You guys may not agree so let me preface this by saying I love Spider.
But⊠he gets a kuru? Like, Eywa just goes and is like cool kid let me give him full privileges? And Neteyam just never had a chance? I get Neteyam is like a Grace situation but what about even trying? Just no? We get two miracle kids? Jake was cool, like: a single miracle performed by Eywa. So we all get Eywa is super powerful, but Spider too?
Iâd totally get it if Neytiri lost it. Like, if my arch-nemesis â the one who killed my family â somehow turned into an almost Naâvi after I definitely killed him, and then my kid died because of him, and his kid not only got to live but was literally chosen by my all-powerful Goddess and gets to hang out with my kids? The way my baby was supposed to? Yeah, Iâd be going insane too.
Idk. Now itâs like who gets to live? Idk James Cameron picks and chooses faves or whatever.
Like, that being said I just wish Spider remained Spider until at least a little further down the line. So fresh after Teyam feels a little in your face âwe gotta keep the balance, a Naâvi kid for a human kidâ. Donât know if it makes sense.
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aVaTaR rAnT â I could give less of a fuck if people like or DONT like cheating fics. THEY ARE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS đ if youuu donât personally like it then that is COMPLETELY OK.
like yes it may be ooc but itâs a FANFIC. It is never that serious. Whats serious is when ur gonna shit and shame on people who enjoy reading it?? how hard is it for you to ignore the post and go on with ur day.
you donât like you dont interact, easy as that.
and no bro if does not mean people hate Neytiri bc they read/write cheating fics. Thats gotta be the biggest reach ever.
just let people read and enjoy what they want. It is NOT that hard đ
I'm very frustrated. And I don't know how to hype up myself for the movie again, because two reasons:
Too much spoilers. I think most people can relate to that. When the promo campaign started I told myself I'm not afraid of spoilers because like I remember both avatar movies by heart and I still manage to enjoy them, I will like the movie regardless. But it's getting out of hand. They're showing TOO MUCH even for me! They showed like half of the movie at this point, we basically know the whole plot already - the main conflict, the villains, villains backstory, major plot twists, relationships between characters, final battle and even ending. What do we not know already? Did they forget that the movie IS NOT OUT YET? WHY DO WE NEED TO SEE BACKSTAGES FOR THE MOVIE THAT'S NOT OUT YET WHYYYYY WHY DOES EVERY TV AD NEED NEW SCENES EVERY TIME??
I will be seeing fire and ash in the theaters A MONTH after world release. I've been waiting for it for three years, and now I will have to watch screen recording with 1xbet ad put in emotional scenes, or another option leaving all social media for a month while everyone will be discussing it because I'm a loser from a loser country and don't have money to travel somewhere to watch it there
For each thing that it did wrong, it did two things right and one thing better. The casting was solid, characters felt overall believable, it explored more of the world and was dark and funny, just like they promised.
No, it isn't perfect, and as much as we all like to say that the original was flawless, it really wasn't. The truth is that the animated series was as close to perfection as it could be given the medium, budget, time etc. It was above what anyone at the time expected. It blew minds! And it is unfair to expect the same level of greatness from the live action adaptation.
You cannot compare something so beloved and incredible to something that is completely fine on its own and say it is terrible just because the new doesn't live up to the original.
It isn't one to one and if it had been then it would've sucked because we all would've seen it before but better! Obviously they had to change things because of it. But they wouldn't want to take away from the journey or spend precious minutes on certain areas, so they mixed and matched, put other things in between the lines and it works!
They made it different, they gave it more. It isn't the same Avatar we grew up with and that is fine. It's a remake, an adaptation, you knew what was coming.
If you go to see a new Robin Hood movie, or Cinderella or any other famous story retold, you wouldn't want it to be perfect and precise to the version you like the most, because you've seen it a hundred times already! You see it most likely because you like the overall story, and want something new to absorb into your obsession!
Yeah, it messed up, yeah it was wonky here and there, but the things it did right and the things it did even better more than makes up for that and people need to stop expecting things to be perfect because it's not gonna happen!
It is still Avatar.
If you want the original then watch the original. If you don't want remakes to happen then grow up and accept that you don't have a say in it.
To claim that they shouldn't attempt remakes because they can't be better is a slippery slope of thinking that could wind up extremely toxic. It insinuates that if they don't know it can be just as good or better than before then they shouldn't even try. It inspires toxic perfectionism. It inspires giving up before trying.
