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Roxors
Feb 18, 2011

Southern Cassowary posted:

loved this episode as a whole - brother drama is like a knife to my heart and they crushed the emotional side of it. i did think algard went from psycho to remorseful a little quickly.

The quick 180 from angry to remorseful really hurt the episode for me. It just made no sense that he was mad enough to go through this elaborate and long plan that I assume involved killing or imprisoning all of his family, and then just be completely cool with them after. To the point of giving sage advise as he is being taken away.

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Roxors
Feb 18, 2011

Talorat posted:

I’m gonna have to hard disagree here. The pathos of Al’s remorseful turn felt completely unearned, I was rolling my eyes during his entire pity party. The only thing that salvaged the episode for me was Euphie slapping him. I feel like maybe if we were given 2-3 more episodes to see a kinder side of the brother it might have worked?

Consider in Last Airbender how they are setting up Zuko’s turn for two entire seasons before it happens, and we learn to really love Zuko even as a villain, so it feels cathartic when he finally has his redemption. In this we have 6 straight episodes of him being an rear end in a top hat with maybe 12 total minutes of screen time. There’s just not enough time to make him more than two dimensional so a turn like this falls completely flat.

Not trying to poo poo on this show for the folks who are enjoying it but oof.


Yeah, I think you summed up my issue with the episode better than I did. Wonder if this worked better in the novel.

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