A Show Is Only As Good As Its Filler Episodes

Every time I rewatch Avatar The Last Airbender and have watched the last episode I go back to the first episode and watch it until the moment Aang says “Will you go penguin sledding with me?” Let the adventure begin again

I'VE HAD AN EPIPHANY

Silent Generation- Denial

Boomers- Anger

Gen X- Bargaining

Millennials- Depression

Gen Z- Acceptance

i was born and no one’s ever asked my opinion on that.  people kept congratulating my parents but no one inquired after my feelings on the matter. they just brought me into existence and didn’t even care enough to ask me to sign a waiver. rude

Every child is trained by their parents for a world that is one generation out of date.

Part 6

I’m drinking apple juice from a coffe mug feeling like a fancy penguin

Ok so that other post really got me thinking and like…no wonder Aang is so freakin quick to offer advice. That isn’t just him trying to be a good friend that’s him carrying on Air Nomad culture. That’s him acting according to how his people have always acted. Only now it’s not appreciated. Only now his advice is akin to “pre-school teachings” and not worth listening to. No wonder he wanted to cry when Katara shouted at him about his “infinite wisdom getting old”. Like ok, obviously being yelled at fucking sucks. But I bet it was mostly because he was raised with the understanding that the monks teachings meant a great deal to the entire world. And now it doesn’t.

He woke up in a time when all those teachings meant nothing to anyone but him.

"See this cup? This is literally my favorite cup"

Concept: Being a art teacher that tells their students to never forget their creativity. Then one day, when you are in a hurry for some reason, you run out of class only to come back seconds later shouting “I FORGOT MY CREATIVITY”. You then open your drawer and take out a rock with a paper attached that says “Creativity”. And then you say “Oh there I was lucky. I almost forgot my creativity. Make that a lesson students. Never forget your creativity.” Then you walk out of there with your creativity rock.

Why Magical Girls Are Never Attacked During A Tranformation

As some of you might already have guessed, I’m a fan of Japanese girl idols. One of the many, many idol groups in existence today in Japan is NMB48, a Osaka-based spin-off group of the (in)famous AKB48. NMB has a weekly show that’s surprisingly entertaining as well as educational called NMB to Manabu-kun, in which the members of NMB and a few comedians listen to guest lectures by experts in various fields.

Back on May 15th, the theme of the episode was pataphysics/the science of sci-fi. One of the topics of the lecture held by university professor Yanagita Rikao was the age-old question of “WHY ARE MAGICAL GIRLS NEVER ATTACKED WHILE TRANSFORMING???”

This was his answer, based on the magical girl series Futari wa Pretty Cure.

Question: The transformation scenes in Pretty Cure are very long, so why don’t the bad guys attack the girls in the meantime?

“Even when I was little, I was thinking ‘Hey! Attack them now!’”

“I found this odd as well, so I watched the transformation scene many times. And what I noticed is, when the Pretty Cures yell ‘Dual Aurora Wave!’ and transform, a rainbow-colored column of light shoots up from the ground, going BOOM!”

“And then the Pretty Cures levitate, and go up into the air. Based on this, I believe the protagonists of Pretty Cure are being held up in the air by the power of light.”

“When we think of light, we usually think it heats up things or lights up things. But in reality, light has the power to hold up things as well.”

“When the sun is beating down on us in the summer, the human body is being pressed downwards by the sun beams with a force of 2/100,000g.”

“But this is only about a one-hundred of the weight of a mosquito, so no matter how hot it is, we don’t feel that sunlight is heavy.”

“So that means the light holding them up must be extremely strong. If we assume that the two Pretty Cures each weigh about 45kg and do some calculations…”

“It means the light during the transformation must have the energy of 2,100,000,000kW per 1m2.”

“While the entirety of power that Japan is capable of generating is only 100,000,000kW.”

“So they’re using 21 TIMES the amount of energy the whole of Japan can generate.”

“So what would happen if a bad guy jumped in to try to sabotage their transformation?”

“He would EVAPORATE INSTANTLY.”

“DEATH AWAITS ANYONE WHO DARES TO DISRUPT A PRETTY CURE TRANSFORMATION.”

“So this means the best thing to do would be to transform close to any bad guys.”

“Yes. They are the strongest while they transform, and are practically invincible.”