They go into a temple or something meant to force them to bare their souls and everyone's expecting to be put through like. Hardship, or team trusting exercises. Instead their all sharing pain.
Both arms are immediately dead, left arm in immense pain and the right arm weirdly numb. Turns out Sora's "body armour" is actually a brace, and her right arm feels weak and numb a lot. After some detective work, Nya figures out Kai has been dealing with some INTENSE chronic pain in his left arm post-merge. Words are had.
All the older ninja go into a huddle to try and figure out who has the debilitating back pain, and Arin awkwardly has to explain he dragged Ras's unconscious body across the desert. Lloyd very nearly starts crying.
After a bit of talking everyone realises the mild scratchy feeling in their throat is ALSO part of the pain thing. This one is a bit more difficult but eventually it's discovered that Wyldefire's constant yelling and roaring isn't good for her vocal chords. She is gobsmacked to find out this isn't normal.
Everyone has weird tingly fingers and Jay is aggressively making fun of everyone everytime they drop something
Things calm down and everyone starts to get through the temple when suddenly everyone has an awful splitting headache and collapses- except Zane. Who once a day, has a VERY LOUD reminder of what his core purpose is and who his loved ones are ringing through his head just incase he develops amnesia. Words are had. again.
All the new ninja are baffled at their slightly achey joints. All the older ninja are jealous.
Was rewatching The Royal Blacksmiths last night and noticed this:
YEARS? EXCUSE ME? YOU’RE TELLING ME HE’S BEEN A RUNAWAY FOR YEARS?! Which means that unless he found a family member or a friend’s place to crash for all that time, he’s been homeless for who knows how long. My poor son :(
The fact that people always mention Lloyd being homeless for a few months before and during season 1 instead of mentioning how Cole hasn’t had a proper home in heard really shows the favoritism this fandom has 😒
Alrighty, Morro fanartists and fanfic writers, I will love ya if you (because of this season) start writing Morro with:
Claustrophobia (since he’s been stuck in the belly of the beast twice.
Throwing away his life for others (‘cause he’s a guardian and probably kept himself in the spectral lands also because of his guilt)
Completely believing destiny will always be after him (doesn’t fight it anymore, just believes that fate will constantly force him to pay for his actions, since despite being good now, he still got taken out)
Scared of dragons (Morro only had one when he possessed Lloyd’s Energy dragon, and now a big one he tried to help hurt him)
Constantly tells everyone he meets that if they find a guy named Wu, basically to tell him sorry and that Morro was trying to be better.
Usually I think hating on someone's art is dumb and pointless BUT
I HATE when they're is art of the ninja as a group and have captions like "happy __ years ninjago !" Or anything along lines of group,friendship or family related BUT they leave out nya anr pixal...(yes pixal is part of team fck u /lh)
Like ??? Okay??? Didnt know this was boys club.. and ofc they're context of the very early seaosn ninjago where they "weren't" really part of "the ninja" but come on outside that where are they ??? AWHERE THATS NO NINJA THATS JUST LLOYD, KAI, JAY, COLE AND ZANE... NOT THE NINJA is8aisj
Do you think the "new" animation crew had been WAITING for a shot to make Dragons Rising?
rant!
What I am trying to say, is how the story telling shifted once we got the new animation crew after season 10.
Season 1 of Ninjago, going all the way to season 10, there was a good, constant plot. There might've been a few hiccups, or randomness... (looking at you season 6), but the lore was preserved. When one season ended, the next would lead off of that, but also adventure into its own territory. While, still keeping it within the bounds of "Ninjago".
But then, there was the new animation crew following season 10. You could tell they were new to animation, and perhaps even storytelling, granted I don't think they did TERRIBLE. The seasons they provided were fun, but they had also began to feel more lazy and almost rushed... not providing proper world building.
Because, mainly looking at seasons 11-13, those were just... they almost felt like filler seasons to me.
After giving the new animation crew time though, they had began to improve on their storytelling and were able to provide strong lore, the build up for Seabound in season 14 is proof of this.
Going forward, onto Crystalized, the plot was SEVERELY improved. But as much as I love Crystalized... I almost wish they didn't make it, as it feels like they couldn't let go of old lore... and not to mention how it just got chucked to the side the moment Dragons Rising began.
And to expand off of what I just said; Crystalized was good, yes, it is most certainly a fan favorite, but it clearly was forgotten and ignored when Dragons Rising was made.
They went from picking off where they left off, in seasons 14-16, and even starting to point back at old lore, to just... ignoring it all. The big thing in Crystalized was Lloyd refusing to be part Oni, and even then, they were forgetting his dragon side! This processed to happen again and AGAIN in Dragons Rising. Like yes, this is YEARS after everything in season 16... but still? This was something so important for Lloyd's character... and you just. forget it? But granted... I haven't watched anything post S2 P1.. so maybe they do bring light to it once again?
But! Back onto the topic! Once we enter Dragons Rising, all past lore... it almost feels like it's being forgotten. But as they ignore past lore, they make new lore. Dragons Rising goes on and tells a very complex tale, each season and part leading off of each other. There's so much more effort put in Dragons Rising that wasn't there in the past by this crew...
So it almost makes me wonder, if maybe all along... This is what they were waiting for?
