Just to clear something up- a lot of people seem to be misremembering a line from Lloyd in the comments. The line is "Time must be different here. I don't understand how..." which again, is not any kind of an explanation on the time difference.
I just kinda figured that meant that time passed at a different speed in the never realm, even though that makes little sense with the time passed outside of the realm during the season
Sadly she is dead seeing as in 1 episode it was YEARS in the never realm and with it being another 5 seasons since season 11 to crystallized she has to be dead now or atleast an elder now
This season is definitely over hated. I think this was the creators testing their abilities with this new animation style and deciding where they want to go from season 10. Notice how season 11 has 30 episodes? I like to think that's only because they were trying to see what they wanted to do for the generation of the show. There is no bad Ninjago season. No matter how many bad moments there are, if we're seeing our favorite ninja in action it's gon be good!
@@aya94579What bothers me about the Season: Lloyd opens a snake tomb in S1 because he was evil at that time and wanted to conquer the world, and the ninja enter a random pyramide and open a random tomb because they were bored, wich causes Aspherra to break out, cause harm, and creating the Ice Emperor who causes even more harm in the never realm. They dont even comment on it that the ninja caused problems
I think Akita's kiss to Lloyd isn't necessarily a romantic kiss. It could just be a cultural goodbye sign. Many cultures across the world have similar things, so it's not out of the question, and makes more sense than Akita suddenly developing romantic feelings for Lloyd in a way that she hadn't all season. As someone who got into the show after this seasons initial run, I knew going into this season that it was unpopular. Whilst watching it, I struggled to comprehend why. It's a perfectly fine, if average, Ninjago season. Does it have a few duff moments, sure but every season has atleast 1. I totally agree with most of what was said in this video.
I also very much agree with your point that the silly stuff had always been part of Ninjago so I never got a glaring difference from s11 to something like the fan favorite s4 & s5 seasons. ParachutingKitten just really made a great point that anything that happens after the Oni trilogy is gonna look worse by default.
As a long time Kai fan, I agree, Kai never got dumber, he just has more personality. He gives off a big brother energy. While it’s not my favorite season, I still had a lot of fun with this season. And of course, the beautiful animation. The finale was a bit weak, but I enjoyed it. This season was more of a default season to get back to the traditional Ninjago, which I can get behind. Edit: Although I think Wu’s plan was to wing it. Is top priority was to find Zane no matter what. He’d rather take the risk than than letting the Ninja go in alone. Also, from my experience, don’t question physics in Ninjago. 😅 I’m still trying to figure out how Lloyd pulled out two silver katanas out of nowhere in Season 7
My only reasoning for Wu's plan is that maybe m a y b e- the tea amount Wu had prepared was only enough for him and Zane to get back. 2 people are not the same amount as 6. It's like grabbing a few candies for you and a friend to nibble on to watch a episode, only for a whole bunch of friends to then show up and try to split that same amount of candy over a entire season binge.
I loved Wu’s development in season 11, he seemed a little hollow in earlier seasons but now his character is so much more flavourful. He feels a bit more human now, he gets angry, and sad, and he’s pretty funny sometimes too and overall I think season 11 did Wu justice. I love the scene when Wu demolishes all the ninja in the first episode, it’s a great fight scene and shows that he really is a master
What hurt the most for me personally was Jay’s fate in the new seasons. He was my favourite ninja growing up and they made him go from a nervous guy with funny jokes, but also smart and really useful to the team to a full blown comic relief who does absolutely NOTHING to contribute to the plot, except being Nya’s boyfriend.
imo the whole era of 2019 ninjago suffered from the 11 minute format. that's the main problem for example if we took prime empire, we probably would have had a lot of moments between jay and unagami and a final battle between them as well as touching on the abandoning plot on a more personal level between the two. but instead we got what we got since the season had tto end another example is crystalized, boy it was gonna be the best season in all of ninjago but here we are i love every season in this era but thinking about the wasted potential they had just hurts
I thought Season 11 was good, but not amazing or anything. It had amazing fight scenes, great visuals, introducing a new realm, had great villains, and awesome concepts. It’s not perfect don’t get me wrong. There were some bad episodes in their, but overall, I think the positives outweighs the negatives.
I notice a trend with seasons like this, they’re hyped up way to much. This applies to season 3, 7, 11, and Crystalized, everyone excepted something similar to what came before and if it was even a little different it gets backlash. Then when fans hype is low we get season like 4, 8, 12-13, and Dragons Rising part 1. It’s honestly pretty ironic when you think about it 😂
I’m actually talking about set leaks when it was revealed that it was fire and ice themed, I remember people being so hyped about it… then the teletoon leak got out and it all feel apart 😅
Man, I love this channel. I already loved this season quite a bit, but you’ve somehow persuaded me into liking it a lot more and acknowledging all the little details. Also, it’s really funny to me that people used to think the Wildbrain animation style sucked back then. Like…look at lego dreamz right now and tell me it even remotely matches the animation quality of Wildbrain Ninjago. Heck, take a scene from the pilot episode, look at me straight in the eye, and tell me it looks better than an action scene from Wildbrain. 38:15 also my guess is that she thought that by then Wu would be too old and possibly pass away before the ninja could rescue him. Or at least to make it so that he has to wait long enough to lose hope that anyone would ever find him.
