I hate how Amon is given a sympathetic backstory that gets no exploration at all. He's supposedly orphaned by benders who his parents couldn't fight.
That's legit what happens to Katara before the start of TLA. But instead of exploring that trauma, the story focuses on what it feels like to bend and how losing that is a profound loss.
It could've been a cool exploration on the themes of powerlessness and coping with that, but instead it's just that benders are just better and if you don't bend then you need to get out of the way.
In stories, it's easy to assume you'd be a character with powers or knowledge, but the reality is more likely to be you're the one on the outside of power in these fictional settings
It's more complicated he's a bender himself whose dad was abusive about bending by bullying his younger brother who was less powerful than them. And he does actually believe in what he's saying
the show however ignores the sympathetic parts of this backstory
That seems even worse somehow, at least if hes just power hungry that makes sense in this dumb setup they did, but if he genuinely believes in what hes talking about wouldnt he just shape the movement to allow sympathetic benders to be part of it?
Hate when you can just obviously detect the hands of the authors making their characters do dumb shit and not think properly so that their intended story works no matter what.
Pretending to be a non bender does make sense as his dad was a wanted mob boss and not being known as a bender helps conceal his identity and avoid attention.
The main way the show ignores this sympathetic backstory is by narratively treating this kind hearted character who wants to help people weaker than himself as a power hungry monster. Despite the obvious fact that if you are power hungry you would cater to the interests of the powerful not the powerless
Reminds me of my lib relative in Seattle saying something disapproving about how Kshama Sawant "is all about her self and just wants to build a career with her 'antics'" or something like that.
I didn't want to explain how a socialist party operates, but now she's fucking retired lol. Idk running for a state office isn't totally out of the question which would disprove my point, but it's still nonsense to call out a political leader who isn't a fucking empty suit careerist lib over nothing like that.
I hate how Amon is given a sympathetic backstory that gets no exploration at all. He's supposedly orphaned by benders who his parents couldn't fight.
That's legit what happens to Katara before the start of TLA. But instead of exploring that trauma, the story focuses on what it feels like to bend and how losing that is a profound loss.
It could've been a cool exploration on the themes of powerlessness and coping with that, but instead it's just that benders are just better and if you don't bend then you need to get out of the way.
In stories, it's easy to assume you'd be a character with powers or knowledge, but the reality is more likely to be you're the one on the outside of power in these fictional settings
Isn't it a straight up lie also? Like Amon is actually a bender himself just doing shit for power and tricking the gullible moronic commoners?
It's more complicated he's a bender himself whose dad was abusive about bending by bullying his younger brother who was less powerful than them. And he does actually believe in what he's saying
the show however ignores the sympathetic parts of this backstory
That seems even worse somehow, at least if hes just power hungry that makes sense in this dumb setup they did, but if he genuinely believes in what hes talking about wouldnt he just shape the movement to allow sympathetic benders to be part of it?
Hate when you can just obviously detect the hands of the authors making their characters do dumb shit and not think properly so that their intended story works no matter what.
Pretending to be a non bender does make sense as his dad was a wanted mob boss and not being known as a bender helps conceal his identity and avoid attention.
The main way the show ignores this sympathetic backstory is by narratively treating this kind hearted character who wants to help people weaker than himself as a power hungry monster. Despite the obvious fact that if you are power hungry you would cater to the interests of the powerful not the powerless
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Reminds me of my lib relative in Seattle saying something disapproving about how Kshama Sawant "is all about her self and just wants to build a career with her 'antics'" or something like that.
I didn't want to explain how a socialist party operates, but now she's fucking retired lol. Idk running for a state office isn't totally out of the question which would disprove my point, but it's still nonsense to call out a political leader who isn't a fucking empty suit careerist lib over nothing like that.