Jump to content

The Great Defeat Theory


Recommended Posts

This is my theory for 2017 line.

 

The Toa get a new look, have new protector like characters helping them, and hopefully Takanuva.

All journey to Makuta's hideout and find he has the MoUP. He is a Titan with his most powerful minions helping him.

The Toa battle and they are deafeted.

Takanuva runs off with the Protection characters and they have to leave Okoto.

Ekimu tells Takanuva about a legendary mask that can save them all. The Mask of TIME.

They journey off in search of the mask in hopes of returning to save there home.

 

In this idea Takanuva would become the teacher of the Protectors training them to become Toa.

(this how they could continue the story for 2018)

Edited by ToaTimeLord
  • Upvote 1

Hey I got a Flickr because I like making LEGO stuff.

https://www.flickr.com/people/toatimelord/
 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I think this is a cool theory and I love Takanuva but it doesn't feel like his presence is necessary or likely here. I think anything he does could be more easily and effectively done with Ekimu in his place. Besides, it would be awkward and strange to introduce Takanuva so suddenly. G1 had already established him as a matoran, and he had a strong symbolic and story role, but here it doesn't seem to serve a particular purpose.

 

But I think having to toa be defeated would be a dark and cool twist that would change the way we look at the line. It could then even be argued that the supposed emptiness of the story and characters was an intentional and clever symbolic choice, where the toa being these decorated legends end up failing because they were so busy working to fulfill prophecy and having their names chanted as legends that they never truly put in their greatest or really struggled and sacrificed. It becomes a fantastically interesting comment on prophecy and how those who try to follow it and fulfill the roles other give to them will never truly live to be much more than prideful failures.

 

And then if you replace Takanuva here with Ekimu it becomes a far more interesting and focused finale. Ekimu has shown he has had to save the toa's butts already before and that he now has to step up and take responsibility for him not seeing his brothers pain and corruption. He now has to face the consequences for failing as a brother and not doing more to keep Makuta from falling to jealousy.

 

As for the Mask of Time... I dunno, I'd like to see a more personal resolution between Ekimu and Makuta, but perhaps there could be an even crazier twist, where the MOUP separates from Makuta and kills Ekimu, making MAKUTA the hero and having to go back in time to save the life of his brother, by ending his own. It makes him a far more interesting character (he was an interesting character but currently isn't an interesting villain) in that he was never meant to be accepted by the protectors because that's simply who he is and was, and he has to learn acceptance and overcome his jealousy only through going through the extreme tragedy and pain of losing his brother whom he realizes he cared about all along when the MOUP isn't playing with his emotions.

 

It generates a fantastic theme that being anyone can't just be a hero, but has to earn the chance and make the right decision, as well as sometimes you need to accept the way things were meant to be and that you're not always going to fit in, and that's okay as long as you know yourself.

 

I would almost forgive G2's quality (or lack thereof) if my version of your pitch were how things ended up. From there on if Bionicle weren't likely to end next year you could continue to focus the story on the revived Toa as a story of redemption and a deep quest to fully realize themselves as real heroes and learn what it really means.

  • Upvote 6
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...