Great video essay! Also, 34:15 the fact that Cole never had a long sleeve gi or extra layers when they went to the Never Realm has been bothering me for ages! My poor guy 😭
You made me appreciate this season much more, so thank you. Although the goofy stuff isn't my preferred tone for the tone, I can still appreciate them, especially after this video. My biggest problem with this season was always the writing choices, things like Nya bending ice and the Zane reveal at the end.
somethings in this season is so confusing man.. i find confusing about this season is how zane had never gotten damaged at all. i mean, yeah he sat at his thrown the whole 60 years but that wouldent mean that some of his parts would malfunction, and even if they did, how would they fix him 😭😭?? the 2nd part was, the time obviously.. so blah blah blah zane got blasted by that girls staff, and which we know from that time to the ninja finding the never realm in the realm it was 60 years, but im guessing during at that difference of finding where zane was and everything was about 2 weeks to a month. the thing that is confusing about this time overall is how much days or even weeks the ninja spent in the realm itself. im guessing it had been over a week that the ninja spent in the realm, but this continueing to the actual time in the normal world it seemed like a few days even.. its so confusing trying to even out in what world they had spent in 😭😭
My least favorite thing about this season is how mean-spirited the banter got. I don't like seeing these characters insult each other regularly, especially not this far in.
I love the Filler Episodes They're fun, unique shine light on side characters like Nelson or P.I.X.A.L rather than the 6 main ninja and they work a lot better in the 11 minute format than normal episodes do
their main problem is that they don't push the plot forward, but rather the story stops in the middle so that we get an episode that focuses on a side character without anything else. they should've been like s2's
@@JolivoHY9not really they all push the plot forward in some way the paper kids ep is how wu learned the ninjas were in the pyramid so pixal could save them the news one introduces the scroll and is why the ninja and aspheera are going to the museum kaiju protocol for all its faults not only resolved wu's gripes about the ninja leaving but also set up how the tea leaves were never gonna be enough to get them to the never realm the only real filler ep in the season is the absolute worst but that gets a pass cuz it introduced fuji dove
@@monerb7185 the only one that really pushes the plot a little bit is snaketastrophy. and all we knew was that aspheera was looking for some scroll that could've been said in one line the next episode. no need to make an entire filler episode for that, and even in it we didn't really knew what scroll, just 'some' scroll the problem with the news never sleeps is that they did nothing the whole episode until the very end and just to inform wu while they've could tell pixal when she was fighting the snakes, like scream or something. the kaiju protocol has nothing, we already know that travels tea doesn't work, and even sorla said it in the last episode, so what's the point of that episode? and we already had a lot of moment showing how wu feeling useless without that episodes also fugi dove could've been introduced just like the mechanic in s6. just wasted screentime
@@JolivoHY9 no her entire motivation changed from looking for the deceiver to looking for the scroll we kind of needed to see that happening and again the ninja were also informed of where she was going and them beating her there is important to the plot kaiju protocol is the whole reason why wu and the ninja are back to normal terms next season and reestablishing the tea thing is important instead of getting only 2 lines about it in the whole season they cant exactly go back to introduce fuji dove in s6 so i dont even know what your point there is
@@monerb7185 no lol her entire motivation was still looking for the scroll in the very next episode. we needed to NOT see snaketastrophy how kaiju protocol is the reason lmao?? bro wu didn't even mention it in s13 when he was talking about how useless he was bro, i said the mechanic was introduced in s6 so they should've introduced fugi dove that way. i didn't say they should've introduce him in s6 lmao?
A satisfying reason for the teams made of reason would be that Asphera wanted Zane to be alone for 60 years in the past the way she was imprisoned and left to rot
1. great video 2. wu's plan was to run away from his problems and stay there forever 3. they did say how Zane was the Ice emporer for 60 years (all be it. it wasn't clear enough) "Time must work differently here" Lloyd
Extremely over-hated season.The first few episodes may be a bit slow, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I feel alot of the hate comes from people with nostalgia bias who simply hate the new designs and animation
ngl im glad we got 20 min episodes back so we could get those more slice of life moments where the ninja hang out thank you for bringing to light some more positive aspects of the show and reminding us why we watch, to enjoy it, to have some fun
OML thank you so much i have been defending Aspheera for years and i really do see her as a great and fun villain with a funny fool running around her(char) im glad we got her back in crystalized but i started to notie that eversince she returned in Crystalized more and more people strated changing opinions on her overall great review another banger of a video from our favorite youtuber hope to see more like this in the future
Wu’s plan makes sense if you view it as a suicide attempt. Wu didn’t really think that Zane was still alive so he was trying to kill himself the same way he got one of his pupils killed.
The year was 2021, and it had been a while since I last watched Ninjago. I hadn’t even seen season 10 March of the Oni yet. Me and my younger brothers turn on Netflix and saw this new Ninjago show. I couldn’t even get through Wasted True Potential without turning it off because I hated it so bad. Later that year we went to Orlando and mom had to go and get dad for something. They were going to be gone for a couple hours and we were in a Verbo board. So I tried again. I’m telling you it’s rare for me to laugh as hard as I did that evening. I love Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitsu.
Personally, I'd argue that Crystallized did more damage. Mainly because it was meant to be the final season and didn't really do a good job reflecting on the past of Ninjago as a franchise. I'm sure people(not me) enjoy Dragons Rising, but it's kinda crazy how hated Crystallized ended up being.
