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Airbending For Fun And Profit! (Movie SPOILERS)
ElJeffe
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So M. Night Shyamalan made a movie based on Avatar: The Last Bender so terrible that my two-year-old called it "dumb" and a "bad movie" and demanded to leave.
Also, the original animated Nickelodeon series is bad-ass.
Also, there's a new series coming down the pike called The Legend of Korra, I guess, that takes place after the events of the original A:TLA series.
Let's talk about all of this stuff!
Also, the original animated Nickelodeon series is bad-ass.
Also, there's a new series coming down the pike called The Legend of Korra, I guess, that takes place after the events of the original A:TLA series.
Let's talk about all of this stuff!
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Chemical composition supersedes state of matter?
Waterbending involves ice, too!
And now I'm utterly ashamed of myself.
When did this happen?
That's... That's pretty bad.
And I applaud your child's taste in film.
You mean a
Soquid, right?
It's ung's super move in the movie for saving the northern water tribe in the movie.
As opposed to bending the water to turn into a Giant water monster that fuck's the fire nation up hardcore.
Instead, the ships just turn around and slowly leave and the wave slowly sinks away.
Well regardless of the state it's still Earth by the shows definition
Arguably yes Waterbending style would make it easier to handle but Waterbending also requires the liquid to cover parts of your body or at least be in close proximity.
So yeah that's probably not a good long term solution
Man was all "Hmm, I like nature and I like fire. I know, a volcano would be the perfect spot for our Summer villa."
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Not every eruption is the same. The one Roku was dealing with was considerably more violent. Also Aang wasn't trying to shut down the volcano, just deflect the lava from the Village, which I reckon requires less effort.
Roku was like 80.
Aang had help too. Not a fuckstick that wanted him dead.
He gives the reason
but since there is seemingly almost no conflict of any sort in the other three nations it just makes that reason seem really silly.
Then they don't even have the decency to show him plunging into madness or some other decent excuse like a minor border skirmish or civil unrest or anything.
I do love his betrayal though. That was classy.
In the end Roku was more important than him and he could not stand for that. It drove him mad that somebody born his lesser was now literally the most important being in the world
Or at least that's how I saw it.
I think learning the Avatar State is part of normal Avatar training, usually after learning all the elements. It's just in the time Aang was around, there weren't many people who both knew how and were willing to teach him.
While Kyoshi went Avatar state to cook food.
Oh some mortal dude is standing 2 feet away, I'm a super-awesome martial artist and can bend all four elements, and could probably just burn him to a crisp right here? Probably best to go all avatar state and make a fucking island.
Kyoshi: Yeah, sure invade the continent, I'll just be chilling on my island.
Chin: ... What island?
Kyoshi: *Avatar State* This one.
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Roku's marriage on the rocks: confirmed!
He can have a wife or a kid or whatever, but once the point comes that your duty as an Avatar conflicts with your devotion to anything else, your duty as Avatar must take precedence. That's actually a fairly common discipline in many areas.
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I can accept that the lightning bolt fucked up his chakras so it didn't matter whether or not he had the higher ones cleared, but that doesn't really excuse when he does it at the very end.
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That didn't seem to be what the guru was saying. He told Aang that he had to give up everything that ties him to the material world so that he could become one with the cosmos.
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It's possible that the guru was just wrong. Giving up all his connections to the mortal world would make the Avatar a little pointless. "Oh, the Fire Nation is starting some shit and killing everybody? Meh. I'm gonna be communing with the cosmos over here. Try and keep the screaming down, alright?"
There's little reason to believe that he's an unreliable source of information.
Also it obviously meant throwing away personal connections
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What could possibly cause a seven-foot person to come up with that theory?
Roku was also the one that told Aang that getting killed in the Avatar state would end the cycle. So chances are he saw going Avatar as much a risk as it was a plus. Kyoshi may have had a different opinion on the risk.
Maybe the Guru just told him what he needed to hear?
Yeah, I was exaggerating a bit, I guess.
I actually saw the last two eps of Book One just after seeing the film, so I got to see Bad-Ass Monster Aang after Gay-Ass Wave Ang. What really struck me was that the period in the movie corresponding to the last two eps of the season was probably just about as long. But while the series had good pacing and negotiated numerous sub-plots and was awesome, the film somehow handled far less and seemed alternately rushed and plodding. Instead of having an awesome fight between Zuko and Zhou, they had Zuko stare at Zhou menacingly and then wander off. Instead of having the force of the ocean fucking up Zhou for messing with the spirits, four random water benders come over and drown him while he just stands there? WTF?
It's like MNS was trying to screw it up.
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