Ok,I can understand because of the starting episodes where they just try to get the time gauntlets. BUT BOY THE BACKSTORYS AND FIGHTS AT THE AND🤯.Even Wu vs Acronic at the begging was fire.
Honestly, the season is actually pretty good. While it’s definitely not my favorite, I feel like it could’ve been better, buts it’s still a good season
I think a few things should be mentioned. First of all, when hands of time was made, Samurai X wasn't planned to be pixel. Instead Samurai X was gonna be a form of Wu that time traveled to help the ninja. Second of all, hands of time was supposed to have a very different ending where Cole was meant to be killed off. Which was supposed to explain why he was absent in his reflection. Whats ironic is that scene goes on unexplained.
Actually it was pixel for sure because she knew the first line of code for programming a nindroid to stop the iron doom just like zane and zane actually knew it was pixel
i think hands of time is good not great but good also i think kai was at his best in this season before he got downhill in the post movie era of the show
Ok, the fire chapter was a dumpster fire but the ice chapter was cool, it is really nostalgic and every once and a while ill watch season 11 12 and 13 in one sitting, sO noSTAlGIc
Yes I really think secrets of the forbidden spinjitzu was my favorite season I really liked the part about the ice emperor and the people who can turn into different animals and Llyod finally have a love interest but i will admit the first episodes before they go to the ice empire is really bad like really really bad but everything after that is chiefs kiss the only season that I might like more then secrets of the forbidden spinjitzu is the first season of dragons rising. If you want to do one I would love a video on secrets of the forbidden spinjitzu. I also like the hands of time when kai and nya find there parents.
The season had a lot pf potential but it had so many errors in the timeline and especially no character ever used their most op weapons and everybody has so much plot armor
I loved that they more often than not used their weapons, remembers me to the first seasons where they needed the golden weapons to channel their powers and shows that their training with weapons inst obsolete.
You can call this season hot garbage and stuff But I’d rather have an awful season than a dumpster fire like crystalized. Crystalized is hands down the worst season of the show.
hands of time is my 2nd favourite favourite season, the way the plot flows interests me. My favourite season is Secrets Of Forbidden Spinjitzu the plot there is so interesting the fact that it goes from lava snakes to ice warriors is so cool
tbh I think that jay should have told the other ninja about echo Zane, like "oh yea, Zane has a lost brother out in the middle of the ocean" or something like that.
At least Crystalized (arguably) showed us different perspectives of Lloyd and Harumi. Controversial, yes, but at least it felt new and somewhat natural. The brother-sister dynamic felt so forced, and the dialogue didn't help much either.
Yes they should've left Harumi dead. She was an amazing character who learned her actions and died. Ending her character. She was terrible in Crystallized.. Her Writing and Character. She was evil and should not be turned good and their relationship was not natural.
I LOVE Hands of Time!! I think it’s better than seasons 6,8,10, The Island, and probably some others, but I would have to think about it more. I would like to see the Time Twins again in future seasons because they just got lost in time and could come back at any point.
Ok so One, Thank you for featuring my comment at the beginning of the video, and 2 I see what you mean, but the Time Blades are incredible weapons in my opinion and whats more is that the Intro adds more vibe to it was I usually get lost in some of the other Intros
Come to think about it, I don’t think there’s a single bad season in the entire show. You grow up and realize how unique each installment is. There are seasons we love, enjoy, etc, and some that just don’t resonate with us. Even seasons like rebooted, skybound, hands of time… Idk it’s hard to explain. Honestly i enjoy the filler in S2 also 😂
And at 5:12 reason why they’re not shooting fire or using their elemental powers is because they don’t want to wreck the museum and clean up all over again when they just cleaned it up and it took them for like weeks probably since the last battle
@@stephenrose1327eason 10 is easily the 2nd worst season it’s a complete and utter catastrophe that Ruined practically the entire series. It completely destroyed Lloyd and Garmadon’s characters while breaking the plot of the entire show.
@@stephenrose1327The season acts as if Garmadon is all about survival when he absolutely isn’t in saving faith when Harumi told him to flee because he could die he prioritised regaining control over his own safety and in Green destiny he literally tells Lloyd to kill him because of the fact that it would torment Lloyd (this isn’t to get his powers back because Lloyd could easily kill him before they are regained)
The biggest problem with this season for me is the dialogue. I don't have much of a problem with the show's dialogue overall. It's only this season. I recently talked about this on a post online about how this season dropped the ball with dialogue and how I would fix some scenes. Because had the dialogue not been so bad, the story could've shown. There's some good ideas here. It's not a great story, but it's not awful. In that post, I rewrote a few scenes where the only change was how the dialogue was handled. Remembering how subtext worked, dialogue not interrupting the action, not having characters talk to the void, relying on the emotion of each character in the scene. Etc. Two of those scenes were actually the Kai vs Krux fight in the museum, and the Smith family reunion. Scenes that I think if the dialogue was handled right, would've been quite good, but the dialogue butchers them. I'll reply to my own comment what I did with those scenes if anyone's curious. They're not good. They're not Shakespeare. But I tried.