You said it perfectly. Crystallized had the chance to make it a Kai season, considering how that would play into Nya's disappearance as well as ending the show with the character that started the show. But no, instead with get a Lloyd season when Harumi returns, Garmadon returns, the Overlord returns, the Ninja lose their powers, and the Ninja go to jail AGAIN. Not to mention the fact that they brought back villains who had a perfect end to them, especially Harumi and Garmadon. This season just feels like they took some of the old tropes of ninjago, and threw them together while also giving Lloyd anger management issues. They also missed the chance to kill off Wu. Don't get me wrong, I love Wu. But that would've done made the story so much more impactful and overall, emotional and good. Season 11 is over hated fr.
What a joke, season 10 far better than that crap. Sure it was short and had a few other issues, but these problems are not even close to the problems season 11 has.
IDK man, I thought S10 was pretty good. Not the best, but still a decent season worth rewatching every once in a while. But I do think it’s slightly worse than S11.
I didn't watch the season before this one until AFTER I watched this season... So to hear that people didn't like it is baffling to me. I for one thought that the animation and even the _writing_ were huge improvements from earlier seasons. I grew up with the ORIGINAL first few seasons... So yeah, I guess people forgot that it used to be even goofier.
I personally thought season 11 (aka Fire Chapter and Ice Chapter) was alright. Yeah sure I do agree with most people, it’s not as good as other seasons that came out before or even after (like say Seabound for example) however there were some good things about it.
I have a fix for why aspheera would send zane 60 years into the past. Let's say she had no idea zane was a nindroid, and she just thought he was a normal human. Sending him 60 years into the past would make sure that, if the ninja ever did make it to the never-realm to save him, he would be too old to be of much use (though really she should have sent him like 100 years into the past so he would be dead by the time they got there). That is definitely not what the writers intended, but I think that could have worked as an explanation, if they had thought of such a thing. Also I know zane is always in his robot form and rarely in the human disguise so that would be something they would have had to think about for his scenes with aspheera present.
See, I never hated Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu. I’m so glad that someone else agrees, and what’s more, that the “someone else” can actually prove why the season was good!
I personally really value some of the darker qualities of Ninjago (I absolutely love Skybound partly because of this), and really think it can shine in some of the grittier and more emotional parts. That said, I remember absolutely adoring this entire season when bingeing it immediately after the oni trilogy. I thought it was an excellent change of pace and absolutely hilarious, and I am very glad I'm not the only one!
I love the ninja suits from this season. They've sort of become a staple in the later seasons, serving as their base outfits, and I think that this is one of Nya's best outfits.
Honestly my favorite thing to come out of these seasons was definitely the citizens of ninjago city being able to continue life while the world is ending around them.
To be honest, I was a bit shocked and a little disappointed with the first episode too when I first watched it, but at the same time I felt some kind of nostalgia. I mean, I had a throwback to the first season where they also used to play games and got lazy, these few episodes at the beginning of the 11. season just really reminded me of the kind of dorky-nes they had at the start of the series and how childish they were
Coming from someone who only watched this season MONTHS after it came out, the tone felt normal to me. In my country, cartoons come a lot later after they're actually released. But, I think that a few filler episodes would have been nice to set the pacing for the start of the season
My opinion is it didn’t ruin Ninjago it’s just bad, and here’s the thing a show that’s been going on as long as ninjago is allowed to have one or two bad seasons not everything is going to be a 10/10 and that’s fine the issue is the fans who give up on the series because of one bad season and act like the show is ruined now. So basically this season’s not great but the fans who act like the show is ruined because of it are dumb.
21:22 It is a shame how they Butchered clutch powers, In my mind that’s a Skinwalker who killed clutch powers and is living in Ninjago trying to fit in
If you think about it season 11 is a good thing that happened. The first have of the season is very comparable to the first half of season 2. Sure the show need a refresh after the serious tone from the “oni trilogy” it needed to walk it back in order to get some new ideas. The first episode is a good starting point for new comers to jump in instead of watching 10 seasons and a special plus this if the first time the ninja outfit have texture ( asking Wu’s beard )
I actually love the twist and Akita x Lloyd, especially since I hated Harumi's vibe. But what I think is the biggest plot holes of this season is... How the actual hell do the staffs work!? I mean, the problems in no clarification for that thing are serious. If Aspheera had a staff that could teleport people back in time and into different realms why didn't she just use it on herself? Surely it would've been better than rotting in a tomb for thousands of years. Now if you're saying that it only transported people to the never realm, it would make even LESS sense! Do you seriously think that the FSM just thought, "Oh hey, why not make this scroll that transports people to the one place they can't return from?" And the fact that no one has tried to use the staff to get BACK from the never realm or it just doesn't work like that is dumb. And if the staff allows you to do anything and bend reality to your own will, that makes no sense either! Like- this thing's plot holes go from, Zane could've gotten back on his own, to Aspheera would've never been a problem in the first place! It's also really stupid that Zane, the logical and fact based guy of the team doesn't once think, "Oh, this staff sent me here? Why not try using it to send me back?" Sure you COULD say Zane didn't know how it worked and all, but if he's gonna hold on to the staff for awhile either way, it would probably make more sense to at least TRY using the staff to take him somewhere else before doing something that he KNOWS could erase his memory if it went wrong. Oh and can't forget that the ninja have to get Aspheera to get rid of Nya's powers in crystalized, instead of just doing it themselves is really weird. Does Aspheera have special abilities that she needs to be boosted in order for them to actually do something? This nonsense should've been explained at least SOMEWHERE.
