It has begun: journey with me into my first foray with Avatar: The Last Airbender!pic.twitter.com/wSOMJ2EHtk
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So I started throwing myself into it. You learn how little naturalism matter and these expansive animations have their own timing and humor and expression. In other words, you learn to see the humanity and the emotion of the animation.
And when I was comfortable enough, I realized I was ready for Avatar. Lo and behold, duh, the pilot is freaking fantastic. Not just for the fun of great moments like this...pic.twitter.com/DLuBIjEoo0
But it's so much of everything I talk about ad nauseam: clear conflicts, clear psychological characterization, wants and needs, problems getting solved through catharsis and conflict-based impasse, not "just cause." It's all therefore / buts, etc. In other words, I'm excited.
TBH I really do like most art that is good at the fundamentals. There's a lot of art out there that finds the fundamentals boring, but I'm pretty sure it is that those artists are just scared because the fundamentals are really, really, really hard and there is no winging it.
Episode 2: Wow the action in this show is really fun and inventive and grounded in story, huh?
Fun side note: These are now the only blu rays I own along with Fury Road (I purposely do not collect them).
Episode 3: I keep meaning to take more screenshots but Im too busy just being INTO the show. Anyway, this show is really prettypic.twitter.com/WzrIy2dahX
Episode 3: I tend to hate "refusal of the call" storylines because the writers oft make them so over-simplified and a-psychological. But this episode understands the complexities completely. For it's not that Aang simply "doesn't want to" or is "scared," but instead
Explores those same feelings through beautiful wants and needs, searching for alternative solutions, bargaining, delusions, finding roots and parent figures and safety, all before coming to that moment of letting go, which is really what growing up is... all in 22 minutespic.twitter.com/42fRANMA8D
4 episodes done! The first two combine for a perfect pilot in setting up the characters, work, stakes, and mission. But there's the old saying with ensuing eps "now show me how you're a show." And already it understands how to execute episodic storytelling within a serialized arc
God, I miss this. Almost every single other TV show (especially most stuff that gets thrown up for whole season streaming) should take notes.
WHY DID THEY BLAST AWAY THE NICE MANS CABBAGES THAT WAS A REAL DICK MOVE EARTH KINGDOM GUARDSpic.twitter.com/0A9v2wPa6D
PLEASE TELL ME THESE DICKHEAD GUARDS ARE THE BIG BADS OF THE SHOW. IVE NEVER LIKED ANYONE LESS IN THIS SHOWpic.twitter.com/n48pUjRFL3
OH NO MY SWEET CABBAGE MAN. HOW IS HE GOING TO MAKE COIN FOR HIS CABBAGE CHILDRENpic.twitter.com/I23GBLuzQd
So let me get this straight... there are people who DONT think this show is great?pic.twitter.com/SZ85Z0zZHk
1. That was a remarkable episode of TV 2. There's a lot of you who really need to cut it out with the spoilers or even vague allusions. I've never had a thread be filled with so much "wait til that character does x in y" and even worse. Seriously, what gives?
Well that was great, time to get to work and oh noooooooo the sixth episode is starting somehow oh noooooooooo. stop. don't.
Earnest inquiry: do UK people just snicker when they watch the show and mentions bender / bending? Also I have no idea what the state of that term is these days or if it's a slur, so please consider this a serious question.
OK I FINISHED SOME WORK I GET 2 WOTCH MORE NOW YAY IM NOT ADDICTED YOU ARE
Also i made a good BLT and this is important to avatar for some reasonpic.twitter.com/9cuUK5bkyw
Episode 7: So far Uncle is an amazing character, but it's not just because he's funny and lazy, it's because there's all these wonderful little bits of understanding his psychology and thought process sprinkled throughout it, all hinting at deeper wounds and history. I love it.
Disc 1 complete! Necessary stake setting, but Solstice eps proving my ongoing belief that lore-and fate-heavy story focus makes for the most dramatically inert version of storytelling.
Episode 9: the pirates are all fun as hell, but I feel like the messaging was a little off and weird? I mean understanding the false heart of jealousy is very important and all, but getting into the notion of "talent" is tricky because I really don't believe in it so much.
Episode 10: they keep throwing young handsomes at Kitara and I am here for itpic.twitter.com/YLj3oVxeXq
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