And I'm still really struggling with the decision to have bending vs. non-bending as the major conflict if they weren't actually going to deal with it.
THIIIISSS.
I wanted to meet Katara and Aang's waterbender daughter! How did I not know about her? I vaguely remember something about other kids from early release stuff, but I must not stalk the internet enough. Or I completely tuned out part of an episode where they talked about Kya and Bumi
( ... )
Okay I've missed a LOT of episodes so this is just my reaction based on the beginning of the season, but I'm very disheartened to know the show hasn't improved on the Equalist situation. Literally my biggest problem with the episodes I saw was that I genuinely couldn't tell whether the show wants me to see the non-benders as an underprivileged class with valid complaints. To me it was so apparent that the Equalists *have a point* or at least it's really obvious why they'd have followers, and yet Korra and the other characters treated it in this really obtuse black-and-white way, and like YEAH LET'S AMBUSH THIS CHI-BLOCKING CLASS AND FREEZE PEOPLE TO THE WALL. And I honestly couldn't tell if the show *wanted* me to think something was wrong here and the benders might have too much power and there's shades of grey, or if it really was taking this paper-thin tone toward the bad guys and good guys. Which is fine for a kids' show I guess, but the underlying politics of it made me uncomfortable.
I'm very disheartened to know the show hasn't improved on the Equalist situation.
It really really didn't! And, while it's always been unclear where the tensions ARE between benders and non-benders, even what we saw at the beginning of the series ---Triad gangs, metalbending police, a Council of all benders --- definitely supported valid complaints. And (spoiler!) it got much creepier at one point with crack downs against non benders, all Patriot Act style. You would think this is at least a conversation a society at this level of progress should be having!
At the beginning I was pretty convinced the show put all this in there deliberately so that while AMON might be a cult rock star with his own agenda, his movement wouldn't exist without being based in fact. Now I have no clue what it was trying to say.
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THIIIISSS.
I wanted to meet Katara and Aang's waterbender daughter! How did I not know about her? I vaguely remember something about other kids from early release stuff, but I must not stalk the internet enough. Or I completely tuned out part of an episode where they talked about Kya and Bumi ( ... )
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It really really didn't! And, while it's always been unclear where the tensions ARE between benders and non-benders, even what we saw at the beginning of the series ---Triad gangs, metalbending police, a Council of all benders --- definitely supported valid complaints. And (spoiler!) it got much creepier at one point with crack downs against non benders, all Patriot Act style. You would think this is at least a conversation a society at this level of progress should be having!
At the beginning I was pretty convinced the show put all this in there deliberately so that while AMON might be a cult rock star with his own agenda, his movement wouldn't exist without being based in fact. Now I have no clue what it was trying to say.
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