I never liked Clutch Powers being in Ninjago at all (he's mentioned early on by Cole, in the episode where he finds his true potential) just because in the movie The Adventures of Clutch Powers one of the characters loses his legs and they just put them back on and it just felt out of place to have a character who can do that exist in a universe where they seem very attatched to their limbs. I settled on pretending he either comes from a realm in which he can take his legs off like that or the name is just a reference and he's not the same character. Aside from that, he felt fully in character the whole time. also for the Zane being the Ice Emperor thing, I just thought the Never Realm did a Narnia and time just works differently between realms
love ninjago season 11 its my fav season i love asphera my fav villain,animatione,fillers,plot,story,characters and their development,the song and references
Honestly the 11 minute era wasn’t that bad but since a lot of viewers didn’t like the change of well pace it was way to cringe and silly for most of the viewers but honestly it did pan to kids well
After 4 years I’m still not that big of a fan of season 11 it is ranked in the 15th place in my personal ranking only betting day of the departed,hands of time and Crystallized but there we’re still thinking I found funny like the first two episodes are hilarious and always give me a good laugh I love the fights especially the one in the Muslim and I liked Vex and the blizzard samurais I also like the two guys from the ice chapter that I can’t remember the names of
I am a Former Season 11 hater, I want to express my own opinion. Animation: I didn't like it, actualy I hated it so much that the little Details couldn't change my mind. But when the ice chapter released, I changed my mind. I still like the oni trilogy Animation better, but nowadays I think that the new Animation is great too. And it's mindblowing for me that Wildbrain improved their Animation so fast, Wilfilm needed 7 years to improve drasticly. Well, I still don't like the fire chapter Animation, but I accepted it. Music: this is actually something i never complained about. I remember back than talking about how much I hated season 11 but I never talked about how bad the music is because it was good. The only little think I was annoyed was that Zane sacrifice music was used again, but this is an overal problem. Season 8 and 15 used that music too Kai: I didn't like Kai in Season 11 and I still don't, but the problem with him started before that. I absolutly love Season 8, but this is also the Season were Kai became a new character. So Season 11 just continue that path. Story: the concept was phantastic, the execution not so much. I still think that this season "wasted (it's) true potencial", so the name of the first episode is ironic for me, because it describe what I think about this Season
As I said in the live chat, I don't hate season 11, it just disappointed me to a large extent. I appreciate the new lore and worldbuilding it introduced and you can tell they wanted to try something new, but things like the more childish tone, the retcons in the characters' writing and how they behave... I just don't.
I know the Season is overhated an all, but its really not the "Masterpiece" people hype it up to. Its okay, but there are too many weird and unexplained things in it that she mentions. Like people hate on Crystalized for relieng on a book when S11's Time travel with Zane never got explained in the show, even though it is VERY important
My theory is that Asphera's logic was that because Wu is old then if she sent him back in time, even if the ninja are able to get to the never realm, he'd already be dead but then Zane pushed him out the way and got sent back in time instead! I JUST ON THE SPOT THOUGHT OF THIS!🫨
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Just to clear something up- a lot of people seem to be misremembering a line from Lloyd in the comments. The line is
"Time must be different here. I don't understand how..." which again, is not any kind of an explanation on the time difference.
Ok.
true season 10 was really good i just think secrets of the forbidden spinjitzu is better
I just kinda figured that meant that time passed at a different speed in the never realm, even though that makes little sense with the time passed outside of the realm during the season
I cannot describe how enjoyable Akita’s character was when the episodes were releasing.
Sadly she is dead seeing as in 1 episode it was YEARS in the never realm and with it being another 5 seasons since season 11 to crystallized she has to be dead now or atleast an elder now
This season is definitely over hated. I think this was the creators testing their abilities with this new animation style and deciding where they want to go from season 10.
Notice how season 11 has 30 episodes? I like to think that's only because they were trying to see what they wanted to do for the generation of the show.
There is no bad Ninjago season. No matter how many bad moments there are, if we're seeing our favorite ninja in action it's gon be good!
You know, I was thinking the same🙂😀
I think season 11 was some kind of "trial" season because of the changes in animation, writers and so on...
@@aya94579What bothers me about the Season:
Lloyd opens a snake tomb in S1 because he was evil at that time and wanted to conquer the world, and the ninja enter a random pyramide and open a random tomb because they were bored, wich causes Aspherra to break out, cause harm, and creating the Ice Emperor who causes even more harm in the never realm. They dont even comment on it that the ninja caused problems
I think Akita's kiss to Lloyd isn't necessarily a romantic kiss. It could just be a cultural goodbye sign. Many cultures across the world have similar things, so it's not out of the question, and makes more sense than Akita suddenly developing romantic feelings for Lloyd in a way that she hadn't all season.
As someone who got into the show after this seasons initial run, I knew going into this season that it was unpopular. Whilst watching it, I struggled to comprehend why. It's a perfectly fine, if average, Ninjago season. Does it have a few duff moments, sure but every season has atleast 1. I totally agree with most of what was said in this video.
This!! Even if the showrunners intended otherwise, I refuse to read Akita's kiss as anything but platonic.
I also very much agree with your point that the silly stuff had always been part of Ninjago so I never got a glaring difference from s11 to something like the fan favorite s4 & s5 seasons. ParachutingKitten just really made a great point that anything that happens after the Oni trilogy is gonna look worse by default.
@@MaryisMary yeah, the Oni trilogy is so peak
As a long time Kai fan, I agree, Kai never got dumber, he just has more personality. He gives off a big brother energy. While it’s not my favorite season, I still had a lot of fun with this season. And of course, the beautiful animation. The finale was a bit weak, but I enjoyed it. This season was more of a default season to get back to the traditional Ninjago, which I can get behind.
