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I feel truly bad for anyone who can't get into lmk. Like I completely understand why, I'm just. They're missing out on so much
#Which is valid#Like not everyone can get past the Legos and s1#And that's so fair and respectable#But the payoff. Oh my god so worth it#Honestly 1x09 is also fucking awesome I watched that on loop when I first got into the show#Though back then I was like. ''Oh man look at this really solid ep from the lego show haha!'' <- didn't realize she'd be fucking murdered#1x09 oh 1x09. My first love.#2x05 my second love. 3x10 my third. 4x07 my everything.#lmk rant#imp tag#also crying just realized in learning to accept Wukong and his flaws MK is gonna learn to accept himself. *sobs* it's about love#MK is a reflection of Wukong Wukong is a reflection of MK#my god damn legos#my god damn fucking legos#*sigh*. I'm stalling doing hw. asdfasfdadsfadsf
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Thoughts on LEGO Monkie Kid, pacing, and season 5
Iām taking this from Twitter, but basically this thread aboutĀ āSay something BAD about the show Monkie Kidā came up and my biggest gripe so far has been :Ā The show has way too short episodes. Like, 11min30. And tries to do SO MUCH in those 11min30 that either somethings get scrapped (DBFamily but not just that) or big important elements get solved way too fast (Samadhi fire and broken scroll among other things). And it steams I think from the fact that the show went from episodic to serialised while keeping the same amount of time.Ā
I ramble :Ā I see a lot of newcomers say that they jumped s1 and 2 and really started with s3/4, and while everyone has their reasons I think thatās silly Because that format is what made me love the characters and settings in the first place. The episodes are short, so the show can only focus on a tiny thing, but sprinkled LBD being a menace throughout the season, with the spider gang being a menace. And now ? lBD is still reveared as one of the best villains, and Spidergang is still very appreciated. Same thing for DBF : Red Son was slowly developed through s1, and returned on s3 Granted he wasnāt in s2, but since he was a major part of s1, and the spider queen special, we grew to care about him and the family to an extent. Because thatās what the show is good at ! Characters interactions, character personalities, CHARACTERS !! And now, the show is going for serialised, which is great and maintains attention, but it wants to do too much with the same amount of time: - In s2 : LBD took 10 ep to build her mech. MK started slowly to grow, and his relationships were explored one ep at a time. Slowly. - In s4 : we lose SWK, MK meets Azure, we learn about Tang, Pigsy and Sandy through their ancestors, we start to question MKās existence, Monkey MK, the scroll is a menace, Azure betrays the group, MK loses his mentor and morale, DBF is important but scrolled, the JE is defeated and BAM world explodes we have to kill God in 4 episodes now.Ā
Granted for the characters as well it feels rushed. We donāt have to see everything either. Of course. They have a life outside the show. And overall they did a good job in those 11 bloody minutes 30.
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But
But.
Now that we have a bit of breathing room, maybe itās time to have that character moment by episode weāve been asking for instead of cramming feelings and heartfelt conversations in an episode while the world is teared apart outside. Especially since weāve seen the characters go through hell for a whole season. MK needs to breath but he isnāt the only one. We could have an episode on Red Son and his time in the scroll, an episode on MK going monkey a whole episode, an episode on SWK and Macaque in coloc, an episode on Tang Pigsy and Sandy trying to get back to their lives since theyāre the most normal of the bunch - technically (cuz apparently having episodes focused on them in s4 wasnāt enough to have conversations about it but thatās a gripe i have with the community for LATER). We could have SWK and DBF reminisce on their time together, since DBK is one of the last friend that doesnāt QUITE hate him anymore, or an episode on how Nezha starts rebuilding Heaven by himself while keeping the JE power safe, or an episode on Mei just being awesome honestly, like just Mei observing MK going insane and being the girlboss she is, especially since she went through the wholeĀ āexcess power that could kill everyone you loveā and is still living with that, in a way. That could answer where the Samadhi fire business went. Cuz like in real life some things are tamed but donāt disappear, she might still be struggling but has learned to live with it. And MK is going through a similar path. We could also have Red Son in this one since heās honestly the most controlled in a way.
