It was animated by a Korean studio. They used one other studio a couple times, and you can tell because they're the ones who do the super-exaggerated anime-style facial expressions (like in "The Great Divide," when Aang wants egg custard). I was not a fan of those.
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon
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Polter-Cow - Sep 01, 2010 7:38:32 pm PDT #14086 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Liese S. - Sep 01, 2010 7:57:38 pm PDT #14087 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I'm watching, too. But I just discovered that I have two copies of season two episode ten and no episode nine. Hmph.
Jon B. - Sep 02, 2010 5:05:42 am PDT #14088 of 30001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I think it's simply that Aaron McGruder's style is influenced by anime.
quester - Sep 02, 2010 5:44:42 am PDT #14089 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
P-C, I'm not a fan of those anime exaggerated facial styles either. It's really making it hard to appreciate the Full-metal Alchemist: Brotherhood run. It gets used too often and disrupts the serious story telling.
quester - Sep 02, 2010 5:50:09 am PDT #14090 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I forgot I wanted to comment on the scenery. I especially loved the concepts of the different cities, like the one with the trolleys that carry everything downhill or the upside down Western Air temple. I wished I could have seen more of it.
My favorite thing was the hybrid animals.
-t - Sep 02, 2010 6:44:29 am PDT #14091 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's a great world. I'm glad we'll get to see more of it.
Every time someone mentions Mockingjay I think "isn't that an Avatar thing?"
Tom Scola - Sep 02, 2010 7:18:41 am PDT #14092 of 30001
hwæt
Polter-Cow - Sep 02, 2010 8:44:20 am PDT #14093 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My favorite thing was the hybrid animals.
Katara: The King is throwing a party at the palace tonight for his pet bear.
Aang: Don't you mean platypus bear?
Katara: No, it just says, "bear."
Sokka: Certainly you mean his pet skunk bear?
Toph: Or his armadillo bear?
Aang: Gopher bear?
Katara: Just, "bear."
[short pause]
Toph: This place is weird.
DebetEsse - Sep 02, 2010 8:46:15 am PDT #14094 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I was just thinking about that exchange!
beekaytee - Sep 02, 2010 8:53:37 am PDT #14095 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
In response to a bit of news in Spoilage Lite that I won't comment on specifically, I really enjoyed Alice and the look of Tin Man. Though the trend toward reworking old stories in Syfy and elsewhere, makes me sad. No new stories. Really? (I'm ignoring the monster hybrid films as something altogether different. That particular slice of genre is a nofly zone for me.)
Which begs a question, I suppose. Is it just that, as consumers of popular media, we are more likely to 'buy' familiar commodities, thereby dooming creativity? Or is it true that the human experience is so complete that there really is nothing new to add to literature and/or entertainment?
I bring this up in Boxed Set because it seems ironic that genre entertainment geared toward envisioning new worlds is so locked into old stories.
t /mindless musing