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Post by ninjagofanmam on Aug 16, 2020 4:57:29 GMT
I really like that you put both romance and death/loss in this. I think the lack of these things was partly why I didn't get into Nexo Knights like I could have. Also, interesting with the villain being connected to the other villains, makes everything fit together nicely. Thanks! As with most of my fiction, I wanted to put special emphasis on character interactions and dialogue, since that's a surprisingly common weak point among television. Ninjago actually did character interactions surprisingly well, at least in earlier seasons. And trying to write a romantic subplot well has been the ultimate test of my skill. I don't know how people do it.
As for Carminus, the connections with earlier NEXO Knights villains were somewhat new brainchildren of mine, but there's a prospect about him that's significantly older than the NEXO Knights theme itself: he's Emilius and Delara's brother. This was back when Delara was named Diana. Carminus was bald back then, and even I didn't really have an explanation why.
And yeah, with Lance's death, everything's wrapped up in a neat little bow. I had a similar effect planned for Ninjago, with Chen orchestrating a lot of what happened behind the scenes of Seasons 1, 2 and 3 (and not just by virtue of having trained Garmadon), but obviously Ninjago Edition Grande continued after Chen's first defeat. This was significantly more final, and meant to tie directly into what happened to Emilius, Carminus's brother, in Ninjago. Over on that front, I'm actually quite satisfied with the mirror world ending; it brings Lloyd full circle in how he took away OverLloyd's power: with the same weapon Skales used to take his own powers away way back in Season 2...
Nice. Agreed, Ninjago does do well in that area. Yeah, I know what you mean. It can be tricky to do a romantic subplot right. Interesting. Yeah, that makes sense.
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