Edit: Although I think Wu’s plan was to wing it. Is top priority was to find Zane no matter what. He’d rather take the risk than than letting the Ninja go in alone. Also, from my experience, don’t question physics in Ninjago. 😅 I’m still trying to figure out how Lloyd pulled out two silver katanas out of nowhere in Season 7
My only reasoning for Wu's plan is that maybe m a y b e- the tea amount Wu had prepared was only enough for him and Zane to get back. 2 people are not the same amount as 6.
It's like grabbing a few candies for you and a friend to nibble on to watch a episode, only for a whole bunch of friends to then show up and try to split that same amount of candy over a entire season binge.
wu's plan was to exile himself to the never realm for his failure
@@hopechrthen he lose 5 of his pupils and get one
I love that from this point on, Zane is really into roleplay and committing to a bit. Plus seeing Pixals reactions to said roleplay is hilarious
I loved Wu’s development in season 11, he seemed a little hollow in earlier seasons but now his character is so much more flavourful. He feels a bit more human now, he gets angry, and sad, and he’s pretty funny sometimes too and overall I think season 11 did Wu justice. I love the scene when Wu demolishes all the ninja in the first episode, it’s a great fight scene and shows that he really is a master
Bro is the alpha
Idk kinda like the “hollow” version
@@kastenedwards1217 i liked the older version of Wu as well, I just also like the newer one
Og Wu is my baby girl
I honestly never thought the season was that bad even when it came out
What hurt the most for me personally was Jay’s fate in the new seasons. He was my favourite ninja growing up and they made him go from a nervous guy with funny jokes, but also smart and really useful to the team to a full blown comic relief who does absolutely NOTHING to contribute to the plot, except being Nya’s boyfriend.
imo the whole era of 2019 ninjago suffered from the 11 minute format. that's the main problem
for example if we took prime empire, we probably would have had a lot of moments between jay and unagami and a final battle between them as well as touching on the abandoning plot on a more personal level between the two. but instead we got what we got since the season had tto end
another example is crystalized, boy
it was gonna be the best season in all of ninjago but here we are
i love every season in this era but thinking about the wasted potential they had just hurts
I thought Season 11 was good, but not amazing or anything. It had amazing fight scenes, great visuals, introducing a new realm, had great villains, and awesome concepts. It’s not perfect don’t get me wrong. There were some bad episodes in their, but overall, I think the positives outweighs the negatives.
I notice a trend with seasons like this, they’re hyped up way to much. This applies to season 3, 7, 11, and Crystalized, everyone excepted something similar to what came before and if it was even a little different it gets backlash. Then when fans hype is low we get season like 4, 8, 12-13, and Dragons Rising part 1. It’s honestly pretty ironic when you think about it 😂
Season 11 wasn’t really hyped up. Fans were almost as angry as they were about the redesigns when they saw the leaked clips
I’m actually talking about set leaks when it was revealed that it was fire and ice themed, I remember people being so hyped about it… then the teletoon leak got out and it all feel apart 😅
Season 3 was legit great. I’m still shocked why people hate it
I love season 3, great vibe and my favorite season
I love how you went, because you know what happens when it takes itself to seriusly? Crystalized. YOU ARE SO RIGHT
Speaking of soundtracks, the last minute of "The Never-Realm" is an absolute BANGER section that deserved to be mentioned
Man, I love this channel.
I already loved this season quite a bit, but you’ve somehow persuaded me into liking it a lot more and acknowledging all the little details.
Also, it’s really funny to me that people used to think the Wildbrain animation style sucked back then. Like…look at lego dreamz right now and tell me it even remotely matches the animation quality of Wildbrain Ninjago. Heck, take a scene from the pilot episode, look at me straight in the eye, and tell me it looks better than an action scene from Wildbrain.
38:15 also my guess is that she thought that by then Wu would be too old and possibly pass away before the ninja could rescue him. Or at least to make it so that he has to wait long enough to lose hope that anyone would ever find him.
Great video essay! Also, 34:15 the fact that Cole never had a long sleeve gi or extra layers when they went to the Never Realm has been bothering me for ages! My poor guy 😭
They didn't even know that there would be snow everywhere😂
@@minitiger6169 I mean, a villager could’ve given Cole an extra cloak or something. He definitely needed one
You made me appreciate this season much more, so thank you. Although the goofy stuff isn't my preferred tone for the tone, I can still appreciate them, especially after this video. My biggest problem with this season was always the writing choices, things like Nya bending ice and the Zane reveal at the end.
I am so glad someone talked about this, I really liked Season 11 but couldn’t really put into words why😭🫶 Great vid!!
somethings in this season is so confusing man.. i find confusing about this season is how zane had never gotten damaged at all. i mean, yeah he sat at his thrown the whole 60 years but that wouldent mean that some of his parts would malfunction, and even if they did, how would they fix him 😭😭?? the 2nd part was, the time obviously.. so blah blah blah zane got blasted by that girls staff, and which we know from that time to the ninja finding the never realm in the realm it was 60 years, but im guessing during at that difference of finding where zane was and everything was about 2 weeks to a month. the thing that is confusing about this time overall is how much days or even weeks the ninja spent in the realm itself. im guessing it had been over a week that the ninja spent in the realm, but this continueing to the actual time in the normal world it seemed like a few days even.. its so confusing trying to even out in what world they had spent in 😭😭
I think my biggest problem is how this started the flanderization of Jay
Real 😢
Man, where were you when Jay became an incel who can’t move on? Would you rather he stayed that way?
