'Avatar: The Last Airbender' Part II Episodes 5-8 | Netflix

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I'm I'm really excited to talk
about this.

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Lots of feelings, lots of
thoughts.

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We're doing 4 episodes.
We did 4 episodes, the first

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one, four episodes.
This time we're changing it up

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how we do like our Netflix show
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You know, I don't know.
If we wanted to talk about this

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for eight weeks, you guys, would
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But you know, I have to be
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we've we've, we watched it very
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in this much like a sea brun.
Oh yeah, Sea Bruns.

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Qatar's favorite.
It tastes like home.

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That's the Water Tribes,
Campbell.

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Soup.
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All right.
So massive spoiler warning.

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You know, we don't want to burn
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the entire first season of
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bit of the animated show.
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Just learn a little bit.
Is it me or is Noah coming in

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hot with the puns up top?
Just a little bit.

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Oh yeah.
I'm getting people prepped.

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All right, so let us officially
take A Bite of Avatar, The Last

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Airbender, episodes 5 through 8.
Ang and the gang continue their

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travels.
Ang heads into the spirit world

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and learns more from his past
selves.

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They finally make it to the
Northern Water Tribe, where

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Katara shows off her bending.
Saka falls for a Princess and

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Ang battles the Fire Nation and
his thoughts on what it means to

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be the Avatar.
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So we are doing 4 episodes.
I it was actually, you know, we

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didn't want we watched 4.
Did the review, waited watch

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four doing this review.
And I'm actually kind of glad we

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did it because these four
episodes are pleasantly

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surprised.
But these four episodes, I feel

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like 2 of like the first 2-5 and
six are an arc and seven and

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eight are kind of an arc.
So they feel like 2-2 parters.

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So I was kind of excited about
that, but what are your

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thoughts?
What are your general feelings

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about this?
My general feelings are so it's

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interesting that you pointed out
like the sort of two halves of

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these four episodes that we
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the second two are stronger than
the first two like and I feel

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like much stronger.
But much like the Avatar, I do

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think it brings it into balance
where as a four part watch it

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was good altogether.
But I do think that the this,

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those first 2-5 and six,
something about them was a

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little tough for me to get
through and I don't know if it's

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because I'm so used to the arc
and the way the characters are

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introduced in the animated
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Yeah, I think that's really
hard, right?

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I we're we love the original,
right?

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And we came into this with open
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We want, we wanted to be the
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And I think with a lot of people
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into it with open minds, it's
hard to separate that.

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You know what I mean?
So it's like I wanna, I'm like

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giving myself over.
While a lot of this did work, I

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feel like especially with the
time constraints of eight

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episodes, 20 to 8 and they had
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I do think it worked for that
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It was very much like Eng has a
mission and he has to get, he

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has to get there.
So that's what we got my general

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feelings for is it's fine.
Like, it's not great, right?

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And it's fine.
And and I think that's one of

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the things that's a little
disappointing, right, is that

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going into this, we wanted it to
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So kind of tempering our
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this and saying, yeah, did I
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I did.
Right.

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And I think that's good.
So I mean, I think that's the

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best thing to do.
I I feel like adaptations always

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have this like hurdle to like
prove why they have to exist.

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I think it's hard right when
it's like such a beloved series

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and then they have like the 2010
one and then also having this.

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I feel like in the beginning
they already proved that they

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jumped over that first hurdle of
like we're a better adaptation.

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I I'm not really in the camp of
like they have to prove why they

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exist as long as it's good and
they enjoy what they're doing.

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I'm here for it because the
original will always exist.

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You can always go back to it.
After watching this, I'm not

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saying, gosh, I hope they don't
make a Season 2.

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You know, I'm not.
I'm not in that camp.

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Yeah, I'm in the camp of saying
I'm so excited that we got this,

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and I think that it can only be
bigger and better from here.

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I agree.
I agree.

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Good foundation.
They can learn.

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Like any home, that needs to be
a strong foundation.

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All right, so these first two
episodes, Spirited Away and

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Masks.
I very much like Masks a little

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more than Spirited Away.
But the main point of these two

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episodes is that and Katara and
Saka go into the spirit world

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and Saka and Katara get taken by
KO, the face dealer.

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And Ang has to get them out.
He has to give something to Ko

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to get them out.
I I just want to put this out

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there.
I thought it was hilarious that

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like, they get taken right and
then Ang is like, I'll be back.

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It felt like 10 days later, it's
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I feel like obviously it could
have been shorter, but like, I

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thought it was hilarious.
Yeah, it's one of those things

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where I'm always like, how close
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And the fact that he had to go
to some island right where

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Roku's temple is and then get
back and then went, you know, so

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he's all over the place he got.
Captured and then went back, you

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know?
That KO must not have been very

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hungry, because he should have
gobbled those kids up real

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quick.
Well, he didn't have like a

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bunch of villagers to get to, so
maybe he like, lets them ferment

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and then he like.
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Like a spider, he wraps him up
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Juices.
Speaking of ko though, in the

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spirit world.
So we got Hi bai Ko, a spirit

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fox, we got Wanchi Tong.
There's a lot going on in the

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spirit world.
At first I was like, why are

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Saka and guitar though?
Like this is ENG's thing.

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I was fine with it learning that
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to develop their characters like
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the episode almost, and also
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Yeah, so we learned that KO in
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is just the face stealer, right?
You can't move your face because

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he'll steal it, whereas in this
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So part of it is that you kind
of get trapped in a memory where

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you feel horrible and that's how
he gets you.

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And so in those horrible
memories, we learn more about

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them and we see, I'm going to
say Sakas first because it's

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less horrible than Katara's.
For us.

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But for him, it's probably the
worst thing.

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Yeah, I guess so.
He he wakes up in a memory of

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having passed his ice dodging
trials and overhears his father

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saying to someone like if it
wasn't for you helping Saka, he

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would have never done it.
He's not the warrior I thought

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he was going to be.
Not someone.

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His uncle, Batu.
By the way, that's true.

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How dare he's supposed to get
his own episode?

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Yeah, I have thoughts about
that, the episode stuff, and

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we'll talk about it a little
later.

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I I thought for Saka's
character, it made sense, right?

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Because he wants to be this
leader, he wants to be the best

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he possibly can be for his
people and in his dad's eyes and

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everything.
So I guess like him finding out

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that he didn't do something,
that his dad was proud of him

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and they lied to him would be
kind of, I guess like self

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esteem shattering.
No, absolutely.

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And I think that it's totally
valid for Saka, but when you're

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watching it side by side
compared to guitars.

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You would think they share a
mom.

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Yeah, I mean, so.
So yes, they both lost their

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mother.
Saka's dealing with feeling like

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less than a litre.
Qatar is dealing with her

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mother, giving up her life for
her and being murdered in front

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of her.
Yeah, tough stuff, yeah.

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And that It was good for both of
these characters, though, it

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propelled their characters a
little bit and again, gave them

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like a reason to be in the
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In the flip of that, we have Eng
trying to save them, right?

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And we get to see another
avatar.

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We get to see Roku.
His characterization was funny

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to me because he was like that
goofy magician, like just

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playing with him.
I think we needed it, right?

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Because the other avatars we
see, Kuruk and Kyoshi just like,

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weren't really helpful.
Yeah, we, I mean, Kyoshi was

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basically just yelling at him,
so we needed someone to be nice

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to him.
Yeah.

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And so I did appreciate that,
right.

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He kind of does a little trick
he he makes him tremble a little

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bit, but he's like, I'm just
kidding, don't worry.

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Right.
And and so that interaction was

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finally good to see someone
being nice to ANG.

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Yeah.
What did you think about Hibai?

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Hibai in meaning the temple.
The spirit world.

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The Oh yeah.
The High by the the the Spirit.

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Oh.
I thought he was.

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There's a lot of.
Names I guess.

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I thought he was terrifying.
And you know, he didn't turn to

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a panda though, which was a
little of no, I wanted him to

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have that little soft band a
moment.

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Yeah, But I thought he was
really scary.

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He was giving me very dinosaur
vibes, you know, with with the

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yelling and and the smoke coming
out.

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But I I thought that it served
its purpose of separating them.

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Yeah, I liked the, you know, so
we find out that UA is the

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spirit fox that Sucka finds in
this one.

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I actually kind of liked it
because it gave her like more of

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a connection to the spirit world
than just being like I was

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brought back to life by his
spirit and that's it.

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So I like that she's more in
tuned with that, right?

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And she's a priestess for the
Water Tribe, So I liked that

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inclusion.
All those the spirit Fox are

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cool as hell.
Yeah, she was great.

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I loved it.
And it was funny because I

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obviously didn't put two and two
together until we met UA.

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But I was like, look at this
delightful box.

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Not everyone in the spirit world
is awful.

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That's nice.
And I I really appreciated

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soccer in this episode.
He was like when he's not in

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his, you know, terrible memory.
He was like peek, silly Saka,

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like being scared of things, not
knowing what was going on.

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And like, that was really fun
for me.

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Yeah, it was really fun.
And I I liked that he was

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confronted later on when he
actually gets to talk to mortal

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form UA about going into the
spirit world.

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And she's like, yeah, I go in
there for fun, don't you?

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And he's like no.
It was a terrifying.

