Avatar Leaves U.K. Much Love, And Rest With Icky Bad Feeling

The Bastard King · Postby **The Bastard King** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:34 am

If you haven't heard of or seen Avatar: The Last Airbender, either go see it right now, or slap yourself on the wrist before reading this thread. Those who have lives may excuse yourselves from the latter instruction.

As of tonight, good ol' U.S. of us have been blessed with 6 episodes of the third season, aka the "fire book". This is going along with a one episode per week schedule that's supposed to go on for 10 episodes, which should hopefully sustain us until February for the final 10. However, for reasons I'm to ignorant and lazy to look up, The U.K. networks have decided to air two episodes a night for a couple of nights in a row, the 25th and 26th, and cover the initial 10 episodes off the bat. By my limited Discrete Mathematical reckoning, that means all the episodes in the first half of the season have just been aired somewhere else.

Now, I'm not gonna rant about how I'm feeling jealous of the general Europe area right now (which I am), or how I could easily get these episodes for myself through less conventional means (which I already did). What grinds my gears is that a television network would make the decision to give out the whole pie at once simply for the ratings, when it leaves the fanbase high and dry afterwards. It's comparable to having sex: the process of going through it is hopefully fantastic, yet when your done you only have that sense of shame and boredom, possibly with a side of STD. The sex- sorry, stuck on that tangent. The showing of episodes should be as extended as possible, which has the merits of both providing a steady form of entertainment for the viewers, and shortening the time frame until the next batch of goodies.

Instead, they decided to grab the extremely high rating they knew they'd get, without any care for how the creators or fans would have wanted it. I'm not gonna say it was a poor economical decision on their behalf, because I'm sure people will view the reruns as well. I'm just so ticked that they think so little of the audience itself, even though I know it's not really mandatory in the line of work that involves making money. Then again, morals and understanding are never mandatory either.

And yes, I do feel a sense of shame thank you.

Hexon.Arq · Postby **Hexon.Arq** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:27 pm

If everyone gets to see it at some point, then that's all that matters. Those that see it first can use the remaining time to find something else to do. Not everyone swoons over the "opportunity" to have to get home to catch a show for more weeks than is minimally possible. After all, a period of anticipation can be just as juicy.

V · Postby V » Sat Oct 27, 2007 3:34 pm

I suspect live action Avatar and live action Eva films will go head to head 4-5 years from now

DatDude · Postby **DatDude** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 3:36 pm

Avatar is the best american cartoon ive seen in a while. Kudo nick

MaggotMaster · Postby **MaggotMaster** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:04 pm

I want to troll this thread really bad but I'm this |---| close to getting banned so I won't, so for all intended purposes you can imagine me trolling this thread and reply in your mind to my imaginary troll posts.

Trigger's Elysium · Postby **Trigger's Elysium** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:44 pm

So, uh...he's actually banned?

That sucks. Hopefully bullshit on his part.

Postby **UrsusArctos** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:29 pm

Vai caravaxa rass ilya, taltuva cormo-rotta!

As for Avatar, it's plain awesome. The episode trouble really sucks.

THE Hal E. Burton 9000 · Postby **THE Hal E. Burton 9000** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:12 pm

So MAGGOTMASTER is gone for good?

BrikHaus · Postby **BrikHaus** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:51 pm

I thought he was impervious to banning.

Postby **Sachi** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:00 pm

NOOOOOOOO MagotMaster!!
i like seeing him bitch about things. its something exciting on this forum!!!

Postby **BobBQ** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:26 pm

BrikHaus wrote:I thought he was impervious to banning.

The forumatic immunity Aaron gave him was finally revoked, I guess.

Omegagouki · Postby **Omegagouki** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:16 am

MM got banned?! Damn... Yeah, he was a troll... but he was our troll! He'll be missed, the crazy bastard...

Anyway, on Avatar: Haven't seen it, personally, but what I hear at times interests me. Oh well.

Postby **Sailor Star Dust** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:23 pm

.....I'm at a loss for words. But I'll attempt to say something anyway.

Yeah, Maggot Master seemed kinda trollish at times, but I thought he was at least able to stay on-topic when need be. In honor of Maggot Master: "Your zany humor shall be missed, good sir. Also, cocks."

With Avatar, doesn't it have some type of American-anime looking style, or no? I've literally heard of it, but haven't seen it or anything.

Still, it's good to know that Nick is doing well with that show; I remember when I reached my teens, the shows on Nick were slooowly starting to suck. (Doug on ABC? The Rugrats being older? Alex Mack ending, Space Cases being canceled, and All That getting a new cast?! Noooooo!)

I actually have something akin to a Life with I'm not on the forums ("How can we kill something that has no life?"), hence why I'm asking. Though when I was a young'ng, that was a different story. ^^; (I watched WAY too much TV then.)

Postby **BobBQ** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:43 pm

...But remember that Mag, Reichu and I are really the same person, so he's not gone at all!

LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ
LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ
LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ

Okay, I'll stop now.

As for this Avatar thing, I keep hearing good things but have no way to watch. Is it really all it's cracked up to be?

Tokpile Quohog · Postby **Tokpile Quohog** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:14 pm

yes it is. It's amazing how Nick has something good on to watch.

Postby **Sailor Star Dust** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:05 pm

Smith wrote:...But remember that Mag, Reichu and I are really the same person, so he's not gone at all!

Don't forget about AEF. He counts as the same person, too, I think. :P

THE Hal E. Burton 9000 · Postby **THE Hal E. Burton 9000** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:01 am

Stardust-chan wrote:Still, it's good to know that Nick is doing well with that show; I remember when I reached my teens, the shows on Nick were slooowly starting to suck. (Doug on ABC? The Rugrats being older? Alex Mack ending, Space Cases being canceled, and All That getting a new cast?! Noooooo!)

<snip>

Same story here. :cry:

My little brother is a fan of Avatar. But I have never watched an episode though.

slothen · Postby **slothen** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:14 pm

what was the most recent episode?

chee · Postby **chee** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:28 pm

BobBQ wrote:LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ
LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ
LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ LULZ

That and your Mr. Chang avatar make for an interesting combination.

Anonymous_Evafan · Postby **Anonymous_Evafan** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:33 pm

Sailor Star Dust wrote:
Smith wrote:...But remember that Mag, Reichu and I are really the same person, so he's not gone at all!

Don't forget about AEF. He counts as the same person, too, I think. :P

What? You're gonna pay for that...

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