Just for starters, march of the oni (masters of spinjitzu season 10) had a MUCH better finale than this, and i didn't like that finale much. That means that this episode was pretty bad. It was VERY rushed and it wasn't a very satisfying conclusion to a 15 SEASON STORY! I wish for this finale they made it the episode length of the previous series 21 minutes instead of cramming everything into 11 minutes. I don't really get how they made the episode bad, when the previous episodes were GREAT. Even though Roots had some good things like the end of Garmadon's arc, it felt really rushed and extremely disappointing for a series finale. I just hope that dragons rising improves from this, because if not, were doomed.
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Just why?
adnanaboukewik17 November 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I'm not so sure what they were aiming for exactly, however, this isn't how to end a show. I feel like a lot of character arcs were compeltely thrown away from season 8 and 9. I'm not eve sure why lloyd wouldn't go in his Oni form, why would he rather have everything get destroyed so that he doesn't go in his oni form(no longer a problem anymore thanks to the season 1 finale of dragons rising, lloyd has become one of the greatest characters ever again, and i'm glad)? Also, I feel like redeeming Harumi is honestly one of the worst things the show has ever done, after all the crimes she has done, she just gets redeemed instantly, no remorse, no apologizing, whatsoever. She never deserved redemption, Lloyd and harumi waving at each other in the end makes no sense whatsoever after all what harumi did to lloyd. Just as soon as she knew the overlord was the one who corrupted the devourer, she's like switching sides. Oni Lloyd was building up for just 5 seconds and nothing more too? Also lloyd still mean to garmadon, but atleast they resolved on the last seconds. I believe that this episode is the worst episode of the entire series and has damaged storytelling. Despite all that, I respect what the creators tried to do, but it looks like we screwed up. Best to move on from that failiure and learn their lesson, which i believe they already did, and i'm proud of them for doing so. Ninjago Dragons rising season 1 is the 16th ninjago season(or 17 if you want the island as a season) and it looks like it repaired almost all the mistakes of crystalized, so we're fine with that.
This is the worst season finale to any ninjago season. If not, this is the worst season of ninjago overall.
agojirafan25 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
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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