So either close your eyes and don't focus on the things you don't enjoy like an adult, or open them properly so you can enjoy good content without being judgemental.
I have always liked Avatar (2009), [hating it is mostly and mainly a USA phenomenon that has spread to the rest of the english speaking parts of the internet? the rest of the world doesn't hate Avatar 2009 the way americans do], and have little to no criticisms about it, but the ones I do have, have always bothered me. all my sentimental triplet ass wanted out of this movie was for the fact that Jake was a twin to be more fleshed out. it was to some degree the thing about him that I related to the most. like maybe show some more that Tommy existed, not just the "wow you look just like him, durh" basic line wich every identical twin, triplet, etc, has heard countless times in their lifes. I've always felt that they mentioned the fact just at the beginning to justify the plot (why Jake was there in the first place, reluctant hero and what not, and a way for him to have an avatar) and then when they got it out of the way they never mention Tommy again. not even in their birthday at the end, wich to me is baffling, I would have mentioned my brother at our own birthday if I were him. the most depht in emotion we get from Jake regarding Tommy, apart from his initial reaction when he sees Tommy in the box, is "he is dead, I know it's a big inconvenience for everyone" and "[the avatar] looks like him" (a line that gets undercut by the "nO, LOoKs liKE yOu" line) and he is never mentioned again (exept for saying that they got lucky with him because he had a marine brother). like. I know that not every twins relationship is like mine with my sisters, (that are basically my best friends and no one understands me better than them), but it must have been heart wrenching to no longer have him there, for him to no longer exist, and to have to step on your brothers path. doing it knowing that you are the one that is going take his place and his dream, wondering what he would think about you doing so. seeing the damn avatar that looks like your brother, and knowing that a little piece of him still remains after all.
(on that note, I don't think people understand that identical twins and triplets don't think they look alike even if they do. my sisters and I are identical triplets and I have never thought they look alike between them let alone I looking like them, sure we may look similar, but in my head it's more like when our brother looks similar to us, we just look like siblings. but I see both my sisters side by side and I see two different people, so I really think that Jake doesn't think that the avatar looks like him, he thinks it looks like Tommy, and he says so ("[the avatar] looks like him"). and a moment, that would've been extremely emotional if it were me, gets undercut by the utterly tone deaf "no, looks like you". no, it doesn't, it looks like (in his head) the recently deceased brother, let him have that moment in peace)
and the birthday thing. I am aware that it technically has been 6 years but come on, it's his first birthday without his brother existing, the first one they don't spend alive together [which i honestly dread to have to experience]. that deserves at least a mention. but apparently not, not even because you are about to fuse your consciousness with your brother's avatar for eternity, on yours and your brother's birtday. am i the only one that got that? is it just me? maybe they didn't have the best sibling relationship and I know that my experiences are not universal and maybe I am wishing for too much, but triplets and twins barely get any representation in media besides cookie cutter copy paste shenanigans with barely any depth of personality, if at all, that are not interested in identifying each individual sibling as an actual character besides giving them different colors, and this was such a missed potential that it annoys me to no end.
when I have re-watched the movie I always do it hoping to find more depth in that aspect of the story, that would make Jake a more realistic character, that would react or think like my experience as a triplet tells me he would regarding that aspect of the character, not just as plot justificacion. it just gives me endless headcanons. like, does Jake have any mixed feelings about Tommy dying and him getting to go to pandora and his avatar? does he ever feel guilty that he's to some degree glad that Tommy died? does he ever regret Tommy's death once he is fully immersed in tribe life? does he ever miss him?
and the endless jokes they both could have made about Tommy's avatar. he is more handsome than you, Tommy. now I have a clone that I actually like. now I can beat your marine ass.
there are really subtle storytelling moments in the movie, like if you are paing attention, you know that there are native people on pandora before the colonel tells us, the arrows in the tires of the bulldozer practically scream that to our faces, that's the first time in the movie that we get the hint of some humanoid alien life. or like how you can tell time passes because of Jake's hair growth (which is also a plot hole because, how did it not grow during the 6 years on the way?). or how people in the background look at Jake weird when they see him on the wheelchair for the first time. there are little nuances like that throughout the movie. there could have been something like that that hints at that aspect of Jake's character traits. for fycks sake, there is a damn narrator in the movie and that's Jake, it doesn't have to be subtle. he could straight up just tell us how he feels about his brother being dead.
