WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]

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  • I think there was a major lack of concentration on the characterization of the gaang for a movie about how important they are to him. If you’re not Katara then you’re there to get your designated screentime and do your audience safe catchphrase.

    I agree with you. It was an absolute master class for the animation team and the safest most sterile plot you can create. Will I spoil anything when I reveal that there’s a new character who seems cool but is actually a douchebag and then they hit rock bottom before a climactic fight where ideals clash? The story is there for business, not pleasure.

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    I wish every single mid-fight revelation was like the League of Legends Still Here cinematic where Trynd is fighting Kindred. I think it would have been especially appropriate here instead of flash remembering the kids and Gyatso. There was a dream sequence in the beginning, multiple instances of consciousness transitions, a moment of chasing spirits, and a theme of trusting instincts. If Aang would have been lead by instinct (set up throughout the fight and the arguing) to overpowering the staff-spirit-emotions I would ignore every single critique I’ve ever thought of having about the movie.

    There was so much that was there that it seems a shame to my sensibilities they didn’t awaken what the movie was really about for them. They didn’t get that bankai awakening of coherence and narrative that the story could have had with a little more love and care.





  • Back in 2015 there was a group of youthes that brought forth Juliana vs the US. It claimed that fossil fuels and the reliance thereof with the resultant pollution interfered with their rights to life and liberty. That, while being their way of life, got struck down because the court was all “this isn’t the place for defining policy” or whatever.

    This argument about the shitty warehouse that doesn’t pay enough to live certainly has less footing than people who need oxygen. So if we don’t care about that, why do we care about property?

    Someone whispers in my ear

    This sucks!




  • Narrative salience and history would teach us that it’s the hero’s journey. You’d have some disillusioned youth who hates the status quo find their way out of their comfort zone. They’d find a mentor who tells them about the stakes and teaches them a new way to interact. They’d then confront the powers that be with this new found capacity. Presumably this would be like someone reacting to the brutal violence and impotence of asking nicely. For legal reasons I can’t imagine what an adapted response to fascist violence that’s not asking nicely would be. I genuinely cannot even fathom a single guess as to what that that might look like.