(The museum fight. The context is the same. It's conveying the same things. The only difference is that subtext is now added) So we have Kai and Krux in the museum in a fight. Cyrus Borg is on the floor tied up and Kai is trying to reach him. He gets kicked away by Krux before he could. Kai gets up and his eyes meet the portrait of his parents. It's shown on his face that his ideology of them motivates him. Krux tries to grab Cyrus and make an escape, but Kai grabs a nearby prop sword to throw at him and get his attention back. Kai swears to him: *"I'll finish the fight they started. I'll stand for what Wu, mom, dad, and all of them fought for!"* And he charges at Krux with a fire-based attack. Krux blocks it and pins him to the floor. In the struggle, Krux gazes at the portrait of Kai's parents and smiles in a very smug way. Krux then says: *"Then you'll be fighting alongside us. Just like your parents did."* Kai is caught off guard by his claim, shock all over his face. All he can give off is a *"What?!"* Before he's thrown off and slammed into the wall. The portrait of his parents is behind him, and while Kai is down, Krux approaches to add to the taunting, using the painting as a reference. Krux taunts: *"You weren't there, young one. These paintings of honor don't tell the full story of who your family was. What they represented. Wu may not want you to know the truth, but I'll tell you."* The whole time, Kai, on the ground, tries to punch, kick, and spew fire at Krux, but again and again it's blocked, and Krux only approaches closer, his claims echoing in the room, and Kai's head, disorienting him. *"Your parents were TRAITORS. They were DECEITFUL. They were ENEMIES TO THE MASTERS. They fought for OUR CAUSE. They BETRAYED EVERYONE THEY CARED FOR TO SAVE THEIR OWN SKIN."* Kai gets smacked to the corner, and Krux has him pinned again, a smug as ever grin on his face in seeing Kai distraught, confused, scared, and breathing heavily. Krux asks, *"And you want to be like that?"* With Kai's body pretty much molded into the painting by this point, there's a few seconds that focuses only on Kai's expression. His teeth get more gritted, and his fist (claw, thing, you know what I mean) is clenched and burning red under his glove. Kai then grits, the first time in a quiet bit of anger, *"You're a liar."* Krux gives a smug, *"Hm?"* And suddenly, Krux is thrown back by a punch of heat. Kai is now the one charging at Krux, trying to slash fire from his fist everywhere. The whole time, he's screaming, *"YOU'RE A LIAR! A LIAR! THEY WOULD NEVER! YOU LIE!!"* And from his anger getting the better of him, he doesn't notice Krux pulling a smart move to get him off of him and thrown to the floor. All Krux can give is a reply, *"And you're a fool."* Then Acronix shows up. (I could've done everything surrounding Acronix and Nya as well if I wanted, but in the post I didn't)
(This is the Smith family reunion) So we start with Kai barging into the blacksmith shop. His father is there. There's a look of solitude and despair on his father's face as he hits his hammer on the metal he's working on. The sound of the hammer on the metal adds to the uneasiness of the scene. Kai stands there, unsure what to do. He's hesitant, his hand tightened on his blade (or whatever that thing is). Ray looks up, assuming it's a guard. He says, *"The next load is on the shelf. I'll have the next batch by morning, as you wished."* Then he goes back to hammering the metal. It's louder this time. From under Kai's mask, his eyebrows are tightened. He shuts the front door and locks it. (Because this is an assassination attempt. That's what he's trying here.) Ray stops hammering and notices the 'guard' locking the door, and he goes, *"What? Was it something I've done?"* That's when Kai gives a sneer. *"Yes."* Then Kai, no other words, no patience for his father's reaction, charges at Ray and tries to strike him with the blade. Ray, with the hammer in his hand, defends himself. The two engage in a fight, with Kai trying to take him out, and Ray acting out of self defense. Ray holds his own very well, and even knocks Kai back a bit. (Showing the audience he's capable of holding his own.) When Kai is on the ground, Ray, in a moment to breathe, asks, *"Who are you?!"* (Showing the audience he's detected Kai is not a guard) Kai, on the ground, catches his breath, and shoots the question right back. *"Who are you?! You traitor!"* Kai gets up and continues the fight, and Ray again, defends himself. All Ray can get out is a confused, *"Traitor?!"* Kai, in his rage as he tries to assault his dad, vents to him (because that's in character) *"I thought you were a hero! I looked up to you! I wanted to BE you! I was a fool!"* Ray, again, gets the upper hand and knocks Kai to the ground, throwing away Kai's weapon (thing). Ray demands, as an act of mercy, *"I don't know what you thought of me, but stand down. This doesn't have to end badly."* Kai flinches from his spot, emotions of rage, confusion, sorrow, and vengeance written all over him. He takes off his mask to catch his breath. Ray's eyes widen a little, but he still can't recognize his kid. (Because Kai was left as a toddler. He wouldn't know right away.) Confusion starts to ride his face as well. (We can tell from just his expression that he's detecting this is a young fellow, a teen, in a state of grief.) Still, Kai clenches his fist, now in resolve on his stance. Ray sees and raises his hammer. He tries to demand again, *"Stand down-"* Then Kai's hands start spewing fire. That's when Ray, having it all hit on him at once, drops the hammer. Kai gets up and holds out his fiery hand towards Ray. Ray is devastated by this. He's stepping back. He's breathing heavily. And as he stares into his attacker, he says a soft, *"...Kai?"* Kai then slashes fire, and Ray is barely able to defend himself from a nearby helmet on the shelf. At this point, Nya is on the other side of the locked door, and she's trying to break in. Her pleads are heard muffled in the background. *"Kai! Stop! He's our father! Kai, please! Don't do this!"* But the focus is still on Kai trying to strike down his now unarmed father, who has stopped trying to fight back. Ray pleads, *"Kai, I can explain! It's me. Your father!"