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Avatar meme, day 8: favourite quote.
...well, that's a challenge. The series is eminently quotable. I could go with a funny quote, or a touching and bittersweet quote. Or something about tea.
Or I could go with ...
"Hello. Zuko here."
Not worldshattering, or even inherently witty. Just hilarious. And awkward. And the final shedding of the last trace of Leather Pants Draco hanging over Zuko.
Runners up:
"Delicious tea? OR DEADLY POISON?"
"This tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice!"
"Uncle, that's what all tea is."
"How can a member of my family say something so horrible?"
(That last is a favourite, because Iroh sounds so genuinely upset that one of his relatives -- YOU KNOW, HIS RELATIVES -- might say something horrible at all.)
In other news, I have watched a season and a half of Arrested Development in thirteen days.
It started because of Arrested Westeros, which I followed even though I'd never watched the series (why? I DON'T KNOW! IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME, I'M SURE!) which of course got me wanting to see it all in context.
Then, somewhere around the second episode of the Avatar finale (House o'Squid is halfway through! We're stretching it out so it won't be over too soon!), possibly around the timepiecesofalice was remarking on the need for rehearsals for Ozai's, erm, job title upgrade, coupled with the fact that he obviously didn't bother telling Azula what he had planned for her -- yes, it was around that moment that suburbannoir said, "Liz, you really need to watch Arrested Development and then make Arrested Avatar."
So, um, I did.
And I am.
Only I also got sucked into AD for its own sake. I'm not usually into sitcoms, especially sitcoms based on unlikable people being embarrassing. But it just sucked me in. Maybe because the reality is so heightened ("I may have committed some light treason.") or because it's just funny.
Although I am having trouble with Mae Whitman (a) not being a cartoon character and (b) being identical to my sister.
On the upside, a season and a half in, and I only just remembered that I hate Michael Cera! Fine work, show, fine work.
au_bigbang is up waiting for an art claim. If, you know, you're interested. *eyedart*
Avatar meme, day 8: favourite quote.
...well, that's a challenge. The series is eminently quotable. I could go with a funny quote, or a touching and bittersweet quote. Or something about tea.
Or I could go with ...
"Hello. Zuko here."
Not worldshattering, or even inherently witty. Just hilarious. And awkward. And the final shedding of the last trace of Leather Pants Draco hanging over Zuko.
Runners up:
"Delicious tea? OR DEADLY POISON?"
"This tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice!"
"Uncle, that's what all tea is."
"How can a member of my family say something so horrible?"
(That last is a favourite, because Iroh sounds so genuinely upset that one of his relatives -- YOU KNOW, HIS RELATIVES -- might say something horrible at all.)
In other news, I have watched a season and a half of Arrested Development in thirteen days.
It started because of Arrested Westeros, which I followed even though I'd never watched the series (why? I DON'T KNOW! IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME, I'M SURE!) which of course got me wanting to see it all in context.
Then, somewhere around the second episode of the Avatar finale (House o'Squid is halfway through! We're stretching it out so it won't be over too soon!), possibly around the time
piecesofalice was remarking on the need for rehearsals for Ozai's, erm, job title upgrade, coupled with the fact that he obviously didn't bother telling Azula what he had planned for her -- yes, it was around that moment that suburbannoir said, "Liz, you really need to watch Arrested Development and then make Arrested Avatar."So, um, I did.
And I am.
Only I also got sucked into AD for its own sake. I'm not usually into sitcoms, especially sitcoms based on unlikable people being embarrassing. But it just sucked me in. Maybe because the reality is so heightened ("I may have committed some light treason.") or because it's just funny.
Although I am having trouble with Mae Whitman (a) not being a cartoon character and (b) being identical to my sister.
On the upside, a season and a half in, and I only just remembered that I hate Michael Cera! Fine work, show, fine work.
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Date: 2011-07-05 11:15 pm (UTC)*conveniently looks away from your last paragraph* :p
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Date: 2011-07-05 11:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-05 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-05 11:34 pm (UTC)Then Mai has to rewrite them to take out all the threats.
Then Sokka gets to veto the jokes.
Then the draft goes to Zuko. Who usually ends up improvising anyway.
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Date: 2011-07-05 11:57 pm (UTC)I think the exact moment AD became my favourite recent sitcom (and I'm not usually a fan of the genre either) was when Michael looked in the paper bag GOB had marked 'DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT' and said "I don't know what I was expecting."
I love they way they can spend a whole season setting up a joke, and it has one of the most perfect final episodes I've ever seen.
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Date: 2011-07-06 12:06 am (UTC)Also, "Loose seal! LOOSE SEAL!" That took me an embarrassingly long time to get.
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Date: 2011-07-06 01:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-06 01:53 am (UTC)I'm glad you like it, no matter what reason you got into it.
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Date: 2011-07-09 02:15 pm (UTC)I want to know who of the Avatar staff came up with "Hello. Zuko here" so I can send them a box of chocolates.