starlady: Aang with fire (aang can be asian & still save the world)
Electra ([personal profile] starlady) wrote2011-06-21 05:51 pm

Brief thoughts on A:TLA Book One: Water

# One of the little things I love is all the fauna and how they're remixed rather than copied straight from our world. Turtle-seals FTW!

# Star Trek actors doing voices so far: George Takei, Rene Auberjonois (twice!). Did I miss anyone?

# I don't think it's possible to get any more Daoist than the Ocean and Moon spirits giving up their immortality to become fish. Zhuangzi would be pleased.

# Can we all take a minute to appreciate the flying Cat Bus homage of awesomeness that is Appa? Also, in the last episode of this season, the Mononoke-hime shoutout that is Aang in his "Avenging the Moon spirit" form? I have to say, I enjoy these Ghibli homages, they show that the A:TLA showrunners have done their homework (obviously).

# On the other hand, apparently whoever directed the voice actors was incapable of teaching them the proper way to pronounce characters' names. Case in point: everyone's favorite villain, Zhao. Even his own voice actor can't say his name correctly! Yes, this is me in my corner being pedantic, I am getting hung up on a tree, but it niggles.

# However, I am not missing the forest of awesome that is this show for that tree. This show is the best! ♥ ♥ ♥

cofax7: Aang at the North Pole (ATLA - Aang pretty)

[personal profile] cofax7 2011-06-21 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Korra icon! I gotta get me one of them. I can't wait!

OTOH, you will enjoy watching the rest of ATLA. I keep getting sucked into rewatching, because it's on Netflix streaming, even though I've seen it all twice through...