The Beach - Humanizing the Villains (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
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- Опубліковано 4 кві 2021
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Going through why The Beach is one of my favourite episodes.
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MUSIC:
A Keepsake from the Past - Ori
Separated by the Storm - Ori
Blue Spirit
Zuko Flashback theme
Reconciliation
Princess Azula
Saigo no Kyuusoku
Panda Lily
Yue
Walking (Prod. Ras-Hop)
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the azula agenda will never die
It's been 13 years since Avatar ended and it's still relevant today
Very deep, Azula can’t afford to take that closer look at herself because she will see the truth, that she has been groomed and manipulated all her life. As she comes closer to realization you see her emotional outbursts leading to her loss in the end. War changes everyone, but you see it most in the younger generation who are building identities and goals.
I love when Azula says "it was true but it still hurt" after telling her friends that Ursa thought she was a monster. The line is comical, but in retrospect, it's tragic. Azula fully accepts herself as a monster and doesn't give herself a chance to be loved or redeemed.
you never realize how good the animation is of Avatar until you take the voice lines away
I get goosebumps everytime when zuko says “I‘m angry at myself“ it’s so emotional… also when azula asks why it sounds so sincere, even if she calls him pathetic afterwards. Such a tragic story. I wish azula could have been redeemed.
We respect the Fire Nation kids in this house.
Azula and Zuko’s relationship are great examples of why I like writing sibling relationships. We come from the same place with the same blessings and traumas, but come out totally different.
The greatness of avatar is that more than half of the episodes have enough nuance to get a video essay done on them.
"The beach is one of my favorite episodes ... I like it for 2 very deep and emotional reasons: THE FIRST ONE BEING THAT IT'S A BEACH EPISODE"
Good video, though I'd like to add something. Azula is the one who suggests they pretend to be normal kids and not reveal their identities. Why? It's because she recognizes on some level how constrained she's been by the expectations of others, especially her father. She wants to escape those expectations and just be normal for once, yet she's so socially, psychologically scarred that everyone she interacts with thinks she's monstrous. From this perspective, even the funny moments like her bad attempts at flirting become tragic.
"I wanted to see these kids all of them to just be kids...but the war took that from them" damn that line is powerful it hits really hard
The story of Azula will always be a tragedy. So many people in the fandom write her off, stating that she was always destined to be evil and that she was twisted from the start. What people forget is that Azula never had her own Iroh. If Zuko were a prodigy bender, Ozai wouldn't have hesitated to burn and banish Azula if Zuko could fill her role.
The part that hit me the most was when Zuko yelled "I'M ANGRY AT MYSELF" that hit extremely close to home for me and Azula softly asking why made even more heartbreaking
That episode always gets me, it just stops the situation related to war and we see them, it's not trying to justificate theirs actions but rather make us identify with them. Thats why every year I watch this show, it never gets old
This episode made me wish we had gotten more of Zuko and Ty Lee’s friendship.
The fact is that Zuko never lost his honor. He was just the only person that had it in the fire nation.
I always took Azula's behavior in the beach to be her reaching out to her friends and brother, trying to, even is subconsciously to surround herself with people she can trust and, basically create a real family. I always saw it as although she put up a condescending, sadistic front, she did care about others, especially the people around that fire.
I love the duality of the beach being both an unimportant filler episode yet also and extremely important serial episode that foreshadows Azula downward spiral into insanity.
One of the best epsiodes due to large amounts of Azula screentime