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I wiped myself out for most of the day walking to a doctor's appointment in the morning, but tonight ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch and I finished Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–08), which we have been watching over the last month and change; it was his first time through and my first rewatch, except for a couple of episodes with my niece this summer, since 2010. We ordered dinner from O Ginger and I had roast duck udon in honor of Uncle Iroh. Also, Autolycus was conspicuously cute.
spatch and I finished Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–08), which we have been watching over the last month and change; it was his first time through and my first rewatch, except for a couple of episodes with my niece this summer, since 2010. We ordered dinner from O Ginger and I had roast duck udon in honor of Uncle Iroh. Also, Autolycus was conspicuously cute.
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He was purring at volume, but that's harder to photograph.
It's fun to have an occasion to rewatch a really good series. I haven't actually watched Avatar: The Last Airbender, but I understand the lineaments. What was Spatch's reaction to it?
He loved it! We'd watched the first couple of episodes with my niece in early July and I assumed he'd seen the show previously, but he had not. We would watch a handful of episodes every couple of nights when he got home from work. I had remembered how it complicates itself from a relatively simple arrangement of characters and moralities, but it really does achieve numinous, epic, still very human levels by the end, and remains some of the most impressive animation I have seen in Western TV. I am confident some of its details would differ if it hadn't been made in the mid-2000's, but it does hold up. I am skeptical of the upcoming reboot, although I hope for the sake of the creators that it's good; the original feels like one of those caught alchemies that can't be reproduced.
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