The Reel Rejects - AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER LIVE ACTION Episode 8 REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:00 This video is sponsored by Factory. All right, Boo Boo, Kchoochoo, let's see how Aung whoops everyone's ass in one big, gigantic episode. This is my favorite moment of the first season, so I'm very excited. All righty, what did you think? It was good. I actually liked that episode. I still, I don't know. I really like the Godzilla character.

Starting point is 00:01:28 But I feel like in the animated version, this was more fantastical, magical. I don't know, but I mean, it's animation, so I guess you could do more with it. Make it prettier. Okay, we'll be on the animation side as an episode itself, separating from it. I like it a lot. I have some quarrels with it. I got qualms, chum.

Starting point is 00:02:01 Yeah, yeah. I still am the least connected to Aing, and it is eight episodes, and the season is over, and I'm like, okay, well, I'm excited for Zuka's journey next season. I want to see more of the Fire Nation and Azola next season. This really should have just been called the Fire Nation, honestly. yeah i would i'm there with you on the on the ing quality of it i this is the biggest they went with fantastical for the show that is going for the gravitas and the grid like they've done fantastical stuff obviously with the spirit world the other creatures there um just inherently it's you know fantastical with what the show is uh but to go like that big with a monster and this is a this is a

Starting point is 00:02:49 sequence that is a very popular one and to bring it to life i thought a big part of it was about nailing down the multi-layers of tone there. And I thought they actually did a really good job. Interesting. What? I don't think they did a good job of relaying the relationship with the moon and the ocean. I feel like, especially that reunion could have been done better. I feel like it's more emotional.

Starting point is 00:03:17 I meant just when the drama was going down. I still feel like the tone of emotional importance. of the ocean losing his moon. I mean, that quality wasn't as strong to me. No, it wasn't. But the surrounding stuff. Which is the whole point of why he becomes the vengeance monster. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:03:40 Literally the whole reason. But I mean, I'm talking about the parts of it that were, yeah, I agree with you. On that specific quality, I agree with you. I'm talking specifically about the, like the buildup with Zhao, getting ready to you know kill the fish in the way he's like laying into and then where with the with the the change in the and the lighting when it's going from red to gray to blue and the destruction happening all around and the loss that was occurring while ang is in this form which is like the ultimate power but

Starting point is 00:04:15 it doesn't feel like conquest it just feels bleak and I thought that's those elements but yeah I mean they did have to like exposition remind me of oh yeah yeah that's why this is yeah yeah like it would be reunited because that's one of the problems with the show as a whole I think is it it can

Starting point is 00:04:36 sometimes get bogged down and information overload in the first show that chooses to expand upon some things it also causes a lot of things to not breathe and so there's a lot of things that happen that I just don't care of like I personally don't care of it

Starting point is 00:04:52 you know like the guy who whatever freaking ex-husband guy was to Princess UA. Oh, Han. Yeah. Like, he's nice. He's a good actor. It's not that. Like, I just, there's so much

Starting point is 00:05:07 treating you. He said, ah, slow motion. I'm like, yeah, I don't really give a shit, honestly. See, I like that as a fight scene, but the emotion behind it, like, see, that's where I'm like, we could have done without. We could have done without Han's backstory of being like the ex, and we

Starting point is 00:05:22 could have focused that into other things. because it really doesn't impact the story. Yeah, no, I think they, if they're, but this is where the show as a whole has a problem is, is that it comes into, and look guys, it's not a perfect show, all right? I hate to break it to you all. It's not a perfect show.

Starting point is 00:05:41 It's not a terrible show either, though. No, I don't, I would not, I saw Ron Tomatoes today. It's like, from critics, it's really bad. That's crazy to me. But from audience, it's like middling. and to me I'm honestly

Starting point is 00:05:56 at like a 70% with this show I'm like a 70 to 75% I say 75% depending on where I'm at with the show at the time one episode I mean yeah like two three and four I thought we're really strong six was really good

Starting point is 00:06:13 these last two so that were kind of middleing yeah they're fine I think what they did with like Zucco story I would definitely rank as top at the top. Zucco and Iro is a strong connection. But, and, you know, I don't, I think we've really went into it a lot. And I was hoping this final episode would redeem it.

