Dude this book is so underrated, the descriptions are absolutely INCREDIBLE

Coherent, uncompromising stories about anthropomorphic animals, that are intended for mature audiences and want to be taken seriously, are very niche media. As this retrospective about anthropomorphic animal literature goes on, I'm learning to be okay with that.

That rat premise at the end? Literally Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. It's about refugees from the infamous Calhoun "mouse utopia" experiment building their own civilization out of resources scavenged from humans. There's no magic in the book, it's strictly xenofiction.

Discussing the writings of Oswald Spengler... Impressive.

Nearly everything in this movie was fairly predictable and expected. That doesn't mean that it's a bad movie by any means. But "unexpected" is a weird claim considering how many old, old, OLD tropes they follow. Tropes very often repeated. Again, doesn't make it bad by any means. Just little surprising.

Aang and Zuko have opposite points at where they start. Aang starts by running because he doesn’t want the responsibility of the avatar and in his selfishness runs away. Zuco on the other hand at the start of his journey is selfless enough to defend the lives of soldiers well below his own station by arguing the morality of what was proposed. The approach of getting both characters to start at the polar opposite of what they were during most of the show was pretty clever

29:17 Am I misremembering, or does this couple end up being the couple Aang and the gang help across the serphants pass? If so I love the way their paths indirectly cross here.

"A Cadeira! Usa a CADEIRA!!!" And in Brazil cats have 7 lives. #HueHueBR

I wish I missed it entirely. Everything I know about this flick I know without my consent and nothing about it has made me want to watch it, free or otherwise.

Usagi Yojimbo is a must read for anyone, furry or not. Its a mix of intense adventures and a look into the everyday life in Edo period Japan.

Hmm this definitely isn’t a member of tzeetchs library

"I love you too, but I shouldn't have married you" something I feel about that line, is that it shows Mr Fox's growth as a character that he doesn't argue with her or contest that.

Please, what is the music playing in the background at the 40:00 mark

I just like that there now exists a children's movie which thesis statement is "Death comes for us all."

38:30 "no home, no famwy" Loved the video, im on my 6th rewatch

This retrospective is the first time I noticed that the couple doesn't rob is the serpent's pass couple, Hope's parents

28:40 the classic western films inspired by and sometimes directly retelling the old Japanese samurai stories Zuko's culture developed?

1:32 love ATLA but that's not groundbreaking, the DCAU shows from BTAS to JLU were already doing that around the exact same time.

I love 3-D movies. They are beautiful, but I miss 2-D movies so much.

22:46 Admiral Zhao isn't dead. He is trapped in the spirit world, and unless he will be killed in there, no way he ages to death or succumbs to a lethal sickness

It’s alright but avatar day is the most underrated

It’s important to know that when inquisitors handed heretics to the secular authorities, it would come with a plea for mercy towards the condemned. It wasn’t an execution by proxy. Rather, the state viewed heresy as a secular crime that disrupted the order of their realm, and during a time where even counterfeiting was punished by burning at the stake it is obvious to see the result heresy got.

i cant get over the Super Evil origin story. like, magpies are altricial birds. y'know, they start off as chewed gum. this hairy blob killed his siblings immediately and then also survived after being kicked out. lmfao. just more proof of the lack of Any Research on birds i guess

Korra did Wan Shi Tong so dirty!

Why is everything about wolves!? I just want help writing cats 😭

I love your videos so much! Would you consider doing a video centering the adaptations of Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en?

Richard Adams work is so layered and beautiful and it will never not infuriate me that so much of it gets boiled down to 30-something cartoon avatar youtubers saying "omg bunnies DIE and there's BLOOD, this was for KIDS??!!" for 20 minutes. This essay is absolutely beautiful and really gives his work the respect it deserves. I come back to it often and certain read aloud passages always make me cry. Be proud of this, incredible work.

I didn’t know the wolf was death at all when I first watched it

It's always that one guy who doesn't like something that everyone else does, like we get it you're sooo different.🙄

unintended consequence of this video: I am now more excited for the potential of a new Superman movie

Enormous, in every sense. Thank you - I gained a lot of new appreciation for Tolkien, in all this.

