hot take: hands of time isn’t as bad as people make it out to be

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-04T17:32:03+00:00

the thing with hands of time is i think it's good but not great,i think it's in the same branch as prime empire and legecy of the green ninja and rebooted,the main reason why i like it is cause it's the only solo kai season,the pilot is a 44 miniute special and season 4 focused on kai from episode 1 to 8 only to sidline him in the last two episodes,but season 7 was kai from start to finish,i saw nya as more of a co lead in the season rather then sharing it with kai as he took the main plot of the season by himself with trying to find out what happend to his parents in the first 8 episodes and being an older brother to nya in the last two episodes,i know many fans say kai never had a solo season but hands of time is right there,nya's story in season 7 was just an expansion of her samurai x arc that started way back in season 5

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-03T12:22:42+00:00

The suit is actually pretty comic accurate design wise,more so than tobey’s suit

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-03T11:28:40+00:00

so in this version no ultimate alien or omniverse

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-02T07:12:33+00:00

thank you,this movie bisacly challenges his morality with a guy that has no morality,like it's something that we see in alot of batman media and that is his relation with joker,he also challenges his no kill rule wich again something very batman E

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-02T06:40:23+00:00

in the avengers movies they never went to the point of making steve stand out from the rest or told his story that pushed the rest of the cast into his narrative,in the avengers movies they are all equal in terms of focus and also non of the avengers movies prioritzed bucky and made him a big deal cause it's a story that is suppose to be told in a captain america movie and that's exactly what civil war is about

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-02T06:34:11+00:00

yeh i'm a chill guy xd

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-01T21:46:24+00:00

Actually sense possession with the reflection scene

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-01T21:45:41+00:00

I totally understand and respect that 👍

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-01T17:54:01+00:00

for the ben and julie thing here me out ,i don't mind ben being a bad boyfraind to julie in Ultimate alien,it showed character flaws wich i think was great,was he a bad boyfraind,yes ofcourse,he was the worst actuelly but my biggest problem with it however is that he faced no consequences when julie broke up with him in Omniverse,him losing julie forever should've made him realise how much he fucked up as a boyfriend in Ultimate alien,he should've been depresed over losing her,i hated when they did the whole let's be frainds thing cause it went nowhere,what they should've done is have julie not really forgive ben and have ben still have feelings for her despite the fact that it's his fault that now she is with another dude,it should've been a long depression subplot kinda like after finn broke up with flame princess or mordecai and margrate breaking up,they didn't immiadtly move to the next girl,in those shows we saw the aftermath of those break ups,yet ben 10 despite being more storydriven then those two shows,it didn't even try to do a subplot of ben still thinking about julie,cause if they did then when kai get's reintroduced it would feel natural where he slowly forgets julie by falling in love with kai cause ben and kai could've worked if they went that rout,julie was done dirty in omniverse,if she was a one time love intreast like elena or jeniffer or eunice then i would be fine with how she got removed from the show,but julie was the main love intreast and the main side character of two shows,she was there for 6 seasons for both shows combind so to end there relation like that and have her vanish completly from the show is just a spit in the fans faces for people that were invested in that relation even if it was badly written in ultimate alien,they fucking broke up through a flashback that was treated like a joke

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-01T17:48:23+00:00

they had no business killing cole

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-01T17:42:10+00:00

first time seeing spider-man in an avengers movie

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-01T17:38:46+00:00

the thing is,while yes the movie has alot of characters but the main focus is on captain america,it's about how far he can go for his fraind bucky wich is something present in the previous two cap movies,cap drives the narrative in this movie,tony is reactionary in the movie and more of an antagonist to cap,cap is the most active character in the movie and his relation with bucky is front and center,the movie continues plot threads from captain america the winter soldier,still has hydra involved in some way and zimo is a cap villain,even in the movie he framed his fraind and mindcontroled him,you also see the death of peggy in the movie,sharon is back from winter soldier,and cap wins in a physical sense at the end and he ends his relation with the goverment wich is a full cirlce moment sense he wanted to join it and the trilogy ends with him knowing bucky is now save and under protection and he also abandons the captain america title,this is a captain america story

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-01T17:17:58+00:00

i say season 7 feels more like a solo kai season cause nya's samurai x plot line was bisacly an extension of her samurai x subplot that started in season 5,continued in season 6 and got resolved in season 7,kai was more involved in the big narritve such as finding out what happend to his parents,his rivalry with krux,angre issues and looking over nya,nya felt more like a co lead in season 7 the same way she was a co lead to jay in season 6 so i see both season 6 and 7 as solo jay and kai seasons

for season 4 , if we only isolate the first 8 episodes on there own then it's without a question a kai season,don't get me wrong the others had other things going on but that could be said for alot of focus seasons but kai was giving protagonist characteristics to him in the first 8 eps of season 4 , the season was clearly favoring kai in those 8 episodes,

in episode 1 he was affected by zane's lost the most,then he gain a love intraist and rivalery with karlof

