Ninjago Season 1, Episode 6: The Snake King
Hello yes welcome to my incredible commentary yet again. Thank you for your commitment in making it six whole episodes in with me (if you didn’t read last week, what are you doing get over there! It’s right here, go read it)
I’m excited, as usual, to see what developments we get to experience here today.
We begin:
So, the Serpentine are doing some kind of excavation. For the Lost City of Ouroboros, apparently
Why is Scales hanging out with Pythor? Besides the obvious exposition, of course.
If only all excavations were that easy, can you imagine? Dig up the switch and it does the rest for you
Man these Serpentine knew their epic architecture
Mad respect for that mail guy
Seems like the boys are getting along
Why do you guys think you know who the green ninja’s going to be?
New uniforms! Nice! We’re only 6 episodes in though, is this gonna be a pattern?
They look so foncy
LOL the samurai beat them there and did all the cool stuff and all the girls love him
It’s what they deserve, let’s be honest. The Ninjas are not good at their jobs.
Ahaha the people like samurai more than Ninjas now
I love how not only the Samurai beat them there, but Wu and Nya did too
This just in, Wu loves cotton candy and ferris wheels. I find him significantly more relatable now
I love this guy
So clearly this universe does have modern clothing. I still don’t understand the culture or technology here. I don’t think I ever will.
Jay you look amazing in that pink dress
Wait
He ... built a new track? Instead of ... picking up the victim? Wh-
Oh yes give Lloyd some money and leave him unsupervised. This is gonna end SO well
IMMEDIATE SERPENTINE DISTRACTION he didn’t even make it into the frickin arcade
And now he’s “in disguise.” I’d say he hasn’t got a chance but literally everyone in this show is so fucking stupid
How do the clearly living and sentient snake vehicles feel about being used as transportation like this? Don’t they have ambitions? Wants? Desires?
How--how how? How is a Serpentine using the sacred flute? Does that even work? If it does work is it ethical? Wait, Serpentine, forgot. But still, how??
Why is it not affecting him???
Oh great, apparently Pythor P. Chumsworth is now the king of all snake people
Aaaand Lloyd dropped his maracas
Great
Awesome
Okay hang on a minute. Did Kai just drop Lloyd off at the arcade and then .... forget to go pick him up?? Do they not know he’s missing??? THESE MEN SHOULD NOT BE IN CHARGE OF A CHILD
OMG YOU’RE SO BAD AT THIS
“We must find the boy” Wu he’s your NEPHEW and he’s MISSING how are you not more concerned??
Okay how did they get access to the city’s security network
I get that he’s the black ninja but that exhaust coming out of Cole’s car cannot be good for the environment
That’s a facepalm from me
How did they know where you’d be
How did you not see the fucking GIANT METAL CAGE
Oh great and now the Samurai is fighting FOR the Serpentine??
What
Is
Happening
Was the Samurai captured?? Is he on their side suddenly? Why doesn’t he just bust out and fly off??
I love how they announce their intentions before they do anything
oh no a row of small spikes how will we ever escape
Okay so the ninjas are out but now the Samurai is suitless and by himself in the middle of the Serpentine city
Let’s be real though he can handle himself way better than the Ninja can
The golden weapons are magnetic? That seems like an oddly convenient detail that I feel like might have come up before.
Hey he’s got a mini jet pack in addition to his big jet pack. Jetpackception? No… Jet pack redundancy?
They all just.... left Lloyd there
Oh snap the Samurai crashed
WAIT IT’S NYA
WAIT
SHE’S SO MUCH MORE OF A BADASS THAN I THOUGHT
Good for Kai respecting her capabilities and privacy.
So uh
Lloyd is still kidnapped
You guys know that Lloyd is still kidnapped, right?
So much confidence with so little to back it up.
What a reveal! Nya is the mysterious Samurai! I gotta say, I’m so glad she hasn’t let herself be permanently relegated to ship or babysitting duty; we’ve known since the pilot that this lady’s got moves.
No idea what the plan is on getting Lloyd back but apparently that’s not really a concern? So I guess tune in next week to see what the heck happens with that whole deal.
