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

[aumshantih.livejournal.com]

And you didn't think that Aang spending a good 1/2 of the finale figuring out if he was actually willing to take a human life in order to save the world to be a meaningful choice or obstacle?

I do agree it's not quite as good as the finales of the other two books, but I think you are being way too harsh on it.

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

You mean, the choice that was immediately rendered meaningless by a deus-ex-machina?

If he had decided not to kill the dude and that had had any effect on his actions in the future, it might have been interesting.

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--Ben