Avatar the Last Airbender S3:E15 Full Reaction
Added 2024-10-28 19:00:02 +0000 UTCFull Watch Along Reaction to ATLA Season 3 Episode 15
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The fan casting for this play in live action according to the Fandom is all of the actors for the unmentionable avatar live action adaptation from m night samalan
Tim Keener
2024-11-03 18:39:14 +0000 UTCWow... sounds like people got very passionately invested in this
Bethany and Ken
2024-11-01 16:45:09 +0000 UTCDefinitely interested, but maybe after our Korra journey :)
Bethany and Ken
2024-11-01 16:39:58 +0000 UTCWe're excited too and can't wait to see your thoughts! Thank you for the kind words :)
Bethany and Ken
2024-11-01 16:39:19 +0000 UTCYou make a good point about the context of recap episodes and episode airing before streaming. While we did pick up on some stuff in the episode it's these comments that are so helpful with even more information to really enrich our journey. It is also fantastic that the creators were comfortable making fun of themselves and the fan base in that loving good-natured way and not taking themselves too seriously.
Bethany and Ken
2024-11-01 16:38:29 +0000 UTCLove the fire - water crossfire connection! And great to know that about the Netflix releases as we wondered why certain episodes seemed bunched up together but it is nice to know that is how the creators and distributors intended for them to be released.
Bethany and Ken
2024-11-01 16:34:10 +0000 UTCThis theater play accurately portrays how i feel towards abridged like with Dragon ball and SAO. My head canon is the cabbage man wrote it 😂
Knight Spearhead
2024-11-01 02:43:14 +0000 UTCThey also poke fun at the fact that we don't see Combustion Man die in the show (Sokka pointing out to Aang and Katara that they missed that scene). Such a well done recap episode, and then we have the finale up next! This finale was said by many to be the most popular in animated history and won an award back in 2008 for it. I think it was the highest rated episode of that entire year on Nickelodeon, so y'all are in for a treat!!
J Sal
2024-10-29 21:01:39 +0000 UTCHere we go, the greatest recap episode of all time. I've mentioned Scott Menville making many appearances in this show, and here's his best one: Actor Sokka. Meanwhile, some more VA Fun Facts: Actor Zuko is played by Derek Basco, Dante Basco (Zuko's VA)'s brother. Meanwhile, Actor Azula is voiced by Tara Strong, very famous VA who frequently works with Grey DeLisle. While looking up Derek Basco's name, I actually found a fun little connection. I've already expressed that Grey DeLisle, the voice of Azula, also voiced Katara's mother, Kya, but I also just learned that Mae Whitman, the voice of Katara, voiced Iroh's son, Lu Ten, in a flashback. Funny little fire and water connection we got there, I feel. As others have said, the writers took a decent amount of audience response to apply this episode, so the fact that "Sokka" said, "Let's keep flying" in response to The Great Divide is a reference to how that episode in season 1 was/is frequently considered the most pointless. This actually was setting up the following week when it aired. The four-part finale aired all in one night. Any time you've had a two-parter on Netflix, that's the way they were aired, such as "The Serpent's Pass" and "The Drill" being aired as "The Secret of the Fire Nation." In this instance, Sozin's Comet all aired at once over 2 hours, including the nation-wide cutout in audio during a specific character's dialogue in part 2. So glad I joined the tier. So glad I got fully caught up. So, SO excited for your reaction to the finale. It's one of the best finales to any series of all time, and I feel confident saying that I'm not the only one who feels that way.
DementisXYZ
2024-10-29 19:25:53 +0000 UTCI'm glad you guys enjoyed this episode. I have seen some reactors downplay it, not understanding its uniqueness and significance. This series first aired in 2005 when recap episodes were still very much a thing and always the worst part of every show that aired every week with breaks in between. This was clearly before streaming ever became a thing. So, Mike and Bryan's turning a recap episode into a comedy play that serves as commentary for the fandom was unique and creative for its time. They even managed to move minor plots forward. Mike and Bryan did a lot of poking fun at the fanbase, themselves, and Nickelodeon with this episode while also paying homage to classic theater with the classic tropes that you seemed to have picked up on. When this episode aired, it was very much meant to be the penultimate episode because the next four episodes were aired at once as a finale movie. Further commentary considering Katara and Zuko. As mentioned in another comment, the creators were poking fun at the fanbase that very much supported this shipping. It was extreme back in the day. Some sources say that in season 1, Mike and Bryan considered ending with Katara and Zuko together. Fans will swear up and down that they laid the foundation for this with a few Katara and Zuko scenes that were a bit optimistic (i.e. Zuko stealing Katara's necklace), and they seemed to have been set up as opposites that rival each other (i.e. fire vs. water, sun vs. moon). Think what you want, but by this point in the show, it was apparent that they were not heading in that direction for those two characters.
Cilla W
2024-10-29 04:50:59 +0000 UTCIf I remember correctly, the Zutara vs. Kataang was one of the first or earliest major online shipping wars. It was everywhere, spawning a ton of videos on youtube for it.
Cilla W
2024-10-29 04:37:00 +0000 UTCI am so hyped for the next one. Easily one of my favorite finales to a show and I can’t wait for you guys to see it. This has been a wonderful journey to watch and I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did growing up and even now. There’s a ton of philosophical things that play into the entire journey leading up to this point and play into the finale and I can’t wait to lay out my thoughts on those character/narrative points in the next reaction. You guys are awesome 😄
Stuff1235
2024-10-29 02:02:27 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure shippers are just toxic in general. But this is basically true. I remember it back as these episodes were being aired and there was a very....staunch...community of people that attempted to will that romance into existence
Christopher cdrom1019 DeLucia
2024-10-28 22:08:56 +0000 UTCAlthough it does show scenes from Korra so maybe not
Moises Martinez
2024-10-28 21:49:40 +0000 UTCThere’s a theory that the cabbage merchant is actually a fire nation spy! There’s a video on it if you guys are interested
Moises Martinez
2024-10-28 21:48:38 +0000 UTCthe zuko/katara "romance" in the play was more of a spoof on the fandom than the writers trying to cobble together love triangle drama. Back in the day, the "zutara" shipping community was pretty big (and sorta toxic lol...), and the writers were kinda poking fun @ them a bit. a LOT of this episode is 4th wall breaking. They even made fun of the great divide episode.
Ietseatapples
2024-10-28 19:12:22 +0000 UTC
