a characters flaws.

(unless these flaws are; 'cares too much' or 'being insecure'. Because those are cutesy enough I guess 🙄)

AND THEN there is the fact that, putting actual mythology aside, Nezha and Red Son are treated as LITERAL ADULTS IN THE SHOW.

*incomprehensible screaming*

Sorry for the vent, I got a little heated. But I‘m so fucking glad there’s at least some people in the fandom who agree that the bastardizing of characters is getting way out of hand.

I'm right here with you anon I've also been a bit heated but YEAH

No what kills me about LMK is how the parents in question may be a bit gruff/rough around the edges, DBK is someone who's generally like that regardless of who he's talking to

But never does Red Son or Nezha even face consequences when they do screw up in their parent's eyes

Like abusive parents will have that undercurrent of Bad even when nothing's gone wrong but here even when THEY DO fuck up there's no consequences

And when they don't it isn't a Toxic Bad dynamic either

AND AS YOU SAY Red Son and Nezha are also both portrayed as adults in LMK and while they do want to make their parents proud and care about their opinion they are on much more of a peer level than someone would be if they were an actual kid/teen

Same with Mei because I've seen bad takes on her parents but in canon it's literally just "we don't see eye to eye/we have our own familial/cultural expectations which you don't share but we love you and are proud of you and we don't care that our entire house is wrecked and that you took the sword we're glad you have it" like HELLO? But people will act like she should cut them off or they're bad parents

Like Mei and Nezha's parents both overtly say they're proud in the limited screentime they have while caring about their children who they naturally have differences with but that's It.

And Red Son's parents are down to just do whatever he wants I guess re food truck family business and it's just. oh yeah I'm sure they don't value his opinion huh like sure DBK likes cooking but this was clearly Red Son's idea.

[jellytamalies]

more lmk season 4 stuff

First off, honerable mentions to Red son may he rest in peace

should have known after he got so much screentime in season 3 he would just dissapear (still, i forgive them for the end scene where we get to see him getting bullied at the beach)

[warning ridiculously long post ahead]

Next, first impressions.

Man I thought this was going to be a fun "oh look we get to see the original journey to the west and it will be goofy hyjinks" but NO

NOPE instead there is pain PAIN, you are not defined by your past but you must learn from it, breaking away from destiny, and so much trama

all for our favorite mystic monkeys

Mk

poor mk. I spent half this season just in SHAMBLES. my son is getting so many new tramas

Also aperantly pigsy and sun's son. Like. what was up with that second one

(okay i am shocked and happy they really faced the whole, MK kinds considers Pigsy his father figure (especally with the fact that pigsy raised? him or at least found him). I already thought that but i didnt think they would directly say it)

Appearntly MK was born from a rock

awesome

(ok seriously. When i first started watching lmk (esp around S2) I had a burning curiosity around Mk's backstory. At that time i wasn't sure why, I just chalked the vaugness up to "oh fun lego show for kids, of course they're not going to explore their backstories in extreme length" but damn, this route was, something. And really it is was kind of suspicious how they said absolutely nothing about where he's from, nothing on parents, past life before pigsy's noodles, not even his Full Name)

Awsome how MK's monkey powers are purposely Not Adressed. I sure hope no new issues and trama wont result from that (sidenote: I think it's very intresting how the music during MK's monkey scenes isn't triumphant, even when he is beating the 'bad guy'. There's some level of horror)

Anyway. Moving on to other characters

Nezha. Bro

In season 3 i liked this guy, but s4 made me absolutely adore him.

Take that sass back young man, why you so grumpy (tbf I would be too)

Sun wukong

Love how we're really diggin our fingers into his story. Even an eternity later, he still has major issues (love that guy. whats his problem)

Macaque :)

yeah i like macaque <- said by person who is absolutely NOT NORmal about macaque

Mei

She really had to step up for the comedic relief role in this season (not that she didn't have good character growth) because of MK's impeding mental breakdown

probably because of all the attention she got last season lol

Sidenote: Mei's ancestor. What a guy

In general I love how they looked at their prior narrative, shattered into peices, stitched it back together and examined the cracks

Why does MK have his super awesome powers? How is he so strong? Whats up with all this crazy stuff happened all in a short span of time?

