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Nov. 5th, 2005 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlock"This defeat is the gateway to many victories."
Nickelodian, any bad thing I ever said about you is negated by the coolness of this show. I love how the writers fight hard not to settle on the easier answers, aiming for realistic moral dillemas and consequences. Just when I expect them to settle for the simplistic, they aim higher. Kudos. Wish more kids tv were like it. ::am completely addicted to a kids show, yes::
And the idustrialization factor? Purely awesome.
Spoilery comments: I took one look at the balloon, one look at the tanks, and I thought "Tanks. They are so screwed."
Ya can't fight industrialization, baby. Airpower may be superior (it has been in our world ever since it was invented), but the fact is Aang's airpower is tenuous, dependent on his skill and talent. A machine can be made by anyone and used by anyone. Many times over.
Adios, Earth and Water nations. The Fire Nation's got the navy and soon it'll have zepplins. Ooo-raah! (saw Jarhead last night, heh.)
All this lends even more credence to the popular theory that Zuko will take over the Fire Nation and help bring peace that way. Because everything we see tells us that the Fire Nation is an engine that only pushes forward and expands. They've got the strongest military and the strongest industry, which won't change no matter who's ruler. You can't fight them, so in the end Aang will have to bring peace through some other means than leading the rebellion. And the only other alternative means diplomacy, which requires a peace-minded leader in the Fire Nation.
All this is very predictable, but I have high hopes that the show will surprise me along the way. It has so far, without disappointment.
Side comment: OMG, did Aang just kill a bunch of people or what? He, like, threw a snow avalanche on top of a few batallions of soldiers. And then there was the explosion. And we see, like, FOUR guys running away at the end.
That's more dying than I'm used to seeing on Nickelodeon. It was practically a Power Puff Girls episode.
Nickelodian, any bad thing I ever said about you is negated by the coolness of this show. I love how the writers fight hard not to settle on the easier answers, aiming for realistic moral dillemas and consequences. Just when I expect them to settle for the simplistic, they aim higher. Kudos. Wish more kids tv were like it. ::am completely addicted to a kids show, yes::
And the idustrialization factor? Purely awesome.
Spoilery comments: I took one look at the balloon, one look at the tanks, and I thought "Tanks. They are so screwed."
Ya can't fight industrialization, baby. Airpower may be superior (it has been in our world ever since it was invented), but the fact is Aang's airpower is tenuous, dependent on his skill and talent. A machine can be made by anyone and used by anyone. Many times over.
Adios, Earth and Water nations. The Fire Nation's got the navy and soon it'll have zepplins. Ooo-raah! (saw Jarhead last night, heh.)
All this lends even more credence to the popular theory that Zuko will take over the Fire Nation and help bring peace that way. Because everything we see tells us that the Fire Nation is an engine that only pushes forward and expands. They've got the strongest military and the strongest industry, which won't change no matter who's ruler. You can't fight them, so in the end Aang will have to bring peace through some other means than leading the rebellion. And the only other alternative means diplomacy, which requires a peace-minded leader in the Fire Nation.
All this is very predictable, but I have high hopes that the show will surprise me along the way. It has so far, without disappointment.
Side comment: OMG, did Aang just kill a bunch of people or what? He, like, threw a snow avalanche on top of a few batallions of soldiers. And then there was the explosion. And we see, like, FOUR guys running away at the end.
That's more dying than I'm used to seeing on Nickelodeon. It was practically a Power Puff Girls episode.
