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catsafari25 · 10 months

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One thing the bionicle novels/comics are good for are filling in the gaps the movies left (how the toa metru found the great disks, how they created ships to ferry the matoran to mata nui) but then you get the books that stick rigidly to the movies' plots and suddenly it's like "oh yeah, vakama went from being malcontent to actively betraying his friends in the span of a literal day (and his friends located a mythical rahi in that same period)" when I always assumed there was more of a time skip in the movie, and I would have loved to see those two plotlines progress in parallel

#bionicle #look im just a sucker for a) plotlines where someone loses themselves to The Beast Within #and b) betrayal #so web of shadows was a formative movie of my youth #maybe there is more of a time skip #but the book is literally like “oh there's a big day tomorrow (when you destroy the toa)”#and it's explained how the rest of the toa hordika basically get swept away to their destination #anyway in my heart it takes a good while and vakama doesn't just speedrun his heelturn #look. the fun of a betrayal plot is the character basically giving in to despair and thinking they only have the one option #also what i will never forgive about the book: roodaka doesnt actually send her minions #plummeting to their deaths but actually has a safety net in place #that's too kind of her #i mwan. it makes sense. but not for her

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