Let me get this straight: This finale is basically the season 2 finale, but much, MUCH worse. Throughout this season, they threw away all the development the characters of ninjago had:
Lloyd, Nya, Jay, Cole, Zane, Pixal, Harumi, Overlord, Mechanic, and many more characters were victims in this season's god-awful writing. This season's writing is so bad, to the point where THE OTHER ELEMENTAL MASTERS WERE FORGOTTEN OF. Excluding the ninja, the only elemental master that actually returned from season 4 is Skylor. Any other elemental master is completely ignored of, and isn't mentioned at all either.
This finale also ruined the characters: The episode starts out with a fakeout death, with Garmadon "dying". I'm personally tired of the fakeout deaths.
Because of Garmadon "dying", Lloyd FINALLY achieves his oni form, which was built up throughout this whole season. Appearantly, the oni form is only seen for like 20 seconds. Lloyd switches out of his oni form because it's "bad" and "evil" though this barely makes any sense.
Instead of the oni form, the OG 4 ninja sacrifice their elemental powers/dragon forms to give it to Lloyd. Now, you could expect something like the ultimate spinjitzu master form/golden ninja form of Lloyd returning, right? Well, you guessed wrong.
Instead of something like that, we get a four-headed golden dragon with the 4 elemental powers.
Wow. Just wow.
The Overlord and Lloyd with his golden dragon fight a bit, until Lloyd succeeds and destroys Overlord's body, saving Ninjago.
This was a final battle that people did NOT expect to see, and I'm pretty sure people weren't happy with it at all either.
Harumi's redemption arc is so rushed and is so bad, Lloyd has been a jerk to Garmadon throughout the whole season, and he didn't learn anything from this. HOWEVER, when it comes to Harumi suddenly 'redeeming' herself, he says "She's with us" like PARDON ME?
Nya was also portrayed as a nobody without her element throughout this season. She is treated like a complete joke in this season, to the point where she has ABSOLUTELY NO DIALOGUE IN THE FINALE. A character as important as Nya, is thrown away to the side, entirely ignored.
This is genuinely a very terrible/embarassing "finale" and a "final season" to an amazing show like Ninjago.
I'm glad we got Ninjago Dragons Rising as it is continuing the series, rather than letting it end on a horrible season like this.
This finale also ruined the characters: The episode starts out with a fakeout death, with Garmadon "dying". I'm personally tired of the fakeout deaths.
Because of Garmadon "dying", Lloyd FINALLY achieves his oni form, which was built up throughout this whole season. Appearantly, the oni form is only seen for like 20 seconds. Lloyd switches out of his oni form because it's "bad" and "evil" though this barely makes any sense.
Instead of the oni form, the OG 4 ninja sacrifice their elemental powers/dragon forms to give it to Lloyd. Now, you could expect something like the ultimate spinjitzu master form/golden ninja form of Lloyd returning, right? Well, you guessed wrong.
Instead of something like that, we get a four-headed golden dragon with the 4 elemental powers.
Wow. Just wow.
The Overlord and Lloyd with his golden dragon fight a bit, until Lloyd succeeds and destroys Overlord's body, saving Ninjago.
This was a final battle that people did NOT expect to see, and I'm pretty sure people weren't happy with it at all either.
Harumi's redemption arc is so rushed and is so bad, Lloyd has been a jerk to Garmadon throughout the whole season, and he didn't learn anything from this. HOWEVER, when it comes to Harumi suddenly 'redeeming' herself, he says "She's with us" like PARDON ME?
Nya was also portrayed as a nobody without her element throughout this season. She is treated like a complete joke in this season, to the point where she has ABSOLUTELY NO DIALOGUE IN THE FINALE. A character as important as Nya, is thrown away to the side, entirely ignored.
This is genuinely a very terrible/embarassing "finale" and a "final season" to an amazing show like Ninjago.
I'm glad we got Ninjago Dragons Rising as it is continuing the series, rather than letting it end on a horrible season like this.
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