I know the the film is not interested in analyzing or pondering the psychological and emotional state and stages of having to step into your sibling's life instead of them, but I wish it had taken the time to flesh it out more. the moments were there, they just had to execute them better?
Idk, it's just that I don't think I ever see Jake mourning Tommy and I needed/expected for it to happen? Tommy gets killed a week before he gets in cryo, so for Jake it's really only been a few days since he lost Tommy when the movie starts. and it get brushed under the rug like a prop. and I am still mad about that.
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Itâs time that we had a real conversation about Aang...
For the main character of a television series, Aang somehow almost always finds himself under-rated and dismissed in fansâ posts. You see all these posts and, when they do reference him, itâs usually accompanied by the phrases âimmatureâ and â12-year-old boy.â I mean honestly, in some ATLA fans posts, it seems as if Aangâs name is almost synonymous with the word immaturity--and itâs been that way for years. Iâve always wondered why people discredited him. Was it because they saw his age and immediately ruled him out? Is it an excuse for Katara and Aang to have never happened? Was calling him the most immature character a way to bring up their favorite characters? Or did they simply get conditioned to think Aang was immature because everyone just... said he was? Well, I think Aangâs the most mature character (from start to finish) on the show, and Imma tell you why.Â
I think that Book 1 Aang is the Aang that everyone has stuck in their head. We get introduced to Aang in a strange way: heâs a boy frozen in an iceberg, and the first thing he asks is to go penguin sledding. Then he boldly explores a fire navy ship after being told it might not be a great idea. This kidâs kinda stupid, we think. Why does he care about penguin sledding? Why does he explore something he is told not to? Then he stops at Kyoshi Island to ride the Unagi, then he stops at Omashu to ride the delivery service, and then he lets the gang stop at other locationsâhaving mini adventuresâwithout worrying about learning waterbending on any sort of timeline. Why does he choose to explore all these different places at first rather than master the four elements? Doesnât he even care about being the Avatar? Ah... thatâs right. Heâs only 12.Â
Except surmising his entire maturity (or lack thereof) to the fact that he stops for these adventures means that you are ignoring one glaring detail of the show: Airbender and nomad culture. Aang asking Katara to go penguin sledding instead of what year it was and taking his friends to all those random stops in B1 so that he can explore can not be chalked up to immaturity. Because then you are ignoring an entire culture. We donât get to see a lot of airbenders, and I think that plays into the problem, but from what we do know, we learn that a critical part of their culture is that they travel. A lot. And experience different cultures. A lot. Think about all the different places heâs referenced going to 100 years ago in the series. Then think about all the friends heâs talked about having in these obscure placesâand it always sounded like he visited them more than once. Traveling, experiencing different cities, and meeting new people was a part of him and a part of his culture. He wasnât being a 12-year-old when he stopped to ride the Unagi or the delivery shoots in Omashu, he was being an air nomad
On a similar note, one of Aangâs most notable traits is saying, âHey, check this out,â excitedly while doing some air bending trick that seems juvenile--like spinning marbles around or doing an air scooter.  People look at him doing this and his previously mentioned traits and go, âOh, what a kid.â But hereâs the thing: we canât roll our eyes at his persistent need to show people marbles floating in the air or his air scooter. In the episode âSouthern Air Temple,â we see Monk Gyatsoâan extremely old, wise air benderâthrowing cakes on other monksâ heads, and then weâre told throughout the series that Airbenders were known for their playful nature. Airbenders didnât use their bending the same way other benders do. For example, Waterbenders might show off their skills by creating a giant wave and being like, âLook how cool!â (See: Katara, like every time she learns a new move.) We know Airbenders have some pretty powerful moves--weâve seen the tornado Aang created, the air body imprint of Aang that slammed Zuko back--but they donât show off those moves because theyâre so combative and not so fun. They show off the good-natured side of air bending (ex: Gyastoâs staff surfing when he was a child).  So those marble/air scooter tricks canât be watered down to 12-year-old immaturity. Because heâs not being a kid when he does those things, heâs being an Airbender. People also tend to look over the fact that he is a survivor of a genocide. You need to keep in mind that he is a living relic and the only example left of what his race was. So even later in the series when he continues to show people those tricks, heâs showing them not just for fun, but to keep his culture alive. And what do you think heâs going to show them: a tornado with random objects flying around in it or two marbles flying in his hands? Which is a better representation of Airbender culture?
