Okay, Why Is Nobody Talking About This?

So I finally got around to watching the new Ninjago spinoff trailer and I gotta admit it looks pretty cool, gives off major Samurai Jack vibes, the monsters look straight from an anime and the animation is very fluid. The problem is that after getting used to Kai being pretty much a comic relief character for the past 6 years or so, it's kinda hard for me to take him seriously in this kind of role, especially since Dragons Rising is supposed to follow after.

I mean, Dragons Rising Kai certainly doesn't act like someone who's faced unspeakable horrors and had to mature as a person and go against their own principles in order to survive. Dragons Rising Kai could barely handle these guys:

I don't know. The tone shift is just too big for me.

Samurai Jack had its funny moments too, but they were there to help the viewer breathe between the more serious episodes. This feels like a complete 180. I think it will work best if we think about them as completely different shows, like a dystopian Kai AU or something like that

The ironic part about headcanoning Perry the Platypus as intersex is that the opposite of intersex is actually called perisex

Sun Wukong: Lady Bone Demon, my old arch enemy.

Macaque: ... I thought I was your arch enemy?

Sun Wukong: I have a life outside of you, Macaque!

Dashi: Chase, keep an eye on Guan today. He’s going to say something to the wrong person and get punched.

Chase: Sure, I’d love to see Guan getting punched.

Dojo: Try again.

Chase, sighing: I will try to stop Guan from getting punched.

Every Lloyd ship is so unhinged it's crazy when you think about it.

I mean, there's this psycho princess who's secretly the leader of a biker gang and also a cult who wants to resurrect his departed father and conquer the city.

A girl who can turn into a giant three-tailed wolf and is on a revenge quest to assassinate the evil emperor who turned her tribe to ice.

The prince of an underwater civilization who had to battle his evil octopus brother for the throne.

An anthropomorphic tiger man who's also the leader of a cult trying to resurrect an ancient evil after his home land had been compromised.

And then there's frickin Brad at the flower shop

Like you can't make this stuff up 😭

I remember even as an early teen I always appreciated the Cole and Nya scene from Possession. This was during the love triangle drama, right after Cole and Jay reconciled and before Jaya became official. So it was a pretty big deal, but it never felt like bait for more shipping discourse, just a very genuine, intimate moment between friends.

Cole was being vulnerable and depressed and Nya just wanted to cheer her friend up. She could relate with not having a say in her destiny as a water ninja, embracing an uncertain future. It had nothing to do with Jay or their relationship status. There was no tension. At no point did I think they were teasing NyaXCole, because there was absolutely zero awkwardness between them, it was a completely separate thing. Because before the whole Rebooted drama, Nya and Cole were good friends too, just like Jay and Cole, and I was so happy the writers didn't forget that.