* Kai screams out, trying to strike him, *"My father wouldn't have left me! My father wouldn't have turned his back on Ninjago! My father would've been there for me!"* Then he manages to pin Ray to the wall and grab him. His face is filled with grief. Kai finishes it with a sad, *"He wouldn't be my enemy."* He raises his fiery hand. And then Nya busts in the room and spews water at Kai to put the flame out. She pleads, *"Kai, put him down!"* Kai demands, *"Stay out of this, Nya!"* Nya, instead of engaging, BEGS, *"He's my father, too."* Ray, in another wave of shock, says weakly, *"Nya...?"* Nya's beg touches Kai, and his serious angry face softens in regret. Ray touches that regret more by saying, *"I missed you so, so much... your mother and I, we wanted to come back to you, I promise we did, but... Krux... I wasn't a father. I... I'm so sorry... If I could undo the past... I'd put up a better fight to be there for you."* Kai is touched, almost changing his mind about taking down Ray. Almost. It's only for a few seconds, as Kai decides, *"That doesn't matter now."* Kai holds up another fiery fist. Nya screams in plead, *"KAI-!"* But then, before Kai could do any more blows, Maya storms into the room. And the first thing she does is throw her arms around Kai in a tight hug. It lets Ray go, and it leaves Kai in a stunned shock. All Kai can do is give a soft, *"...mom?"* Maya continues to hug her kid tight, emotionally overwhelmed. She begs, *"Please stop this, son..."* Nya, still standing by the door, also in surprise, realizes, *"Mom?!"* Maya then notices Nya, and parts one arm from Kai to allow Nya to run into the hug. It's worth of note that Kai isn't hugging her back. Kai's hand was still sparking from flames when Maya came in. But now with both water-powered family members in this hug, we see the sparks from his hand get extinguished as he's overwhelmed by their embrace. Kai then tries to wrap his head around it. He asks, *"Why did you leave us? Why did you leave me?"* Maya parts with her kids, explaining briefly, *"We were forced to. Your father and I, we..."* Kai processes, *"Krux."* Maya says, *"It doesn't matter now. Whatever happened, it doesn't matter now. You've grown up. Both of you. I could never imagine..."* Nya hugs Maya again, but Kai holds back. He looks over at Ray, who is still by the wall trying to catch his breath. Kai looks over at the girls, then back at his dad, then the girls again. He backs up into a corner, clearly sick with dread over what he had almost done. This is his family, and he almost assassinated them. It was a state of him giving in to Krux's taunts and a corrupt mindset. He covers his mouth with his hand and crashes into the shelf of helmets. The helmets clatter before him, which draws the family's attention to him. He's kneeled down and dreadful, and a single tear falls from his face. (Kai has never cried in the show up until this, so it would be effective.) All he can get out is a tearful, *"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm so sorry... I'm sorry dad... I'm sorry..."* Over and over again. As this happens, Ray gets up and approaches his kid. He softly ruffles his boy's hair to get his eyes onto him. Ray sheds a smile of forgiveness, and he hugs his kid tight. Soon Maya joins in as well to help calm down her son. The three of them share a warm embrace in their reunion. (Seriously, am I the only one who was bothered that Kai didn't apologize for trying to assassinate his family? I know they'd forgive him, but still.) Once they part, Nya asks, *"Did Krux force you to do all of this?"* And then we get Maya telling them essentially the same story from the original about how they forged the time blades, Krux wanted revenge so he took them away, yaddy yada. By the end of said flashback story, Kai has calmed down, and they're seated by the helmet mess together, so there's easy access to the 'helmet stamp' part of the story. (Bada boom.) (The original scene was SO CLOSE to being great. Dialogue and subtext makes all the difference to being the power of the scene home.)
The best defense for Pixal remaining anonymous is that she didn't want to return to the computer, I think she mentioned that in passing in Sons of Garmadon. But saying that outright would also have outed her identity as Pixal
King crimson erases time so basically you don’t remember doing the action but you actually did it and only king crimson and diavolo know that it happened it’s like if you brushed your tooth and then went to eat if he erases time you don’t remember brushing your tooth and eating but you still did it making you bamboozled of how you got there
"the worst season" it says everyone but for me its the best for one reason, it makes me understand that not everyone is born with the blessing of having good tastes.
I honestly really love this season. I was really hyped for skybound but really didn't enjoy it and still consider it my least favourite season and so i had no idea that season 7 was coming out and went in with no expectations and really loved it. I can accept its flaws but i still love it
Tbh I liked season 7, y’all can hate me but it really wasn’t that bad, sure, some parts were bad. but, this is my opinion I don’t care if y’all hate me for liking this season lol
wu sees a blimp (with text on it, probably advertising the borg watch) passing by borg tower in the temporal vortex. when wu sees the blimp he knows acronix is about to return
3:43 I think he knew because he saw that zeppelin in the sky with the date so he knew I think it's mentioned in the episode idk I could be completely wrong
I thought since every has significant weapons and Kai always just had the generic katana, the double ended sword would be become his weapon but j guess that was just for fun
Bruhhh that was not a spoiler warning for samurai x that was less than a second.... I had a feeling especially with the pixal being absent and the new x suit and the hardwired line.... So yeah unless it was a new character, I knew it was her but STILL
I feel like this fandom is too quick to gloss over faults in the show because it's "all in good fun." I personally can't stand Hands of Time and consider it the lowest point of the show. But if there weren't any bad seasons, the peak ones wouldn't stick out at all.
