I had a moment of thinking "wow, everything's really turning up roses" at the end when Lin got her bending back, but I think the fact that I legitimately thought that the attempted suicide of the lead character might be the ending of a Nickelodeon show in which I had already witnessed some pretty intense child abuse…

Plus there's got to be a lot of ambiguity in the cityfolk now about what exactly happened in that last battle.  Amon's propaganda was pretty tightly structured, and although we got a couple "The Avatar's evil!  No, Amon's evil!" reactions from the crowd, not everyone can have seen Amon.  A charismatic leader doesn't…

Plus there's got to be a lot of ambiguity in the cityfolk now about what exactly happened in that last battle.  Amon's propaganda was pretty tightly structured, and although we got a couple "The Avatar's evil!  No, Amon's evil!" reactions from the crowd, not everyone can have seen Amon.  A charismatic leader doesn't…

Yeah, this gender breakdown is definitely interesting, as all of my Avatar-watching friends are women.  Where ARE all these guys?

Yeah, this gender breakdown is definitely interesting, as all of my Avatar-watching friends are women.  Where ARE all these guys?

Hope you're prepared to make some graphs!

Hope you're prepared to make some graphs!

Well, I'm white and from a nearly all white rural area, and I didn't even know there was a difference while I watched these the first time.  Now I can understand the difference intellectually, and it helps to have it
written down in different ways, but I'm a long way from just
automatically knowing what's what and…

Well, I'm white and from a nearly all white rural area, and I didn't even know there was a difference while I watched these the first time.  Now I can understand the difference intellectually, and it helps to have it
written down in different ways, but I'm a long way from just
automatically knowing what's what and…

I guess the U.S. lost the Liberty Bell in the same complicated swap in which it gained the 1812 Overture.

I guess the U.S. lost the Liberty Bell in the same complicated swap in which it gained the 1812 Overture.

As part of a high school video editing class, we decided to do a scene set to Yakety Sax and, completely without foreknowledge, decided it would be hilarious if somebody just randomly ran through the frame in a gorilla suit.  Random Gorilla is either ingrained in the notes of the song itself or it's some message from…

As part of a high school video editing class, we decided to do a scene set to Yakety Sax and, completely without foreknowledge, decided it would be hilarious if somebody just randomly ran through the frame in a gorilla suit.  Random Gorilla is either ingrained in the notes of the song itself or it's some message from…

Good grief, what an appealing person.  Thanks for the interview!

Good grief, what an appealing person.  Thanks for the interview!

I definitely see this point.  However, I kind of like the concept of Mirror Garak (even if scheming Garak is more fun in execution than anything else, ever, and anything else feels like a loss) because it seems interesting that he kind of requires the rule of law and the semblance of morality to be himself in the…

I definitely see this point.  However, I kind of like the concept of Mirror Garak (even if scheming Garak is more fun in execution than anything else, ever, and anything else feels like a loss) because it seems interesting that he kind of requires the rule of law and the semblance of morality to be himself in the…

On the grand scale of asinine ideas, I don't think that one's so bad.  A republican and a democrat having lunch together don't suddenly heal the world's ills, but the current level of discourse depends on forgetting or blocking out the fact that there are other human beings with complicated political positions in the…

On the grand scale of asinine ideas, I don't think that one's so bad.  A republican and a democrat having lunch together don't suddenly heal the world's ills, but the current level of discourse depends on forgetting or blocking out the fact that there are other human beings with complicated political positions in the…

Ok, I stayed on that site way too long, but it was worth it for this: http://the-avatar-cycle.tum…