Avatar: The Last Airbender is probably closer to my heart than any other story I’ve ever been told. It is strong, it is meaningful, and it is very, very important. Go watch it! You deserve it. While I was very disappointed with much of Season 1 back in 2024, I was probably alone in thinking … Read more
I have often seen the sentiment, particularly since his Oscar win with Oppenheimer, that Christopher Nolan himself is Hollywood’s most valuable IP. Who else could have turned a partially black-and-white biopic about a man most people have never heard of into a $976 million box office Best Picture? Nolan’s name carries a weight, a seal … Read more
Here we are, folks, at the Crossroads of Destiny. As Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender closes out its second season, the Gaang finds themselves in the crystal caverns beneath Ba Sing Se as the second act of our grand story brings us to its “all is lost” ending. With only 7 episodes … Read more
With Aang and the Gaang back from the Spirit Library, Jet dead, and Appa taken, things are bleak for Team Avatar. Fans will know that because things played out so differently in the Netflix show, with Long Feng directly kidnapping Appa and putting him directly in Lake Laogai, there is no Appa’s Lost Days anymore. This … Read more
When last we left our heroes, Sokka had teamed up with the massively-rewritten Professor Zei from Ba Sing Se University to locate the ancient Spirit Library, in which a map of the Fire Nation and information about how to defeat them might exist. Katara and Zuko, both in disguise, fought off Jet and his gang … Read more
When we last left our heroes in Episode 3, “City of Walls and Secrets”, the story of the live action adaptation had begun to very fully divert from the source material in Ba Sing Se. I’ve been saying throughout this season that drastically altering from the original story isn’t inherently bad, and in fact it’d … Read more
City of Walls and Secrets, the third episode of Season 2 of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender is interestingly the only one of the seven episodes in this season that shares an episode title with its source material. In the original cartoon, this episode brings the Gaang into the Earth Kingdom capital of … Read more
Despite my great disappointment in Season 1 of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s beloved animated show, the first episode of Season 2 was so shockingly different under the new showrunners Christine Boylan and Jabbar Raisani that it has made me hopeful that this version has a reason to exist. Episode … Read more
As a mega fan of Nickelodeon’s Avatar: the Last Airbender, it is probably of no surprise that I was disappointed with the first season of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the beloved children’s show. I was there on day one as an 11-year-old, and since the show finished in 2008 my love for the universe has only grown. … Read more
Comparing Rebel Ridge to First Blood (1982) is almost too easy. I mean, don’t get me wrong, there’s a good reason you’ll see people calling Rebel Ridge a modern take on First Blood (1982) all over the internet. They do have plenty of similarities; however, the ways in which they’re different is where both movies … Read more