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retro_eidasAvatar withdrawal = OVER! Thank you the Universe!! Here are thoughts of total randomness...
Those parallels between Aang and Zuko couldn't get more anvil-dropping if they tried. They're only getting more obvious this season and I didn't think that was possible. Dammit! Make friends already!! Then they can go around and be emo together (and save the world with their massive emo powers. Ahem). "I need my honor back" / "I won't give up"... Aang is stealing all of Zuko's lines.
I did love one of the first things Zuko did when he's back in the Fire Nation is feed the turtleducks. Which we last saw him doing with his mummy in a flashback, awwww.
I liked that bit when the Fire Nation troops are storming Ba Sing Se and we see cameos of those we got to know in the Earth Book. Jin and Iroh/Zuko's old teashop boss (Hiding out in the teashop) and that family we met in "The Serpent's Pass" eps (the pregnant lady and her husband)... sadly, looking understandably terrified. What must that be like? A city of refugees, more or less, and now here's the Fire Nation they tried to escape beaten down their supposedly impenetrable door.
Toph? Still a bad ass. That metalbending is going to come in mighty handy when the pwning of Fire Nation comes around.
Zuko? STILL has daddy issues, but we knew these things. However...
Katara has daddy issues? When did that happen? I suppose she felt left out with Aang and Zuko hoarding all the emo? Or they just needed that handy mirror between the 'good' guys and 'bad' guys right at that moment. Ozai telling Zuko how oh so proud he is of him and his sister crushing Ba Sing Se and killing the child Avatar. Paired with the scene of Hakoda telling Katara she and Sokka are his life. Ah yes, Ozai is a shit excuse for a father and even moreso compared to Hakoda who genuinely does love his kids and doesn't expect them to, you know, see their enemies driven before them and hear lamentations of the women. Whoda thunk it?
Although speaking of family issues.... that whole Azula / Zuko bedroom scene? Uhm... yeah. Mike & Bryan taking notes from I, Claudius are they? Just a bit incesty. Although def. adds to the FUBARness of that family. Although what does he MEAN about not knowing what she has planned giving him the credit for the Avatar kill?? She's going to stab you in the back fool! Does he need it spelled out in neon letters?? Maybe someone needs to hit him and hard? Preferably Iroh (if he isn't too busy rotting in prison that is).
And since I know how to end things so very well, Aang must have some serious callouses on his feet. He was standing there next to the lava, right on top of rocks with red hot veins running through them. Aang has hobbitses feet.
Ok, maybe a TINY bit about Who. A 30 min. American cartoon on Nickelodeon (but one also geared to the families)? Consistently better written, more in depth and more engaging than Russell T. Davies's New Who. For shame Team Cardiff, for. shame. Although I suppose I shouldn't be too shocked, I enjoyed Sarah Jane Adventures "Invasion of the Bane" more than I did "Last of the Time Lords". *sighs*
Those parallels between Aang and Zuko couldn't get more anvil-dropping if they tried. They're only getting more obvious this season and I didn't think that was possible. Dammit! Make friends already!! Then they can go around and be emo together (and save the world with their massive emo powers. Ahem). "I need my honor back" / "I won't give up"... Aang is stealing all of Zuko's lines.
I did love one of the first things Zuko did when he's back in the Fire Nation is feed the turtleducks. Which we last saw him doing with his mummy in a flashback, awwww.
I liked that bit when the Fire Nation troops are storming Ba Sing Se and we see cameos of those we got to know in the Earth Book. Jin and Iroh/Zuko's old teashop boss (Hiding out in the teashop) and that family we met in "The Serpent's Pass" eps (the pregnant lady and her husband)... sadly, looking understandably terrified. What must that be like? A city of refugees, more or less, and now here's the Fire Nation they tried to escape beaten down their supposedly impenetrable door.
Toph? Still a bad ass. That metalbending is going to come in mighty handy when the pwning of Fire Nation comes around.
Zuko? STILL has daddy issues, but we knew these things. However...
Katara has daddy issues? When did that happen? I suppose she felt left out with Aang and Zuko hoarding all the emo? Or they just needed that handy mirror between the 'good' guys and 'bad' guys right at that moment. Ozai telling Zuko how oh so proud he is of him and his sister crushing Ba Sing Se and killing the child Avatar. Paired with the scene of Hakoda telling Katara she and Sokka are his life. Ah yes, Ozai is a shit excuse for a father and even moreso compared to Hakoda who genuinely does love his kids and doesn't expect them to, you know, see their enemies driven before them and hear lamentations of the women. Whoda thunk it?
Although speaking of family issues.... that whole Azula / Zuko bedroom scene? Uhm... yeah. Mike & Bryan taking notes from I, Claudius are they? Just a bit incesty. Although def. adds to the FUBARness of that family. Although what does he MEAN about not knowing what she has planned giving him the credit for the Avatar kill?? She's going to stab you in the back fool! Does he need it spelled out in neon letters?? Maybe someone needs to hit him and hard? Preferably Iroh (if he isn't too busy rotting in prison that is).
And since I know how to end things so very well, Aang must have some serious callouses on his feet. He was standing there next to the lava, right on top of rocks with red hot veins running through them. Aang has hobbitses feet.
Ok, maybe a TINY bit about Who. A 30 min. American cartoon on Nickelodeon (but one also geared to the families)? Consistently better written, more in depth and more engaging than Russell T. Davies's New Who. For shame Team Cardiff, for. shame. Although I suppose I shouldn't be too shocked, I enjoyed Sarah Jane Adventures "Invasion of the Bane" more than I did "Last of the Time Lords". *sighs*
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Date: 2007-09-22 07:15 pm (UTC)I have to say it's definitely not one of those shows where I find myself saying, "Dammit!! This would be so awesome if..." on a perpetual basis. I tune in and I'm ever rarely disappointed, quite different unfortunately from too much of the more adult-friendly material I watch. Also helps it really does seem it's creators have a concise plan and are sticking to it.
Was he standing on the volcano rock? I thought he just airbent-swooped up there to torch his glider. Gonna have to catch a rerun and watch more carefully.
I checked for his Twinkle-toes sort of floating, but he's definitely standing on it. Which just proves my own shallowness as we have this awesome moment of Aang very symbolically and dramatically burning his glider ... and all I can think is Corning Ware should patent his feet.