Hmmm. I see what you mean. Though personally i am rather interested in seeing more of that 'verse -- the verse in general, not necessarily the characters, and i'm fully prepared to separate the teenage characters and their possible futures in series one from the old and decrepit or even possibly dead characters in series two. I'm treating it more like one possible future maybe-AU, which is easier to enjoy in its own right. I guess that helps with the DNW. XD
Also totes imagining that katara and aang broke up six months/a year after the war because they were out of synch re: growing up rate and stubbornly tried to make it stick because they did love each other but in the end it was inevitable, and they got together again in their twenties, where they were more settled and shit. Tadahh, all icky is gone. XD *pets headcanon*
The pairings and age things will only be a problem if too many of them are confirmed. As a trend, it gets icky. If there's one of them? Eh, that's easy enough to imagine lasted through the teenage turbulence one way or another. Sure. It happens. If it happens three times? Then it strains credulity.
With their future selves... It will depend how it's handled? It's totally possible that it will be written well. But it's hard for me not to worry that there won't be winkwinks back to them that I just don't want. I don't want flashbacks of their lives or indulgence in clinging to old characters.
I tend to agree. Especially with the knee jerk reaction to childhood crushes growing up, getting married and staying together 4eva. It's kind of gross. idk. I didn't like it in Harry Potter, either.
I don't really object to seeing more of the world in theory, but like you said I'm not that interested in what the characters did in the future. That's what fanfic is for. I would almost rather it be set even farther into the future or something, so their significance would be more distant.
Or, alternatively, a prequel with young Iroh. Just because I bet Iroh was hot when he was young. /shallow
It's the same creative team. And they've said that while there are ties to the older series (only 70 years have passed) it's its very own story. And this one will only be 12 episodes. I doubt we will get anything in canon that confirms anything lasting forever beyond Aang/Katara. I just don't see how it'd be important to the story.
I can also easily suspend disbelief about romances here. The world is different. At age fourteen, no one seemed surprised to think Katara would be engaged.
It's not that I don't think it's its own story--I'm sure it is, and I would be entirely shocked if the creative team thought otherwise. I wouldn't imagine it to be quite that kind of connection.
Twelve episodes is, really, plenty of time to throw in the kind of, for lack of a better world, fanservice I've thinking of. A lot of people will probably like it if they do. But it could easily end up in a place that doesn't really ring my bell.
I actually completely agree -- in that I am excited about the sequel series but really would have preferred not to have had the previous characters' lives tied up in it. I really am looking forward to it, but I wish it was either farther ahead or farther back in time from the characters we know. It's the only thing that dampens the excitement for me.
It's nice to know I'm not the only one. What little I've seen has mostly been squee that maybe we'll see what people are doing now, or other characters kids, and it's not like I don't see the appeal of some of that but... it's fanfic stuff to me, I guess? I don't want to harsh anyone's squee, but their squee is not my squee, and the fixation I've seen with that has probably colored my feelings.
No, yeah, I feel the same way. I just... don't really need to know. My excitement entirely revolves around Korra and the new city and the prospect of more gorgeous bending fights.
You never know, it may work out beautifully, but I'm hesitant. I don't really like the fact that Tenzin is her teacher. Not that I don't want him to exist or anything like that, but because of the chance that it will pull her story too much into the old one.
Yeeeah--I am interested in that. Particularly the new city. It seems like an interesting direction to take the world in, and like it has a lot of potential for visually interesting scenes.
Yeeeeah, seriously. TO BE CLEAR--I'm not really bothered by Katara/Aang, or that they kissed or anything. I wish it had been better written in some ways, and I don't ship it, but I'm not really against it. Kids that age certainly do kiss, and I find the handwringing about Katara being older than Aang vaguely annoying because it plays straight into a lot of stereotypes about how the guy's supposed to be older, etc etc. I don't ship it, but I can deal with knowing they were together. It's just that fear of it being all cute and distracting, and happening with OTHER pairings too that bothers me. Especially when, as you bring up, there's not really cultural pressure supporting most of them.
...It does sort of make me hope that some of the cast, if they have to bring it up, went childfree.
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Also totes imagining that katara and aang broke up six months/a year after the war because they were out of synch re: growing up rate and stubbornly tried to make it stick because they did love each other but in the end it was inevitable, and they got together again in their twenties, where they were more settled and shit. Tadahh, all icky is gone. XD *pets headcanon*
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With their future selves... It will depend how it's handled? It's totally possible that it will be written well. But it's hard for me not to worry that there won't be winkwinks back to them that I just don't want. I don't want flashbacks of their lives or indulgence in clinging to old characters.
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I don't really object to seeing more of the world in theory, but like you said I'm not that interested in what the characters did in the future. That's what fanfic is for. I would almost rather it be set even farther into the future or something, so their significance would be more distant.
Or, alternatively, a prequel with young Iroh. Just because I bet Iroh was hot when he was young. /shallow
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I can also easily suspend disbelief about romances here. The world is different. At age fourteen, no one seemed surprised to think Katara would be engaged.
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Twelve episodes is, really, plenty of time to throw in the kind of, for lack of a better world, fanservice I've thinking of. A lot of people will probably like it if they do. But it could easily end up in a place that doesn't really ring my bell.
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You never know, it may work out beautifully, but I'm hesitant. I don't really like the fact that Tenzin is her teacher. Not that I don't want him to exist or anything like that, but because of the chance that it will pull her story too much into the old one.
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...It does sort of make me hope that some of the cast, if they have to bring it up, went childfree.
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