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Serenity/Avatar trailer

POSTED BY: ECGORDON
UPDATED: Friday, August 4, 2006 10:14
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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 12:36 PM

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

I wasn't sure which forum was the best to post this in, but it does concern another show. I have never watched "Avatar: the Last Airbender," an animated series on Nickelodeon, but a good friend likes it a lot, and he is also a Browncoat. So he got the idea to edit scenes from Avatar's season one ending "Siege of the North" and matched it to the audio of the original Serenity trailer. I think he did a pretty good job, and thought others here might be interested.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 12:58 PM

WORKWORKWORK

That was very well-done! As a budding fanvid creator myself, I can see the effort that went into making this.

Mal: Did you send word to Patience?
Wash: Ain't heard back yet. Didn't she shoot you one time?
Mal: Everybody's makin' a fuss.

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 1:03 PM

DARKJESTER

My son watches Avatar, I'll have to make sure he sees this. Pretty good editing job, I must say.

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

http://www.fireflytalk.com - Big Damn Podcast

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Wednesday, August 2, 2006 1:07 PM

NVGHOSTRIDER

Okay, I was a little disappointed.

I shoulda turned up the volume. That was the coolest. Never thought Firefly or Avatar could get any cooler.
Thanks.

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Thursday, August 3, 2006 4:29 AM

CYBERSNARK

Sweet!

I love Avatar (big animé fan, and Avatar is part of the new-wave "American animé" style --it's also just really good). I agree with the youtube comment; Sokka is Wash.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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Friday, August 4, 2006 12:30 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

THAT was gorram awesome! And I have no clue of AVATAR , never watched it. Well done!

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Friday, August 4, 2006 10:14 AM

CYBERSNARK

Quick Avatar primer, for those who care:

Avatar is a "planetary romance," which means that it's set in a "primitive" environment that is not Earth (think Anne McCaffrey's Dragon Riders of Pern series, or the Dark Crystal movie), so don't expect any real-world locations or events.

The world is divided into four nations: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. Each nation has its own culture, and its own form of magic, called "Bending" (as in "to one's will"). The Avatar is a reincarnate being, every life cycling through the nations. Born as a Water-Bender, then an Earth-Bender, then a Fire-Bender, then an Air-Bender. The Avatar keeps all the elements in balance, and must master all four forms of bending.

What makes the show so visually cool is that the animators work closely with actual martial artists, effectively rotoscoping(*) the fight/action scenes. Bending is tied to gestures and movements, and each style is linked to a real-world martial art. I don't know enough about martial arts to identify them all, but Water-Bending looks like Tai Chi (it's about flowing, pushing and pulling like the tides). This show has some of the best hand-to-hand fight scenes ever animated.

(* - Rotoscoping is like a primitive version of motion-capture. Actual actors/martial artists act out the choreography, then animators trace their moves, animating the characters over top of them frame-by-frame.)

Over a century ago, the Fire Nation declared war on. . . well, just about everybody. They pretty much destroyed the Air Nation, trying to hunt down the young Avatar, but he vanished. They weeded through the other nations, killing anyone they found with an aptitude for Bending. Benders still exist, but they keep their abilities carefully guarded, and live as fugitives from the wandering Fire-Nation death squads.

100 years later, Katarah and Sokka, two Water Nation teens, found Aang (the Avatar) frozen in ice and woke him. They think he can end the (still ongoing) war, but he's still just an Air-Bender --he needs to master the other styles. Katarah has the talent to be a Water-Bender, but there's no one in the South pole to train her (or Aang). The three set out (with Appa, Aang's flying bison [yes, he's an Air-Bender too], and Momo the flying lemur), heading to the North pole, where there may be another tribe of Water Nation people who can train Aang and Katarah.

Along the way, they meet Prince Zuko, the exiled son of the Fire King, and a powerful Fire-Bender in his own right. Zuko is a very angry young man, driven to regain his status. He thinks that capturing the Avatar will win back his father's favour, and is willing to kill anyone who gets in his way. The only person Zuko respects is his uncle, General Iroh (who is a more powerful Fire-Bender than Zuko, but wise and patient enough not to feel the need to prove it), who has joined him in his exile.

Of course, Zuko doesn't want anyone else to capture the Avatar, so he's more than willing to take down other Fire Nation generals --even if it means helping Aang escape.

The first season ("Book One: Water") is about the trip north and ends with the gang findng safe harbour in the Northern Water Nation (which we see in the trailer). The second season is already underway in the US, though it won't hit Canada until the Fall.

(Sokka's a goofball. He tries to be suitably brave and manly, but he has possibly the worst luck in the universe, and he's not too bright. Actually, he's kinda like Jayne at times.)

*Sokka's been paralyzed by venom*
". . . I think I'm getting some feeling back. . ."
*debris crashes down on him*
". . . Owwwwwww."

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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