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Ninjago Dragons Rising Theory

First off, want to start with saying that I'm relatively new to the franchise. Got into it back in early fall 2023 because I was curious and wanted something to watch ...ended up binging it in time to be current for DR S1 Part 2 in October.

So, with that said, this will have spoilers for DRS2P1

My current theory is I think they might be setting up a potential evil/corrupted Arin arc for some time in the future.

Looking back at the season, the scene with Ras near the end is leading towards something along with his disappointment in himself, but I think one aspect of E2 is really interesting: I just find it an interesting coincidence that when the episode they remind us about Arin's too good for his own good nature is the same episode it's revealed the villainous artifact can "shatter goodness"

Ways it could happen potentially.

It could be similar to Kai back in S4 of pretending to switch sides and saving the day

or Arin gets somehow corrupted by the Gong and taken advantage of by Ras

or a combination of both: Maybe Arin intends it to be a trick and he does save the day, but something happens to him in the midst of it and gets corrupted by the Gong somehow and is the main threat of the next arc.

#ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #ninjago dr spoilers #arin ninjago

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Fun Wizards and Raven Connection with upcoming Wizards show

I just recently realized and remembered that David Henrie's first role on Disney Channel was a recurring character on That's So Raven and now he's starring in the Wizards sequel show by the same creators of Raven's Home

It does make me wonder if maybe Jed and Scott (the creators of both Raven's Home and the upcoming Wizards show) had originally got in contact with David for a potential to reprise his TSR character in Raven's Home in the recent seasons, but for whatever reason didn't work out. Then, they came up with the Wizards idea and he was interested and available then.

#wizards #wizards of waverly place #that's so raven #raven's home #disney channel #Jed elinoff #scott thomas #david henrie

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Doctor Who: Moffat Return...

If this new era was treated just like the previous showrunnners switches, of just being a soft reboot, I wouldn't mind.

A reason I have an issue with it is just because of how this era was marketing as at the start just seems less and less true with each announcement.

When RTD was first announced as coming back, the biggest promise was how "new" the show was going to be: "Nothing ever done on the show before", RTD basically saying he wasn't going to repeat what he did before, wouldn't have come back if he didin't have new plans for the show, etc..., resetting the series to "Season 1". Everything in marketing is trying to market it as basically a brand new show

But now, the majority of the updates we get are just: "[Insert crew/character] returning to Doctor Who!!!!"

There's just a disconnect to me to go from "Everything will be new,new,new!!" To "Tennant and Tate are returning!!!", "Murray Gold's returning!!!", "Bonnie Langford's returning!!!", an article interview a while ago teased an unnnaounced name from the 4th Doctor's era, "Moffat's returning!!", etc...

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One way to look at NATLA

While watching some reactions to the original show, it occurred to me that this Netflix show (and adaptations all together) is basically paralleled with The Northern Air Temple episode

Albert Kim and the people behind this show are basically doing the same thing The Mechanist did with the Northern Air Temple: taking a shell of something that's important to people and making it their own.

The purpose of it isn't to remake the original beat for beat, just telling the story again in a new way to introduce people into this world.

#natla #avatar netflix #atla netflix #atla #avatar the last airbender

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My thought on one NATLA complaint and future hope

Spoilers for original show included

A big complaint I've seen is about Aang not waterbending, and I'm going to try to explain why I don't think it's as big a deal as people are making it out to be and explain what I think this show is doing

When did Aang start practicing waterbending in the original? After finding out about the comet deadline and knowing he has a limited amount of time. Since they're putting off Aang knowing about the comet, he doesn't have that immideate push to start practicing. They had that one scene of him denying Katara's suggestion to practice to show he's not ready and is still not really ready to accept what he needs to do. With how short the season is, I think him doing that and basically having to waterbend the next episode would be too quick.

Also, take into account that this season isn't ever labeled "Water" like the original. I think for this interpretation, they wanted Aang to learn about the Avatar's role and legacy before learning the other elements. The water focus instead of being on Aang was on Katara's development having a major change from premiere to finale. They wanted to focus on that first before having her be teaching Aang

My current hope for the future of the show just because Books 2 & 3 have much more to cover, that the seasons will be longer but release in half batches

S2 Part 1: Aang and Katara learning waterbending, return to Omashu, Toph, cliffhanger with library eclipse reveal (possibly comet) and Appa kidnapping

S2 Part 2: Desert and Ba Sing Se arcs

S3 Part 1: Wake up from coma to Eclipse

S3 Part 2: Zuko's adventures to Sozin's Come

And who's to say they have to stop there like the original did. They could adapt the post-series comics if it's still popular. I think them already taking some stuff from expanded media is telling us that's a possibility.

