Live Blogs Turtlebutter Watches Avatar The Last Airbender

Turtlebutter2012-06-18 09:58:16

I have been going to school year round for about 2 years now, working on a Bachelor's degree in Clinical Laboratory Sciences. My summer semester classes have been cancelled, so I find myself with a good deal of free time that Im totally not used to.

I have decided to give myself certain tasks to keep myself busy, and one of them is to watch Avatar the Last Airbender (henceforth referred to as ATLA) and liveblog about it.

I am going into this as a Virgin, the most I have seen about ATLA were some commercials for toys several years ago, and whatever random bits and pieces that have come up on the My Little Pony thread in Western Animation.

A few things about me... Im 32 years old, female, and somewhat disillusioned with television programming. I typically prefer to read or play video games so watching a long running television series is going to be a rather new thing for me. I like Ponies...

Oh, and MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD... just in case you couldn't figure that out on your own :P

So... kick back, relax, and deal with my excessive and improper use of elipses...!

Comments

Eegah Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 7th 2012 at 6:11:56 AM

By the way, there's currently a sequel series airing called The Legend of Korra, which is just as good and may even become better if it continues the way it's going.

Just about anyone will tell you season one is the show's weakest period, as the producers clearly lacked the clout to make the show they really wanted, and had to concede to Nickelodeon's requests to make it more for kids with stuff like Zuko's helmet landing on his butt in the pilot. This gets better as it goes along; there's still plenty of comedy, but it's largely character-based and naturally integrated.

Turtlebutter Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 7th 2012 at 7:54:28 AM

Yea I'm definitely disappointed by the general lack of seriousness so far. A bit too much on the pratfalls and such, but I'm going to stick with it because everyone has told me it gets better.

I may extend this to cover Korra if I still like ATLA when Im finished watching it.

MasterGhandalf Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 7th 2012 at 7:56:28 AM

Midway through the first season when you really start to hit meaty Myth Arc stuff is where it really starts to go from "fun" to "something really special", IMO. You're not that far off, actually!

Eegah Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 7th 2012 at 9:58:30 AM

And of course, now we have the Shyamalan film to show us how bad it's possible to make this story.

Seraphem Since: Dec, 1969

Jun 7th 2012 at 1:24:30 PM

It gets better later one, Season 1 is much more episodic and comedic, season 2 starts the heavy drama.