Master Wu in the last episode said that he was putting off till tomorrow what can't be done today I believe it was meant to be another hands of time season to explain that but the developers decided to just throw it away and change the characters appearence I really believe that there was meant to be a season that can explain all the flaws and the dialogue was even different but they changed all of that to sons of garmadon
@@Beowolf-jy5rc The plot of season 12 was going to involve Jay's birth mom being captured by unagami because the lightning element played an important role. It was also going to reveal why she gave up Jay
@@Kai-The-Basta That's what I'm saying. They abandoned it because it used stuff from s1-10 (Jay's mother) and they didn't want to make new watchers of the show watch all those seasons to understand what's going on
I cant understand how people say Crystalized is worse than Hands of Time. Crystalized has so many better things than HoT, from the animation, to the fight scenes, to the story, even though it wasnt executed the best.
Notice how maya in the flashback looks older than she does in the entire season 💀
I know and in Seabound they make her look way younger 💀.
Bruh but how
You’d think being a slave for decades would age you
Their hair is still black after 40 years passed
This entire season is like Mr.E, a huge waste of potential
And unagami imo
Mr. E is one of my favorite ninjago villians there is also Mr. F from ninjago crystallized but I prefer Mr. E
Yeah but at least Mr. E was cool
Don’t forget prime empire also the original draft of the season had jays mother involved
Not even a waste
“My parents beat you”
“Nuh uh”
💀💀💀
Ok,I can understand because of the starting episodes where they just try to get the time gauntlets. BUT BOY THE BACKSTORYS AND FIGHTS AT THE AND🤯.Even Wu vs Acronic at the begging was fire.
Yep.
“The serpentine wars it was peaceful time”-Cole 2017
No he actually says that at the beginning of the season
during the serpentine wars? but ninjago was at peace!
lmao i was wondering if anyone was gonna mention that
Honestly, the season is actually pretty good. While it’s definitely not my favorite, I feel like it could’ve been better, buts it’s still a good season
It's not good lol
I love all season
I think a few things should be mentioned. First of all, when hands of time was made, Samurai X wasn't planned to be pixel. Instead Samurai X was gonna be a form of Wu that time traveled to help the ninja. Second of all, hands of time was supposed to have a very different ending where Cole was meant to be killed off. Which was supposed to explain why he was absent in his reflection. Whats ironic is that scene goes on unexplained.
I'm p sure they explained it in s6 because they referenced the mirror scene when cole is able to turn invisible and I think they explained that
Actually it was pixel for sure because she knew the first line of code for programming a nindroid to stop the iron doom just like zane and zane actually knew it was pixel
The worst for you maybe, i loved the heck out of it!
It is one of my favorite seasons.
Same!
Me too! Top 5.
Same
Ray might’ve done something with the reversal blade on himself since he was the one who hid it
my main problem with the season is that the fight scenes are all peak, then one of the characters stop and say a cheesy line that ruins the pacing
i think hands of time is good not great but good also i think kai was at his best in this season before he got downhill in the post movie era of the show
Day of the Departed is on Tubi!
What you mean Kai isn't usually this dumb did you watch skybound 😭
True ig
Ok, the fire chapter was a dumpster fire but the ice chapter was cool, it is really nostalgic and every once and a while ill watch season 11 12 and 13 in one sitting, sO noSTAlGIc
how is season 11, 12, and 13 nostalgic..
Yes I really think secrets of the forbidden spinjitzu was my favorite season I really liked the part about the ice emperor and the people who can turn into different animals and Llyod finally have a love interest but i will admit the first episodes before they go to the ice empire is really bad like really really bad but everything after that is chiefs kiss the only season that I might like more then secrets of the forbidden spinjitzu is the first season of dragons rising. If you want to do one I would love a video on secrets of the forbidden spinjitzu. I also like the hands of time when kai and nya find there parents.
The season had a lot pf potential but it had so many errors in the timeline and especially no character ever used their most op weapons and everybody has so much plot armor
I loved that they more often than not used their weapons, remembers me to the first seasons where they needed the golden weapons to channel their powers and shows that their training with weapons inst obsolete.
You can call this season hot garbage and stuff
But I’d rather have an awful season than a dumpster fire like crystalized. Crystalized is hands down the worst season of the show.
I honestly like Hands of Time.
I'm gonna start Ninjago war but this is true it's my 3rd fav season
Same. Always liked Hands of Time. It’s in my top 5 favorite seasons.
the first 5 episode's weren't the best but the 2nd half was really good and there was surprisingly little paradox causing shenanigan's.
I really liked it to i mean the dialouge was prob better in german thats why
It’s good
hands of time is my 2nd favourite favourite season, the way the plot flows interests me. My favourite season is Secrets Of Forbidden Spinjitzu the plot there is so interesting the fact that it goes from lava snakes to ice warriors is so cool
Love your hot takes! Sotfs is Overhated and pretty good!
