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Reasons I Love Avatar 3: War
Just another essay in my ongoing series...
The central subject matter of Avatar is a world-wide war. It is also a show rated for children. Therefor the show is replete spectacular battles with elements and technology where no one is shown dying or even getting hurt, people slamming hard enough into walls to break them down and bouncing back up to fight, and fireballs flung all over the place with remarkably few people getting actually burned.
(I don't fault the creators for the cartoon violence, by the way. There's nothing wrong with working within the rating while bringing important issues to younger audiences. And I realize I'm the weird one here for expecting those otter-penguins to suffer abdominal ruptures every time I watch the penguin-sledding scene from "The Boy in the Iceberg." You're welcome for the mental image.)
But when I think of the treatment of war in Avatar, I don't think of any of those flashy scenes. I think of this guy:
(Reason 3: War (if you think this post is too fancy and cerebral, you should see my politics post...))
The central subject matter of Avatar is a world-wide war. It is also a show rated for children. Therefor the show is replete spectacular battles with elements and technology where no one is shown dying or even getting hurt, people slamming hard enough into walls to break them down and bouncing back up to fight, and fireballs flung all over the place with remarkably few people getting actually burned.
(I don't fault the creators for the cartoon violence, by the way. There's nothing wrong with working within the rating while bringing important issues to younger audiences. And I realize I'm the weird one here for expecting those otter-penguins to suffer abdominal ruptures every time I watch the penguin-sledding scene from "The Boy in the Iceberg." You're welcome for the mental image.)
But when I think of the treatment of war in Avatar, I don't think of any of those flashy scenes. I think of this guy:
(Reason 3: War (if you think this post is too fancy and cerebral, you should see my politics post...))