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Starting point is 00:01:41 That was great. I do think after Zuko kicked all those earthbender's asses that he easily could have punched a at least once or twice in the last episode. That's what I think about that opinion. Okay. Ramble on. Go ahead. You're the one who talks all the time.

Starting point is 00:02:09 I know. Not's your turn. It seemed like a lot. I love the episode. I thought it was really well done. I love that they're interweaving stories that happen in a singular episode, an avatar, into the long-term story here. So it's like multiple episodes smushed together, but it's done really.

Starting point is 00:02:30 really well like that love one the love the love the love kiss you not remember that from the first one no well I won't spoil it but it's a whole separate episode oh and they've interwoven it here I don't know if they're going to bring the component that was in the animated show that made it like what it was in the animated show because they did the whole brother-sister thing and then the overall theme here is relationships and overcoming the trauma with the people around you with your friends and family um and i think that's really well done and not focused on like a romantic singular interest if that makes sense yeah so i really i really think they're doing a very very good job of condensing a lot of episodes into a long-term story here in the

Starting point is 00:03:30 short amount of time they have for what eight episodes yeah well they're not they're not just singularly condensing they're also expanding on yeah and they get creative yeah with how to you know have characters interact i mean we're to add new things to expand upon the story that we may know other people may not know but you're getting fully more in my opinion more fleshed out yeah stories here elements to make it more fleshed out yeah and you know there's there's qualities that come in in terms of the animated show that come in later on in the animated series that they're bringing over earlier yeah uh in ways that still feel earned that make authentic yeah they feel sincere to the journey and they they make it for a different journey and and like i think the

Starting point is 00:04:25 most obvious one is with the main focus being Iro and Zucco here, you know, seeing like Iro at the funeral and the words, the words he exchanges with Ira at the funeral and then how Iro's there for him before he sets sail, choosing to go kind of at the last minute. Parallel because you see Zucco sit next to his uncle at his darkest time and then it's paralleled where his uncle is standing next to Zucco. during his darkest time saying you're not alone you know it's a parallel that's very well done yeah for an episode called into the dark so much about it is love conquering during the darkest times in our lives and getting these softer sides of zucco earlier on because yeah i mean zucco's

Starting point is 00:05:12 i mean at least for the anime counterpart i remember just he was so gung-ho mr angst all the time there's a while before whiny complaining in my opinion i didn't like him i didn't enjoy watching him it was eventually loved him when more of these aspects started coming into the fold but that was like way later you know so but to implement it here it creates a different journey and i think it's kind of necessary for for live action storytelling because it's not a one-to-one where you're trying to just establish like what they've made distinctly clear here is fire lord ozi is the ultimate villain um whereas in the i remember in the anime show experience they were trying to sell you on Zuko is the villain in the first season and then the world would get bigger where but but I loved

Starting point is 00:06:01 I love what they did here because yeah I mean we know of Iro's backstory but seeing the affect that it has on other people in a way that feels like true like war suffrage effect and I like I like I like how he doesn't try to gain this soldier's sympathies you know like it would feel he's not so apologetic and like I'm so like or being like I understand I went through my losses too you don't know like there's nothing about that like he knows he can't change the soldier's mind and he stays stern uh there is in some ways he's kind of giving the soldier what he wants yeah which is the soldier wants to punish iro the soldier wants to see him as someone without humanity and he's giving him that yeah you know so i think

Starting point is 00:06:44 it's very nuanced there uh i think this was like other than a couple of like silly moments that were intentional silly is a very serious most mature is a very mature episode um like it feels very adult you know because then on the flip side you get the trauma that this soldier experienced at the hands of iro then you get boomy as well and what ing's departure from his life meant and while i don't like the overly guilty because i think it's pretty clear ing didn't choose to leave he wasn't like escaping. So I feel like that's a message that's lost. So a lot of the time when they're guilting him, I'm like, it's not like he fled. He thought war was coming and he ran and purposely locked himself in a nice thing for a hundred years. It wasn't his choice. He's here

