Favorite moments, big and small, from the show: GO.
The tunnels, they're a-changin'!
Suki coming from nowhere with her hijacked airship! Such a FUCK YEEEAHHH moment.
>>78792>"I'll save you from the pirates" Don't lie, it's fucking hotIf that's what you like, whatever, but honestly, did none of the Zutarians notice the irony in that statement? Not a one? They honestly thought Zuko was being sincere? This is another reason why I can't take that ship seriously. :|I still can't think of any favorite moments. Scratch that, I can't think of any to post because there are just too many. I'd end up flooding this whole thread.
>>78792 ...Are you serious? you found that line hot? That's messed up.
After taking Ozai's bending, Aang collapses. When he stands up, the music swells around him, and we know he's not just Aang anymore - he's Avatar Aang. Then he goes into the avatar state willfully, and puts out all the fires (symbolic and real).Also:>WATER TRIIIIIBE
Two of them.in "the storm" when munk Gyatsu gasps and quickly turns around after reading the note.and the avatar and the firelord when Sozin leaves Roku to die. not all of it but the tiny look they exchange just before he flies off. that mother fucking expression.
>>78902I love the fire bit too. It's so symbolic--the first thing he does as a fully realized Avatar is help heal the damaged earth.
>>78884I get what you're saying now, but I've seen a lot of fangirls who somehow think he really meant what he said there and it's rather perplexing. And I guess I've just never been a fan of that trope. Even with her weak Waterbending skills at that time, I still think Katara could kick Zuko's ass if he actually tried something, and the Stockholm Syndrome good-girl-falling-in-love-with-hawt-bad-boy thing doesn't strike me as being particularly romantic either.
>>78662 I loved the bit where Aang kicked the dust.Cause he's fucking annoying, and now he's gone.Then i hated the bit where he did a Jesus.Cause he's fucking annoying, and now he's back.
>>790251. I'm pretty sure the term is "bit the dust," like the Queen song.2. You're a dick.
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>>79025hi dietotaku
I'm surprised no one mentioned that little look on Zuko's face when Katara uses bloodbending on that ship captain. A real subtle look of "what the fuck..." even if he recovered from the shock quick. She probably never explained it, and I doubt he wanted to even ask.That whole episode had to be one of the most powerful bits of story telling done in western animation.
Iroh in prison."You should take the rest of the day off!""W-what?""You look sick. You should go lie down.""I feel fine...""...Trust me. It is better for you to /not be here/ this afternoon."And then she just sorta knowingly nods.I'm not on my own computer, so I can't get the exact quote, but DAMN, that short bit gives me chills every time.Also, seconding THE BOULDER love.And also the entire Cave of Two Lovers episode.
>>79329 Yeah, and then she goes home, not because she likes the general, but because she knows that there's no fucking stopping him.The end of the beath, when the four of them are walking together framed by the dudes house in flames, and it's drawn like a painting. You just know that all four of them will look back to this moment after the series ended, and remember it as the shining moment before the relationship turned to shit.
>>79566So true. That episode always makes me wish we could've seen more of the Fire kids' antics, but when you think on how they fell apart after that...sniff. ;_;
>>79329 What was the name of that guard Iroh was talking to? Because I ship that. Hard.
>>79574Her name was Ming.
>>79574You and me both, man.
Katara calming Aang down at the end of The Library was an excellent character moment.I also found Katara's speech to her dad in The Awakening to be really affecting, also. I think Mae Whitman really knocked that one outta the park.Also, in The Desert when Iroh first contacted the Order of the White Lotus, my respect for the show's worldbuilding pretty much exploded. "You mean there's a... a SECRET SOCIETY? YOU'VE GIVEN ME ALL THIS AND NOW THERE'S A SECRET SOCIETY? Fuck, show. I think I love you."
>>79591 Don't forget they laid the seeds for that when Iroh lost his white lotus tile back in the Water Bending Scroll.
>>79595I know! SO AWESOME.
the. fucking. quenchy-est.