My least favorite thing about this season is how mean-spirited the banter got. I don't like seeing these characters insult each other regularly, especially not this far in.
I never got the hate the "Anime" Episodes got. Yes they were filler, but it was so cool to see Ninjago adapted into a different medium of Animation.
I love the Filler Episodes
They're fun,
unique shine light on side characters like Nelson or P.I.X.A.L rather than the 6 main ninja and they work a lot better in the 11 minute format than normal episodes do
their main problem is that they don't push the plot forward, but rather the story stops in the middle so that we get an episode that focuses on a side character without anything else. they should've been like s2's
@@JolivoHY9not really they all push the plot forward in some way the
paper kids ep is how wu learned the ninjas were in the pyramid so pixal could save them
the news one introduces the scroll and is why the ninja and aspheera are going to the museum
kaiju protocol for all its faults not only resolved wu's gripes about the ninja leaving but also set up how the tea leaves were never gonna be enough to get them to the never realm
the only real filler ep in the season is the absolute worst but that gets a pass cuz it introduced fuji dove
@@monerb7185 the only one that really pushes the plot a little bit is snaketastrophy. and all we knew was that aspheera was looking for some scroll that could've been said in one line the next episode. no need to make an entire filler episode for that, and even in it we didn't really knew what scroll, just 'some' scroll
the problem with the news never sleeps is that they did nothing the whole episode until the very end and just to inform wu while they've could tell pixal when she was fighting the snakes, like scream or something.
the kaiju protocol has nothing, we already know that travels tea doesn't work, and even sorla said it in the last episode, so what's the point of that episode? and we already had a lot of moment showing how wu feeling useless without that episodes
also fugi dove could've been introduced just like the mechanic in s6. just wasted screentime
@@JolivoHY9 no her entire motivation changed from looking for the deceiver to looking for the scroll we kind of needed to see that happening and again the ninja were also informed of where she was going and them beating her there is important to the plot
kaiju protocol is the whole reason why wu and the ninja are back to normal terms next season and reestablishing the tea thing is important instead of getting only 2 lines about it in the whole season
they cant exactly go back to introduce fuji dove in s6 so i dont even know what your point there is
@@monerb7185 no lol her entire motivation was still looking for the scroll in the very next episode. we needed to NOT see snaketastrophy
how kaiju protocol is the reason lmao?? bro wu didn't even mention it in s13 when he was talking about how useless he was
bro, i said the mechanic was introduced in s6 so they should've introduced fugi dove that way. i didn't say they should've introduce him in s6 lmao?
A satisfying reason for the teams made of reason would be that Asphera wanted Zane to be alone for 60 years in the past the way she was imprisoned and left to rot
Oh yes please, someone needs to talk about this season
This was the season that brought me back to Ninjago, it quickly became my favorite and still is, I never understood the hate for it...
1. great video
2. wu's plan was to run away from his problems and stay there forever
3. they did say how Zane was the Ice emporer for 60 years (all be it. it wasn't clear enough) "Time must work differently here" Lloyd
Extremely over-hated season.The first few episodes may be a bit slow, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I feel alot of the hate comes from people with nostalgia bias who simply hate the new designs and animation
Most of it is definitely not nostalgia bias if you are talking about s11-15
ngl im glad we got 20 min episodes back so we could get those more slice of life moments where the ninja hang out
thank you for bringing to light some more positive aspects of the show and reminding us why we watch, to enjoy it, to have some fun
the fight with wu at the start where they all fail is one of my favorites calling back to kai failing
You should’ve talked more about the masterpiece that is snaketastrophe, definitely a top 10 ninjago episode!
I’m so glad you brought up Cole’s sleeves cuz that has always bothered me 😂
OML thank you so much
i have been defending Aspheera for years and i really do see her as a great and fun villain with a funny fool running around her(char)
im glad we got her back in crystalized but i started to notie that eversince she returned in Crystalized more and more people strated changing opinions on her
overall great review
another banger of a video from our favorite youtuber
hope to see more like this in the future
Wu’s plan makes sense if you view it as a suicide attempt. Wu didn’t really think that Zane was still alive so he was trying to kill himself the same way he got one of his pupils killed.
As someone who loves the oni trilogy i love season 11 because it let me regain some of my happiness after the oni trilogy
The year was 2021, and it had been a while since I last watched Ninjago. I hadn’t even seen season 10 March of the Oni yet. Me and my younger brothers turn on Netflix and saw this new Ninjago show. I couldn’t even get through Wasted True Potential without turning it off because I hated it so bad. Later that year we went to Orlando and mom had to go and get dad for something. They were going to be gone for a couple hours and we were in a Verbo board. So I tried again. I’m telling you it’s rare for me to laugh as hard as I did that evening. I love Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitsu.
Personally, I'd argue that Crystallized did more damage. Mainly because it was meant to be the final season and didn't really do a good job reflecting on the past of Ninjago as a franchise. I'm sure people(not me) enjoy Dragons Rising, but it's kinda crazy how hated Crystallized ended up being.
You said it perfectly.
Crystallized had the chance to make it a Kai season, considering how that would play into Nya's disappearance as well as ending the show with the character that started the show.
