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That probably explains why even after years of effort, I could never figure out the WKRP end lyrics.

Hulu has— or had— a selected set of episodes up for free (I haven't checked since the switch). I didn't notice any lost music, but the iconic theme is still there.

Or the Ember Island Players…oh wait, that's this movie.

Clueless, it's in a steampunky 'world that never existed' based on the Pacific rim nations.

I can't find it either. I wonder if they got c&d, though that seems silly.

Apparently some of the early buzz says they also cut out the two female Avatars from the past— the airbender lady and Kiyoshi. Even though the Kyoshi warriors are in it.

While we have you, Tasha— some of the reviews seem to think it's set in a post-apocalypse. Did M. Night & co. add this, or are the reviewers confused?

I was pretty shocked they kept the whole Princess Yue arc in— it's dramatic and cool and interesting, but there's a lot of depth that would be hard to even touch on in a 104-minute movie. They could've easily stopped much earlier in the season and milked more theoretical money out of the franchise.

I thought it was supposed to just be a special/movie?

And Nick's been running the show pretty much constantly in an attempt to promote the movie.

Actually, over at Racebending there's a great image of what Aang would look like if he was meant to be Caucasian using the neo-anime style they had going in the show. The show goes to great lengths to be culturally accurate, right down to the hairstyles in some cases; the show bible says it's set in a pan-Asian world;

Do the world a favor and at least sneak in, spiders? You guys are stealthy.

I wanted a cigarette after.

Yeah, Scott Pilgrim and Inception are the last hopes standing, I think.

Keep your Disney stock, this is a Nick franchise.

Are you really surprised though? Every bit of news we got— from the casting to the trailers— was bad and kept getting worse.

My guess is about one-third studio interference (This must be darker and edgier! No Asians!), one-third M. Night (This must be darker and edgier! Glare more dully!) and one-third the challenge of the source material. (As Roger Ebert said, airbending and waterbending are a hell of a SFX challenge.)

I vote shittier. Roger Ebert ripped it a new one.

He mistook 'portentous' for 'quality.'

There is one other big downside to Netflix streaming and that's that there's no closed captioning at all. I know that's a minority of the audience but I still really wish they had it.