I heard somebody wanted a general?

I'll be there shortly. Just got some things to take care of in the tower.

>>95651
MY BODY IS READY.

Is anyone here following the Avatar reviews over at the AV Club? Because this this is the best one they've done yet: http://www.avclub.com/articles/lake-laogaithe-earth-king,65642/

>>95647
For some reason, the shading on that pic made me think it was CG.

>>95713
I wasn't, but now I am. Thank you for the link.

It's weird how the best Avatar: The Last Airbender movie adaptation, wasn't even an Avatar: The Last Airbender movie.

>>96159
What are you talking about? Shyamalan hit the nail on the head!

>>96160
Clever girl Genome.

This movie might as well have taken place in the world of Avatar, what with all the mysticism, kung-fu and industrialization going on.


Otherwise it's sorta like Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes meets Tiger & Dragon...

And the proof that they should have given the ATLA movie rights to Tsui Hark.

>And the proof that they should have given the ATLA movie rights to Tsui Hark.

That would have made waaaaaay too much sense for Hollywood i am afraid.

>>96208
On one hand, I'm kinda happy that Hollywood didn't gobble Tsui up and spit him out again (i.e. John Woo).
But on the other I can't imagine that there ain't a committee sitting at his neck either. Just with different goals.

http://atla-annotated.tumblr.com/
Don't know if this has been linked before, but it's a nice tumblr with some info about historical/cultural stuff in ATLA.

>>97273

It also shows why The Last Failbender is probably one of the worst movies ever made.

http://atla-annotated.tumblr.com/post/14793155731/on-the-movie-and-why-the-casting-is-the-least-of

Just wanted to post my all-time favorite shipping pic in honor of the holiday we just had.

>>97419
That's my favorite pic as well!

DS Hina is just so amazing~

Dante Basco is reading Homestuck now. I have to mention this only because it's an adorable marriage of my two fandoms.
http://rufiozuko.tumblr.com/

>>97605
He was halfway through Act 2 before he realised he had to read the pesterlogs.

I mean, what the hell?

>>97606
He's an actor who is older than me. Don't set the bar for his modern media savy too high.

There's an AtLA article on Overthinking It: "Use and Abuse of Power in Avatar: The Last Airbender." It basically argues that the Avatar is morally outdated within the AtLA-verse.

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2012/03/01/avatar-last-airbender-power/

>>97668
Boy that guy was way off the mark with that article.

The Avatar will always have a job as long as the spirit world intersects with the material, when there isn't a world war on or dealing with the aftermath of such an event I'm sure they focus more on that side of thier duties.

>>97698

The only good thing is mention in the last paragraph, that A:LofK may deal with the theme "does people really need Avatar in the industrial age". The rest is indeed a stretch...

>>97668

> clear public support evidenced by his massive armies

.... Seriously? Seriously?

>>97793
I can't believe I missed that humdinger.

This essayist has very strange ideas about how a military functions. Armies don't just sprout up spontaneously out of popular enthusias, unless they're against an oppressive state. You might get massive volunteer drives like that the British Army received at the outbreak of World War 1, but that is the exception. As a soldier you're either paid to do a job, or you're conscripted, the latter being a lot more common than the former the longer the war drags on. Popular support can be manufactured if a dictatorship has a secure enough power base and copious amounts of weaponry (as evidenced by the faux rallies the regimes facing the Arab Spring have held, where people are ordered to turn up and fly banners for the benevolent despot or face losing their jobs). Really, this line of argument is just retarded.

What do you think the Fire Sages did aside from teaching the Avatar firebending?

>>97807
Well obviously they organize the royal family's rites and traditions. They're the priestly class.

>>97807
>>97808
They were in charge of the whole damn Fire Nation before the Fire Lord was.

>>97809
I suspect they were 'in charge' the same way the Japanese Emperor was in charge during the Shogunate, whereby whichever warlord was squatting in their palace on any day of the week was technically king of the castle. Being the spiritual authority of all things firebending, the Fire Sages commanded fealty across the Fire Nation, but 'fealty' isn't the same thing as political power. I got the impression that the leader of the Fire Sages broke off and started doing his own thing relatively recently in the vast history of the Avatar world.

>>97818

Well, background fluff said it was a council of Fire Sages and they eventually elevated a sage (or some sort of Grand Sage) to the position of Fire Lord, not sure how the rest works out.

We will most likely not know what it was that the Fire Sages were responcible for; my guess is that they would be like advisors to the thone and as teachers; teaching the heirs about the various traditions and maybe some firebending moves?