Continue vocalizing what you dislike about the series as well. No one is required to like XC, but at the very least please respect the immense amount of work that went into creating the series. the rattle snake crushing on Dojo in “Big as Texas” reappearing in “Magic Stallion and the Wild Wild West”) calls into question the availability of fresh ideas–hence Ping Pong’s design, and Shadow’s original color palette. The references and meta drops to the original series are a playful attempt, but the use of the same visual jokes as Showdown (e.g. Think about starting a book series with book four of four, instead of book one of four. Bringing over the deep and complex relationships that the four main characters shared could prove difficult for new viewers, who have never seen or even heard of Xiaolin Showdown, and could have easily been turned off. Xiaolin Chronicles, being a reboot, has to scrap or change a lot from the original series due to reboot and copyright law. All of that is one dimensional, and look at what the characters grew into over the course of three whole seasons. While the majority of returning characters’ personalities are reduced to essentially their “tumblr versions,” or a few defining traits, I want to remind everyone that the original cast was reduced to “a monk, a tech genius, a Brazilian circus star, and a kung fu cowboy” for their original concepts. The Chronicles team made a valiant attempt at doing just that. There are few people who can do that and do it well. At least not season one, but that’s all we got for now.Īt the end of the day the crew behind Chronicles deserves applause for attempting to squeeze ten or more characters into one fantasy action-adventure plot that had to wrap up in twenty-two minutes and twenty-three seconds. And, yes, his character is painfully lacking in humanizing flaws, and what few flaws he does have feel like half-assed forced attempts to humanize him he received virtually no character development at all, while having an immense past hinted at through tiny snippets in just about every episode, and while I wish that there had been time and space (and budget) to explore that past, Xiaolin Chronicles was not the space for it. Yes, Ping Pong’s design is lacking in creativity. Let’s just say Xiaolin Chronicles has disappointed me greatly. Frankly I feel a lot of the characters in XC have been reduced to 2D versions of themselves. Ping Pong is a very flat character and has almost no depth. Quite honestly I hate him and think he’s just an Omi clone and Omi was my least favourite character in XS to begin with. It is perfectly fine to dislike Ping Pong.
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