redbrunja: (Waterbending Master (Katara))
redbrunja ([personal profile] redbrunja) wrote2008-09-07 10:33 pm

Why Naruto Fandom > Avatar Fandom

Because when a poster in [livejournal.com profile] naruto_rants  bitches about female character for no reason, 95 percent of the comments will be like, "Thigh high boots are hot, bitch, and we like our murderous healer chicks."

You pull that in Avatar fandom, and you'll have the majority going "burn that waterbending bitch for having a spine! BURN HER IN THE FACE!"

strange_quark: (a:tla: katara)

[personal profile] strange_quark 2008-09-08 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Technically, she had the badgermoles to help her with her earth bending.

Right, but learning from a human being who's goal is to teach you bending is different from observing how an animal behaves and adapting it so you can use it. So I guess it's fair to say she had help, but I think a lot of it is ingenuity on her part combined with a natural gift.

After seeing him live the high life after he saw all the crap the FN dumped onto the Earth Kingdom, I WAS PISSED! It took me until episode 11 to completely forgive him!

See, I have to say that I wasn't mad at him, because I saw it as necessary to his character development. Sudden epiphany wasn't what he needed--I think The Earth King proved this. If he'd never gone back to the Fire Nation, it always would have been a "what if?" in his head. I think he needed to have everything he ever wanted in order to realize that it wasn't what he thought it was, and to realize who he really was and what he really wanted.

But I'm looking at it in terms of his character arc. To the people his actions affected, he's pulled some outrageous shit. Plus, for Katara, more than any of the others, it was a personal betrayal: he led her to believe he was different and then seemed to prove he wasn't at all, like he was manipulating her. She opened up to him and he went and threw it all back in her face. If someone did that to me, you bet they'd know how pissed I was about it.
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strange_quark: (a:tla: k/z)

[personal profile] strange_quark 2008-09-08 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It was the fact that he saw how people suffered in the Earth Kingdom and didn't seem to feel any remorse at the beginning of season 3 which upset me

Hm, remorse, maybe not. But he's certainly disenchanted with the Fire Nation as a whole, pretty much from day one. At least, I think so.

But after the telling off Zuko gave his father, it showed me that he thought about all the people he met in the EK much more than I thought.

This is the scene where I started to really and truly fall in love with Zuko. I've had various opinions of him throughout the series, but that was the true crossroads of his life and it was MADE. OF. WIN.

When I re-watch the finale, I pretty much skip every part that doesn't have Zuko in it because I found the rest of it fell flat. But Zuko! *Hugs him to death* God, I love that boy. If he wasn't jailbait I'd molest him in a heartbeat.