#gran master

[nityd]

Give him some time, he is mad

[azulasmommyissues]

[cringechy]

Eh?

[sokkas-therapist]

So…Katara and Sokka canonically knew their grandfather?? I never caught this before 😭

I got back to my rewatch of atla and in S1 E5 (when Aang dresses up as “Bonzoo Pippenpadlopsicopolis II” in Omashu) Sokka says “great! Now you look just like my grandfather.”

…

I’m sorry. GRANDFATHER?? Are we just gonna slide right past that??

As far as grandparents go, we only visually see and get interactions with their grandmother (or Gran Gran) Kanna. Then there’s Pakku who, as we learn later in the series, used to be engaged to Kanna. But Katara and Sokka don’t learn that information until later in the series, and even then it’s never implied that Pakku is Hakoda’s father.

Which begs the question, who is this grandfather that Sokka mentions in Omashu?? Is he still alive yet never shown in swt flashbacks? The fact that Sokka was the only “man” left behind in his tribe is a fairly large point in his charecter arc, so if their grandfather is still alive, has he been fighting the war with Hakoda this whole time? Or had he passed away fairly recently given Sokka’s ability to recall his image? And if he has passed, we can assume his death wasn’t related to the fire nation, or else Sokka and Katara would be unable to joke about him with such ease.

This is so interesting to me and I wish the concept was explored more in canon, but I also get that the series had a limited run time so the bits of Worldbuilding/character-building they could dive into were limited as well.

[shih-coulda-had-it]

mando!torino & jedi master!nana + padawan!toshinori scenario

Nana is busy snooping around on some Outer Rim planet and has left Sorahiko to be Toshinori's babysitter. Although there's an active podracing scene, she explicitly tells Toshinori that he is NOT allowed to participate (mostly because they don't have the credits to even rent a prefab podracer).

Toshinori: Sorahiko, Master Nana says we can't go podracing :(

Sorahiko, remembering that Jedi have supernatural reflexes and Toshinori could be the underdog that wins them so many credits: Really? Hm. Do you want to, though?

Toshinori: ... Yeah?

It takes some time, but Sorahiko gets them a podracer (he menaced some poor bastard for it), gets Toshinori practice in driving, and by the time they're on the official race track, Sorahiko is less confident in Toshinori's ability to race, but hell, the kid looks happy. The track rules are way more flexible here than Tatooine's, but that doesn't mean the dangers are lesser.

Sorahiko manages to make a one-room cockpit fit two. He lets Toshinori borrow his helmet and gets goggles for himself. They are just unlucky enough that Nana finishes her investigation just in time to see a camera zoom in on "The Mando Kid & His Bodyguard". The pod looks like a wheel-less Ford Torino, by the way.

[cheesydelphox]

happy pride month fairy tail fans take this until my actual serious pride drawing is finished

[dyingroses]

Gran Gran when the sexist prick that she moved halfway around the world to get away from, leaving her home and family behind, arrives at the South Pole:

[purple-astronaut]

Sokka: Soooooo~ How ya doing?

Azula: I feel great!

Sokka: Really? Because you're cutting off the circulation to my hand....

Azula, letting go of his hand: Oh! Sorry, I'm nervous...

Sokka: it just meeting my family zula, it'll be ok

Azula: But it's your family! What if they don't like me... katara already doesn't like me, and I'm sure after everything I did, the rest of your family won't like me ether....

Sokka: Katara is still iffy on zuko. My gran-gran belives in second chances. My dad, im not quite sure how he will take it. But everyone else should be find. you'll be fine.

Azula: EVERYONE ELSE?! WHO IS EVERYONE?!

Sokka: Whoa! Baby, I just meant my step-mom and my step-grandad

Azula: Oh.

Sokka, kissing azula: They'll love you just as much as I do!

Azula: You think so?

Sokka: I know so.

[christopher-bryant]

Sokka: So....I think I'll call you Pop Pop from now on.

Pakku: Try it and see what happens.

Sokka: Fine then I'll tell Gran Gran and my sister.

Pakku: Tell them what exactly?

Sokka: That I'm just trying be accepting and treat you like family and in return, you're just being mean to me.

Pakku: You wouldn't.

Sokka: Try me.

Pakku: ....Hello, grandson. Its me, Pop Pop.

Sokka: Terrific.

[friedoats]

Okay so i finished NAtLA

Im gonna be talking about what i think could have been done better, my few nit picks where i was ready to throw my tv out the window, the stuff that made me go what the hell, and the 2 things that i felt like they did really well/better than og, and shit that had me laughing

And before i go any further if i were to sum up everything wrong with this the main and biggest issue with this remake is that there is a common theme of them making shit up that a, completely disregards the og world building. B, give us no reason for the deviance. And c, just putting in cheap plot devices or shit that doesnt do anything for the story.

With that aside for what it was i liked it. it was okay, it definitely met my expectation of being average and mediocre.

