Current Events > Whoa, Avatar: The Last Airbender is great. I missed out.

(+) Yeah! (+)

About halfway through the first season right now.

Really damn good. I'm surprised. I didn't expect to like it as much as I do
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season 1 was garb. it gets way better.
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@lilORANG posted...

season 1 was garb. it gets way better.

Well if I already like season 1 as much as I do, that's great news

Out of curiosity what makes S1 garbage compared to the other seasons? What's different?
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IIRC, it's more like 2>1>3.

But it's good all the way through, just relative quality.
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water bending is boring af and the water tribe is lame af and they all get way more powerful as it goes on which makes it way more fun to watch.
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Doom_Art posted...

Out of curiosity what makes S1 garbage compared to the other seasons? What's different?

It's not garbage, he's just being hyperbolic

Welcome to 2005 TC
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second season is some of the best animated television to ever exist
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Season one lacks two of the best characters in the show which is why it's generally considered to be lower quality.
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Yeah, that was a pretty good movie
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Better than dragon ball
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MabusIncarnate posted...

Yeah, that was a pretty good movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RpgbZcHk_A
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lilORANG posted...

water bending is boring af and the water tribe is lame af and they all get way more powerful as it goes on which makes it way more fun to watch.

water bending is awesome and arguably the most powerful type of bending since it can lead to bloodbending

now lets watch an awesome waterbending fight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZ267DRdq4
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Season 1 is good, 2 is fantastic, and 3 has its moments that outshine the middling issues with pacing and tweeny melodrama.

Korra is also excellent. 1, 3, and 4 might be the best things Nickelodeon has ever done. 2 was a LOT of missed potential
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I felt completely the same as tc. I guess I should watch this oh this is actually excellent and has substance
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yusiko posted...

now lets watch an awesome waterbending fight

Or maybe we don't post spoilers in a topic where TC is watching it for the first time...
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pegusus123456 posted...

yusiko posted...

now lets watch an awesome waterbending fight

Or maybe we don't post spoilers in a topic where TC is watching it for the first time...

this. Plus that was a lame fight anyways since waterbending is lame. Just splashing each other until one gives up
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Remember you've also got Korra too

Not everyone enjoyed it but hey it's still quality (except season 2)
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yusiko posted...

now lets watch an awesome waterbending fight

Katara's fights against Paku and Azula in the finale were a lot better than that one.

pegusus123456 posted...

yusiko posted...

now lets watch an awesome waterbending fight

Or maybe we don't post spoilers in a topic where TC is watching it for the first time...

i put a spoiler warning on the actual spoiler and i no one put a gun to the TCs head demanding he watch a clip of a fight that he hasnt gotten too yet
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yusiko posted...

i put a spoiler warning on the actual spoiler and i no one put a gun to the TCs head demanding he watch a clip of a fight that he hasnt gotten too yet

I just think it's rude in general since what usually happens is someone posts one spoiler, someone else responds, people start discussing spoilers (often not bothering to mark them), and then TC can't come into his own topic.
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Well I completely blew through season 1

On the third episode of season 2
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I remember when i watched it.
The internet was down on a weekend, and i had nothing else to do, so i finished the whole thing in the course of two days
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My favorite cartoon of all time.
Zuko and Iroh are just... amazing.
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Korra > Avatar tbh
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Azardea posted...

My favorite cartoon of all time.
Zuko and Iroh are just... amazing.

That's what I've liked about the first few episodes of S2

Zuko and Iroh's Wacky Adventure
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Fun Fact: Avatar: The Last Airbender won the 2008 Peabody Award for "unusually complex characters and healthy respect for the consequences of warfare". IIRC, it's the only animated series to win a Peabody Award for that.

You're in for a treat, TC, especially if you loved Book 1 that much; as others have said, it's still high-quality television, but Books 2 and 3 take it to another level. I think the biggest factor is that the story never really feels whole without Toph and Azula.
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Mikablu posted...

