The End of Avatar...

[benlehman]

was just kinda bad.

Compare it to "The Siege of The North" at the end of Season 1, which was shorter, had more character development, better characterization, wrapped up more loose ends, and managed to contain more drama and a chunk of exciting action.

edit: Talking with Alexis, I sum thusly: "In the whole two hours not one character was ever faced with a meaningful or significant choice or obstacle." Compare, again, to the ends of season one and two.

Comments

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

No, it's a flaw at shows aimed at geeks (characters cannot face meaningful choices or obstacles). The gap between second and third season was when the creators seemed to realize that their audience was mostly adults. Thus, the maturity level goes down (no meaningful choices, characters become pigeonholed, female characters get increasing sidelined and ignored) and the "adultness" level goes up (more fighting, violence, and explosions.)

yrs--
--Ben

[icecreamemperor.livejournal.com]

If you're saying geeks have similar expectations from shows as the ones people think children have, I'm all for it. I was not talking about "adultness" in quotations, though -- I agree there was as much or more of that going on by the last season.

And I feel like even the beginning of the third season was doing okay, but there was a huge gap there so it's a little blurry.