#natla #netflix atla #netflix avatar #avatar the last airbender #atla #katara #aang

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One thing to remember with Netflix's ATLA:

I feel like there is a good amount of people unfairly trying to place this season alongside the entire original show. This is only based on the first season. Remember that the 1st Book is generally considered the lowest/weakest point of the original show. Throughout the years everytime I've seen people start the show, I can't count the amount of comments that are along the lines of "The first season starts slow, It gets much better in S2"

I think the live action show team should get the chance to see what they can do with that material, and taking feedbacks from the first season.

#netflix avatar #natla #atla #avatar the last airbender

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Netflix ATLA Theory

SPOILERS for show (both original and Netflix):

This will be a long time coming if true

If (hopefully when) they get a second season, they're going to have Sai and Teo escape Omashu after it's been taken and set up at the Northern Air Temple (maybe even a one off line about "we actually set up here first but moved to Omashu" The trio will be going near the area and see them there and they'll find out Omashu's been taken.

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Netflix Avatar Thoughts

First, I'm going to explain my relationship with the franchise, I was a fan during the original show's run but oddly don't have many memories about it and don't even remember when or how we (me and my siblings) got into it. We didn't have cable as kids, so we would have only seen Nickelodon on vacations. The most vivid memory I have of the original is seeing Sokka's Master episode airing on TV when on a vacation, and I think we were suprised that it was a new episode (or at least one we hadn't seen so "new" to us). I watched Korra as it aired, all the way through

I've gotten back into it on and off throughout the years due to reaction videos. I started to read and bought the comic stories, but fell off after a couple and just haven't gone back yet. I have not yet read the Kyoshi and Yangchen Novels yet,

Now that that's said, my thoughts on Netflix's take.

I overall think it's a really good adaptation.

I really thought the decision to give Roku's powerup moment to Kyoshi makes sense for the way they were telling the story. Show the contrast with E1 ending with the dangers an uncontrolled Avatar State , and E2 immidetely showing the possibilites of a controlled Avatar State.

I am also someone who enjoyed the idea of combining and contrasting The Mechanist and Jet storylines. Seeing elements of the original source material that do have similar themes (people believing they're doing something for a greater good. I also enjoyed them bringing the "Cave of Two Lovers" story connecting with this in S1 was a nice touch combining it.

One criticism I do have is that because of Kyoshi's bigger role, Roku gets sidelined a bit. If you had never seen the original, you'ld never think he was the main one Aang spoke to. To me, it almost feels to me that because they took out the solstice timeline thing and warning Aang about the comet, I think that the whole temple situation was possibly going to be cut, but they knew fans would be mad if they cut it out completely.

To contrast with that, I do understand that it was likely necessary for the really good expansions with the Aang and Zuko scene post-Blue Spirt, and the expansion of who Zuko's crew is. Those were really great moments. I do think that the Blue Spirit sequence was almost a direct one-to-one of the original, which depends on whether that's a good thing or not.

Also, I think I'm in the minority, but I really enjoyed them bringing the "Fog of Lost Souls" from Korra into it was a really neat way to show Sokka and Katara's history. I did miss the whole showing Hei Bai turn back into his usual form. I really like that it's taking elements from outside the orignal show like Korra and as officially stated from the Kyoshi novels for her backstory.

I also liked that even if they cut the episodes out, they still imply that some of the more filler original S1 episodes still happened. The people in the bar area talking about "pirates" and "canyon crawlers" nice little reference for oriignal fans while telling new fans that we aren't seeing every adventure they're on.

I really hope that Netflix sees enough views to keep going, despite the critical reviews it's gotten. I really want to see what this team does in the future. I do agree that future seasons should have a higher episode count, maybe 10 at the least, simply because there's much more required information in future seasons that 8 episodes I don't think will be enough. Saw some suggestions (very far off) that they could split the original S3 into 2, part 1 ending with the invasion, part 2 lead up to final battle with Aang and Ozai, and I think that would be a good idea.