@@adnanaboukewik4950Agree
How is Season 11 good at all.. I need an explanation. Season 11 and Crystallized are two of the worst seasons of Ninjago...
tbh I think that jay should have told the other ninja about echo Zane, like "oh yea, Zane has a lost brother out in the middle of the ocean" or something like that.
You can't say this is the worst season after you've seen everything after season 10
Hands of time if one of my favourites tbh
At least Crystalized (arguably) showed us different perspectives of Lloyd and Harumi. Controversial, yes, but at least it felt new and somewhat natural. The brother-sister dynamic felt so forced, and the dialogue didn't help much either.
Nah that's way worse because it character assassinates harumi
Yes they should've left Harumi dead. She was an amazing character who learned her actions and died. Ending her character. She was terrible in Crystallized.. Her Writing and Character. She was evil and should not be turned good and their relationship was not natural.
I’m pretty sure originally season 8 was going to be a continuation of season 7 but since the movie came out it was changed to son of garmadon
I LOVE Hands of Time!! I think it’s better than seasons 6,8,10, The Island, and probably some others, but I would have to think about it more. I would like to see the Time Twins again in future seasons because they just got lost in time and could come back at any point.
Come to think of it season 7 is probably in my top 5.
8??! NAH BRUH YOU ARE TRIPPING
@@allsparkstudios1299season 8 is overatted
@@MadeByFear hey man it's ok sometimes I lie aswelll
@@allsparkstudios1299i was telling my opinoin i was tired and cranky although season 8 isnt hat bad
After season 4 Zane is only defined as ROBOT
Master Wu saw the blimp so that was addressed. Im talking about how he knew acronix came back
other than the filler episodes, season 11 is amazing honestly. I love it.
Old lightning master carried
I love this video keep up the good work mate
Ok so One, Thank you for featuring my comment at the beginning of the video, and 2 I see what you mean, but the Time Blades are incredible weapons in my opinion and whats more is that the Intro adds more vibe to it was I usually get lost in some of the other Intros
Come to think about it, I don’t think there’s a single bad season in the entire show. You grow up and realize how unique each installment is. There are seasons we love, enjoy, etc, and some that just don’t resonate with us.
Even seasons like rebooted, skybound, hands of time… Idk it’s hard to explain. Honestly i enjoy the filler in S2 also 😂
Rebooted and skybound are masterpieces??? And The fillers of season 2 were pretty fun
@@Doctor_EddardSkybound isn't a masterpiece.
The fillers helped in improving the characters so much and also they were the reason for season 6,7 to exist
@@njyawndra8609 it's just the best season of the show but okay
@@njyawndra8609 It is for what it did for Jay
And at 5:12 reason why they’re not shooting fire or using their elemental powers is because they don’t want to wreck the museum and clean up all over again when they just cleaned it up and it took them for like weeks probably since the last battle
Season 7 has some of the best of the original design suits, both unique and similar.
4:49
“I’m HeRe fEr u SiSterrr 💅😩”
This season was the last one with the old models so i look back at it fondly
this is a certified Lbowgrease moment
Hands of time is pretty bad but I genuinely don’t see how on Earth it could be worse than season 10 or 11.
11 is bad but 10? That’s a meh season not a bad season
@@stephenrose1327eason 10 is easily the 2nd worst season it’s a complete and utter catastrophe that Ruined practically the entire series. It completely destroyed Lloyd and Garmadon’s characters while breaking the plot of the entire show.
@@stephenrose1327The season acts as if Garmadon is all about survival when he absolutely isn’t in saving faith when Harumi told him to flee because he could die he prioritised regaining control over his own safety and in Green destiny he literally tells Lloyd to kill him because of the fact that it would torment Lloyd (this isn’t to get his powers back because Lloyd could easily kill him before they are regained)
@@andreahope7254 I’m not reading all of that
@@stephenrose1327it’s like 2 paragraphs.
The biggest problem with this season for me is the dialogue.
I don't have much of a problem with the show's dialogue overall. It's only this season.
I recently talked about this on a post online about how this season dropped the ball with dialogue and how I would fix some scenes.
Because had the dialogue not been so bad, the story could've shown. There's some good ideas here. It's not a great story, but it's not awful.
In that post, I rewrote a few scenes where the only change was how the dialogue was handled. Remembering how subtext worked, dialogue not interrupting the action, not having characters talk to the void, relying on the emotion of each character in the scene. Etc. Two of those scenes were actually the Kai vs Krux fight in the museum, and the Smith family reunion. Scenes that I think if the dialogue was handled right, would've been quite good, but the dialogue butchers them.
I'll reply to my own comment what I did with those scenes if anyone's curious.
They're not good. They're not Shakespeare. But I tried.
(The museum fight. The context is the same. It's conveying the same things. The only difference is that subtext is now added)
So we have Kai and Krux in the museum in a fight. Cyrus Borg is on the floor tied up and Kai is trying to reach him. He gets kicked away by Krux before he could. Kai gets up and his eyes meet the portrait of his parents. It's shown on his face that his ideology of them motivates him. Krux tries to grab Cyrus and make an escape, but Kai grabs a nearby prop sword to throw at him and get his attention back.
