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WidowsFavoriteSon

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  • Israeli forces shoot dead 12-year-old Palestinian who set off firework

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  • Wrong. Gaza is 80 km, or 49 miles from Jerusalem. Don't make shit up.

  • Israeli forces shoot dead 12-year-old Palestinian who set off firework

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  • This was not an innocent act. Nobody - I mean nobody - sets off fireworks in a war zone for funsies.

  • 5 children killed in humanitarian aid airdrop, Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health says

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  • 5 children killed in humanitarian aid airdrop, Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health says

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  • Is this the same Hamas who walked away from the peace talks because Israel wouldn't agree to the destruction of Israel?

    Don't for a second pretend Hamas gives a shit about their people.

  • I like the web app more.

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  • FOSS is elitism?

  • Avatar: The Last Airbender @lemmy.world
    WidowsFavoriteSon @lemmy.world

    How the live action beautifully adapted music of the original series

    www.indiewire.com /features/craft/netflix-avatar-the-last-airbender-leaves-from-vine-score-interview-1234956055/
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender @lemmy.world
    WidowsFavoriteSon @lemmy.world

    Avatar is a hit!

    deadline.com /2024/02/avatar-the-last-airbender-premiere-ratings-netflix-1235839589/

  • The Netflix live action adaptation is better than the original.

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  • 2-way street, dude.

  • The Netflix live action adaptation is better than the original.

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  • You watched it when you were a kid, didn't you.

  • The Netflix live action adaptation is better than the original.

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  • I don't mind the flaming, the post itself was a little inflammatory.

    [spoilers ahead]

    I have a couple of things in mind. First, I think the casting is spot-on and the actors, including the kids, are immensely talented. The nuance and range of emotions that they can express, as live actors, far surpasses anything that they could do in the animated version. Katara, for example, when she's hopelessly calling out to Aang to come back after he was transformed in Ep 8; the tears in her face, the pleading in her voice when she said "Aang, the world needs you! I need you" really moved me to tears. As did the utter despair and pain in Aang's face when he thought that he had failed the entire world. You just can't get that in animation. The complexity defies the limitations of that medium.

    Sure, there are some misses, but overall it's just a better experience, imho.

    Second, I think one's opinion of the live action version is highly dependent on the age at which you encountered the original version. I was almost in my dotage when I first watched the show; I watch very little television or video, so it speaks to that version's power that I re-watched the entire series twice.

    But I'm not as emotionally tied to it as someone who encountered it in their youth, or early adulthood. Things from those times in one's life tend to become memorialized, immortalized, frozen in that time, and given a cherished spot on one's shelves of memory. So I can see how someone who first watched the show then might be appalled at the changes wrought to bring it to life in a live action format. I mean, how could you possibly have anyone but Katara and Aang in the secret tunnels? It was a key moment in showing their budding affection.

    But in the pace of the live action, that just doesn't make sense. Kataang hadn't nearly reached the level at which adhering to the animated version would make any sense at all. So instead, the writers used that to move forward the brother/sister story while at the same time adding to lore that would be needed later. I thought that was clever. I'm sure others thought that was Satan incarnate.

    Thanks for asking, @Prunebutt@slrpnk.net I hope this explanation works for you.

  • NSFW

    [spoiler kinda] When someone says they don’t like the live action adaption

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  • The live action version is better by far. The real actors convey much more nuance and depth than the cartoon characters.

    And anyone who can watch Ep 8 and still say "oooh, that's no good," probably needs their head examined. Katara's epic fight with Zuko, the despair on her face as she tries hopelessly to bring Aang back; the depth of love Sokka shows when Momo comes back, and when he loses Yue; Aang's bottomless pain when he believes he let the world down.

    And the kiddies are gonna complain that Zuko's hair is parted on the wrong side or some dumber shit. Jesus.

  • Avatar: The Last Airbender @lemmy.world
    WidowsFavoriteSon @lemmy.world

    The Netflix live action adaptation is better than the original.

  • Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.

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  • "You don't need a mile between houses."

    Never lived next door to a pig farm, did you

  • AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’

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  • Porn. Porn companies will invent AGI.

  • Removed

    Another 4 years...

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  • Yes, both are exactly the same /s

  • An Execution Binge in Iran

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  • This is called whataboutism, and appears to be your sole argument, in which case, you've lost the debate.

  • US begins strikes on militias in Iraq and Syria, retaliating for fatal drone attack, officials tell AP

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  • Oh, please. This sounds like sovcit shit.

  • Is the bot/troll situation getting worse?

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  • No, the US is not supporting genocide.

    When the Jewish people took the motto NEVER AGAIN what, exactly, did you think that meant? Did you think it would mean "oh please, Sir, don't hurt us please?"

    Hamas, seeking the elimination of the Jews of Israel decided to find out, and used their own population as shields.

    You reap what you sow.

  • Senior BBC Schedule Co-Ordinator Facing Disciplinary Action Over Antisemitic Facebook Posts That Referenced The “Holohoax”

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  • Antisemitism is so easy for others to pass off as inconsequential. In fact, folks like you have been doing it for a millenia or two.

  • No evidence of antisemitic 'gas' chant at pro-Palestinian Sydney protest, police find

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  • UN Warns of Possible Aid System Collapse in Gaza if Funding for UNRWA is Withheld by Israel

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  • Why the fuck should Israel fund an organization that housed 1,200 Hamas terrorists?

  • China warns citizens against 'exotic beauty' traps of foreign spies

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  • Honey pot. World's oldest espionage tool.

  • Israel and Palestine Politics Discussion @lemmy.world
    WidowsFavoriteSon @lemmy.world

    Hamas doesn't care about Paleatinians

  • World News @lemmy.world
    WidowsFavoriteSon @lemmy.world

    Colleges announce support for isreal

    www.axios.com /2023/10/17/israel-university-presidents-letter