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Nitpicky but generic observation
I was watching Avatar and although overall it's very shiny, there's this one thing that drives me crazy. I just watched the Painted Lady episode, and I am not pleased.
Yes, it's very heroic of you to want to save everyone. Very -- Nickelodeon cartoon of you, even. But the one small problem is that it's stupid.
The lives of these people will be better if you take down the Fire Lord. You don't need to chase off every bully you meet on the way to the Fire Lord. Those bullies belong to him. If you fix the big problem, the little problems will be much easier to overcome, if they don't vanish entirely.
But because we had to cry about little problems, three or four days of time that is hypothetically really precious (even losing one day required an extra hour of travel daily to get to the Fire Lord in time) were wasted. And in the meantime, you lied to all your friends, endangered your world-saving mission, and set an army of firebenders on an innocent village. And then you taught them a lesson about helping themselves -- not that you ever once tried to get them to do that.
I really wish you would have learned something, instead of being the moral high ground there. Aang had to learn something when he tried to do things all by himself. But that was like, two whole episodes ago, and we need to havefiller episodes of cute and uplifting to get through before plot resumes, right?
Bah.
Yes, it's very heroic of you to want to save everyone. Very -- Nickelodeon cartoon of you, even. But the one small problem is that it's stupid.
The lives of these people will be better if you take down the Fire Lord. You don't need to chase off every bully you meet on the way to the Fire Lord. Those bullies belong to him. If you fix the big problem, the little problems will be much easier to overcome, if they don't vanish entirely.
But because we had to cry about little problems, three or four days of time that is hypothetically really precious (even losing one day required an extra hour of travel daily to get to the Fire Lord in time) were wasted. And in the meantime, you lied to all your friends, endangered your world-saving mission, and set an army of firebenders on an innocent village. And then you taught them a lesson about helping themselves -- not that you ever once tried to get them to do that.
I really wish you would have learned something, instead of being the moral high ground there. Aang had to learn something when he tried to do things all by himself. But that was like, two whole episodes ago, and we need to have
Bah.