I miss you, Aaron and Elizabeth Ehasz

[amyraine]

Mike and Bryan tend to get all the credit for the magic (not the kung fu magic, the emotional resonance with the audience magic) of Avatar: the Last Airbender, and it's not completely deserved.

Not to say that they suck, quite the opposite. I admire them a great deal because they are particularly strong in what I find most difficult when I'm

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[amyraine]

I'm not opposed to Sneers/Kori, just that it feels stuff is thrown in without any understanding of how to build it up properly so that I have reason to give a crap. I feel that way about parts of Korra, too.

Zuko did tell Ozai off. I liked his line about how wrong and right are bigger than everyone. Then he proceeded to screw up everything and jump right into war, so apparently his own message isn't sinking in.

[amyraine]

I chalk it up to telling instead of showing. Everything we do know about these characters has been told to us: "our parents died when we were young", "they were cut down in front of me; I was eight" "my mother died when I was young". I mean, sure, that's sad, but the lines are delivered so quickly and so flat that they don't evoke sympathy in the same way that the flashbacks of episodes like Zuko Alone and The Southern Raiders did. Whereas the stuff we are actually shown have Mako acting as a stuffed up jerk and Asami as a Mary Sue

[fairladyz2005]

I've come to similar conclusions lately about the Aaron and Elizabeth while rewatching the show in hopes of getting another friend into TLA. I love Korra and the fact that it does cut out a lot of the excess, but it really is Korra's story and the rest while I like a lot of them, just seem there to further her story without having their own character arcs

[amyraine]

Tarrlok is fantastic. He reminds me of Long Feng, another wonderful politician villian.

imdb says Aaron's back on the Futurama staff, doesn't have anything recent listed for elizabeth.