But no, instead with get a Lloyd season when Harumi returns, Garmadon returns, the Overlord returns, the Ninja lose their powers, and the Ninja go to jail AGAIN. Not to mention the fact that they brought back villains who had a perfect end to them, especially Harumi and Garmadon.
This season just feels like they took some of the old tropes of ninjago, and threw them together while also giving Lloyd anger management issues.
They also missed the chance to kill off Wu. Don't get me wrong, I love Wu. But that would've done made the story so much more impactful and overall, emotional and good.
Season 11 is over hated fr.
@@cosmic_ghostbruhI think Crystalized being a Lloyd season instead of a Kai season is far from the biggest issue with the season
I’d say crystalized should’ve been about the whole team instead of a single character
Bro season 10 is way worse than Secrets of the forbidden spinjitzu. Sercrets of the spinjitzu is jus underrated tbh. i really like it
What a joke, season 10 far better than that crap. Sure it was short and had a few other issues, but these problems are not even close to the problems season 11 has.
I hate season 10 is my 2 least favorite season
IDK man, I thought S10 was pretty good. Not the best, but still a decent season worth rewatching every once in a while. But I do think it’s slightly worse than S11.
I’m sorry but season 10 is infinitely superior to season 11
I didn't watch the season before this one until AFTER I watched this season... So to hear that people didn't like it is baffling to me. I for one thought that the animation and even the _writing_ were huge improvements from earlier seasons. I grew up with the ORIGINAL first few seasons... So yeah, I guess people forgot that it used to be even goofier.
I personally thought season 11 (aka Fire Chapter and Ice Chapter) was alright. Yeah sure I do agree with most people, it’s not as good as other seasons that came out before or even after (like say Seabound for example) however there were some good things about it.
I have a fix for why aspheera would send zane 60 years into the past. Let's say she had no idea zane was a nindroid, and she just thought he was a normal human. Sending him 60 years into the past would make sure that, if the ninja ever did make it to the never-realm to save him, he would be too old to be of much use (though really she should have sent him like 100 years into the past so he would be dead by the time they got there). That is definitely not what the writers intended, but I think that could have worked as an explanation, if they had thought of such a thing. Also I know zane is always in his robot form and rarely in the human disguise so that would be something they would have had to think about for his scenes with aspheera present.
See, I never hated Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu. I’m so glad that someone else agrees, and what’s more, that the “someone else” can actually prove why the season was good!
To hear someone saying s11 is good AND ranking the fire chapter over the ice chapter makes me very happy
I personally really value some of the darker qualities of Ninjago (I absolutely love Skybound partly because of this), and really think it can shine in some of the grittier and more emotional parts. That said, I remember absolutely adoring this entire season when bingeing it immediately after the oni trilogy. I thought it was an excellent change of pace and absolutely hilarious, and I am very glad I'm not the only one!
I love the ninja suits from this season. They've sort of become a staple in the later seasons, serving as their base outfits, and I think that this is one of Nya's best outfits.
at least ik im not the only one who was bothered about sleeveless cole in the never-realm
Honestly my favorite thing to come out of these seasons was definitely the citizens of ninjago city being able to continue life while the world is ending around them.
My main problem with this season is the ending but the rest really isn't bad
To be honest, I was a bit shocked and a little disappointed with the first episode too when I first watched it, but at the same time I felt some kind of nostalgia. I mean, I had a throwback to the first season where they also used to play games and got lazy, these few episodes at the beginning of the 11. season just really reminded me of the kind of dorky-nes they had at the start of the series and how childish they were
I think a beloved, lore-heavy show getting a goofier tone gave everyone Teen Titans Go flashbacks
maybe Wu would have known where the Travel tree is locadet in this world, and the ninja found it with luck.
Coming from someone who only watched this season MONTHS after it came out, the tone felt normal to me. In my country, cartoons come a lot later after they're actually released. But, I think that a few filler episodes would have been nice to set the pacing for the start of the season
My opinion is it didn’t ruin Ninjago it’s just bad, and here’s the thing a show that’s been going on as long as ninjago is allowed to have one or two bad seasons not everything is going to be a 10/10 and that’s fine the issue is the fans who give up on the series because of one bad season and act like the show is ruined now.
So basically this season’s not great but the fans who act like the show is ruined because of it are dumb.
38:35 They did🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ The time works different in the Neverrealm
21:22
It is a shame how they Butchered clutch powers, In my mind that’s a Skinwalker who killed clutch powers and is living in Ninjago trying to fit in
THANK YOUUUUUU!!! 🙏
I agree with EVERYTHING you just said! Thank you so much for making a video defending Season 11! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
If you think about it season 11 is a good thing that happened. The first have of the season is very comparable to the first half of season 2. Sure the show need a refresh after the serious tone from the “oni trilogy” it needed to walk it back in order to get some new ideas. The first episode is a good starting point for new comers to jump in instead of watching 10 seasons and a special plus this if the first time the ninja outfit have texture ( asking Wu’s beard )
I actually love the twist and Akita x Lloyd, especially since I hated Harumi's vibe.
But what I think is the biggest plot holes of this season is... How the actual hell do the staffs work!?
I mean, the problems in no clarification for that thing are serious. If Aspheera had a staff that could teleport people back in time and into different realms why didn't she just use it on herself? Surely it would've been better than rotting in a tomb for thousands of years.
Now if you're saying that it only transported people to the never realm, it would make even LESS sense!
Do you seriously think that the FSM just thought, "Oh hey, why not make this scroll that transports people to the one place they can't return from?"
