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Quick question: does Bender have the same 'other' meaning in America as it does in England, because I couldn't watch the movie without smirking at every mention of an AirBender and WoodBender etc etc (and yes I am THAT juvenial, or I would be if I could spell it)
No, it doesn't.
And please take that fag out of your mouth.
Feels nice that I will actually have the day off that I can get out to visit for the recording. ![]()
Been far to long.
If you've not seen the show, it's really quite good. I remember the first time I tried watching it was back when it was still on TV. Someone had posted a lot of the series to youtube, so I gave the first episode a shot. Stopped about ten minutes into it and said "nope, not my bag".
Then I got netflix and netflix kept telling me how much I'd like the show, so I said, "Fine, Netflix, I'll watch the god damn show just so you'll stop dumping it at the top of my "suggestions" page.
I think it's one of the better animated kid's shows ever done. It took me a few episodes to see the potential. There's a weak episode here and there, but the series overall is solid.
^is it better than Dungeons and Dragons, Ulysses and The Mysterious Cities of Gold ?
Yup. I've seen a few episodes and I thought it was really enjoyable. It was shortly after the movie was released and I heard about how bad it was - wanted to see whether the source material was really as good as folks were saying.
I think the best thing about the show is the fact that you don't see the main villain until the third season, and they devote a LOT of the show to fleshing out the antagonists. Zuko and Iro are both really detailed characters and their relationship is really complex. There's an episode about halfway through the second season that has several little vignettes dealing with a few different characters individually, and the segment that focuses on Iro is one of the best things they ever did on the show. I honestly got a bit choked up at the end of that segment. The third season also has some of the darkest themes I've ever seen in a kid's show. There are some real moral dilemmas going on toward the end. Let's just say that they pretty fully explore the implications of being able to manipulate the elements.
I was going to watch The Last Airbender in preparation for today's recording, having never seen it. I couldn't bring myself to sit through it twice (even with the sound down/off) so instead, I'm watching Paul for the first time. ![]()
Weirdly enough I watched the movie first, absolutely awful experience. But then after hearing such constant bitching about how M. Night Shamwow fucked it up I got curious about the source materiel. I burned through entire series on Netflix in about a week, loved it and somehow completely forgot about the movie for like the next two weeks. I don't know what specifically triggered it but then I had like a flash memory flood of the movie and I wound up retroactively hating all over again with the added stigma of knowing the series. It sucked.
Regarding this weekend's Close Encounters commentary, did we ever decide which version we're doing?
I vote for Director's cut.
Cool - I think tomorrow will be the first time I will get to join you guys live. Have the 30th Blu-ray already and all ready to go.
I'm curious, what the first two kinds of close encounters? I always wondered whether that confused people. They did, after all, drop the III from The 'Madness of King George' to avoid baffling folk.
First kind is "oh I see a UFO"
Second kind is physical evidence: burns, fallen trees, ect
Third kind is contact
EDIT: Also, a few other kinds have since been added
Fourth kind is Abduction
and I think there are, but i can't remember what what they are, 5 & 6.
EDIT 2: from Wikipedia:
Fifth Kind: communication (usually through telepathy)
Sixth Kind: injury or death
Seventh Kind: Mating
However, 4-7 are not a part of the original scale.
whoops, I just edited... but thanks DocSub.
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