Mata. Nui.

I am so happy right now.

That movie ... that was ... amazing. I had never really liked the idea that Mata Nui was the universe itself before now, but this ... this did it so perfectly. It's a concept that could very, very easily be absolutely ludicrous if not handled right.

But they got it right. Good gods they got it right. I'm not sure anything other than this movie could have done it so perfectly. The music was incredible – heroic, climactic, but foreboding, somewhat scary, and it utterly captures the sense of how enormous this happening is. So climactic. And they even managed to get the sense of scale correct. How slowly he was rising, how slowly the landmasses – landmasses – were falling off of him; nothing else could have so perfectly conveyed how enormous he is; then the shots from below of him rising up... it's incredible.

And they began it with shots of the Hau and the Kini-Nui. That just sealed the deal – all the way back to 2001 in the video that reveals what we've been waiting for all these years.

And the best part: he has no mask. His head is the original Toa head from 2001. That just completes it. He's colossal, absolutely colossal, he basically has the form of the original Toa, and he doesn't look silly. He actually looks like the immense, wise, revered Great Spirit of the Tohunga, not something that just looked awkward the way I was afraid they would do. There's even something of the old Maori feel to it – the look of his head, the corroded-stone feel of his body (different from the poster appearance after 1000 years) – essentially, brown or tan stone (2001) instead of silver metal (2008).

They actually, finally, handled something from 2001 in a way that absolutely glorified it and made it seem as incredible as we could ever have imagined it. He looks ancient, powerful, venerable, wise – everything I've ever wanted Mata Nui to look like.

I'm in love.