Also, do not forget that Aang earned his arrows. Airbenders are not just regular benders; they are known for being especially enlightened. You donât just need to be a master at airbending to get your arrowsâyou also need to be a master at their culture. Aang was an enlightened boi. Look at all the speeches that he gave as the series continued. He didnât just magically become wise in the course of a few months because he had to fight the Firelord, he just tapped into what was always there and never showed. The maturity was always there, and the receipts are in the arrows.Â
So, Iâve gone over why heâs not as immature as everyone thinks, but why do I think heâs the most mature on the show? Itâs because his emotional maturity is freaking through the roof. Heâs part of a genocide, his culture is mocked, the few thingsâhis clothing and gliderâthat he had left from his home were completely destroyed, and he had to do something that severely went against what he believes in. And he almost never loses his shit. In fact, we only ever see him get actually upset (weâre not counting the Avatar state cause thatâs a whole different thing) 3 times in the series: when he was telling Katara about how the monks wanted to take him away from Gyatso, the episode when Appa was stolen, and when he was explaining that no one understands the position he is in (in terms of killing Ozai). Think about how much we saw everyone else freak out over the course of the show? About even smaller things.
Katara and Zuko are generally accepted as the two most mature characters of the series. But why? Zuko is continuously snapping at everyone, and, yes, he matured. But he is not completely there yet. He still somewhat believes in revenge (See: Southern Raiders), and itâs only at the last episode of the series that he understands violence is not the answer. And Katara? She acts very mature towards everyone else, but when it comes to her own emotions? Sheâs a whole basket full of mess. (See: Southern Raiders, again. Or anytime she uses anger as her way to show sheâs âpassionate.â) A good way to showcase the difference between Aang and these two is realizing that all of them lost a parent from the war and analyzing at how they handled it. (For Zuko letâs focus on the idea that he never really had a father) Katara lost her mother, Zuko his father, and Aang his father, Gyatso. Throughout the series, losing their parent was a huge topic point for both Katara and Zuko so much so that it was as if they thought no one else had ever suffered. (Katara, we see you telling Sokka that he didnât love your mom the same). Aang, however, acknowledges his pain, tells stories of Gyatso and uses him as an example of what he wants to live up toâ eventually coming full circle at the end wearing Gyatsoâs beads and an identical outfit. I canât imagine a more mature way to handle what happened than that.
Basically, what Iâm trying to say is, maturity isnât based on how you have fun, itâs based on how you react to hard situations. And nobody, nobody reacted better in those situations than Aang. So if you watched Avatar and thought it was a story about a young boy maturing, then you misjudged. It wasnât a story about an immature boy growing up. It was a story of an Airbender becoming an avatar.Â
Iâm honestly so sick and tired of the avatar fandom on tiktok. let people have their fun or learn to read a damn caption ???? like Iâll post an edit using a face claim over Tsireya and a million comments will be âWHAT DID YOU DO TO TSIREYAâ or âAwoop jumpscareâ you are not creative or funny go touch some grass. It quite literally doesnât affect you. Just scroll past if you donât like it Jesus Christ
Hello all! Today, I am going to be talking about stuff from Avatar: The Last Airbender, in the form of three main points, and a list of topics I got off the internet that I felt like addressing. Enjoy!
