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I've viewed this show as a cool opportunity to "remix" the original show, and I've loved it.

The scene of Katara teaching Aang to heal, with the sea serpent from the Serpent's Pass was really sweet to see.

Iron and Zuko working in the fields were really interesting. Also, I love how GREEN the Earth Kingdom looks!! Goodbye beige desert, hello woodlands. 🌲💚

And the intros to each episode, with the Earth symbol actually made out of rocks as part of the landscape? 10/10, an amazing use that actually makes more sense as part of a live-action show.

The painted lady taking place in Ba Sing Se was cool (plus the mural). The community of Fire Nation refugess living in Ba Sing Se, and the fight with Zuko and Katara/Painted Lady was interesting!

Iroh watching a protestor that Earthbends names into the wall was really cool! That scene made me cry if I'm being honest. Same for the scene of the man trying to rob Iroh.

The "Leaves from the Vine" scene definitely made me cry too. This stuff makes me emotional, okay?

I loved how this show seems to have more of Toph talking about dealing with upper-class social life.

The scene at the party of Sokka talking about losing Yue and Suki, and him and Katara bonding over the loss of their mother kinda made me cry too. One of my favorite scenes in the show. 10/10.

And also, the cactus juice, lol. (Although the "giant mushroom" quote doesn't make as much sense as in the original show.)

The scenes of Sokka talking to the professor looking for the Library was cool to see.

I liked the whole subplot of Aang bonding with Long Feng at the party was really sweet, Katara wishing Aang would talk to the team, and Aang mentioning how she hasn't really been there recently (because of the Painted Lady stuff) was a really cool change.

The reveal of Toph's parents "adapting" to the war and getting involved with the Fire Nation was a cool change as well! (I believe this originally was with the engineer guy who lived in the Air Temple, but I think he was forced to make weapons for them to save his son, the Beifong's reasons seem to be more business-related.)

Omg, the scenes of Zuko's childhood, and comparing the parenting styles of his father and mother was really cool to see.

THE CAST:

I wasn't crazy about some of the cast at first, but I've warmed up to them. Sokka's and Toph's actors are one of my FAVORITES. Long Feng might be my favorite actor in the show so far. I loved how friendly he seemed at first. Aang and Katara are pretty good, same for Zuko and Iroh. Especially Iroh.

I'm warming up to Azula (no pun intended). Her, Mai, and Ty-Lee are pretty fun to see on screen.

Anyway, I just wanted to share some positivity about this show. I know the show isn't perfect, but I love these characters, and think it's an awesome chance to experience this show we all love in a different way. 🥹

I will post the list here eventually! Hopefully in a couple days.

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I've been interested in making a list of horror/thriller movies to watch. Lots of my sources have just been from reddit threads and news articles. I have about 350 movies on the list, I'd say around 300 are strictly horror movies. The rest are mostly Korean thriller movies, lol.

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I still have to format the list and add the director, subgenre, and release date of each movie, so that'll take me a couple days.

Curious which other artists/albums/genres you all listen to!! I'm always open to suggestions

I'll start (bear with me here, I ~~kinda~~ definitely went overboard... If you don't want to read all this, I understand, lol.)

Hip-Hop Music:

- Action Bronson. Bars about fast cars, wrestlers, smoking drugd butt-ass naked, and exotic meats. What more could you want? Also has an album with The Alchemist.

- The Alchemist. Amazing producer. Worked with a bunch of talented artists. (Shoutout Freddie Gibbbs, Larry June, and Roc Marciano!)

- Beastie Boys's Licence To Ill. (The album that Eminem paid homage to with the "Kamikaze" album artwork!)

- Big Sean's "I Decided" and "Detroit 2". The former has the "No Favors" feature, the latter has the "Friday Night Cypher song" with Eminem and some other artists.

- Black Thought, of The Roots. Iconic. Incredible.

- Chance The Rapper's "10 Day" and "Acid Rap". Really fkn gooood.

- CZARFACE. Trio of Wu-Tang member Inspectah Deck and producer/rapper duo 7L and Esoteric. Their album "Super What? with MF DOOM is incredible. RIP DOOM.)

- Danny Brown's "Atrocity Exhibition". Very trippy album

Pretty sure Danny is from Detroit as well. He was featured on "Detroit vs Everybody."

- Frank Ocean's 2 albums. So good.

- Gym Class Heroes' "Papercut Chronicles". Has the "Cupid's Chokehold" song. Also, LIVE DRUMS!! Need I say more. One of the songs on the album is a story told with just the names of bands. Taxi Driver, I think is the song.

-J Cole's "2014 Forest Hills Drive" and "KOD". 2014 FHD is some of the best/consistent beats I've ever heard. So good.

-Jay Electronica's "Exhibit A" and "Exhibit C" songs

- Joey Badass. "1999" and "2000" are incredible albums. His latest "Lonely At The Top" is amazing too.

- Kendrick Lamar's entire discography. He was featured on "Love Game" from MMLP2.

- KXNG Crooked, formerly Crooked I, member of Slaughterhouse. His "The Weekly's" series was amazing. 5 albums, 52 songs over a year. Awesome samples.

- Mac Miller's "Faces". Just an incredible album. RIP.

- MF DOOM. RIP. "Madvilliany" with Madlib, "MM FOOD", and "Born Like This" are so good

- Royce Da 5'9 (obviously). His album "Book of Ryan" is so good. Very personal. This is the album that the "Caterpillar" feature with Em came from.

- Run The Jewels. Duo of southern rapper Killer Mike, and New York underground rapper/producer El-P. Amazing duo, have 4 self titled albums together, and a couple features.