And through all thatā¦ discretlyā¦ the world starts to break apart again ? Tears appear and with it new monsters and ghosts of the past maybe start seeping from the Underworld ? Maybe an unmasked man tries to prevent Mkās attemps at coming back to some normal because as long as heās confused and scared he stays the Harbinger of Chaos ? Idk ! TL:DR A lot of critics I see sum up as Ā« They should show this more, why did THIS disappear out of nowhere, this is wasted potential Ā», which seeps from the show not having time to show all that happens at once. Maybe itās time to take a breather and tackle the problems one at a time again, ep by ep, like in season 2. And then go back to Ā« Weāre all gonna die in 4 episodes Ā» to get the panic back on track.
Anyway Please come talk to me about the show and your theories, or headcanons about what the characters are doing now that the wreck of S4 has rolled past them. I wanna talk about my babies some more...
#monkie kid theories#monkie kid#lego monkie kid#monkie kid mk#monkie kid mei#monkie kid red son#monkie kid dbk#monkie kid wukong#monkie kid macaque#monkie kid tang#monkie kid pigsy#monkie kid sandy#monkie kid nezha#monkie kid season 4#lmk s4 spoilers#lmk season 4 special spoilers#lmk season 5#i'm putting maybe too many tags but i really just want to converse a bit
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@akita747 (sorry this took so long)
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Jay!
Hell yeah! The lightning ninja. Established early on as someone who literally cannot stop talking, the comic relief, the creative, scrappy guy all about reaching new heights! When we see his flashback sequence in s9, the concept that they stick with is the idea that Jay is a dreamer. Heās pretty ambitious always trying to craft something that will take him above and beyond (as in he was literally trying to make a flying machine), and his element helps symbolise it. Heās into being flashy like lightning, and tries to climb higher (relating to the sky). This ambition does lead to him having a lot of insecurities though, and he has some interesting ways of dealing with them but Iāll elaborate later.
Jayās backstory when itās told in s1, is the most straight forward. I mean, heās the only ninja with both of his parents on regular speaking terms, although he grew up on a junkyard, itās pretty mundane and he has an air of normalcy about him, which he seems to be trying to escape. He does really mundane stuff, like poetry and comic book reading (compared to Cole who abandoned art school to go mountain climbing shirtless). I kinda hc Jay having gone to public school and immediately getting bullied because he was raised in a junkyard and his parents are weird, bc those insecurities have gotta come from somewhere. Heās pretty impressionable too, getting fixated on video games and Cliff Gordon (and those also probably influenced his uhh outlook on women and romance).
Jay has a lot of insecurities. Iāve mentioned his upbringing but also his low self esteem is the crux of his true potential episode. Jayās over the top bravado is him trying desperately to make others like him, almost to the point that he didnāt even tell anyone about the real problems he had (being a snake). The s3-4 love triangle plot follows the same themes; Jay feeling insecure and threatened by Cole, only to reveal that secretly he missed being Coleās best friend and he hadnāt even confronted those feelings until s4. Again in s6, Nadakhan straight up says that Jay makes jokes to hide his deeper insecurities. And yeah I thinks itās understandable why he would be a little insecure considering heās living with shirtless mountain climber Cole, actually gets btiches Kai, literally computer for brain Zane, badass Samurai x Nya, and grandson of god chosen one Lloyd. On top of that, Jay is the most panicky ninja and the main comic relief of the team.
