Honestly, the sets, at least in the first wave or two, were quite good. But it didn’t take long for the originality to really decay. At some point all the vehicles just devolved into, as I said, varying flavors of motorcycle and glider, with the occasional outlier like that helicopter or the spider with the snapping claws; and the fortresses were ultimately just reskins of each other. And then, when it became fire vs. ice in the last season, this was exacerbated even more.
I guess the general premise of anthropomorphic animals having a drug war wasn’t entirely what made the worldbuilding bad, but in that case, it was executed very poorly.
The story was even worse. I mean the most compelling character was the villain in the first “season”, and then when they were “UNITED THROUGH THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP NOW WE HAVE TO GO STOP ALL THE BAD GUYS BEYOND THE JUNGLE”, it just got really monotonous. “Lets go fight even worse bad guys, spiders and scorpions and bats! OK, that’s done, let’s go fight even worse worse bad guys, SABER TOOTHED TIGERSSSS”.
And then the Netflix show: I mean, come on, just stick to comics, or at least get palatable voice actors and write a story that makes characters at least halfway compelling.
It could.
But you don’t see nearly as much hate for BIONICLE as for Chima though, do you? Which means no matter how similarities you can draw, there is something fundamentally different about BIONICLE that appeals to a larger audience.
… you didn’t even respond to a single thing he said