First "cheat" (sort of) and Avatar Season 3

[thistlechaser]

For no real good reason at all (no major craving or hunger), I tried the next stage of food (pureed/babyfood) 24 hours early (or a week late, if not for the medicine mishap with the rash). I had a wedge of Laughing Cow cheese. This, if you're not familiar with it. 50 calories of the most delicious food I ever tasted. So salty and rich! (Yes, I didn't even use the light version, as I don't think the difference between 30 and 50 calories means much for me right now.)

It shouldn't surprise me, since it was the whole purpose of all this, but after eating that wedge I was stuffed. I should have eaten less than a whole one, though I didn't realize it until I was done. I remained stuffed for two hours after eating it. So odd (but good!).

While on one hand I'm not sure why it didn't count as a 'thick liquid' food (there was nothing at all to chew, it just melted in my mouth), it did feel different in my stomach. Sort of like when you eat something and it feels like you're stuffed with a lump of food. Not really a good feeling, even though it tasted amazing and I can't wait to eat more tomorrow.

I can't even put into words how good it tasted, so salty and rich. My first food in 18 days!

In non-food related news, I finished watching the third season of Avatar the Last Airbender (Korra version). hamsterwoman mentioned it, and we've been watching at roughly the same pace. Non-spoiler version of review: I liked it, but I didn't love it at all. If you have nothing better to do, it's worth watching. It's better than the previous two Korra seasons (hard not to be), but worse than any of the Aang seasons.


I just don't think the main plot worked. Four bad guys (who we never really got to know well enough) wanted to kill the avatar and all world leaders because disorder is the natural order of things. I just didn't buy it.

There were too many other things I didn't buy, too: How'd the airbending bad guy get so good at airbending? He discovered the ability while in prison and didn't have it for very long at all, yet he mastered it to the point where he was able to do something that only one airbender in history ever did (fly)?

I wish we had gotten to know the bad guys more, I think some of them could have been interesting (the lava/rock bender). Boom boom woman was so annoying, I hope they never bring another combustion bender back.

I wish the focus hadn't been on these special bendings so much. Lava, metal, combustion.

Good things: The music was as good as ever. The animation was generally really good. Many of the characters were adult, and the adult relationships (love/kissing) were shown.

Korra does nothing for me as a main character though. Old Zuko didn't work for me at all -- he seemed like a different character, and his dragon seemed more like a dumb animal than an intelligent creature.


Writing all that up, I guess I liked it less than I originally wrote. If it had been an original series, if I hadn't been comparing it to the Aang seasons, I probably might have liked it more.

Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Yay for you taking in some food!

That's the way I feel about asiago cheese in black wax. Put a little basil pesto on a bit of bread, and on top of that a bit of the cheese, put in oven toaster for the bare minimum time, just enough for the cheese to get soft -- and mouth heaven.

Love, C.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Mmm that sounds like a great way to do it! Mouth heaven indeed!

[call-me-katya.livejournal.com]

Great news about the cheese, and the itching less, and the peanut butter soon!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Agreed, to all that! :)

[ashmedai.livejournal.com]

I bet it was good after 18 days! I used to love that cheese as a kid, and now I'm craving it too. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Sorry to make you crave it! Hopefully you can get your hands on some soon.

[mousewings.livejournal.com]

Mmm... that Laughing Cow cheese is so delicious. I haven't had it in ages. Maybe I should remedy this. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I just had a wedge for breakfast. You really should!

[hamsterwoman]

Coming back to comment now that I've finished Korra also. Turns out I liked the beginning and middle of the season more than the end, although it was definitely better than the previous two seasons of the show -- a lot better. The main plot never gelled for me, because the Red Lotus didn't really make any sense to me. And I wondered about how Zaheer was suddenly an airbending pro with no chance to practice it when most of the other newbie airbenders had no idea how to control their powers. The flying thing was a separate WTF... The lava bender guy was my favorite of the Red Lotus gang, too, and him I would've actually liked to know more about, yep. Old Zuko didn't really do anything for me, either. Although his awkward confession of hiring the other combustion bender to kill Aang did sound like Zuko :P

And apparently the first episode of book 4 is out now

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I think I'll wait on season four. The seasons have so few episodes, it's easy to watch them all at once over a couple days.

I think that was a big problem of season three. It had just twelve episodes, which isn't really enough time. It's probably why we never got to know the bad guys at all.

Agreed on Zuko's confession! That was one of the moments that really did feel like him.

At least I feel somewhat better about the Korra seasons as a whole now (though after the first two, that's not hard...).

[hamsterwoman]

Yeah, I watched one of the seasons as it aired (I forget which one) and the other two all at once over a couple of days, and I prefer watching straight through I find, but now that the kids know it's airing, they'll want to watch it as it comes... :P

Agreed that the seasons feel really short!