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Yeah.
So I like that juxtaposition

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between like, yeah, I mean, if
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you're fine.
Just like, don't go to Co's

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place.
Yeah, they went to the wrong

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place.
Yeah.

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Also in this Bureau world, we
see Ang reunite with Kyatsu.

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So this is something that's
really interesting.

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We learn that Kyatsu did not go
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enlightenment to stick around to
talk to Ang and So.

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Ang unfortunately thinks that
they have a lot all the time in

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the world.
But be Gyatsu is just there to

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guide him in this moment.
And I actually really liked the

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inclusion of him.
I'm still, you know, did he just

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stay there until he could
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And then he passed on, Because
Ang goes back later and he's not

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there.
So.

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But I liked having Gyatsu also
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That wasn't a past Avatar, you
know, because later on in the

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Kora series, there are people in
the spirit world that do help

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her, that aren't necessarily
past avatars and stuff.

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So I I like the inclusion of
other people that means

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something to these characters.
Helping them, yeah, along the

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way.
I mean, I guess if you think

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about it in this particular, you
know, version of The Last

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Airbender, they're really
they're, they're broadening the

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spirit world and what can happen
there.

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And so part of that is meeting
someone like Yatsu.

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Part of that is the fact that,
you know, sort of regular

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mortals can go in like Katara
and Saka, and I guess maybe

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they'll play around with that a
little more.

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And I think you're right.
It is sort of a precursor to

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Kora and what Kora can do in the
spirit world.

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I think that's one of the funny
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because we have Kora is very
much heavy with the spirit world

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and spirits and everything, and
a lot of that lore kind of

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changes.
People enjoy it or agree with

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it, whatever it exists.
So they also, when they're doing

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this stuff, they can play with
that a little bit.

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So it might be different than
the source material, but in the

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grander scheme of things, I
think it's kind of like soft

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rules in a way.
They can make it up as they go,

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really, you know, You just don't
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change how bending works, we're

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safe.
Co in this.

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Loved it.
I mean, it was like a one to

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one.
How are you going to mess that

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up really?
Having short George Takei play.

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Yeah, perfect.
Perfect choice.

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No notes. 10 out of 10.
Just 100% Co.

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Yeah, super scary.
I mean, they even got us with a

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little bit of a jump scare when
he was going after Katara.

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So the menacing Spirit Face
Stealer Co was really at the top

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of their R.
And I liked how they included

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stuff from the extended lore of
the Avatar universe.

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So he has to go get a relic of
Kos, and it's his mother's

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ancestor the mother faces.
And that's kind of what Kos

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like, pissed off about.
And so when he goes to the

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temple to talk to Roku, Roku
tells him, yeah, you might want

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to, like, go give that back to
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It's going to be fine.
So, but I like that they

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included that from the comics,
so it's cool that we're getting

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these like just a little
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That's what we like, right?
About adaptations is that like

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they have so much to play with?
Yeah, and and I wonder if if I

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had read more of the comics, if
I would actually get a lot more

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from the series maybe than I
even think.

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Some of the things that I'm
questioning, maybe they make

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more sense because they pulled
them from other source material.

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Right, right.
One of the other things that

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these two episodes specifically
does is kind of flesh out Ozai,

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Azula and Zuko's back story, and
Ayro's there as well.

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But in this particular episode,
it's interesting to see Ozai hit

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Azula against Zuko in a way.
And you know, when she's trying

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to do resources and stuff and
she thinks it's Zhao that's

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doing everything, Ozai takes
pleasure.

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And telling Azula you're wrong.
It was actually Zuko that was

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doing this, and it seems like he
almost gets like he likes that.

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She's getting pissed that he's
doing something as opposed to In

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the original series, he very
much just always favored Azula

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over Zuko anyway, so in this one
they're really leaning into

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like, really Bad Daddy 1000.
And again, I think this this

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kind of comes back to the
conversations that we always

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have about depth of characters.
And so we're basically watching

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her being psychologically abused
by her father, which is going to

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be pushing her and pushing her
more and more towards being evil

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and insanity, yeah.
I I like the inclusion of Azula

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here.
You know, in the next episode we

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see that he's training her and
he puts like his prisoners

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against him and we see the flash
of blue flame a little bit.

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So we're seeing that change from
when in the original series we

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meet her and she's already at
this point.

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So we're seeing that.
Do you think the inclusion of

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Azula this early and us kind of
sitting with it a little bit and

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getting Her Story was worth it?
Like, did you enjoy it?

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I do.
I I enjoyed it, but I don't

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think it did really anything for
this first season other than

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introducing her as a character,
right?

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Whereas at the end of season one
of the animated series, she's

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the cliffhanger of introducing
this sort of mysterious sister,

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Whereas now we've gotten to meet
her and it really is just

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building up to her becoming sort
of out in the world and

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conquering things.
So as far as the Avatar

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storyline, I don't think it did
much, although it was enjoyable.

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I liked seeing my I like seeing
Tai Chi, not Tai Chi, Tai Li,

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Tai Li.
I wish they had a little more to

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do.
I wish we got to see them fight

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a little bit and train a little
bit.

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They were.
Once.

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Right.
They were literally, they were

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just like little.
They were just standing there

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the entire time.
So they didn't do much right.

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So I think like they could have
built them up a little bit.

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I think my, my biggest thing is
since we there was no side

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quests or side missions or
things for these, you know, we

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didn't get the great divide, we
didn't get the deserter episode,

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we didn't get the Haru stuff.
So like in those episodes,

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they're very much like side
missions, right?

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And the deserter episode, I feel
like it's really important and

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I'm kind of curious why they
took it out, because that's when

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he first learns fire bending and
it has ramifications all the way

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to the third book, the third
season, because he hurts Katara.

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Katara finds out that she can
heal, but that's why he's like a

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like kind of not with fire
bending, like he doesn't really

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want to do it until past two.
So I'm, I'm kind of, I'm sad

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that we didn't get some of these
side missions or whatever,

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because those are the ones that
really grow the characters.

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And my only complaint, really
the biggest one that I have with

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this, is that because we didn't
get those, some of the character

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development either felt rushed,
unearned or just like not even

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there.
Because by the end of this we're

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supposed to be like, oh, they
all are like a super close

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family.
And they went through all this

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growth and it's like, well did
they did I guess?

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So for you, is it just them as a
whole as a unit where you're

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sort of missing the growth a
little and the camaraderie?

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And I don't know if that's
because I wanted to see some of

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those moments.
You know, like in the Great

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Divide, we have Katara and Saka
literally on separate sides and

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seeing which one is right and
then coming together.

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We kind of got that with the the
secret tunnel stuff.

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It was weird for it to be so
soon in the 1st place with not

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Katara and Ng, you know, so
it's, I don't want to nitpick

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it, but like, those are the
things that I feel like really

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what makes us By the end of 20
episodes, again, it's 20, not

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eight really attached to these
characters.

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Yeah, I do.
I do want to say something.

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I had obviously from my
research, watched a bunch of

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interviews and The Great Divide
is one of the most hated

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episodes by Avatar fans because
they think it is the most filler

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episode and does nothing to
drive the season forward.

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And I actually saw the creators
and Dante Basco talk about it

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and they're kind of like, yeah,
we kind of get it, but we still

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think it's a great episode.
I everything I just said, you

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know, I mean, there are other
episodes that really propelled

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their relationships forward
more, right?

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And I I do like that episode
because that was one of the

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first times they played with
animation styles.

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But I kind of like just the
general concept of it, of

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changing perspectives, and maybe
it's not actually what you think

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it is.
And then Ang kind of just like

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making it up to bring peace to
everybody.

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Yeah.
So I think it it is filler.

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I don't really think filler
episodes actually exist, but

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like, there's a point to it.
Well, it's also funny.

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One of the other things that
bothers people is that Ang lied.

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Yeah, he didn't lie.
He lied at the end.

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They're like, but he's supposed
to be Justin.

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True.
But I think like at the end of

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the day, if both sides are right
or wrong, what does it matter?

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Just like get along.
Anyway, I digress.

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I do.
It is a weird episode, but I

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think for their relationship it
yeah, makes sense.

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Now I there is a character that
gets introduced in episode 5 and

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it is June, played by Art and
Cho.

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With what is it?
A star?

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Nosed mole wolf.
Something I I can't remember the

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exact name of it, but Nyla, so
cool.

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Yeah, I, you know, she she's
introduced and like kind of

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never comes back again.
But it introduced the concept of

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bounty hunters into the
universe.

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I always loved her.
I think this is, in this entire

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adaptation, the best one to one
adaptation of a character.

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The look, the attitude,
everything perfect.

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We don't get her enough, but it
was enough for me.

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What about the flirting with
Uncle Iro?

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I actually liked it.
I did too, because in the

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animated series, I'm going to
say this 50 million times.

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Iro was the one that kind of
like, skeezily.

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It's like flirting with her.
But I like in this one, he's

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like, your dad's kind of cute.
I'm like, yes, yes, I loved it.

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I I liked her a lot.
Maybe we'll see her again.

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She did say something like, I'll
see you around.

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So maybe in the adaptation?
I mean, and the interesting

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thing about June is that she
really doesn't have an

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allegiance.
Her allegiance is to have

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whoever's going to pay her
money.

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And so, I don't know, maybe she
could appear to help Team Avatar

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at some point.
Yeah, And you know, she said

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something like about Benders.
And you just go in after the

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dust has settled and you get
what you need.

