Steven: in Therapy

steven: *in therapy*

therapist: so how are you?

steven: i got a crush on someone today, i cant stop thinking about them

therapist: heh i wish my husband thought of me as much as you think about your crush

steven, now with a clipboard pen and glasses: oh? would you like to talk about it?

spoilers for episode 81 heads uP—

okay I’m finally gonna make a real post about this ninjago season so far just because it is…everything I’ve wanted it to be?

-Harumi is dark and Harumi is justified. her parents died because the ninja couldn’t save everyone. this made me think of Civil War in the MCU which…was great that it did because that’s not a kid audience movie. that’s a hard perspective to grasp and they went for it. really solid.

-The way she twists and toys with Lloyd makes me ache inside. that whole fight scene was actual heart-wrenching stuff, her knowing full-well she’d succeeded—he’d actually fallen for her and rubbed it in that she had used it against him exactly how she wanted and planned to. and he knows he knows he KNOWS that that’s true. he fucking knows it and you can tell. I just. brings me to my next point.

-Animation. wow. expressions are so much more…more. they’re just more. you can read more into them than you could in past seasons which is everything to me. when kai was trying to threaten Harumi it was humorous because it was obvious how flustered he was! because! of! the animation! truly god bless.

-Lloyd has just improved. in general. in this season alone we’ve seen that he really isn’t invincible and can be easily manipulated (because guess what! he’s still a kid whether you like it or not!!). he may still have the sacrificial hero trope, but…I feel like he’s the only one of the ninja who really does. he’s actually fun to watch in this season—ep 81 was mostly just him and Harumi, and as someone who doesn’t care too too much for Lloyd, that was one of my favorite episodes. Ever. they way he handled figuring out Harumi’s the quiet one was actually very well done and NOT Mary Sue, which I was so proud of. he felt a loss, he was so shocked and clearly hurt and betrayed, but he still loves her, still wants her. which—I feel—he resents. he doesn’t like that he still loves her, while most characters would embrace it and try to turn her to their side. he…Lloyd actually didn’t. which was great and unexpected—the old Lloyd would’ve, and that’s not what I personally think is very original. so. true kudos to making Lloyd’s character rewarding and frankly just enjoyable again to watch.

-Hagemans went into writing this season knowing what we wanted. they were unafraid to stab kai, to call a mask a mask of fucking hatred, to make your stomach crawl watching Lloyd’s fight with Harumi and all this valid venom she was spewing, actually making Harumi’s reasoning have some logic (she blames the ninja for the death of her parents, one of the kind of many people who believed Garm saved the city, so she wants garm back), making her biological parents’ death MAKE SENSE, have it be relevant to her motives, have it be controversial (some deaths can’t be helped but at the same time the ninja should have maybe done a better job regulating how much damage they were causing), Ultra Vi threatening a baby’s life, Zane high key dying in hand to hand combat…The Hagemans showed that they aren’t afraid to write how they see fit, despite how it has become much darker and away from the original target audience.

they know who’s watching. who’s really watching. and they seem to blossom in catering to that audience rather than the original.

they better keep it the fuck up

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mushmushk

7 years ago

Personal Ninjago Headcanons!

Most of this probably doesn’t align with the canon. I tried.

Lloyd:

-When he uses his power too much, his eyes glow a faint green and sometimes his vision gets tinted green for a few minutes after.

-Sometimes, he tries to hand off the position as leader back to Cole. It gets to be too much.

-The best thing he can cook are dinosaur chicken nuggets and fish sticks.

-Has eyed green hair-dye more than one time. Never went through with it.

-Goes to comic shops and signs all the merchandise he’s on for fun.

-Does autographs any place, any time. He loves it.

Kai:

-Is the main reason the ninja have hair gel.

-Lots of younger fans have tried his style, which resulted in many ‘KAI CHALLENGE’ videos on NinjaTube. Out of the thousands, only a few dozen are Kai-approved.

-Is the best at hair among the ninja.

-Chews pencils, only stops when he realizes that his teeth are screaming out in pain.

-Spins the life out of wheeled chairs.

