What Happened To Zane(Watch Before Dragons Rising Season 3)

[@violetana6969]

ohhh boy. zane lover here who's spent wayyy too long thinking about his character!! prepare for a big word dump. Small thing at 2:14 ---- if I remember right, we do see Zane playing games in the first episode of S2 in DR. Though your point still stands, considering that Zane didn't understand Kai going "Eat that, Nindroid!", despite having gamed with him since S1 (and probably has heard worse) so, he may as well not have played a single game since haha :) I agree with a lot of your points, though I do have a few thoughts and slightly differing opinions. I think that Zane's character really struggled post S3. Him gaining titanium skin is, in my opinion, when his personality began to change into being more robotic than human. After PIXAL was put into his head, most of his perspective changed into a 'robotic' analysis of what was happening, therefore making his contribution in most episodes just exposition. His robotic skin gave the show an easy way to put in some jokes (Jay messing with his voice in S5, for example) and as an easy way to find information (Him getting information about Nadakhan) so most of his screentime was changed into that. You can also see how his dialog begins changing, going from "I do not know, but I sense that Sensei is going to keep us here if we don't work together and find an answer." to "The sewer network is old and can only sustain so much weight. But after adding up all of our combined masses, the pipes will hold by the slimmest of margins." Even the falcon got a robotic upgrade after S4, and was no longer Zane's mysterious falcon friend who was the last thing he had of his father---but instead was turned into a more dramatic way of texting. I think that Sons of Garmadon is the most 'zanelike' that we actually see Zane since Rebooted. He has a fair amount of screentime that's unrelated to him being a robot, while still using creative ways for his nindroid nature to progress the plot. Some examples of this are his mission infiltrating the SoG, him being super cute with PIXAL, and his hologram disguise thing. His dialog is also better, with even his more robotic questions coming out more human, and aren't wrapped in 2952185 robotic phrases. "What is a... party pooper?" "Did they hurt your eyes?" (Though of course, this is the season when the Falcon properly stopped showing up, so, they can't all be winners.) ...then, of course, the 11min era happened. In their attempt to give Zane a focus season, they made him have the least amount of screentime, the most unsatisfactory and rushed ending, and then they shoved it under the carpet. I really do think that it had potential, but with the 11min era ruining most of the characters, Zane's character really struggled and was never given any opportunity to recover itself, unlike Cole, Jay, Nya, Lloyd for the most part, and even Wu. Prime Empire had Detective Zane---really hammering into the fact that his character was in shambles and horribly inconsistent. He's been a genocidal emperor for 60 years, and then the next thing he does is become a silly detective? Yeah, okay, whatever. As much as I *do* like that episode, it really just shows that they had no idea what to do with him, so they borrowed the same joke from S5 of him with a silly voice. They obviously needed some kind of of contract from his silly-ness, so they made him even more robotic. That way when he does become 'silly' theres a contrast. Then crystalized.... I don't think I can even say anything about it without screaming, so.... Welp. I unfortunately do not have the same positive outlook about Dragons Rising, and am trying my best not to get my hopes up about him being on the box. While yes, he has been shown to be a little bit more human with PIXAL, every other aspect of his character is.... not great. The second he came back in EP9 I knew it was going to be bad. His introduction was terrible, being the only character to not get any kind of reunion hug, having barely any reaction to having been powered off for YEARS (i'll never forgive this scene lol) and you'd think that him losing the Zane Alike Competition would progress his character, but after his "Did the Merge change me? Am I not the Zane I once was?" line, (which is not at all what his takeaway should've been, it should've been "Why do people see me so unhuman? Have I always been this way? Is that all I am?") He completely forgets about it, and it's never brought up again. He has no reaction to Jay, no reaction to Kai being banished. So yes, he does seem more emotional with PIXAL, but that's practically the only time he ever is. Even if this is all buildup for some grand-arc in S3, i'd really hope that he would at least have more emotional reactions and then repress them---rather then have the show be like "Aha! But his extra-robotic nature was just setup!" because, yeah, maybe, but every line of his filled me with rage. All except one, which I will give credit towards, of him saying that he improved efficiency of the Administration by "nearly nine percent!" and getting excited over it, which iI do think is a very pre-s4 thing for him to do, haha. ANYWAY. im so sorry for this becoming so much longer. ive been wanting to make my own video essay about zane for awhile now and never got around to it, so im just taking out all my thoughts in this poor comment section. if you made it this far, then i apologize deeply for my rambles, and you probably compensation. This was a fantastic video essay and I loved so many of the points that you mentioned and brought up, and I'm happy to see people talking about this!!! Overall 10/10 experience :)

[@SpinjitzuStuds]

No need i actually enjoyed reading this after publishing the video i doubled checked and realized he actually played videos games lol.