Starting point is 00:07:35 now, you know, but there's still that resentment of feeling abandoned for all those years and what he had to go through for all those years. Yeah, well, everyone, the belief that everyone had all this time was that he fled in some way and that's no no one saw him leave i thought it was that they would kill them because they said they killed all the oh yeah that's true maybe yeah well regardless uh but isn't the avatar reborn in some way right yeah the avatar's always reborn um yeah i'm not sure i i do think i think it was a little bit more i remember the fight really well with Boomy. But if I recall correctly, Boomy in the animated show, Boomy's like weird and welcoming and creepy and he fights him. And then he reveals that he's booming. Yeah, I think it happens

Starting point is 00:08:30 at the end. Yeah. And so they did a complete inverse here where he reveals his Boomy upfront. And I don't recall Boomy harboring all this resentment towards him. And like I said, there's a lot of like actual changes that I think in terms of adapting that I think are more effective for this version they're telling. Agreed. And I'm not 100% sure how I feel about the boot. You know what it is? It's not that I didn't like it, but I did find it the least effective out of all the stories we cut to here.

Starting point is 00:09:04 Like, like, it was the one I was looking forward to the most. And it was the one that I didn't find that emotionally impactful. Because like, like everything was sock on guitar, I thought was more fleshed out, more nuance and I think what the execution they've been doing with Saka has been really really good because he's not they find moments to still bring out that that goofball that we love at him and the the side that shows that yeah well he's like capable and everything there's still like a dweeb inside of him that comes out but that's not what he's dumbed down to yeah you know yeah he's kind of like dumb and it's a while before you're like oh he's just the comedic relief yeah and and here you

Starting point is 00:09:46 see that they they show the respect of where he's had to rise to and taking place of the father his father not being there and the the kinship between him and katar i think is really strong here like i thought this episode was very important for that and of course everything with zuko and iro was incredibly impactful both on their solo adventures but them as a unit and why their bond is so strong and i think making it really clear up front like this early on that they're not like just an antagonist you know that there's something way more to them they're also characters who are on a path of understanding that maybe their allegiances are not in the right place but then when it came to like boo me and and ang

Starting point is 00:10:35 um i kind of felt like the the lessons were not like i don't feel like anything was really earned from learned from that for it was like yeah no it was for a or any one real i mean the lesson be boom he learned yeah i guess boom he learns in him that whole thing of no i will like instilling faith again so i i understand that i thought it was a bit meandering in this execution i found myself becoming less and less interested when we kept cutting back to it interesting um to me is Naruto so I'm like yeah I know he is that character yeah so when he's that anime character that sits and like calms everyone down and like the talk no jutsu type thing that's his superpower um so it didn't bother me uh it is the less impactful storyline of the episode for sure in my opinion

Starting point is 00:11:35 but I wasn't like I don't know maybe I should I get what you're saying I should care more about story here honestly because he's the main character whereas i finish this episode and i'm like i can't wait to see iro and zuko like i want more of iro and zuko whereas we should want more of ang's journey i have noticed that we've been liking the show more and more and it becomes less and less about ang's story weirdly enough and i'm wondering like maybe this is one of the i mean there's still four more episodes to go yeah but so far on this journey like episode one like we liked but our enthusiasm has definitely come more into the forefront at least our subjective viewing from episode two through four and that's usually when the other characters are becoming

Starting point is 00:12:30 bless you are becoming more center stage and taking more of uh more of the screen time and stuff and it's nothing on the actors really it's uh i don't really giving ing a lot to do It's not the most depth. No, it's not. And I don't know why. But that also makes sense. He has no connectivity to the world. Well, it's kind of, it kind of feels like a little repetitive.

Starting point is 00:12:54 Yeah. Everyone, he just shows up and people are guilty. Yeah. Where have you been? Dude. Where have you been, dickback? And, yeah. But, I mean, there's still four more episodes.

Starting point is 00:13:07 I think of the day, he is the main character. And. in the animated show experience in the beginning it was like ang my favorite character for sure and then then i would fluctuate between i would hover between other characters i think it was always ang for me yeah ing was great and then here he's it's not it's not the actor's fault no and again this is structured in terms of focus very different you know like the animation shows like 22 minute episodes and you're just watching ang and boomie for like two episodes whereas here you're cutting between different storylines that are all having a thin

Starting point is 00:13:40 dramatically line up with each other. And it's done really well. It's done really well, but usually it's the Aang story that is not the most interesting. Yeah, I agree. Which could be maybe the show's biggest detriment by the end. It could be, but also I think it's really smart to build up the side characters who are going to have larger parts outside of Aang later down the road. I am wondering with it being, because, you know, like, they are kind of combining elements from other seasons already.