Bold of you to assume there would be 10 “people” who haven’t seen the show.

11:20 BRAZILLIAN MENTIONED!!!!!!!!

Wish I could have seen it with fresh eyes. I had it all spoiled for me unfortunately, but I still think it is an incredible movie.

God it would have been so easy to think of a continent name other than “Birddom” just name it Avian or something like that

Bro they had to have made the voice different on purpose, i noticed that immediately, maybe he went crazy...er? With knowledge and thought himself a god

You are absolutely right. You have to master the “classic” structure if you want to free yourself from it while having a balanced story. It's like in music, in painting or any art. For writing, the “hero’s journey” is the equivalent of practicing your scales for a musician. This is also a problem I have with a large part of contemporary art (and not modern art). Artists like Picasso or Duchamp arrived at modern art but started with classical art. Most contemporary artists are not classically trained at all. They did not move away, innovate, from classicism. They are redoing what has been done and redone for 70 years.

I see I don't even need the dialogue to get all weepy at Iroh and Zuko's reunion. This was such an amazing show.

a 6 hour-video on Tolkien ? now I know what I'll be doing at work tomorrow!

Here was me thinking 'furry' referred to people who commit beastiality as part of their sexual orientation. Excuse me while I go make a lot of apologies.

14:34 I just noticed theres a scar where death cut Puss for the rest of the movie, thats such a neat detail!

2:00-2:24 Is that a challenge? Edit: I have started production on a graphic novel. It is called "Cold Pine" and it takes place in northern north america during the late Pleistocene. it follows the story of an American cheetah coalition consisting of 3 brothers: The main brother, "Pine" the youngest, Nettle, and the oldest and leader, Hunter. They begin their story in northern north america in what is now Montana. As we all know the american cheetah is now extinct, and one of those reasons is thought to be human competition and conflict. This near the end of the Pleistocene, humans are expanding every day, the mega-fauna is disappearing, and the cheetah brothers will be one of them if they dont adapt. because of humans encroaching on their territory and hunting their prey, the brothers are pushed upwards near Alaska, and eventually near the arctic. They are in an unfamiliar environment and face many dangers along the way. The pack gets by, hunting unfamiliar yet recognizable prey items but with the disappearance of the mega-fauna, the periods between successful hunts get longer. For a period of time, out of pure desperation, the pack feeds exclusively on pine cones. Although it has little nutritional value, at least it's something so that they dont have to feel the emptiness of their bellies. They know this cant be a long term solution and know eventually they WILL die if this continues, maybe.. just maybe... the pine cones will hold them over just long enough for them to make another kill as the proud pack hunters they truly are and survive the harsh incoming arctic winter. It's a story about courage, perseverance, and most importantly, family and what it means to be a good sibling. .......Oh you think I'm joking?

The whistle isn't just any whistle, either. It's the song "Three little kittens have lost their mittens." He's whistling it mockingly, saying Puss has lost his lives. Not in the sense that he literally has destroyed them, but in the same way in the children's song, he just didn't care enough and misplaced them, and he can't seem to find them no matter how hard he tries, until there are REAL consequences. "Three little kittens lost their mittens, and they cry to their mom that they lost their mittens and ask her to find them. She is tired of dealing with this, so she tells them that unless they find their OWN mittens, they won't ever get any pie again. They then immediately go looking and find their mittens within the hour." Puss in boots loses 8 lives and each time asks for another one, like it's nothing. On life 9, he says "gimme another", and death says "no. You ran out. Find it yourself, or you lose. Forever." Death is calling Puss out. Not just that he's wasteful, but that he's spoiled. He's a child. A crybaby who can't do anything until he has a gun held to his head. And this time, he's betting puss won't be able to do it.

Never would have my 8yr old dumbass brain couldve predicted that this dude would be aang's fire bending teacher.

Zukos story is the perfect "Lion King" story of a banished prince that learns from his banishment to come back a worthy king for his nation, people, and the world.

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That title has a run on colon

The whistle was my favorite thing about Death. IT was so chilling

Incredible work. Engaging to watch and listen to all the way through, despite it's length and broad range of topics. I don't think I've ever been captivated by a documentary as well as this one.

And then in "the promise" they kinda ruin it