[@ItsBedwarsTime4114]

A ZANE FAN LIKE ME!!! BUT WHAT HOW DO YOU THINK ABOUT ZANE SO MUCH???

[@violetana6969]

@ItsBedwarsTime4114 he's been my favorite character since i was like 5 haha!!! but no yeah this silly lego show runs around in my head 24/7 😭😭😭

[@ItsBedwarsTime4114]

@@violetana6969 oh I just rewatched ninjago last year beacause when I was little I didn’t understand anything

[@BloodmoonEDITZ-Earth-Arc]

I'm that one person that reads ALMOST every essay in a comment section. Your fine

[@Primzyy55]

Finally someone is talking about this!! His whole personality is that hes just a robot. He used to be my favorite in S1-S3 now i always just forget about him

[@mufinboi975]

They have alot to work with fixing zane and finally giving him something to do and to make him feel like a true character again. Awesome video!

[@ItsBedwarsTime4114]

I clicked faster than Zane dying

[@Jayafobic]

Dude, it's hurt

[@LEGO_OF_LEGENDS]

which time

[@GameismGameism]

Man! And i thought i was the only one who noticed this

[@MegoLegoAnimation]

He is most likely going to get the treatment Kai got in Dragons Rising S2 part 1 but even then I would still be happy There is a lot of stuff that is going on (specifically relating to Jay and Arin) so maybe Zane's development will not be on the center stage, but still have him have an arc of some sort, which I am very excited for

[@SpinjitzuStuds]

Yeah that's what i want to and quite really its all Zane pretty much needs.

[@NinjaOnStud]

when I watched this video I thought: oh a new famous KZbinr but u only have 32 subs makes me wanna make it 33! Great video!

[@SpinjitzuStuds]

Thanks you probably thought that because all of that effort i put into this video. Thanks you really made my day.

[@NinjaOnStud]

Video is great amazing job!

[@rocsthepie]

@@SpinjitzuStuds the editing on your videos is awesome. Keep up the good work!!

[@BOPgamez09]

Do you draw your own thumbnails? They look really cute!

[@SpinjitzuStuds]

yup

[@maliam_]

​@@SpinjitzuStudsThat's so cool

[@HalfDecentVideos719]

I feel like on thing you got wrong is that he felt bad about getting the monastery burnt down, he wasnt really that remorseful

[@user-1dkWhYuc5R3-ab0ut_m3]

Legit my favourite character for the first three seasons until he became more robotic- his personality just became 1s and 0s :/

[@turbolegends2792]

You deserve a lotta subs so here you go! Love your videos!

[@fexreal]

Still Amazing!

[@APhantomEX-3]

2 minutes in.. no, he doesn’t enter prime empire because it’ll fucking kill him or at least mess with him in some way, we know he plays video games because In the very scene you played, he has a high score which Cole just now beat

[@SpinjitzuStuds]

I know but what they did to him after was just sideline him

[@APhantomEX-3]

@ yeah for sure

[@Niro-n8x]

You gained a new subscriber man

[@Jayafobic]

0:20 Idk

[@4cornersE]

🔥

[@SpinjitzuStuds]

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[@4cornersE]

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[@SpinjitzuStuds]

@@4cornersE it like that then well let me end this with one guy i havent spoken to him in years but @✂

[@Theultematelifeform]

He fell of like my grades sadly

[@SpinjitzuStuds]

Nah you gotta make a comeback i mean your "PERFECT"

[@Theultematelifeform]

@SpinjitzuStuds your right im *Perfect* but now I'll go super Perfect to make my grades super perfect

[@SpinjitzuStuds]

@@Theultematelifeform Yeah but i recommend you skip school on fathers day too much father son bonding time.

[@legoanimegirl]

Peak

[@Thunder_studiozzZ]

How do I have more subscribers than you?

[@SpinjitzuStuds]

Appreciate the compliment but don't sell yourself too short.