Everyone out here complaining about the ending. I’m just really upset my dude died his hair that hideous red color
Darci's character is cool but Mary Wang's got an antiquated idea of only boys asking out girls. Heteronormative and anti-feminist.
More creepy love fantasizing about the Mole mascot. If Strickler controls Angur Rot, then how is Angur Rot doing this stuff with the pixies? Weird.
This is the first episode where I can tell that the character animations weren't created with the more underplayed English voice acting in mind. The contrast of the dramatic lip flaps with the deadpan delivery is a bit odd, but the animation is dope and I like the direction this is going so far.
Quite enjoyed this series/season but didn't like the ending one bit.
Oh, you've really added that guy. So that's the direction of the show. Have not liked anything I've ever seen him do, including this character. Best of luck in your future endeavors. :(
Why the hell is Toni still with Cheryl lmfao. I would have gotten out there the second I saw her dead brother, like what the fuck.
Why is Cheryl so well liked again?
I'm not sure how I feel about Erin and James. I'm not completely adverse to it though. Usually perturbed when shows feel the need to add a romantic element to male x female friendships but its not totally annoying me. Do think it's unnecessary though and would be nicer without.
Ugh at Toby's "pillow fight" comment. That shitty character is sexist af!
I smiled when Gina popped up. Then she reminded us how annoying she is. Who actually missed her?
How did the FBI let Betty run this entire investigation alone for that amount of time? How are all these kids now teachers at their old highschool without a teaching degree? Why aren't all parents pulling their kids from that school like Lemure's parents did? I have so many questions every time I watch Riverdale and yet here I am... still watching.
I’m running out of things to say because I’m so bored
Immediately, I hear some sexism in Toby's resentment of Claire's gaining the Shadowstaff. She worked at it, dove for it, grabbed it, while Toby lost the Killstone. She deserves to have it while Toby's just a whiny shit bc male entitlement. Not a fan of Steve using the ableist "l*me" slur.
Why tf do they care about Spring King? I don't see the point of that.
Toby keeps blaming Claire despite everything going wrong being his fault for being incompetent and a jackass. Ugh.
wtf was the point of the truck-a-thon thing? Just part of the Spring King arc? Seemed very pointless.
The bully deserves any bad thing that happened to him, bc he brought it all on himself.
Everything about Toby's interactions with girls and women is creepy af. It's one thing if Toby uses the toxic masculinity concept of "wuss" but awful that Blinky does. It's very typical to portray indigenous people as savages and while the wumpa? are trolls, the same is done here. I don't "know" that it's racist but it feels like it is. Also, Toby's "song" is atrocious. Oof. The dancing is awful, too.
The special effect with the Shadowstaff was cool, though.
Not much happened, but it has the right amount of creepiness and it doesn't rely on jump scares alone. It actually manages to build up an eerie and tense ambience that makes you feel uncomfortable while watching the episode. It reminded me of Insidious because of that, something I consider to be a good thing.
I wasn't thrilled by this first episode, but I'm intrigued enough to keep watching the rest of the season.
I just wish I hadn't watched this right before going to bed... Sigh!
[9.4/10] I like Team Avatar. The group dynamic is fun, and the way the connections between them have been tested and strengthened over the series has been endlessly impressive. I like Aang, with the weight of the world on his shoulders despite his carefree personality. I like Katara, trying to hold everyone together despite impossible odds and omnipresent obstacles. I like Sokka, full of irreconcilable insecurity and overconfidence, coupled with sarcastic wit. I like Toph, who’s curt and non-nonsense in a way I appreciate. And I like the animal sidekicks, who provide physical comedy and adorable charm to the group.
But in the end, I’m most invested in Zuko’s story. Despite Aang growing and changing as he masters the four elements and trains to face Ozai, Zuko has the largest and most significant arc across the series. I’m not sure I would have believed it if you’d told me that’s how I’d feel after the first couple of episodes, where Zuko seemed like a generic evil prince with as much depth as a pancake. And yet here we are, where I’m not only glad that he is a regular presence in the show, but more excited and compelled by his turn to good than the course of any other character in the series.
Which is part of why it is so engaging, so endearing, to see him struggle to figure out how to be good, and also to convince others that he has changed. The way that Zuko practices his speech to Team Avatar on a frog, stumbling over his words and trying to apologize for his past misdeeds, state his intentions, and account for a gradual transformation that took fifty episodes is endearing. As Aang often does, Zuko seems like a real kid -- unsure of himself, plagued with self-doubt, and trying to encapsulate feelings and history that he doesn’t fully understand himself. Zuko is trying to outrun his own past, to make amends for it, and that is not and should not be an easy process.
