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timepiececlock::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.
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.
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Date: 2005-05-10 10:36 pm (UTC)This is the episode in which Sokka rules the world. Though I was very pleased to see Katara doing some real badass waterbending on her own, too.
I'm totally with all your analysis. This was my favorite episode so far. (and please let there be more! wah!)
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Date: 2005-05-11 12:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-11 12:17 am (UTC)katara's badass waterbending was creative and cool.
Date: 2005-05-11 12:24 am (UTC)Hey, he could be a young Mugen. You know, he gets unfrozen, then is randomly thrown into our dimension, in the past, where he learns japanese, becomes a pirate, loses all his charm, almost dies, and then goes on this funky journey because he lost a coin-toss...
I also appreciated the variety of weapons we saw being used by Jet's bandits in this episode. His hooked blades especially. I've seen demonstrations on tv befor of weapons like that, and it's cool to see those weapons not as well known as the sword being shown on a cartoon like this one.
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Date: 2005-05-11 12:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-11 12:31 am (UTC)Re: katara's badass waterbending was creative and cool.
Date: 2005-05-11 12:39 am (UTC)Bwahahahahah, we do totally need that icon. I may even try making it tomorrow! Because, HEE.
he gets unfrozen, then is randomly thrown into our dimension, in the past, where he learns japanese, becomes a pirate, loses all his charm, almost dies, and then goes on this funky journey because he lost a coin-toss...
And has encounters with drugs and zombies and baseball and polyamory. Not a bas ending for little Roofio Jet Mugen Pan-Hood Jr.
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Date: 2005-05-11 01:02 am (UTC)*can't wait for more*
*looks at the SC stuff in the comments* Man, I need to see more of that show. >.
Re: katara's badass waterbending was creative and cool.
Date: 2005-05-11 05:52 am (UTC)I was thinking about making one using one of these three images, but I hadn't decided. :) I'd love to see your version of that icon! I wonder if it's Rufio or Roofio?
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Date: 2005-05-11 05:55 am (UTC)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.