Ninjago Rebooted: A Disappointing Revival

I may be the only rebooted fan alive but idc its awesome

The love triangle was so unnecessary (even Tommy Andreasen disliked it), and it's very obvious that it mainly existed just because they didn't know what to do with Nya, Jay and Cole, even though a technology focused season would've had a lot of potential for Jay, there really should've been a lot more moments of him nerding out like him fanboying over Cyrus Borg or going into space, with Nya, I feel like they should've utilized her rivalry with Cryptor more, as for Cole, still has the issue of early Ninjago were Cole doesn't really have anything to do, and is just along for the ride, there wasn't really any big potential for him in Rebooted, and no moments that could've been expanded upon. The love triangle is a prime example of the Hageman brothers having a bad idea and not being told "no" and the season actively suffers as a result, not the worst idea they've had, that goes to the whole disgusting Nadakhan, Delara and Nya plotline in Skybound, but still a pretty bad idea.

You know, I watched a Tannerfishies video on the Love Triangle subject and suggested it would've been a better plot if the Overlord tampered with the machine to make Nya fall in love with Cole and in turn divide the ninja.

This dude didn't cry and had no soul with Zane's sacrifice if he calls this season disappointing. Jake: SHAME ON YOU!

This season had 3 highlights for me and the rest was meh, the highlights were 1) all the times Lloyd and Garmadon spent together, especially the episode where Garmadon is training Lloyd to control his power as they were scaling a mountain, their dynamic was great and I love that we got more of it in season 4 2) the contrast between Garmadon and Wu's mentoring methods, Wu trusts the ninja to handle themselves in whatever situation they're in, so he's more hands off on their missions, which is contrasted by Garmadon who is more Hand on and want them to be as focused as possible on the task at hand to avoid unnecessary risks like Kai being discovered when he was supposed to be stealthy and the ninjas ending up in space, the contrast is good and none of them is completely right or wrong in their way, they're basically 2 sides of the Same coin and I love that 3) Zane's sacrifice, what's left to say about this, the music, the visuals, the reaction of the other characters and also this was before Zane had been rebuilt numerous times, so we really did believe he was gone, I do think the ending scene kinda breaks the emotion a bit since we then knew Zane was alive going into the next season but it wasn't that bad and at least it happened after the funeral and not before, so during the funeral we took everything as seriously as the characters did Overall I think the season was decent

elemental shields aperered in season 1 when they unlocked their full potencial.

I always wondered why Ninjago City got rid of all the futuristic technology after this season. I mean I know the Overlord took over the system the first time but the technoblades are still presumably in the digiverse and the technology did seem more useful then the stuff before and kinda after plus I wanted to see the Ninja start using some of that tech more after this season like we could have gotten Kai using a laser katana but no they got rid of it all (like seriously the only remnants of the futuristic New Ninjago City are some of the looks of the buildings). Can you imagine seeing Rebooted New Ninjago City during the season 9 and onward era’s because that’s where the animation and effects got LEAGUES BETTER. I can imagine Wildbrane making New Ninjago city look more vibrant and Cyberpunky (Also think the Ninja still have those stone armors laying around somewhere in the later seasons?)

This season was SO GOOD

Actually, the origin of the Serpentine is not retconned. The snakes moved underground after that early conflict, but they didn't stay underground all the time. They could come and go as they wanted, it was their home, not a prison. Yet. The Elemental Masters later imprisoned them there after another conflict much later. What I find really strange is that they act in this season like there was this big time skip, but several seasons later, the ninja are somehow still teenagers, so the timeskip can't have been that big.

One thing i loath about this season is that they absolutely wasted Golden Power and undermined the events of S2, it would been better if all five ninja each get 20% of Golden Power at the end of the Overlord's defeat, due to how important GP is lore wise.

I don’t hate this season if anything I actually enjoyed it so much there was maybe a few weird things like nya having mixed feelings for Cole and jay and having them against each other. Or the fact that they became teachers despite being teenagers. But overall if Zane was one of you’re top three at the time then you would have enjoyed the season and I loved the nindroids it gave a very futuristic feeling. So not everything was bad the overlord being the main focused is amazing too considering he wasn’t fully killed.

In my opinion this season was absolutely amazingly, watching as a kid was so much fun, the overlord return in a scary way where he uses the USM golden power had me feeling that ninjas were doomed, Zane sacrifice is probably one of the best episodes of the series, the only bad flaw that I hated was the love triangle, its so annoying and unnecessary out of place😐

I loved rebooted overall, i especially enjoy zane, pixal and garmadon, but yeah, the ending was cheap, and the love triangle was dumb.

No way bone theme at the end, fellow OST enjoyer! Personally I really loved rebooted but it definitely felt like it needed 2 more episodes to better flesh out story parts. Just more time for lore and lines.

I feel like this and Elemental Tournament are the most nostalgic seasons for me, and I love them (not only for that, but PARTIALLY because of that)

If I had a nickel for every time Pythor worked with The Overlord. I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's strange that it happened twice.

Well while I am a fan of this season i do understand the problems you indicated within this review, so thank you for this review for Rebooted

I loved this season when I was younger. My love of it may be mostly nostalgia but I still love it.

I loved the romance between Zane and Pixal but yeah the love triangle felt really weird even as a kid

How is this season disliked, it was so cool and Zane’s sacrifice brought me to tears.