anyways i’m thinking about how this wasn’t garmadon actually planning on hurting skylor to be cruel, it was a strategic move to persuade chen. and well like yeah obviously,, but!!! this shows the difference in garmadon vs chen.
garmadon threatens skylor because he has a child himself, and he knows he would do anything to protect lloyd from getting hurt. he is assuming chen feels the same about skylor and that chen will immediately let them go to protect her. when he doesn’t, this is when audience is first shown that chen never really cared about skylor, and only really needs her for her power. idk just something about garmadon thinking that he is threatening chen with something he has to give in to, knowing exactly how he would react himself to protect lloyd, but instead discovering chen’s cruel enough to not care about the life of his own child.
Not sure how to caption this other than I think it would be a fun visual if Garmadon spent most of his time staring down Lloyd's opponents during the ToE. With such a terrifying man for a father, it's hard not to tense up while fighting his son. Sometimes I wish Ninjago wasn't limited to LEGOs, there are so many visuals that could be done in terms of 'show don't tell'. Also drawing younger Lloyd with more anime boy-esque expressions is fun, I pull a lot from Ash Ketchum in the last two seasons for him. (Please don't repost my art, reshares are chill tho)
Elemental Dragons were a mistake and I'm glad they were removed. Genuinely the ability to conjure a fucking dragon anywhere gives essentially no point to the vehicles people make for the Ninja. Like, why ever use the cool asf Ultra Sonic Raider again when they could just summon 4 DRAGONS to go anywhere and fight anything? Or how the Destiny's Bounty got such a little amount of use during seasons 5-7 (Bounty wasn't even rebuilt until season 5) when, once again, why use their hella cool flying pirate ship, when insta dragon? They're also way more fucking boring. The first 4 dragons for example had their own names (Rocky Shard Wisp Flame), they had to be taken care of, they set up stables for them under the monastery (which is now being used again in Dragons Rising because Dragons Rising is perfect). With the elemental Dragons you forget about them as soon as they disappear, no names, no attachment between them and the ninja, no personality. What I'm getting at is Hunted was essentially a renaissance for Ninjago dragons. Thank you for reading.
remember when kai smith became the first enemies-to-lovers booktok boyfriend by saying “was it his idea to make me fall for you or yours? because it worked.”