The Legend of Korra

Eh, I watched the original show a couple years (or maybe just a year, I dunno, I don't totally remember) after the finale had already aired, so I didn't quite have that experience, yet I still loved that episode.

Yeah, I binge watched the original Avatar over a few days and I still liked Ember Island Players.

Apparently the budget got cut, hence clip show.

Ha, really?

Ouch.

...wait for it...

I'm glad they made the most of a bad situation. Bryke are smart enough to avoid making this a total waste of our time, and Varrick's bit will at least be new.

Goddamn, Nick had it out for this show .

/)_-

...I wonder if they'll string the last few episodes together ala the Sozin's Comet "movie"?

So it's Nick's fault. Figures.

FUCK NICKELODEON.

Douches. They've gutted this franchise too many times for my liking. They don't deserve any support.

Happens in anime. It can happen here. Nothing to see here, ladies and gentleman. You can all go to your homes and rest easy.

It's god-awful when it happens in anime...

However, as said, "Ember Island Players". They even referenced it.

Hating it won't make it stop happening.

I predict an ending like the end to Neon Genesis Evangelion.

edited 20th Nov '14 9:10:01 PM by kyun

I got paid and bought the new Pokemon games today, I can live with having to watch a clips episode because some showrunners are too compassionate to fire a significant number of crew members.

They're so noble with their crew. I really do appreciate how they deal with a bad situation.

Well, now... who called that?

There will be no footage or dialogue at all from now on. The conclusion to the story will be edited together from old clips, with the context changed. Somehow, they will still manage to make it all comprehensible.

Am I the only one here that thought the Ember Island Players was a contrived, cringe-inducing bit of pointless filler?

Yes.

edited 21st Nov '14 12:41:22 AM by imadinosaur

It was pointless filler, but it was fun, self-deprecating pointless filler.

I wouldn't say it was that bad, but like "Tales of Ba Sing Se", it's an episode I find pretty overrated. It's amusing, but for my tastes, there's barely a single laugh-out-loud funny moment in it.

Then again, I'd almost question if the episode would work better if it were funnier. The episode mostly works as a calm breather before the explosive finale, so perhaps it is appropriate that the general feeling is just that of sitting back, relaxing and letting yourself be distracted by something that elicits no very strong reaction.

I dunno, Toph as a huge muscled dude was pretty hilarious.

I found that joke kind of confused. I mean, Aang being played by a woman makes some sense due to theatre conventions with similar parts, but there doesn't seem to be much reason for why they'd cast Toph that way. If, say, they'd made it so the theatre administration forced the writers to change the character to a man for marketing reasons, then the joke would at least have some kind of satirical point to it. And why was Toph so excited about it? Does she secretly wish to be a man? Her reaction didn't make a lot of sense to me. Given her ego, I'd expect her to react a bit less kindly to being so blatantly misrepresented.

I am a humourless stick-in-the-mud, but Avatar has still managed to make me laugh on a number of occasions. I guffawed like crazy over the band of hippies in "Cave of Two Lovers" and over Sokka hallucinating on cactus juice in "The Desert". "Ember Island Players" didn't make me laugh, it only made me smile.

edited 21st Nov '14 1:22:00 AM by DrDougsh

I think she liked the sonic scream.

I would laugh so hard if she actually does that so she can bend those airship for an airship slice.

It isn't that Toph wants to be a man or anything, it's just that she's so badass, and she knows that, that the Fire Nation can't imagine a being like that as a tiny 12 year old girl, so they made her into a huge, tough man. And I can see why she'd find that great, it's pretty in character for her.

Yeah, pretty much. Toph hates being seen as a helpless little girl. So what's the antithesis of that? A big buff man who sees by going ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH... a tough arrgghhh, not a girlish terror arrrggghhh.