Also, with the comet, I think they're take on the comet timeline will depend on if S2-3 can be filmed back to back, or if they're going to only renew one at a time. If it's double renewed for S2-3, then I think they're going to have something happen in S2 that suddenly moves the comet deadline earlier. Like it was supposed to be a a few more years, but something fasttracked it and it's now coming in just a matter of months. If they only get renewed for S2, I think they'll change it fully into coming in a couple years time.

#avatar the last airbender #avatar netflix #atla netflix #atla live action

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With the Wizards revival coming made me think...

After Disney Channel's success with Raven's Home (6 seasons) and the upcoming Wizards revival (From the same duo, no less), it made me think of something with Girl Meets World..

Is it possible that to Disney Channel, they saw Girl Meets World as an "experiment" to see if they could get into the revival genre without risking one of their own original propeties if it didn't work? Sort of a show to see what works and what doesn't with a Disney Channel revival like if the creator needs to be back, who's the focus, etc..

Disney Channel is a very big contributor in if something works, do it again, if it doesn't, don't.

Even looking back at the timeline, Raven's Home premiered only 5 months and 1 day after Girl Meets World ended.

Girl Meets World tried focusing on the new generation with the returning original characters being side-lined but ironically the reason it was cancelled was said to be that it didn't resonate with the target audience, Raven's Home and Wizards both seem to share a similarity of having the show's description center around the returning character(s) to intrique the original fans, while having a new generation of kids as well for the target audience.

With how the different posts and videos now about "How Girl Meets World aged badly", I do think if this was the approach it definitely worked...

#gmw #girl meets world #raven's home #wizards of waverly place #disney channel

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Percy Jackson Show - Tension Differences

One of the biggest complaints I've seen of the show is that they are "taking tension away" from having the trio be knowledgeable about the encounters and want to refute that. The tension has just been adapted to fit the new medium.

A lot of tension in the book comes from lead up to reveals, which completely works in book because you as the reader are given pieces of it at a time. In a TV show, just by the nature of having to actually see it on screen, immediately takes that specific tension away.

Keeping the encounters exactly the same as in the book, without Percy's thoughts, would make the trio look way too naive and or dumb.

Like with Medusa, what would be the tension in seeing the trio be like "Gee this woman with her face covered and garden of stone statues is surely just a normal mortal"

Here they changed the tension from the lead up "Who is this?" to "What is she up to?, Is she being genuine?

Then with the casino, the book starts it with the trio once again trusting a stranger urging them to come in. With Percy's narration he's able to defend the action in the text explaining the reasoning why which again you lose that in a TV show.

So for this example they decided to use the opportunity to set up lore for the future, create the new humorous tension of escaping the garage and the serious tension being that they actually miss the deadline

Crusty's section in the book is just one page before the reveal. For this one in particular you have to think of what's allowed on screen. You can get away with a lot more in a book than a TV show especially if you're trying to get a new young audience. Seeing 12 year old kids being stretched would not be allowed.

In the book, it's such a short side encounter that it's TV version is made to be that sort of more humorous tension before the serious tension of the Underworld.

A lot of the encounters in the book rely on the trio being too trusting and not suspicious, which you go along with because of Percy's narration implying/explaining why they were trusting. You lose that in a TV show and seeing them believe every trap would get really really repetitive in a TV format without Percy's narrative explanations.

#pjo disney+ #pjo tv #percy jackson #pjo tv show #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians

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Percy Jackson Show Thoughts Update

So 5 episodes in, and I really enjoy how the show is being done. I've been enjoying the episodes every week. As a newer adult fan of the franchise, even though I only read the book a couple years ago it still feels nostalgic seeing the events on screen.

Also, I've seen some people complain about the changes they've made from the book, but in my opinion the changes elevate the original story.

I think there are some people that have a misconception that the movies is a bad adaptation simply because they changed elements, therfore is the show is also chaning elements that means it's also a bad adaptation. But the difference is in why the changes were made

The movies made changes because they were trying to attract a completely seperate demographic: trying to turn a middle-grade book series into a teen-fantasy movie franchise

The show is changing things by taking themes of the franchise as a whole (that Rick probably didn't have it fully thought out when he first wrote the book almost 20 years ago) and putting them into the events of the first book (The not everyone that looks like monster/hero theme, Percy's loyalty and willingness for sacrifice, Annabeth's refusal to give up when working on something, Grover being braver and confident than he sometimes lets on being)

Rick doesn't see this as a chance to retell the story word by word. He sees this as a chance to retell the story for the first time again from the beginning now with the knowledge of everything that happens in the future of the story.

