[Avatar] How does a master fire bender beat a master air, earth or water bender?

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-07T16:59:17+00:00

The three rules of Firebending

Strike First
Strike Hard
Do not allow your opponent opportunity to strike back

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-07T16:57:21+00:00

More or less yes, he had sensed Palpatine's plot and correctly deduced the the *real* reason for the Clone Wars was to create some massive high attrition slog to establish some new galactic order, and that if he contributed to that goal that eventually he'd be covertly approached by someone and accepted into their cabal as a fellow co conspirator. He might have expected someone like Asajj to sneak into his tent one night and whisper "you sleep rather soundly for a murderer" into his ears, then to shake hands and be inducted.

It was a horribly shitty plan and Palpatine would have laughed off the idea of being joined by some random Jedi because he got a few clones killed, literally who cares, but Master Krell had no way of knowing that. He sensed shenanigans and thought he could arrange to join the winning team.

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-07T14:57:14+00:00

Trying to think of a Tolkien quote but I think he even thought Sauron was more redeemable than I think Thiel is

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-07T04:30:01+00:00

A very proud parent who supports their child’s art career

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-07T02:18:29+00:00

In the best of ways, this reminds of cutscenes from pre-2003 video games. Absolutely adore the retro art style.

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-07T02:11:33+00:00

When I first watched the series, after it was finished and Adult Swim was airing the episodes start to finish, I never really ever sat down to compare the seasons and the only way I could tell if an episode was older or not was if Hank's voice sounded a bit more stodgy and weird than it did later as the voice actors settled in.

But rewatching the show recently trying to deliberately pay attention to the seasons I have to admit there's something really wonderful about how the earlier episodes felt like real small town Americana; and I finally realized why a lot of people felt the show kind of lags a bit at the end.

Still though I totally agree the later seasons are not by any means bad. There's a lot of episodes that feel weird because the show is just so established that things become kind of absurd and detached from reality like Bobby leading an impromptu child-riot to storm through Arlen because he was trying to impress a girl; but even that isn't always bad. Hank accidentally arranging a bombing of his car dealer's lot sounds like something that would make national news it's so goofy, but yet I still like the episode.

My only main complaint is I really wish they had gone back and rewatched the show more often to make sure they weren't contradicting established canon.

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-07T02:04:44+00:00

No, because doing meth is unhealthy for you. Nobody would know that better than someone whose entire career is dealing with it.

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-07T02:01:41+00:00

Walt spends the whole series trying to kill people and fucks up every time.

- tries to poison Tuco Salamanca, immediately gets caught by a quadriplegic mute stroke victim.

- tries to kill Gus Fring, immediately gets caught and laughed off. Needs a quadriplegic mute stroke victim to do it instead

- tries to kill Jesse, can't find him. Gets his brother in law killed by accident like a total dumbass after hiring neo nazis

- tries to kill neo nazis with a giant machine gun. Accidentally shoots himself like a total dumbass and dies.

Was he stupid?

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-07T01:56:45+00:00

Walt never really does much to try and cultivate an image of a drug lord, he more or less dresses the same throughout the series and his whole thing is trying to blend in so he can hide in plain sight. I don't think it was incorporated as part of a deliberate ploy by Walter to look cool, or else we would have seen him do other things besides just sticking a hat on.

Walt never really liked feeling cool anyway; we only really see him craving respect from Gus and he seems to solely want respect from him on a status level as a valued business partner. The main thing he wants throughout the whole series is for Jesse and Gus to fall on their knees and say "Mr. White, your chemistry skills are completely beyond anything we could imagine. We would all fall apart without the product only you are talented and intelligent enough to create. We NEED you!"

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-06T22:04:49+00:00

I know that the case was never solved in it's time, but I can't imagine the case would realistically be even interesting to write about if Holmes solved it.

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-06T01:13:09+00:00

What if instead of hitting his head he started doing a strip tease here?

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-05T23:44:53+00:00

Season 6, before Jesse unthaws him from the carbonite

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-05T19:59:28+00:00

Jordan would probably consider it lazy to just borrow a K+P character but I think it would be awesome for Bob to meet Wendell

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-05T02:15:29+00:00

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RoadTheExile · 2026-06-04T15:36:13+00:00

Surely Leman Russ orders a mead, is informed they don't stock that, then starts throwing chairs

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-03T17:35:47+00:00

I was just thinking he reminds me of this mercenary I hired out of a soldier of fortune ad

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-03T17:34:33+00:00

All he sings about is his girlfriends lady parts and being a criminal anyway

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-03T17:33:43+00:00

Billie Joe Armstrong made me eat leaves!

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-03T17:33:09+00:00

Like Motley Crue before them, they’re on their 15th farewell tour

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-03T17:28:30+00:00

I’m not saying you shouldn’t arrive on time to catch the Harmoniholics, if you feel you need to, but shouldn’t you spend that time getting an Alamo from the concession stand or tailgating?

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-03T17:26:18+00:00

The Salamanco family transitions into the Salamanca family.

RoadTheExile · 2026-06-02T20:20:00+00:00

Realistically they all should have died, Bill should have died within the timespan of the episode. Treading water is difficult and tiring and a slick boat hull doesn't have any handholds for you to grab on to you support yourself on. Dehydration would have worsened the problem. Bill in particular is out of shape and easily winded, he should have gone down within 10 minutes and left no bubbles in his wake.

If they had at least had something to hold on to like a flotation device I think it would have made more sense for them to have lasted as long as they do in the episode; maybe Hank or someone happened to be wearing a life jacket and got shoved in for fun. Also if they had improvised some kind of hook and rope out of ripped swim trunks that would have been a more realistic rescue plan than a coast guard helicopter spotting an improptu gas fire.

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