Fun Fact: Avatar: The Last Airbender won the 2008 Peabody Award for "unusually complex characters and healthy respect for the consequences of warfare". IIRC, it's the only animated series to win a Peabody Award for that.

Mhm one scene from an episode I watched yesterday when Zuko and Iroh were staying in that village and the girl shows how her leg was burned in a Fire Nation attack. I love when we see stuff like that. Makes the world feel more real, and raises the stakes a bit.

A friend last night was explaining some of the stuff in Korra for me.

And he was like "Yeah the villains in one season are Equalists, and the villains in another are Anarchists" and I'm thinking "Jeez those are some pretty heavy concepts to unload in a kids show"
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Doom_Art posted...

And he was like "Yeah the villains in one season are Equalists, and the villains in another are Anarchists" and I'm thinking "Jeez those are some pretty heavy concepts to unload in a kids show"

Yeah, LoK was definitely designed more for adults and older kids than early TLA was, especially the two seasons of LoK that were online-only (seasons 3 and 4).

there's a lot to love about avatar, there really is.
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Doom_Art posted...

And he was like "Yeah the villains in one season are Equalists, and the villains in another are Anarchists" and I'm thinking "Jeez those are some pretty heavy concepts to unload in a kids show"

I'd say Korra is aimed more at teens rather than kids. It's definitely more mature than the first series.
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Mikablu posted...

Doom_Art posted...

And he was like "Yeah the villains in one season are Equalists, and the villains in another are Anarchists" and I'm thinking "Jeez those are some pretty heavy concepts to unload in a kids show"

Yeah, LoK was definitely designed more for adults and older kids than early TLA was, especially the two seasons of LoK that were online-only (seasons 3 and 4).

I thought it was really cool how, apart from Book 2's villain (whom we won't talk about), the villains of LoK each represented a major political movement of the early 20th century: Leninist Communism, Anarchism, and Fascism / Nazism respectively. Which is why I never got why people were disappointed in Amon: he represented the failings and hypocrisies of Communist leadership perfectly.

And yeah, LoK just barely gets away with being kid-friendly at times.
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masterpug53 posted...

Mikablu posted...

Doom_Art posted...

And he was like "Yeah the villains in one season are Equalists, and the villains in another are Anarchists" and I'm thinking "Jeez those are some pretty heavy concepts to unload in a kids show"

Yeah, LoK was definitely designed more for adults and older kids than early TLA was, especially the two seasons of LoK that were online-only (seasons 3 and 4).

I thought it was really cool how, apart from Book 2's villain (whom we won't talk about), the villains of LoK each represented a major political movement of the early 20th century: Leninist Communism, Anarchism, and Fascism / Nazism respectively. Which is why I never got why people were disappointed in Amon: he represented the failings and hypocrisies of Communist leadership perfectly.

I think people were more disappointed that he didn't come back for season 2. They could have easily had him become a symbol instead of a person, like V and Anonymous.

masterpug53 posted...

Mikablu posted...

Doom_Art posted...

And he was like "Yeah the villains in one season are Equalists, and the villains in another are Anarchists" and I'm thinking "Jeez those are some pretty heavy concepts to unload in a kids show"

Yeah, LoK was definitely designed more for adults and older kids than early TLA was, especially the two seasons of LoK that were online-only (seasons 3 and 4).

I thought it was really cool how, apart from Book 2's villain (whom we won't talk about), the villains of LoK each represented a major political movement of the early 20th century: Leninist Communism, Anarchism, and Fascism / Nazism respectively. Which is why I never got why people were disappointed in Amon: he represented the failings and hypocrisies of Communist leadership perfectly.

And yeah, LoK just barely gets away with being kid-friendly at times.

i never thought about this

really great point

jives beautifully with the neo-industrialization of the world brought about by the fire nation's cooperation with the rest of the world post-war
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TLA is of my favorite things in this world
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Mango Sauce posted...

TLA is of my favorite things in this universe

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Phantom_Nook posted...

Mango Sauce posted...

TLA is of my favorite things in this universe

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everyone quoting my typo ;_;
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