And the fact that no one has tried to use the staff to get BACK from the never realm or it just doesn't work like that is dumb.
And if the staff allows you to do anything and bend reality to your own will, that makes no sense either!
Like- this thing's plot holes go from, Zane could've gotten back on his own, to Aspheera would've never been a problem in the first place!
It's also really stupid that Zane, the logical and fact based guy of the team doesn't once think, "Oh, this staff sent me here? Why not try using it to send me back?"
Sure you COULD say Zane didn't know how it worked and all, but if he's gonna hold on to the staff for awhile either way, it would probably make more sense to at least TRY using the staff to take him somewhere else before doing something that he KNOWS could erase his memory if it went wrong.
Oh and can't forget that the ninja have to get Aspheera to get rid of Nya's powers in crystalized, instead of just doing it themselves is really weird. Does Aspheera have special abilities that she needs to be boosted in order for them to actually do something?
This nonsense should've been explained at least SOMEWHERE.
A bit late but yeah Cole having short sleeves in the ice chapter still bothers me 5 years later
Love the hair!
I never liked Clutch Powers being in Ninjago at all (he's mentioned early on by Cole, in the episode where he finds his true potential) just because in the movie The Adventures of Clutch Powers one of the characters loses his legs and they just put them back on and it just felt out of place to have a character who can do that exist in a universe where they seem very attatched to their limbs. I settled on pretending he either comes from a realm in which he can take his legs off like that or the name is just a reference and he's not the same character. Aside from that, he felt fully in character the whole time.
also for the Zane being the Ice Emperor thing, I just thought the Never Realm did a Narnia and time just works differently between realms
29:25 a beautiful voice for a beautiful snake
Lloyd did say "time must work differently in this realm" though when he understood Ice Emperor is Zane.
love ninjago season 11 its my fav season i love asphera my fav villain,animatione,fillers,plot,story,characters and their development,the song and references
Honestly the 11 minute era wasn’t that bad but since a lot of viewers didn’t like the change of well pace it was way to cringe and silly for most of the viewers but honestly it did pan to kids well
After 4 years I’m still not that big of a fan of season 11 it is ranked in the 15th place in my personal ranking only betting day of the departed,hands of time and Crystallized but there we’re still thinking I found funny like the first two episodes are hilarious and always give me a good laugh I love the fights especially the one in the Muslim and I liked Vex and the blizzard samurais I also like the two guys from the ice chapter that I can’t remember the names of
5:24 Ngl this feels like a trial ☠️ 👩⚖️
Aspheera is the snake QUEEEEREEN
I am a Former Season 11 hater, I want to express my own opinion.
Animation: I didn't like it, actualy I hated it so much that the little Details couldn't change my mind. But when the ice chapter released, I changed my mind. I still like the oni trilogy Animation better, but nowadays I think that the new Animation is great too. And it's mindblowing for me that Wildbrain improved their Animation so fast, Wilfilm needed 7 years to improve drasticly. Well, I still don't like the fire chapter Animation, but I accepted it.
Music: this is actually something i never complained about. I remember back than talking about how much I hated season 11 but I never talked about how bad the music is because it was good. The only little think I was annoyed was that Zane sacrifice music was used again, but this is an overal problem. Season 8 and 15 used that music too
Kai: I didn't like Kai in Season 11 and I still don't, but the problem with him started before that. I absolutly love Season 8, but this is also the Season were Kai became a new character. So Season 11 just continue that path.
Story: the concept was phantastic, the execution not so much. I still think that this season "wasted (it's) true potencial", so the name of the first episode is ironic for me, because it describe what I think about this Season
nope still hate it... but I loved the video! whenever you upload am just happy
elemental fire burns in space :) (s3)
Season 11 is my 4 favorite season soo it didnt ruin ninjago season 4 ruin the show
23:18 Why are you looking at me like i know the answer?😂
32:12 Freezer Burn
i thought it was just the fact i had grown up but after around s9 i stopped enjoying the show
4:26 Personally I dont agree with you here but I also liked the fire chapter more than the ice chapter
crystalized topped it 😭
32:09 it’s freezer burn
As I said in the live chat, I don't hate season 11, it just disappointed me to a large extent. I appreciate the new lore and worldbuilding it introduced and you can tell they wanted to try something new, but things like the more childish tone, the retcons in the characters' writing and how they behave... I just don't.
This season wasn't even that bad chill out
It is funny that the first episode was called wasted true potential wich is the whole season
#Takepixaltothemall
but I dont understand how you like/love this season but dont like/hate skybound?
#GivePixPJs
I hate “The Paper Children” 🙂
Ok.
Say what you say but in my opinion this tge funniest season ever
1ma
I dont really like Season 11
Yeah but a lot of people absolutely hate it, it’s not the best season, but it doesn’t deserve that much hate
I just remembered that Season 11 introduces Fugidove 😮
I changed my mind, I love Season 11!
I know the Season is overhated an all, but its really not the "Masterpiece" people hype it up to. Its okay, but there are too many weird and unexplained things in it that she mentions.
Like people hate on Crystalized for relieng on a book when S11's Time travel with Zane never got explained in the show, even though it is VERY important
My theory is that Asphera's logic was that because Wu is old then if she sent him back in time, even if the ninja are able to get to the never realm, he'd already be dead but then Zane pushed him out the way and got sent back in time instead! I JUST ON THE SPOT THOUGHT OF THIS!🫨
I’d rather watch Hands of Time