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So it's introducing that kind of
concept to this.

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And I I appreciated it going on
to Masks and then the finale,

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right?
Masks is actually probably one

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of my favorite episodes out of
all of them.

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And this is like the second part
to the story.

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I liked it because of Zuko and
ENG's conversations that they

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have getting to that point.
I loved how they just kind of

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recreated Zuko being the blue
spirit breaking Eng out of that

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prison.
They even did the Ladders just

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as they did it.
When I saw that, I was like, I

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loved that in that episode.
I'm so glad they kept.

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It, you know, and in in the
episode before this Spirited

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away, we really didn't get much
action.

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I would say there's a lot of
running away and being scared,

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whereas in this one there was
tons of action.

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I mean, Ang and Zuko fighting
the fire benders on that bridge

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is such an awesome scene.
Just Ang completely like coming

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down whopping them all off with
the air.

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I mean, we needed a scene like
that.

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We hadn't gotten one in a while.
Yeah, this is also, this is

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really big one.
I feel like these two episodes

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are huge.
One for our Fire Nation, our

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fire benders, because we finally
get to see the Acne Kai between

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00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,760
Zuko and Ozai.
And I like some of the changes

446
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,000
that they did because, you know,
it shows IRO standing up for

447
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,920
Zuko.
You know, he he goes into the

448
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,120
the, the battle Room and he's
like, let's do this.

449
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,240
Well, if you do that, the 41st
Division is going to be

450
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,240
slaughtered and they think it's
OK and Zuko?

451
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,360
They're going to sacrifice.
Them being the sweet little baby

452
00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:17,640
he is, he's like, well, we can't
sacrifice people that way, Agni

453
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:23,680
Kai.
But I liked the change they did

454
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,880
with it, right?
Because we got to sit with it a

455
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,720
little more and we got to see
how much it affected Zuko

456
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,920
afterwards.
And also seeing IRO kind of

457
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,920
stand up for him, It's like he's
your son.

458
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:37,080
What do you what are you doing?
You know, I don't know how the

459
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:45,080
Fire Nation monarchy works, but
if IRO and Ozai are brothers and

460
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,920
IRO is the older brother, why
didn't he become the Fire Lord?

461
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:54,080
It's probably just like how
Azula could probably go over

462
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:59,880
Zuko if the Fire Lord deems it.
Maybe Ozai was just the nastier

463
00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:02,160
one and his father was like,
yeah.

464
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,160
Yes, Ozo was like, you're more
like me.

465
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,880
Also, maybe IRO didn't want it.
True.

466
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,120
He doesn't seem like the type of
person that would want it he

467
00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:10,880
should have.
Well, don't forget.

468
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,720
I mean he was, he was a great
commander and he did slaughter

469
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,000
tons of people, but he's had a
since had a change of heart,

470
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,240
right?
So it's interesting, I was just

471
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,920
thinking about that.
But the The thing is, is that in

472
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,760
this situation with Zuko and
Ozai, IRO is trying to stop him

473
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:30,200
and Ozai is just like flat out
ignoring him and he's like, no,

474
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,440
I'm going to try and kill my
son.

475
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:36,720
Yeah, I I think it's I I liked
how they depicted it right The

476
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,840
the bending itself.
Amazing.

477
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:44,760
I I loved this fight a lot.
But showing Zuko hesitate to

478
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:48,280
burn his father and then his
father immediately turn around

479
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,920
after already burning him,
decides to go a step further.

480
00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:56,360
And so that way he actually has
to wear his shame for everybody

481
00:25:56,360 --> 00:25:59,040
to see.
It's really fucked up, real

482
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,720
fucked up.
And I like how this adaptation

483
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,840
is really painting the Fire Lord
as like a terrible person,

484
00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:08,840
because we didn't really see him
in the animated series.

485
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,640
He's very much a man behind the
curtain.

486
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,160
You're supposed to be afraid of
him.

487
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,840
And this one, they're like, no,
no, no, no, no, you you need to

488
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,040
be scared of him immediately.
Yeah.

489
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,560
And I mean, Daniel Dae Kim is
just doing the job.

490
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,760
If you have Daniel Dae Kim, you
can't hide his face and you also

491
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,120
have to give as much screen time
as possible to him.

492
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:32,760
Yeah, I mean, that top knot goes
up to the ceiling and he's still

493
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:37,600
commanding the room, Yeah.
I also like so in these four

494
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,840
episodes, specifically these
last three, some of my favorite

495
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,520
characters for the season kind
of shifted.

496
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,360
A little bit.
Tell me more.

497
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,680
I think towards the end of this
we'll give out our season

498
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,320
nibbies.
I don't like that.

499
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,600
I don't like that.
I told you before, I don't like

500
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,160
it.
So what I'm calling like our

501
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,440
season awards or MVPS, I call
them nibbies.

502
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,840
That's so disgusting.
I don't even know that's worse

503
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,080
than skin cycle.
Why?

504
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:14,160
Because it is nibbies.
OK listener watcher, let us know

505
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,120
what we should call them.
I don't want to call them like

506
00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:18,520
best bites, like that sounds
kind of weird, right?

507
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,840
This is the man who doesn't like
when I call our Patreon members

508
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:27,560
a BOPS and he's calling the
awards nibbies, no.

509
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,560
Yeah.
Anyway, anyway, Zhao really

510
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,360
became.
At first when I saw him, I was

511
00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:37,520
like, that's not Zhao.
Like, he's, he's a little weird,

512
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,800
Love the actor.
I was like, yeah, but he

513
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,280
started.
I started really leaning into

514
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:47,120
his delivery and his acting.
And I was like, I actually kind

515
00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:50,480
of really like this because it
seemed like he was one of the

516
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,520
only ones or his character
allowed him the opportunity to

517
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,840
really be, like, grandiose with
it and just ridiculous.

518
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,800
I mean, Zhao the Conqueror.
Zhao the moon Slayer.

519
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,960
Khan.
I think that the character got

520
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:08,320
better the more the desperation
took over, and so the more

521
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:12,760
desperate he was to be this
leader, to be the Admiral, to be

522
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:17,640
respected It the the character
came along more and it was

523
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,520
definitely had more of a
presence on screen.

524
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,560
I loved it.
I thought it was ridiculous.

525
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,640
You know, when he's telling the,
I guess the recorder of history,

526
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,840
he's like, you know, not this
one, but faithful.

527
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,920
And it's like.
This recorder's history was not

528
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,200
very good because apparently he
didn't write how many guards

529
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,000
were outside the door when there
were four of them standing

530
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,960
there.
He didn't write down that the

531
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,240
Avatar was chained both by his,
you know, arms and legs.

532
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,680
Yeah, come on, get on it, guy.
He needs to get better, He just

533
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,680
he must be a newbie, he just
told him.

534
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:50,000
So again, one of the the things
that I really liked about this

535
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:54,960
episode was getting this
development really well done

536
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,960
with Zuko and Eng.
You know, after they leave the

537
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,080
prison and Ang has to kind of
take care of Zuko or they're

538
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,800
hiding from everybody.
There's this interesting

539
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,280
conversations that happened and
Ang really opens up to him.

540
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:09,880
And this is what Ang is all
about, right?

541
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,240
He doesn't care that Zuko has
been trying to kill him this

542
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:17,320
whole time.
He can see that he's not as what

543
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,680
he's trying to be, right?
He has a mask over his face and

544
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:25,360
he could be better than he is,
but he just can't at the moment.

545
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,840
And Ang is trying to like open
up to him.

546
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,800
And you know, he tells him your
your dream journal is like the

547
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,080
only thing that's helped me more
than anything else, which I

548
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,040
think is really sweet.
And they like bond over how they

549
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,000
write and everything.
It's just really sweet.

550
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,000
I liked how they propelled the
relationship a little further

551
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,520
than we got in the original
first season.

552
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:51,120
Well, I think that this brings
it back to the fact that these

553
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:55,280
are just two young kids, right?
And at the base of it, they have

554
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,080
been thrown into circumstances
that they have no control over.

555
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:02,360
And so when they can actually
remove all that, all of the

556
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,280
pressure from the outside
forces, they're just two kids

557
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,920
who can talk to each other, who
are both interested in bending

558
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,160
and journals and things like
that.

559
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:12,960
And being the best selves,
right?

560
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,880
Yeah.
I think it's very apparent that

561
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,200
they're on a similar path.
You know, the circumstances were

562
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:25,200
different, but both the weight
of their worlds and literally

563
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,480
the world is on one of the
shoulders, but on their

564
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,600
shoulders.
And everybody is telling them,

565
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,920
having these expectations, you
have to be this way.

566
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,440
Ang is the Avatar.
He doesn't want to be.

567
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,640
Zuko is heir to be the Fire
Lord.

568
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,800
He does he have to be in that
way.

569
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:42,960
So I like them connecting this
way.

570
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,360
And also the sad thing with Ang
being like, you know, the the

571
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,840
worst thing about being born 100
years ago is I miss my friends.

572
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,000
Yeah, this is the Eng.
Like, you know, like these are

573
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,640
the moments where it's like,
this is Eng.

574
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,200
Like, he's a kid.
I want to see more of this.

