Random Avatar thoughts: ships and episodes

[timepiececlock]

Rewatched bits and clips of ATLA's "Crossroads of Destiny" episode, the season 2 finale. And it still delights me. Delights me! My reaction, after numerous repeats?

OMG.

SHIPPIEST. THING. EVER.

For both popular ships, in completely different but equally interesting ways.

Why did fandom go so crazy when this came out? With prophecies of doom or victory, with declarations of what is the death/birth of one pairing or another? BAH! SILLY CREATURES! It's easy to look at season 3 and make judgments about who belongs with who or all that nonsense, or who's going to make out with who next/again/ever, but if you forget all that and just look back on the season 2 finale, you have to admit it: SHIPPIEST THING EVER.

And that's my random Avatar squeal for today. I'll update later this week with something witty about the elections, or a poem, or something. But right now, I'm just enjoying a heady rush of fannishness. Why? No idea. Just am.

EDIT: When is the next episode coming out? CANADA DON'T FAIL ME NOW. I need my magical-boy pseudo-Asian mythical fantasy epic world war cartoon.

Everyone needs a magical-boy pseudo-Asian mythical fantasy epic world war cartoon!

With revenge! And regicide! And brainwashing! And flying buffalo! And murder most foul! And orphans! And pyromaniacs! And genocide! And hydromaniacs! And megalomaniacs! And duels! And tea!

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

The thing I enjoy about this show, and what I liked about CoD, is that you can see the Zuko/Katara subtext in the episode and yet still completely go with the Katara/Aang romance. They're not written to be mutually exclusive at that point -- one is merely an implication, one is full-blown battle defending someone you love. Both ideas are strong and interesting. Katara/Aang definitely took a more romantic angle after the events of CoD, though I think Katara in CoD treated Aang the same as she treated him for the first two seasons, and it was only after that conflict she started to look at him in a more romantic way (dancing, etc.) And we know that directly after that Zuko joined the FN and got a FN girlfriend. But in that episode, we had some very interesting subtext and some very exciting heroic rescues of loved ones, with two different possible relationships dangled before us. I just love that the show gave that to us. I feel spoiled by the shipping opportunities presented.