Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Mark Watches 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' S02E05 - Avatar Day

Over at Watches the review for ‘Avatar Day’ should be up soon.

Spoilers (and Kung Fu Panda) below!


Please be as good as the first one. Please be as good as the first one. Please be as good as the first one.

Momo
+1 for going after the spider and fly in Sokka’s mouth

Sokka
+1 for loosing poor old boomerang. A sad farewell to an old friend
+1 for his breakout pantomime
+1 for his detective hat and pipe
+1 for believing in the power of stuff
+1 for being reunited with Boomerang! How we missed that boomerang!
+1 for saying what they were all thinking

Appa

Katara
+1 for going back for her waterbending scrolls
+1 for putting out the Avatar statues
+1 for letting Sokka detective it out
+1 for smacking Sokka with his pipe
+1 for getting Kyoshi to testify
+1 for wanting community service
+1 for fighting with the rough rinos

Aang
+1 for going back for his staff
+1 for standing trial for past crimes
+1 for bonding with the other prisoners
+1 for dressing up like Kyoshi
+1 for using Kyoshi’s fans to defeat the Rough Rinos

Rough Rinos
+1 for being awesome!
+1 for interrupting everything!

Zuko
-1 for stealing from innocent people. Not cool dude. Uncle Iroh does not approve.
-1 for stealing money off the rich guy. Uncle Iroh still does not approve.
+1 for trying to find his own path

Iroh
+1 for telling Zuko what’s what
+1 for trying to give Zuko his hope back
+1 for letting Zuko fly the nest

Tong
+1 for making me think of Kung Fu panda constantly this entire episode
-1 for not accepting any evidence and having a warped sense of justice
+1 for making the new Avatar Day food unfried dough

Prisoners
+1 for bonding with Aang
+1 for not sticking with their sterotypes

Foamy!
+1 for fangasming out
+1 for sneaking away

Kyoshi
+1 for coming to testify
+1 for being that badass

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This part of the episode makes me laugh out loud every single time. Oh, Foamy.
3 replies · active 731 weeks ago
Tong should also get a +1 for reminding me of Chi Fu from Mulan.

This episode, for me, is like the "Great Divide" of this season, though a bit more memorable. I love Avatar Kyoshi and all her uncompromising badassery. "Yeah, I killed Chin the Great. He was a dickbag who pissed me the fuck off and wouldn't get out of my way when I was doing my Avatar thing. U mad?" Basically, I felt like Sokka at the end of this episode.
1 reply · active 731 weeks ago
every time tong opens his mouth, the only thing i see is chi fu from mulan. THIS PLEASES ME.
2 replies · active 731 weeks ago
FUCK YEAH AVATAR KYOSHI!

I can forgive this episode for a lot, because it has Kyoshi being Awesome. And Sokka showing off his smarts, but Kyoshi steals the show. <small>And I will never forgive the movie for replacing that in favor of "Kyoshi liked games".</small>
3 replies · active 731 weeks ago
I just like this episode for the little funny parts, because there's so many good ones. And for some reason, Sokka's comment at the end of "This is the worst town we've ever been to" just makes everything so much better.

Oh god tomorrow's episode can't wait!

Also, SPOILERS FOR SEASON 2 BELOW!

I just rewatched Zuko Alone and holy crap it's the pregnant couple from the Serpant's Pass! I never noticed that!
1 reply · active 731 weeks ago
"◦AND IN RESPONSE, ZUKO DECIDES TO STOP TRAVELING WITH UNCLE IROH.
◦can you hear my heart breaking
◦can we please have an entire episode devoted to this.
"

HAHAHAHA! Oh Mark...
2 replies · active 731 weeks ago
holy shit guys tomorrow's episode
5 replies · active 731 weeks ago
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mou issai · 731 weeks ago

SPOILERS FOR S3

Avatar Day yip yip! I can't think it without adding that phrase.

I refuse to imagine a world without Katara’s hair loopies. I refuse.

Ohhh... Those eventually go away.
5 replies · active 731 weeks ago
It's all uphill from here. Going through the rest of the season in my mind, I cannot think of a single ep that defers the wolfbatshit insane momentum the show gains in The Blind Bandit. THE ANTICIPATION, I FEEL IT.
19 replies · active 731 weeks ago
SO EXCITED FOR TOMORROW AND THE BLIND BANDIT!!!
3 replies · active 731 weeks ago
Brilliant. Another idiot with a spoilery username (Combustion Man). I reported them, of course.
1 reply · active 731 weeks ago
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MichelleZB · 731 weeks ago

You know, I didn't actually hate Avatar Day. I remember it as a filler episode, but I watched it again yesterday to remind myself about what it was about and really liked it.

I guess I like that it introduces the whole OMG IS IT RIGHT TO KILL AN EVIL DICTATOR moral dilemma from Season 3. But Mark doesn't know that.
8 replies · active 731 weeks ago
Rewatching City of Walls and Secrets right now.

“One doesn’t just pop in on the Earth King” makes me think of "one does not simply walk into Mordor." Are there macros and/or fanart for this?
3 replies · active 731 weeks ago
So everyone in the comments over at Mark Watches seems to agree that The Great Divide is the weak spot of S1, and this episode is the weak spot of S2. What's the corresponding ep of S3? People keep hinting that there IS one, but I can't really remember S3 well enough to know what it is. If I had to guess, I'd say "The Runaway."
9 replies · active 731 weeks ago

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