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Television Anyone catch the Netflix Avatar trailer?
Fizzzzle replied to Fizzzzle's topic in The Performing Arts Centre
I feel like some of that is maybe due to writing but also to do with actually using unknown child actors. The actors who play Aang and Kitara have pretty much never done anything before, and their performances vary wildly in consistency (compared to Zuko and Sokka, who are consistently excellent in my opinion) I liked the first season enough that I'm excited to see what they'll build with it, especially as the actors get older and more experienced. This isn't game of thrones or Harry potter, where the young actors are protected by a wall of established thespians. There is nothing to hide behind. I feel like the first season could have suffered from it while also giving the third season that much more impact. -
Spotify all but killed piracy in the music industry. How? By making basically any music you want legally available at the push of a button. Is everyone happy with the new arrangement? Fuck no! But for artists/labels, it was take 50% of something or 100% of nothing. If you want to kill piracy for digital media, make your products easily accessible for a reasonable price and the vast majority of people will pay for it. Pirating things can be a pain in the ass sometimes. Funny enough, Nintendo tried to sue Blockbuster in the 80s. Nintendo couldn't argue that the renting of games themselves was illegal (Microsoft lobbied for first-sale doctrine, meaning any copy of software/media purchased legally can be resold without royalties going to the original owner), so they went after Blockbuster for photocopying manuals. Blockbuster had to cease copying manuals (that's why you never see games with fake jackets on them at used game stores), but the right to rent out games was enshrined into law.
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I played the first one and it wasn't actively bad or anything, but I pretty much have no memory of anything that happened in it. It falls into the category of games like Rage where it's like "Steam tells me I played the game for like 50 hours, but fuck me if I could tell you a single thing about it."
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Television Anyone catch the Netflix Avatar trailer?
Fizzzzle replied to Fizzzzle's topic in The Performing Arts Centre
Thankfully that's the only episode in which she ever speaks! -
Television Anyone catch the Netflix Avatar trailer?
Fizzzzle replied to Fizzzzle's topic in The Performing Arts Centre
The whole "not starting Zuko as a proper villain" thing bothered me for a minute, but it doesn't anymore now that I've finished it Honestly, I'm fine with the show. Is it as good as the original series? No, but the original series is literally one of the greatest shows ever made, so we're picking nits. The show is good. And I didn't see the original until I was like 25. -
That would be far more what I'm worried about, though I don't think the court would go that far, even in their current makeup. Then again they are potentially about to take the teeth out of every executive regulatory body, so... The Supreme court becoming a weapon of the executive is something Andrew Jackson could have only dreamed about. (He famously ignored the supreme court when they said it was unconstitutional to bar native Americans from non-native lands and allowed them to be kicked out anyway. Jackson was the worst.)
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As far as I'm aware, both the House and the Senate have to approve NATO spending/cutting in the defense budget. Cutting NATO spending would be a non-starter in any budget in the Senate. So... thank god for the Senate? ... that's a frightening sentence... Then again, maybe Trump doubles down on anti-NATO rhetoric that he's willing a complete government shutdown over NATO spending...
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To be fair, so far all Trump has said is that he wouldn't help NATO allies who "didn't pay their share" (which I don't think he understands what that actually means) in the case of a Russian invasion, and every NATO ally that borders Russia/Belarus does, in fact, "pay their share." Point being, I know Trump wants to suck off vladdy daddy in every way he can, but straight up leaving NATO or stripping funding isn't possible without congressional support (at least I can't find anything that says the President can unilaterally cut off NATO funding) and not participating at all would be political suicide (even if that means no US boots on the ground). I would be more concerned if shit pops off in the Balkans again, considering Montenegro and Macedonia are members now.
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Television Anyone catch the Netflix Avatar trailer?
Fizzzzle replied to Fizzzzle's topic in The Performing Arts Centre
One shift in tone that I loved is how they actually made you feel like they were in a world ravaged by 100 years of war. The original series never really did that. -
Television Anyone catch the Netflix Avatar trailer?
Fizzzzle replied to Fizzzzle's topic in The Performing Arts Centre
I think there is something sacrificed by having 8 hour-long episodes vs. 24 20-minute long episodes, and that was a creative decision they had to deal with. Sometimes I think it works better, but by necessity it means tonal inconsistency since you can't just have a "silly" episode even you only have 8 episodes to work with. And before anyone compares it to One Piece, One Piece is not even remotely close to narratively coherent and nowhere near as emotionally impactful. One Piece doesn't ever *have* to feel like it's going anywhere -
Television Anyone catch the Netflix Avatar trailer?
Fizzzzle replied to Fizzzzle's topic in The Performing Arts Centre
I'm six episodes deep, I enjoy it. 1) I wasn't initially stoked on the new take of Iroh, but I've grown to love the way the actor portrays him (it's like following up robin Williams as Genie) 2) I was worried that they wouldn't give Zuko a proper stint as a villain, and they didn't. But I think it works for the tone they're going for 3) the way they combine storylines doesn't always work and makes things feel tonally inconsistent. Episode 5 is a perfect example of that 4) LOVE the music. The way they weave in "little soldier boy" during Irohs scenes is brilliant and will (hopefully) have a big payoff later 5) the acting is inconsistent, but it doesn't really bother me. They're mostly dealing with kids. The guy who plays Sokka is great, and the guy who plays Zuko is also mostly great. Aang and Kitara... The kid playing Aang was literally 12 when this was filmed. -
I think Jack Black can be funny, but he should never be the star of the show
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Ooooh, he was really good in Burn After Reading. I forgot about that one.