Shout out to Cole for being invited to the beautiful perfect kingdom, meeting the beautiful perfect princess who happens to be his biggest fan ever, but then becoming bestie with her – and later falling in love with a guy who's mixed of the two feral goblin species from the underground of the castle, and living with him in a dump
One massive improvement over season 1 in my opinion is the villain : Ras, Cinder and Jordana have a toxic workplace relationship that is very fun to watch.
Okay, and if I said this is one of the coolest action sequnces in Dragons Rising?
I mean, like, the way Kai confidently spins into Rising Dragon and Cinder keeps Trying to fight him, but Kai is Way too quick with it, the way Lloyd has Ras scurrying around on (almost) all-fours, and how Ras blocks all of Lloyd's attacks with his hammer...
then Lloyd energy-spamming, shooting smaller blasts... and Ras smacking Lloyd outta his Spinjitsu...
Like it's a Short moment but at least it's still a moment in the series... like really showing off Dragons Rising getting ambitious with the fight animation again after some of the Far more bland and snoozefest fights of the first season (Ras vs. Sora and Arin, Ninja vs Spirit of the Temple)...
After episode 2 I rewatched the fight between Kai and Ash and it was way more close that what Kai would like you to believe! Also they kept the elemental power of smoke pretty consistent, I'm impressed!