575
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,280
Yeah.
And for him to say, you know,

576
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,840
would we be friends?
Back then, I was like sweet baby

577
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,720
Eng.
And he's like, no, I do want to

578
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:11,560
say one other thing is we, we
have a precursor here to how

579
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,360
well they're going to work
together because of how

580
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,640
seamlessly they fought together
on that bridge.

581
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,640
Yes.
I mean, it was like they didn't

582
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,640
even have to talk to each other.
They just knew what the other

583
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,480
one was doing.
They've never been in the same

584
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,840
area for more than like 5
minutes and they were like, I

585
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,720
got you, yeah, we can, we can
work well together.

586
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,680
Friends, there's something about
I, I think destiny here.

587
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,360
And then finally coming
together.

588
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,600
Not fully yet, but eventually
they will.

589
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,960
Yeah, and when Ang chips away at
him a little too much and talks

590
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,480
about compassion and everything,
we get that kind of echoing line

591
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:48,080
that Zuko repeats to Ang and
tells him compassion is a

592
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,400
weakness, right?
And his father told him that

593
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,040
exact same thing.
So you can tell that that scar

594
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,320
goes real deep and that's how he
thinks.

595
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:59,640
And it's not until he gets past
that they could be the Zuko that

596
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,040
we love.
Yes, because our dear Fire Lord

597
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,480
Ozai is just mentally and
physically scarring his

598
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,720
children.
What a guy.

599
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:09,280
Consistently.
Wow.

600
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,760
The leader of the Fire Nation
bowed to him.

601
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,800
Oh, my God.
All right, so let's go on to

602
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,320
these next two.
OK.

603
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,520
The finale.
Some interesting stuff here,

604
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,880
right?
By the end of this it was

605
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:30,240
apparent, and the show addressed
it, that Eng did not learn any

606
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,040
water bending or any other
bending really.

607
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,640
I think it was an interesting
choice, you know, because who?

608
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,160
I mean, Katar is going to teach
him, right?

609
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:41,960
She should have been this whole
time.

610
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,320
He helped her out.
I think it's an interesting

611
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,440
choice to put him back that
much.

612
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:51,520
I think I had mentioned this in
the first part of our review and

613
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,680
I was hoping that he would learn
something he doesn't yet.

614
00:32:55,160 --> 00:33:00,160
So I'm curious if there is a
second season, is he going to

615
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,640
learn that off screen?
You know, there there has to be

616
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,360
almost like a time jump jump,
right?

617
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,400
Because these kids are already
older.

618
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,320
So it would make sense I guess
for this.

619
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,320
Part Otherwise that's a lot of
heavy lifting that the season

620
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,040
then the next season is going to
have to do.

621
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,360
Because they included stuff in
this season from the second one,

622
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:22,800
which almost tells me, like, we
might not have room for this, or

623
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,720
maybe it was the best place to
put it for the story.

624
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:29,280
But like, there's a lot of story
in the second season and

625
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,480
especially in the third, so I'm
curious how they're going to

626
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,680
juggle that, right?
Because at this point, he still

627
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,960
has to learn three other bending
styles before he can master the

628
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,240
Avatar State, let alone face
Ozai.

629
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:46,560
Yeah, that's another difference
here is that I feel like he has

630
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,560
sort of learned on his own how
to go into the Avatar state

631
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,720
where it was really something
that would randomly happen if he

632
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,280
was pushed too far, whereas as
we saw in Spirited way, if he

633
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,720
meditates long enough, he can
separate himself from his body.

634
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,640
Yeah, I feel like him him
meditating, it seems like it

635
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,840
would come easier to him because
he's an airbender, right?

636
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,760
They're more in tuned with like
enlightenment and balance and

637
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,760
stuff like that.
But I am curious to see you

638
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,280
going forward like how much?
Because I know in the the second

639
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,719
season it's all about trying to
see like how he can master this

640
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,360
and do all this stuff.
So I'm curious to see how much

641
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,400
because we get, Kuruk tells him
when he meets him.

642
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,120
He's like you have to master all
four elements to be able to do

643
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,760
the the Avatar state and he's
also like, oh by the way, I

644
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:33,280
can't help you get out of here.
My soul is like too damaged.

645
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:34,679
I was like in his spirit world
too much.

646
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,760
Don't hang around here.
I, you know, I'm, I'm actually

647
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,120
just thinking about what I just
said.

648
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,600
So the Avatar State is probably
different than going into the

649
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,639
spirit world.
I would say so.

650
00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:47,760
Right, so him meditating on the
rock is just going through the

651
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:48,840
veil into the spirit.
World.

652
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,600
Yeah, commuting.
Yeah, whereas the Avatar state

653
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:56,199
is him sort of becoming the
Avatar and being almighty and

654
00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:57,160
powerful.
Right.

655
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,320
He's like getting all the
abilities, The glow I think they

656
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,800
say is all his past lives
helping him.

657
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,840
So yeah, they're different.
But I think Eng has always kind

658
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:11,600
of been better at this spirit
world communing stuff than some

659
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,680
of the other ones.
He's a wise child, Cora.

660
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:16,920
So.
She had too much going on.

661
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,440
The gang finally gets to the
North Beautiful again.

662
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,200
I think that this series did not
hold back in the visuals and

663
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,280
making it seem grand in this big
world.

664
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:32,720
The North looks fantastic looks,
if not better than how they

665
00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:34,600
depicted it in the animated
series, right?

666
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,440
And I was thinking about all the
costuming because they had a lot

667
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:43,240
of people in in the North.
And so, I mean it was beautiful.

668
00:35:43,240 --> 00:35:46,600
It was beautifully done.
And even when you know Cora

669
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,120
thinks that she's going to be
trained in fighting, but she's

670
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,600
really goes to be trained in
healing even the way those oh

671
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,080
what did I say Cora?
Cora.

672
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,280
Oh my God.
When Katara does that, I'm not

673
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,320
good with the names.
I apologize right now.

674
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,040
I'm usually much better.
You are.

675
00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:06,040
But when she goes into like the
healing area and those sort of

676
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,840
wooden bodies that they have to
make the water and energy flow

677
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:10,280
through like it was all very
beautiful.

678
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:14,560
Yeah, yeah, they they did a good
job with attention to detail.

679
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,560
I think that some of the
costumes, it's like, I can see

680
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:22,800
that fabric being at Joann's,
but like it was, it was put

681
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,600
together really well, right?
That's like not a knock on

682
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:32,000
anything, OK.
When they get to the north, we

683
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:38,320
finally meet Paku, Lord Paku and
Chief Arnuk, great characters.

684
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:43,520
Paku, the misogynistic, sexist
jerk that doesn't want Katara to

685
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,240
fight.
I felt like he was a little less

686
00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:48,320
jerky.
But I liked that it carried

687
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,440
through from this episode till
the last one.

688
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:52,080
And then it finally happened,
you know.

689
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,800
In in in the animated series, he
was like a jerk.

690
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,760
And this one, he's just like,
oh, sorry girl, we just don't do

691
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,520
that here.
No.

692
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,920
Bye girl.
And he also doesn't tell her,

693
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:05,680
like, right off the bat he's
like, yeah, just go find this

694
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,720
person, you can start your
training and then she finds out

695
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,440
the sexism.
Yeah, she's like, oh, cool.

696
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:12,960
Healing.
Yeah, awesome.

697
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,720
But I like these moments that
Katara gets, because these are

698
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,600
the things that make us love
Katara.

699
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:22,320
And she's like, what do you mean
you're not allowed to like you?

700
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,240
You can fight.
You should heal, but you should

701
00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:27,080
be able to fight like this.
Is dumb this is.

702
00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:32,040
And even if you think about it,
she watched her mother give up

703
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:37,080
her life so that she could go on
and bend, you know, and and bend

704
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,720
it, bend water to its full
potential.

705
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,880
Bend it like Beckham.
And she's going to be with David

706
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,800
Beckham and bend it.
But do you know what I mean?

707
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,880
Like, not just to be what she
deems as a quiet healer.

708
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,240
She wants more than that, and
because there's more at stake

709
00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:53,240
for her there.
Right.

710
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:58,480
No, I agree.
I I liked Master Poop Head, as

711
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:03,280
they call them in the OG series.
Their fight between Katara and

712
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:07,000
Master Poop Head, it's good.
It was good.

713
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,760
It was good.
I, you know, I'm not trying to

714
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,280
nitpick.
I want to know from our lovely

715
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:18,280
listeners slash viewers, did you
feel like out of all of the

716
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,680
bending water bending felt a
little slower?

717
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,040
You know, like I feel like and
if I just put these two fights

718
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:31,560
right, the Paku and Katara and
Katara and Zuko, that fight felt

719
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:36,280
different than this fight.
Like the IT just seems like, you

720
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,480
know when in the Boomi episode.
I was going to bring that up

721
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,280
when.
She makes the ice for Sokka to

722
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,400
slide on.
It's like they almost don't go

723
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,800
fast enough.
Yeah, it's like just like like

724
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,160
like pull the lines.
Yeah, like he could.

725
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:53,720
The the speed he went across
that ice, he could have walked

726
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,080
that.
Boomi had time to stare at him

727
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,040
and wave.
Yeah, so I agree with.

728
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:02,200
That yeah, I mean, I thought it
was great and it it hit all the

729
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,760
notes from the original series,
you know we got Katara doing the

730
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,360
amazing, the ice discs.
Fantastic.

