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agentemo · 2 months

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Netflix's ATLA initial thoughts, ep 4: Into the Dark but first some big thoughts

Three episodes in, I kind of wish they'd gotten rid of Momo. They're cutting so much from the OG show and Appa doesn't really have a personality yet. I doubt we'll see him this episode; so halfway through season 1 and we've barely seen a very important character. Did we need Momo? As I said previously, the main trio don't have good chemistry but they're better with other actors so I'm starting to suspect that the fact that they're not strong actors is holding them back as a group. It feels like the creators tried to squeeze too much into these short episodes without developing their relationships [with Aang] in a meaningful and fun way; there's not really much FUN in the show, just some jokes and also sentimental moments.

All of that said, there are some things I do like. Ozai and other prominent fire nation citizens showing up early on is A-OK with me and it has almost nothing to do with Daniel Dae Kim's cheekbones. The effects are mostly good; I've decided this is just a type of magic that can't be shown in live action but there are moments that are strong. Iroh and Zuko are better fleshed out, which I suspect is having a veteran actor and only one child actor (easier than 3 child actors). I think they've done a decent job at cutting some of the fat; the combined storylines, like everything in Omashu and Kyoshi Island, work for me. I wish there were more silly moments but I don't mind that they decided to steer clear of the cartoonish route. At least it's consistent. Sokka is funny.

Back to the show!

Aang and Iroh convo ftw! And is Zuko going back in to save Iroh? I'm excited.

Too much exposition in the dialogue, man! Why are these people not talking like people!?

Danny Pudi elevates every scene he's in. Excellent casting choice.

I like that Bumi's identity isn't a "mystery" this time around. It adds an interesting edge to his antagonism. That edge is unlikeability. Maybe he'll be better by the end of the episode.

Sokka letting go and vibing with the earth kingdom nomads? Chefs kiss.

GAY OMASHU GAY OMASHU GAY OMASHU

SECRET TUNNEEEEEELLL

Best scene. Stick a fork in me, I'm done.

Is it terrible that Sokka and Katara in the tunnel is giving me Folger's commecial? I like the idea of it being familial love, and the trio acts better when none of them have to third wheel, but my brain went there. I'm sorry lmao.

Honestly Iroh deserves the shit he's getting from the guard, who is eating an apple so we know he's an asshole.

Young Zuko showing signs of his goodness by ignoring tradition and comforting Iroh jfc the first time this show THIS SHOW made me cry. Not he echoes of the animation, but this actual show. Wow. Incredible choice. And LEAVES FROM THE VINE 😭

Sibbling bonding ftw. The change to the "love is brightest..." bit is whack. Badgermole looks sick.

The Bumi/Aang fight had a lot of cool similarities to the OG! I don't love that the point of the fight, however, was for a child to convince an old man that there's hope instead of an old man teaching a child an important lesson.

Zuko and Iroh at the end... WHO keeps cutting ONIONS?!

Best episode so far. The changes mostly worked. All for today for me. Halfway point!

#avatar the last airbender

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danglovely · 4 years

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Everything I learned or experienced from watching the commentary track for “Community”:

*deep breath*

The Pierce writing the Greendale song subplot had a darker version cut by NBC.

Pierce helping Troy with sneezing had a cut Chevy line: “you used to be the big man on campus AND NOW YOU’RE A JOKE.”

Chevy Chase seems to not know what ecstasy is.

Dan Harmon definitely is familiar with it.

There was a shooting at the school they filmed the debate scenes at which put the cast and crew into lockdown.

Joel McHale received emails from church groups regarding the content of his “Man is Evil” debate.

Donald Glover hits on Yvette Nicole Brown in a Barack Obama impression.

Chevy Chase loves being behind a piano.

He also loves doing prat falls.

He improvised calling his beastmaster owl “Abed” in Introduction to Statistics.

Jack Black filmed his episode in one day.

Annie having sex with a guy, him revealing himself to be gay, and her never seeing his genitalia was drawn from Alison Brie’s life.

According to Dan Harmon, Slater is supposed to be the Jolie to Britta’s Aniston.

Dan Harmon was worried people would think he was ripping of Funny or Die with Jeff and Slater’s relationship declaration form.

The cast of Derrick Comedy is Pierce’s joke team in Romantic Expressionism.

Yvette Nicole Brown came up with the Burt and Ernie tag.

Craig Cackowski is on the show because his sister wrote for the show.

JUST MY OPINION, but Chevy Chase and Dan Harmon seemed quite appreciative of each other in the first season.

The “Goldbluming” joke was a big point of contention between Joe and Anthony Russo.

I can’t confirm... but it really sounds like the show killed a frog for Britta’s prank.

The Starburns - Abed chicken scene was an intentional homage to Heat.

Abed and Jeff are both cut off from people according to Dan Harmon. The difference is that Jeff can manipulate people and Abed covets that ability.

Jeff and Britta had sex in Modern Warfare partially to make the episode important to the overall story’s structure (in addition to it being the first real high concept episode).

Abed wears a Boondocks shirt because Sony owned it and it was free to use by the show.

Dan Harmon does not respect Good Will Hunting as a movie.

The “so it begins, the greatest relationship ever known” kiss took 30 takes.

Betty White did not know Toto’s Africa before filming her rap.

The music budget for the second season was entirely spent on Abba music for Epidemiology. Dan Harmon paid out of pocket for the Sara Bareillis song they use in Paradigms of Human Memory.