-Wears ten layers and thermals in winter or any remotely cold weather.

-Swagger swagger.

-‘Tch, you wish your breath smelled like mine.'

Cole:

-Can take a hit the best out of the ninja.

-Rock climbing boss.

-'excuse me what did you say about my friends'

-'exCUSE ME WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT NINDROIDS'

-If someone insults any of his friends in any way, the object in his hand is first to go then he straight up body slams them.

-Is fiercely protective over his favorite restaurants and bakeries.

-Can make the essentials of breakfast and a few sandwiches with help from Zane but leave him loose with a can of jam someone is going to end up crying.

-Inconvenient Earth Punches. Flaunts his power like he stole it, especially his super strength.

-'Hey dude Jay wanna watch me spin this billboard over my head'

-'Yo Nya do you think that if I ran fast enough that I could punch through that wall, I mean it’s abandoned so’

-One of his favorite terms is 'might as well’ and a laugh

-Slurps needlessly loudly.

Jay:

-Electro puff of hair.

-Combines energy drinks and coffee literally just to try and see how long he can go.

-Sometimes, the only place he can sleep aboard the Bounty is his own bed. The rest of the time he just flops down where there is something that sort of resembles a pillow and snoozes.

-Has a lot of fun with his powers, messes around with stuff like electronic billboards, light displays, and computer advertisement in the windows of computer shops.

-Is an unwavering optimist most of the time. When the ninja actually need an optimist, he starts stomping around and being negative.

-Will fight over the last donut and gets incredibly offended if someone even moves his leftovers. Tries to mark them with markers so nobody will eat them. It doesn’t work.

-Puts his blankets like capes around his shoulders and runs around the Bounty during windy days.

Nya:

-When she suspects people are looking up at the Bounty, when it’s in the sky, she makes dumb faces down to them.

-'I didn’t sign up to be a ninja but neither did any of you, get back to work'

-Bright socks all over the floor.

-Makes nests of blankets at night for her to work in.

-Never trust with a Nerf gun. Also never trust with a water gun, because she will turn a little pistol into a submachine gun of watery death.

-Tries to be a bigger show-off than Kai. It’s pretty much a competition to see who’s flashier.

-Never gets tired of fixing the Bounty or Zane. Both are such complex machines that she discovers something new about them every time. The ninja disapprove of her leaving Zane off 'just five more minutes’ to study him.

-Once tried to figure out the Elemental powers through science, gave up and decided that it was magic.

-Shrugs a lot.

-Gets angry when someone insults her work or the work of any of the other ninja.

-'I WILL SHOW YOU A BAD KNITTING PROJECT YOU LOSER'

-Unlike Cole, who will put down or give to hold something before charging at someone he wants to attack, Nya just slams them with the object still in her hand.

-Will fight you outside of the bakery, but usually not inside of the bakery because bakeries are fragile places.

-Never hesitate to tease, no matter how inappropriate it may be at the time.

Zane:

-Actually got shorter in his Titanium form.

-Has like forty scarves. Most of them are snowflake patterned. Some of which he made himself.

-Insult him and whatever ninja coming at you first will double down on every punch.

-Isn’t quite the mom friend all the time, because he will sometimes try to stop a ninja from doing a stupid thing, sometimes he joins the stupid thing, and sometimes he records the stupid thing.

-The best at ice-skating. Actually probably skates better than most Ninjago professionals.

-Very happy with his weird little family. Very very proud.

-Uses his powers in the nicest way for Ninjago citizens, because he tries not to cause as much destruction as the others. Also likes to cause snow days and make statues made of ice.

-Goes between 'I am so incredibly sorry for all of this’ and 'but what do I have to be sorry about’ during interviews.

-One of the best options for recon, because he can disguise his voice perfectly, mimic a character, and change his appearance the best out of all the ninja.

-Sweetheart.

-Actually gets aggressive if you question his kitchen orders.

-’what do you mean too much peppermint’

-’what do you mean too much vanilla’

-'its always winter you ignoramus’

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mushmushk

7 years ago

Taurus, Zane, Pixal, Cole