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- Larisa: I finally got around to watching The Last Airbender.
- Sandra: And, what do you think?
- Larisa: Great characters and interesting story!
- Sandra: I also loved the soundtrack.
- Larisa: Yeah, great movie.
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It’s like when Kanno asks Miyamori if she watched Eva, and she says that she watched Death and Rebirth on a rental DVD. To be fair, she knew that she was missing.
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She’s trolling, she’s trolling, she’s trolling…
Goddamnit, Larisa, you BETTER be trolling…
I grok Sandra’s reaction. That movie was an insult to the series.
Ryan wrote:
It is a word used to identify a specific person or thing close at hand or being indicated or experienced; or referring to a specific thing or situation just mentioned. (from Oxford Languages)
I literally heard a record scratch when I read the last panel.
The film? That’s the shite live action one, right?
(Eyes widen)
Oh….no….she….didn’t…..
@ Daniel Holm:
She is….she must be….right….RIGHT?!
At least she didn’t say Dragonball.
Cast her in to the antarctic wastes.
You do you Larisa, you do you.
I does not get it. . .
BURN HER!
Wait, she’d like that…
LAUNCH HER TO SPACE TO DIE OF EXPLOSIVE DECOMPRESSION!
@ Hawk:
Avatar: The Last Airbender is a great animated series, set in a world where many people are ‘benders’ able to manipulate one different elements, earth, water, fire, air. Only the Avatar, a spirit reborn into a human every generation, is able to master all 4 elements, it is their duty to keep the world in balance.
The original series focused on Aang. The eponymous ‘Last Airbender’, and Avatar, who has just woken up after being frozen in a block of ice for 100 years, only to find that the Fire Nation (one of 4 nations each styled after the elements), has been waging a hundred year war, and has killed all the other Airbenders in order to break the Avatar Cycle (Avatar is reborn into each element in turn).
Anyway, the animated series was fantastic, and even spawned a sequel series “Legend of Korra”.
But as people often do to well received animated series, they tried to make a live action movie based on it. Which was terrible and universally panned.
The joke is that Sandra originally though Larissa was talking about the GOOD series, not the AWFUL movie. And is therefore shocked that Larissa liked the movie.
Good to see she got her Sparkling Water
I haven’t seen the Airbender movie yet, but it can’t be that bad. There’s The Last Jedi and John Carter out there. (Both series I like, both movies that failed to be coherent.) As for Larissa, “Zukovitch” sounds more natural a name.
@ Mad Marie:
No idea. I guess we will need to wait the next one to understand this 🙂
Now we know what that added note was for for part 3 lol. Part 3 c- z can occupy the next two months and Still be quite good.
This could easily be a meta-joke setup and next episode will have the pyromaniac do something with the flame war in the comments
@ Vicious Sand:
Two words: Night Shyamalan.
Alan Richmon wrote:
It can’t be both obvious and subliminal.
But yes, I did notice the Gaia poster on the wall.
I learned long ago to treat books, tv series and movies nominally about the same thing as totally different stories about people who happen to have similar names, and maybe do similar things.
That way, you avoid a lot of disappointment when they turn out to be totally different, like the movie Avatar and the cartoonAvatar The Last Airbender
@ Syndic:
I am amazed that of 72 comments so far, only one is of this opinion. (Well, two, including me.)
@ Vandroiy:
Legend of Korra?
@ Vandroiy:
well, there is korra, which isn´t too bad i guess……but seriously, didn´t we all want to see book 4: air, how aang will rebuild the airbenders from scratch – and maybe finally have the gutts to ask katara out?
instead they chickened out with a MAYOR time-skip where everything was already done *pouts* that totally ruined korra for me right from the start
You realize this means war.
@ Dastardly:
I mean, I saw the movie having not seen the TV series, and it was still mediocre at best. Then I got a chance to binge the series, and finally agreed with the hate the former recieves.
While I get the joke of this comic by itself, I don’t understand how it relates to the previous comic. It seemed like we were about to get some kind of reveal about what Sandra has in her basement, and instead we got a non-sequitur?
@ roguebfl:
Except it’s not an adaptation, it was written as a stand alone film but studio execs wanted to attract the books audiences so they made them make changes so they could call it an adaptation. And all they really did was change some names around to match characters in the book.
… What movie..? Do not dare mention that… Thing, in my presence!
The Last Airbender is a great series, but what they tried to pack in one movie, killed the story-filled world, and left only some history lesson of that world, without any lifelike talk. Also, they left out Socca’s character way too much…
@ Kaisius:
Indeed. If there is one reliable way to make EVERYBODY hate a character, just make them say they liked that movie that doesn’t exist in Ba Sing Se.