I think his greatest strength is his tenacity to succeed even when heās at a low. As a junkyard boy, he learned to scrap together quick solutions out of barely anything as shown in Hunted, and when all his friends were captured in s6, he scrapped together a new team, and even after quitting the ninja he was able to make it big and score a job as a tv host. Nadakhanās characterisation is supposed to parallel Jay in that, like Jay, Nadakhan also relies on what resources he had, and his own wits. Jayās āfake it til you make itā personality has its use in how he doesnāt stop trying and can find ways to make the most out of his situation. He kinda embodies the message of Lego, being able to build his way to a solution. Heās a dreamer, with his head in the clouds, which makes sense because thatās usually where lightning is.
Although after all thatās happened to Jay, I have sort of a theory/headcanon to do with his perception of reality. Because Jay, since the start, already has some association with not being completely honest. I think Jay having some sort of detachment with reality is really interesting and itās only briefly touched upon in the show. But yknow especially after s6 I think he should because a) Jay literally learned that season that he was adopted, and whilst he still loves his parents dearly, thatās still gonna shake him to find out that he doesnāt know a lot about his past and heritage, b) everyone he loves keep dying and undying again and again and at that point I think death would be even ever so slightly desensitised c) Jay literally bent reality to his will. He is one of the only two people who remember things that never happened, and all the tragedy that happened in his life was erased and promptly ignored. He never tells the other ninja. Heās never seen going back to Cliff Gordonās house. We donāt see him go back for Echo. He isnāt shown to try to look for his mother.
(Crystalised part 1 spoilers)
Ninjago, intentionally or not, does play around with Jay and reality and his sanity in s9 and Crystalised. In s9, whilst Jay knows whatās going on, he just loses any semblance of self preservation and gives up with even the idea of being stressed about a situation so hopeless, and is weirdly at peace with it all. (Spoilers here) In Crystalised, Jay believes Nya is in cups of water and decides to become a hermit, cutting himself off from the world and kinda losing it. Jay tends to lose his grip on reality/lose faith in his situation and I think it might be because heās been through a lot of things that have already made him question his life (s6). Also being separated fro Nya, who he not only loves but also is the only one who can possibly understand what he went through in s6, may have played a role in this.
Itās a shame Prime Empire didnāt really use this, since Prime Empire had all the pieces to have an escapism themed arc for Jay, which I think wouldāve made sense since I think Jay couldāve used escapism to cope with his hardships, even before s6, even being a ninja is an escape from his boring junkyard life). Prime Empire provides a fun, totally harmless (not) adventure than you can physically use to run away from reality. Jay was popular there, and the most skilled there and it was supposed to be his season. I mean it would have been cool if the reason why half of Ninjago entered prime empire is because theyāre also traumatised and want to leave too (just last season they were attacked by fire snakes and eldritch horrors). But they donāt really explore it that much so thereās some missed potential there (one day, Iāll rewrite this season).
Although we can see, ever since s6, some of Jayās insecurities are alleviated. It might just be the writer change, but post 7 Jay seems to be a lot goofier that pre 7 Jay, (the uwuification), and Iām interpreting that as him no longer feeling like he needs to fake bravado in front of everyone else. And thatās nice. Jay has some really good developement, and is a really enjoyable character to watch because heās just so endearing in my opinion. In conclusion, I like Jayās arc and his consistent character traits and his character development, and heās just a really interesting character.
#doodlarambla is again empty of suggestions#you can send me more!! although Iām moving soon so it might take a bit#hair bleach gone wrong and ginger is based of personal experience#pink hair is tricky to get right#I forgot to mention this in the ramble but hidden reminder; jay is incredibly over affectionate and overbearing as in he killed 50#houseplants by watering them too much#ninjago#lego ninjago#doodlarambla#ninjago doodlarambla#Ninjago jay#ninjago jay walker#Jay walker#Ninjago s12#imposter jay#I have more ideas for the prime empire rewrite hahaha#art#digital art#fanart#ninjago analysis
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HI ITāS ME AGAIN I JUST FINISHED S5 IT IS A BANGER
i have A Lot to say about this one because itās very really good
i looked at the cast credits only on episode 10 and promptly found out that morro and lloyd have the same VA (at least in the dub i watched lmao). congrats julien haggege on the range because i geniuenly had no idea
SOOOO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT.
