Honestly I Need To Appreciate The Voya-Nui Resistance Team More.

Honestly I need to appreciate the Voya-Nui resistance team more.

-The Piraka are absurdly overpowered and way too eager to kill, so trying to take one on directly is suicide and trying to take one out through subterfuge is still an abjectly unfair proposal.

-There are six of them, so even with their constant power-jockeying, even if the resistance did manage to take one down, the other five would immediately crack down hard.

-Also just. Zaktan. Protodites. There's jack shit anyone can do about that.

-Also they have all the mind-controlled matoran as hostage collateral who would be punished for even lesser forms of resistance.

-The Piraka broke their trust in Toa, and then with the Nuva, in the ability of real Toa to meaningfully help them. The Inika do show up and win eventually, but for the most part the Resistance team is operating on the assumption that they're not getting any help, they can only do this themselves.

Like, they were objectively fucked six ways from sunday no matter what, but they still decided yeah, fuckit, we're not gonna stand for this shit. Dying free is still better than a life in chains, and we won't run away and leave the rest behind, either. And I have to really respect that.