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ATLA
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Because
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I never watched it legally
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And it's good background viewing
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And I have an Iroh journal I never did much with
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As the breach thing reminded me
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GASPS
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wait, do you mean never watched it, or just never legally?
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I never watched it legally
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I torrented it and got shitty rips
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Lisa why would I have an Iroh journal if I had never watched Avatar?
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oh i missed that part lol
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"It's not magic it's waterbending" Katara I have bad news for you
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Bending is magic
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The animation is really good
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i'm so sad that it was animated in the era of 480p and that we don't have any higher quality than that
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because god this show would be GORGEOUS in higher res
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....
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I thought it was Oppa this whole time
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not Appa
kamikasei
Only in Korean fanfics
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Man I forgot it was even a question whether or not Appa can fly
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damn Sokka let the kid pee
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when you gotta go you gotta go
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Sokka really sucks in the early series
voidstaresback
Yeah Sokka is terrible until about episode 3-4ish?
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After Suki hands him his ass
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I meant more like he's just really incompetent
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but yeah also he sucks in a more general sense too
voidstaresback
Statement applies on the competence level too tbh
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Aang is such a kid
dragon time
sokka is fifteen and has a lot of responsibility and is not coping well
EsperBot
He also takes himself very seriously and the universe will not cease punishing him for this crime.
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Abandon the gender binary, Sokka
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open your heart
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I forgot how hard the show pushes Aang/Katara
EsperBot
It wasn’t subtle about it.
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Earthbending was always my favorite
big juicy
it's a kids cartoon from the 2000s. of course it pushes main girl/main boy really really hard
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The designs for all Spirits are SO GOOD
TemporalWolf
Honestly Sokka's character arc is one of my favorites. Really illustrates that he wants to do right by his community but just... doesn't have the maturity or skills to act on it, but once he's out of his comfort zone he really comes into his own
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Zuko showed the first step in his journey to redemption
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He had a chance to choose between chasing Aang or rescuing Iroh and he chose Iroh
voidstaresback
It takes him awhile to externally admit it but Zuko even at this stage knows deep down that Iroh's the only one who cares about him
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I just remembered I had a dream about this show
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It was a sequel to Korra
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Set in a cyber-punk future of republic city
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Where there were super specialized fire benders
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who could lightning bend and used it to intuitive hack computers
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They were called Netbenders
TemporalWolf
That actually sounds super cool
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poor cabbage guy
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Katara: "This is all my fault!"
Aang: "No it isn't!"
Iroh: "Actually it kind of is"
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Jet's kind of fucked up
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Honestly all the core characters do a HUGE amount of personal growth
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"Stop teasing Aang, he's just a good friend. And a sweet little guy, just like Momo"
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oof
E.S. Levi
I really don't like how they handled Kataang, the resolution just felt...forced and shoehorned, after Katara spent the entire series treating Aang more like a little brother than a love interest.
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it did
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I'm not wild about it either
E.S. Levi
(Also, their age gap is kinda...'ehhhh' at this point in their lives. It always felt kinda skeevy to me?)
E.S. Levi
(If they were going to make it canon, it would've benefited from not happening until after a time skip to when Aang wasn't, y'know. Barely into puberty?)
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They were pretty young
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Like honestly I think Zuko/Katara COULD have worked and been more interesting
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If they had decided to go that way
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Zuko SUPER would have died in the whole North Pole arc if he wasn't a fire bender
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That's the only explanation I can think of for how he didn't freeze to death like six times
voidstaresback
He's using his Breath of Fire skill which Iroh mentions
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He uses it to keep himself warm
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yeah
E.S. Levi
Zuko and Katara have a much more interesting dynamic than Katara and Aang.
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They do
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The sequence with Koh the Face Stealer is incredible
E.S. Levi
Also, no skeevy 'they're in different stages of biological maturation' feeling...
E.S. Levi
Since Aang is 12, and Katara's...what, 15?
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I don't think they ever specifically list Katara's age in the show
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I imagined like 14-15 though
E.S. Levi
At the very least, old enough to have a very different perspective on romantic relationships compared to a twelve year old and his puppy crushes.
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The age thing never REALLY skeeved me out that much, personally?
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I think Katara pings me as a kid too much
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E.S. Levi
It just...bugged me, because there's a really obvious maturity gap between them.
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it is a not great romance
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Fortunately it's not a HUGE part of the show
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but it's bigger than I remember
E.S. Levi
Makes Legend of Korra awkward, though.
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eh
E.S. Levi
'Yep, this shoehorned romance between a kid who fell in puppy love at first sight and his mom friend who treated him more like a little brother right up until it was time to canonize the romances sure did last their whole lives.'
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look it's not great but it's not the biggest thing on my radar
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I don't really care
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"Do the tides command this ship"
"Yes, princess."
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Then he tries to pull the ship in before the tides allow it and the ship sinks
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All hands are lost
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Including the young princess of the fire nation.
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A terrible tragedy
E.S. Levi
Honestly. That right there is evidence that Azula should never be allowed to make any strategic decisions, ever.
E.S. Levi
If you ignore circumstances because they're unfavorable to what you want, you're going to cause yourself problems!
Niamh Vibes
Everything you need to know about Azula is said right there
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It's a wonderful character establishing moment
big juicy
please, azula would not perish. she'd just fuckin. fire-jet blast off and fly herself to land and let everyone else perish
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which is, still, an extremely azula thing to do
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probably
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bites back temptation to make modern political comparison
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I appreciate your restraint
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This is a plurk about a childrens cartoon show
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The entirely fire nation royal family unit has really aggressive control issues
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Iroh dealt with his in his backstory
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Zuko is having a character arc about his
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And then there's Ozai and Azula
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I think if the series had gone well for the villains at least one of them would have killed the other one
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Azula would not have waited another sixty years for supreme rulership and she's been given a reeeeeeal unhealthy model to follow on "dealing with family members who are in your way"
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oh yeah. i can def see azula killing ozai once being fire lord loses its shine compared to the ~PHOENIX KING~
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Man the more I watch the more Jess's thing seems true
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Aang is SUCH a kid and Katara...isn't quite a kid
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katara had to grow up fast
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aang does a lot of growing over the course of the show himself but. yeah.
E.S. Levi
YEAH. That's why it skeeves me out.
E.S. Levi
Katara reads as...so much more mature than Aang.
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I kind of ship her with Haru, he's a nice stable young man
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I don't remember who Haru is honestly
dragon time
He's pretty boring but he's hot
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The earthbender boy who was trying to free his village from the coal ship
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oh right him
dragon time
I think that Katara would enjoy a mild mannered husband who wasn't always dragging everything into shenanigans
dragon time
Haru does have this awful teen mustache tho
E.S. Levi
But that can be fixed with a razor and some soap.
big juicy
haru's mustache is magnificent in how terrible it is
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it is truly wretched
A Grinning DM
Talking about Haru being “hot” makes me think of the old Avatar Abridged version of Haru
A:TAS - Haru Beauty Products
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