I thought this MK would focus more on the tournament, more on Mileena's illness as something more important and dangerous. Besides other things. But the tournament ended in chapter 3. and we didn't even see Kotal and shiva against Raiden. The tournament was a big nothing for me.
The tournament is one of those things that have been handled pretty poorly.
It feels like it was more of an excuse to introduce the two worlds to each other, rather than being important per se.
Its purpose is quite muddy, because there really isn't anything at stake, aside from some vague sense of pride upon which the fate of Earthrealm and Outworld are based, even though Sindel never meant to wage war in the first place.
It's supposed to be a grand event, and yet it's a gauntlet that doesn't last even two full days and takes place in very unceremonious place and circumnstances.
Liu Kang is worried of Outworld bolstering their forces, yet Sindel says they've been on a losing streak. Kitana and Milena being 10k years old mean they must have participated every tournament since the first, yet there's no mention of this.
Raiden might be as much of a golden boy as you want, but he really steamrolls all opposition without breaking a sweat.
Johnny, Kung Lao and Kenshi are there for no particular reason, since they didn't even participate, and Liu didn't even bring the Lin Kuei along.
I agree 100%. When that happened, it was really bad and felt like everything had been thrown away. We barely even saw the earth plane team anymore.
Yes, we don't even know if they participated in the final war or those were their titan-counterparts or not, since some are dressed the same way (Scorpion) while others are totally different.
We have no idea if all the people that showed up in the end were titans of their own timeline, various henchmen or even whether they were powered up or not. We don't know the purpose of the pyramid or whatever was the swelling of souls beneath it.
Kitana gets washed away by a blurred rando (I guess a Raiden?), and Liu never mourns her once despite the cheesy reunion.
We don't know what does Liu do to Quan Chi and Shang. Does he erase them? Can he do that?
The timeline supposedly crumbles apart because of Shang's death, although they had just explained the only way for it to happen was to destroy the hourglass, otherwise Kronika's death or Liu surrendering his powers should have meant doom for the timelines.
And still, random Havik n.47102 and his goons are shown to be perfectly fine in a place that should have been erased. Also, it's quite random to establish him as the future villain, since he isn't even the main one, who did nothing anyway.
I could go on and complain about how Liu does nothing to stop Shang and friends from destorying the Hourglass, since he worries more about beating up his goons and talking shit, while the others are literally dragonballing behind him.
Or how Shang's plan didn't make sense to begin with. First he wants to merge the timelines, although I don't know would that supposed to work. Would they overlap? Or would he have an extended universe comprised of just two copies of the same?
Then he changes his mind and wants to conquer all timelines for no real reason, and many "dark timeliners" cooperate with him for some reason, even though each of them has experienced the same treacherous Shang.
I really could go on and on, to mention how pathetic Shang's underlings are, how the supposed invincible Dragon Army can be dispatched by pretty much anyone, while in the old mdiway era they were literally invulnerable iirc, and much more.