Starting point is 00:06:36 It doesn't really redeem anything for me. It's like, yeah, you've, I failed. I failing is the avatar. This is the same repetitive shit that keeps saying all the time. And I was, it was like redundant and annoying and there's no depth. And, and all this stuff would like. you're my family ang i didn't the show did not spend much time with them developing like connections yeah with each other other than they would get along you know that that was about

Starting point is 00:07:07 it i i was really disappointed by that and i one million bigillion gazillion percent i would exactly have that that's not a comparison to the does the animated show do it yeah they do it but it's not a comparison to the animated show yeah it's just a show as a as a show i would 100 percent feel the exact same way of like i don't understand like this whole thing with apparently there's a lot of off-screen bonding that has occurred that we just did not get to obviously you can't spend all your screen time with them bonding but the quality of the scenes when they are together have to be above just you know pleasant with them yeah and then a lot of things are like so i don't know if this is just

Starting point is 00:07:57 like nitpicky but the whole momo scene so momo is healed and he's there with them when they see the balloon and then momo just disappears where the hell did momo go he could have grabbed that bag of fish you know and like they just completely drop that part and i'm like momo was there right why is it I don't understand why. Because they're doing with, the one weird thing they decided to do here, which I understand structurally, like a lot of it works for the fire nation,

Starting point is 00:08:25 but it comes at the expense of a lot of other storylines because they've decided to expand upon the fire nation so much. And that's clearly what their interest was in taking elements from season two and three and, well, mainly two. And then throwing it into here has allowed for, honestly a really wonderful

Starting point is 00:08:45 telling of the Fire Nation characters from Iro I was a big disagree for Ira Zaka Zuko I'm enjoying the buildup of Azula Ozai Zhao they're like excellent excellent even the

Starting point is 00:09:01 41st even the 41st group which is I don't even remember Jack's shit about them for the animated wow I I was so surprised by that there would be these and what i noticed is even with momo other than like yeah i of course i love look at mo how can you not love mo it's momo look at mo it's momo but uh every moment that should

Starting point is 00:09:29 have like a i don't know something from medium to large effect of uh of an emotional payoff or an emotional, resounding effect, it does not quite get there. Even with Momo coming back, like, Momo being back, oh, thank God, Momo's back. But then Saka being like, Momo, oh, my God, you idiot. I had to remind myself, oh, yeah, like seven episodes ago, they weren't getting along. Yeah, you know. He thought Momo was annoying. Like, there's not really a build to him.

Starting point is 00:10:05 Thank God. It's like, yeah, I like this moment. But I know this show is really trying to sell me that this should be a very emotional moment for both Saka and Momo. It's just kind of like pleasant. Everything is just like medium ground. And it happens for everyone from Katara. Katara is better, but Katara, Saka, all them, because they dedicate so much of the Fire Nation, which is great. But their quality of writing is not there for everyone else.

Starting point is 00:10:35 I was going to say they have to find a balance going into season. of putting that strong writing a character development from the Fire Nation into really Aang and the relationships around him. That has to be a major focus or this show is going to completely lose me because the strongest thing about Aang is his connection to the people around him. Not just the people, but Appa and Momo. There's like a whole storyline of him and Appa and their connection. And you wouldn't know that from this season.

Starting point is 00:11:08 like they barely have any connecting moments and it doesn't have to be like this huge thing it could be the small details the small moments you know like like i'm not asking for a whole episode dedicated to it i'm asking for a 10 to 15 second scene at least showing me that there's some emotion behind this to make it more believable than what you're handing me and expecting me to believe you know that'd be qualitative relationship and the bonding there is so important. And if the relationships are not... And then whenever they talk about information of relationships, it feels so... It's just so repetitive, honestly. Like, Giazza is really kind. I love hearing about Giazza.

Starting point is 00:11:57 At the same time, it was just kind of... It got to the point where... It's just... And now we're just repetitive for saying I'm repetitive. You know? In the midst of movie and TV shows, Show reactions, you know, such a busy schedule around here. Who's got time to prep gourmet meals?

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Starting point is 00:13:25 But you want me to expect to believe that this has such an impact on you. When, even here, this episode, is just there, in my opinion. He turns into the giant monster, and that's because it's the ocean. seeking vengeance, you know? Ang isn't doing anything. They call him out on, he's learned nothing this entire season. What lessons has he learned?

Starting point is 00:13:48 He's got to let go of the past and move on. It's not blaming all the same shit. Eight episodes of the same shit. It's the entire time. God. Yeah, I don't really, like this, there's a lot of, there's time spanning here and it feel, and I don't really get this, it's

Starting point is 00:14:04 kind of clunky and it's space, spatial awareness of time it's it's clunky and there's and sometimes acting can feel wooden because i don't feel there's a great understanding of because sometimes i think guitar is great and then there are other times where i do think the way this is being captured makes her performance feel wooden but then there sometimes it's so good where i'm like no i get it it's subdued she's a girl who's got a lot of pain and she's got like big i really liked her to be like that was the weird part to me when she's saying like i need you anguer family and like i don't think this show has earned this

Starting point is 00:14:43 moment because i don't buy their family but i'm only kind but i like this scene only because i think the actress is doing a really good job with this monologue and that's why i like it but the shows i'm not into the this whole thing with like family and connection and like that is an integral part but i know we've kind of been harping on all this i've had a problem I think in the animated series, my biggest problem with guitar was I felt she was a Mary Sue. I'm pretty sure that was a complaint I had. And I am having a similar complaint here. I feel like everything comes easy to her.