731
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,000
I thought it was good.
It did what it needed to do.

732
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:13,760
It was.
It's one of those moments where

733
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,560
like, oh, I can't wait for this.
They have to include this.

734
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,560
If they don't include that,
what's the point?

735
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:22,880
What did you think of them
taking out the connection to

736
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:26,560
Grand Grand that he had?
I think it's fine.

737
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:31,840
You know, I I think if we had
more episodes to play with, it

738
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:33,400
would be better to add that in
here.

739
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,880
Because, you know, some of these
episodes are just so stuffed

740
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,440
with things that are happening.
And I think adding that extra

741
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:44,200
layer is a little odd.
But knowing kind of what we know

742
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:49,160
later on with the White Lotus
leaders and everything, I mean,

743
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,080
it's going to be cool to see
Paku again, but like, is that

744
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,560
connection going to be there?
Aside from, oh, you respect me

745
00:39:55,560 --> 00:40:00,600
as a master instead of like
somehow being tied to my

746
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:04,200
grandmother in the way?
I mean, she did change centuries

747
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,640
of tradition, so.
That's pretty impressive.

748
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:08,720
There is.
There is.

749
00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:11,280
That, you know, yeah, she did a
pretty good job.

750
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,920
One of the things that I really
like that they changed in this

751
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:17,480
was Han.
It's like a bittersweet actually

752
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,520
for me.
So in the original, Han was a

753
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:24,240
jerk and he was betrothed to UA
and he very much is like

754
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,960
territorial with soccer and this
one, he's so sweet.

755
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,200
He's amazing.
He did a fantastic job and they

756
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:38,800
kill him, kill him like it's so
insane to me.

757
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:44,960
I mean, does he come back in the
animated series?

758
00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:48,040
No, but I just thought it was
funny that they changed him.

759
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:49,120
They.
Made him nice, and then they

760
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:50,800
killed him.
Yeah, I'm like, you know, I

761
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,320
still probably would have been
sad if he died and he was a

762
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,240
jerk.
They wanted to break your heart

763
00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:57,760
a little more.
But I I liked the change of the

764
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,600
arranged marriage because it's
after the fact.

765
00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:02,680
And UA was like, I became a
priestess.

766
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,760
So, like, I just wasn't feeling
it.

767
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:06,360
And he respects her decision,
sure.

768
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,160
Great.
Yeah, Love it.

769
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:13,120
So we enjoy how the men of the
Water Tribe, they do respect

770
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,120
women in the live action.
Some, yeah, But they're still a

771
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,080
little stuck in tradition.
Paku, what did you think of our

772
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:23,920
girl, UA besides the hair?
No.

773
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:28,080
OK.
There's something to be said of

774
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:32,800
hairstyles that are in animes or
cartoons where they just don't

775
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:37,360
translate well.
The wig was awful, not great.

776
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:41,600
I really didn't like the wig.
Ember mid Hunter is fantastic.

777
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,480
Despite the wig, I like forgot
about it after the initial.

778
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:47,920
Shock.
She was awesome.

779
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:49,280
Yeah.
She was really, really good.

780
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,840
She's amazing.
If you seem prey, fantastic in

781
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:52,840
that.
Go watch that.

782
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,880
She really stood out in this,
which I think she should have

783
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:58,960
because she plays such a big
part in this.

784
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:03,440
I liked her a lot.
I think, wig aside, fantastic

785
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,760
the chemistry between Saka and
her, I mean when they're making

786
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,600
that cloud Berry ice cream, you
know when they're at the the

787
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:16,920
Oasis, in the end it was good.
I felt the charm was there with

788
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,680
Suki and Saka and UAE and Saka.
Great.

789
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,880
Yeah.
And I think that her being so

790
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,960
likable made it even more
believable that he would, you

791
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,800
know, sort of fall in love with
her that quickly.

792
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,320
Because, I mean, they were there
for a couple of days maybe.

793
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,000
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah.

794
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,720
What did you think about the
addition of Kuruk here?

795
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:42,840
I think that it achieved a goal
of him meeting the four other

796
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,800
elemental, you know, avatars
before him.

797
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,880
I don't think it necessarily.
Except for Yang Chen.

798
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:50,520
How dare.
Well, right.

799
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,200
But he's representing I.
Know, I know.

800
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:54,080
She'll come.
I'm sure she'll come in

801
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:55,800
hopefully.
I love her.

802
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,480
I think that it achieved that
goal.

803
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:04,200
I don't think he necessarily did
much like we said he was.

804
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,800
Unhelpful.
Yeah, he kind of just like made

805
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,400
ANG question everything he
believed in as far as his

806
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,000
friends helping him through
everything for like 30 minutes.

807
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,680
I, you know, I I think the
interesting thing about this is

808
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:22,080
as you know the the series very
much questions like

809
00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:25,800
predetermined fate and destiny
and expectations.

810
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,760
And you know, Eng does do that,
like he does go on his own and

811
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,840
find his own way.
And I do think it's interesting

812
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:38,400
that a lot of these avatars, I
think he hasn't understood that

813
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,640
like they lived full lives and
they lost people that they

814
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,360
loved.
So of course they're going to be

815
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,200
a little bitter with that.
But I think one of the good

816
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:51,280
things about Eng is that by the
end of this, he does understand

817
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:56,040
I can choose the people that I
want to have around because it's

818
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,000
what I'm choosing to do.
Maybe it didn't work out for

819
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,720
you, but it could work out for
me.

820
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:06,040
And I think it's interesting to
have, you know, he or she's

821
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:07,720
saying you have to be a
merciless warrior.

822
00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:10,600
Roku being like, you probably
shouldn't have people around,

823
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,560
but like, you also don't have to
be like super scary all the

824
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,160
time.
And then Kuruk just being like,

825
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,280
kind of.
Just I don't have anybody around

826
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:19,120
you.
This is hard.

827
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,200
Master the four elements.
This is what you have to do.

828
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:25,200
But also like I got stuck in the
spirit world, so it wasn't

829
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:26,280
great.
Don't hang out here.

830
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:30,200
You know, one of the things that
I think that sort of everyone

831
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:34,520
forgets is that the avatars are
just human, right?

832
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:38,680
They they have this ability to
create balance and master the

833
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:42,440
four elements, but at the end
they are humans who love and who

834
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,680
get hurt.
And so I think that's what this

835
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:49,800
is showing us partly is how what
they went through as the Avatar

836
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,040
who avatars who are also human,
how it affected them and who

837
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,480
they became because of that.
And that's one of the richest

838
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:59,640
parts about this story, right in
this universe is that not only

839
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:04,240
do they have to figure out who
they are and the type of avatar

840
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,360
they're going to be for the
world, but they also have their

841
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:12,440
past lives, decisions, communing
with them, seeing what happened

842
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,240
with them.
But also, you could decide to

843
00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:18,440
fall into that same thing or
learn from the wisdom that

844
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:22,040
they're giving you.
You know, forget the past and

845
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,440
move forward, as they say.
And other times, get no peace.

846
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:29,440
They like, are dealing with war.
When they're in this world,

847
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,520
they're dealing with, you know,
thousands of their past selves,

848
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,320
yelling at them constantly.
This kid's 12.

849
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:39,840
Everyone back off.
The only thing I think in this

850
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:43,280
episode that happens with, like,
Fire Nation people is that Zhao

851
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,680
tries to kill Zuko with blasting
Jelly.

852
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:48,520
He sets up that plan, which I
like.

853
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,880
And this is really the episode
where it's like, I'm glad that I

854
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,360
was like starting to like Zhao
because he's ridiculous.

855
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,800
Like he's like, I'm gonna plant
the seeds of like they know and

856
00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:00,120
then you know Lieutenant G is
going to go to him and tell him,

857
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,800
ha ha.
It's just it's funny He he just

858
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,480
feels very much like a mini
boss.

859
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,200
Yeah, before like the big.
Stuff.

860
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,360
And when I wrote like, you know
is playing that he doesn't know

861
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,480
that it was Zhao that did it.
Zhao's like banging on the

862
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:15,560
table.
He's like, who could do this to

863
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,240
our Prince, our enemies, you
know?

864
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,680
It's so good.
One of our listeners, Ilsa I I

865
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,360
have something from her e-mail
that she sent.

866
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,040
So part two of her e-mail, too.
Look at this.

867
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,440
Oh, right.
But she did remind me that the

868
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:33,920
actor, when he went to go
audition for this, he thought it

869
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:38,280
was blue people Avatar James
Cameron and not this Avatar.

870
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,440
Too much?
And he's like, where are the

871
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:42,960
blue people?
It's so good.

872
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,280
They're like the water Bender
what?

873
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,000
So good.
One other little nugget from

874
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:53,880
this episode that I want to
mention is that Sokka says ASS.

875
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:55,520
Oh yeah.
Bam.

876
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,960
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, actually both of these

877
00:46:57,960 --> 00:46:59,920
episodes.
Funny enough, we did Percy

878
00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:02,480
Jackson and this Jet Wilkinson.
Yes.

879
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,680
Directed both of these two
episodes, and they directed

880
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:07,160
three episodes from Percy
Jackson.

881
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:10,320
Water Action Kids, they got it
on lock.

882
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:11,960
These are two of the strongest
episodes.

883
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,640
They're like give me your water
based properties and I'll blow

884
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:16,760
your mind.
Watch this.

