#it’s a 40 minute ad for a few pieces of plastic that the writers wrote while they were waiting for
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ninjago is everything. it’s anime. it’s a comic book. it’s star wars. it’s fantasy. it’s atla. it’s a superhero story. it’s a ghost story haunted by a morality system so deterministic it can’t be escaped even in death. it’s also got literal ghosts. it’s got enough worldbuilding to fill entire books but also a timeline so broken it’s retconned its own most important scenes out of existence. gravity is a manipulatable element. so is the concept of shape. sentient androids exist alongside sapient snakes and skeletons and genies and dragons and everything. it’s got a multiverse that carries the corpses of the shows it’s outlasted. it’s terrible. it’s beautiful. it’s been in continuous production for over a decade. it’s the most frustrating experience of my life. it’s so, so much fun.
#ninjago#it’s a 40 minute ad for a few pieces of plastic that the writers wrote while they were waiting for#the cinematic masterpiece of The LEGO Movie to finish production#it’s 200+ episodes of impeccable Nonsense and some of the most delightful characters i’ve ever seen#it’s a beautful. astounding mess that’s has every kids media trope under the sun. it’s a work of art#text✨#ngl this post is an abbreviated version of the twelve pages of nonsense i wrote arguing it’s cultural value as a 2010s period piece#for my popular culture class so. yeah i don’t have a good reason
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