Starting point is 00:15:23 From learning water bending to fighting Zucco. She should not be able to hold her own against Zuko. I'm sorry. She really shouldn't. I remember when, I remember there was like an episode where she was really struggling with learning how to waterbend and like Aang was helping her out. and then she was getting annoyed at Eng for helping her out. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I remember her being like a bigger complainer in the animated show at first.

Starting point is 00:15:48 I remember that. I don't know if I recall the same feeling. And here it does. It does what I mean. And it keeps coming back. Everything that we keep coming back to is a lot does not feel earned. Yeah. When they get to these certain moments because of the way time is spent that it's rushing.

Starting point is 00:16:07 through things where I'm like a lot is happening right now but it is it can be a little clunky and then it's a mixed bag where a lot is really good it's hard because you're like the time spent is probably spent bettering the fire nation I don't want them to take that away yeah it's so good it's so good I want them to put that same energy into the other characters as well I want them to share that love well but I don't know if they're capable of doing that

Starting point is 00:16:39 you remember when I like it was probably like the second episode I think one of my actual comparisons that I was saying I was missing like a legit comparison was that I thought I kind of miss a little bit of the a bit of a lighthearted flare that the other one that the animated show would offer

Starting point is 00:16:58 and this is very very very serious and I got I adjusted to the tone and I liked it a lot a lot of a lot of it and I the impression that I get is that the creators of this one they only really want to do the dark shit

Starting point is 00:17:15 yeah so that's why the fire nation stuff is really good because they really want to do the dark shit but to really know how to do more of the side of love or the light side of the characters that literally like I'm talking like water nation the characters that don't need the dark

Starting point is 00:17:35 Don't need this like, defending of abuse. They don't really, that also requires multi-layers. Like the dark side, the darkness requires showing the light in Iro and Zucco is showing these shades and the other characters. It requires that in order to shine a light on them for your quote-unquote darker characters. And then for your light characters, you've got to know how to implement both, the darkness into the light characters. And they, I don't really feel like they have a good grasp on how to, how to magnify that side of it. Even though I like Saka a lot, I think the actor Saka really helps out a lot. Yeah, I agree.

Starting point is 00:18:19 I think who ever plays in does a really, really good job. I think he's really fun. And he sells a lot of different qualities. I think if there were poor actors in these roles, this would be. It would be tough. It would be tough. Yeah. A lot of the actors really save it.

Starting point is 00:18:33 Even when you cut to like the different cultures, the different tribes. Like I like how cultural this show actually feels too. And I appreciate the amount of, I know, some people hate when you say this shit, whatever, it's a lot of diversity on screen. And I think it does make it feel more lived in. Yeah. And the actors really help with that. So I think, and the music's been really solid.

Starting point is 00:18:58 And the action for the most part has been good. So, yeah, I'm not. Like it's somewhere between. Make it an even 73%. Not a 75%. Yeah. Not a 75%. I feel like it could have been a stronger ending,

Starting point is 00:19:13 but I am hopeful that they will take what was strong here and expand upon it and make the rest of it great if there's a season two. Yeah, they really got improving. They have to. They have to. Oh, man, your show is doomed if you don't do that shit. He is the main.

Starting point is 00:19:33 he's the quintessential character yeah no it is and it's rough sometimes when he's on screen it is rough to pay attention to him honestly forcing myself to pay attention so they have to fix that that's that's a must send this review to the writers it's really hard it's really hard yeah um but what did you guys think overall where would you rank it well what's a 73 i bet if i was doing a letter oh my god no I'm going to go that low. You wouldn't go a C? I mean, 100% will go C.

Starting point is 00:20:07 I say like a C plus. Okay, so you're looking at 70. C plus or B minus? No, you're 78. They're like B minuses. C plus. I'm sticking with my 75%. Because there were some episodes

Starting point is 00:20:20 that were tough to get through. Yeah. We're tough to get through. All righty. Well, that's the end. You tell us your thoughts. What would you? rated us in any rating you want letters 9 out of 10 i mean out of 10 percentages

Starting point is 00:20:40 rating system over in like the UK do you like a plus what's the what's the rating over there I'm curious a heavy sweep chimneys you get tea if you do good on a test they don't do you get fish and chips ideas now okay fish and chips Yep, you slurp those fish and ships. It's why people eat them. Like worm food. Okay, this is over. Goodbye.

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