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Please watch the trollhunters series🙏

my fellow ninjago lover @wholesomesheep

[paco13524]

I literally do NOT get the take of “Jim should turn back human again” whatsoever and would in fact find that quite insulting as a viewer. 

See, what this series showed me with that scene where he permanently got turned half-troll is that it is not afraid to give its characters lasting consequences. (That and Vendel and Draal’s deaths were very blunt, and very jarring, and- at the moment- are the biggest consequences that have persisted.) I really like that. I like that I feel I can trust this show to not pull back on its daring narrative choices. If Wizards were to yank that narrative choice away and permanently turn Jim human again, that would strip A House Divided of literally all its emotion and make the whole plot decision feel fucking cheap. As a viewer I don’t want gimmicks, I want lasting consequences that impact characters in unchangeable ways. If they took that away from me, then I would feel like the creators of the show don’t trust their viewers to handle complex storylines, and that would be so insulting.

SECONDLY. I get the sense that some people are… missing the whole point of the show? 

Jim becoming trollhunter was NEVER about how he’s physically human- it’s about his soul. His kindness, his spirit. The amulet needed a champion who was willing to bridge two worlds and be a champion of humans, changelings, AND trolls, and who was willing to see past origin and species and see worth in others, to spare those who do not truly deserve to be killed. It needed someone who could deal with the changeling issues on the surface at night AND day, and to do all of this the trollhunter needed to be a human. But unfortunately, that human could never survive Gunmar as a human, so they needed to become half troll.

tl;dr Jim becoming half-troll does not strip him of what makes him special and unique as a Trollhunter, and the idea of him “turning human again” is both cheap on a narrative standpoint and ignores one of the fundamental takeaways of the show. End tweet.