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    1. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Apr 2019

      So is this supposed to be making fun of goku because I dont know what a goku is i just know it has spikey hair like cloudpic.twitter.com/5ovTe5BrQn

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    2. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Apr 2019

      IS THIS ONE WAKKA FROM FINAL FANTASY Xpic.twitter.com/SyRc8CwveA

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    3. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Apr 2019

      Daydreams and Nightmares: oh hey cool, it's my sleepless night and terrifying anxiety spirals coupled with the new paranoid effects that drugs have on me , all dramatized with devastating consequences cool cool. yup. cool. got it. THANKS AVATAR

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    4. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Apr 2019

      Day of the Black Sun: MY GOD. Where to start? Let's go chronologically 1. Look there's a certain cathartic power to "getting the team together" with everyone you met along the way, but it's even better when that's A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE

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    5. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Apr 2019

      2. Sokka having no idea how to give a power point / speak publicly is perfect, soooo much subconscious emotional vomiting 3. The amazing preparation montage with appa's armor etc. but ending it with little sheep is exactly what makes this show so damn humane. No tough guy B.S.

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    6. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Apr 2019

      4. The speech about moments of truth 5. Again, the action in this show is so freaking inventive, creative, thoughtful while being grounded in the basics of clarity, objectives, stakes, I'm in awe. What an attack. 5. "yes... he has." 6. Holy shit the lightning reversal callback

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    7. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Apr 2019

      The Western Air Temple 1. Zuko rehearsing his job interview! HE IS MY NEW NEW FAVORITE NOW (the show is so good at employing empathy in the right times / ways) 2. The ethos of "why am I so bad at being good?" so understands the muscle memory of anger / trauma. 3. The portrait 😭

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    8. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 4 Apr 2019

      The Firebending Masters: 1 "jerkbending... still got it" 2. RAIDERS VIBES 3. "He had a complicated past... family tradition I guess" 4. the way it reshapes our understanding of fire (a little heartbeat) is another reason I adore this show and it's philosophical underpinnings.

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    9. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 5 Apr 2019

      The Boiling Rock: The first time I'm not sure it had to be a two-parter? But a bunch of moments I loved. Like Zuko thinking he can just say the punchline of a joke and be funny (but right after it shows how much growth he's had when people make fun of him back and he smiles) ...

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    10. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 5 Apr 2019

      But the real coup is the way it elevates into the Zuko / Mei stuff and then dominoes into ty lee along with it - perfectly motivated stuff I loved it. And lastly, "My first girlfriend turned into the moon"

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      Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 5 Apr 2019

      The Southern Raiders: MY GOD THE SOKKA TENT GAG. / "why don't you take my mother?!" - But there's a bigger story about Zuko here (in chasing his own validation) is exacerbating and feeding the rest of the group's darker impulses... to a point, of course.

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        2. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 5 Apr 2019

          The Ember Island Players: "This is the kind of whacky time wasting nonsense I've been missing!" The mission statement for this tremendously funny, but also thoughtful episode. There's so much in the layers in which we see ourselves and our own stereotypical behavior. And so many

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        3. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 5 Apr 2019

          great gags like Zuko's long hair, toph as a tuff dude, the peter panning of Aang. But really the episode is about reflection "it takes all the mistakes in my life and shoves them back in my face" and serves to remind us yet again of just how impossibly young Aang is...

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        4. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 5 Apr 2019

          It's sitting with the journey that got them here, all before before going into the deep trench of the the grim future that awaits...

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        5. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 5 Apr 2019

          Tomorrow I do the finale... finale thoughts then!

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        6. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          Welppic.twitter.com/WvQsk2vG5p

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        7. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          Zosin's Comet: There's much I could say about the finale. From the little delights of the Melon Lord, to Azula's angry haircut, to "I can't believe the captain remembered my birthday!" to the deeper callbacks and pay-offs and holy crap Katara's ingenious bending move.

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        8. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          But the biggest delights come in the moments of genuine catharsis. There's a reason I cried at the "... when we build it together" line and it's not just the mere affectation of the moment itself, it's the history of "almost tragedy" that led to it.

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        9. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          Which brings me to Iroh's hug. A moment that not only makes me think of the joy and loss of Mako (the role is no doubt his greatest work), but also makes me think about their entire journey of what has come before.

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        10. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          Such catharsis is often critical in finales, but here it is so necessary because what we are really talking about is the *completion* of stories that have long been heading toward these very moments (without ever "teasing" in withholding fashion)

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        11. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          Which all makes for a very different kind of finale, not one where we say goodbye, but one where it is as if we are finally, truly saying hello. But it's just one of the many reasons the finale feels transcendent.

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        12. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          I know we throw around the word epic a lot, but that's often a failure to understand what that word really means. Because it's about lot more than dangerous battles and literal physical journeys through strange and distant lands.

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        13. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          Genuine Epics understand the biggest journey is often from who you were to who you are... Along with all the ways we can stay true to our most moral and aching hearts. And embracing all the forms of power that are so much more intimate and emotional than the political.

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        14. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          Avatar: The Last Airbender understands all this with wit, humility, humor, non-toxicity, and open heart that few shows ever manage to display. It is at once a glowing beacon of youth as it is a sobering lesson for adulthood (especially our own blocked chakras, etc)

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        15. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          And for me, I don't forget that I began this journey at your recommendation. As the thread grew and grew, I remember someone commenting that the ravenous reaction to the thread was largely about "much needed validation" and it's a strange thing to think about.

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        16. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          Because whatever I think no more or less valid than what anyone else says and I know this is a beloved show, but I also understand critical discourse (sadly) exists in a space of actual cache. One where most of the best work goes unrecognized in award seasons or by older critics.

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        17. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          And I imagine superlatives are harder to come by in a world that might have assumed this or that about a nickelodeon show or just missed the boat on the shining star of your youth. So I'll say this...

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        18. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          When talking about "The Best Show" of all time I always have a simple answer and total cop out. Because I answer "The Sopranos, The Wire and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer" all at once. Why? Well, in looking at the merits of each...

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        19. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          The Sopranos had its scorching psychological insight and morbid coen-esque hilarity, all from a showrunner hell-bent on thumbing his nose at the "bad fans" en route to the ecstatic truth of the sublime.

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        20. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          Meanwhile The Wire was marked by its aching empathy for everyone on screen, oft as they got the screws turned on them by the fates of our modern institutions. And in doing so they crafted one of the most "note-perfect" bits of plotting from start to finish.

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        21. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          And finally Buffy, for the endlessly surprising and thematically-driven teen monsters adventures that doubled for the trials and tribulations of growing up. And it was a show that often dared to fail in order to hit unimaginable heights along the way.

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        22. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          It's no accident that all three were perhaps the most thematically-driven shows of our time, yet none sacrificed any bit of entertainment in that pursuit. They showed us the joys of what is possible. So there's no way I could make an argument for one over the other...

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        23. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          And now, I happily include Avatar: The Last Airbender in their company. Because it is among the best televisions shows I've ever seen. But it doesn't need me to say that... It validates itself.

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        24. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          Fo Avatar: The Last Airbender is the best interpretation I've seen of the epic tradition that I've seen on television. It nails journeys both small and large, internal and external, from moment to moment and to the grand distances of our beautiful arcs.

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        25. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Apr 2019

          And so, all I can really offer of substance is my deepest thanks to you for sharing it with me. And I just hope you know how endlessly lucky you were to have had it in your lives. Because I now feel that way too. <3HULK

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