Ahaha Avatar

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Man. Avatar: The last Airbender is awesome.

After two seasons of the teenage characters being involved in world changing quests and epic battles, being all serious and determined, it reminds us that they are in fact teenagers by having one of them go undercover at a school..and then sending the villains on a BEACH EPISODE. Where they dress in bikinis! And play beach volleyball! (The net ends up on fire) And talk about their feelings! (It's so hard to get boys to like you when you're a megolamaniac psychopath inclined to set them on fire) And go to parties! (Where..well..)

Plus the plot is fantastic but talking about that is spoilery, so I won't. But..ee! I am VERY invested in the charcaters and their world and the war and EVERYTHING.

I also see why people mocked the shippers who insisted they had deliberate subtextual support (this apparently got so heated the writers noticed and made fun of it). This is not a show that does het subtext. If characters are going to get together there are huge blinking signs saying LOVE INTEREST. And often smooches. Which is not to say you can't ship non-canon ships if you want, but I personally found the canon romance pretty convincing (though heteronormative) and there's more interesting things to speculate about.

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I HAVE SEEN IT ALL OMG

*flails*

(I hadn't seen it when I wrote this post though)

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I really like Sokka and Suki's relationship because they are teenagers acting like teenagers but with this really adultish undercurrent too (like with most of the characters, really). I was pretty much :D :D :D whenever they were on screen together, though mostly that was because I had spent a year wanting to know what had happened to Suki and THEN SHE BECAME SPIDERCHICK.

Look up "avatar book 4" or something like this? on youtube -- it was at a con in America. The creators trolling their fans again. :3

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Oh god the moment Azula appeared in Ba Sing Se I was all "OMG WHAT HAPPENED TO SUKI? Is this going to be like Jet where they never SAY they died but we never see them again? :( :("

I thought Sokka and Suki were great for that reason, but I have a soft spot for the perfectly matched wrongness of Zuko and Mai, even if she was ok with her baby brother being kidnapped by enemy soldiers.

*googles*

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

heehee

Oh man I am showing that Cam when he finishes the show (he's a few episodes behind. Pesky job!)

(EDIT: See, I was laughing so hard I forgot to proofread)

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The year before they presented the actor character designs from The Ember Island Players (before the episode had aired) as designs for an upcoming movie, and then showed the first 5 or so minutes of the play, and from what I could tell via youtube and con reports, it seemed like they were gently mocking inappropriate cosplayers.

Which is why I cling to the belief that the Shyamalan film is just them griefing everyone. .__.

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Ah man now part of me is like "Maybe it was all a joke and they secretly did proper casting!" :/