Okay, my first talking point is on Ursa, hence the title. Now, ever since the release of the comics and the final reveal as to what happened to Ursa, Iâve seen two major reactions: those that reject the comics outright because they donât align with their Mama Bear headcanons of Ursa, and those that take the comics as proof that Ursa was a bad mom who failed her kids, with everyone else basically split down those descriptors.Â
Now, hereâs how I view it: firstly, Ursa is not a bad mom. Does she have flaws and failings? Of course she does. She wouldnât be a person if she didnât. But she is nowhere near as bad as her detractors want to paint her. Yes, she ran off with another man, had a kid, and literally changed her identity (via face and memory alteration). But none of those consider the context: firstly, the reason she ran off at all was because she had made a bargain with Ozai to save Zukoâs life by assassinating the previous Firelord, Azulon. Ozai is every bit the type of man who would âtie up loose-endsâ by sending assassins after his wife, especially as sheâs the only REAL threat to his legitimacy as Firelord in his mind (his brother is too weak, and his kids he can control, or thatâs how he sees it).Â
Ursa is a non-bender who was thrown into an arranged marriage with a complete monster; running away and doing everything she could to keep Ozai from finding her was the genuinely smartest thing she couldâve done, especially as she canât give away secrets she doesnât remember. And Ursa did love Azula and tried to raise her right; the problem is that Ursa didnât know what she was doing when it came to Azula, especially when Ozai was actively working to encourage Azulaâs worst impulses and most self-destructive aspects. One of the last things Ursa did before leaving was kiss Azula good-bye while she slept. Ursa made mistakes when raising Azula, but she genuinely loved her, something even Azula recognized, if only in the form of a fevered hallucination that tormented her as her sanity self-destructed, which to me represented her repressed sense of guilt and loathing over what sheâs become under Ozaiâs encouragement. Ursa admitted that she couldâve done better by Azula, thatâs never been in question. But she didnât pit Zuko against Azula, nor did she favor Zuko over Azula, she loved them both dearly and did what she felt was her best option when put in a horrible situation by a monster who cared for nothing but himself.
Now, onto my second talking point, the Tyzula ship. In light of the comics revealing the status of Ty Leeâs true feelings regarding Azula (that she essentially scared the crap out of Ty Lee and she mostly acted bubbly around her in an effort to appease Azula), that makes a lot of sense, honestly, seeing as what âconvincedâ Ty Lee to join Azulaâs team was Azula deliberately putting her in horrific danger during a performance by unleashing all the dangerous animals of the circus and setting the safety net on FIRE. But considering Azulaâs voice actressâs statements that Azula was in love with Ty Lee, this has given me some thoughts on the backstory between Azula and Ty Lee, as well as the nature of their dynamic. Also, to clarify, Azulaâs VA is the ONLY one who I accept Word of Saint Paul from, and I do not even remotely believe in Zutara lack their VAâs do, but Iâll talk on that later.
Now, Ty Lee, Azula, and Mai have all known each other since they were children, all the way back when Ursa was still a strong presence in Azulaâs life, or at least was around altogether, and Azula was hardly the unstable creature she became in the end at that point in time, as she was, at worst, a bratty and mischievous kid who picked on her older brother once in a while. Considering Ty Lee and Maiâs respective natures, my best guess as to how they became friends is that they were the only ones who werenât intimidated by Azula (at least outwardly), and Azula, socially inept as she was and still is, clung to them as her friends. Back then, Ty Lee most likely considered Azula a real friend, and Ty Leeâs bubbly kindness sparked feelings within Azula... who didnât and doesnât know how to properly handle feelings like that. As Azula grew older, Ursa left, and Ozaiâs influence sunk deeper into her, her personality most definitely took a turn for the dark, leading to her becoming a more and more damaged and dangerous individual, something that Ty Lee and Mai picked up on. These feelings of danger most likely eroded whatever friendship existed between them and Azula, causing their dynamics to shift from being her friends, to being two girls trying their best to survive Azulaâs mood swings and dark impulses.
To those who headcanon that Ty Lee (shouldâve) served as Azulaâs morality pet, keeping her anchored and mitigating her worst behaviors... whose to say she wasnât? Being a Morality Pet doesnât require reciprocating someoneâs feelings or views of you as a person, nor do you even have to be aware that they view you in a certain way. Azula, in her own toxic, damaged, and insanely fucked up way, genuinely loved and cared for Ty Lee, and made an effort to never reach the same levels of cruelty around Ty Lee at any other point other than her recruitment. In fact, Azulaâs aggressive and heavy-handed ârecruitmentâ of the acrobat illustrates Azulaâs mentality quite well when it comes to Ty Lee; Azula enjoys all that Ty Lee can do and appreciates both her skills and who she is as a person... but the only way she knows how to show that appreciation is to force Ty Lee to be as close to her as possible, and never EVER let her go. Like, as useful as Ty Leeâs skills and those of Maiâs were, Azula was talented enough to genuinely not NEED them along with her; she chose them to come along because she cared and trusted them above everyone else in the world, and wanted them to be with her for her great triumph... and she was so broken that she never suspected that her dearest friends wanted nothing to do with her (Mai literally only agreed because she was bored and hated her parents, and Ty Lee... yeah).