Starting point is 00:14:14 Yeah. How many seasons do they want to do for live action and kids grow up, you know, like, how tall's angry to get? How many are they expecting out of this is the question? Well, they do that and they do three seasons. Isn't that looks like three seasons? They do three seasons and then you do Legend of Cora. All right, Reject Nation.

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Starting point is 00:18:03 oh man let you core live action that's gonna be dope it's gonna be dope but I'm I think this is my favorite so far of the animated series

Starting point is 00:18:15 and really yeah I'm really loving this honestly I'm super engaged I respect your opinion I don't respect yours so that's okay

Starting point is 00:18:26 that's okay I need to disagree I can respect that you don't respect my opinion I know you can because I can walk all over you. Amen to that. Amen to that, sister. But I hated Zuko. Like, I was not connected to him in the animated show and I felt like he was being shoved

Starting point is 00:18:44 down my throat, blah, blah, blah. That one guy telling me I'm going to love Zucco eventually. I'm like, I just don't get it. I don't get it. I don't like him. I find him whiny. He's so well fleshed out here. But you do love Zucco, but I remember our experience.

Starting point is 00:18:59 We got the thirds. We were really on board with him. the second season he does some shit and then the third season we loved him i remember that third season i loved him but i didn't for the first half of the third season remember i got a lot of hate for that but that's part of the back and forth of zooka that you're supposed to have in in the animated show i think i think you're supposed to have that and i really respect that a lot i respect that i care so deeply about i feel he's a fleshed out not one dimensional character here.

Starting point is 00:19:27 Fair. Whereas I did in the first season of the animated show. I felt he was super one dimensional. I feel like you'll get crap, not for your opinion on the live action, but for what you're stating about the animated show. That's usually how it goes. I'm expecting people to go watch our reactions. I'm expecting.

Starting point is 00:19:45 I respect what you're saying about the live action, but what you said about the animation. My concern doing this reaction was people are going to go to the Patreon, become Patreon members, watch my reaction be like, this fucking bitch hated the animated show for a while. I had heavy criticisms. You were a strong feeler. I had heavy criticism. Yeah, you're a strong feeler. You have strong opinions. Like you know how you think and you know how you feel. Whereas I'm always like trying to figure out how you think and feel. You know how you think and feel. And so when you love it, you love it. When you're pissed at it, you're pissed at it. Yeah. And I think, I remember our journey with the third season being like, yeah, that was great.

Starting point is 00:20:28 I also remember a lot of the comments that I got. So the journey along the way, yeah. I am the Zucco of this reaction duo. Sure. Sure. So I'm fully expecting to have some controversial opinions. But for me, this is working really, really well. I think it gets better every episode.

Starting point is 00:20:52 I think it gets better every episode. I can't quite meet you on that one specific opinion about this being the best. But I still. Man, we really love Legend of Core and then they really messed some stuff. Legend of core. That was the journey that I was most like, wow, what's what I'm talking about? This is amazing. And then it was like, oh, God.

Starting point is 00:21:09 Oh, this is what everyone was talking about. Then it got great again. But then it got bad again. I remember for the most part being pretty solid. No, we did not like season two. Season two is the rough one. Yeah. But three and four were pretty.

Starting point is 00:21:23 Three, I remember three being, this is pretty awesome. And then four was like, kind of hovered, but for most part. But I really, I am liking this a lot. And it's surprising. And I appreciate their, I appreciate that they're not doing just a one-to-one adaptation as well. Like they are splicing and they are creating and they're building upon and they're giving flashbacks in unexpected ways and nuances and areas that one wouldn't expect.

