It's the last day of Avatar Week here (did I forget to mention that was a thing?) and I decided to end it with something I haven't done in a while: picking apart a huge selection of things and sharing my own personal favorites for reasons that only I can really understand.
I mean, seriously, I put "Santa Claus and His Old Lady" in my top eleven Christmas songs and I went so far as to say that the Purple Man wouldn't work in the Marvel Cinematic/TV Universe. I also said Man-Ape would be a great addition to the Cinematic/TV universe.
Clearly I often have no idea what I'm talking about.
However, be warned, there are spoilers ahead (naturally).
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Monday, December 14, 2015
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Season One
Have you ever heard about something that's insanely popular, but you just avoided it anyway? Maybe you think that things the "masses" like are invariably low-brow and for people without good taste, like Transformers movies, or the music of Ariana Grande, or (ugh) 50 Shades of Gray. Perhaps you're just dissatisfied with the "big, huge" events that become movies, TV shows, or music, and you prefer simpler things. Maybe you're a hipster. Maybe there's just so many amazing things out there that you just don't have time to see them all, so when you do finally decide to give it a chance, you're hopelessly behind and can't catch up (see: my experience with Lost).
Whatever reason people have, it means that sometimes you miss out on something that's actually really good. For example, during a brief "pfft, how good can a cartoon for kids be these days" phase some years ago, I found out that a lot of people were really into this series called "Avatar: The Last Airbender." I was convinced at the time that every cartoon that was something adults would like tended to be something akin to Dragonball Z, Squidbillies, or Aqua Teen Hunger Force, namely bad animation with weak stories that were often just links between dumb action sequences or stupid jokes.
I didn't really realize just how huge it was until I heard a movie was going to be made based on it, at which point I went "okay, maybe there is something to it if it's going to get a movie franchise like The Hunger Games or the Harry Potter series." This was, of course, before we would learn just how much a movie can disappoint fans of a large franchise that wasn't Star Wars.
But after putting it off for years, I finally decided to give the show a shot. I figured I owed it to myself to know what I was talking about if I said something didn't interest me or wasn't along my personal tastes.
Silly me, sometimes things are popular because they're actually really good.
Whatever reason people have, it means that sometimes you miss out on something that's actually really good. For example, during a brief "pfft, how good can a cartoon for kids be these days" phase some years ago, I found out that a lot of people were really into this series called "Avatar: The Last Airbender." I was convinced at the time that every cartoon that was something adults would like tended to be something akin to Dragonball Z, Squidbillies, or Aqua Teen Hunger Force, namely bad animation with weak stories that were often just links between dumb action sequences or stupid jokes.
I didn't really realize just how huge it was until I heard a movie was going to be made based on it, at which point I went "okay, maybe there is something to it if it's going to get a movie franchise like The Hunger Games or the Harry Potter series." This was, of course, before we would learn just how much a movie can disappoint fans of a large franchise that wasn't Star Wars.
But after putting it off for years, I finally decided to give the show a shot. I figured I owed it to myself to know what I was talking about if I said something didn't interest me or wasn't along my personal tastes.
Silly me, sometimes things are popular because they're actually really good.
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