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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 04:12 am (UTC)I've said, even if it is a cartoon, Avatar The Last Airbender is one of the best shows on television.
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.
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Date: 2007-09-22 05:43 am (UTC)I do like how they're setting up Zuko already. 2 seasons of angsting and although he's still behind his sister, he's "his own man" and trying to figure out the gameplan. Suggestion: get Uncle Iroh out of prison.
Aang stealing Zuko's honour lines? I lol'd the whole way. The scenes with Katara and Aang were sometimes too heavy-handed, especially the scene where daughter backtalked father. *still has issues with that one*
Katara has daddy issues? When did that happen? As far as I can remember, she was angry at the fire nation for starting the war and ruining her family. She cried over the loss of her mother but I can't recall any feelings of hostility towards Hakoda until this episode. The scene did explain why she felt that way but still - awkward.
speculation: Hakoda is older than Ozai? Juding from facial appearanc, Hakoda has more lines on his face (and more facial hair), but that could be just from his occupation
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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.
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Date: 2007-09-22 07:47 pm (UTC)Or Yue. ;P Aang going all mythic hero (again) with the gods divinely intervening. Not exactly new between the Roku and Kyoshi cameos from the last two seasons, but ... heh. ;)
I do like how they're setting up Zuko already. 2 seasons of angsting and although he's still behind his sister, he's "his own man"
Yeah, and he's "his own man" because just about everyone in Castle Macbeth wouldn't mind stabbing him in the back if they got half a chance. His dad probably wouldn't (he'd get Azula to do it), but right this second Zuko's only value goes as for the 'pride' Ozai supposedly has in him (and how much you want to bet his 'pride' doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the bigger picture?). The one and only person he could possibly trust implicitly is in jail.
Suggestion: get Uncle Iroh out of prison.
By the looks of that promo? Seems like that is going to be awhile. Dammit Zuko! Stop being a douchebag and get on with the epiphany already!!
As far as I can remember, she was angry at the fire nation for starting the war and ruining her family. She cried over the loss of her mother but I can't recall any feelings of hostility towards Hakoda until this episode.
It does make sense, but it's almost like the writers thought, "Hey! You know she might have a few issues about that so let's put them in before it's too late." That and/or they really wanted that direct parallel between the goings-on of the 'good' guys and the 'bad' guys as the same yet decidedly different. Nature vs. nurture. Not to mention, a reminder of how very much Zuko needs to WAKE THE FRAK UP (and, uhm, apparently Katara too, for that matter)! Iroh is the only real father you've ever had and Ozai doesn't give two shits about you!! And Katara needs to stop with the selfish bitchfest and appreciate the brave & awesome daddy she's got as she could have been cursed with the likes of Ozai.
speculation: Hakoda is older than Ozai? Juding from facial appearanc, Hakoda has more lines on his face (and more facial hair), but that could be just from his occupation
Or Ozai uses Oil of Olay? Srsly tho, Hakoda could be older, but I'd think being out there fighting the war and exposed to the elements all his life? Also losing one's wife and village almost completely exterminated? Then having to leave one's children to fight in the war. That probably would prematurely age a man. As opposed to pampered Ozai in the Fire Nation palace who we haven't seen fight a single battle and until recently has been little more than the faceless shadow of evil. Odds are they're probably very close to the same age as they have kids of nearly the same ages.
Although now that Ozai has a face? He just got a whole lot more human. He went from this inhuman embodiment of evil, surrounded in flame. Like the boogeyman. This unachievable (for Zuko), unimaginable (for Aang/the Avatar) thing. Now? He's not a boogeyman anymore, he's most decidedly human (who happens to look like Zuko, but sounds like Azula). More human = vulnerable. While Azula is the same ambitious bitch she's been since she came on the scene. Ozai? You are SO going to get the hubris smackdown favoring your merciless protege over your actually honorable son and brother (and, presumedly, wife).