Meme

[breakattiffanys]

I have so little to write about these days cause real life has become SUPER busy. But hopefully this meme will give me some inspiration! Give me fandoms and I will tell you:

› Favorite character.
› Least favorite character.
› Prettiest character.
› Character I'd marry.
› Favorite pairing.
› Favorite episode.
› Unpopular opinion.

Fandoms include: mad men |

Comments

[breakattiffanys]

Yeah, and in The Painted Lady, Sokka was more or less disagreeing with her actions because he is looking out of the group (not wanting to get into trouble, waste time, etc). And up until the factory incident, her actions were purely kind-hearted (she heals people, which is not a crime). And then, Aang was totally on board with destroying the factory and they went on their eco-terrorism trip together. lol.

I think there's always potential for 'exploring a dark side' of any character because everyone has that side. But at the same time, for certain characters, it's not something that needs to be a huge part of their arc unless they are REALLY going to spend a lot of time on it. I guess I just see Katara as like Hermione - she has self-righteous moments (i.e. SPEW) and she can go to extremes, but I don't think she needed any dark vs. light conflict to be interesting. I actually would've been more interested to see some of this conflict with Mai because she's also of the fire nation and starts out being firmly on Azula's side, but her motivations and change were not as clearly spelled out as Zuko's. With Katara though, everything we saw of her in Seasons 1 and 2 suggests that she is just not the kind of person to go for vengeance. The bloodbending episode especially highlights that she finds those methods to be really wrong and awful.

[zombie_boogie]

Well, I always thought Hermione was a lot darker than the novels really made explicit, but you are right in that if they were going to go for a darker Katara then they needed to spend time developing it, and there simply wasn't time for it. I would be interested in seeing ALL OF THE THINGS about the Fire Nation ladies. I want to know how bubbly Ty Lee survived growing up in the Fire Nation and why she was so devoted to Azula. I want to know more about Mai and how she built such formidable barriers around herself. I want to know more about how Azula has never really been anything but a psychopath and a child soldier (and I love how in "The Beach" it indicated that maybe she'd like to be something more, but she just doesn't know how). Basically I want some kind of prequel spin-off at the Fire Nation Academy for Girls.

[breakattiffanys]

Yeah, I mean, everyone has different sides and they clearly don't have to time to explore everything. Like, I would never expect the show to do a 'dark' Sokka or Toph episode or anything like that, even though I'm sure it's there and could be explored (just like we saw a different side of Ron in Deathly Hallows). For the goals and purposes of this show, I think they pretty much did all they could given the target audience and the time limitations. And Azula's characterization is overall very satisfying to me, especially in the finale episode. The only thing I wanted was to have Mai and Ty Lee's motivations explained better and I wanted them to show up a little more in the final episodes. Overall though, I think A;TLA is one of the most thematically satisfying shows I've seen.