Kai swears to him: *"I'll finish the fight they started. I'll stand for what Wu, mom, dad, and all of them fought for!"*
And he charges at Krux with a fire-based attack. Krux blocks it and pins him to the floor. In the struggle, Krux gazes at the portrait of Kai's parents and smiles in a very smug way.
Krux then says: *"Then you'll be fighting alongside us. Just like your parents did."*
Kai is caught off guard by his claim, shock all over his face. All he can give off is a *"What?!"* Before he's thrown off and slammed into the wall. The portrait of his parents is behind him, and while Kai is down, Krux approaches to add to the taunting, using the painting as a reference.
Krux taunts: *"You weren't there, young one. These paintings of honor don't tell the full story of who your family was. What they represented. Wu may not want you to know the truth, but I'll tell you."*
The whole time, Kai, on the ground, tries to punch, kick, and spew fire at Krux, but again and again it's blocked, and Krux only approaches closer, his claims echoing in the room, and Kai's head, disorienting him.
*"Your parents were TRAITORS. They were DECEITFUL. They were ENEMIES TO THE MASTERS. They fought for OUR CAUSE. They BETRAYED EVERYONE THEY CARED FOR TO SAVE THEIR OWN SKIN."*
Kai gets smacked to the corner, and Krux has him pinned again, a smug as ever grin on his face in seeing Kai distraught, confused, scared, and breathing heavily.
Krux asks, *"And you want to be like that?"*
With Kai's body pretty much molded into the painting by this point, there's a few seconds that focuses only on Kai's expression. His teeth get more gritted, and his fist (claw, thing, you know what I mean) is clenched and burning red under his glove.
Kai then grits, the first time in a quiet bit of anger, *"You're a liar."*
Krux gives a smug, *"Hm?"*
And suddenly, Krux is thrown back by a punch of heat. Kai is now the one charging at Krux, trying to slash fire from his fist everywhere. The whole time, he's screaming, *"YOU'RE A LIAR! A LIAR! THEY WOULD NEVER! YOU LIE!!"*
And from his anger getting the better of him, he doesn't notice Krux pulling a smart move to get him off of him and thrown to the floor.
All Krux can give is a reply, *"And you're a fool."*
Then Acronix shows up.
(I could've done everything surrounding Acronix and Nya as well if I wanted, but in the post I didn't)
(This is the Smith family reunion)
So we start with Kai barging into the blacksmith shop.
His father is there. There's a look of solitude and despair on his father's face as he hits his hammer on the metal he's working on. The sound of the hammer on the metal adds to the uneasiness of the scene.
Kai stands there, unsure what to do. He's hesitant, his hand tightened on his blade (or whatever that thing is).
Ray looks up, assuming it's a guard. He says, *"The next load is on the shelf. I'll have the next batch by morning, as you wished."*
Then he goes back to hammering the metal.
It's louder this time.
From under Kai's mask, his eyebrows are tightened. He shuts the front door and locks it. (Because this is an assassination attempt. That's what he's trying here.)
Ray stops hammering and notices the 'guard' locking the door, and he goes, *"What? Was it something I've done?"*
That's when Kai gives a sneer. *"Yes."*
Then Kai, no other words, no patience for his father's reaction, charges at Ray and tries to strike him with the blade.
Ray, with the hammer in his hand, defends himself.
The two engage in a fight, with Kai trying to take him out, and Ray acting out of self defense. Ray holds his own very well, and even knocks Kai back a bit. (Showing the audience he's capable of holding his own.)
When Kai is on the ground, Ray, in a moment to breathe, asks, *"Who are you?!"*
(Showing the audience he's detected Kai is not a guard)
Kai, on the ground, catches his breath, and shoots the question right back. *"Who are you?! You traitor!"*
Kai gets up and continues the fight, and Ray again, defends himself. All Ray can get out is a confused, *"Traitor?!"*
Kai, in his rage as he tries to assault his dad, vents to him (because that's in character) *"I thought you were a hero! I looked up to you! I wanted to BE you! I was a fool!"*
Ray, again, gets the upper hand and knocks Kai to the ground, throwing away Kai's weapon (thing).
Ray demands, as an act of mercy, *"I don't know what you thought of me, but stand down. This doesn't have to end badly."*
Kai flinches from his spot, emotions of rage, confusion, sorrow, and vengeance written all over him.
He takes off his mask to catch his breath.
Ray's eyes widen a little, but he still can't recognize his kid. (Because Kai was left as a toddler. He wouldn't know right away.) Confusion starts to ride his face as well. (We can tell from just his expression that he's detecting this is a young fellow, a teen, in a state of grief.)
Still, Kai clenches his fist, now in resolve on his stance.
Ray sees and raises his hammer. He tries to demand again, *"Stand down-"*
Then Kai's hands start spewing fire.
That's when Ray, having it all hit on him at once, drops the hammer.
Kai gets up and holds out his fiery hand towards Ray.
Ray is devastated by this. He's stepping back. He's breathing heavily. And as he stares into his attacker, he says a soft, *"...Kai?"*
Kai then slashes fire, and Ray is barely able to defend himself from a nearby helmet on the shelf.
At this point, Nya is on the other side of the locked door, and she's trying to break in. Her pleads are heard muffled in the background. *"Kai! Stop! He's our father! Kai, please! Don't do this!"*
But the focus is still on Kai trying to strike down his now unarmed father, who has stopped trying to fight back.
