Y'know, personally I would've been happier if they'd left out a lot of the season three stuff and let Zuko's redemption go straight to the conclusion it was building towards all through season two. I do get where they were coming from, what with giving him everything he'd ever wanted to show him how little it was always worth, but to get there the ending of season two just seemed to come out of the blue and throw out so much development. All through season two Zuko's becoming a nicer guy and Azula's trying to kill him, then suddenly right at the end (after she's even had him imprisoned!) she turns around and says she wants his help and he leaps on the chance! I don't even know which part got to me more - the idea she'd reverse her opinion of his usefulness so suddenly without one throwaway line worth of lead up, or the idea he'd trust her again after everything he'd been through!
...uh, sorry, that part bugged me a fair bit, as you might have noticed. ^^;
I also would've really liked to see Iroh become Fire Lord - even just for a few years while Zuko grows up - because he would've done such an awesome job of it (and a country in the hands of an angsty teenager is a bit of a scary thought). ^^; I loved their reunion to bits though, just about made me get sniffly. =3
Didn't the last battle get stretched over two episodes? It certainly went on for exactly as long as it needed to, anyway.
Ah, poor Dragonball - the battles tended to be a bit drawn out in the manga, then the anime comes along, realises that 20 pages of manga battle only translates to about 5 minutes of footage and has to scrabble for ways to fill in the other 20 minutes of footage they need to produce that week. ^^; It's the bane of so many shounen anime adaptations. (Insert another fifteen minute of Dramatic Staring! and yet another full round of the peanut gallery, repeat ad nauseam. And people wonder why I always say I'm more of a manga than an anime fan.)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2008-08-27 01:39 am (UTC)...uh, sorry, that part bugged me a fair bit, as you might have noticed. ^^;
I also would've really liked to see Iroh become Fire Lord - even just for a few years while Zuko grows up - because he would've done such an awesome job of it (and a country in the hands of an angsty teenager is a bit of a scary thought). ^^; I loved their reunion to bits though, just about made me get sniffly. =3
Didn't the last battle get stretched over two episodes? It certainly went on for exactly as long as it needed to, anyway.
Ah, poor Dragonball - the battles tended to be a bit drawn out in the manga, then the anime comes along, realises that 20 pages of manga battle only translates to about 5 minutes of footage and has to scrabble for ways to fill in the other 20 minutes of footage they need to produce that week. ^^; It's the bane of so many shounen anime adaptations. (Insert another fifteen minute of Dramatic Staring! and yet another full round of the peanut gallery, repeat ad nauseam. And people wonder why I always say I'm more of a manga than an anime fan.)