Anton and the others, including his four rich friends from New Drennor, continued watching Avatar: The Last Airbender after they ate dinner. After they completed the fourth episode of season one, Book One: Water, Anders, Nemina, Lucas, and Colin returned from the cinema theater.
They joined Anton’s father at the table and served them the Kraken meat dishes that they left for them.
“What are you watching?” Anders asked while they were eating.
“It’s an animated television show. At first, they wanted to watch episodes of the television shows we’re all watching but I told everyone that we can only watch them together with you guys,” Anton answered.
“You don’t have to do that. Most of us will be busy doing things and we can’t all be together all the time,” Anders said.
“It doesn’t matter. We can watch when we’re together and if we want to watch something else, as I’ve said before, the number of shows and movies that I can pull from that other world was so massive that we wouldn’t run out even if we watched shows and movies continuously for decades without stopping. Although, we still need to keep in mind that the quality of both the movies and television shows varies.”
“When you say quality what exactly do you mean? Are you talking about the quality of the video like if it’s clear or not?” Frederick asked.
“No. The quality meant the quality of the actors, the story itself, the people who direct the shows and movies, the quality of the special effects, and all sorts of things. Several things would affect the quality of the movies and shows like when they were made. The world where I’m stealing that content has been doing these films and shows for more than a century and as you know, their technology progresses a lot and that means that the technology to create movies and shows progresses as well. So one should expect the older movies and shows to have a lower quality in case of visual effects. Of course, it’s different with those story-driven shows. Another thing was their culture changes with time so some things that were popular in a specific era or the events they were focusing on in terms of culture will be different compared to the shows that they created decades ago.”
The whole group contemplated what Anton had said regarding some simple facts about television shows and movies while his father and the others were eating. After dinner, everyone continued to watch Avatar: The Last Airbender, and his father and the others that were with him in the cinema were fine just continuing on the last episodes they had seen.
Anton told his father that cartoons were specially made to entertain children but since some of the best animations had very good stories adults also enjoyed watching them and one good example of that was The Last Airbender.
They began watching the fifth episode which was one of Anton’s favorites since it was the episode that which Aang met his old friend who was now the king of Omashu. After the episode ended, everyone admitted that they now understood why he had said that the animated show was for children since because of the funny way the show was created, according to them anyway, it was clearly made for children. The story was fascinating enough though that everyone wanted to keep watching.
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“What we’re doing is called binge-watching. A show like Avatar was supposed to be seen once a week just like the other television shows that we’ve been watching but if one watches several episodes at once, it’s called binge-watching.”
Anton could see that even though his father, Nemina, and Lucas enjoyed watching the animated television show, he saw that they were not committing themselves to the cartoon since because of the cinema business, they would not be able to spend so much time watching the show.
They had time for one more episode before Anders and the others went back to the cinema to present the last showing for the day.
Everyone else wanted to continue watching so they did. After several hours, they had to call on Harun again to have him cook them more Kraken meat. Anton’s father and the others returned from the cinema before Harun returned with the food that they asked him to have cooked and when their guide arrived, everyone enjoyed their second dinner.
It was very late so even though a lot of them wanted to continue binge-watching, Anton had to put his foot down and told everyone that it was time for rest. He knew that the four rich young folks from New Drennor were used to doing their thing at all times of the day or night but he was strictly following the schedule he made.
Anton reiterated to himself that he might have developed some minor mental health issues due to becoming stressed whenever he skipped entering his Diablo II system for a day. He had to admit though that this world was truly dangerous and what he was feeling might be the need to earn more power so he could better protect himself, his family, and his friends.
After his friends left, Anton entered his room leaving his family in the main living room of the suite. Anton took a bath and then entered his Diablo II system. He leveled up his necromancer for a couple of hours managing to increase his level by two points so Anton’s necromancer reached level eighty-seven. Soon he would be able to create a paladin character.
There was a bit of a problem with that though since when the system announced that Anton should be able to level up the rest of the magical character, it did not say that once he was done with all those, he should be able to move on with the melee or the warriors but he was almost one hundred percent sure that his system would allow him to have all the Diablo II characters.
Another small problem was that he was used to playing almost exclusively the Sorceress and the Necromancer character so he was not sure how to level up a paladin but of course, it was not truly a problem because the internet was there.
Anton exited his Diablo II system after a couple of hours since he was sleepy and still wanted to follow his schedule strictly.
The next day, Anton joined his father, Nemina, Lucas, and Colin in the dining hall for the breakfast buffet and his father told him that the others slept late to entertain his friends. He was surprised to learn that his father even allowed Anna to sleep late since she supposedly did not have any magic classes that day, which was a Saturday.
The next day, which was Sunday, was the last day the Titanic film would be shown so Anton asked his father which film they would allow everyone to see next and was hugely surprised when his father chose the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
“Why those?” Anton simply asked.
“We’ve seen them before and that meant that the quality of the movies is guaranteed and to be honest with you, I want to watch them again,” Anders said and Anton laughed.
That meant that on Monday, Anton would have to record the first film in the trilogy which was the Fellowship of the Ring in the three recording magic items.