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Anybody see the series finale of Avatar the Last Airbender? I just saw it on youtube because I missed the air date a week ago but anyways the ending was awesome and totally satisfying. I've seen a lot of shows recently like Gurren Lagaan, Genshiken, and Welcome to the NHK but the endings kinda left me wishing for more but the Avatar ending was perfect. Like I don't at all wish for more episodes or spin-offs of the series or anything.

So did anybody see it or like it?

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No.

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After hearing how great this show was I finally caught a random episode last year when I was at a friend's house. I watched the whole thing but found very little to like about it. It could be though that this is one of those shows that you can't simply drop in on and that I need to watch it from the beginning. So to uh answer your question, no not yet.

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The height of quality entertainment.

I didn't watch the episode in question, or any of them for that matter; I'm referring more to how much I enjoyed the shit out of all the DeviantArt couple-shipping gothlings bitch about how the dark emo antihero from the supporting cast didn't end up with the main character's love interest, which was allegedly never even close to foreshadowed. But hey, I gotta give credit to what got the ball rolling there, don't I?

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I refuse to even try watching a series where the main character has a giant blue arrow on his head.

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That's a pretty stupid reason to not watch it.

I haven't watched it, and nothing has ever gave me an incentive to, but the thing that bugs me most about the show is that anime/cartoon hybrid look, which I've never been a fan of. I think I dislike that look because I associate it with those terrible how-to-draw-manga books. I think it's mostly because of the way the eyes are drawn. I guess when I see art that looks obviously American I prefer the eyes to be drawn all the way around, instead of like how in anime they usually don't draw the left and right part of the eyes.

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I refuse to even try watching a series where the main character has a giant blue arrow on his head.
I know, giant blue hedgehogs are so much better.

The finale was awesome, it felt like a really well-done movie.

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For some reason I thought there would be more avatar fans. I feel alot better now that someone other than me saw it. Everbody I ask keep saying it's a kid's show while I try to tell them that the show is suitable for all ages.

also the last fight was like a awesome dragon ball z fight where people were flying around and shooting beams at each other.

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Majestic Joey wrote:also the last fight was like a awesome dragon ball z fight where people were flying around and shooting beams at each other.
Oh yeah, that's why I wasn't interested in Avatar.

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Even before I clicked on this thread, I knew in my heart, but I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt.

If in this forum's entire history it never had a single thread about fucking Avatar, I would have been entirely okay with it. This is worse than the Harry Potter thread.

Should... should I lock it? It's not breaking any rules per se, but Jesus, I mean I can't just let it devolve to this. Am I really that old?

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All I can say is that it's Trope Overdosed, and not the good kind.

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Thanks for pointing out that they finally released more episodes. Now if I develop the willpower to actually watch them, I might be able to move on and actually forget this series existed in the first place, like Mai hime, Jimmy Neutron or Uninhabited Planet Survive.

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I am completely incapable of taking this show seriously simply because its on Nikelodeon or however the fuck you spell the damned channel name. I know these two guys who get hard off the fact it exists and I have never once mustered the insterest to even consider watch this.

Of course, considering some of the other things they call entertainment, this could quite possibly be a good thing.

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Green Gibbon! wrote:Even before I clicked on this thread, I knew in my heart, but I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt.

If in this forum's entire history it never had a single thread about fucking Avatar, I would have been entirely okay with it. This is worse than the Harry Potter thread.

Should... should I lock it? It's not breaking any rules per se, but Jesus, I mean I can't just let it devolve to this. Am I really that old?
It's okay, it's okay. It's just those kids and their silly teevee. Calm down and take your pills. Good, now let's get you back to your room. Who let you out again? Yes, your family is definitely coming to visit tomorrow, Mr. Matte.

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Green Gibbon! wrote:Am I really that old?
Yes. Stop clinging to ten year old animes and forty year old movies and watch something more new and recent, grampa.

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It's okay, it's okay. It's just those kids and their silly teevee.
Nickelodeon does not count as television, and never did.

We could start a Disney topic. How about those Cheetah Girls?

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You know what the worst thing about children oriented tv stations are? the commercials. If I am ever in the same vicinity as a television with say, Nickelodeon or Disney on it, I can usually stand the horrible soap operas for children or the cartoons aimed at mentally deficient kids just enough that so I do not break out in a fit of rage (though I have on occasion been so aggravated that I have spoken out), but once the advertisements start... seemingly never ending streams of 30 second tripe that insults the intelligence of unborn babes; either it is chaos branded with the name of a product, or a tale telling children that their elders are stupid and are to be disrespected at all times. I see such things and am filled with rage and despair, mostly because ADULTS write such things, and thus mindlessly destroy the very children they brought into the world.

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Green Gibbon! wrote:Nickelodeon does not count as television, and never did.
Ren & Stimpy? Rocko's Modern Life? The Angry Beavers?

All those years... Were they all for naught? Jared, no...!

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He has to be referring to Nick in it's current state. If he isn't than I sure am thankful I was a Cartoon Network lad way back when.

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Avatar's got good writing, good acting and good animation. Also, the series ended when the story was over. (Which is more than I can say for a lot of anime.)

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My all-new favorite GHZ pastime, WHAT WILL GG! BLAME ON OLD AGE NEXT?

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MiraiTails wrote:Avatar's got good writing, good acting and good animation. Also, the series ended when the story was over. (Which is more than I can say for a lot of anime.)
I'm pretty sure American cartoons are also guilty of not being able to give their series an ending.
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Green Gibbon! wrote:Nickelodeon does not count as television, and never did.
What, not even The Adventures of Pete & Pete?

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What about Salute your Shorts? and Eureka's Castle? and David the Gnome?
and Muppet Babies? and Hey Dude? and What Would You Do? and Weinerville? and Wild and Crazy Kids?
and Doug? and pre-'97 Rugrats? and Nick in the Afternoon? and SNICK? and Inside-Out Boy?

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You know what, I tried watching it once or twice, but it definitely is not my bag. Even that Japanese-French coproduction, Oban Star-Racers, I feel it was somewhat better (what with Yoko Kanno composing the opening theme and all), and I couldn't stand that one either.
All you ass-munchers should watch DieBuster and stop complaining about "bad endings".

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