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Post by taiyo *on limited hiatus* on Feb 14, 2007 16:54:57 GMT -5
Are you trying to kill ne with all the wonderfulness of Taang? Just kidding. THE BISON WHISTLE WAS AWESOME!!!! And the let's go dance part.......*fangirl scream* That would lovely. Just lovely.
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Post by Dazu on Feb 14, 2007 16:58:41 GMT -5
Lol! Yeah it'd be perfect... *Goes into Taang dream sequence*
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Post by taiyo *on limited hiatus* on Feb 14, 2007 17:01:11 GMT -5
*joins dazutariantangerin* Fanon rocks as hard as canon. *dreams about Whisper into the Sky*
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Post by Dazu on Feb 14, 2007 17:03:21 GMT -5
LOL! Wait the theme for the shipbash is in the middle inbetween peasant life and heiress life right?
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Post by Power on Feb 14, 2007 17:05:13 GMT -5
Seems like you guys need something to do for real, so I am going to try something here: I want each of you Taangs to tell me what is so special about Taang, no one liners please. Create a productive paragraph, it can be short. I am going to provide a rebuttal against each of your beliefs, and by your response determine how worthy you guys are. Fair enough?
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Post by Dazu on Feb 14, 2007 17:07:11 GMT -5
No you'll see why I said that if you look in the last couple of Pages.
POWER: Fair enough. *goes off and begins writing and editing*
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Post by taiyo *on limited hiatus* on Feb 14, 2007 17:13:16 GMT -5
Seems like you guys need something to do for real, so I am going to try something here: I want each of you Taangs to tell me what is so special about Taang, no one liners please. Create productive paragraph, it can be short. I am going to provide a rebuttal against each of your beliefs, and I want to see how worthy you Taangers are. Fair enough? *shrugs* It gives us something to do. Well, they have a bond of some sorts. It's not romantic but more familial. You kind of see it when they earthbend together cuz they don't say nothing to each other while they're doing it together. It's like communicating from the mind. It would be a good ship for those who aren't into fluff but more of a casual relationship with some sweet scenes but not too fluffy and predictable. It's obvoius that this shipping will never happen but a close friendship can be just as cute as a romantic friendship.
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Post by Dazu on Feb 14, 2007 17:20:35 GMT -5
Well, I thnik Taang is special becuase of the fact Aang was able to go past her rough exterior and see the girl behind all the sarcastic remarks. How Toph opened up a bit to him about things she kept to herself all her life. Toph would be able to toughen up Aang and Aang can show Toph how to let people care. It's like they have a special bond when earthbending and can be an awsome friendSHIP. It's also adorable how Aang gave her her freedom. And who couldn't love their little tale scene with a "food fight". XD
Well there you go, and boy my head is hurting! Darn you Power you made me think when I'm sick! (J/K)
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Post by taiyo *on limited hiatus* on Feb 14, 2007 17:26:00 GMT -5
Well, I thnik Taang is special becuase of the fact Aang was able to go past her rough exterior and see the girl behind all the sarcastic remarks. How Toph opened up a bit to him about things she kept to herself all her life. Toph would be able to toughen up Aang and Aang can show Toph how to let people care. It's like they have a special bond when earthbending and can be an awsome friendSHIP. It's also adorable how Aang gave her her freedom. And who couldn't love their little tale scene with a "food fight". XD Well there you go, and boy my head is hurting! Darn you Power you made me think when I'm sick! (J/K) *applauds* A lot better than mine. It is something for her to open up to someone she just met and on the same day too.
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Post by Dazu on Feb 14, 2007 17:28:11 GMT -5
hehe, thanks taiyo, its nothing. Anywho to make this post nonspam I'm going to add something I forgot to add, Aang understands Toph better than anyone elese in the group.
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Post by taiyo *on limited hiatus* on Feb 14, 2007 17:33:04 GMT -5
Amen to that. I just thought of something too. Aang is the only one with a permanent/consistent nickname. That could mean he has a special place in her heart....just not romantically.
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Post by Dazu on Feb 14, 2007 17:35:37 GMT -5
You're right! And I still love how Aang gave Toph his staff even after she used it as a nut cracker!
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Post by taiyo *on limited hiatus* on Feb 14, 2007 17:38:28 GMT -5
I KNOW!!!!!! That is something they always share. It's cute. ^_^ She held it at the end of Bitter Work. She held it twice in The Serpents Pass and I'm sure there'll be more to come!