885
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:20,280
Yeah, we were like, nailed it,
nailed it.

886
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:26,600
All right, so on to the finale
for book one, Season one

887
00:47:26,720 --> 00:47:30,000
Legends.
Lots happen here.

888
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:39,160
I want to say this show almost
lost us 13 minutes in, 13

889
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:43,720
minutes in to the finale.
There is one rule about this

890
00:47:43,720 --> 00:47:50,240
show, and it is that nothing,
and I mean nothing, happens to

891
00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:53,800
those beautiful little angels.
Oh my God, ABBA and Momo.

892
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:58,680
You know, I understand it's very
expensive to render these

893
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,520
characters right.
They're hardly in this season,

894
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:06,840
and for them to think that I
needed to care about them more

895
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:14,560
by smashing Momo with a A
Boulder rubble and also having

896
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:18,120
the captions like shrieking when
it happens.

897
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:23,520
Not to mention he saved
someone's life and then got

898
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:27,000
smooshed.
And he the saga pulls up his

899
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:28,640
lifeless body.
Lifeless.

900
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,840
And he's she's like, is he
Barely.

901
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,720
I'm like, he looks like gone.
Girl, no they didn't.

902
00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:40,760
They put no life in that CGI.
When it happened, we were

903
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,920
watching this late at night and
I literally, when I looked at

904
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:49,120
Derek and Derek just kept saying
they killed Momo, they.

905
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,560
I couldn't believe it.
I they could have lost this.

906
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:59,040
Like, if that actually happened,
which I feel like 30 seconds

907
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,280
after that, we're like, OK,
they're not going to kill Momo,

908
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,680
but that was concerning.
When just three episodes before

909
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:07,600
that, Little Angel was handing
Katara and Ekorn, trying to

910
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,280
remind her that they can bring
life back to this dead place.

911
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:12,360
And then they bring him to a
dead place.

912
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:16,240
Yeah, no, not great.
And I was so relieved when they

913
00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:19,040
first got to the Northern Water
Tribe because they're like,

914
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,600
we're going to put Appa in a
very safe place and he's going

915
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:23,240
to eat lots of seaweed.
I was like, yay.

916
00:49:23,240 --> 00:49:24,800
And they were like, and then you
know what we're going to do?

917
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:29,080
We're going to kill Momo.
Well, why wasn't he with Appa?

918
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:31,640
Good question.
Is what I want to know.

919
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:33,480
And you know, Appa's just, like,
sitting there, like, what's

920
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:33,960
going on?
Yeah.

921
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:40,240
All right.
As far as finales go, Epic,

922
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:47,640
Grand, beautiful, fantastic.
Very much enjoyed it.

923
00:49:47,720 --> 00:49:54,560
Zhao's whole plan is to kind of
bypass the whole attack and kill

924
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,720
the moon spirit.
Of course, I rose with him and

925
00:49:57,720 --> 00:50:04,280
he's like, no, I loved how they
just took it from what?

926
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,280
There's no point in changing any
of that, right?

927
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,320
It's like, do that story.
It's good.

928
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:14,040
It shows so much of what the
series is about, and if you mess

929
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:16,240
with things you shouldn't be
messing with, especially the

930
00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:18,880
balance of the world, shit's
going to get ugly.

931
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:23,400
Yeah by by Zhao, Killing the
Moon Spirit.

932
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:30,120
It it gives Saka more depth and
a driving force for the rest of

933
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,840
the series.
It gives ANG more depth and

934
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:34,360
driving force for the rest of
the series.

935
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,680
And so without that we would
have lost so much.

936
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:43,720
And they really did follow the
beats of that final episode here

937
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:48,400
as far as how things look.
And it was, it was really well

938
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:51,640
done.
Yeah, I thought it was epic and

939
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:53,280
that's.
I feel like that's an easy word

940
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,800
to say, but it was great.
These last two episodes

941
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,640
specifically.
I was like, I'm seeing some

942
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:04,240
really good stuff here.
Like there's great stuff that I

943
00:51:04,240 --> 00:51:06,800
feel like may have been missing
from some of the earlier

944
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:11,080
episodes, like it not being so
overstuffed, being able to sit

945
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:14,720
with some of this and getting to
some core things with the series

946
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:19,160
I'm looking at like the Omashu
episodes stuffed to the gills.

947
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:23,360
So I'm.
I very much welcome a second

948
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:24,400
season.
I'll watch it.

949
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:32,200
I'm here for it.
I think that the effect when he

950
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,480
kills the Moon spirit of it
turning red and then they went

951
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:37,640
to the Gray when it was like,
completely gone.

952
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:40,440
It's so cool.
I thought it just looked

953
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,440
amazing.
I loved how the benders were

954
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:44,760
defending the Northern Water
Tribe.

955
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:48,080
I liked how the fire benders
were able to look like a threat

956
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:50,360
as well.
They make some really cool

957
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,120
action sequences in here.
I love that.

958
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,120
Like almost one shot of that guy
with that was on one side of the

959
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:58,200
wall and it follows him to his
ultimate demise.

960
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:01,960
But like, very cool who?
They put a lot of the budget

961
00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:05,200
into this final yes.
This giant battle, and I also

962
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,960
think that we get a lot of great
Katara stuff in this episode,

963
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,520
right?
So she kind of becomes a leader

964
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:15,320
in the battle.
I know you have feelings.

965
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:19,000
I I think it's fine.
I mean, I think she should be.

966
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:22,640
I think she still has stuff to
learn but they all do, right?

967
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:29,800
I so master poop head at the
beginning of it I was like no.

968
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:35,320
And he was like fine, he sends
the Han and or no the the new

969
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:38,720
water benders that were training
with him to her and it was like

970
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:40,680
you know he told us to report to
you.

971
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:42,800
She's like he told you to report
to me.

972
00:52:43,240 --> 00:52:45,160
Cool.
If you see any fireballs, like

973
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:49,680
the millions that are coming at
us now, let me know. 2 seconds

974
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:53,080
later she leaves.
And at the end, when they come

975
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:56,800
back, he's dead, you know?
Rude.

976
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,440
Yeah, it was rude.
And I had a thought about the

977
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,280
fireballs.
I'm like, did she?

978
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:04,760
Leave him.
She had to go fight Zuko I.

979
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,760
Know, but also what would she
have done?

980
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,240
There's a fireball.
She just been like.

981
00:53:10,720 --> 00:53:15,720
I just thought it was really
silly, but you know, RIP Han and

982
00:53:15,720 --> 00:53:18,600
that.
New other guy, Yeah, they did

983
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:22,560
the eye closing thing.
But to Zuko and Qatar, yeah.

984
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:24,200
Yes.
And so that fight was pretty

985
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:25,800
great, right?
We get to see her kind of

986
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,400
standing in her own and saying,
well, I'm, I'm the master,

987
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,960
right?
And she hits him with the ice

988
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:32,880
discs, she freezes them.
It's.

989
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:35,360
She does all her new tricks.
Yeah, it's fantastic.

990
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:38,440
Loved it.
I liked their interaction as

991
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:43,560
well because I think Zuko is
starting to understand like I

992
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:46,760
need to work on myself as well.
Like I'm having a hard time with

993
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:50,480
this person that could barely
splash me with water.

994
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:56,600
So it was a humbling moment for
him, but I think Qatar really

995
00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:00,720
showed her own.
Yeah, Zuko, by the end of This

996
00:54:01,240 --> 00:54:04,760
is a mess.
Yeah, but I think he got to a

997
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:09,600
point and of so if I'm going to
rank these the kids right, Zuko

998
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:13,160
included.
I would say Saka is actually the

999
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:17,040
top of my list.
I think he did a fantastic job.

1000
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:21,680
The actor, I think he has great
story arcs, very compelling love

1001
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,400
stories, but also really
beautifully done and handled

1002
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:28,080
with care.
He grew a lot and as he got to

1003
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:34,160
see that when he helped Psy and
Omashu, that that decision is

1004
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:37,440
now affecting now, right.
So it really propels his

1005
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:41,480
character into a certain, to a
certain extent that we weren't

1006
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:44,080
at in the first season of the
animated series.

1007
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:46,240
Yeah, So they're doing that
really well.

1008
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:48,600
Yeah, I agree.
Saka is at the top for me as

1009
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,640
well.
But as far as Zuko is concerned,

1010
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:54,000
you know, after this, this
battle with Katara, where it

1011
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,400
kind of ends because a fireball
crashes into the building that

1012
00:54:56,400 --> 00:55:00,520
they're in, he learns from Zhao
that his sister's been working

1013
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:03,840
against him the entire time and
that everything that he thought

1014
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:07,080
that he was doing our fighting
against Zhao was just being

1015
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:10,600
supported by his family.
And so he's completely, it feels

1016
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,400
like, broken.
When you know right to his face

1017
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,680
too, it's you looking for the
Avatar.

1018
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:20,560
Like all that was a sham, Like,
do you think he thought you were

1019
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:23,560
going to come back?
And when you think about that,

1020
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:27,280
because when we start the
series, the Avatar exists, but

1021
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:30,920
he had been looking for the
Avatar and they thought he

1022
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:35,080
wasn't going to find him, so he
actually banished him with the

1023
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,120
expectation he'd never been.
Gone forever.