Most of it would be chalked up to "cartoon logic" but they are going and exploring what's going on with that

Poke holes at your character's flaws, They can't always win with sheer power and determination alone

What happnens when you can't just win with the power of friendship?

you could argue that they Did win with the power of friendship, but at the same time it was very tested. Their dark reflection, Azure lion. What happens when your friendship leads you astray. You try to win by sticking with your friends, but now you've become with villain

What makes you a hero of your story

[infernothechaosgod]

My only issue with monkie kid (specificly season4)

It's the screen time The biggest issue we have is the screen time

Lego monkie kid is an amazing show I woud change almost nothing about it, it feels nearly perfect, we have golden boy mc that's friends with AAAAAA a woman and they don't end up together, we have lot's lot's of cool ass villians with desings so cool I can most likley tell some tears were shared over them in the character desing room, we have great found family dynamic, we have representation of mental health and how important it is, and it's all based off mythlogy wich is 200% my thing and I love it and love everything based off it...

It's great

it has great characters and that is sometimes the problem god dame it!

Now let me explain

How is them having great characters a problem isn't that everyones goal?

Yes

And no

You want to have a great character with cool desing great story and fans if there gonna have more that goddamn 45 seconds of screentime!

In case you didn't guess yet I'm talking about nezha and red son

There both great characters and that's ther biggest flaw with ther abount of screentime

Starting with nezha. . .

Just look at his desing it's fricking gorgeous it has so many details and we can tell lot's of research about nezha's weapons and story went into it, he has a great voice (at least I think so) he has that big build up intro where he fights sun wukong 1 on 1 and we already expect him to be of a bigger threat becuse of simply how his desing looks and how he's written we expect him to have a bigger role!

Now onto redson

The whole show woudn't happend without that red mf, he's the one who picked up the staff, he is the one that made an army of bull clones, he made the whole spider-infected city go back to normal

My boy has done so much for this series yet we still have no idea

How his relationship with the gang is, like did they fully split up? is he back with his parents? are things better for him now? Are his parent's still pretty shitty to him or did we miss something and there good now? Does he miss the gang? will he be friends with them? when was even the last time she saw the gang becuse we didn't see her for a whole season

WE DON'T KNOW AND WE WISH TO

Both nezha and red son are amazingly written characters and they both deserve more screentime

And if they won't get that screentime before the show ends the fact there written so well will be ther biggest flaw

[hyperfixation-tangentopia]

Hellu! How are you?

I was just wondering what your favorite relationships (ships or platonic) in LMK are?

Anyways I hope you have a good day!

YES I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE

Also kinda meh but watched some Monkie Kid so my day's been mostly alright

OKAY

To absolutely nobody's surprise Wukong and Macaque

I just like them okay

I flip between them being brothers and something not quite platonic but not romantic either depending on the situation

Like in my mind they do a lot of the romantic stuff without actually being romantically involved but also being friends and something else?? But not a QPR? Idk they're a mess. Or they're bff-brothers, depending on what I'm consuming or what fits my mood. Either way they're a relationship that can't quite be explained in normal words and you just kinda have offshoots before and after everything

MK and Mei (I was scared they were going to go down the haunted route of M MC and F MC get together but they shut that down quick in Calabash and I've never felt so terrified then so relieved in my life)

Red Son and Mei

Not much screentime there but the possibilities - especially in relation to Red Son's abusive family dynamic - are ENDLESS and I love it

Pigsy and Tang

Enough said

(No but seriously I will elaborate if someone needs I don't mind)

Umm DBK and PIF are cute

As a couple

Uhhhhhhh I know I'm forgetting people

Peng and Macaque is fun

I know you said ships and platonic and so was probably expecting something more on the friendly side but while I don't ship these guys AT ALL I am ready for Peng's feathery behind to become FRIED CHICKEN by Macaque

Nezha and Red Son stuff is cute, not really canon yet though

Wukong and MK is GREAT and I love how they have both of them seeing each other as this shining light and themselves in each other's shadows (because especially not even I will pass up a chance to reference Shadow Play but there is real reason here lol). MK believing Wukong is this flawless hero with all the answers and Wukong being flawed and scrambling for answers as much as the rest of them. MK mirroring parts of Wukong that aren't as great. It's awesome.

Yes I love MK and Macaque with my heart and soul no I will not elaborate on my feelings on these two because unlike Wukong there is no easy cut-off for a rant.

