Despite skybound being my favourite season on a wish and a prayer is my least favourite episode
Firstly jay gets blamed for Zane being gone, however zane already knew that jay made his two out of his three wishes. Now sure they don’t know that. Still really annoying, also the fact that no one gave a shit that jay was adopted is awful sure they might be mad at him but the fact that it would’ve been so much better if they just look back up him with some with some sad eyes or something and then just turn away and still angry with him but nothing so much better than them just ignoring him in general also they didn’t really tell that they might have been killed by the tiger widow but they had Cole who’s a ghost now we know we do know that ghosts are weak to water but we don’t know how they do with venom I do that how in the next episode they realised their mistake.
Also at the beginning of the episode when jay tells Cole he already made two out of three wishes and how are you and how was lucky to not to not make his Third it almost sounded as though he was going to wish it all away.
Heh oh boi Let me stop you right there, this is the take I had about 7 years ago. I grew up, I was wrong and my opinion changed let me tell you why.
First, the ninja should absolutely be mad at Jay for not telling them he made wishes.
He talked to their enemy, lied to them about his inheritance and held back vital information that would keep his friends safer.
Sure, Zane figured out Jay had made wishes and still went alone. But don’t you think Lloyd or Nya would have let him if they knew? And what about Kai!? I don’t even think Cole knows Jay could have saved him.
Jay definitely deserves some blame for Zane and Kai wishing it all away. Jay sharing his experience might have saved both of them but he didn’t give his team the best chance winning.
Even though he was manipulated into keeping the wishes to himself out of shame, that does NOT mean the other were wrong for being pissed at him.
Second, Jay brought up that he was adopted purely for sympathy in that moment. He literally says “in my defense, I did just find out my birth parents weren’t my real parents. Very much not a defense It’s fully unrelated to the way he messed up, the other have no obligation to respond to that and quite honestly I’m not even sure they heard him.
Third, he’s not actually treated that bad for what he did. The way he whines might have you believe that but ALL his friends do is be angry, ignore him and not comfort him when he’s whining about whatever.
Worst thing was nominating him to get the venom. It can be debated if Jay deserves this as he’s being put into a deadly situation.
Though I would argue this kinda is just the ninjas Job…… and he put the others in danger by withholding info. Also the others know Jay, well enough to know he can do it. Remember he’s stronger than he appears. They sure think he can get the venom on his own and he does.
However, feeling the way you do is very understandable with how Skybound is framed we are over empathetic to Jay so when his team turns on him and he starts acting like a wet cat it makes us think the others are wrong for making him feel bad. But once you look from the other ninjas perspective you’ll see the reality of the situation.
Not sure if this is a media literacy problem or more skybound framing thing but yeah a lot of kids walk away thinking what Jay did really wasn’t that bad. I mean I love him he’s my favorite but he still can act terrible.
In my opinion On a wish and a prayer is Jay getting what he deserves for being awful and after all these years I find it more amusing than sad. To be clear I think He fucked up and deserved to retrieve the venom but he doesn’t deserve getting kidnapped and what takes place after.
