So I was late to the party on watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. Like, "the series had already ended by the time I got into it" late.
When it first started airing here in Canada, I watched the first few minutes of the first episode, and I think I checked out at Katara's "waterbending is not magic" line, and condemned it as stupid whenever it came up in conversation. Then, when Nickelodeon decided that letting YTV and the Family Channel air their successful shows for Canadian audiences was good enough and they gave us Nick Canada (Rather than letting Canadian viewers watch the same Nickelodeon as Americans because that would entail admitting a fondness for Canadians, which is prohibited by U.S. law or something.), they let it air Avatar: Extras, a re-run of the series with annotations providing tid-bits of information the writers couldn't comfortably wrap dialog around, as well as little jokes like noting that stomachs can't actually speak, but if they could, they would probably speak Hungarian. I was bored one night, so I sat through an episode of that, and I found that by actually paying attention to the show, I was loving it.
Although, I didn't manage to catch every episode. Some nights I forgot, other nights I wasn't really paying attention as I felt I just had to reach the next save point or gain one more level in Final Fantasy IV DS... My point is, as far as I know, Nick Canada no longer airs the Extras versions of the episodes and has no plans to do so in the future, but I seriously would like to watch them.
I'm catching up on the series via Netflix, and the Avatar Wiki has the annotations archived by season, but it's really not the same when I have to keep looking back down at my laptop and miss part of the action.
Are there any DVD releases of the series that includes the annotations in the special features, or has anyone recorded and posted the annotated episodes? Or am I just going to have to watch the episodes normally and then go through the Wiki's annotations archives after each one?
When it first started airing here in Canada, I watched the first few minutes of the first episode, and I think I checked out at Katara's "waterbending is not magic" line, and condemned it as stupid whenever it came up in conversation. Then, when Nickelodeon decided that letting YTV and the Family Channel air their successful shows for Canadian audiences was good enough and they gave us Nick Canada (Rather than letting Canadian viewers watch the same Nickelodeon as Americans because that would entail admitting a fondness for Canadians, which is prohibited by U.S. law or something.), they let it air Avatar: Extras, a re-run of the series with annotations providing tid-bits of information the writers couldn't comfortably wrap dialog around, as well as little jokes like noting that stomachs can't actually speak, but if they could, they would probably speak Hungarian. I was bored one night, so I sat through an episode of that, and I found that by actually paying attention to the show, I was loving it.
Although, I didn't manage to catch every episode. Some nights I forgot, other nights I wasn't really paying attention as I felt I just had to reach the next save point or gain one more level in Final Fantasy IV DS... My point is, as far as I know, Nick Canada no longer airs the Extras versions of the episodes and has no plans to do so in the future, but I seriously would like to watch them.
I'm catching up on the series via Netflix, and the Avatar Wiki has the annotations archived by season, but it's really not the same when I have to keep looking back down at my laptop and miss part of the action.
Are there any DVD releases of the series that includes the annotations in the special features, or has anyone recorded and posted the annotated episodes? Or am I just going to have to watch the episodes normally and then go through the Wiki's annotations archives after each one?