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Jun. 25th, 2012 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liptonrm_backupUgh, I did not sleep well last night. A lot of tossing and turning and weird, disturbing dreams and not nearly enough good, old fashioned sleep. Here's hoping work goes easy on me today, though it's always the days that look light on the calender that turn out to be a pain in the ass in reality.
Went with the girls to see The Avengers again on Saturday. It's still not my OMG FAVORITE MOVE EVAR but it is entertaining. Everything with the Hulk is golden and Tony-Bruce SCIENCE BROS is quite possibly the best thing ever.
I watched the Legend of Korra season finale and OMG LOVED IT! I really like how much darker the show is as a whole. It had a murder-suicide WTF?! It deals in some pretty heavy themes and I'm impressed that Nickelodeon is letting them go there. It's dark enough that I'm hesitant about whether or not my 6 year-old pseudo-nephew should see it. He loved A:tLA but Korra is a more grown-up show. If he's still too young to watch Batman:TAS then he's probably still too young for Korra.
I'm glad it's getting a second season because I want to see more from Asami. Of all the characters she's the one who we got the least insight into which is a shame because she kicks all the ass. Mako was never good enough for her, anyway.
Speaking of, the Avatar series is two-for-two in central romantic relationships that I don't care about. I'm not really sold on Korra/Mako, mostly because of the stupid teenage stuff. Huh, now that I think about it Korra/Asami would be kind of awesome. Fandom, make that happen for me.
I legit cried at the end, both when Aang showed up to heal Korra and then when Lin Beifong got her bending back. I read a really interesting analysis of the end of the episode over at The A.V. Club that made the whole thing a little less Aang-Ex-Machina and a little more Korra hitting her lowest point and then coming out the other side. Though I didn't mind the way they tied everything up. Leaving it as it was, with a suicidal Avatar, was just a little too dark, you know?
I hope in the second season the show addresses the power imbalance between benders and non-benders. Amon was a dick but the Equalist movement had power because of the status of non-benders in that society. Clearly, they need to unionize. OMG, a pro-Union message on a Saturday morning children's cartoon would be amazing. The world needs this, like really a lot.
In sum: I can't wait to see what the second season brings. Seriously can.not.wait.
The weather here in the Great State of Michigan has cooled down a little bit, thank goodness, but we could really use some more rain. Dry and sunny is beautiful, but a little rain would do us some good.
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Went with the girls to see The Avengers again on Saturday. It's still not my OMG FAVORITE MOVE EVAR but it is entertaining. Everything with the Hulk is golden and Tony-Bruce SCIENCE BROS is quite possibly the best thing ever.
I watched the Legend of Korra season finale and OMG LOVED IT! I really like how much darker the show is as a whole. It had a murder-suicide WTF?! It deals in some pretty heavy themes and I'm impressed that Nickelodeon is letting them go there. It's dark enough that I'm hesitant about whether or not my 6 year-old pseudo-nephew should see it. He loved A:tLA but Korra is a more grown-up show. If he's still too young to watch Batman:TAS then he's probably still too young for Korra.
I'm glad it's getting a second season because I want to see more from Asami. Of all the characters she's the one who we got the least insight into which is a shame because she kicks all the ass. Mako was never good enough for her, anyway.
Speaking of, the Avatar series is two-for-two in central romantic relationships that I don't care about. I'm not really sold on Korra/Mako, mostly because of the stupid teenage stuff. Huh, now that I think about it Korra/Asami would be kind of awesome. Fandom, make that happen for me.
I legit cried at the end, both when Aang showed up to heal Korra and then when Lin Beifong got her bending back. I read a really interesting analysis of the end of the episode over at The A.V. Club that made the whole thing a little less Aang-Ex-Machina and a little more Korra hitting her lowest point and then coming out the other side. Though I didn't mind the way they tied everything up. Leaving it as it was, with a suicidal Avatar, was just a little too dark, you know?
I hope in the second season the show addresses the power imbalance between benders and non-benders. Amon was a dick but the Equalist movement had power because of the status of non-benders in that society. Clearly, they need to unionize. OMG, a pro-Union message on a Saturday morning children's cartoon would be amazing. The world needs this, like really a lot.
In sum: I can't wait to see what the second season brings. Seriously can.not.wait.
The weather here in the Great State of Michigan has cooled down a little bit, thank goodness, but we could really use some more rain. Dry and sunny is beautiful, but a little rain would do us some good.