1024
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:41,160
And for Zuko to be hit with that
realization?

1025
00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:44,840
Like a fireball.
Man, that's real tough on my guy

1026
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:46,400
Zuko.
And then you know what?

1027
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:49,800
IRO burns Xiao to a crisp.
I'm really glad.

1028
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:53,080
So there was one line that we
didn't get that I really liked

1029
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:55,400
in the original.
And it's when Zuko and Katara

1030
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:58,640
are fighting and the whole point
in the battle, it's really cool

1031
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,480
because there's like a standoff.
And he was like, you rise with

1032
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:03,240
the moon and I rise with the
sun.

1033
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,520
I love that line because, you
know, they don't attack when the

1034
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:09,520
moon is up, whatever.
But in this one we got the

1035
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:12,720
really cool thing of like,
whatever you do to that spirit,

1036
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:14,520
I'm going to unleash on you
tenfold.

1037
00:56:15,240 --> 00:56:18,960
It's such a iconic IRO line for
me, and I loved it because of

1038
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:21,800
his love and understanding of
the spirit world.

1039
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:24,200
I just liked that they
interpreted that.

1040
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:26,840
Here.
Yeah, I wish IRO did a little

1041
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:28,200
more.
Yeah, he could have done a

1042
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:29,800
little more, just a little bit
more.

1043
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:35,920
The dude was able to, like, kill
the spirit with the Avatar and

1044
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,040
IRO.
Yeah, Right next to him, Yeah.

1045
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:41,720
And I was like, guys, come on,
move a little faster even.

1046
00:56:41,720 --> 00:56:42,920
You know what?
The spirit.

1047
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,200
The spirit could have flopped
back into the water.

1048
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:50,680
Yeah, so we'll talk about
Coyzilla is what I'm calling it.

1049
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:55,480
The Avatar and Ocean Spirit
merging together to create this

1050
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:59,200
Coyzilla, if you will.
And in the e-mail that we got

1051
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:02,080
from Ilsa, one of the points
that I did want to bring up

1052
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:04,320
because I actually, it made me
go, huh, well, that's

1053
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,080
interesting.
I forgot about that.

1054
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:10,520
So one of the things that they
bring up in the e-mail, I don't

1055
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:12,760
want to read it word for word,
but they were talking about how

1056
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:17,800
was it necessary to have the
spirit.

1057
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,720
So in the animated series, it
very much seemed like that was

1058
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:24,200
like an Avatar State thing Aang
was doing.

1059
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:29,600
But in the adaptation, it seemed
like it was more the spirit

1060
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:32,280
taking over and using Eng, which
they showed.

1061
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:37,400
But then the added thing of
like, it's not Eng, it's the

1062
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:40,840
spirit and he's just going to
wander looking for the partner.

1063
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:43,640
So he's like Dunzo.
He like, sacrificed himself.

1064
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:47,160
And so in this e-mail, they're
kind of like, was that a

1065
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:50,800
necessary change?
Like, if it was the other way

1066
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:52,800
around, would the outcome still
be the same?

1067
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:55,160
Like, did the stakes need to be
that high?

1068
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:56,440
Like, what do you think about
that?

1069
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:05,160
You know, I I think that the the
feeling of the ocean spirit

1070
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:10,680
being lost without its partner
very much mirrored Eng feeling

1071
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:16,640
lost in this battle because he
after talking to Kurak, he felt

1072
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:19,480
like he couldn't be with his
friends and he would have to be

1073
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,000
alone.
So I feel like go.

1074
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:22,000
Away Katara.
Yeah.

1075
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:27,160
And so I feel like he kind of
they were in the same trajectory

1076
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:30,520
of being alone and by
themselves, and so their sadness

1077
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:33,040
and wrath kind of melds
together.

1078
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:37,200
So I don't know if it needed to
be that high, but I see maybe

1079
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:40,040
why they did it.
Yeah, it's like they they kind

1080
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:43,120
of added more stakes where there
was like orgy stakes happening.

1081
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:45,840
But yeah, I think it's
interesting.

1082
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:50,520
I think I don't mind it
necessarily because it might

1083
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:55,440
give more weight to ANG's
decision to, like, let go.

1084
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:57,520
He's like, I couldn't save my
world, but maybe I could save

1085
00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,800
this one.
So it's very much like that hero

1086
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:02,320
moment.
I could go either way with it,

1087
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,600
right?
It's like, I think both

1088
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:07,160
decisions are fine because the
outcome was the same.

1089
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:09,920
The moon came back and the
spirit was like, OK, fine.

1090
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:13,760
And we had Katara talking to ANG
and being like, come back, like,

1091
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:16,640
don't be an idiot, You're done.
Like you don't.

1092
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,200
We still need you.
You have more to do the moon's.

1093
00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:20,680
Back.
Yeah.

1094
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:25,000
I have to say, actually in this,
when UA sacrifices herself, it

1095
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:27,160
gave me chills.
It was really good.

1096
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:29,080
Amber Minh Hunter, Yeah, so
good.

1097
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:33,240
And she sold it.
She's one of the the this kind

1098
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,600
of supporting cast in here that
I was like knocked it out of

1099
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:36,960
the.
Park I I actually, I think it's

1100
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:39,280
mid Thunder.
Did I say Hunter?

1101
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:41,040
Yeah, OK.
Mid Thunder, I'm sorry.

1102
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:44,400
But I agree.
I thought for these two episodes

1103
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:46,280
that she was in, she was such a
powerhouse.

1104
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:49,280
We cared for her.
I was totally charmed by her,

1105
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:51,440
and ultimately knowing what her
fate was going to be was

1106
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:55,360
heartbreaking.
And seeing her, really, it it

1107
00:59:55,360 --> 01:00:00,840
was a balance of bravery and
fear of knowing that she was

1108
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:03,560
giving up her life to save the
world.

1109
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:04,800
You.
Know it was also kind of sad

1110
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:07,840
though, that we didn't get to
see her spirit form.

1111
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:10,560
You know, I wanted to see that,
you know, we saw her in like

1112
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:14,000
fishy form and the koi pond.
But like, I wanted to see her

1113
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:17,280
being like, thank you Saka, for
you know well, well, well.

1114
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:19,600
Saka got another kiss.
He did get another kiss.

1115
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:23,600
He got 2 smooches. 2 smooches.
Oh my God, so I know.

1116
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:29,640
Rounding up the loose threads
for the season back to the Azula

1117
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:32,240
thing of why I asked you like
was it OK blah blah blah.

1118
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:36,600
I think they could have not
included her until the scene

1119
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:38,640
that we see with her at the end,
right?

1120
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:42,360
So at a team Avatar,
everything's done.

1121
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:44,400
Ang is confronted with the
devastation and everything like

1122
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:48,560
that.
And Master Paku is like, well,

1123
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:50,600
rebuild.
Here's some water and some

1124
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:53,880
scrolls and like, everything's
fine and they're like, bye, have

1125
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:57,920
fun rebuilding everything.
We're going to go this way.

1126
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:01,200
Yeah, and and Sokka's like we're
going to go to Amashu so you can

1127
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:03,200
learn how to earth bend.
Right.

1128
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:07,120
And I would have loved it for
this to be the entrance of

1129
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:10,400
Azula, right?
We see Omashu devastated.

1130
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:14,160
We see Bumi chained up and
Azula's like, what's next?

1131
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:16,200
That would have been a baller
thing.

1132
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:18,440
I did love seeing her do
lightning.

1133
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:22,440
I did love seeing her kick ass.
But that would have been a

1134
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:27,600
really cool thing because it
would have left some moments for

1135
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:31,960
our main team to kind of flesh
out a little.

1136
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:36,200
More and I It was funny because
when they, you know, show Boomi,

1137
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:40,200
they show this masked soldier
walking towards him, right.

1138
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:44,440
We knew who it was, right?
Whereas if we didn't know that

1139
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:47,200
Azula was in the series, and
then she took the mask off and

1140
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:50,520
it was Azula, it would have been
very much like the ending of the

1141
01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:52,760
animated series when we were
like, wait a minute, oh man,

1142
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:53,840
it's.
Azula, right.

1143
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:56,400
And I thought it was interesting
too, because in the, I believe

1144
01:01:56,400 --> 01:02:01,160
it's the first episode of the
second season where Azula

1145
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,160
confronts Zuko and he's like you
can come back home and

1146
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,840
everything and it's really to
like capture him because like

1147
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:09,720
he's not.
So they kind of Fast forward

1148
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:12,160
that a little bit.
It's like, no, we already know

1149
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:15,080
that you're a traitor and like
you're everything you're doing

1150
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:17,720
is a sham where he learns that
in the second season, he already

1151
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:19,960
knows that now.
So they kind of speed that up a

1152
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:25,000
little bit and then we finally
get like the ticking clock for

1153
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:30,240
the entire series.
We see that Ozai it's told by

1154
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:34,320
the sage from the Fire Temple
that Sosan's comet and that's

1155
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:37,560
going to be that's like putting
rubber to pavement.

1156
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:42,920
This is going to be the thing he
has to learn all the elements

1157
01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:47,760
get the Avatar state down before
Susan's comment because then the

1158
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:49,880
Fire Lord is going to act.
That's right.

1159
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:53,880
So the hourglass has been
flipped over and the sand is

1160
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:57,760
running through it and ang can
either be buried in it or burst

1161
01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:00,040
through.
It Oh my God, there's so much.

