Everyone is just okay that she ran off to kill a guy? What bothered me even more than this is the fact that she initially got the wrong guy. Katara tortures--ahem, I mean uses advanced interrogation techniques--on this firebender, and he wasn't guilty as charged. And once she found out, the show was like, "Nothing to see here; move along" and completely failed to deal with the implications of everything she'd done: jumped to erroneous conclusions, resorted to sadism, and harmed an innocent.
I thought the Crazula was done well within the available time frame. Because Zuko and Katara could never have fought their way in to see her, so she needed to be isolated before there, so it made perfect narrative sense. How she went about it was believable to me after Ty Lee and Mai's betrayal. And if they'd started heavily introducing it before the finale it would have been too obvious what was in store and screwed with the pacing of the Ember Island Players lolfest.
I agree with you heartily on the kids' reaction to Zuko, but I thought that should have occurred waaaay at the beginning of the season. OTOH, I was resigned to accepting it given the fact that Zuko 1.0 disappeared without a trace at the end of season two. Talk about abrupt. He could have helped Team Avatar and stayed the bitchy, pissy Zuko we'd all grown to love.
A massive Ba Sing Se ep to me would have become DBZ time as well as repeating the seige of the Northern Water Tribe, so I was glad of how they handled it.
I agree with you on Iroh; I'd love to know how many changes went into the initial storyline after Mako passed. And, dude, I know you want to go run your teashop, but putting 16 year old All-I-wanna-do-is-make-out-with-my-cranky-girlfriend Zuko in charge of a country with a century plus of fascism under its belt? Uh...
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Date: 2008-07-22 01:19 pm (UTC)What bothered me even more than this is the fact that she initially got the wrong guy. Katara tortures--ahem, I mean uses advanced interrogation techniques--on this firebender, and he wasn't guilty as charged. And once she found out, the show was like, "Nothing to see here; move along" and completely failed to deal with the implications of everything she'd done: jumped to erroneous conclusions, resorted to sadism, and harmed an innocent.
I thought the Crazula was done well within the available time frame. Because Zuko and Katara could never have fought their way in to see her, so she needed to be isolated before there, so it made perfect narrative sense. How she went about it was believable to me after Ty Lee and Mai's betrayal. And if they'd started heavily introducing it before the finale it would have been too obvious what was in store and screwed with the pacing of the Ember Island Players lolfest.
I agree with you heartily on the kids' reaction to Zuko, but I thought that should have occurred waaaay at the beginning of the season. OTOH, I was resigned to accepting it given the fact that Zuko 1.0 disappeared without a trace at the end of season two. Talk about abrupt. He could have helped Team Avatar and stayed the bitchy, pissy Zuko we'd all grown to love.
A massive Ba Sing Se ep to me would have become DBZ time as well as repeating the seige of the Northern Water Tribe, so I was glad of how they handled it.
I agree with you on Iroh; I'd love to know how many changes went into the initial storyline after Mako passed. And, dude, I know you want to go run your teashop, but putting 16 year old All-I-wanna-do-is-make-out-with-my-cranky-girlfriend Zuko in charge of a country with a century plus of fascism under its belt? Uh...