oh my god I know like it sounds weird to say this when it's just avatar but the original show has aang go back to the southern air temple to show katara and sokka his home only to find evidence of the genocide of his people and the loss of his loved ones and it's quiet until you see his grief and his rage but you just see the aftermath a hundred years later and the netflix adaptation makes it feel like they wanted it to be a cool action movie with an epic scene showing the fighting and running of the airbenders like that side by side with aang running away and it's like ??? okay it's "darker" congratulations I can see that's what the goal is based on the differences in firebending and early on screen deaths go and focus on every bit of violence for the audience's lazy sadistic pleasure instead of any of the characters personal narratives especially the women that can all be taken right out + the discovery of different places all over the world in the earth kingdom and outside of it. put everything in omashu so they don't get to meet people and see the diversity of the world and each town and SEE what life is like for them under war and have these experiences with all these people build up to something bigger at the end
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Ive seenyou mention wuxia a few times now and i wonder what that is. Would you mind explaining it to me?
not the most qualified person to explain this as i'm not, in fact, from china; but i've read a couple of wuxia so here goes:
wuxia is a genre of fiction from china specifically, about martial artists in ancient china. i don't think a specific time period is like required? obviously some dynasties are more popular but idk how it goes in that front. it just has to be Not Today and probably Too Long Ago. like pre industral revolution i think. again idk if that's a requirement, but most i've seen are from around the same relative murky pre-electricity era.
xianxia is a subgenre of wuxia that's specifically more fantasy-like, and it's not just martial arts, but also spiritual powers and cultivation (which i have no fucking clue how to explain without two hours and three tangents other than chinese magic system. if you've ever heard of chi/qi as an energy, it appears there). so like- genshin is by all accounts a xianxia, it just doesn't use the more common specific xianxia terms like cultivation. some of those are very weird to translate and probably not common for the average non-wuxia reader, so it makes sense why they're going for alternatives.
chongyun and xingqiu and xianyun are very much straight out of a xianxia. xianyun's entire story quest was the closest genshin has gotten to a straight xianxia plot so far. i highly reccomend ashikai's video on unnecessary visions if you want more info on why genshin is a xianxia hahah
cyanide narwhal has some talk of some stuff from xianxia, but that's mostly because well- fucking liyue, that's how it works there. the whole light energy striking down someone who's getting powerful and giving them godhood if they survive the strike is, while not exactly like that, something that happens in some xianxia as well.
like the way adepti work in general is just very xianxia. ashikai does a much better job explaining it than i do tbh but yeah
TL;DR: wuxia is chinese martial arts fiction in ancient china, and xianxia is a wuxia subgenre with more magic elements. also genshin is a xianxia
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OPLA
so I started watching OPLA....
damn
i'm on episode 5 and the funniest thing to me so far??
zoro's challenge to mihawk.
like, it's all silly and goofy and sometimes serious but mostly seriously funny, as it should be
koby and luffy first meeting and their funny dynamic, zoro and luffy first meeting and their silly dynamic, nami and luffy first meeting and their silly dynamic, b u g g y, usopp and luffy being usopp and luffy, the frickin treasure tab, sanji and his amusement with luffy, zeff and sanji's dynamic, nami my sweet lonely lil' tangerine, all of it actually, all of it...it's just...G O L D
but this particular scene just...I kept rewatching it lol
Like tell me this isn't how it went down:
Mihawk: take me to your leader
Zoro: you're the guy
Mihawk: take me to your leader
Zoro: but you're the guy
Mihawk: *unimpressed stare*
Zoro: I've been watching you since I was a kid, old man(implied, heavily implied)
Mihawk: yes, thank you or whatever
Zoro: man it sucks but also I am going to enjoy kicking your ass
Mihawk: I beg your pardon
Zoro: My name is Roronoa Zoro, my friend died so I'm going to fulfill our dream for the both of us. Prepare to die.
Mihawk: You're nobody, I'm only here for your captai-
Zoro: They call me The Demon™ now, but soon they'll call me The Greatest™
Mihawk: *internally* wow, edgy *out loud* You're really serious about this, aren't you?
Zoro: Fuck around and find out
Mihawk: Fine then, your funeral. Don't come crying when I kill you and your captain. *stalks away dramatically*
Zoro: *squealing, jumping up and down in his mind*
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