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Post by lunauc on Feb 14, 2007 18:24:20 GMT -5
Seems like you guys need something to do for real, so I am going to try something here: I want each of you Taangs to tell me what is so special about Taang, no one liners please. Create a productive paragraph, it can be short. I am going to provide a rebuttal against each of your beliefs, and by your response determine how worthy you guys are. Fair enough? Prove our worthiness? Kataang's get Karmas for purely biased and fluffy simplistic posts and I need to justify my beliefs?! Rediculous! So anyway... Thanks Power. It would have taken a hell of a lot longer to get to this second Mansion without you dropping in with question like this to up the post rate. ;D Out of curteousy I'll answer, though I'll mostly be repeating myself gratuitously. For me, Taang is special because it is the "other path". Frankly Kataang never appealed to me. I saw it coming from episode one, and it just seemed an obligatory formulaic kiddy love story. I knew it was going to happen, and no matter how boring their scenes together were I put up with it. After all, even if there was no worthwhile love story to the show at least the fight scenes and mystical aspects were still entertaining. But I didn't have any kind of emotional investment in the heroes. Much like the Austin Power movies, the villains, Iroh and Zuko, were much more interesting. The Aang Gang were just kind of the pawns moving with this very cliche "Chosen One" story with a few fun jokes thrown in here and there. But then, The Swamp rolled around. All you get is a minute or so of airtime of Aang chasing a mysterious girl through a swamp. And while it seems completely random and pointless, it hooked my attention. I was really curious who this unexplained ghost girl was supposed to be, but I really didn't consider it something which would break up the inevitability of Kataang. That is until The Blind Bandit, when we actually meet the mystery girl, and lo and behold, she's a spunky, tough little tomboy who can earthbend anyone into the next century. She was the absolute opposite of the carbon-copy nurturing beauty mary-sue that was Katara. Cocky, arrogant and petty, she even drew Aang into childish antics at the dinner table, and their moonlit garden walk did catch my eye, though I still couldn't think that this was a sign of the Kataang mold cracking. After all, your average writer in a show like this sets up the hero and heroine lovers from the beginning, so they follow a pre-planned path to the romantic outcome everyone expects. It's a sort of emotional placebo, allowing the viewer to feel,"Things always work out in the end." Even if most of the time it's just because the writer is too lazy to write a tangent into the tale or is worried to risk the commercialized relationship they're producers already have the T-shirts and posters printed up for. As nice as the simplistic sense of satisfaction of a foretold happy ending is, I've long been bored with writers who take the easy way through things and never explore other possibilities of their characters feelings just because it goes against the time tested formulas they know will get them paid. A good deal of the problem with the dumbing down of this country is the fact that the heros in our books, shows and movies we watch as children never learn anything in the end. They go through a harsh journey, fight the bad guy, save the day and win the girl of their prepubescent dreams, and yet they're still motivated purely by their idealized, romanticized views of the world. And the ignorance of your average viewer implants them with these skewed notions, which is why so many twits consider Romeo and Juliet an epic love story rather than the warning of the foolish ways of young love it was meant as. Bitter Work is what got my hopes up. It showed the dichotomy between Katara, being very nurturing and worrying over Toph's harsh regiment, and Toph, pushing Aang's limits and believing he'd succeed. The way Katara said to go gentle on him and treat Aang the way she treats him was priceless. It was a moment when she was actually proven wrong. In comes this edgy new girl who meshes up with Aang as an opposing persona with core commonalities to their backgrounds and their situation, and she's just right. Then The Desert slaps me right in the face. They fight, they get distant, and they never seem to come back near eachother. We got a very brief view of a possibility before the writers up and rip the "other girl" aside and toss on an unexplained crush on Sokka to kind of anchor her away from a chance with Aang. That sounds silly, but through out the end of season two it really did seem to me like the writers were taking an "easy out" to keep their canon ship unrivaled, and if that is the case I have so much hate mail to send. But that aside, there is still the possibility that with the introduction of philosophical beliefs of enlightenment and very mature ideas of detatchment from earthly desire, may, just maybe this wouldn't be another pointless "boy meets girl, boy fights villain, boy saves the world, girl goes all mushy for him" story. For once it would be nice if the hero learned something about life and love beyond crushes and one shot tightly wrapped sugary packages. Toph and Aang offer a chance to learn from one another as friends, as opposed to the very one directional routine of Kataang, where she's the older wiser one leading him to the right path, or what she feels is the right path. The twelve year old prodigies are on even ground. Both know what it is to be treated differently for their abilities. They understand what it is to be risen up for your value, but dragged down by the wants of others, and both have a history of running away from their problems. I'm sorry, but I never saw Katara as a source of strength for Aang. She was more like a crutch, someone he could lean on rather than standing on his own. Toph and Aang though, I could see them kind of pushing one another toward their responsibilities, the same way they fought back and forth at the dinner table in Blind Bandit they could spur one another on. By believing in him to relize his strength, rather than holding his hand along the way and expecting him to let go when he's ready as Katara seems to do, Toph could aid his developement, detatched yet grounded. And he could help her realize that just because her parents are afraid for her safety doesn't mean that they can't learn to believe in her. Heck, how do you not believe in a girl who helped the Avatar save the world? Basically, I just prefer the emotional developement the ship would mean for the two characters as they could learn from one another and grow out of their childish ways at their own relaxed pace. Kataang seems like brain numbing, dull fluff, and Soph isn't even that poignant So, I ship Taang. Though I'd rather not see them get romantic with their relationship for at least a couple of years yet.
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Post by paintedrose on Feb 14, 2007 18:27:39 GMT -5
Hey guys! I guess you could say that I'm new here to the Tophang Stone Mansion board. But anyways....I dunno. I know there hasn't been much (okay....any) hints towards the Tophang pairing, but I have faith. If you look at all the canon pairings (Kataang, and Sukka for example) seemed to appear out of nowhere. At least in my opinion. I know that in the first episode Katara and Aang were acting friendly to one another, but nothing romantic started to show up until the Fortuneteller episode. And believe me, when Aang was acting all....shy and blushing toward her I had to stop for a minute and think about what I had seen. I was like- " Whoa.....wait a minute.....Aang has a crush on Katara?!" But anyway.... Even in the episode with Jet, Aang wasn't acting jealous or anything, not until later in the series. So anyways, my point- I think the pairing is still a possibility. Kataang appeared out of nowhere, Sukka appeared out of nowhere.....maybe Tophang will appear out of nowhere too! lol I know it sounds kinda weird, but that's the way my mind works.
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