#ANYWAY silly funny haha news that make me do a comedy spit take

[zoophagist]

(pulled from screenrant)

hey. sorry. what? so many mixed feelings about this... they, uh, they tried that dar/k un.iver.se thing already and it went So Badly. canning the cohesive “cinematic universe” take was exactly the reason we’re getting the bizarre and singular renfield experience (whatever that ends up being). also. i hate ma.rv.el and how they’ve poisoned the media landscape :) please for the love of GOD do not m/c/u-ify the project. ........ on the other hand ....... more renfield.......... and could you imagine if after all the prestige they tried to throw at the d/ark univ/erse RENFIELD is the movie that finally gives the vision traction? hilarious. sorry, you can’t be polished and serious and cool if you want your cinematic universe. ONLY fucked up little freak retellings and spin-offs allowed.

truly the finger is curling on my monkey’s paw for wanting popular renfield content. look at this... they’re mainstreaming my boy....

[spin-in-time]

No no no, tell me! Go off! I wanna hear!!

AHHHHACSJVSHS. WelllLLL basically. To me it seems like the jay and nya situation. Nya and jay were Both skilled inventors/tech people. In the newer seasons, that trait only gets to go to nya. Jay gets "dumbed down" to make nya look more competent because that is oh so FeminismTM and girl characters MUST look smart and awesome and badass because writers can't come up with more interesting personalities for them. Also girls aren't allowed to be the silly ones. They must be no-nonsense cool women while boy characters get to have fun and be silly. Several people have noticed this with jaya. (Did love seabound as much as the next guy though, that was decent nya writing in my opinion.)

I personally believe that something similair happened to pixal and zane, but still different. I believe that a lot of the ninja got cut down to their most basic personality traits starting around s11. Zane's case is one i take the most issue with, as he's basically just become haha funny nindroid, like i said. He used to be so much more fleshed out (lol) as a character. Now he is just doing silly nindroid things, spitting out numbers and being the brain whenever pixal is nor around. And also: yes i KNOW the movie downloading is funny, i know and i really enjoyed the detective zane episode. But most things he does, be it smart or silly: they are all rooted in the "comedy source" of zane being a nindroid. So honestly, when i hear zane putting on a pirate voice for sea adventures? I wish i could see zane having a little fun and wanting to prepare. But i can't, because he is just a paper cutout of what he used to be. His only character motive anymore is "must protect" and that's really.... meh.

Okay sorry, that was only related if you squint but now to the pixal and zane part. Basically, it's like i said the same thing as with jaya. Their characters get reduced to core traits. For zane that is funny robot, thinks logical. For pixal that is no nonsense, competent. And it's so stupid. Again, it's giving the silly part to be male character and the serious to the female character for very little reason other than the writers not knowing how to write female characters. They think female characters must be the stoic and badass ones and they don't get to be funny. So when i see the detective zane episode for example? Yes i enjoy it but i would enjoy it so much more if it wasn't so fundamentally based around the terrible image of gender roles that a lot of the writers seem to have.

This got long LOLLLL, i'm not looking to argue, if you like the characterizations that the news seasons do that's fine but pls do remember that ninjago is BAD at female characters (which a lot of us agree on anyway lmaoo). (Also i'm tired and this isn't as much of an analysis as just rambling so i hope it's all somewhat coherent)