ok letās start with what a great kickoff episode 1 was. everything went batshit RIGHT from the start. i love the scene w the possessed museum guard posing with a hammer behind lloyd. i loooooove how much they leaned into the whole ghost shit and horror tropes with morroās introduction and lloyd just getting fucking possessed.
morro has like, more.. menace? than the previous villains (as much as any of them can be menacing for having little lego faces) because of his first appearance and also just. again the lloyd thing.
which is DELICIOUS btw to just take lloyd out of the team dynamic after heās been so throuroughly integrated into it. holy shit man. itās sooo good how the main four have to struggle without lloyd and how they each try to be the leader and fail horribly at it.
how this is resolved is great too!! the four of them work best without a leader. after cole gets turned into a ghost (also holy shit they really just did that), they kinda just stop picking fights over which of them is better and just stay a team. this is reflected beautifully in the episode 8, grave danger, where each of them takes charge when itās best for them to do so. zane decodes the patterns on the doors, cole gets everyone to give up and fall, jay spots the light in the ground that gets them out of the labyrinth, and kai makes the final call to rescue lloyd. thatās some good shit.
ALSOOO this season is so good to nya!! i heard abt morro and nyaās water ninja thing and cole being ghosted on my ventures through the ninjago tag, but i didnāt expect it to be... all the same season. i did not.
i like a looot how nyaās weakness got cast here, because sheās always been just. good. at everything. and THATāS HER WEAKNESS ITāS GIFTED KID SYNDROME. if she canāt get something right first try she gives up and that is an accurate weakness for her to have without betraying the strength sheās had throughout the show. sheās soo set on being a samurai that she Cannot fathom being a ninja and she has to get over herself. itās so good. i like that one scene after cole gets ghosted where the two bond a bit over how their lives got turned upside down suddenly at the same time, and i also liked how she picking up on roninās laidback nature (which wu calls a bad influence) is actually what helped her out. she needed to take things less seriously so she can allow herself to fail without getting frustrated. THIS SEASON IS SO GOOD TO NYA FR.
ANOTHER THING ABT NYA i love how her development kinda mirrors like, the boys in season 1, with how everyoneās harping about her true potential, because thatās where sheās at, elemental powers wise. she is at her own personal season 1 right now, and itās treated as such. sooo poggers. she had a lot of moments where she got held back by wu again (a recurring trend prior boooo wu) and she always had frustration at this (the only reason i accepted this) so i love love love how itās SHE who sinks the. preeminent? is that the english name. (german dub calls it the Ur-Evil because it likes being stupid like that). itās soo cool nya youāre cool again after s3.
THEREāS JUST. A LOT OF SEASON 1 PARALLELS IN GENERAL LIKE. morroās obsession with being the green ninja is exactly like the boys in s1 and esp kai i think. like in s4 we saw that heās still not entirely over that jealousy so morro feels in a way like a bad end kai even though heās mostly played as a foil to lloyd. abandoned by fate vs chosen by destiny ysee ysee.
i get why so many people like him he has a LOT of potential esp since like his past connection to wu is just. haha wu you fucked up my man.
it SLAPS how morro just kept lloyd for Eight Whole Episodes. all ghosts can do possession and SOME of them do but for the most part itās Just Morro who does which makes him stand out and the ninja not wanting to hurt lloyd in fights is fun. adds to him being so Goddamn Angry all the time. again same VA which i
morro as a villain also really adds to the whole theme of this season which is teamwork (as it often is) but this time in particular itās how you canāt do everything alone. morro has his goons yeah but he ultimately is a loner and thatās capped off by him refusing to take wuās hand in the final episode and going under. sayonara my man.