That’s why I particularly love who is resistant and who is more open to embracing Zuko as a part of the group. Each has their reasons for being mistrustful or more welcoming to him. Sokka has the most generalized reasons, noting the laundry list of things Zuko’s done to them over the past weeks and months. Katara’s are more direct, with the events of Ba Sing Se leaving her feeling betrayed after she trusted and felt sorry for Zuko in the crystal caves, only to see him turn on her and Aang at the moment of truth.
And Aang himself harbors the sort of mistrust from being the object of Zuko’s pursuit, but there’s also a moment when Aang betrays his true motivations, or at least, feelings that muddy the water. Zuko rightly points out that Aang once said they might be friends in other circumstances, and both recently learned that the connection between the Avatar and Fire Nation royalty used to be much closer. Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but there’s a sense that Aang might want to forgive Zuko, to believe that there is good and him and help it flourish, but that doing so would mean that Aang has a mechanism to learn firebending, and that he must continue on this quest and face his destiny, something he seems very ready to avoid at all costs here.
But Toph is the perfect person to understand and be more willing to give Zuko a chance. For one thing, she hasn’t been with Team Avatar as long, and for much of her tenure, Zuko was figuring himself out rather than attacking the Aang gang, so she has witnessed less of the harm he is capable of inflicting. More to the point,.Toph understands what its like to have a family that doesn’t understand you, that tries to fit you into boxes and punishes you when you act outside of them. She is uniquely positioned to be a bridge between him and her friends, and it’s a nice use of the character.
It also doesn’t hurt that Appa licks Zuko with little-to-no resistance. It serves as a reminder that whatever ill Zuko’s done, he’s also done some good, including freeing the flying bison from Long Feng. It also speaks to a sort of instinctive endorsement from Appa, a sense that if this noble creature likes Zuko, he can’t be all bad.
Of course, it can’t be as simple as that. This is an action show and the people demand action. So beyond a simple, humanizing plea for forgiveness for the terrible things he’s done and for acceptance for the corrective things he hopes to do, we see Zuko lay himself on the line to try to stop Combustion Man even after he’s been rebuked.
It’s a nice sequence. I’ve come around on Combustion Man as getting by on presence and the coolness of his powers, and his (seeming) demise here plays to several things that have been previously set up. For one thing, it represents a present example of Zuko trying to correct for his mistakes, attempting to call off his goon, pay him double to stop, and then fight him when his efforts to implore his henchmen to relent fail, nearly plummeting to his doom in the process. If he were fully accepted after that, it would be too much too fast, but it works as a demonstration of the change he’s trying to convince Team Avatar of, and Katara’s continued mistrust prevents it from being too easy or convenient.
But it’s also a win for Sokka! It’s nice that this provides a unique opportunity for his boomerang to truly come in handy. At the same time, it shows off the incredible “set” of the Western Air Temple. The upside down buildings carved into the underside of a canyon shows great imagination, and it makes for a great playground for Aang and company to fly around in, but also a great setting in which to do battle, which heightens the thrill of the fight.
The funniest part of “The Western Air Temple” is Zuko’s impressions of his uncle and sister. Dante Basco outdoes himself here, not only capturing the affect of Zuko’s mentor and tormentor, but conveying the inner turmoil and abject hope the character has at this crossroads. Those impersonations are humorous in the moment, but call back to those dragons in his fever dream which spoke with the voices of Iroh and Azula, representing the battle of good and evil within him. We hope that this battle has been won and that Zuko is walking down the path of good, but it is an uneasy path, one where he must constantly account for his past mistakes and make assurances that his next steps will be different. That journey has been long, but it’s resulted in AtLA’s most complicated, interesting, and well-developed character, whose induction into Team Avatar is a cause for celebration.
haha, I remember this episode. Common theme in both this and Korra is friends being all jealous and insecure over how fast the Avatar learns lol
It does seem OP to not only get to know all 4 elements but to learn them easier too though lol
8.8/10. Maybe, just maybe, this is Avatar turning the corner. Or maybe I'm just starting get wrapped up in the awesome mythos of the show. I could be biased by Dave Filoni's involvement, but it feels like there's a lot of very positive Star Wars influence here -- the idea of a young kid with powers he doesn't understand trying to fight against an evil empire that controls the world, while attempting to recapture the powers and spirit of a lost age. I've been conditioned for that sort of thing to appeal to me, as the characters settle a bit, and I get more used to the animation style, Avatar is starting to cast its spell on me.
To the point, the opening sequence where our heroes and Prince Zuko try to run Commander Zhao's blockade is pretty much just empty action, and yet the flaming balls of fire in the sky, Appa ducking and dodging, the smoke billowing out of the back of Prince Zuko's ship, were all pretty stunning images that made for an exciting set piece. The show's started to find a balance of the cool action it's been capable of from early on and the mythos and worldbuilding that are its greatest asset.
