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::watching Avatar episode 10::

Okay.... how and why did Mugen from SC suddenly become a character in Avatarverse?

HAH! And his name is Jet!

Okay, someone writing this show is a Watanabe fan.

Ahh, Katara. Totally smitten with the hot freedom-fighter with the Mugen hair and fighting style. I can see that.

::snickergiggle:: This is like watching Peter Pan and Robin Hood Jr. I wonder if this Mugen/Jet is as cool as he pretends to be, though. Or if he's just using them.

I knew it. They're bandits who just call themselves freedom fighters.

"I didn't see any knife."
"That's cause he was concealing it." Liar, liar! Though, it makes sense. Mugen was a pirate too.

They're fighting in the trees now. With cool perspective shots. This really did become Samurai Champloo when I wasn't looking.

Ice! Hey, ice! Sweeeeeeet. Katara rocks.


Overall: This was one of the better episodes, though I could predict it fairly easily (after all, the writers weren't exactly subtle with the way Jet manipulated Sokka, Katara, and Ang.) It had lots of cool fight scenes that were directed more like anime battles than any other previous episodes, and lots of character stuff.

It had very good interactions between Sokka, Katara, and Ang that show their varrying levels of maturity, and how they view the world. For instance:

Sokka is a regular fighter and he saw in Jet a regular kind of evil: thuggery and hatred taken to the extreme. Because Sokka hates the fire nation the most of the three of them, he recognized that same feeling in Jet taken beyond reason.

Ang is usually very insightful, but he also has a tendency to take people at their word and he's quite trusting. He always gives people the benefit of the doubt. He was also immature enough to be distracted by play and the fun aspects of the bandit's way of life. However, once he saw the explosives, his insightfullness came back full force and he knew instantly what Jet was doing. He didn't refuse to believe it like Katara, because he has enough experience with people to know what they're capable of.

Katara has the most idealized view of the world, I think. She's smart and strong, but she really, really wants everything to be good v. evil. She wants the fire nation to be all bad and everyone who fights the fire nation (expecially for the same reasons she fights them) to be all good. Black hats and white hats. Combine that with all the charm Mugen/Jet was throwing at her, as well as her underestimation of Sokka, and she was the last to see Mugen/Jet for what he was.

Date: 2005-05-11 05:55 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rashaka.livejournal.com
The animation in the fight in this episode was incredible, I wasn't expecting that

It was definitely a step up from the previous fights, which were fine, but not this nice. They must have used quite a few cells because there was a lot of movement. Also, the perspectives and angles were more creative. This also felt like it was the longest one so far of the hand-to-hand fighting we've seen, with no real breaks in the middle. I could feel the seconds ticking by.

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