Ninjago S7 E10

## Plot

The others watch as the temporal vortex closes. Ray and Maya explain the situation, and who they are. There's nothing they can do but wait and hope that the others return. So, in other words, most of the main characters are useless in this season finale. Great. Speaking of the others, they've gone back in time. They're hiding on the Iron Doom, waiting for the right time to steal the reversal time blade. They've gone back 40 years in the past, at the monastery, literally right after Krux and Acronix's past selves went into the original temporal vortex. Ugh, my head. We learn that Jay's biological mother was the elemental master of lightning, and was looking forward to going on her honeymoon with Cliff Gordon at this time. The elemental masters of the past fight the Vermillion Warriors. They've never seen Vermillion before, so they don't know how to stop them. Wu warns Kai and Nya against changing the past before passing out. He's still alive, but he doesn't have much time left. Change anything, change everything. Kai and Nya throw that out the window to save the day. After all, things are already changing for the worse, and Wu also says to never put off till tomorrow what can be done today. They pretend to be their parents to fight. Krux and Acronix destroy Raggmunk, Blunck, and even Machia after they see that they're losing. No! Not Machia! She was the somewhat cool female one! No! It turns out that the Iron Doom is also a giant robot, and they fight in it. They force young Wu to yield, which drastically alters Ninjago's history. In the present, the city looks like it did 40 years ago, because Borg's technology no longer exists. This spells trouble for Zane, who is back in his human form, but shut down. The new Samurai X is also nowhere to be seen. In the past, Kai and Nya create their fusion dragon again to fight the Iron Doom. Nya asks Kai to maintain the dragon on his own for awhile, and to trust her. She jumps down towards present Wu. However, the Iron Doom goes far into the future, where Kai and Nya don't exist and can't interfere. Kai falls after losing the dragon, and the portal closes. He thinks that he failed everyone. However, Nya and a revitalized Wu come up to him, and say that failure is sometimes only temporary. It can be corrected, and with effort, it can be reversed. Nya was looking for the past reversal time blade in the woods near the monastery, and found it. They use it to rewind time to before Krux and Acronix left the past. Before they follow them, Wu gives the reversal time blade to his younger self, who decides to put it in the Boiling Sea. He orders everyone there to find Mistaké, the tea shop owner, and drink Obscuri-tea to forget this incident. Back in the present, everything returns to normal. Ray is getting worse though, and doesn't have a lot of time left. Kai, Nya, and Wu fight Krux and Acronix on the Iron Doom. Wu sees that they're passing through the present. He pulls the reversal time blade out of the power source, causing the ship to spin out of control. He throws Kai, Nya, and the reversal time blade off, and into the present. He, Krux, and Acronix are still on board when the ship crashes, presumably sometime in the future. Kai and Nya arrive back in the present, next to the others. Kai uses the reversal blade to restore Ray to normal. However, they all realize what Wu did, and that he's now lost in time. They decide to make Lloyd their new master. He decides to get rid of the time blade, and find Wu, no matter what.

## Review

So, this season… to be honest, it was kind of meh, like season 6 was. I think part of the reason is the pacing. It feels really slow, since Krux and Acronix are just very slowly working on one plan throughout all ten episodes. If you had forty years to prepare your revenge, wouldn't you come up with all sorts of contingencies in case things went wrong? Also, it contradicts a lot of stuff from the pilot and previous episodes with Kai and Nya's dad, where they talked about him like he had passed away not super long ago, and like they actually remembered him and their mom. Luckily, after almost a whole year off the air, probably to accommodate that animated theatrical movie, the show got its groove back in season 8, though not without some stumbling along the way.