>The Boulder is going to win this battle>IN A LANDSLIDE!
Stealing is wrong.Except when it's from pirates.
When Sokka tripped on peyote.
>>78695You know when you're boiling water and it takes a minute or two for the metal to start getting hot? It's like that.
>>80381The little wiggly fingers movement he makes (and the look on his face) when he says that just makes it.
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The whole sequence when they storm the Earth King's palace. I love it, because there are no action discretion shots where you're lead to assume the gang was being awesome somewhere else. Every moment is shown, from the time they land to when Aang and Toph bust down the Earth King's door. It's like the writers and animators sat down and said, "Okay, they're busting into the palace, and it's going to be awesome. What happens?" And then they put every single idea into the episode. Fantastic.
>>80381>The Boulder is over his conflicted feelings and now he's ready to bury you IN A ROCKALANCHE!>>80488THIS. Particularly when Aang is being all badass and just nonchalantly punches a giant boulder out of midair like "Bitch, please. I'm the Goddamn Avatar."
>>80488I love how it's almost one long continuous shot. It is pure concentrated FUCKING AWESOME.
I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT, TOPHIT LOOKS LIKE THIS IS THE END;_;
So much of The Runaway."Well, it sounds like a sheet of paper, but I guess you're referring to what's on the sheet of paper. "..."Well then, what's this?""I don't know! I mean, seriously, what's with you people?! I'm blind!"
Much as it's probably mentioned anyway, and even overhyped: Azula in general during "The Beach". Up 'til then, she was basically on a steamroll of psychotic awesome, but you were still fairly sure something would have to give if she was to be defeated in the end.The way they showed her character there was a pleasant way of establishing it. No melodrama, though a fair bit of goofiness (true to the series in general). We see that despite her charisma and ability to manipulate, she's just inept when it comes to basic socializing. We see that even people who *try* to like her (Ty Lee, particularly) really can't, and her admission at the end, the rather low-key line of "Mother thought I was a monster" was simply all that was needed to establish the true nature of her relationship with her parents. Cartoon villains usually just aren't that well done. There's subtlety to the way they let us on to her weaknesses, rather that either overdramatic nonsense or sheer silliness that other shows would give, which makes her stand out as one of the more memorable bad guys out there.
>>80694That part kills me.
>>80735>Cartoon villains usually just aren't that well done.>usuallySmart move.
>>80792It's always smart to use qualifiers. Only the sith deal in absolutes.
>>80797Isn't a philosophy such "only the Sith deal in absolutes" in an of itself an "absolute"?
>>80802Yeah. But the sith came up with it.
>>80803I thought it was just a common Jedi mantra?
>>80806But the Sith came up with it.
>>80807Okay, could you just tell me which Sith came up with it, if there is a single author to this quote? Or, where exactly in what comic or novelization or game it's attributed to them as a whole? I'm not trying to be a dick, and fully well believe you, I just want the specifics so I know for future reference.
>>80812You dense motherfucker.
It's been said a million times, but I love every second of The Beach. I find it amazing that an American kid's cartoon bothered showing that the villains actually did things besides pillage and burn and murder puppies. In most Western shows it seems like they keep the villain in a closet and only trot him out to laugh maniacally and do EVIL. It was just so nice to see these people sitting around talking. The Beach forces you to remember that not only are they real people, they're children.That said, pretty much any scene that reminds the audience that the Gaang and Fire Kids are children is great.
>>80832>they're children. ...Hey!
I really liked Zuko's agni kai with Zhao. It had amazing music, great lighting and effects, and it was a very memorable character moment for the three main Fire Nation guys in Season 1.
I realized, the last night, that Iroh's line "today destiny is our friend, I know it" in the finale makes the hair on my neck stand on end. Every. Single. Time.
I love the scene where Aang goes into the Avatar state for the first time: Sinking into the water, Katara's voice going "Aang, Aaaaaang, AANG!!" and bam, the music kicks in, he glows it up and shoots towards the surface.
Every single avatar state scene. Ever.