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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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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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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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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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
I've always had a bone to pick with this episode. I get that Katara is angry and is letting her emotions take control, but using bloodbending just seems so out of character based on how she felt about using it in "The Puppetmaster".
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Replying to @PulseFireGmr @pulsefiregamer
But the situations are completely different. One is a person she just met. The other target is the source of her greatest trauma and rage. It's not about the act, it's about it's about the motive.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
It just bothers me that in one episode it is treated with so much weight and importance and just a few episodes later she has zero qualms about using it. The guy she uses it on isn't even the one who killed her mother.
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I saw it as an illustration of how toxic her anger was. Having the person she did it to be the "right" person would have validated it.
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Though still, it just feels off to me that she uses it at all.
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Sorry, i don't mean to be pedantic. But the "offness" is the entire point of how far her anger is pushing her and is dramatically explained in the context of both her motivations and realizing it was wrong. In writing characters HAVE to be able to test their boundaries.
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If they don't, they would literally never change and there wouldn't be arcs and lessons and mistakes, etc. etc.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK @bread732
Oh, I absolutely think you should be pedantic with these types of things. I also think part of my problem is that I'm having trouble clearly identifying and stating my view and my reasoning behind it.
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