Hearing Aang over explain how bending works each episode is genuinely so annoying. Now listen, I know the original show also has info dumped about bending. But at appropriate times!
It feels like whenever Katara is bending with Aang around he just takes the time to say how air bending works. And then Katara can magically do the move. It doesn’t draw this obvious distinction between the bending forms, if he had said that for air benders it's about blah blah or if he had mentioned how a friend used to do an exercise where they follow the push and pull of the ocean that would be decent. It would show the difference, show how Aang as a bending master can be helpful, but also how he isn’t a stand-in for an actual water bending master and also explain why HE can’t just start water bending like a genius.
I think a lot of the issue stems from making Katara an idiot when it comes to water bending. She couldn’t even draw a water droplet up in the live action, yet in the animated show she was teaching aang during the first few episodes what she DID know. This allowed for the two benders to play off each other, to explore Kataras own self-worth issues when it comes to being the last bender of her tribe, and also explore how Aang's inability to self regulate because he is 12 can unknowingly hurt his friends. But in the live action, Katara isn’t skilled, she can’t do anything, they literally remove the entire fighting scene of Zuko's ship which is SUCH an important moment for Katara and her bending! It's frustrating. Honestly if she can’t even teach herself to lift a water droplet on her own I don’t have that expectation of her growing into a master bender status once she DOES learn the actual forms. It's her determination, her natural ability, her attempts to use her bending to help that make her a really interesting and powerful character in the early episodes of season 1. She doesn’t have that in the La and any sense of natural talent or personal experimentation is replaced with Aang going “well the monks said-”.
No Aang, the monks didn’t say anything because Air bending and water bending are different bending forms!
Head empty just arisu getting fucjing smashed at a bar and being an annoying person who climbs on a table but it being one of those sticky shitty bar tables so it fucjing topples over and arisu crashes to the floor in pain covered in beer.
Kuina and usagi by the bar recording him cuss they know it’s gonna be fucking helarious tomorrow and chishiya and pissed screaming at arisu for spilling his drink again
Nah one straw is no problem bro. I'm the strongest camel ever, I'm carrying like TEN THOUSAND straw right now. If I can handle ten thousand straw then what's one straw gonna do? Stands to reason. Just chuck it on bro, it'll be fine.
this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*
Okay, okay, back on the Farm thing-
Who would win: Hatter's farm, which apparently has more than just ducks, or Karube's emu farm. Just so you know, there's a lot of emus, but there are also a whole lot of ducks.
But, well, now Hatter has a horse, a cow, and a goat in this extended universe, so.
Emu farm all the way. those things are monsters. A cow will charge them, yeah, but they're not fantastic at turning in my experience of being charged by cows and also they're quite easy to outrun ( cows are like 40km/h max and emu is 50km/h.). the horse might be hard to deal with since they run around 88km/h and have a really hard kick but I feel like one against ALOT of emus won't work. It will probably take down a lot but eventually even the mighty fall. the goat might be hard since it's a good climber but goats are also often small and I feel like it will fall as well. the ducks might annoy the emus to death but it would end in a battle of the pecks and ducks are just so small. they'll be attacking the emu's feat but the emus could attack all of the duck cuss of the height difference. however, if we include hatter in this (cuss let's be real that mans basically a farm animal) then the Emus still win because THEIR FUCKING HORRIFYING I MEAN REALLY IF I SAW ONE I WOULD START SOBBING UNCONSOLABLY THEIR MURDEROUS DEVIL BIRDS.
PHEW I was almost worried that the MCC grian stream wouldn't include Grian. Glad the title cleared that up for me in advance.
chat-noir: hey uhh ladybug I have something I gotta confess
Ladybug: i swear to god if you say “i love you” again
Chat-Noir: woah woah woah I was not- well now that you mention it...
Ladybug: chat.
Chat-Noir: ok no im sorry not the time anyway I was going to say that Im pretty sure my mums dead decaying corpse is in my basement and that my dads hawkmoth jeez no need to be so rude about my ✨feelings✨
Ladybug: excuse me WHAT THE FUC-
Alice in borderland au where everything's the same but Arisu is wearing the same dress that Alice does in Alice in wonderland. Why is he wearing it? no one knows. How is it magically fixed/cleaned whenever it gets dirty or ripped? no one knows that either all anyone knows is that it exists and Arisu cant get rid of it.
Here’s like a 2 minute sketch tjag I did of the top of my head cuss I’m lazy but??? I think it conveys my point
Not enough praise is given to the actual animation during the seige of the north. The way once aang merges with the water spirit the only colour we see is the RED/ black water of the oasis (like the blood from Tui has stilled tainted it) and the water aang/La is pooling through the city.
The way all light just vanishes once Tui is killed. But also how fire bending forces light back into the world for just those few moments. It really brings in the theme of equality and fluidity in the boundaries of elements cuss both the moon/water tribe and the sun/fire nation in that moment are shown as bringers of light. Idk I think it’s just a really neat trick.
Another part is how only yues eyes are coloured in. Eyes are the windows into the soul/spirit blah blah blah she’s the moon spirit blah blah blah it’s a really cute detail.
Idk sometimes I feel like because it’s animation it’s very easy for some people to just…overlook the story telling aspects of it. Because it’s less detailed then a live action piece but I mean that’s just incorrect. The animation and the way they almost continuously use motion and fluidity in scenes (eg. People’s hair blowing in the wind, fire of water moving in the background, random side characters having lives outside the main narative) This then means that when still shots are used it’s all the more impactful. They rarely just do a still image with the screen ‘moving’ across like a lot of anime’s do UNLESS its a landscape/building their showing off. even then theres often something moving.
I tend to give a lot of (joking) criticism to season 1 for its weaker animation compared to the other seasons (I assume due to budget plus the animators becoming more accustomed to the style later on). But there are some moments that are just…breath taking. The care put into this series at all levels is something I don’t think I appreciate enough which sucks.
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