There's also some clever writing at play once they get to crescent island. I love the notion of the once noble monks who lost hope and kowtowed the the Fire Nation, but there being one true believer who's willing to go against his brothers for the Avatar. And even the video game-esque plot obstacle of needing to open the giant door was fairly clever. The whole lamp oil plan seemed like kind of a cheat, but then using it as a fakeout to get the Fire Monks to open the door by convincing them Aang's in there and then sneaking in when they do is a very nice way to go about it. Even though the fight, including the renewed presence of Commander Zhao, is cool but a little convenient to getting Aang into the room with Roku by himself, it's a nice progression of events.
Once he gets in there and talks to Roku, things slow down a bit. There's nothing especially novel about Roku's reveals -- there's a big event coming up that will make the bad guy even stronger, it's how he got his powers immediately, and you have to get strong really fast to beat him. That's pretty standard fantasy epic stuff. But still, the comet, the Fire Lord, and the guidance of a voice from the beyond work well enough as hints toward the future, something to direct the trajectory of the series that it works. And Aang coming out as Avatar Roku and destroying the temple had a pretty epic feel in and of itself, something eventful and symbolic of the old era, the era of Roku ending, and a new era beginning.
Overall, these past two episodes have hopefully been the show finding it's groove. They've been exciting and compelling and further developed the contours of the show's world.
I'm 3 minutes into the episode and I cannot do this. Another musical episode with no storyline? No. Just NO!! What next? Riverdale on ice? Omg, if the writers have ran out of ideas, why can't they just write a good final season and cut their losses?
Edit: I skipped through the whole thing, so let me save you the grief of watching. All you need to know is that Betty and Archie kiss and realize they may have feelings for one another. Then, skip to 40:45 and watch the last few minutes.
Anyone else legit thought the therapist being the killer was just an act Boyle did to get Jake to talk? Just me? Ok.
I'm bummed we missed the squad meeting Jocelyn. ESPECIALLY JAKE. But seeing Holt fight to meet her is the next best thing. She seems pretty cool. I like her. :D
Again with the Holt soundboard, I love that thing! Someone should seriously make that a real app! Get. Some. Get. Some. Priceless!
Just one third short of a full The Lonely Island reunion, I hope they can get all three of them in an episode, eventually.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine never disappoints, but this episode definitely rose above the average. That ending was totally cuteness overload!
Oh my... the feels just keep on coming. I think that I've got a little something in my eyes...
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Sweet shirt bro ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Love Okuyasu. He's gonna be a welcome addition to the group for sure. Can't wait to see what Koichi's powers end up being. And as always, JoJo leaves me with my weekly dose of Savage Garden on its way out. The perfect ending.
Some things here don't make sense:
End of arc spoiler below:
2. Draining DIO's blood into Old Jojo should have turned him into a vampire. Every other time DIO's blood was passed on, the person turned, most recently Cool Ice (or Vanilla Ice, the one who killed Iggy). I don't think they could take back JUST Old Jojo's blood that DIO stole: once it's mixed, it's mixed. Not to mention, the whole "soul" leaving his body moment, but it wouldn't be the first time they played around with souls. So for that moment when Old Jojo was "just playing around", I 100% saw it coming as a real issue, and it still may be one later.
End of part one, I think I actually like this a little now, gonna try finish it
Had no idea she was a guy, did I miss the part where they mentioned that before or is this the first time it’s come up?
What an epic Sad episode,i really liked that one specially that skating scene,the soundtrack was awesome and full of memories and emotions
also about the ending scene was also good..
For real that's epic
thanks for who done this one
btw wasn't that light from Death note?
"In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good."
"I never would have given you to them. Not for anything. Don't cry. You're perfect."
This episode has some incredible quotes.
I know Hilda meant well, but she should've read the footnote. There was no reason for her to be in a rush!
I like this episode, it's good, but it has so much potential and could've used a few tweaks to improve it. For one, foreshadowing for the footnote would've been useful. There is no indication that there would be side-effects or that Hilda should've read some footnote. And two, that enchantment is kind of useless. It gives them good luck for thirty days but then steals their souls. What's the point of that enchantment? And what do you do with your friends' souls, anyway? Also, that autotune on David was a bit weird.
But I like what they tried to explore in this episode. Alfur is fantastic and helpful, as always. And they gave Frida a reason to be there, which is nice. It was such a simple story, but it works.
7/10
Holy crap. Awesome first episode. This is definitely going to draw comparisons to Attack on Titan. Same studio, art style and "humanity is screwed" themes. But zombies and steampunk!
We even have Sawano Hiroyuki doing the soundtrack again.
The first episode really hit the ground running with the action and introduction to this world and the characters. Definitely can't wait to see more.
I can't believe people are praising this awful, boring episode. Your standards must be low when you watch a Netflix series.
This should have been a 10 minutes long story told by one of the characters, intertwined with flashbacks. Not an entire episode dedicated to it, ffs.
