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AtLA Rewatch: The Southern Air Temple & The Warriors of Kyoshi

Apr 13, 2013 16:19

Book 1 (Water), Episodes 3: The Southern Air Temple & 4: The Warriors of Kyoshi

In which there are flashbacks, giant fish, duels, and various attitudes about losing. And Team Avatar aquires a flying lemur.

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SPOILER-FREE THREAD frith_in_thorns April 13 2013, 17:38:43 UTC

Comments relating only up to the end of episode 4, please!

Re: SPOILER-FREE THREAD veleda_k April 14 2013, 14:55:43 UTC

My main thoughts during these episodes ( ... )

Re: SPOILER-FREE THREAD frith_in_thorns April 14 2013, 17:56:17 UTC

YES EVERYONE. This show has such great, complex characters in it.

Re: SPOILER-FREE THREAD hukbillgoomba April 15 2013, 19:25:03 UTC

I wish this character got some more complexity. ;p

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hukbillgoomba April 13 2013, 19:12:20 UTC

Zhao's character and attitude give you a glimpse at what Zuko has grown up with in the Fire Nation. We learn more later on, but I think Zhao seems to be pretty typical of the kind of 'warrior' and 'leader' that Zuko has been brought up to look up to. I got the impression that Zhao is the kind of person Zuko thought he wanted to be and is the mirror of what he would have been if not for Iroh (and the Gaang). The self-absorbed, proud, honour drive, give-no-shits-about-the-world attitude is very close to how Zuko is at the beginning. Zhao is like an exaggeration of what Zuko could be if he had been given the power on a silver platter ( ... )

frith_in_thorns April 14 2013, 18:00:25 UTC

It is my headcanon that the pies were a pre-arranged lesson in aim and the monks who got pied also thought this was a good idea :D I mean, no-lethal missiles! Fun! It's totally an airbender theme :D

The first time I watched the show, I just assumed it went without saying that the Avatar would have always been male, as I couldn't imagine that they'd do anything else. But the show not only had previous Avatars being female, it was also presented as not any kind of deal.

Also you are much better than me at writing meta, so I stole :P

hukbillgoomba April 14 2013, 18:05:45 UTC

Hah! That'd be awesome! Though there is that one monk who seems flat out against Gyatso and Aang and I wonder if he'd be unhappy with such a plan. Let's hope Gyatso was higher ranking. XD

It's great that we get to see Korra in action, now, too! The fact that the Avatar can take on any gender seems even less of a big deal with her. (Word on the street is that the next series of Korra will have stuff about the Avatar's past in it! I hope this is true!)
But I'd love for Kyoshi and Toph to meet. Those two would get on like a house on fire. Or try to kill each other. Not sure which. XD

Well, maybe that creative writing degree wasn't worthless after all. XD

veleda_k April 14 2013, 17:40:06 UTC

Can anybody rec me some Avatar:tLA vids? Fast paced, action-filled vids would especially awesome, but I'd be happy with anything. Just no Korra spoilers. (I haven't watched it yet! I'm not cool.)

I'm not sure that there's an Avatar fan who hasn't seen this one, but Cold war by

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frith_in_thorns April 14 2013, 17:55:15 UTC

Your link is broke :(

Sholio has a great teamy Avatar vid, here.

And, um, can I self-rec an Azula mostly-action vid I made last year? Here

veleda_k April 14 2013, 18:00:10 UTC

LINKS SUCK. I will just copy/paste: http://white-lotus.dreamwidth.org/34084.html

Yay! Recs!

hukbillgoomba April 14 2013, 20:20:29 UTC

By the way, you should totally check out this blog...

http://atla-annotated.tumblr.com/

IT IS AMAZING THE AMOUNT OF DETAIL THAT IS IN THIS SHOW!! I MEAN SERIOUSLY!!