Being that Lego Ninjago was a show I watched occasionally as a kid but never kept up with, I had forgotten that season 2 episode 6 ends with Lloyd aging up via magic to become a teenager. I feel like I would've remembered that if I saw this episode as a kid, because that's too weird to easily forget. So I probably missed this episode, being that I was a kid who never kept up with tv shows. But since I just saw it minutes ago and it's now fresh in my brain, I want to discuss how I feel about this storyline development. Because I think it's interesting, but I don't know if I love it. I don't know what I'd have done differently, though.
Because like...I don't know my biology, but taking a (want to say) nine year old and making him fifteen or something feels like a pretty dramatic change. But maybe not? I mean, I'm 20. And I somehow feel both far too old and still very young. I don't know how to feel about time and aging, and my personal dilemmas probably bleed into whatever I'm watching. My problem is that being 20 makes me existential and feel like I had so much time pass me by, even though I actually aged normally (not like I had to say that, but still).
So I might just be projecting my issues onto the character? I'm not sure. But I feel like projecting "feeling both too old and too young" onto a character who literally lost part of his life to a magic spell isn't all that hard to do. So I guess I should just leave this here now, because I don't have much else to say about the show. I have a lot to say about my existential thoughts, but I don't think anyone is here for that if they're reading my post about a fandom thing.
PS: This is also why I don't want to acknowledge the sequel show to Ninjago. Time and Time skips are not something I consider good for my current mental status. I already feel the existential weight of being 20 and having no friends beyond my dad and not knowing where I fit in and stuff, so I think anything making me think about my own future via other people's future is just gonna crush me. So yeah, time skips sound like a bad idea for me.