In Calligraphy, Gwynnifer is named after Dan Harmon’s twitter “nemesis”. He confirmed it is a code name for Britta, who had been hooking up with Jeff since the space bus.

Dan Harmon repeatedly refers to Jeff and Britta as the inverse of Jim and Pam from The Office.

Bruce Hornsby was supposed to punch Pierce in the season one finale.

Chevy Chase was upset with how cruel Pierce was in Advanced Dungeons in Dragons.

Levar Burton changed the line from “more fish for Levar” to “more fish for Kunta”.

The joke of the tag where no one says anything to each other while they surf their phones is supposed to be that it took place on Britta’s birthday, but the writers realized that it was the wrong time of year.

Dan Harmon paid for that Sara Bareillis song because it was set over the first Jeff x Annie shipper video he had seen.

The dean’s cartoon tag exists because Paradigms of Human Memory is somehow the only episode that came in UNDER expected time.

At the end of Competitive Wine Tasting, Abed was supposed to hear a gunshot coming from Stephen Tobolowsky’s office after proving Angela was, in fact, the boss on Who’s the Boss?

Yvette Nicole Brown calls Gillian Jacobs “Stinkerton” for some reason.

No one on the commentary was happy with the Jeff calling Annie “kiddo” scene in Geography of Global Conflict. Actors, directors, nobody.

Chevy Chase told Maggie Bandur that she shouldn’t write comedy.

Dan Harmon tweeted as all the characters for #AnniesMove.

Dan Harmon realized the sound was off to Abed and Troy’s Christmas Rap while doing the commentary.

Dan Harmon said a lot of the planning in season three was about minimizing Chevy’s contact with the cast and crew.

Gillian Jacobs said she didn’t move much in Virtual Systems Analysis when Abed wasn’t supposed to be inhabiting her. (My opinion: none of the other characters seem to follow her rule.)

Alison Brie raps on set a lot.

Gillian Jacobs was in an Apple PC commercial that never aired.

Dino Stamatopoulos repeatedly requested to be killed off the show.

Jim Rash’s stand-in was bronzed to fill in for Danny Pudi who was absent while his wife was having twins.

Jim Rash was in and out for a bit while winning an Oscar for The Descendants.

Dean Laybourne was self-conscious about his appearance to justify John Goodman’s appearance for another movie.

Moses Port said the opening of season four was supposed to be a fake out to make people think the show suddenly sucked.

Annie’s The Ring entrance was filmed backwards then run in reverse.

Britta’s ham costume had to be recolored to prevent her from looking like a scrotum.

Intro to Knots was originally supposed to be filmed in one shot as an homage to Rope. The first two minutes was all they managed to get through.

Gillian Jacobs says Troy and Britta have nothing in common.

According to Dan Harmon, Chevy Chase was happy to do his scene in season five and was open to coming back for more.

According to Dan Harmon, even if he wanted Chevy Chase back, Sony would have refused his return to the show.

Jonathan Banks told Christopher McKenna that he would “punch him in the heart” which Dan Harmon wrote into the show.

It is all butt confirmed that Annie is the Ass Crack Bandit.

Advanced Advanced Dungeons and Dragons was so behind schedule that it totally rushed/altered the season five finale.

Dan Harmon says Jeff shares things with Britta that he doesn’t with Annie but feels things for Annie that he doesn’t with Britta.

Dan Harmon and Paget Brewster were good friends before she joined the show.

Frankie’s backstory is that she is moving to Colorado to take care of her handicapped sister.

Chang is actually gay.

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dashiellqvverty · 5 years

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Community for the ask thing?

my favorite female character - honestly? frankie

my favorite male character - abed!!! i don’t think i’ve ever related to a character harder it’s so important to me to see autistic (and autistic-coded) with special interests in creative fields?? like he’s not a genius he doesn’t know math he just loves movies and tv So Much and so do i!!!

my favorite book/season/etc - hmmmmm season 2 i think. it just has so many good episodes all in one place

my favorite episode (if its a tv show) - pillows and blankets!! it’s my number one comfort media i’ve seen it so many times

my favorite cast member - maybe danny pudi? i love him on ducktales. honestly i don’t know much of the casts other work or much about what they’re like as people. donald glover too!! i don’t really listen to his music but like from the interviews i’ve watched and other roles i’ve seen him in i like him a lot

my favorite ship - trobed!! i didn’t ship it when i first watched the show can you believe (it’s bc i was deep in mogai tumblr and was like “troy is aro abed is ace they’re qpp” and uh whoops we don’t have time to unpack all that!!!)

a character I’d die defending - abed but he doesn’t need it as the show is v much on his side in most things (my favorite genre of episodes are the ones where the moral is “hey don’t treat abed like shit”). idk i don’t want to put any member of the study group on a pedastal bc they’re all shit but he and troy are certainly better people than most of them

a character I just can’t sympathize with - pierce fucking hawthorne. also hickey he was. better than pierce i guess? he was cool with his gay son but there was that whole episode about him being mean to abed and i can’t sympathize with that

a character I grew to love - jeff!! he’s an asshole but oh my god he drinks that loving his friends juice. also i was worried about the s6 characters when i started but i love frankie to death

my anti otp - abed/annie. also i used to be into jeff/annie when i was younger and thought i was a girl and was attracted to jeff but now that i’m actually around annie’s age… not a fan. not big on troy/britta either it didn’t work for me

#ahhhh thank u pearl #special interest mode activated

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