Ray pleads, *"Kai, I can explain! It's me. Your father!"*
Kai screams out, trying to strike him, *"My father wouldn't have left me! My father wouldn't have turned his back on Ninjago! My father would've been there for me!"*
Then he manages to pin Ray to the wall and grab him. His face is filled with grief. Kai finishes it with a sad, *"He wouldn't be my enemy."*
He raises his fiery hand.
And then Nya busts in the room and spews water at Kai to put the flame out.
She pleads, *"Kai, put him down!"*
Kai demands, *"Stay out of this, Nya!"*
Nya, instead of engaging, BEGS, *"He's my father, too."*
Ray, in another wave of shock, says weakly, *"Nya...?"*
Nya's beg touches Kai, and his serious angry face softens in regret.
Ray touches that regret more by saying, *"I missed you so, so much... your mother and I, we wanted to come back to you, I promise we did, but... Krux... I wasn't a father. I... I'm so sorry... If I could undo the past... I'd put up a better fight to be there for you."*
Kai is touched, almost changing his mind about taking down Ray.
Almost.
It's only for a few seconds, as Kai decides, *"That doesn't matter now."*
Kai holds up another fiery fist.
Nya screams in plead, *"KAI-!"*
But then, before Kai could do any more blows, Maya storms into the room.
And the first thing she does is throw her arms around Kai in a tight hug.
It lets Ray go, and it leaves Kai in a stunned shock. All Kai can do is give a soft, *"...mom?"*
Maya continues to hug her kid tight, emotionally overwhelmed. She begs, *"Please stop this, son..."*
Nya, still standing by the door, also in surprise, realizes, *"Mom?!"*
Maya then notices Nya, and parts one arm from Kai to allow Nya to run into the hug.
It's worth of note that Kai isn't hugging her back. Kai's hand was still sparking from flames when Maya came in. But now with both water-powered family members in this hug, we see the sparks from his hand get extinguished as he's overwhelmed by their embrace.
Kai then tries to wrap his head around it. He asks, *"Why did you leave us? Why did you leave me?"*
Maya parts with her kids, explaining briefly, *"We were forced to. Your father and I, we..."*
Kai processes, *"Krux."*
Maya says, *"It doesn't matter now. Whatever happened, it doesn't matter now. You've grown up. Both of you. I could never imagine..."*
Nya hugs Maya again, but Kai holds back.
He looks over at Ray, who is still by the wall trying to catch his breath. Kai looks over at the girls, then back at his dad, then the girls again.
He backs up into a corner, clearly sick with dread over what he had almost done.
This is his family, and he almost assassinated them. It was a state of him giving in to Krux's taunts and a corrupt mindset.
He covers his mouth with his hand and crashes into the shelf of helmets. The helmets clatter before him, which draws the family's attention to him.
He's kneeled down and dreadful, and a single tear falls from his face.
(Kai has never cried in the show up until this, so it would be effective.)
All he can get out is a tearful, *"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm so sorry... I'm sorry dad... I'm sorry..."*
Over and over again.
As this happens, Ray gets up and approaches his kid. He softly ruffles his boy's hair to get his eyes onto him. Ray sheds a smile of forgiveness, and he hugs his kid tight.
Soon Maya joins in as well to help calm down her son.
The three of them share a warm embrace in their reunion.
(Seriously, am I the only one who was bothered that Kai didn't apologize for trying to assassinate his family? I know they'd forgive him, but still.)
Once they part, Nya asks, *"Did Krux force you to do all of this?"*
And then we get Maya telling them essentially the same story from the original about how they forged the time blades, Krux wanted revenge so he took them away, yaddy yada.
By the end of said flashback story, Kai has calmed down, and they're seated by the helmet mess together, so there's easy access to the 'helmet stamp' part of the story.
(Bada boom.)
(The original scene was SO CLOSE to being great. Dialogue and subtext makes all the difference to being the power of the scene home.)
The best defense for Pixal remaining anonymous is that she didn't want to return to the computer, I think she mentioned that in passing in Sons of Garmadon. But saying that outright would also have outed her identity as Pixal
King crimson erases time so basically you don’t remember doing the action but you actually did it and only king crimson and diavolo know that it happened it’s like if you brushed your tooth and then went to eat if he erases time you don’t remember brushing your tooth and eating but you still did it making you bamboozled of how you got there
Hands of time rule
"the worst season" it says everyone but for me its the best for one reason, it makes me understand that not everyone is born with the blessing of having good tastes.
Akronix being in new world with a table touch pad. I would be amazed to as I came from the past
the island joins the chat
I honestly really love this season. I was really hyped for skybound but really didn't enjoy it and still consider it my least favourite season and so i had no idea that season 7 was coming out and went in with no expectations and really loved it. I can accept its flaws but i still love it
The writing might be bad but the songs go hard in the middle mich the decenfing chimes like DiNg DoNg DoNg DuNg DoNg
I remember thinking that I missed a season or something because Cole wasn’t a ghost and I hadn’t watched the day of departed
This Season was a huge waste of time
6:48 WHAT
Edit: 8:53 I paused at the wrong time
Tbh I liked season 7, y’all can hate me but it really wasn’t that bad, sure, some parts were bad. but, this is my opinion I don’t care if y’all hate me for liking this season lol
Bro season 7 my favorite
9:38 za ninjago is crazy
How wu know the return of acronix is explained in the season
Seeing a random blimp doesn't immediately mean 40 years in the future, it still makes no sense
@@sobblegaming350 11:17
wu sees a blimp (with text on it, probably advertising the borg watch) passing by borg tower in the temporal vortex. when wu sees the blimp he knows acronix is about to return
Finally someone who understands @@hopechr
season 7 my fav season i like the time blades bc its just cool and time control op as hell
concept is cool, plot is absolute garbage.
