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Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Crossroads of Destiny (2006)
Heartbreaking
We all knew Sokka's positive mental attitude and Zuko's transformation couldn't last forever, but no one was looking forward to it ending like this. I give the Avatar writers credit, though, for having the courage to end chapter two on such a bleak note. The end of the series - Aang defeating Fire Lord Ozai and saving the world - is certain and has been since the pilot. But the journey from the end of "Crossroads of Destiny" to that conclusion is going to be a long and turbulent one.
Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Siege of the North, Part 2 (2005)
avatar too OP
I don't recall a kids' show ever giving me goosebumps before, but this finale to a solid first season was a genuine thrill. Just as with the rest of the series, this episode deftly balances the show's darker, more ethereal elements with light-hearted, childish goofs. We get to see Zuko and Zhao fight it out (for the last time maybe?), Iroh unleash some of his master firebending, and the absolutely awesome power of the avatar is on full hair-raising display. In the wake of the siege, characters are permanently changed leading us into the next chapter of Aang's journey to save the world.
A Wife's Nightmare (2014)
this plot is hilariously insane
I don't even know where to begin.
I guess I'll start with saying the only thing that's been on my mind ever since the credits rolled ending this nightmare, which is what the hell is up Gabe? He's one of the most quietly insane characters I've seen on screen.
So his wife has a mental breakdown, and while she's in the hospital getting help he has an affair with Caitlin. This is clearly wrong and makes him a flawed man, but no one's perfect. From here his options would seem to be: a) come clean and try to repair the damage he's done to his and Liz's marriage; b) stop the affair and never tell the truth; or c) keep rendezvousing with the side hoe after Liz comes home and hide it. Instead, Gabe makes a fourth option, and this is where the lunacy really shows.
First, he has his mistress confront him and Liz outside their home claiming to be his long-lost daughter from an earlier fling. Then, he has her move in. Then, he sabotages Liz's career, which is also the only source of income for the family, while also gaslighting her by making her think he and Caitlin are up to no good and discrediting her accusations by saying he "feels it in his gut" that she's his daughter. He also invokes Liz's prior breakdown and consistently makes her feel selfish and awful for something that any normal human being would naturally feel empathy for. Next, he cooks up a very shoddy batch of blood tests, which Liz uncovers with as little effort as walking in on your kid in the kitchen with his hand in the cookie jar and crumbs on his face.
And... for what? What was all of this for? What was Gabe's end game? Was he going to divorce Liz and replace her with Caitlin, living off her minimum wage job at a record shop? What on earth was the plan?
As for the rest of the movie, it felt out-of-date and cheesy pretty frequently and the writing was mediocre. But I'll give it to Jennifer Beals, she's a good actor.
3/10