Starting point is 00:21:57 And because they're structurally dealing with a different type of episode runtime, it's a lot in them an opportunity. And you can't, I don't think you can do a one-to-one adaptation of the animation. Like, it would be weird and jarring and pointless. You know, it would be really silly to just do a one-to-one. And maybe I understand nostalgia and I understand people. wanting, usually, to just be a one-to-one. But what's the point of that?

Starting point is 00:22:26 There's no point. And they're giving us something that feels a little bit more serious. So sometimes some of the more goofy stuff can feel a bit out of a place to me with the tone. Like some of the boomy stuff. It was a little. It was like, this is not tonally jiving with the rest of the episode for me. And so that was the part as a fan of the animated show to go, oh, this part I'm really looking forward to. And this part is not really working for me as much.

Starting point is 00:22:49 But everything else is really working. The cabbages. The cabbage is. My cabbages. That worked for me. I'm so happy we got cabbage man. Keep bringing him back. Keep bringing him back.

Starting point is 00:23:04 Because she's just like randomly everywhere. Everywhere throughout the whole show. You're like, there's a cabbage man. He's always like, my cabbages. What became a jet? He was just frozen there. She did a post-credit scene. No, Jet comes back, remember?

Starting point is 00:23:17 Nobody did this episode. His Jet just like. Somebody let me out. No, he's got like a bunch of Peter Pan friends around him. They're going to come around. Yeah, Rufio. That's who he is. He's Rufio.

Starting point is 00:23:27 Yeah, his little Peter Pan. Lost Boys. A little lost boy crew. Lost boys. Never seen that movie. You've never seen Peter Pan. Never seen The Lost Boys. I've never seen the animated Peter Pan.

Starting point is 00:23:39 Never seen the animated Peter Pan? No. Should I do a reaction? No, you should just watch it with me. Uh, no, no, no. That's not the way life works anymore. Right now, I know. I've never seen The Lost Boys either?

Starting point is 00:23:54 No. Wow. Oh, reaction. No. No, please God. What? Can we not have an authentic life? We're YouTubers.

Starting point is 00:24:07 I am not. I'm married a one. There is no authenticity in our life. Everything you say makes me go, should there have been a camera pointed at this moment. I'm aware. I'm aware. Could I have monetized this conversation we're having in some way?

Starting point is 00:24:27 Okay. Well, I want a divorce, so. And if we've logged the journey, I could pay you for those divorce bills. That's the thumbnail title. He's like the perfect thumbnail. Reaction to episode of what for divorce. Question mark, exclamation mark. She wants to divorce me, question mark.

Starting point is 00:24:47 With a shock phase. and you say you're not a YouTuber you know exactly what you're doing you're the real mastermind behind all this all righty well I'm going to go work on editing thank you guys so much talk for the Lsuit

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Starting point is 00:25:30 verb noun name I've ever heard in my life I don't understand why you haven't open up a gardening business where you're just doing it while running the whole time just like I'll run from one yard to the next doing it

Starting point is 00:25:48 fast as I can's your whole gimmick you have to be running and chasing down and what do you do you chase roots down my friend you're chasing down the best place for photosynthesis to occur in the garden my man imagine that kind of life that you could have there and then check this out while you're garden chasing as what is what they call the activity you find a dead body in one of the gardens right it's all full of like worms and it's it's skeletal structure it's disgusting it's all completely rotten to the core and you found it and then you decided like take it out you call the police for them to go pick it up and then what's there in your gardening business a little fancy medieval book what is this book oh there's how to read instructions going on here and fortunately

Starting point is 00:26:42 the client who you are now guarding for they speak The ancient language there to read, even though they're like, don't read from the book. You're like, I'm Chase Gardner. I chase after things. That's my job is to dig up the truth. Chase knowledge. And then boom, you read from the book and that corpse comes to life. Plot twist, that corpse is actually your biological girlfriend.

Starting point is 00:27:13 Oh. It's a miracle By DNA science You were able to find and revive her Yeah man It's a family reunion and a family reunion All at the same time And you live your life happily together

Starting point is 00:27:29 Yeah That's what That's what Chase Gardening Incorporation That's what the chase gets you When you don't give up Immortality What I'm talking about

Starting point is 00:27:41 I got this I think that was about as smooth That is the smoothest one of the day That is the smoothest one of the day

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