Mark Spoils: Mark Watches 'Avatar: The Last Airbender:' S02E03 - Return to Omashu

Friday, May 20, 2011

Mark Watches 'Avatar: The Last Airbender:' S02E03 - Return to Omashu

Over at Watches the review for ‘Return to Omashu’ should be up soon.

Spoilers (and Rejected with Good Reason) below.

Aang
+1 for going to find Boomi
+1 for saving Mai and her family
+1 for releasing Flopsey
+1 for surfing Boomi to safety
+1 for the fight with Azula
+1 for returning Tom Tom to his parents

Sokka
+1 for being stuck with the sewage…. So there was a repeat illness episode, right?
+1 for figuring out how to get everyone out of town
+1 for hugging Flopsey
+1 for protecting Tom Tom and getting Katara away

Katara
+1 for helping Aang get away from Mai
+1 for making Aang feel better
+1 for taking care of the baby no matter where he’s from
+1 for the fight with Mai and Tai Lee

Appa

Momo
+1 for accidentally stealing Mai’s brother through the pursuit of food

Old Women Twins
+1 for being good evil advisors for Azula

Azula
+1 for assembling the team. I kept on imagining the Rocky theme in my head
+1 for making Tai Lee’s life a living hell to make her join her party
+1 for the fight
+1 for surfing after Aang

Mai
+1 for being the poster child for teen angst
+1 for being an expert with those throwing knives
+1 for the fight with Katara

Tai Lee
+1 for wanting to stay with the circus
+1 for going with Azula before things got too bad
+1 for knocking out Katara’s bending

Boomi
+1 for being to earthbend while trapped in a steel box
+1 for being a great strategist while appearing to be a senile old man
+1 for bending his way back to prison

Flopsey

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H. Torrance Griffin · 733 weeks ago

Appa needs a point for the rescue.

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spectralbovine 140p · 733 weeks ago

Sorry to be pedantic, but, hi, I'm pedantic.

Boomi -> Bumi
Tai Lee -> Ty Lee
Flopsey -> Flopsie

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hpfish13 115p · 733 weeks ago

So I'm not sure where to post this, but I just watched Sherlock and am now trying to read the reviews.

But the link for the second episode doesn't work! I don't know what to do!

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hpfish13 115p · 733 weeks ago

Yikes!!! I didn't realize Ty Lee was introduced in this episode. I was her for Halloween, and I want to post pictures, but I haven't uploaded them to the internet yet.

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Medli 141p · 733 weeks ago

Yay, the debut of Mai and Ty Lee! :D I love this episode just for that!

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nanceoir 111p · 733 weeks ago

Completely random and not related at all to this episode, but would any of you happen to have a link to that... gif, I think it was (though my brother keeps talking about it as a video, so I'm not sure anymore) of the various fucking clown bits in Doctor Who? For some reason, my brother is requesting it, but I didn't save it.

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agrinningfool 84p · 733 weeks ago

Ozai's Angels by Finni

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spectralbovine 140p · 733 weeks ago

I give up. Mark is going to refer to everyone in the Earth Kingdom as Earthbenders all the time forever and ever.

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Medli 141p · 733 weeks ago

I AM SO HAPPY MAI IS GETTING SO MUCH LOVE FROM MARK AND SEVERAL OTHER COMMENTERS. (And that I wasn't the only one to pick up on the similarity to Daria!). Seriously, I have trouble understanding why fandom would hate her. Is it just that she "gets in the way" of the Zutara ship? It is, isn't it? Sigh. I know fandom in general too well. :S

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Alexander · 733 weeks ago

I can’t pretend to know who on earth is a master of neutral jing and how that’s going to help Aang find the best earth bender

A master of neutral jing? One who listens before striking? Try a blind girl that kicks ass!
Now I'm all giggly what is wrong with me!!

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chichichimaera 93p · 733 weeks ago

I've just realised that next Thu/Fri we are going to get The Blind Bandit and the Zuko Alone. I AM SO EXCITE. :D :D :D :D :D xD

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spectralbovine 140p · 733 weeks ago

SUPERMILD SEASON TWO TERMINOLOGY SPOILER

Man, I deliberately refrained from calling them DANGEROUS LADIES! Now I'm reporting everyone who does it! I am the DANGEROUS LADIES POLICE.

(Before I got into the show, my friends were calling them dangerous ladies, and I had no idea it was actually a phrase from the show, so I was delighted when it turned out Sokka originated the term.)

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echinodermata 118p · 733 weeks ago

I'm just thinking about general characters fandom seems to hate for being female. So River Song and Mai are popular on Watches, and that is a VERY GOOD THING, imo.

But I don't remember: was there a lot of love for Ginny during HP days? Obviously the slut-shaming thing happened, but outside that, did Ginny get a lot of love in the comments? Can't remember.

I figure readers of Mark kind of self select for not irrationally hating on female characters, possibly because Twilight criticism is based in a lot of feminist arguments, and that's where Mark started, so.

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Medli 141p · 733 weeks ago

So I am kind of ridiculously amused by something said by the commenter Patrick721. "Just imagine Azula trying to flirt. She'd either be scarily good at it, or awkward as hell because she can't really use fear for it."

I CAN IMAGINE IT, ACTUALLY. AND IT IS AWKWARD AND FUNNY AS HELL. :D

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swimmingtrunks 92p · 733 weeks ago

DOCTOR WHO TIME-OUT

Oh my god I just read who wrote this next episode. =( Maybe if the guy who wrote School Reunion did a bit better with Vampires of Venice, there's hope for this episode too?

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Medli 141p · 733 weeks ago

WHY MUST PEOPLE KEEP DOING THAT COYLY VAGUE THING WRT MAI/ZUKO?!

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Medli 141p · 733 weeks ago

DOCTOR WHO NEWS RELEVANT TO AMERICAN VIEWERS

APPARENTLY THIS IS MY DAY TO GET ANNOYED AT EVERYTHING. They're delaying the last two episodes due to Memorial Day Weekend. Ugh. I'm not waiting.

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Tauriel_ 109p · 733 weeks ago

Slightly off-topic:

I've just had a very bizarre dream about the world of Avatar (just shows that I watch it too much... XD). It was a some sort of celebrations, like a "Four Nations Day" or something, obviously in the era of peace. There was this huge parade in which every nation had a float - I remember seeing the Fire Nation float and the Water Tribe float. And then Appa did a magic trick by disappearing a bunch of Water Tribe kids. XD Bizarre.

It looked like something that could take place in the Republic City in The Legend of Korra. OMG AM I HAVING DREAMS ABOUT THE FUTURE??!!!

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Tauriel_ 109p · 733 weeks ago

Anyway, as far as completely non-canonical ships go, I totally ship Ursa/Hakoda. <3 <3 <3 Thanks to this AMAZING (and curiously enough, canon-compliant) fanfic called "Guide Me Home": http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5266050/1/Guide_Me_Ho...

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