#also yeah anon did find it kind of weird where huge chunks of season 4 were dedicated to azure's pain & the portrayal of heaven as being ba

[sketching-shark]

I was hoping in the S4 Special, we would see Wukong at least try to reconcile with the Brotherhood. We know Wukong and Azure were close, and we spent a lot of time talking about Azure's trauma and feelings of betrayal from Wukong. But we never got to see them at least try to talk it out. The first part of the Special focuses on Wukong's mistakes, and it's all centered around Macaque. I know Mac was his BFF, but Azure was also hurting a lot, too, and that was a big focus this season. The second Wukong gets out, he wants to shove them all back into the scroll. We get a little sad face when Azure dies, but that's really it. Kinda makes me question what the point of Azure's monkey trauma alongside Wukong's regrets were if they weren't gonna even have Wukong attempt to fix things. Also, the Pilgrims sealing the Brotherhood in the scroll. Wukong looking menacing in the flashback. That's never touched on either. All those theories on Wukong possibly striking a deal with the Jade Emperor to protect the Brotherhood or being forced to imprison them. Wukong will fish with DBK and eat popsicles with Macaque, but wont try making peace with his other brothers? IDK, it just feels like there was a lot of wasted potential with this Special, which honestly is nothing new for the series.

Hahahahaha sigh. Flying Bark really said "We are never going to let this monkey live down the stupid friend-betraying a-hole allegations <3" huh.

#monkie kid critical #monkie kid spoilers #monkey critical #anon answered #yes yes I know people don't like bringing xiyouji up when talking about monkie kid #but you can't help but think of the lengths swk would go to to NOT fight against a former friend #as well as his efforts in the book to legitimately fix issues he caused or had a hand in causing (ex the ginsing tree & the fiery mountains #and wonder why there's now this constant portrayal of him regretting what seems to be his entire past #and then just...not dealing with a lot of that #also yeah anon did find it kind of weird where huge chunks of season 4 were dedicated to azure's pain & the portrayal of heaven as being ba #and then in the special macaque's like 'well turns out azure's paradise was an act of ecocide basically' #and then we just move right along? #also still mad that swk's entire monkey yaoguai family seem to have been select all deleted out of this continuation #oh well at least we'll always have the og classic