The way his tears were presented was as if it was a gag. He wasn't just crying, he was drawn with the typical 'ugly' expression, flared nostrils and snot bubbles. I don't understand why they kept doing this to Bolin and no one else because he never gets a serious moment unless it was one of those generic romance scenes with Opal who was his assigned love interest to give both of them something to do. And Korra's many moments like that get shat on as people mock her as a failed stronk female character but actually I think the writers simply pushed her tomboy personality way too hard without realising being a tomboy =/= taking a woman and making her a dudebro. It's just shit character writing. Mako was clearly supposed to appeal to the types who liked Zuko but being Bolin's brother makes him kind of shittier by extension. Like after watching all of this could you believe Bolin shared his shitty childhood as a street urchin? It makes the emotional weight of caring for his only family member pretty void when Bolin acts like a space alien from another cartoon.
Her hair cut is ugly.
From what I remember, it felt like Bolin basically got the funny half of Sokka's personality with none of the seriousness to balance it out on the other side. The same way Mako got the gloomy pessimistic older brother half of Sokka's personality without any lightheartedness to balance that out. The result was that they were both boring as hell.
I loved old lady Toph because she was so hard on Korra's dumb ass.
Mako isn’t really like a nu-Sokka. He’s supposed to be another emo bad boy in red, Sokka was the ‘serious’ one in that he was often the straightman in the comedy scenes and was never really gloomy.
They did Toph so dirty. For instance, Toph’s daughters don’t share a father and I think it’s implied she didn’t stay in touch with either of man and raised the two on her own. She did fuckall when her youngest got involved in gangs despite being Chief of Police and dismissed to the resentment growing between her daughters because of that, to Lin’s face, where it ultimately led to the night where Suyin gave Lin her facial scar while breaking the law, an incident Toph tried to cover up the following day. Then Toph and Lin stopped speaking for 20 years and also fucked off to the ends of the earth until Korra searched for her to be an earthbending teacher where the show could frame her as a ‘cool’ crotchety old hermit lady. While Suyin started a successful independent nation state of metalbenders, Lin grew into the surly policewoman character we see in the present who doesn’t speak to her half-sister, mother, former ex (Tenzin) and has no spouse or children of her own, just her job. Is it any wonder why Lin is a bitch all the time?
I don't think it's a bad idea to feature surviving bison as long as it's explained in a way that makes sense (then again that's just me trying to be a little optimistic). Then again, the whole plot of suddenly airbenders coming back is still hella stupid and removes the magnitude of the Air Nomad genocide in the first place.
Yeah, i never got the sense about those spirit portals.
Dear God! I absolutely hate those spirits. You would've safely assume that the humans done something terrible to then, but no! It turns out the same spirits damn near driven them to extinction! I mean how the hell are you supposed to coexist with them when they're just assholes, even without the negative vibes?
Because humans; by Bryan's hippie neo-luddite logic, kill animals for food, cut down trees to build homes and weave clothes, try their best to improve their state of living and all the other stuff that we logically need to survive.
Even the Unabomber would think this is stupid. One weird thing in the Wan story is how the hell did the airbenders befriend them? Cuck to nature? The spirits here are like the worst aspects of nature cranked up to 11! Those airbenders would've died to some disease or get inexplicably eaten anyways.Because humans; by Bryan's hippie neo-luddite logic, kill animals for food, cut down trees to build homes and weave clothes, try their best to improve their state of living and all the other stuff that we logically need to survive.
What exactly else were the spirits supposed to expect? That we'd be exactly like them? It oddly reflects the same bullshit Sunday school hackery diehard preachers would sermon about how full of sin people are, only under a fresh coat of paint.
Humans are naturally chaotic with a nice balance of order. If we start to lean too far towards one aspect, it inevitably corrects when a certain threshold is reached. We also aren't immortal or invincible. We need food, water and shelter to have a stable mode of living against the elements.
That's what I always hate about these nature obsessed folk who glamorize this shit. What's the point of working to survive if you're just going to either stay in the same mud encrusted hole, when you can rather build a log cabin, a cold storage room, a water tower, and maybe even a utility store.
What are we supposed to thrive on? Air? I'd really like for these clowns to live without their phones or tablets. I really do.
I like those episodes in a vacuum and the general way the Avatar is created is good...but it should've been the actual spirit of the planet, not some random light spirit. Wan dying got me a little too, but I'm a sucker for those types of scenes so it's not really indicative of the special's quality.
Well...what did they expect?? There is a long history of actors, producers, directors ect. converting to Judaism just to get jobs. When you start putting these retarded "diversity" quota barriers or unwritten rules to conform to in order to get work people will do what they need to in order to bypass them.
And Twitter was yelling about the actress for American Chavez in Dr Strange 2 not being dark enough too.