1162
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:03,440
So going to whatever, favorite,
whatever.

1163
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:07,320
I'm not going to call it
nibbies, but I just did.

1164
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:13,440
Do you have, like, let's talk
about the kids, right?

1165
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:17,960
Zuko saka Katara Ang Not if you
could rank them, but what was

1166
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:21,560
your favourites?
I guess that is ranking, right,

1167
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:26,560
Yeah.
So I I will say that one of in

1168
01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:29,160
an hour before you watch
episode, I said one of the

1169
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:32,320
things that I want so badly is
to have the humor from Saka.

1170
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:36,400
And although this was sort of a
more serious interpretation of

1171
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:42,320
the animated show, I think that
they achieved level of Sokka

1172
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:44,360
being funny.
With what they were given.

1173
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:48,160
Yes, exactly.
And so Sokka really was my stand

1174
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:51,360
out for this Interesting, you
know and Sokka is sort of that

1175
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:54,120
every man, right.
I I think I mentioned this as

1176
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:58,480
well is that he is us.
He can't bend, we're like him.

1177
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:01,280
So we're seeing it from his
perspective and I just thought

1178
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:04,600
that he did a really solid job
of portraying this character.

1179
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:07,640
Yeah, I was a little worried,
you know, going into this

1180
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:13,400
knowing that they took away his,
like, misogynistic side because

1181
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:16,360
it is a arc that he goes through
to them become who he is.

1182
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:22,320
I think he was humbled enough in
this to where we get that right?

1183
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:25,120
Because one of the times he
really gets humbled is with

1184
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:27,240
Suki.
And I feel like they handled it

1185
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:29,920
well.
And he is on his way to become

1186
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:34,040
that great leader, that great
warrior, that great strategist.

1187
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:37,280
Engineer, right.
If I had to like put them in

1188
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:40,320
like my favourites as far as the
season or like who I was

1189
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:44,360
pleasantly surprised with, it
would be Saka, Zuko, Katara,

1190
01:04:44,360 --> 01:04:46,320
Eng.
Like Katara and Eng I feel like

1191
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:48,600
are the same for me.
It's like they were fine.

1192
01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:52,040
I feel like there was more.
I need more from them,

1193
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:55,520
especially Eng.
Yeah, I I think I need a little

1194
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:58,080
more like stuff happening with.
Them.

1195
01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:01,400
Yeah.
I and I I'm really sticking to

1196
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:05,840
what I said in our last episode
of the fact that ANG represents

1197
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:08,680
joy and hope.
And I felt like he was being

1198
01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:10,480
beat down by everyone around
him.

1199
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:11,480
They all hate him.
Yeah.

1200
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:14,080
He never really got a chance to
get to that level.

1201
01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:16,520
And then he beat himself down on
top of it.

1202
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:20,200
You know, towards in these last
four episodes, a a common theme

1203
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:23,560
for him was this is all my fault
because I went away for 100

1204
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:24,640
years.
This is why this happened.

1205
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:28,600
All these people keep dying.
So it's a very, you know, sad

1206
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:30,320
journey for him through this
first season.

1207
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:33,440
And that stuff does happen.
But I feel like since we don't

1208
01:05:33,480 --> 01:05:38,200
get the stuff of him learning
more than that or feeling sad

1209
01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:41,600
for himself, it does make it a
little heavy.

1210
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:45,480
Yeah, I feel like we don't get
this Ang until we have like Fire

1211
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:48,640
Nation Ang, who has hair.
You know when he's like really

1212
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:51,320
going through it?
When Azula like, wrecks his back

1213
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:54,440
and all that stuff, like, that's
when we get really Sad.

1214
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:55,960
Ang, who needs to work through a
bunch of stuff?

1215
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:59,560
And Angsty Ang yeah.
Yeah, so they definitely, I

1216
01:05:59,560 --> 01:06:01,680
mean, they speed this up a lot.
It's interesting that they speed

1217
01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:04,680
that part up.
But he hasn't learned any other

1218
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:08,040
types of bending yet.
Do you have a favorite moment

1219
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:10,760
from the season?
Like if you were to pick like or

1220
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:13,400
even just like story arc or
fight or whatever?

1221
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:16,080
Do you like a favorite?
I think my favorite oof.

1222
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:20,400
I'm I'm torn between 2:00.
I'm torn between the Kiyoshi

1223
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:26,640
warriors fighting in episode 2
or Aang and Zuko on the bridge.

1224
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:29,920
That's really good, I mean.
That did have the latter thing,

1225
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:31,520
which was pretty cool.
And it was really cool.

1226
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:35,560
I mean, I think Kiyoshi's was
probably my favorite and I

1227
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:39,320
really like masks, you know, I
think the the end was super epic

1228
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:41,680
and stuff and like that's the
action stuff that we expect.

1229
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:44,360
But like, there was something
really special about the

1230
01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:49,160
Warriors episode, especially
with Saka and Suki and just

1231
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:52,680
seeing them.
Also, Avatar Kiyoshi, always a

1232
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:55,240
win.
And I think we also know how

1233
01:06:55,240 --> 01:06:59,280
important the Kiyoshi warriors
are, and getting Suki and seeing

1234
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:02,840
Suki being portrayed so well, it
was really exciting.

1235
01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:06,040
The only let down for that is
that we didn't get to see Saka

1236
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:09,240
in the entire Kiyoshi make up
and all.

1237
01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:11,360
How dare.
This little point deal how?

1238
01:07:11,520 --> 01:07:14,520
Dare you take that from us?
True.

1239
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:16,800
But let us know who was the
standout character for you.

1240
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:19,800
Standout scene vending was
amazing.

1241
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:23,160
I am game for another season.
I hope he gets one.

1242
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:26,600
You know it.
There was like 21.2 million

1243
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:30,640
viewers in the first reviews in
the first four days.

1244
01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:35,640
The numbers are looking pretty
good for it, but does the cost

1245
01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:39,600
outweigh the viewership?
I we'll see, yeah.

1246
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:42,800
And I feel like I don't know if
this effects it in any way, but

1247
01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:46,440
I felt like there was a bit of a
backlash to this with people

1248
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:48,720
kind of dumping on it a lot
online.

1249
01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:51,360
So I don't know if that affects
it at all.

1250
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:55,080
But the fact that so many people
watch it, I hope that it's just

1251
01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:57,800
that those few sour voices are
just rising.

1252
01:07:58,320 --> 01:07:59,920
Yeah.
And what I always say, what we

1253
01:07:59,920 --> 01:08:04,640
always say really, is that, you
know, watch the thing for

1254
01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:08,200
yourself and kind of see how you
feel because, yeah, maybe some

1255
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:11,240
of that is actually valid, but
sometimes there's echo chambers,

1256
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:12,800
you know what I mean?
And it's like people will say

1257
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:15,720
things because it's popular to
say it, but, you know, just find

1258
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:18,680
it out for yourself.
One thing, last thing before we

1259
01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:22,359
go is in this e-mail.
So I did want to address this

1260
01:08:22,359 --> 01:08:26,800
because we did say this couple
months ago we were going to do

1261
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:29,640
the Ballad of Sunburns and
Snakes episode.

1262
01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:32,000
So Elsa had also asked about
that.

1263
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:33,120
Like, are you still going to do
this?

1264
01:08:34,359 --> 01:08:37,279
Maybe we didn't do it because
there was a lot of like family

1265
01:08:37,279 --> 01:08:40,080
stuff and everything happening.
We had said that prior to it

1266
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:43,960
happening, and then we kind of
just fell into the Percy Jackson

1267
01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:47,680
stuff.
So we didn't get to it, but we

1268
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:49,160
did watch it.
We did watch it.

1269
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:51,600
We have lots of thoughts.
You know, maybe we'll do it on

1270
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:54,399
Patreon or something like that.
Maybe there'll be a draft

1271
01:08:54,399 --> 01:08:58,960
episode and it will be here.
But we don't at this moment have

1272
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:00,520
any plans to do an episode on
it.

1273
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:02,479
But we did watch it, and we did
enjoy it.

1274
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:05,680
Life happens.
People, thank you for giving us

1275
01:09:05,680 --> 01:09:07,680
grace.
Yes, but also like thank you for

1276
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:08,800
listening.
Yeah, I know.

1277
01:09:09,359 --> 01:09:12,960
Whenever you said that, I was
just like we didn't do it.

1278
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:21,040
In 2023, we said the thing.
All right, so that's it.

1279
01:09:21,359 --> 01:09:22,800
We finished.
We made it.

1280
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:27,560
We officially did all our bites.
All our nipples of Avatar,

1281
01:09:28,359 --> 01:09:31,760
Netflix, you know, I don't feel
like this is going to be the end

1282
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:34,080
for Avatar for us in one way or
another.

1283
01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:36,160
There's more.
Good job, gang.

1284
01:09:36,279 --> 01:09:38,240
Yeah, we did it.
Oh, and Momo.

1285
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:41,160
They brought Momo back to life.
I like how we were so upset and

1286
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:42,760
then just.
Like, I know we just got yeah,

1287
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:45,040
yeah, they they put him in the
water and then she healed him.

1288
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:48,120
All right.
So till next time.

1289
01:09:48,399 --> 01:09:48,479
Bye.