teamwork as the theme also came on strong again with (gestures at the main four struggling without lloyd and only moving forward once they work as a unit without a set leader). and maybe how ronin only manages to truly save his soul once he starts supporting the ninja without ulterior motives.
ronin was a rlly good supporting character imo! i think itās funny how heās introduced as having a past with the ninja who hate his guts meanwhile iām going āshould i know who this guy is?????ā heās not a bad guy necessarily just greedy but then the reason for him being greedy is introduced (sold his soul to a ghost and is trying to buy it back) and like itās cool how his arc ends with him dumping all his money over morroās head. itās cool! also again his lil thing with nya which iām sooo happy isnāt played romantic. nothing in this season is played romantic actually even that one scene i talked abt with nya and cole iām so glad. love triangle is WELL AND TRULY DEAD AS IT SHOULD BE. let nya exist without a romance subplot for a season so epic so pog.
is it just me or did the lighting in the animation get wayyyy better this season? i was rlly impressed with the lighting on some shots this season which i havenāt been before. itās way more realistic and when i first saw the waterfalls in nyaās training area i was stunned by the water physics in this. generally this season just looked really good by ninjago standards.
the set design was good too i liked the different locations. the ghost aesthetic clichees carried this i like that. wangās house or the city of stiix or the cloud kingdom all vry cool good looking sets. i love how ham they went with the aesthetic too like also sound wise. the ost on this season is BANGER i love the remix for the intro. welcome to scooby doo: masters of spinjitzu.
MORE SEASON 1 THINGS I WANNA TALK ABT. there were some nice callbacks to the pilot eps i appreciated like the guys visiting the caves of despair where they found the scythe of quakes in the pilot. like if you didnt watch the pilot youāre not missing anything but if you did then you know and itās nice <3 also hello morroās skeleton. in any other show discovering a ghostās corpse would be shocking but with the lego skeletons itās just kinda goofy. itās very goofy.
another callback i loved is in the final episode!! because morro tried to ditch lloyd in the underworld which is an amazing callback because itās so thematically appropiate with the whole s1 parallels and that being where garmadon was sealed in the pilot and lloyd being ykno that guyās son and the object of morroās envy. itās vry cool.
some cute things in the final two eps!! lloyd wearing his dadās robe!! thatās so cute what the fuck!! iām gonna gloss over the logistics of that just for how cute it is. previous cute thing is kai actually wearing the headband cyrus made for him even though he was bummed out for not getting a mech. everyone crashes their mechs and kaiās the one getting real utility out of his gift itās cute. i thought the scene of ronin hanging out with skylor was also cute because like. skylor was in a veeery similar position to ronin where she betrayed the ninja for stupid selfish reasons but turned a new leaf and her giving him tea on the house is nice full circle stuff because her extending forgiveness on behalf of the ninja is what motivates ronin to go back and help out in the finale. and itās tea specifically too because of the wuās tea house subplot. thatās just so nice.
I DIDNāT EVEN PROPERLY TALK ABT GHOST COLE YET BECAUSE. THAT SURE HAPPENED. like i KNEW it was gonna happen cuz spoilers cuz i jzst wanted to look at fanart but. dang thatās kinda funny. like there is cole expressing sadness over it with the twice mentioned nya scene and many points where he tries to grab someone and fails but i think itās nice how itās not all bad and if he hadnt been a ghost then nimbus wouldāve def killed the ninja right. i love how cole regularly like... forgets heās a ghost. he forgets he can walk through walls and stuff now and possess things like ykno a ghost because it just kinda feels. in character for him to forget once he figures out how to make himself tangible. itās funny. my favorite is in the ice labyrinth where he throws himself through a wall and slides across the floor to knock morro over.
he and kai got a lot of milage out of both being afraid of water this season. real bonding moment to make the guy who cant swim and the guy who will be vaporized if he touches water consistently the ones closest to water. kai gets a new gimmick to be grouchy about every season and i love that for him <3
talking abt kai again actually. love how heās the one who ultimately saves lloyd and cheers on nya bcuz heās. their big bro. heās the first person who vowed to protect lloyd and by god heās STICKIGN to that. i love that.
okay i think thatās everything i wanted to talk abt here. this is def my longest season review so far. because this season just SLAPS i understand now. i understand. this season fucks.
