been up for 37 hours; I watched the whole show overnight. and ... wow.
Finished watching all of Avatar.
- It was hard to avoid spoilers. I had to blockade all avatar comms from my flist. And when you consider that Avatar was where I got the overwhelming majority of my LJ friends, well, that's a lot of blockadin' power.
- I can now see what people think; I can go back into old entries and see fan-discussion. But at the same time , I sort of ... don't want to. You see, I liked how things worked out from ep to ep. Sure it had mistakes, but look hard enough and every good show does. I enjoyed the third season, and I don't want anyone harshing on my enjoyment.
- The ending was Epic. Fucking Epic.
- I want to write crazy!Azula fic. Or maybe crazy!Azula fic narrated by Koh. That would be a mindfuck and a half.
- Oh, Zuko. You were what got me interested, really interested in this show. In the first ep: a badguy who doesn't destroy the village out of spite??? NO WAY. And you were, through season one, always one of my favorite characters. (The other big favorite being uh Zhao. :D ) I love how you grew. And I love how you embarrassed yourself, and you learned how to be teased-nicely like friends do to each other. And I do love that you ended up Fire Lord. You'd be able to.
- I don't want to see what denial-mongering sunk-shippers have to say. I just don't. That kind of silliness is not what I am looking for with my internet time.
- TOPH YOU ARE FUCKING AWESOME.
- Suki!
- I called the moving island. Not out loud, but I saw Aang's walking into the water and thought, "yeah. that island's not going to be there tomorrow, huh?"
- I wonder why they chose to have Zuko's last scene not one of triumph, cheer, friendship, or wisdom, but one with his asking an unanswered, unanswerable question. "Where is my mother?"
- And I don't know if the answer to that matters. Where is Ursa? Where Kaia is. I figure they've passed on, or it'll be one of those unanswerable questions: who were Koh's other faces? How did the Ember Island Players get enoguh information to so faithfully represent the Avatar's journey? What will happen with no more Airbenders around - is bending genetic and can Aang pass it on, or will it die out? Questions we can argue about, but that maybe not even the writers have answers to. And that's okay.
- The amount of self-referential humor in this season amused the hell out of me. I loved it. I loved it.
- The siege of the fire lord's place was amazing. And hte Painted Lady. And the bloodbending one. And the Avatar and the Fire Lord. I can't pick a favorite episode. It's all so epic, especially the last four eps.
- There were moments there when I thought they were going to fail. Where I really thought, 'oh, no', because they were goign down and not coming up again. And it could have ended badly so easily.
And for a show to make me feel like that - well, I'll jsut say that's not usual.
Avatar, you were a good show. A wonderful show. A beautiful show. I'm sad it's over, yes, but it concluded right, and, as Isaia said, we can always make our own stories, too.
There is always the hope of new stories.
- It was hard to avoid spoilers. I had to blockade all avatar comms from my flist. And when you consider that Avatar was where I got the overwhelming majority of my LJ friends, well, that's a lot of blockadin' power.
- I can now see what people think; I can go back into old entries and see fan-discussion. But at the same time , I sort of ... don't want to. You see, I liked how things worked out from ep to ep. Sure it had mistakes, but look hard enough and every good show does. I enjoyed the third season, and I don't want anyone harshing on my enjoyment.
- The ending was Epic. Fucking Epic.
- I want to write crazy!Azula fic. Or maybe crazy!Azula fic narrated by Koh. That would be a mindfuck and a half.
- Oh, Zuko. You were what got me interested, really interested in this show. In the first ep: a badguy who doesn't destroy the village out of spite??? NO WAY. And you were, through season one, always one of my favorite characters. (The other big favorite being uh Zhao. :D ) I love how you grew. And I love how you embarrassed yourself, and you learned how to be teased-nicely like friends do to each other. And I do love that you ended up Fire Lord. You'd be able to.
- I don't want to see what denial-mongering sunk-shippers have to say. I just don't. That kind of silliness is not what I am looking for with my internet time.
- TOPH YOU ARE FUCKING AWESOME.
- Suki!
- I called the moving island. Not out loud, but I saw Aang's walking into the water and thought, "yeah. that island's not going to be there tomorrow, huh?"
- I wonder why they chose to have Zuko's last scene not one of triumph, cheer, friendship, or wisdom, but one with his asking an unanswered, unanswerable question. "Where is my mother?"
- And I don't know if the answer to that matters. Where is Ursa? Where Kaia is. I figure they've passed on, or it'll be one of those unanswerable questions: who were Koh's other faces? How did the Ember Island Players get enoguh information to so faithfully represent the Avatar's journey? What will happen with no more Airbenders around - is bending genetic and can Aang pass it on, or will it die out? Questions we can argue about, but that maybe not even the writers have answers to. And that's okay.
- The amount of self-referential humor in this season amused the hell out of me. I loved it. I loved it.
- The siege of the fire lord's place was amazing. And hte Painted Lady. And the bloodbending one. And the Avatar and the Fire Lord. I can't pick a favorite episode. It's all so epic, especially the last four eps.
- There were moments there when I thought they were going to fail. Where I really thought, 'oh, no', because they were goign down and not coming up again. And it could have ended badly so easily.
And for a show to make me feel like that - well, I'll jsut say that's not usual.
Avatar, you were a good show. A wonderful show. A beautiful show. I'm sad it's over, yes, but it concluded right, and, as Isaia said, we can always make our own stories, too.
There is always the hope of new stories.