Ninjago S4 E10

## Plot

Chen lampshades the fact that the people don't know what to do without the ninja there to defend them. Nya is trying to tell everyone about Jamanakai village, but she keeps breaking up. The only good news is that everyone can at least take the trucks back. Chen has taken control of the airwaves. We finally see the new design of the Bounty, and it looks cool. Chen contacts Garmadon, Wu, Misako, Skylor, and Nya on the ship. He claims that he'll accept a truce, if they and everyone they know leaves Ninjago and never comes back. Garmadon is amazed that Wu is even considering the idea. He's just trying to buy time for the ninja to get back. However, Chen was lying about the truce, and called for a far more petty reason. He tells Wu and Misako the truth about the letter. Garmadon says he was trying to tell them earlier. Misako is shocked, and Wu is genuinely angry at him for the first time ever. Skylor points out that he's just trying to divide them like he did with the ninja. Pythor finally escapes the hamster wheel and gets to the Book of Spells at the camp. He starts looking for a spell to make him big again. He hears about the cultists overrunning more villages. It's only a matter of time before they take over Ninjago City. The ninja still haven't arrived yet. Pythor says that a true Anacondrai would never stand for this, which gives him an idea on how to stop the imposters. Lloyd meets up with Neuro. He asks him to send a message to all the fighters at once. They all meet at the secret underground base. I think it's Nya's Samurai X cave. Chen has already taken over the entire eastern seaboard, and is moving inland. To take over the west, he'll have to pass through Echo Canyons. Their best chance would be to stop them where it bottlenecks: At the Corridor of Elders. They don't stand much of a chance against his whole army though, and they're seriously outnumbered. They hold the line anyways, and ask all of the people, Serpentine included, to help out. Chen makes the canyon bigger though, and the Anacondrai start slipping through. Pythor arrives with the spell book. He tells Lloyd that his dad has to see it. He says that if anyone is gonna take over Ninjago, he'd prefer it to be himself. He says that if the generals that Garmadon banished saw what was happening, they'd end the war at once. After all, Chen lied to and manipulated them, and has insulted and made a mockery of their culture. He doesn't fight with honor. He's not a true Anacondrai. No one returns from the Cursed Realm though. Unless the person who banished them took their place. The only way to end this once and for all is for Garmadon to sacrifice himself. Lloyd refuses to curse his dad though. He says that there's not enough time in his life to make up for all the pain he's caused, but if he could save Ninjago, that would have to be enough. Lloyd considers this walking out on his family again, and leaves. He's just really angry and upset. He comes back to the Bounty and sends his dad off. He's the one who banishes him. Ouch. What that must do to a poor kid's psyche. Misako tells Garmadon that she's already forgiven him for the letter, and Wu feels the same. Garmadon says that when he wanted to make the world in his image, he didn't realize that he already had, through Lloyd. Oh! My heart! The generals come out of the Cursed Realm and send the fake Anacondrai there, calling them liars, cheaters, and imposters. Chen is cursed too. Skylor returns to normal. Ninjago has been saved again, but at a heavy cost. Misako tells Lloyd that it had to be done. The generals say that Pythor's courage and bravery have finally made his ancestors proud. They make him big again. They thank Lloyd too. Because of his friends, he was able to do what they never could: Unite the humans and Serpentine as one. The balance has been restored. Because of Garmadon's sacrifice, the spirits of the generals are now free. The elemental masters will have their eternal respect as the greatest warriors to ever battle for Ninjago. The ninja offer their help to the other elemental masters if they ever need it, and vice versa. They all have homes and families to return to. They thank each other. Kai invites Skylor to join the team. Sadly, she declines, deciding to run her father's noodle business instead. And they don't even get to kiss because they're interrupted by Dareth. Still, she tells Kai to keep in touch. On a hill, Lloyd and the others say goodbye to his father. His life and loss will affect them all. And by that, they mean it'll really only affect Lloyd. He made them stronger, and brought them all together. Ironically enough, they're all here today *because* he was evil. He was their family, their enemy, their mentor, but in the end, he was their friend. Because of him, they'll live to see tomorrow. And for every tomorrow, they'll live to honor him. Lloyd burns the spell book. A statue of his father is being carved into the Corridor of Elders. Unbeknownst to anyone else, we meet the new villain of the next season: Morro, a ghost.

## Review

I really liked this season. If I had one major complaint about this episode, it would be that, other than Lloyd, no one showed a lot of emotion toward banishing Garmadon. Wu, Misako, you two already lost him once due to evil, and now you're losing him to what is basically death. And neither one of you seem super emotional about that. And I know that the other guys were busy fighting, but Garmadon was basically their master during this season. They didn't bond with him over that? Not even a little? Garmadon's death scene and the memorial afterward isn't quite as emotional and dramatic as Zane's, but they'd be hard pressed to ever top that. I do think that they wasted a lot of potential plots by killing his character off though. He's only been good for 18 episodes. He was evil for 26 episodes, plus the pilot. I'm just saying, I feel like the writers could've done more with his character. Apparently they thought so too, since they brought him back… as his evil self, for 24 episodes, before writing him off again and having him wander the world, which is explored in supplementary material that might not even be canon to the show, and then having him only come back during the last third of the final season.