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Hello friend. At first, I thought it was a joke that there's a Lego show that people love. I've seen you post about it a lot so I figure it's just one of those things that maybe a couple people really really love otherwise, whatever. But I just sat that clip of that characters death and it made me realize I know nothing about anything ever lol. What is the Lego show about? What do you love about it? I'm just super curious
Well. Okay. My embarrassment aside, I totally get itāit is a lego show, but it's my lego show and I'll gladly tell you about it!
(my apologies this got a little long)
*inhales cigarette* I remember starting to watch lmk (Lego Monkie Kid) and not expecting anything except some very pretty animationāit's just legos, right? And then it completely blindsided me. Then I did some digging and realized it's a modern retelling of Journey to the West (jttwāone of the great classic chinese novels), and that half of the whole reason this show exists is to retell a familiar tale to the modern age. That's how the show opens, and that's how s3 ends.
And, at the risk of sounding a little deranged, I'm going to say that the show being legos is thematically relevant. It legitimately adds to part of the story they're trying to tellāand the story Lego Monkie Kid is trying to tell is legitimately very solid. It's super good. They completely blew me out of the water with season 4.
So. The first special and s1 isn't anything too unique on a first watch through. The characters are charming and the show is very pretty, but it's nothing I'd write home about (though, 1x09 is very goodāin my opinionāand 1x10, the season finale, builds plenty of intrigue).
But here's the thing: legitimately so much is set up in s1 and you don't even realize it, and it's STILL being re-contextualized well into s4.
So, then the s2 special happens right after s1, and it's like, alright! The plot seems to be going somewhere! We get introduced to a few more antagonists and the status quo from s1 is already somewhat disrupted. But then the last half of s2 comes around. And they're all bangers. 2x05 Minor Scale is GREAT. 2x06 is pure game motif. 2x07 gives us backstory and continues the main protags negative character arc. 2x08 is one of my favorites in the whole show. By this point you realize how consistent the character writing is if you've been paying attention. 2x09 is the beginning of the end. 2x10 ends the season on quite the cliff hanger, and it's like. HOLY SHIT. WHAT IS THIS ABSOLUTE GEM OF A SHOW.
s3 is lovely, and the end of the s3 special has one of my favorite scenes in anything. s4 is so ridiculously good. Lmk honestly has what I would consider to be god tier pacing. They have 10 minutes to achieve their goal, and by GOD are they going to do exactly that.
But like, what do I love about the show specifically?
The animation. The characters. The themes. I kid you not a major theme in s4 of the show is the fact that every single thing you do leads to pain. Being the hero or the villain, it doesn't matterāyou cause suffering and destruction with every step you take. You hurt the people you care about. No, seriously. I'm not kidding. THAT'S one of the main focuses of s4, and oh boy is it a wild ride. You get used to legos crying. I am unironically expecting s5 of this show to be a tragedy.
I can not recommend it enough!
(If it's your thing that is! I TOTALLY get not being able to look past the legos, and the fast pacing isn't for everyone.)
Anyways, here's a bonus gif of Mei to end off!
#I think lmk's body count is like. 7 or 8 at this point? depending on who you consider dead?#I'm going to be honest I don't even see the fact that they're legos any more. They aren't legos to me. It's an art style. AN ART FORM#anyways this has been ''imp goes on a long rant about legos'' (like she does every day). you are welcome.#I really ought to dial it back on my tumblr blog#But that lmk s4 special really rocked my shit.#tdp s5 trailer came out yesterday#I'm just like. THEY'VE OVERLOADED MY SYSTEM AND IT'S SUMMER.#WHAT'S A NEURODIVERGENT BITCH TO DO. anyhow#thank you for asking my beloved mutual!#asks#lmk#lego monkie kid
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*sets down a second folding chair and places it next to my previous one* 3x03! The finale! Sharing my thoughts since I talked about the first two. Itās not all negative like before, but itās goinā under a read more anyways since imma complain:
First of all: that shit was very cool. Belos taking control of the Island? Dad titan? Titan Luz? The music?