#percy jackson #pjo tv #pjo disney+ #pjo #rick riordan

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Percy Jackson TV Show E1-2 Thoughts

First, I should say that I'm a newer fan of the franchise that just got into a franchise a couple years as an adult.

I really enjoy how they're adapting the books so far. If you're wanting a 1:1 book adaptation, you'll be disappointed but that's never what it was going to be. The changes make sense for the new medium so far. The entire cast seems great.

An interesting change I like is giving characters that don't truthfully have much in the book intro in the beginning some of Grover & Annabeth's role about:

E1: Sally sort of takes over the role of why Percy knows the stories from "Mr. Brunner"

E2: Percy learning about camp from Luke instead of Annabeth helps establish that relationship.

My biggest thing is I sort of wished they could have given the 3rd episode as part of the premiere to show the trio's dynamic.

While as stated I do like the change of giving those characters above more focus in the beginning since the trio will have the whole quest, it does seem a little odd to me that we're 2 episodes in to an 8 episode season (around 83 minutes if you combine Disney+ runtimes of the episodes), and the starring trio that's the face of the series promotion hasn't even shared a scene together yet.

#percy jackson #pjo disney+ #pjo tv show #pjo

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Doctor Who: Missed opportunity for the 60th (to make it seem more like an anniversary special)

While I do stand by the meta-showrunner era connections for each special, I think it would have been better if each special was a different previous Doctor

I was thinking that Big Finish is doing a long form storyline where The Doctor during the Time War, is going through previous (and future) incarnations. I think doing the same idea for these specials would have felt more special than. One of the best things, to me, about companions returning is seeing them interact with a new incarnation and I think it just being Tennant takes away from that aspect.

Like in POTD, Jodie turns into one previous Doctor that leads The Star Beast story, and then another incarnation in Wild Blue Yonder, then Tennant for The Giggle for a full circle moment of the happy ending with the Noble-Temples with the same face he met Donna in. (My personal idea would have been to literally go down the roster: 12, 11, 10, but 12 wouldn't work since Capaldi said someitme recently that he doesn't want to come back, other choices could have been Paul McGann or Jo Martin - )

That, imo, would have also helped with the bi-generation because you're setting up that the next regeneration will happen differently than others,

I guess the only question though would be if each counted as a seperate incarnation or if we could just consider all three as the 14th Doctor.

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Doctor Who: The Giggle and 60th Overall

For the most part I did enjoy that, but I do think the bi-regeneration needed a more in-show explanation.

First, update on my showrunner theory: Even if it wasn't intentional, it still seems to fit

The Star Beast: Family Focused Romp with a ridicolous looking creature (RTD)

Wild Blue Yonder: Mystery focused horror type story with creepier villains (Moffat)

The Giggle: Direct connection to Classic with both a returning villain and returning companion in regen story, contreversial change to canon, happy ending (eg not dying) for TARDIS team (Chibnall)

As for the bi-regen itself, when I first saw the leak I was disappointed, but I definitely think I see what Russell's implying: 14 lives gets to rest with the Noble-Temples then he does eventually turn into 15 and is brought back to this moment.

When 15 first appears, he says "I'm really, really, really me", which I think implies that it's post life with the Noble-Temples

Then 15 also has the "I'm fine because you fix yourself" which I personally think is good enough confirmation that is the case

Couple fun side notes:

One, it almost feels like Russell felt left out that he didn't get to make a canon changing event related to regeneration

Moffat: allowed The Doctor to get a new regeneration cycle

Chibnall: The Doctor had more faces before Hartnell

With that new regeneration cycle, and that above thing, it fits with my thing that I posted back a while ago that the new regeneration cycle, likely unintentionally since it's literally three different showrunners, is parrelling the first

12th (1st): Older, more sort-of harsh, gets kinder throughout character arc

13th (2nd) Younger, more joyful, revelation about The Doctor's past , finale deals with forced regeneration

14th (3rd): "grounded" on Earth with a group

15th (4th): TBA

Also fun caption mishap on Disney+. After the bi-regeneration happens , captions refer to Tennant in brackets as [Tenth Doctor]...

