Thoughts on Airbending
Teacher told me to write a five paragraph response after finishing the series, so here I am. :O
Lessee. Hmm. I guess Dev actually made me watch the entire series… though we watched the first season quite a while ago and then finished second and third in the last month or so between prepping for courses.
Overall impression? Sure, it was pretty great. Dev kept saying that the first season was horrible compared to the second and third seasons… which I was skeptical of, but I guess I’m convinced now. (Not because I loved the first season, but because these things usually get worse as time goes on, not better. >_> )
I would guess that Avatar’s best attribute was in the simple fact that it was so polished and well-rounded. The world building was thorough, the characters were fleshed out. (I love Appa and Toph. And Iroh.) The story writers took story points to their logical ends and didn’t let heroes or villains always be the ones with the upper hand. And the series didn’t take itself too seriously, which allowed for episodes like the dream one… which was so wonderfully illogical and ridiculous.
And that is, of course, exactly why the movie sucks… or would suck, if I went to see it, not that I’m going to with the reviews it’s been getting. Because all the fun that is Avatar is completely absent from the trailers… not a single laugh-y moment. So lame.
The third season ending was … not bad, but I’d have to concede that there was something kind of sudden and abrupt to the whole ‘energybending’ thing. Not that I could see it ending in any other way, but… meh. But Azula’s rapid deterioration into insanity was pretty amazing… and creepy… and realistic.
I think the only thing I disliked about the entire series might be the rapid shifts in time between episodes. Sometimes it seems as though certain character relationships progressed WAY faster than conceivably possible, since episodes tended to cut … well, who even knows how much time. And then we didn’t really get to see how certain things ended up as they were (like I was totally taken aback by Zuko and Mei when they were first presented. lykwut??) … But I guess it’s a minor nitpick, since they can’t really afford to detail all the boring stuff that happens in between. ::lol::
Okay, it didn’t really have anything to do with Airbending, but I couldn’t very well call it “Avatar”. >_> Silly James Cameron!
