@avclub-7cbaf9384cf3835106bf2f444c0bcf65:disqus Good suggestion on the whisky - for some reason, I ended up associating Dailuaine single malt with BSG, but Lagavulin works well, too.  Gotta have something smoky for "To Galactica… the best ship in the fleet!"

Yup, I was also thinking Beer Hall Putsch when that scene opened.  Well done.

Bah.  I mentioned monkey-meditation-man in a post after you did before reading yours.  Well done, sir.

It's actually a dodgecabbage league.  Because Amon is the grandson of the Cabbage Merchant.

@avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus And that crabby monkey-dude.  Go.  Away.

Aw shucks, I thought I was going to get away with being the first to "officially" point out the callback with "What did you do to me?"  Pretty awesome.  Although I missed the big energybending light-show.  Way less impressive this time around.  Unless he's not energybending…

I found it interesting that all of the main characters in Avatar come from pretty screwed-up families - either destroyed, dysfunctional (understatement), or otherwise absent.  I suppose that is largely to give a reason why the characters are wandering about in the first place, but I always suspected it operated as a…

@avclub-1ff70043c78f44fc8841bd8203c00ed3:disqus Oooh, I am excited to see who the Season 2 villain is, assuming Amon goes the Zhao route.

@The_Tuna:disqus YES.  YES.

Doo doo doo… do do doo doo!  I like it.  I think it's a winner.

Ba Sing Se beatdown did need more Irohwnage.

The look she shoots at the old guy crowning her when he stops mid-sentence is priceless, too.  "What are you waiting for?!  DO IT!!!"

Iroh wordlessly and decisively forgives Zuko - badass on its own.  And then, this line: "I was never angry with you. I was sad, because I was afraid you'd lost your way. …
But you found it again. And you did it by yourself."  Perfect.

"Ozai’s kind of a drama king. He holds his Phoenix King reveal to impress
no one but his teenage daughter and then makes a supervillain speech to
himself when he launches his air fleet."

Well, the music didn't completely take over for the dialogue.  We still get classics like "I'll show you LIGHTNING!!!"

As I just wrote in a post of really suspect length, I watched the show way out of order.  I didn't realize it was on Netflix, so at the recommendation of someone I trust, I found a source of dubious legality and watched The Drill.  I did not find it boring, found it pretty fun, but also didn't think it was that deep…

Yeah, this is one of those things I am willing to suspend disbelief for because the payoff you get for letting it go is worth it.  But yes, it makes no sense.

COMEDY!

Yes.  Thank you for highlighting this.  This is a lesson most adults could learn from, I think, in everyday life - that in order to determine what the right choice is, you should not look solely inward to your own needs, wants, and experience, but also outside of yourself, at the people and things around you.

Also, I hate to say it, but with regard to Aang's not really thinking about what he was going to have to do when he faced the firelord (kill him), I can sort of relate to it.  Well, not the having to kill someone to save the world part - but the subconscious (yet basically willful) procrastinating a really hard…