nandireya
Zuko's Path to Redemption Mod
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Post by nandireya on Apr 25, 2009 20:07:59 GMT -5
I always gave her kudos for trying...didn't change how I felt about the 'relationship' though...
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Post by conspiracytheorist on May 18, 2009 23:16:19 GMT -5
So I come back to check up on Avatar-verse and THIS is what was waiting for me?! IMO a few of first season episodes are just as pointless as the Great Divide, besides being used for minor character introductions, like Jet and Imprisoned. NOOOOOOoooooo... Why, nymphadora? =( Of Avatar's 61 episodes, I'd put "Jet" around 20th place. "Imprisoned" would place 40th or so, and "The Great Divide" somewhere at the top of the Bottom Ten. "Jet" is a self-contained display of some seriously efficient characterization: It propels Sokka most effectively into leadership and heroism; it puts Katara in a difficult situation and leads her to the right decision with fantastic timing; and it makes Jet into such an effective villain within twenty-two minutes that it's frightening how easily we accepted his reappearance later in the series. Throw in a terrific treetop fight, some genuine, almost effortless humor ("Who knows? Walking could be fun." ... "Walking stinks! How do people go anywhere without a flying bison?"), and a super-satisfying reveal at the end after all hope has been lost, and you get one of Avatar's best Book 1 episodes. So there.
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nandireya
Zuko's Path to Redemption Mod
...tickled pink...
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Post by nandireya on May 19, 2009 4:23:17 GMT -5
The thread is asking for member's individual opinions on what they feel are the lesser quality episodes. The fact that said opinions differ to your own does not make it spam. It just proves the old adage: You can't please all of the people all of the time.
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Post by conspiracytheorist on May 20, 2009 20:02:58 GMT -5
The thread is asking for member's individual opinions on what they feel are the lesser quality episodes. The fact that said opinions differ to your own does not make it spam. It just proves the old adage: You can't please all of the people all of the time. Hey there, nandireya. Check out the last part of my post again: I suppose I should have altered "This is unrelated to my Jet-love" to something like, "On a separate note," for maximum clarity, but I definitely didn't mean to imply that nymphadora was spamming. The gif just kind of jumped out at me (it's right above the text box, it's colorful, it's sort of huge, etc), so I threw it into my post, haha. Sorry for the mixup.
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Sheogorath
Kyoshi Azula
Lord of the Never-There
Yeah, an Avatard and a brony. Got a problem with that?
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Post by Sheogorath on May 25, 2009 23:35:39 GMT -5
One of my worst habits is not completely finishing thoughts outside of stories I might be writing, so here we go. Part two of my thoughts on The Southern Raiders. I don't mind so much that Zuko relapsed somewhat. Everyone knows that the Redeemed Villain struggles the most with doing the right thing, even going so far as to relapse in to old ways, even if they are more or less for the right reasons. My biggest issue with TSR is that they, as I said in my post earlier, they painted Katara the way they did. Sure, she can be a b****, but she's not utterly heartless. She's mentioned her mother before that episode, and she's never had nearly as much of an issue about the topic before TSR, although she did break down and start crying when she thought she saw her in the swamp.
I can understand wanting to take out Yan Ra, the guy who killed her mother, but when she lost Gran Gran's necklace, Gran Gran, who gave it to Kya, and then Kya gave it to Katara, she wasn't overly upset by this fact, even though it was her only earthly memento of her mother. Yet, come season 3, when they had to go undercover, Katara had an issue with taking her necklace off so as to blend in with the Fire Nation citizens more cleanly. You would think that if she really did care as much about her mother as they had her be in TSR, going so far as to try to kill, she'd have been freaking out when the lost her necklace the first time, and then trying to find some other way to keep it on later.
I'm not saying Katara didn't care about her mother. Lord knows, if some guy killed my mom, I'd want his head and wouldn't stop til I had his skull. If they wanted her to be truly desirous of getting revenge for her mother's death, it seems to me they'd have played on it a lot more earlier in the series. Even if it was just making her being attached to the point of being clingy to her necklace.
I can also understand Katara being skeptical of Zuko and his change of heart. I can understand her disliking the Fire Nation as a whole throughout the war, and basically the death of her mother as a result. What I can't comprehend is how she could feel the way she did about the Fire Nation, only to find out that not everyone in the Fire Nation is quite so bad, then to go and basically blame Zuko, who had absolutely nothing to do with any of it before he was banished, for pretty much all of it.
If none of this is being a heartless b****, then I don't know what is.
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Post by Avatar Aang on Aug 18, 2009 3:03:55 GMT -5
The Great Divide was DEFINATELY the worst, I didn't see the point of it.
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