Thursday, May 26, 2011

Mark Watches 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' S02E06 - The Blind Bandit

Over at Watches the greatest character ever created debuts in ‘The Blind Bandit!’ (Biased? Me? Never!)

Spoilers (and BENDING BATTLE!) below!



Sokka
+1 for agonizing over buying a bag
+1 for getting into professional earthbending that quickly
+1 for being happy his belt matches his bag. He’s so metrosexual
+1 for ‘water tribe’

Katara
+1 for finding out where the match is by kicking ass
+1 for smacking Sokka for booing Aang
+1 for threatening the punks
+1 for having her eye on him
+1 for convincing Toph to help

Aang
+1 for recognizing that The Boulder only listens to his muscles
+1 for knowing that Toph is his teacher
+1 for taking Toph out
+1 for trying to talk Toph into being his teacher in public

Momo
+1 for taking over Sokka’s bag

Master Yu
-1 for offering to give Aang the next belt level for paying more money. Not how martial arts works.
+1 for recognizing that Toph is a master

The Boulder
+1 for defeating the Hippo
+1 for going on a winning spree
+1 for getting over his conflicted feelings
-1 for claiming Toph cheated
-1 for taking part in the kidnapping

Fire Nation Man
+1 for being ‘That guy’ who is purposely the bad guy in professional wrestling
+1 for the HILARIOUS national anthem
-1 for taking part in the kidnapping

Toph
+1 for the smacktalk
+1 for the demonstration on how she can see
+1 for taking down The Boulder in two moves
+1 for playing the helpless little girl role so easily
+1 for stopping Aang from telling her parents about her bending
+1 for explaining her ‘seeing’ ability
+1 for going back for Aang
+1 for taking them all down single handedly
+1 for going with the Gaang
+1 for getting even and taking her belt back

Shin Fu
-1 for thinking Toph cheated
-1 for kidnapping Toph

Toph’s Parents
-1 for being way too overprotective
-2 for sending bandits after Toph

Appa

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Toph deserves all the points. (So excite!)
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mou issai · 732 weeks ago

Aww...I love these shorts. Tiny Zuko is cute. And so is everyone else. Hee Iroh. "But Fire is the best!" I honestly can't choose; all the elements plus boomerang are awesome.
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Teaspoon Capacity · 732 weeks ago

I am so excite!!! I've been waiting for this review ever since Mark started season 2. Toph is one of the biggest badasses to ever grace the screen, which is saying a lot. I expect keyboard mashing!
KIND OF RIDICULOUSLY EXCITED FOR THIS EPISODE <3 <3 <3

Something tells me Toph will run away with all the points this season. :D
2 replies · active 732 weeks ago
Adding in my EXCITE!

Oh man, cannot WAIT to see Mark's thoughts on Toph! For me, she still vies for favorite character with Iroh! (Which I don't think either of them would mind, and rather than duke it out for the top spot they'd sit down for tea...unless they felt like sparring...which would be amazing)
Whenever I decide to watch me some Avatar I almost never watch anything from season one (except maybe the finale) for the sole reason that it doesn't have Toph in it. <3 <3
I keep checking Mark's twitter feed for something along the lines of:

"THE BLIND BANDIT!!!!!!!!! OAJNWEPIFUWNEOIRGBEOIRG!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
SO EXCITE
HOLY SHIT GUYS THIS IS GONNA BE INTENSE.
TOPH TOPH TOPH TOPH TOPH!
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riverdear · 732 weeks ago

MARK post your review already so I can go back to being productive!!!
Toph. FINALLY WE get to Toph!
Considering how excited Mark was for Teo in The Northern Air Temple, I hope there'll be keyboard mashing. SO EXCITED.
shaking and foaming from excitement!
This is the best Thursday of all time.
So...someone on Mark Reads suggested that someone go to the library to check out the books and all I could think of was Sokka saying

"I'm going to spend my vacation... at the LIBRARY!"
1 reply · active 732 weeks ago
...aaaaand now we're to the part of the day where I start refresing the page a lot...even though I know we won't see it for another ten minutes.

...patience is haaaaaard
COME ON MARK HURRY HURRY
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riverdear · 732 weeks ago

IT'S UP
3 replies · active 732 weeks ago
grrr where is itttt
"Seriously, there’s no doubt in my mind that Toph will become one of my favorite characters on this whole show, possibly even #1.

Nah, just kidding. UNCLE IROH FOREVER.
"

What do we think? Is Toph gonna displace Iroh in Mark's heart?

(I'm guessing not, myself, but I do think she'll be right behind Iroh, beating Sokka and Zuko.)
2 replies · active 732 weeks ago
Quite predictably, Mark loves Toph.

...

Yeah, I know, understatement of the year.... :P
I'm really excited for Zuko Alone tomorrow, but I'm also really excited for The Chase, which is currently my favorite episode of Season 2 on rewatch. Sooo.... do you all think we should help Mark along in thinking that a certain character dies at the end of The Chase? Because I for one seriously thought he was dead and I was beyond upset.
12 replies · active 732 weeks ago
Looks like "Toph(bunches of numbers)" is back?
http://intensedebate.com/people/Toph13139

something about the sing-song way the comment is typed sets my teeth on edge
5 replies · active 732 weeks ago
Hey, what are the rules about linking to supplemental stuff in the main blog? Someone linked two of the SD shorts in the comments to the Blind Bandit review.
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