The season is terrible but the Kronix Twins Lego minifigures are so cool
Kronix twins _🙆_
I completely understand your points and see where could be improvement, but there's no way this was worse than Crystalized
crystalized good season
No it was trash
no
Worst season in ninjago.. I hate it so much. Tried to hard to be good. L take.
Part 1 is the closest to Crystalized being good and it was mediocre at best. Part 2 tho..?
@@prabhavenugoda8161skill issue
day of the departed is on tubi
3:43 I think he knew because he saw that zeppelin in the sky with the date so he knew I think it's mentioned in the episode idk I could be completely wrong
I thought since every has significant weapons and Kai always just had the generic katana, the double ended sword would be become his weapon but j guess that was just for fun
0:13 How the hell did Hands of Time get more votes than Crystallized
This season was exact reason why i dumped Ninjago for like 6 years xD
Bruhhh that was not a spoiler warning for samurai x that was less than a second.... I had a feeling especially with the pixal being absent and the new x suit and the hardwired line.... So yeah unless it was a new character, I knew it was her but STILL
9:38 The Roblox slap battle time stop sound effect Is it just me?...
I feel like this fandom is too quick to gloss over faults in the show because it's "all in good fun." I personally can't stand Hands of Time and consider it the lowest point of the show. But if there weren't any bad seasons, the peak ones wouldn't stick out at all.
I thought the vermillions' aesthetic was super cool.
Tbh Seadon 7 ISMY FAVOURITE SEASIN ITS FANTASTIC
I wanna know why the end credits background is zanes dads lighthouse
Master Wu in the last episode said that he was putting off till tomorrow what can't be done today I believe it was meant to be another hands of time season to explain that but the developers decided to just throw it away and change the characters appearence
I really believe that there was meant to be a season that can explain all the flaws and the dialogue was even different but they changed all of that to sons of garmadon
Episode 1 - Pretty much perfect
Plenty of filler throughout and bad dialogue though.
Episode 10 - Very good
Personally, Hands of Time is my favorite season
also sensei wu had the sacred flute and they were fighting snakes alost the whole season
Could you do a review of secrets of the forbidden spinjitsu pls
I'm working on other things atm but if this comment gets 30 likes it'll be the next video
@@TomCritic OK thanks because I love this season and Vex is one of the best villains ever
@@Nabnab_TheTwistedOneL opinion
Say what you want about it but I at least thought it had a banger intro song :edit I realised he talked about it in the video
3:42 from the blimp obviously? And how is it the seasons fault day of the departed exists
I really liked crystalised ! Its one of my favorites and i dont get why it gets so hated
personally, prime empire is my favorite season, and YOU should talk about it NOW (ik its not that good, but its a personal thing)
It was a decent season imo (not great but it wasn't bad either) but I wish they stuck with the original plan for Prime Empire :(
@@Beowolf-jy5rc The plot of season 12 was going to involve Jay's birth mom being captured by unagami because the lightning element played an important role. It was also going to reveal why she gave up Jay
@@lunarbat6009Why the fuck didn’t they do that instead of that garbage we got
@@lunarbat6009This plot is much better why did you abandon this idea it could have been one of the best seasons with this plot.
@@Kai-The-Basta That's what I'm saying. They abandoned it because it used stuff from s1-10 (Jay's mother) and they didn't want to make new watchers of the show watch all those seasons to understand what's going on
6:47 broo
No, skybound is.
skybound still gave some good development for both jay and nya, also nadakhan is insanely op
The best season
@@ChickenTabletskybound is a masterpiece
Your least favorite season is my favorite season
11:16
And the way they did this! Hugs from the time twins _💀_
I still think crystalized is worse than this simply because of how disappointing it is. I do agree that Hands of time is still pretty bad though.
The snakes make this season not as good
What's wrong with the vermilion?
The first episode was really cool but then the snakes made it boring
cannot agree the hands of time was the worst season by far one of the best
In my opinion crystallized is a great season even though the fact that they had to add 2 parts to it
prime empire
?
This season is one of my favorite seasons yea shock 🎉
FINALLY, someone else who agrees-
This is my sacond favorite season first is season 1
I cant understand how people say Crystalized is worse than Hands of Time. Crystalized has so many better things than HoT, from the animation, to the fight scenes, to the story, even though it wasnt executed the best.
Because of the character assassination of Llyod,harumi,nya and the fanservice
I only like cuse mr e
wdym the story is better.. It is not. The animation is better though but thats it. HoT is much better.
1:54 actually....🤓
Nah the new dragons rising thingy thing is the worst
Nah, it has Acronix in it, therefore it isn't the worst season. It may not be the best one, but it's definitely not the worst
Honestly hands of time is my 6th favourite season
i like lego ninjago season 5 it s good
1:00 it’s on tubi
9:39 Zawarudoo
Tbh, I think j it’s like an 8/10 fr
aronics wants to what to a snake