#doctor who spoilers #dw #doctor who #60th anniversary #russell t davies #steven moffat #chris chibnall #david tennant #catherine tate #ncuti gatwa #14th doctor #15th doctor

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Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder Thoughts and 60th as a whole

So, this was a massive step up from The Star Beast for me, and was a really great, really amazing episode, but again it doesn't feel like an anniversary event in the typical sense.

And the Flux conversation was really good, showed that (unlike what some people wanted) Russell isn't just going to ignore that. Side note: The Doctor side-stepping the conversation at the end with Donna was very much taking from Jodie/13

I think this episode does help the case of my theory of this being more of a meta type celebration of NewWho since Russell left celebrating the revival era, before starting a new chapter with Ncuti. Like I said before, I think Power of the Doctor celebrated Classic Who and doing that right away as the next stories would feel repetetive. Each episode sort of taking theme of each era, while also referencing the others

The Star Beast (Russell's era): Major focus on family, villains being sort of ridicolous looking creatures made menancing (Slitheen, Adipose, etc.

Wild Blue Yonder (Moffat's era): Focus on mystery and villains being creepier ( the Silence, Pandorica, River Song + Clara mysteries, etc.)

and finally

The Giggle (Chibnall's era): More overtly connected to Classic Who (Master in disguise, "Contact"/Master's shrink ray..), Kate Stewart (which Chibnall introduced in Moffat's era and brought back in his own),

Bonus (Possibly just me): The end of WBY with Wilf in the daylight, the way the lighting and scene looked it just very much resembled Chibnall's era. I don't know what about it, but just had that thought right away.

#doctor who spoilers #doctor who #dw #david tennant #catherine tate #russell t davies #steven moffat #chris chibnall #60th anniversary #wild blue yonder #the star beast #the giggle #14th doctor

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Doctor Who: Star Beast Thoughts

While I enjoyed it for the most part as an episode, to me personally it just doesn't feel big enough to be considered an "anniversary".

It was good to see David Tennant and Catherine Tate back as the duo, but I know this will be an unpopular take but Donna's "death" really didn't do too much for me personally considering the entire marketing of the specials was "David and Catherine together again in 3 specials!!!"

It just felt like S4 P2 to me, just a normal episode (Even Russell himself calls it an "episode" in the BTS footage video) The best moment/surprise for me was the good twist of the metacrisis doctor with Rose, and the reveal of the shed and toys being part of that memory.

Since it is only 1 out of 3 specials, I'm going to wait until the whole story is out to have any full thoughts about it as a whole and not base my opinion on 1/3 of the story.

With The Power of the Doctor being a celebration of Classic Who, I can understand not wanting to repeat that right away.

With that, with how RTD era focused this episode felt, it's putting a little more hope to the theory I have that the 60th as a whole is more focused on celebrating NewWho (Especially if the whole starting with S1 again with Ncuti is true) . 3 specials = 3 showrunner eras.

RTD bringing the last main duo he left with back to literally go through different themes and elements of each era to show far it's come since he left makes sense to me: The next special seems more mysterious and horror-ish, which was more Moffat, and I realized writing this that The Toymaker (who's assumed to be in mainly just the last one) was literally referenced during Chibnall's era.

#doctor who #dw #russell t davies #steven moffat #david tennant #catherine tate #chris chibnall #fourteenth doctor #60th anniversary #the star beast #wild blue yonder #the giggle #the toymaker #rtd

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Doctor Who: My big issue with "rebooting" the show to Season 1 again..

First off, I do understand the thought process with wanting to start over for a completely new era, but the issue is unlike 2005 it's still directly connected to the recent era.

If the theories of Jodie's regeneration being completly open-ended ended up being true and that was the end of her era. Then RTD comes in after a small hiatus and starts it new with Gatwa already been around just like Eccleston's start, then that would make sense to start over again with S1 with the last era having a clear ending.

But the 60th is the issue. This new era and the main actor of this "new S1" will be introduced in specials featuring a villain of the First Doctor, the 2008 Tardis Team and supporting cast, and a recurring character since 2012.

So, this "S1" will be continuing directly off specials that won't make any sense to new viewers anyway. So they'll start there and be confused why it feels like they missed something.

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