I know I'm forgetting people so sorry

You might be able to tell I'm not much of a shipper in this show lol basically every relationship is platonic or something undescribable to me, with a couple qprs and the only romantic one being the canon one

I will still ramble about them anyway

You have an awesome day and thank you SO MUCH FOR THE ASK!!! Genuinely lit up. Words might be weird because I haven't slept for almost 48 hours (yeah yeah getting to it) sorry!

[yurious-george]

i agree with everything, but man, i do think lmk struggles as a show with a few 10min episodes per season, and most of that runtime being taken up by action sequences. the show is doing AMAZING things with its storytelling with those constraints, but in turn every character that isn't mk, wukong, or mac really suffers from lack-of screentime-itis. sandy has a decent amount of potential to be interesting, but just never gets the chance!

i really hope the show has several years in it and still takes breaks to be more episodic in some seasons. wukong and mac reconciling seems like an overarching plot point and tbh i don't want us to hit it too soon. i hope sandy, pigsy, and tang (but especially sandy) get their 'mei moment'; as in, the show majorly jumbles up the status quo to keep the side characters relevant. i absolutely love what they did with the sahmaadi fire, i was honestly kind of expecting mei to get sidelined that season!

i also hope for more nezha and dbf; i was shocked the dbf just got... dropped. please come back guys red son didnt finish his character arc

drop a bitterbomb about lmk or the fandom, just go ham. i am here for that mk rant

Hmmm I don't think I have a complaint about lmk itself! (Except maybe the fat clone joke, but I have my man Pigsy so it evens out for me). I really love this show with my whole heart, and though I can be bitter about some things (toh, shera, recently nimona) I do try to give things the benefit of the doubt if I can tell there's real heart and thought behind something. And lmk? So much thought goes into this show, you can feel how talented these writers are!

As for the fandom. *Ahem* *Gets on top of my soap box.* This is a lot of power you've given me.

Like I said in my tags, MK is so often relegated to the role of "therapist" it's shocking. I think a lot of folk view MK and Steven (from Steven Universe) as the same character, and while there's fun similarities, MK is very different from Steven. Steven is definitely the group therapist and ends up having to be the most emotionally mature of all the crystal gems, struggling to keep everyone above water. MK on the other hand has to rely an incredible amount on everyone around him, rarely being the one to actually give comfort himself. MK just also isn't really a character with a "I can fix them" mentality. He's not going out of his way to redeem anyone, except the person in front of him who he thinks can help save his friends/the universe.

Maybe this is a bold take, but I view MK as someone who would choose his friends over the world (he also literally does so in 4x02). He is not a selfless world-first kind of hero, which makes his guilt over getting the world in trouble all the more delightful to watch.

So, it's always surprising to me when I see MK being the one to comfort other characters (namely Red Son and Macaque), when Mei is LITERALLY right there. Our hopepunk shonen protag girly. She's the one to usually do the comforting (along with the rest of the gang), but I think in general a lot of people sleep on Mei.

Which brings me to my second rant: another thing that's kind of disappointing/annoying about the fandom is how pretty much Sun Wukong and Macaque are the only two characters, with MK as a third to promote some kind of interaction between the other two. Sometimes I play a game with myself of seeing how far I can scroll the lmk tag before I see a post about only Sandy.

Which, lmk has such a wonderful cast of characters, it's kind of sad seeing fan content only about Wukong and Macaque—now don't get me wrong, I also love those monkeys, but there's also a lot more characters to explore! Mei is one of my favorite characters, and I think Tang has one of my favorite arcs in the show (3x08 is such a good episode. I am also a big fan of 4x03).

And, god. For all the fan content about Wukong and Macaque those two definitely get the brunt of the blorbofication.

In canon? They're very flawed and fucked up immortals who have hurt themselves and others. But in the fandom? UWU Precious sad boys who blush. It's kind of maddening. Originally I had a lot of people mad at me in my notes for thinking sweet boy Sun Wukong knew MK was a monkey the whole time/involved in MK's creation. Like. I legitimately can not believe there was discourse on twitter about Wukong being a "deadbeat dad". Have you seen this man. Hello. He's an asshole, but he's our asshole, and he tries.

[vanilla-villainsstuff]

HERE'S MY THOUGHTS ON ALL THE MAJOR SHIPS IN LMK

I dunno how controversial this is so...

Takes cover

I don't really like the idea of ppl shipping Nezha with anybody for two reasons:

In the original JTTW, he's mentally and physically a 12 year old who happens to be immortal. Meaning he looks and acts like a preteen. Now, in the show it seems that they made Nezha closer to MK's age. (who's probably 18-20 years old.) I don't really know why this decision was made, but I ain't touching that grey area with a ten foot pole.