My third big point is one a highlighted above; Zutara. Now, let me be very, VERY clear... I HATE this ship with a passion. I love both characters, but I cannot for the life of me ever see them together, and think whomever thinks they make a good couple are deluding themselves. The creators themselves flatout stated in an interview regarding a novelization of the Day of Black Sun that the ship literally only exists because of shipping glasses and fixation on the All Girls Want Bad Boys and Love Redeems tropes. To be blunt, the ship is a steaming load of bull.
In Season 1, Zuko and Katara are two people born on opposite sides of a war, in which Zuko both is actively in favor of, the same war which took Kataraâs mother from her and left her home a crumbling wreck and their culture in shambles, with her first ever introduction to Zuko being him attacking her village and physically terrorizing her elderly grandmother without a hint of remorse or hesitation, and then proceeding to chase them down all the way to the North Pole, leaving burning ruins in his wake as he attacked and harassed any and all villages that he found Katara, Aang, and Sokka at.
While Zuko had moments in S1 that showed his sensitive side, he was a flatout antagonist who represented nearly everything Katara loathed about the Fire Nation and wanted to defeat, and he was PROUD of those qualities of himself until S2 and S3 tore him a new one and forced him to grow the hell up, and it took until S3 for any of it to STICK. Katara literally never had any positive interactions with Zuko to view him as anything other than as an enemy, and their âmomentâ in the caves below the Earth Kingdom being just her showing the kindness, empathy, and basic decency she has literally shown EVERYONE in the series since it began, with few exceptions. Katara being pissed off at Zuko in S3 isnât belligerent sexual tension, sheâs genuinely angry at him for putting them all in this horrible situation because he couldnât get over his daddy issues and betrayed the small amount of trust she had extended to him in the same moment.
Do Zuko and Katara have some measure of chemistry? Yes, some. NOT enough to overcome the extreme hurdles between them, and the fact that they genuinely have never shown any interest in one another like that. Having good chemistry means NOTHING if the two people who have it donât like each other, and have no reason to feel close to the other. It literally took Zuko helping her track down the monster who killed her mother in cold blood for her to even begin to tolerate him in any way other than tense hostility.
Now, Iâm gonna tackle some prompts from CBR, namely, 10 Things in Avatar: The Last Airbender That Aged Poorly. Iâm gonna take each one, and either acknowledge it or deconstruct it.
10: Sokkaâs Sexism Seems Childish.
Um, yeah? Thatâs the point. His sexism is him being a kid who doesnât know any better, and itâs never once shown as anything good, and every one of the (few) times it shows up at all, heâs called out on it, or it gets him into trouble, and he grows out of it. Sexism STILL EXISTS. Having a show both acknowledge it, show it as wrong, and have the sexist person in question do their best to change is a good message that kids need to hear. Not every kid will get that message, but if they donât, they probably were never going to and werenât encouraged in any way by the show.
9: Tophâs Actor In The Ember Island Play Is A Toxic Stereotype.
...This one I can kind of see what they mean. Having the little girl with incredible strength being played by a huge, burly man does seem toxic. But, on the other hand, Toph IS very strong for her age, and is genuinely intimidating beyond reason for most who cross her path, not the least of which is due to her prodigious skill, only rivaled by Azula in that regard. Finding a female actress who could properly capture that feeling would be hard, especially for a troupe infamous for their bad plays and pandering to the locals expectations and beliefs, so finding the most unilaterally intimidating person in the troupe, at least in the physical sense, and saddling them with the role makes sense, because they genuinely lack female actresses who can properly play Tophâs role. I mean, itâs not much worse than them having a woman play Aang, especially since her portrayal is every bit as inaccurate and peripherally offensive as Tophâs.
8: Aangâs Just A Kid.
The article claims that the show doesnât properly show Aang dealing with the traumas and stress of being the Avatar at such a young age... that is complete bull. Several episodes throughout the series are dedicated towards pointing out that Aang hasnât handled being the Avatar and all the responsibility it entails as well as he seems, with a large part of his attitude is Season 1 reading more as him trying to run away from his issues rather than face them directly, and one episode flatout having him suffer PTSD style flashbacks from the incident that caused him to run away from the temple, and another directly pointing out that he carries a huge amount of grief and trauma over the deaths of the Air Nomads, blaming himself for what happened. For a kidâs show, Avatar handles mental health VERY well.
