Lloyd is still a little kid. No matter what age he is because of childs play, part of him will be young/childish forever( hc). And this is important to realize because with a grown adult, they would eventually understand that christofern is a fill-in for lloyd to garmadon. But lloyd is blinded to the truth by his childish jealousy and masking the fact that it could mean something more than being replaced by a plant. He's telling himself that he'd rather be mad at his dad then be sad by the truth so he ignored all other reasoning. The ninja are his family. Kai and Nya are his siblings, jay and cole are his brother in laws, zanes like the dad, pixals like his mom (god knows he needs a new one *fuck you misako*) one big happy family
anyways i’m thinking about how this wasn’t garmadon actually planning on hurting skylor to be cruel, it was a strategic move to persuade chen. and well like yeah obviously,, but!!! this shows the difference in garmadon vs chen.
garmadon threatens skylor because he has a child himself, and he knows he would do anything to protect lloyd from getting hurt. he is assuming chen feels the same about skylor and that chen will immediately let them go to protect her. when he doesn’t, this is when audience is first shown that chen never really cared about skylor, and only really needs her for her power. idk just something about garmadon thinking that he is threatening chen with something he has to give in to, knowing exactly how he would react himself to protect lloyd, but instead discovering chen’s cruel enough to not care about the life of his own child.