Let's Talk

So obviously in my version Katara was already councilwoman (can't believe Bryke stole it from me smh🙄). The whole Gaang INCLUDING SUKI is in Republic City trying to establish it.

A lot of the movie is the day to day of the Gaang. How they try to manage peace among the different nations and cultivate respect for each other's cultural differences and how they establish political and justice systems that treat every citizen equally.

(We get A LOT of adult Sukka moments because they deserved better)

I think The Denied are Chi-blockers and would be the beginnings of the Equalists. Like Amon found them/their descendants when he left the South Pole and made them more organized.

(I don't remember if the show or comics ever confirmed this but in my version Amon took bending through a combination of bloodbending and healing to block Chi in a more permanent way than Chi blocking. Bloodbending is a requirement, so effectively only Katara and Suma could figure out how to reverse it. But this ain't about him)

The big revelation in this movie would be that in trying to stop The Denied (who are instead attacking benders all over the Earth Kingdom), Aang stumbles across a village of airbenders in hiding instead of Tagah. Since it's absolute bullshit that the nomads were all wiped out, my version has descendants of survivors hiding in the Earth Kingdom.

The movie would mostly be about Aang at first being happy to find other Airbenders, but uncomfortable about how different their culture is from his. It's been 100 years and they've become disconnected from what Aang grew up with. And he struggles to accept it, wanting them to live on Air Temple Island with him in Republic City. They don't want to, content where they are.

Aang starts to get pushy, but the Gaang talk some sense into him. Katara, Sokka, and Zuko are gentle about it at first, Toph is not, giving him the hard truth (one of the many appeals of Taang for me is how their contracting personalities and backgrounds represent the show's theme of balance way better than Kataang, and that would really be on display here. They aren't dating at this point, they don't start until way after Republic City's already been established).

In the middle of their argument, The Denied attack. The Gaang fight to protect the Airbenders and during so, Aang realizes his friends are right. He's projecting his own pain and trauma and not thinking about theirs. After The Denied are defeated, Aang apologizes sincerely and promises that they'll be free to live how they want in peace.

A few of the Airbenders actually speak up and agree to go with him, wanting to connect with their lost culture. Most of them choose to stay behind and Aang has to make peace with that.

(This would address my major gripe with adult Aang's character that Bryke keeps using his trauma as an excuse for his actions instead of making him address and process his trauma and behavior in a healthy way. The movie for some reason seems to double down on it when they had the chance to at least call him out since as we see it persists even into late adulthood and negatively impacts his relationship with his children. But they can never hold him accountable no matter what awful thing he does)

The movie would end with Republic City built and beginning to thrive with a wave of new immigrants coming in. And of course because I love my Harutara, Haru would be shown among them.

It shows that their bond goes past the caretaker role that Governor Thropp tried to force on Elphaba. It shows that they had a genuine sisterly bond where they saw each other as equals.

But in Wicked For Good Elphaba does kneel at Nessa's wheelchair. Why? Because she's asking for something. Obviously, we know this is because Elphaba is desperate and tired and just wants at least one person on her side. But from Nessa's POV, it makes it seem like her sister is forgoing their actual bond in order to placate her and get what she wants.

Do they not realize they're making themselves look worse? Not only does this just prove it would have been the easiest and most sensible direction to go for her character to begin with and they had no justifiable reason not to do it, it shows that they're not even bothering to be consistent across the media they put out for this franchise.

The comics and LOK are made and have been established for 15+ years at this point. Content that they either approved or were directly in charge of creating. If they wanted to do better by Katara, all they had to do was do something with her healing instead of doubling back.

Show her traveling the world and giving aid to people affected by the war. Show her training doctors and opening a hospital in Republic City. Show us why she's the best healer in the world. They didn't have to retcon what they did, all they had to do was put actual effort into their decision instead of writing her off the way they did in LOK.

But come season 2, it’s reveal he’s only at the hotel at the request of Rosie, and he’s annoyed with Charlie the whole season, and he wants out of his deal and he doesn’t care about the hotel.

I get Alastor was hurt and weak and going through the motions, but at the end of season two he seemed to be interested in Lucifer instead. So what was the point of that?

Bro when I tell you this genuinely annoyed the fuck outta me-

I kind of hate the idea that Alastor's forced to be at the hotel anyway. It's constantly implied that he takes some sort of pride in the hotel because it's attached to his name and I always thought it was because it was something he chose to do. Only for the show to say, "actually no he hates the hotel and everyone in it."

They could've even still kept his deal with Rosie. Since Rosie seems to care what happens to Charlie and the others (she's Lilith idc what anyone says), he could've been at the hotel to gain Charlie's trust to get him out of the deal.

And I agree that it was implied that Alastor began to believe in Charlie's influence at the very least (so it makes zero sense in season 2 that she can't get anyone on her side). So him just up and quitting due to ragebait from Lucifer felt so stupid and out of character.

IS THIS NOT JUST A RETREAD OF HER S2 ARC?

Do the Hazbin writers just have no idea what to do with Charlie? I get Lilith is important to Charlie and whatever, but is there no other way to execute it that doesn’t feel like a retread of her season 2 arc?

Is there nothing else they can do with her besides her parental issues? Her hertiage, her status as a princess, her leadership role, her powers, her relationships with any of the main cast?? ANYTHING?

I wouldn't mind them focusing on her relationship with her parents if they bothered to be consistent.

In the pilot, Charlie says in a voicemail to Lilith, "Dad was right about me." Which very clearly implies Lucifer was actually highly critical rather than just forgetful and accidentally dismissive. Obviously, they're allowed to change things from the Pilot, but making Lucifer an asshole to her would have been so much more interesting. Especially if he genuinely wasn't trying to be but just naturally talks down to her because he's, y'know, the Sin of Pride.

Then in season 1, it's implied that Charlie and Lucifer just aren't close because Lucifer's depression which means Lilith's the one that primarily raised her. This made enough coherent sense that I could accept it. It made for an interesting dynamic between the three of them where they did all genuinely care for each other, things just got tense due to circumstances which are both Lilith and Lucifer's fault, not one or the other.

Only for season 2 to scrap that entirely and retcon Lilith. The talk between Lucifer and Charlie implies that Lilith was neglectful to them both, which contradicts what More Than Anything showed us. It also makes poor Lucifer a hurt baby (even though his actions were genuinely stupid that season and Charlie was right to be pissed).

Season 2 really cheapened the Morningstars for me. Charlie's entire character arc in season 1 was dropped (I suspect that it's because Viv wanted to give more focus to Alastor and Vox and I really wish she hadn't because Vox was a sucky villain). Lucifer was woobified beyond belief and all his complexity from season 1 was gone. And Lilith is just being used as a plot device atp, we got one scene of her the whole season.

It is a rehash of season 2, but I'm low-key glad this conflict is finally coming to a close. They dragged it out way too long.