Secondly, He... doesn't really have any romantic chemistry with anyone? Sure, he hasn't gotten much screentime but I can't really see Nezha being romantically involved with anyone, he just... doesn't seem to really care for it all that much. (Personally I hc him as aro-ace)

As for Dragonfruit, ehhh...I can see the appeal? It just seems kinda...repetitive as a ship? If Red Son and Mei were love interests, it would more or less be "Red Son not understanding social cues or social interactions or taking things too seriously and Mei helping him out." I don't think it's me being biased towards hetero ships cuz well, there are hetero ships I fucking love it's just, Dragonfruit just lacks that "umph!" factor, y'know? That deeper thing that makes it really stand out as a ship. It's a neat ship, don't get me wrong, I just don't really see why others really like it or make it their otp. Especially since Red Son and Mei seem to hate the idea of being together as seen in Revenge of the Spider Queen, it just seems like ppl are shipping them for no other reason than Red Son and Mei have funny/well written interactions in the show.

Now, why did I put Spicynoodles at the "should be canon" tier and not Dragonfruit? Well...

MK and Red Son are both bad at social interaction/social cues in completely opposite ways. MK is extremely impulsive, impatient, and hyperactive, which causes him to indirectly put him and/or his friends in danger to the point where multiple episodes are dedicated to explaining to MK to take it down a couple of notches. Meanwhile, Red Son is bad at social interaction/social cues because he's sheltered, overly serious, and hot tempered. If Red Son and MK were to be love interests, it could potentially balance things out. (MK showing Red how to let loose and appreciate others' company, and Red reeling MK in from doing something stupidly impulsive.)

Red Son and MK are also very inexperienced with romance, Red Son moreso. Red Son never seems to take romance into consideration, and again, was offended at the idea of being Mei's partner. I'd hazard a guess that Red never had a crush on or dated anyone before. Now, MK'S a different story...MK is explicitly shown to have interest in other men and see them as attractive, (See MK call DBK "Demon Daddy", calling Monkie King "handsome", and never expressing the same with women) so he's definitely had crushes on a few guys before, but it doesn't seem like he's ever dated anyone. So it would be super interesting to see both Red Son and MK figure out the whole dating thing as they go along

The reason why I believe it should be canon is because it could bring out a side of both the characters we don't really see and having both of them discover significant, new things about themselves. It could really flesh them out in a really interesting way and they'd have a very stand out dynamic

So... ShadowPeaches, amirite? But seriously, why do I think it should be canon? Well, I would explain in excruciating detail but this post is already hella fucking long and I'd rather go more in depth on ShadowPeaches in a post all about that ship exclusively.

(Also, to all the dumb brains out there spreading misinformation about JTTW, lemme put this misconception to bed now... MACAQUE AND WUKONG WERE NEVER BROTHERS IN JTTW! Buddha stated that they're vaguely a part of the same species, but not brothers. Wukong and Macaque have precisely zero deeper connection to each other in JTTW, Macaque's birth was never even detailed in the book and Wukong doesn't even have parents. I have researched this topic for weeks, I've read parts of the original JTTW, I have even talked with actual Chinese people on this stupid ass issue, and as far as I can tell, this is just a stupid fan theory being passed off as canon by non-Chinese ppl who haven't read or even properly researched the original JTTW. Shut the actual fuck up, I don't want to hear it.)

And finally, why is it gross to ship MK with Macaque/SWK? After all, didn't I myself say that MK is probably a legal adult, so shouldn't shipping them be fine? No, because it's not about the age thing (although it kinda is) it's about the massive, collosal, power imbalance that could manifest.

While MK is 18-20 years old, SWK and Macaque are very likely to be at least 1,000 years old. (SWK and Macaque were friends years before the events of JTTW, in the original JTTW, SWK gets put under a mountain for 500 years, and in the events of LMK, SWK went missing after sealing DBK under a mountain for another 500 years, so if we're assuming that LMK is following the same lore as JTTW, SWK and Macaque are at least 1,000 years old) Although it seems that Macaque and SWK are mentally and physically middle aged, which still isn't any better. Point being, a romantic relationship between MK and these two would be the equivalent of a 30 year old dating an 18 year old.