Like, I was super into it! I enjoyed the finale (even though I'm going to complain about it, I swear I did), and I enjoyed it WAY more than the first two episodes of s3. 3x01 and 3x02 were...honestly I think they were terrible.Ā
*Sigh*.
God. Iām so sad they butchered my Philip story. They butchered his character so, so terribly. That man was a walking corpse of the plot for all of s3. We got no real conclusion for the Wittebane brothers or for the golden guard. "This is for the good of your souls". Okay. That didn't lead anywhere. Like, a villain can be irredeemable AND have depth, you know? But this is what The Owl House does, they establish things that don't lead anywhere.
Again, I think this could have been fixed! Belos could have manipulated Hunter with Calebās past while they were in the same body, and seeing the inner struggle of that conflict would have added SO MUCH. It could have made flapjacks death more relevant tooāhave flapjack let himself get absorbed by Hunter/Belos so his soul could be used to help Hunter fight off Belosā control. This adds so much to Hunterās arc for the season while also giving us like, the story of the Wittebanes from an actually relevant source. It also has flapjack going out the way he lived: showing Hunter that heās more than Belosā manipulation.
Iāve talked about it before but the Collector felt very different from his original appearances. Of course I loved him by the end, but I do still miss what once was. They totally retconned his og story which is whatever, but I wanted to know what the deal with the owl beast was! That was like, one of the main plot points s1 set up that was further expanded on in s2. Maybe this was always what was planned for the collector (though the way talks about titans when he meets king in "King's Tide" makes me think otherwise). If this was always the plan...then it was sloopy lol. Sure, give the child who doesn't understand the concept of death morals, but make sure when he's talking to Philip it actually SEEMS like he's a misguided child, rather than legitimately super fucked up. Or, even have it seem like King actively affected the Collector over the couple month time skipāhave the Collector go from a completely moral-less being who relishes in chaos to a being who has someone else to be their morals.
I think my main problem with s3 of toh is that I think they could have done it. Iāve seen more done with lessāThe Dragon Prince only ever has 9 20 minute episodes per season, which is like, only 40 minutes more than toh s3. Lego Monkie kid has 10 minute 10 episode seasons, and I'm always blown away with what that show is able to accomplish. I just know it's possibleāTOH could have done way more with the time it had.
Another thing I wished they did was have Luzās guilt be around more than just leading Philip to the collector. Like, there was definitely more there. Eda losing her magic? The pain her mother went through of fearing for her child? All of her friends being stranded from their home? The boiling isles being destroyed? Luz feeling like a burden to everyone in s2? Idk, it was just clunky man. They basically went, Luz, this is why you're terrible: "you helped Philip meet the collector", "you helped Philip meet the collector", and "you helped Philip meet the collector". I appreciated the bit with Hunter saying "you got your palismen while I lost mine", like thank GOD there was SOMETHING.
Iāve seen some other folks make points about the Titan giving Luz powers going against the lesson of 1x02 (1x03?)āwhich is fair, but I think I disagree! I was all for the āBelos ripping the power from the island while Luz was given that powerā parallel. It wasnāt about her being āchosenā, it was that she happened to be there, and more importantly she happened to be kind. Luz had to be the one to accept that power I thinkāit wasnāt the Titanās choice, it was Luzās. But maybe thatās just me!
