i believe i wrote a drabble addressing things in your rant. i'm of the opinion that mai and zuko have an unhealthy relationship for many of the reasons you've listed. i also think aang and katara have more of a puppy-love type of relationship than anything. it also never sat right with me that aang "gets the girl" in the end.
i am going to disagree on one point (minor as it is), i don't think aang grew that much throughout ATLA. he was still running away from his problems up until almost the last episode. i hated the dues ex machina lion turtle thing (i realize it's a kid's show so he couldn't really all out kill the fire lord and still keep it a kids show). he also forced himself on katara when she clearly wasn't receptive (korra did the same thing to mako and it really annoys me). sexual assault is never okay.
it really comes down to this: zuko is a complex character. aang is not. at least that's my opinion.
Yeah. Aang could've been developed so much more, but Katara mothered him and basically softened the blow of any situation that he could've gained character development from.
I was talking to a maiko shipper, and apparently she ships maiko because it's an unhealthy relationship, which baffles me. She sees it as a kind of relationship that's bad for both of them bug they can't break it off. The problem is, ATLA is a nick show. They're not going to be able to properly write a relationship like that on a kids show. Then again, Bryke is not known to be very good at romance writing in general
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i am going to disagree on one point (minor as it is), i don't think aang grew that much throughout ATLA. he was still running away from his problems up until almost the last episode. i hated the dues ex machina lion turtle thing (i realize it's a kid's show so he couldn't really all out kill the fire lord and still keep it a kids show). he also forced himself on katara when she clearly wasn't receptive (korra did the same thing to mako and it really annoys me). sexual assault is never okay.
it really comes down to this: zuko is a complex character. aang is not. at least that's my opinion.
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I was talking to a maiko shipper, and apparently she ships maiko because it's an unhealthy relationship, which baffles me. She sees it as a kind of relationship that's bad for both of them bug they can't break it off. The problem is, ATLA is a nick show. They're not going to be able to properly write a relationship like that on a kids show. Then again, Bryke is not known to be very good at romance writing in general ( ... )
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