#crying because tumblr deleted all the Misako stuff

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Yoo can’t say I agree but valid and it’s cool you think that!! I can definitely see the last one and I get where you’re going with the one before tho. I mean I can see the others as well if I think abt it longer but yeah.

Uhh here’s some of my hot takes (and now that I’m thinking about it I hope Kai stans don’t set me on fire)

Tldr: I disagree with some kai takes, misako should be a bad parent, s6 isn’t all that bad and s5 could’ve been better (I’ve already described some of these on the blog but oh well)

Kai? Not at all a good brother figure at least in the beginning. His arc in the pilots is his loner wolf nature, and that’s kinda it in his green ninja wanna be arc and also in s4. It’s only in s5 where he starts actively changing and it’s because he realises he relates to Lloyd after he lost his dad. Imo he didn’t parent Nya because they were like 3 years apart and honestly Nya is ten times more self sufficient than he’s ever been no matter which point of his character development he’s at. Ofc he’s not awful and he gets better but yeah.

Same point but Kai is completely not an overprotective brother. At all. We can ignore wu’s teas, but Kai definitely gives Nya her space, to the point of neglecting/leaving her out in the beginning. However this is a nice thing, because he then learns to trust Nya to be a samurai and he’s not overly protective either. And I just don’t like that trope or it being romanticised so…

Kai point no. 3. His post Seabound time skip arc wasn’t what people expected but it was really nice in my opinion. Kai actually coping well and doing things with his life is nice since it feels like he’s attempted to move on and not waste away which feels like what Nya would’ve wanted. Yeah it would’ve been nice if he got more focus but I kinda understand that they moved on quickly since they needed to get on with the plot. And I personally can’t with the idea that Kai should’ve been angrier. Maybe people just really wanted kai angst but I like the idea that Kai decided to try his best after her death and genuinely didn’t want to end up taking it out on others

OH IM SO UPSET TUMBLR DELETED A WHOLE HOUR OF WRITINF ANDAHHH

essentially I just complained about how I don’t like Misako despite a lot of my mutuals being fans. 1) her treatment of lloyd 2) she’s just used as a plot device with no personality. Not gonna go into it because I’m crying about tumblr bullying me. Something something about how there’s only one type of female character in Ninjago which is “the women are so much smarter and cooler than the guys” and al I want is rat bastard Misako who is an awful parent but then she character develops and actually tries because I think it’s more interesting if she has a strained but healing relationship with Lloyd.

Also something something feminisms but I actually like some of skybound’s feminist take, because something something Nya trying not to be vulnerable because she’s worked so hard to prove she’s not weak just because she’s a woman. And it’s really hard when half of the world expects you to be weak because youre woman and the other half expects you to work real hard to disprove the first half and it’s really hard to show that you’re vulnerable because your human and not because you’re woman yknow. And it hit hard. And I have a whole Nya analysis that I’ll post sometime which goes into her because she’s so interesting and this is related.

Hahajakenisjsb. Unpopular opinion s5 is overhyped really. It’s good but undercooked. It has really good concepts which aren’t seen through. Kai and Lloyd’s thing doesn’t get too much focus and it doesn’t progress Kai’s character, he doesn’t have much of an arc. It’s cool Nya gets powers but the finale was really anticlimactic because all she did was try really hard and it’s like, she’s been trying all season but all it took was closing her eyes for 5 seconds and I wish we got more, like delving into why she has no esteem or something yknow. And Morro is a good villain in concept especially since he’s supposed to be a good guy turned bad but I feel like the appeal of those villains are very much based in his relations with the heroes and also his conflict of emotions and we don’t get too much of that. He’s too busy trying to do his job as champion of the preeminent to personally interact with wu other than the start and end, Lloyd isn’t conscious to interact with Morro, and Morro doesn’t interact with the ninja or Nya much either. And we don’t really see Morro be conflicted about what he’s doing until he decides to randomly give wu the crystal at the end. And he’s not even that personally motivated to destroy the world, again he’s just working for the preeminent. I wish Morro went on a character arc but he doesn’t. Lloyd gets random daddy issues thrown in at the end and the finale focuses on Lloyd when he’s had no build up to it because he’s not present in the whole season. Like it would be better if while possessed, the host of the body was sent to some weird mindscape so we can still see Lloyd be a character and have potential to justify the ending more than one line of dialogue in the beginning. And jay and Zane do absolutely nothing but comedy relief. Cole’s arcs good but it’s definitely a little random especially considering the rest of the team did not get that much development. Like jay and Zane don’t even get their own unique fears in the haunted house ep. The darkest fear trope is such a good trope and s5 kinda squandered it imo just because we got very minimal character development and yknow what later I’m gonna just rewrite the whole episode. And the fetch quest was kinda random and confusing and felt really unrelated. Like can someone remind me why the ninja who can fly jets and literally live on a flying boat needed to specifically learn how to fly. Ik they needed to use ninja magic to go to heaven but also that’s really random. And like the destiny writer guys??? That’s so random? Like they don’t need to exist and they aren’t bad it’s just such a tonal shift to go from Halloween vibes to destiny physically being a man who locked you in a cupboard. It’s even more random than that time the ninja went to space. Like they are just an existential crisis that the ninja will ignore because cartoon.The fetch quest is just so arbitrary imo. Like I enjoy watching this season but its in the “I hate/love you because you had so much wasted potential” category for me.

You ever feel like you just have such vastly different opinions to everyone else in the fandom and you’re just sitting there like “how’d this idea that I don’t agree with get so mainstream?” Like everyone’s entitled to an opinion but why does everyone have this specific one??

I mean I get it and there’s nothing wrong with it but when internally I just disagree and I look through the fandom tag it’s just awkward. It is what it is.

(This isn’t a complaint or meant to be aggressive or anything btw lol)