Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-32538072-20190811020637/@comment-38149523-20200104050226

Rex Garmadon Tennyson wrote: DarkHenrik wrote: Chimadino wrote: Onibaba509 wrote: Blame the oni and dragons for making the FSM want to leave and create Ninjago. And if we don't want to dig that deep down into the past, blame the monks in Cloud Kingdom as they're basicaly responsible for every step in the Sixteen Realms. yeah, that's something that really bugged me when they were introduced. their introduction created the implication that there is no such thing as "free will" in the Ninjago franchise. That all of the bad things, like Garmadon's fall to evil, the Serpentine war and Harumi's loss of her parents and growing hatred for Lloyd and the Ninja was all because the Cloud Kingdom people wrote it. That's something i personally feel is one of the biggest mistakes of the Possession season. You're so right. Then what's the point of any character development or villain backstory? If we can't really hold any character responsible for their actions, then where's the fun of having characters we love, characters we have mixed feelings about, and characters we love to hate? I agree that is the biggest mistake in the Posession story arc, even in the whole show. It defeats the purpose of having those "why would that character do that" moments. You know what, I'm just going to pretend the Cloud Kingdom doesn't matter and live in my blissful ignorance. But it begs the question: why do the writers in Cloud Kingdom write bad or sad things? Could the lives of the beings in the fifteen other realms be a source of entertainment for the residents of Cloud Kingdom, so they write things that cause drama? Or could it be that a villainous entity tells them what to write, like a lot of bad things, and the final season of Ninjago would be about the ninja fighting and defeating this entity, bringing peace to all Sixteen Realms forever? Who knows? Since djinjago and the cursed realm were destroyed in seasons 5 and 6, how are the writers going to fill up the blanks of the 16 realms?