say what you will about dragons rising s2 (and people will always have something to complain about) but the writers are finding their stride very quickly. this season was entertaining and the characters were overall pretty strong. do i have my gripes yes but this season really /felt/ like ninjago. especially after how long it took for the team to get on their feet during the s11-s16 run, im glad that it’s not taking the new team anywhere near as long to get adjusted.
Obsessed with Jay fully knowing he has lightning powers, but tucking that shit so far back down it's right next to where he keeps all his insecurities. By which I mean I know damn well he is SO bad at hiding his element. The toaster in the break room is on the fritz and he goes over to fix it and winds up sparking it back to life on accident. Someone bursts into his office when he's playing video games and he startles so bad he sends an electrical shock through the controller and blows a fuse. He's out on a mission in the middle of a storm and whenever anyone touches him they keep getting zapped with weirdly powerful static.
He insists no one knows. The truth is that most people don't know because the Administration would have to do too much paperwork if Jay actually had powers so they live in blissful ignorance. The few that do know keep their mouths shut and decide it's just a quirk of their weird manager. Jay's humming the mission impossible theme under his breath every other day, which is probably why he never even bothered to get to the "huh, I wonder why I have these weird powers" stage. And he will continue to not think about it until he dies. Or Nya finally finds him and has a meltdown over her greatest fear coming true. One of the two
I’ve seen a lot of posts about Kai’s fear being hurting his family. And I certainly think it a very cool concept (even if I don’t personally agree with it).
However I want to add this to the ring:
Kai has only been corrupted by something once. And that was Chen’s staff.
He was not effected by dark matter
Not effected by the forbidden staff
And was not effected by the wolf masks (as far as I can tell)
It took literally having the same powers as GOD to corrupt him and guess what?
HE FOUGHT IT, HE DIDNT IMMEDIATELY TURN EVIL HE FOUGHT THE CORRUPTION ANYWAYS.
Kai is a character filled with so much love and compassion for other people that when compared to more generally “good” characters like Zane, he noticeably more resistant to corruption.
What I’m saying is that I think that in dr s2, if it’s revealed Kai is truly scared of fighting his family and hurting them, then it’s only fair if his arc wraps up with him proving once and for all that his love for his family will ALWAYS beat whatever evil desires he has.
I want his love for people to go beyond just him, I want his love for his family to rub off onto the forbidden five and slowly teach them how to be good, I want his love to be what gives the ninja hope when they feel like they lost everything, I want his love to be what makes Arin realizes that he is enough and he doesn’t need to be like ras.
I want his love to defeat all evil because that’s what dr is about, found family and love. And no one incorporates that better than Kai.
Kai being the first human Wyldfyre got really attached to and them being a silly little duo and then her losing him after it's revealed that she's lost a lot of loved ones in the past was DEVASTATING AS HELL wtf 😭😭😭