7: Zuko Has a Myriad of Mental Health Issues.
Yeah. No doy. The show has never once shown him as not being seriously messed up by all that he has gone through and had to endure throughout his life. Thatâs part of what makes the show relatable, since their ARE Teens and Kids who have had horrible and traumatic lives, and thatâs part of what makes them sympathize with Zuko; they know what heâs been through, and more than a few take inspiration from him because of his portrayal. Why is a kidâs show being upfront about darker topics and treating them with the respect they deserve something thatâs aged poorly again?
6: Kataraâs Endearing Maternal Instinct Got Annoying
I genuinely do not see how people think this is a toxic stereotype about women in leadership positions because, news flash, she IS NOT THE LEADER. She acts like a mother because they are all KIDS, sheâs been responsible for helping rear all the kids in her village along side the other women and elders, and itâs something that comes easily to her. In many ways, itâs how she copes with the stress of her situation because itâs not any easier for her as it is for anyone else on the team.
5: Sexism In the Water Tribes Runs Deep
Yeah, again, no duh. The show has never once shown that these are good things, with the team often feeling uncomfortable with them and one person in particular from the Northern Water Tribe explicitly having a Heel Realization that his adherence to those rules and social structures drove off the love of his life and that he needed to make a change for the better, something that, by the time of Korra, very much has occurred. The show is set in a pre-industrial world, OF COURSE IT HAS THESE ISSUES. Just ignoring that things like this exist isnât progressive, and having a show make a point of addressing these real and still relevant problems is a good thing because it needs to happen and keep happening until we have genuine equality across the world.
4: The Air Nomads Were Hypocrites.
Apparently, the Air Nomads being flawed and having sexist gender based segregation makes them hypocrites. To be honest, considering they were wiped out over a hundred years ago before the start of Avatar, and that those issues still exist in their modern day world in different forms, why is this surprising!? Groups with enlightened teachings that preach tolerance, acceptance, and inclusivity have had issues with hypocrisy for centuries, in our world. Itâs how the world works still in some places, and we need to make strides forward in that regard. By the time of the Air Bendersâ return in Korra, times have changed, and the new Air Benders making reforms is just common sense, something that religious organizations have done throughout the world as times and beliefs have changed, and I have no doubt that, had the original Air Benders lived, they wouldâve gotten rid of their segregation on their own. Again, ignoring problems and topics because they show an ugly side to humanity or human history isnât progressive, itâs stifling and keeps us from learning and makes us more likely to backslide to such practices in the future.
3: Voice Actors: Whereâs The Diversity?
Okay, this is an actual issue, and one thatâs been worked on in the industry and is still being worked on even now. Iâve got nothing to say against it.
2: Kataraâs Apropriation of a Deity
During S3, Katara decided to heal a sick and struggling Fire Nation fishing village suffering from the pollution and cruelty of the local factory. The local populace mistake her kindness for the intervention of a local spirit named the Painted Lady, something she had NO IDEA was a thing until the next day when the merchant they talked to pointed her out to them. First off, Spirits are not Deities or treated as such. The Painted Lady is considered a guardian and beloved by the village, but they donât worship or venerate her. And as for Kataraâs later actions of deliberately dressing up as the Painted Lady? Considering that anything less would risk her being outed as a Water Bender (which the villagers were surprisingly cool with), it made sense for her to use a local legend to protect her identity, especially when she was traveling with the Fire Nationâs Most Wanted. The villagers chewed her out for imitating the Painted Lady, of course they would, but she genuinely helped them, and they appreciated it, even accepting her help to clean the river so that the problems that kept driving Katara to help would lessen.
1: Westernized Pronunciation of Asian Characters
The article claims that the mediocre Avatar live-action film can be given a pass for itâs directorâs attempt at honoring the seriesâ Asian Roots... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!! But seriously, no it doesnât, as the Asian Style Pronunciation is literally the ONLY thing the movie does right in regards to honoring Asian heritage. In every other way, itâs far, FAR worse then the original series, as the original creators of Avatar put in a ton of work researching and studying martial arts and Asian culture to make the series. The movie was a joke that basically tried to copy and paste iconic moments into a mediocre film with an over-reliance on very poor special effects.
And thatâs the end of it. I hope you all enjoyed this, and let me know what you think, okay?