Could have been better

Episode run time/plot set up had a choppy flow. So all the episodes average out to about 50 minutes and we got 8 episodes this season, they obviously would have to merge or cut episodes no matter what. The flow was especially weird with ep 3&4 the ones scened in omashu, where they combined like 3 episodes from the original and just-was not put together well and they definitely could have paced the story better. I honestly think-in my personal opinion-it would have been better if they had split the 7 hours down to 20-25 minutes each episode. that would have given us about 17 episode rather than the 8 40-50 minutes that each episode was, i think it would have helped their pacing

Why the comit celebration with the air nomads? Like why are they celebrating that comit? Is it culturally significant to them, if anything it seems like something only the firenation would celebrate, what significance does the comit that strengthens firebenders that only omes by once every 100 years have to the airbender? In the og it was multiple sycronized attacks on each temple if im recalling corectly, but yeah comit festivle at the air nation just was a tad bit weird for me

For yue im just mad the didnt save their cgi budget to give us floaty ghost yue, we were deprived of spirit yue and i detest that, other than that i apreciate she had the option to not go through with the aranged marriage, they would have written her as a character better, it just felt, a lot more surface level than in the og.

Huh/it happened

Why'd they take aangs shirt off in the first ep? I know they did it to show us his sick tattoos but, bro is seriously in the southern water tribe please give him his shit back while he's passed the hell out

I have...opinions about them physically showing us the genocide of the airbenders because on one had, we didnt see that in the og and its and intresting exploration of what we knew but hadn't seen, on the other hand, genocide... idk if it was necessarily an okay thing to portray the way that they did, it left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth (but thats kinda the point of it(genocide is supposed to make you feel uncomfortable it should feel wrong)) but yeah it was definitely a decision that they made.

I was ready to throw my phone

My only complaint about Suki is just the fact that they made her shy??? Like that felt so unnatural not having her talk to sokka for a whole 20 ass minutes (closer to five but it felt like 20) and not to mention the scene where shes teaching sokka i-i dont have words it was just horrible. it was so ooc for suki and i cant even think of a reason why they would do it, like, the audience doesnt gain anything from her not talking besides cringe 10,000 and it doesnt do anything for the plot whatsoever or narrative, someone was just like, "what if she didn't talk lol because outsiders are in her village and that water tribe guy is cute". The reason that sokka and suki worked was because she was just as if not more head strong than him, and she's really not the kind of person to have a crush at first sight. Just felt ick. Give me season one misogynistic, sexist sokka, let him have caracter development of getting his ass beat and his standards thrown back at him torn to shreds

Let sokka be problematic

I threw my phone

The only being able to talk to the previous Avatars via avatar statues makes no fucking sense and i have no clue what the hell possessed them to make them think it was a good idea to do that. First off how in the hell would they have figured it out (people in atla world)? There would have been a point at the beginning of the avatar cycle where mfs were not making statues of them, and then they did do it and some avatar was just like lemme meditate under this previous avatar and see what happens-it just agh. Second of all at some point avatar statues are going to be destroyed whether by time or intentionally at some point there will be avatars that will just never be reachable or wholly forgoten. It also just feels like a cheap plot device to get them to go places and we dont really gain anything from it.

Okay the spirit episode with hei bai, was just... a mess. And im chunking this all together, number one the fucking, ahhdhdhg, it makes me mad just thinking about it, the fact that katara and sokka got "pulled into" the spirit world with and was just bad. Bad storytelling. Bad writing. And they fucking knew it, and they knew that we would know that they were pulling shit out of their ass with it, they acknowledged that in the fucking show, they had sokka and katara say "hey how did we get in here with you" and aang just shrugs and says "idk" and it actually has me griping at my scalp and pulling my fucking hair out. that was first draft kinda stuff and the fact that it made it into the final fucking product has me raising my fucking fists to fight whoever made that decision. Numero dos why was yue there (yes i know that they gave an explanation but still why, it served no purpose it did nothing) number 3 sokka should not have a face aang should not have a face, koh the face stealer. he steals faces, specifically when people show emotion. Thats what makes him scary, not the memory bullshit whatever that was . It was just weak.

Kataras whole bending arc, nothing more needs to be said, actually basically her whole character in this.

Okay i really liked this

I really liked how they casted Azula. Spesifically that she looks her age, she looks young, because she is, even though shes definitely trying to be/apear older. And i like that they made her also just as much a victim of ozai's abuse as zuko(dont get me wrong love og but this is a good expansion of the narative for an adaptation) not to mention durring zukos agni kai shes not smiling, she looks conflicted, glad its not her, but thats her brother. and shes still is a genius in bending and her personality has been moulded to not be a target for ozai and vying for his aproval its obvious that she aware that ozai's wrath could also be turned onto her and had learned from zukos mistakes to not get the brunt of it. Just a good exploration of azula over all

Appa looks so cute! They did my boy good and Momo! Adorable truely 10/10 except the part where they nearly fucking killed him, that was unnecessary and he shoud have a part of the moon or ocean spirit in him like yue canonically speaking but ig.

Other coments

Half the budget was spent on wigs lol i have nothing more to say on this

I think we could have stood to have a bit more mention of sokkas Insticts

That was just a whole ass regular kayak at the end and it had me on rolling on the fucking floor

I felt like i was reading a fan fic written buy a child that doesnt actually like the source material and only read the spark notes

Side note

I didnt add a lot of stuff that i originally was going to bc its kinda obvious and were things that i felt like i couldn't add anything to

[ilovereadingandstuff]

Gran Torino, you old man, I FUCKING LOVE YOU!!!

[miraruinada]

king works a part time job for one day, immediately understands the concept of 'alienation'

[bogslob]

Hahahaghagdgsshda

They really had gran gran recite the opening sequence

I’m dying

[cringechy]

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[sexysilverstrider]

I GOT THE TITLE LMAOOOO

[ashi-cookie]

not to be a furry but i am playing totk while crying about revali