Avatar: The Last Airbender

Talked about that a few months ago, too. It struck me as odd they counted that as a two-parter (even though I'd bet good money it was never meant as such) while the previous two episodes, that were also grouped together as "The Fury of Aang" special, are counted as seperate.

For that matter, why isn't "Seige of the North" grouped together? It's obviously a two-parter!

Edited by drac0blade on Mar 8th 2021 at 6:53:56 AM

Because screw normal and sane release schedules for cartoons when networks can do whatever their money-grubbing executives want.

I'm talking about Netflix, not Nick. Nick did show the season one finale as a two-parter.

*2. Wow, you decide to do a social critique, just because the Netflix folks forgot to put two episodes together.

No, I just thought we were still talking about Nickelodeon originally doing that rather than Netflix doing the same thing.

Season 3 and 4 of legend of Korra is missing when they brought it back on Netflix Canada, the account belong to my father so could someone report it to Netflix to know what's going on. If not, where to watch the rest?

For what it’s worth, the Blu-ray release of the series splits and merges the two-parters in the same nonsensical way. I expect Netflix just got the files that way and it’s not up to them to change it.

If you mean where to watch in Canada, those 2 seasons on Netflix are your best shot without buying the series. Otherwise, you'd have to look into another country (Netflix US has all 4 seasons).

I was taking a look at Iroh's action scenes to get a better feel for how he fights, and I notice that he has a clear preference for close-range hand-to-hand fighting, and for using his bending for (heat) convection. Those are pretty rare focuses among firebenders.

I also noticed that his spirit world appearances had him in decidedly Earth Kingdom clothing, with not just the green coloring, but the squares inside circles. Maybe he preferred his time in Ba Sing Se to his life in the Fire Nation.

Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Mar 11th 2021 at 7:34:40 AM

Why can't you report it to Netflix yourself?

As per previous talk on what if Avatar was a fighting game, I've finally found a great video of Pokkén Tournament to explain why it's the format I'd use, in the top video below. This video also explains different types of characters that exist in fighting games, which is good to know for how certain Avatar characters could work.

The second video is a beginner's guide for Tekken (specifically Tekken 7), to explain how traditional martial arts are translated into fighting games. This would explain the control scheme, and how hand to hand combat would go once one is in a shorter range than bending would allow. Additionally, accounting for how certain bending moves are either too large or unsafe for close range combat (lightning, for example), explains and balances out the non-benders (like Suki, Jet, and Ty Lee) and the close-range bending specialists like Tonraq or Ming Hua.

This post contains drac0blade's thoughts on a 2D fighter, though I still don't think that would represent Avatar as well as I'd like.

This post contains my thoughts on a possible roster.

Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Mar 11th 2021 at 3:07:31 AM

tl-dr: Bumi's character introduction was great. Here's why.

Continued my re-watch (I had to stop as things were busy on my end). In "The Runaway", how did those Fire Nation troops know that Toph can bend metal? I get that Combustion Man ratted her and Katara out (hence the wooden cage to prevent Toph from Metalbending and Katara getting arrested because she was to get the money while Toph escaped had she been thrown in a metal cell) but how did Combustion Man know that Toph can bend metal and that Katara "ratting out" Toph was a trick?

Edited by HallowHawk on Mar 20th 2021 at 10:07:55 PM

Did Zuko know somehow? He could have told him. Or word spread among the Fire Nation soldiers.

They knew Toph was an Earthbender, and the floors and walls would still be made of stone that she’d be able to dig through and escape, so they went for wood, which is easier and faster to build and equally as (seemingly) unbendable as metal. Also Combustion Man was already looking for them and knew the group’s description, so he probably told them “if anyone fitting this description turns her in, they’re actually accomplices.

Just rewatched "The Library" yesterday, along with my parents (I'm introducing the series to them for the first time).

I still hate Wan Shi Tong for being such an unhelpful fool.

He let them stay inside

Worst. Librarian. Ever.

I like to pretend that Wan Shi Tong's fox servants eventually got tired of his crap and banded together to kick him out of the library.

Now that I gotta see.

Eh, he graciously let them stay, and Sokka lied to him and stole his shit. And considering his memories of the last time a human was there, I'm not particularly surprised by his reaction.

Almost done with the series, having finished "The Ember Island Players" and as Sokka read out from the poster advertising "The Boy from the Iceberg", prisoners of war, presumably those who surrendered from the failed Black Sun Offensive, were mentioned to be sources the playwright Pu-On Tim "consulted". Who would have been the type to rat out Aang and his friends?

I think it's more a joke about gossiping than anything that serious. The joke is that the play is cobbled together from gossip and hearsay as much as from actual facts.

You never heard of the Cabbage Merchant?

Though it should be noted that the writer was an Earth Kingdom playwright, and no one specifies which prisoners of war they were talking about...

Edited by Shadao on Mar 21st 2021 at 11:13:26 AM

It could also refer to those earthbenders on the barge prison.

The problem is that Wan Shi Tong (along with other spirits — this isn't just a problem that's isolated solely to him) demand respect and compliance from humans without doing anything to ensure their wellbeing in return.

For all that we get of Wan Shi Tong's character from that episode alone, the world could burn under the Fire Nation's grasp and he wouldn't give two craps, as long as his "oh-so-precious" library is respected.

Nah, f*ck him.