Thread:Magma Dragoon/@comment-366087-20160412190328/@comment-366087-20160413160816

Not really. The writing staffs of these pictures are not only professionals and a committee, there are other staffs which review the scripts. Had the intention been to depict Oogway as anything other than the hero he was in the rest of the movies, there would have been at least one line of dialog to indicate it.

Something like "Before I learned enlightenment, I was an ambitious young leader of an army", or "During my time with the pandas I started on the path to enlightenment." Without such dialog, the audience is expected to accept that Oogway is the same Oogway, still a hero, just younger.

Thus since Oogway is "the same" and lacking any sort of qualifier to when he first speaks of Kai, something like, "at my side was Kai. Brusque and short tempered, but my best friend," we are meant to see Kai just as heroic by association.

Instead, it was not until the issue of chi that there was a split between them: Oogway learning to harness and share, but Kai wanting to keep all for himself. Which was his "Turn to the dark side."

I'm not sure if it was you I saw somewhere that does some writing, but that is definitely how well-written stories deliver information with minimal exposition.