Ninjago S11 E8

## Plot

Cole blames Jay for the situation they're in because he opened the crypt. Jay blames Zane for not warning them in time. Lloyd asks him what kind of person opens a possibly cursed tomb without checking it first. Jay points out that opening the tomb *is* how you check it out, and that Kai is the one who let Aspheera steal his powers. Zane says that he should recover shortly. Lava starts coming in. They break free from the wall and land on the floor, but they're all still chained together. They start heading out the way they came in. Cole lifts up the debris again. Jay panics and goes through, which yanks the others along, including Cole, and the debris almost hits Kai in the head. Jay and Cole yell at each other, and Lloyd tells them to stop. Wu was right. They've gone soft. Not just individually, but as a team. They start running from the lava again. It revitalizes the Serpentine mummies. Jay uses spinjitzu on them, but now he and the others are all tied up. They're able to get out of the room before it collapses. They untie themselves and run into the area with spikes. They saw a skeleton there in an earlier episode. The backpack left behind has all the gear they need to make it back up the secret passageway. The bridge to the exit collapses. Lloyd says they can link their arms and hands together and make a bridge. They're able to make it across and finally get out of the pyramid… but the area surrounding it is all lava. Luckily, Pixal shows up in a helicopter to save them, and they get back to the Dune Bounty. They finally get the chains off, and Kai wakes up. They head to Ninjago City to confront Aspheera for round 2. However, we once again go back to the normal people's reaction to things for episode 8, through the camera lens of NGTV, featuring the reporter Gayle Gossip and her cameraman Vinny. Really? Almost right after the last one? Ugh. No wonder some people didn't like season 11. Focus on the plot! We haven't even mentioned the thing that the season is named after yet! We've barely seen the main villain of the arc! Whatever, Ninjago City News. There are even live in universe commercials. Gayle has trailed a serpent, and realizes that there's a pattern to their movements. They're all converging on Aspheera. Gayle and Vinny eavesdrop on her. She orders the serpents to find the treacherous deceiver and bring him to her. One of the serpents shows her an advertisement for the history museum with a scroll on it. She says it's a weapon; the same one the deceiver used against her. She decides to take it for herself to use it against the deceiver. She and her Pyro Vipers catch Gayle eavesdropping on them. She reveals that the ninja released her and she left them to die, but Gayle has faith that they'll be back to stop her. Vinny tells her where the museum is so she'll let them live, but she orders her minions to bring them along. Then again, given what he said to Garmadon in season 10 and the fact that he said "Oops" afterward, it might've been an accident? I just want to hear Kelly Sheridan. The ninja finally arrive in time to save a reporter and a cameraman from being eaten or killed or burned alive by the snakes. Only Lloyd and Cole have lines though. They learn from the reporter that Aspheera is on her way to the history museum. She broadcasts a message on the air, vowing to find the treacherous deceiver and finally get her revenge, while she watches Ninjago burn, but even that's interrupted to keep up the, in my opinion, incredibly unfunny sketch comedy television gag.