When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.
Stars, "Your Ex-Lover is Dead"
Note: All Spoilers Under Cut.
Avatar is not a series that needs me to recommend it, and I don't think I'm going to sway anyone's opinions no matter how convincing my praise. Nevertheless I feel compelled to talk about the last episode. So many promising series fall down in the end, piling disappointment upon confusion, showing either contempt for the viewer, or a lack of follow-through and insight on the part of the creator.
Not so, for Avatar: the Last Airbender.
Great ideas often have implications that even the creator doesn't realize at first. Some stories are plotted out from the start; some evolve with the telling. But no meaningful story ends well if the creator never took a step back from his work to do the hard work of understanding his own creation.
And trust me, it IS hard work.
( Spoilers under cut... as well as praise that h8ters might as well skip )
Oh the blood and the treasure--
and the losing it all--
the time that we wasted--
and the place where we fall.
Will we wake in the morning
and know what it was for?
Up in our bedroom, after the war?
Stars, "The Beginning After the End"
Stars, "Your Ex-Lover is Dead"
Note: All Spoilers Under Cut.
Avatar is not a series that needs me to recommend it, and I don't think I'm going to sway anyone's opinions no matter how convincing my praise. Nevertheless I feel compelled to talk about the last episode. So many promising series fall down in the end, piling disappointment upon confusion, showing either contempt for the viewer, or a lack of follow-through and insight on the part of the creator.
Not so, for Avatar: the Last Airbender.
Great ideas often have implications that even the creator doesn't realize at first. Some stories are plotted out from the start; some evolve with the telling. But no meaningful story ends well if the creator never took a step back from his work to do the hard work of understanding his own creation.
And trust me, it IS hard work.
( Spoilers under cut... as well as praise that h8ters might as well skip )
Oh the blood and the treasure--
and the losing it all--
the time that we wasted--
and the place where we fall.
Will we wake in the morning
and know what it was for?
Up in our bedroom, after the war?
Stars, "The Beginning After the End"
