if you've watched this scene more than once this is one shot and the effects are all added in later we go from here yep keep going keep going keep going right the way through to here and there are no cuts which means that every awkward moment every mistimed piece of choreography or wire work is going to show up on the surface this is a special effects problem but the special effects team can only work with what they've got and so they have to time the movement of the air effects to the movement of the wire work regardless of what ang is doing with his hands they have to make it work and so sometimes the element is tied very precisely to the movements and sometimes it's just not that is still no excuse for the earthbenders you know what the worst part is though the one-shot thing which works so poorly in the earthbender breakout can work beautifully and does in this very film i really genuinely like this bit right here where ang air and water bends his way through all of the fire nation soldiers to get to the wall for what NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN seconds we see what this film's fight scenes could have been and it's painful because it just looks nice and it has a point on like a character level at a plot level go with me here the slide is perfect a beautiful airbending avoidance and entirely in keeping with the character of the ang of the series he flips over the second guy's head and makes the ice collapse beneath him with water bending he saves a water bender with some more water bending as he lands there's ice there's water there's acrobatics it's gorgeous there's slow motion which enhances it rather than just making it look weird and it's great and then there's this air corridor thing which is a bit off-looking but you know what i really enjoyed that previous part there's even a sensical point to it in terms of the story aang has spoken to the dragon spirit show them the power of water really could you be more vague than that spirits honestly the moon spirit is killed and in a scene which contains both the worst and best lines of dialogue in the film which is not strictly relevant to the main point of this video and so i've put it in the extended version available on patreon and nebula more on that later ua gives herself up and the moon is restored zhao is killed and aang makes a run for the city walls so the avatar can show them the power of water which he does without killing absolutely everyone which is an interesting departure from the series we don't know ang's objective at the start of the scene but we see his urgency and when he gets to the wall we see that was his aim he says i know what to do and that is enough the point of this scene is to show that aang has accepted his role as the avatar the bowing ceremony thing is a call back a bookend for that scene earlier in the film but we see everything we need here in the way he flawlessly combines water and air bending the earthbender prison scene is messy and inexplicable like guys your earthbenders in a prison made of dirt what are you doing but this bit this does everything it needs to and even though it's a combat scene there is a grace and an ease to it which the rest of the film really just kind of lacks
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