- Slaughterhouse. (KXNG Crooked, Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, and Royce Da 5'9). Their self titled album has "Microphone", which Eminem rapped over on his Tim Westwood freestyle!!

- Tribe Called Quest's "Low End Theory" and "Midnight Mauraders". Iconic. Amazing. Timeless.

- Tyler, the Creator's discography starting with "Flower Boy". But "Call Me If You Get Lost" and "Chromakopia" are my faves

- Vince Staples' "Big Fish Theory". Also new album "Cry Baby" comes out in a week, I believe.

- Westside Boogie's "Everything's For Sale". This is where the "Rainy Days" feature with Em came from.

Alt Rap (?)

- Aesop Rock. Came up with Def Jux in the early 2000's with rappers like El-P (of Run The Jewels), Camu Tao (RIP), Vast Aire of Cannibal Ox, and Cage (yes, the "bought Cage's tape, opened it, and dubbed over it" Cage.) (Currently on the label Rhymesayers, founded by rapper Smug and producer Ant of the duo Atmosphere.)

His early 2000s stuff is really good, but his music the last 10 years has been incredible. "The Impossible Kid",

"Spirit World Field Guide" (feels like going on a drug trip and returning home), "Garbology" (with the producer Blockhead. amazing sound), and 2 albums with Rob Sonic as the duo Hail Mary Mallon, 4 albums with Homeboy Sandman as the duo Lice (Lice 4 came out this year), and album "Malibu Ken" with producer Tobacco.

- Armand Hammer, duo of Billy Woods and ELUCID. Billy Woods has an album with the aforementioned Blockhead, and a song with Aesop as Billy Woods, and another song with Aesop as Armand Hammer. I believe Armand Hammer have an album witumh The Alchemist as well. (I think Alchemist did the "Chemical Warfare" song with Eminem.)

- The Koreatown Oddity's "Little Dominique's Nosebleed". Just a very unique album about his childhood and life growing up.

- Lupe Fiasco. Amazing lyricist. Tetsuo & Youth, Drogas Wave Drill Music In Zion, (those 3 albums have the 3 Mural songs), House EP, and Samurai have been incredible albums. His trilogy of songs called Mural/Mural JR/Ms Mural are incredible.

- Open Mike Eagle's Dark Comedy, Dark Comedy Late Show, Brick Body Kids Still Daydream, and Component Systems With The Auto Reverse albums. OME is also active on YouTube and does short videos as well.

(Note: Aesop Rock, Armand Hammer/Billy Woods, Blockhead, Homeboy Sandman, Lupe Fiasco, and Open Mike Eagle have all done songs with each other)

Misc Hip-Hop:

- Clipping. Trio of rapper Daveed Diggs (from Hamilton, and more recently The Boys), Jonathan Snipes, and William Hutson. Amazing *amazing* production, lyricism, and delivery. Awesome concept albums. They have 2 horror albums that might take up 2 slots of my 5 favorite albums ever. (Their latest album, "Dead Channel Sky", is a cyberpunk album that has a feature with aforementioned Aesop Rock.)

Ambient/IDM:

- Aphex Twin has a bunch of good songs

- Boards of Canada's Music Has The Right To Children, Geogaddi, and Inferno (Inferno came out like 3 days ago, and had a song in the end credits of The Backrooms, if you like that movie.)

- Burial's "Untrue". A dance album, really good.

Electronic/Trap Music:

- Flume has an EP with Jpegmafia "We Live In A Society" EP, and an incredible mixtape called Hi This Is Flume (featuring Jpegmafia and Lowthai.)

- Sophie's "Oils Of Every Pearl's Un-Insides" album is extremely good. RIP

I believe both Flume and Sophie produced Vince Staples' song "Yeah Right" feat. Kendrick

- Hudson Mohawke's "Lantern" album. Very nostalgic for me.

- TNGHT (pronounced "Tonight".) Electronic producers Hudson Mohawke and Lunice. They have a self titled album from 2012ish and a sequel from 2022ish. First album goes real hard.

Industrial Rock:

- Nine Inch Nail's The Downward Spiral, The Fragile (bsck to back albums) and Tron: Ares soundtrack. The Downward Spiral is an incredibly produced album. I wrote off NIN for way too long because I assumed they were a weird screamo band. (Also, The Downward Spiral ends with the song "Hurt", famously covered by Johhny Cash before his passing. RIP.)

NIN's current members are Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, who did soundtracks under that name like Gone Girl, The Social Network, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and Challengers

Trip-Hop:

- DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing" (who also had the song and music video "Nobody Speak" featuring Run The Jewels, aka El-P and Killer Mike).

- Massive Attack's "Mezzanine".

- Tricky and Martina Topley Bird's "Maxinquaye" (Tricky was a member of Massive Attack.)

- Portishead's "Portishead" (their album Dummy is really good, I've heard.)

Pop Music (kinda):

- Cocteau Twins' "Heaven Or Las Vegas" is just pure vibes. Classic dream pop.

- Maroon 5's "Songs About Jane". Really an incredible album. A lot of their later stuff is ehhh, but this album is lightning in a bottle.

- Mitski. Idk, I just like her voice and albums.

- P!nk's "Funhouse" album. She had the song "Revenge" with Eminem

- Rihanna's "ANTI" is so good.

I promise I didn't use AI to write this lmao

I was re-listening to The Eminem Show, and gah damn, the production goes hard.

I'd say The Eminem Show, Relapse, and Music To Be Murdered By seem to be my favorite production so far.

I sill gotta re-listen to D12 Devil's Night, MMLP2, Revival, Kamikaze soon. Might just re listen through his whole discpgraphy

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