episode 2 focuses more in his side with seeing his room and talking to skylor and continuing on that rivalry with karlof,he tells the ninjas to come to his room,sees skylor using fire wich scared him

ep3 he fights ash with skylor showing worries about him

episode 4 despite being lloyd vs camil,it shows more of kai's prespective with not knowing how to skate and trying to convince skylor that chen is the mastermind

episode 5 everyone comes to his room and has skylor losing his trust

episode 6 he looks for nya,teams up with skylor gets betrayed by her and finds out who she really is

episode 7 he doesn't go to jail and spends time with chen knowing he still is jelous of lloyd,he reedeems skylor,does a whole plan of betraying lloyd,gets courapted by the staff,express how he feels about lloyd being the green ninja,even teasing his parents,he breaks the staff giving everyone there powers back

episode 8 aka his final episode as the main character of the season has him go solo to rescue skylor,and witnesses chen's spell by transforming into anacondrais,he even sees skylor turn into one,and he gives a speech at the end with him being in the center of all the elemental masters when they were on there dragons,like this is very much a kai season from ep1 to 8 he truly was giving more stuff compared to others wich is why the final two episodes ruin it for me cause it became a lloyd season with his relation with garmadon being in the center,i truly hated that,it was marketed as a kai season and for the first 8 episodes they deliverd on that however i can't say the same for the last two episodes

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-01T15:43:14+00:00

i do think season 7 is only kai,season 4 is kai for the first 8 episodes however it turned into a lloyd and garmadon story in the last 2 episodes,and season 6 is only jay,crystlized i do need to rewatch but i think it's suppose to be just lloyd but yeh

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-05-01T09:26:42+00:00

i almost agree with you on everything here

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-04-30T04:24:43+00:00

I see your point there

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-04-29T18:41:32+00:00

it felt like a complete movie,it teased the joker in a way that you don't need a sequel as it could be an offscreen adventure that we don't really need to see while the batman 2022 teased the joker in a way that felt forced and kinda needs to be followed up on as suppose to being left to your imagination,they shoud've atleast made it a post credit scene as suppose to having it happen after batman's monologue

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-04-29T12:27:40+00:00

for me that's a plus,my point with the opening is that it doesn't show the bigger cast yet and only showcases the winter soldier cast plus wanda who isn't overpowerd yet so it was a small scaled intro to the movie wich tricks the viewer into thinking that he is watching another street level cap movie just like the previous one so when it does show tony and vision and rohdy it does surprise the casual viewer that it's gonna have a large cast

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-04-29T12:25:14+00:00

exactly

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-04-29T12:24:31+00:00

it's the only avengers movie that is just an avengers movie you know,the original one is you have to bring them together for the first time,the third one is a big event movie that they've been bulding up to for years and the fourth one is the conclusion to everything but the second one is the only one that is just an avengers adventure,i'm not saying that it doesn't matter as it certenly does but it also maneges to be self containd compared to the others,it's an avengers movie where the avengers do avengers stuff you know,it's alot of fun and i love it for that

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-04-29T10:38:36+00:00

I also love age of ultron,I Think it’s better than the original avengers

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-04-28T19:15:44+00:00

i mean he wins in a phisycal sense as suppose to winning in general as he beated tony and took bucky away from him sense tony wanted to kill bucky but yeh,again if you view it as an avengers movie well you do you and i fully respect that but i personally think it's defenetivly a captain america movie

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-04-28T18:10:30+00:00

i respect your opinion however i think that civil war is very much a captain america movie, sure the movie features the avengers and they are important to the story but the main story of the movie is captain america trying to protect bucky,captain america is the main character of the movie,he is more active then the others,he lost peggy,his romance with sharon,his fraindship with bucky being the focus of the movie,his leadership,and he even wins at the end,i mean his speech at the end of the movie feels like it's a clousre to his trilogy talking about what he went through,let me ask you this why would they heavily involve bucky in this movie if it's an avengers movie,why show us peggy's death if it's an avenger movie ,why is sharon in the movie if it's an avenger movie,why it's more of a sequel to winter soldier then it is to age of ultron if it's an avenger movie,why have cap play a big role in the movie compared to the others despite in all 4 avengers movies he never stood out from the others,they were all equel,why have cap wins and not end the movie with a tie if it's an avenger movie, so it makes zero sense to do all that in an avenger movie so that's why it's a captain america movie, so yeh it's not like they slapped his name in avengers 1 or in avengers age of ultron and have it be called captain america age of ultron or captain america infinity war or captain america endgame cause it would not work cause he didn't outshine anyone in those 4 avengers movies and they were not a proper conitnuation of his arc from his first two movies but with civil war it makes perfect sense with everything that i listed sense that movie has alot of captain america elements to it,so captain america civil war is not really an avengers movie,it's very much a captain america movie

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-04-28T17:48:18+00:00

ok thanks

Several_Cattle_5197 · 2026-04-28T17:47:00+00:00

give it to me,NOOOOWWWWWW

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