Secondly, SWK and Macaque are MK'S teachers and guardians, SWK moreso. A romantic relationship between them would be pretty fucked since SWK is affectively MK'S superior in everyway. MK wants to be SWK'S successor, wants to be close to him, wants to be a stronger person, and SWK having romantic feelings towards MK would just seem like...borderline grooming. Like I'm sorry, but that's why most college teachers, therapists, and doctors have a strict "no dating students/clients" rule since that could potentially lead to their students/clients to be taken advantage of because they're eager/vulnerable.

Now here's the thing: Why is shipping MK with the 1,000 year old SWK/Macaque wrong, but shipping him with the 420 (ha) year old Red Son is fine? Well, multiple reasons, the major ones being that Red looks mentally and physically to be around the same age as MK (both are still coming into their own, both aren't quite mature, plus Red Son is described as a "boy genius", so yeah, Red probably just ages a lot slower in comparison to mortals). Secondly because Red Son and MK are equals, Red isn't MK'S mentor or anything. But yeah to sum it up: even though MK X SWK/Macaque isn't technically p*dophila or whatever, it's still a massive power imbalance and comes off as gross. Stop it.

Andddd... that's all of my main thoughts on these ships! Hope you found this enjoyable, thanks for reading! :)

[pyrobun]

lmk season 4 predictions

ok. so. I just finished Lego Monkie Kid and WOW I am impressed by literally everything. If you haven’t seen the show yet, go do it! Mostly since what I’m going to talk about is my predictions for season 4. Everything under the cut because season 3 spoilers wooo

So season 3 ended off with the promise of a whopping four different plotlines: 

Mei and Red Son training to control the Samadhi fire

Tang, Pigsy, and Sandy going to find Mei and bring her back

Wukong going off alone to fight Lady Bone Demon

MK and Nezha going after Wukong

There’s no way that the writers will have time to show all of these plotlines equally, so I imagine that the two main plots will be Mei & Red Son’s training and MK & Nezha going after Wukong. Wukong fighting LBD will probably be similar to his “vacation” in season 2, where its short and happens mostly offscreen, or something that only happens in the finale. He could even lose which opens a whole other can of worms. Honestly, we might not even get a final battle against LBD this season, but I’ll elaborate on that later. Unfortunately, I doubt that Tang, Pigsy, and Sandy will be all that important in season 4. Maybe they’ll have one episode or some highlights, but other than that they won’t be too important in the grand scheme of things.

I don’t think Macaque will have a lot of screentime/presence compared to season 3 unless LBD drags him kicking and screaming back into the plot (looking at you, EvilMacaqueA which implies that a B version exists unless its when he’s all half ice in the finale). He’s a character that works best as a chaotic third party who appears to shake things up and then leave without elaborating. I’m not saying his season 3 appearance was bad in any way, in fact I quite enjoyed it, however he should definitely step back in season 4 to give room to LBD. At the very least, he’s probably going to show up in 1 episode and hopefully provide some backstory to what happened between him, Wukong, and LBD.

The reason that I think that there’s a chance we won’t get a final battle against LBD is because we simply don’t have enough context about her yet, and considering the aforementioned four plotlines, that leaves little room for any at all. The only way I see it happening is if the writers dedicated an episode to Wukong and Macaque’s fight, with a scene showing what happened in the aftermath with LBD and Macaque. I think that LBD will definitely have more screentime in season 4 as a whole, now that Macaque left her a slot as the main antagonist of the season.

As for LBD’s plan of erasing the memory of Wukong from the world, I’m pretty excited to see how they do that. We know that Wukong is basically a celebrity in LMK (he has his own cereal brand! and an animated series!) so seeing all of that suddenly wiped away (or replaced with Macaque, if JTTW is considered) is such a chilling concept. I do hope she temporarily succeeds in that front, because it’s an interesting direction for the show to go. Also, it all but confirms that she did in fact tamper with Macaque and possibly Wukong’s memories of their battle and subsequent falling out. Maybe season 4 will end with LBD’s plan succeeding, leading to a season 5 with the world no longer remembering Wukong.

Other misc. predictions/hopes I have for season 4:

LBD’s host breaks free (at least temporarily)

Lots of Mei character development! And her finishing off LBD in the end

Rumble and Savage appear or are mentioned at all

Tang, Pigsy, and Sandy are confirmed to be reincarnations of their JTTW counterparts

MK gets the Golden Staff back

Something batshit crazy happens in the finale (and a cliffhanger)

More Wukong backstory

DBK and PIF appearance