The Comedic Timing In Episode 28 Of Season 11 Of Lego Ninjago Is Unmatched

The comedic timing in episode 28 of season 11 of lego ninjago is unmatched

Lloyd, currently in jail with a shapeshifter who’s been stuck there for 60 years: “my friends are out there, and if I know one thing it’s that ninja never quit. They never give up, ever!”

Smash cut to Cole, shoveling snow out of an impromptu driveway: “maybe we should just give up”

[two minutes later]

Aforementioned shapeshifter, mournfully monologuing: “the only way out of this dungeon is if someone lets us out, and I do not see that happening any time soon”

Random unnamed guard walking by, immediately unlocking and throwing open the doors to their cells: bet

As The Ballad of Snakes and Songbirds lingers in my head, I have grown to really understand that the 10th games are as much of a tipping point for the continuation of the games as 74/75 are the tipping point of their destruction. Highbottom, the creator of the games clearly does not want them to continue. No one even watches the games and tributes die before even entering the arena. Dr. Cual is the only one who seems to love that games but she’s too vicious to know how to expand the necessity of games “correctly”.

The tenth games are a mess and could have been framed as a mistake to continue with, as Highbottom seemed to be pushing for. Dr. Gual was pro- killing the 24 tributes in whatever way, not fully playing into the killing sport of it all. She was willing to have the snakes kill all of the tributes in one go, essentially ending the spectacle with all the blood on the capitals hands. Snow combines the essence of humanity, the notion of punishment and need for entertainment to build out the continuation of the games.

All the lessons Snow learns from District 12 are weaponized to full effect by the time we read about the 74th games. Adding tvs and holograms to every district, betting on the winner, having the districts route against each other, heroizing the winner and marching them around as a prop. The victors not being able to return to normal lives and being pimped out by the capital screams like a greater punishment for Lucy’s escape attempt. Snow knows how to add stakes and, in turn, flex the power the capital holds over its citizens.

Snow road the middle for so long that he could see the cracks in the foundation and smooth them over to continue the process for years to come. Without Snow’s experiences, the games would never be as brutal and brilliantly propagandized as we see in the future, and most likely would have ended far sooner.

now that i have finished tbosas, i have started to reread the trilogy with my husband and i came across an interesting structural parallel for katniss’s first interaction with peeta when she was eleven and her first interaction with peeta after he returns to district twelve in mockingjay. 

when the reader is first introduced to peeta, we are immediately drawn into katniss’s flashback to the bread scene where peeta takes a beating from his mother in order to give katniss the bread. the part that i want to center on is how peeta specifically gives the bread to katniss as an offering.

katniss first hears feet slosh towards her and her immediate thoughts turn to peeta’s abusive mother, thinking that she is coming to attack katniss as well. Yet, when katniss looks up, expecting to see a threat, she is surprised that it is peeta instead, bearing two loaves of bread that he intended to give to her. these loaves act as a sort of selfless offering that peeta is giving to katniss, allowing her the substance she needs to continue to the next day, giving her life and a means to hope for the future.

fast forward to mockingjay, after prim has died and katniss has returned to district twelve, depressed and hopeless. when katniss first reunites with peeta, similar to just how katniss’s thoughts immediately thought that a threat was coming to harm her, she mistakes the scraping of Peeta’s shovel for that of the people in her nightmare using shovels to bury her alive. (although she is in no threat of physically dying, her grief is threatening to bury her alive). however, when she runs at the sound of the scraping, convinced that it is the same one from her dream, she is surprised that the sound actually comes from peeta’s shovel as he plants primrose. just as eleven-year-old peeta gave katniss the bread as an offering of life and hope, peeta gives katniss the primrose as an offering of condolences and remembrance. in many ways, peeta’s offering of the primrose gives katniss an avenue to keep living, finding a way to remember the dead and memorialize them, giving their deaths meaning. in this simple act, peeta was able to help remind katniss that there is a path forward.

the parallels between the two experiences demonstrate to the reader what katniss soon realizes later in the chapter: that peeta, the boy with the bread, is a gifter of a hope that life can go on and can give her the strength she needs to continue. she truly needs him. and just as katniss was never able to “shake the connection” between peeta and dandelions and hope, she couldn’t let go of peeta throughout all of mockingjay, even when he was made to be a threat to her. because to let go of peeta would mean to let go of her hope for a better tomorrow and if katniss doesn’t have that, what does the entire revolution even mean to her? for there would never be a girl on fire to flame the rebellion, a mockingjay to take flight against the capital if there was not a small boy with bread promising a better future through his courageous selflessness and goodness.

I like it but it's kinda boring for like, the first half if I'm being completely honest. But Thick As Thieves is worse so whateve

"Idk that's so funny to me" automatically makes me want to give notes, no matter what the content is.

Keep forgetting Zane's last name is canonically "Julien". Idk that's so funny to me.