#anti-comics

(I have not actually read Turf Wars)

Like, it seems like every Lauriver shipper or Laurel fan (I count myself as both) ever cares *soooo* much about comics canon and how Arrow hasn’t lived up to the comics, used characters differently and ‘not followed’ the comics of yada yada yada and all that jazz

and its like

I don’t give two shits about comics canon. I never have with adaptations. I love the Laurel Lance we get in the show, not her legacy as a decades old character. I love the Lauriver dynamic we get in the show because of what we see in the show. I don’t care about their dynamic.

And as for bitching about how this or that character is only used in a cameo or not used to their standing in the comics -  after decades and decades, there’s no earthly way any comics character could ever be truly given justice in a goddamn TV show, and given how much you guys bitch about OCs...

Gene [Yang] - In the original series, Azula was all kinds of awesome. I found her tragic character arc incredibly compelling. She began as a master manipulator bent on power. But when she finally achieved her goals, her mind broke. We gave her a split personality in order to preserve both the manipulative and lunatic halves of her personality.

By contrast, When talking about Ursa(but not to her or her haulicination), Azula used “our mother” once and and “mother” once.

It’s been remarked before (see @salixj for example) that “The Search” makes Zuko (and the Gaang more broadly) look like complete idiots for how they handle Azula’s mental illness. They(and this is mostly on Zuko) don’t talk to anyone who treated her about what her symptoms and how her illness effects her behavior, they don’t bring along anyone familiar with her illness, they act like Azula is in an entirely rational state of mind and thus try to use threats to control her and seem surprised when she acts recklessly and irrationally, and they seemed utterly shocked when she hallucinates or acts delusionaly and in fact don’t seem to get that she often hallucinates. It’s like they don’t understand she’s mentally ill, even though she’s been confined to a mental asylum for the last year.

Michael Dante DiMartino - Over the years, the number-one question fans asked Bryan and me was, "What happened to Zuko's mom?" It was a story we always wanted to tell, and once Gene was onboard to write the graphic novels, we knew this would be the time and place to tell it. After catching up with Team Avatar in The Promise, we all agreed the next story should focus on Zuko's search for Ursa.

Mike - Coming into The Search, Bryan and I had some ideas about what happened to Ursa, but nothing was really nailed down until my discussions with Gene, who added a ton to the story, including Ursa's backstory with Ikem.

Mike - Although Bryan and I had never pinned down the exact details surrounding Ursa's exact whereabouts, I had always thought that amnesia would play a role in some way. I knew there had to be something big keeping Ursa from contacting Zuko all these years.