Me too, although in retrospect I think it would've been perfect to have the battle at the panda village be an epic last stand and Kai actually win with Tigress holding him off so Po could flee and then have movie 4 be his quest to master chi so that he can go back, defeat Kai and free everyone.
I think quite possibly the best scenario for that would be have Po do the 'drag you to the spirit world with the Wu Xi fingerhold' thing, and then flee through the spirit world. Then right at the end of the movie, have him run into Tai Lung who's just like, 'hah! I was wondering when you'd show up.' cue the crowd going NUTS for his return.
(that wu xi fingerhold sends to spirit world thing was probably the biggest plot hole in the whole series for me since we never got to see Tai Lung. I know I saw somewhere that he was drawn in as one of Kai's defeated-warrior talismans, but since he wasn't summoned I say it doesn't count)
Then for movie 4 have Tai Lung actually wind up getting a redemption arc helping Po improve and learn to master Chi in a quest across the spirit world, maybe even teaming up with him against Kai for the final battle, which would've given Kai the supremely badass final battle he deserved, and given an opportunity to have Tai Lung either get a redemption or pull a 'surprise, I lied!' and go on to become the villain of movie 5 after disappearing for a year or two of training to then come back even tougher than Kai and bring everything back around full circle as Tai Lung finally understands the Dragon Scroll and achieves enlightenment/inner-peace, making his final words that Po really did deserve the title after all and thanking him for a battle that will surely be legendary before passing on or finally having his heel-face turn for real.
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Date: 2020-01-11 05:58 am (UTC)I think quite possibly the best scenario for that would be have Po do the 'drag you to the spirit world with the Wu Xi fingerhold' thing, and then flee through the spirit world. Then right at the end of the movie, have him run into Tai Lung who's just like, 'hah! I was wondering when you'd show up.' cue the crowd going NUTS for his return.
(that wu xi fingerhold sends to spirit world thing was probably the biggest plot hole in the whole series for me since we never got to see Tai Lung. I know I saw somewhere that he was drawn in as one of Kai's defeated-warrior talismans, but since he wasn't summoned I say it doesn't count)
Then for movie 4 have Tai Lung actually wind up getting a redemption arc helping Po improve and learn to master Chi in a quest across the spirit world, maybe even teaming up with him against Kai for the final battle, which would've given Kai the supremely badass final battle he deserved, and given an opportunity to have Tai Lung either get a redemption or pull a 'surprise, I lied!' and go on to become the villain of movie 5 after disappearing for a year or two of training to then come back even tougher than Kai and bring everything back around full circle as Tai Lung finally understands the Dragon Scroll and achieves enlightenment/inner-peace, making his final words that Po really did deserve the title after all and thanking him for a battle that will surely be legendary before passing on or finally having his heel-face turn for real.