u/Glum_Landscape9502 — reddlx

What Katara was denied

Growing up I have realised I feel bad for Katara because of the fact that our poor girl has been denied one simple thing.

...Being a teenage girl.

Like, look at her falling for Jet and making a hat for him only for him to end up being a manipulative, bad guy all along.

Look at her getting excited about her fortune being told only for Aunt Wu to end up being a fraud after all (even though Katara still has to take her words as granted about her love life by the end of the episode).

Listen to her talk about using a moisturizer for skin (Aang hates the girly talk btw), enjoy dressing up and being pretty.

Look at her blush around other guys her age.

...apparently, most of these things are meaningless. Katara shouldn't look at other guys as she has a case of true love™ prepared for her. One guy was bad, the other one was never considered to be a match for her (and grew a pair of ugly moustache), the third one is a "devil on her shoulder" whom she "might've shared a couple of sparks with", but eventually she realises what she needs in life! A powerful bender, yeah! Because Katara, at her 14-15 years should already think about her future and - dare I say it - choose wisely!...She can play dress up and look pretty, though, because a certain someone has to look at her once in awhile in all these pretty pink filters and sparkles. But do not let her talk about it, okay? It's exhausting.

Now that I've wrote all this, I am wondering - was Katara ever allowed to experience fun the way a teenage girl is allowed to? What about love? Like, not the true love™ but a stupid, teenage crush with butterflies in her stomach and wobbly knees?

Has she ever shared a first kiss which wasn't a non-consentual press against her lips or the one she had to share in a cave she was literally trapped in?

Like, look. I know there is a lot of discuss about Zutara being toxic blah blah and they would've argued a lot and blah blah it's just merr attraction blah blah - but actually...is that REALLY such a bad thing?

Isn't she a teenage girl?

u/Glum_Landscape9502 — 2 days ago

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Would they?

I believe the OP is right, because generally when someone ships you with anyone else irl is cringy, let's be honest

But it doesn't mean that would've changed the way they feel about each other 😉

u/Glum_Landscape9502 — 9 days ago

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Beefy Aang is out of character imo

I will never understand why they needed to draw Aang as buff in season 3, while occasionally making him run around shirtless. The funniest thing that the shipping game was the strongest this season (as well as Bryke's influence).

Then, there comes the movie and oh God 🫠 I have always thought Aang would be the "slick, agile" type of person with similar body type, not a freaking bodybuilder. Say, I've always thought Aang would be the "archer", not the "warrior" type if we're talking about RPG stereotypes 😂

Looking at the air nomads which were shown in the flashbacks, I am partly right (even though they were mostly women and old people and children, but I still doubt "bodybuilding" is in the air nomad's genes).

And like, doesn't he also look kinda strange with the same baby face attached to the brood shoulders of a Sweden male model?

...and before anyone says anything, I think Zuko is too beefy as well. Like yeah, he was so much so even in season 1, but at least it looked somewhat normal. The movie basically blew the body types of characters out of proportion, emphasising on the fact that they have to look *hot*.

I don't even think any adult character looked like that in the OG series, then LoK came and yeah, they've made them bigger and more westernised physically - but the movie for me is somewhat absurd.

Like... it's still Avatar. Not Berserk.

u/Glum_Landscape9502 — 12 days ago

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The Gaang watching the recent Atla movie

I am cackling at the fact that Bryke made this whole parody episode laughing at the fandom shipping and characters personalities being butchered ONLY to write the same exact thing unironically 15 years later

I think the Gaang reacting to the play is totally relevant to the movie lmao. Some complaints would've been just spot on.

Sokka: apparently, the playwright thinks I'm an idiot who overreacts to everything, brags and is completely useless all the time!

Suki: at least you were in the movie, Sokka!

Katara: relax, everybody. They are not accurate portrayals. It's not like I'm a preachy eye candy who can't resist throwing her arms around Aang all the time.

Zuko: they make me look totally stiff and humorless, even though hot!

Katara: actually, I still think that actor's pretty spot on.

Zuko: 😤

...Toph would've still liked the movie.

u/Glum_Landscape9502 — 16 days ago

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I am afraid that if I am going to share my thoughts anywhere else I'll get punched in the face lmao so I'll rant a little.

Comics are just as the bad as the recent movie: Bryke writing all over it. And it's tideous. Same things that bothered me in the Tlok, the comics and the recent movie.

The bloated and rather uninteresting cast of characters, while the main ones are underdeveloped and reduced to their simplest roles. The shipping shoehorning, which has no actual chemistry. The retconning... basically, lots of retconning (I HATE the new bright, anime-like spirit world). The new attempts to explain the world-building: and I repeat, bloated and boring: it's basically a power-fantasy of two anime geeks who get inspired by the most recent japanese shows.

It's also so overcomplicated every time? Like, you can basically describe what the show is about in a few sentences and still make people invested in it. How would you describe the comics? The new movie? Korra? Like, what kind of Game of Thrones successor is this?

Oh, and also... BLATANT Aang favouritism. Basically, from the comics and so on (chronologically at least) he is not the character he used to be - he is a perfect, can-do-no-wrong god-like figure and also a cult leader. "With a totally hot girlfriend and future wife, who loves him more than herself by the way! Take that, Zutarians!"

...I hate this. I hate Bryke's view of the show. I hate how westernised they make everything feel, I hate the lack of somberness, depth, the lack of emotions, the attempts to over-explain everything. I hate that they go into a simplistic black and white territory, the only complexity about the new main baddie being him going into the "join me and we'll be strong together" rant.

And I didn't mind it as much in the TloK series, because it's a different show, basically. But when it repeatedly happens with any Atla continuation, I am losing my mind a bit.

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u/Glum_Landscape9502 — 26 days ago