Here's a little buffer sentence because I'm totally jumping around lol
Anyways, they TOTALLY abandoned all of the side characters at the end there. Rip Gus, Willow, Amity, Camila, and Hunter. You were real oneās and we didnāt get to focus on you at all in 3x03. This makes your character send-off 3x02, which is a real shame. Like, why did Hunter get Flapjack powers? Honestly? I just feel like it didn't add anything and actively took away from the "finding your own way to do things" theme they had going. I know that the show started with Eda, Luz, and King and that the show needed to end with Eda, Luz, and Kingābut those side characters not aiding in ANY way for the final confrontation felt...weird? Like a missed opportunity? IDK.
Finale complaint: Lumity. Like, they're cute, of course they are. And obviously I've been spoiled by Rayllum for YEARS, with the way arc 1 of TDP literally culminated with the leap scene and a love confession. Like, I know. TDP has forever altered my brain chemistry. Rayla affects Callum just like Callum affects Rayla. Lumity just...doesn't have any of that. Their relationship, despite being a huge focus for seasons 1 and 2, just...didn't amount to anything for the finale. Like, yay! They kissed! It was sweet! But what did it honestly add to the narrative they were trying to tell? How did Amity impact Luz's character? TOH has never been strong on a thematic front, and that's obvious to see in every aspect of the show.
Like, I wasn't a huge huge fan of Amphibia's ending, but man! At least there was intent! And, at least plenty of people *did* enjoy that ending for what I think were the right reasons. Even if I don't like how they went about it, the whole "some things you love leave your life and some things come back" message was good.
So, tldr: Could have been way better, plenty of wasted potential (especially in the first 2 episodes), but I do still think it was a solid finale! Solid finale for a mid show, with a very shaky run to get there.
*sets down my folding chair and sits* So, 3x01 of the o/w/l h/ou/se. Fair warning this is a negative rant so I'm putting it under a readmore:
I can not believe the stars were aligned for the PERFECT Hollow Mind parallel, and it DIDN'T HAPPEN. Hunter and Philip trapped in the same body/mind? Hunter fighting for control? Luz coming to terms with the fact that she lead Philip to the collector? Flapjack getting absorbed into Hunter like all those previous palismens were absorbed into Belos? Like that would have been so good it KILLS ME that it didn't happen. Learning how Philip and Caleb found their way to the Boiling Isles would have been way more satisfying coming from Philip himself.
And honestly like...the episode was fine-ish, but I think overall I was disappointed by it. I don't really care for how they handled Hunter and Luz's respective secrets, and I was SUPER disappointed by Luz's reaction to Belos' return. Like there he is, the man who caused about 3/4 of all your trauma, and like....nothing? Like on god running into Belos should have been the culmination of her s2 and 3x01 arc, yet it wasn't.
I also just kinda wish Luz's refusal to tell her friends she helped Phiplip meet the collector was based more in her fear of being a burden rather than the fear of her friends hating her. This isn't to say there weren't good moments in the special, but they were definitely scattered throughout the episode. It all just fell super flat for me. But I guess in general I find The Owl House to be a very mid show.
Since typing this post in my drafts I've also watched 3x02 and honestly, I feel the same way I did watching the first episode. The writers tried to give every character their own new mini arc instead of focusing on what had already been established previously. Which would be fine, except... this is the penultimate episode. We should be building off of everyone's series long arcs (of which Luz only really has, and I guess Hunter too since he was only around for season 2. Kind of Belos? They've just like, abandoned writing him).
Genuinely disappointed they took away all of the fucked-upedness from the Collector and just made him a lonely kid, rather than a child with the powers of a god and no regard for others or morals. His debut in "Hollow Mind" made him out to be someone who truly relished in chaos, and now he's just like...a child playing make-believe. I think an angle like this could have worked with a different approach, but the episode as is isn't really my thing.
Both these specials feel like "these are all the ideas we had for season 3, let's shove them into these specials" rather than effectively using the time they had. Like...the human world and hexside shenanigans are fun, sure, but focusing on the like...everything else you now don't have time to pay off is way more important.
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