As long as we pretend the comics never happened, yeah. God damn they were terrible, and basically misunderstood every single character.
I am taking this as my excuse to rant about the ATLA comics, because I need to share my unwanted opinions. So I'm just gonna go back and look at all the comics and see what I remember about them
The Promise is the first one and it is also the worst one. The characters are just completely different people, like weeks after the series ended. So it starts with Zuko making Aang promise to kill him if he become like Ozai, and for some reason Aang fucking agrees. The show spent a half of the finale showing Aang's conflict between defeating Ozai and remaining a pacifist, like it spends so long establishing that Aang refuses to kill because that would distance him from his airbending culture. And then he's just like "yeah I'll kill Zuko, my best friend, because he pressured me to." Also for some reason, I can't remember why, Aang severs his connection to all the past avatars because Roku was mean or something. So the character work is awful, but it gets worse. The main conflict is that Zuko is struggling over whether he should protect the fire nation colonists in the earth kingdom and the earth king has suddenly become all warlike and wants to retake the colonies by force. So Zuko becomes a fire nation nationalist, out of nowhere, hurts Katara, and nearly goes to war over the colonies. Then the "pacifist" solution is to make the colonies independent instead of giving them back to the earth kingdom. So the old earth kingdom land becomes the United Republics and the capital is Hong Kong and wow what a happy solution this is not colonialist apologia at all :)
OK the second comic is The Search and I actually kinda like this one. The Gaang sets out with Azula to find Zuko and Azula's mom and I really like Azula and wish she got some kind of recovery arc. For some reason she's in a strait jacket, which stigmatises mental illness and trauma from abuse which is not that cool, but there's other good parts where she shows how much she hates her mother for abandoning her. Also I like Ursa's story, how she escapes Ozai and kills Azulon, then gets her face and memories changed by a spirit. It also introduces Zuko's half-sister Kiyi who is cool. Honestly I don't remember disliking this one
The Rift is the third one and I barely remember this. Aang fights a spirit and Toph becomes a capitalist with her dad I guess. The Aang stuff was good at least
Smoke and Shadow fucking sucks, it makes Azula some moustache twirling villain and undoing the tragic element of her character. She tries to trick Zuko into being a tyrant by doing some goofy scooby-doo shit, dressing up as spirits and taking children. I don't even remember if Aang is in this one. I think Mai and Ty Lee are in this and I like their interactions. That is all I have to say, its mostly bad
Then there's North and South, which is about Northern Water Tribe imperialists setting up factories in the Southern Water Tribe and some Southerners don't like that. But because they are violent about achieving their goals, they are obviously the bad guys because the comics are written by libs. Toph shows up for marketing purposes, Sokka and Katara's dad gets remarried or something and so does their grandad, which is weird and has nothing to do with the plot. Anyway in the end it turns out that one of the Northern Industrialists was running some kind of conspiracy but their sibling wasn't and there's some kind of liberal compromise. I don't really remember most of these after the first two lol
Imbalance is the last one. It has nice art. The plot is just season one of Korra. Suki is there.
True. If there's anything I can hope for from the Netflix live action it's that it will have more suki
Ah you are forgetting the one with Katara meeting some pirates or something, didn't read it cuz the rest of them sucks so much ass I just gave up.
Yeah that one was fine but I only included the main ones. Actually the pirates one was pretty good, the pirates were stealing medicine for their families and they ended up being unequivocal good guys
Libs trying to do politics-rich media and it sucking ass. Name a better duo
why Zaheer is a terrible example of anarchy and why LOK doesn’t understand politics.
very obvious from s1 of LOK onwards.
i'd say it's obvious from s1 that LoK doesn't even understand what makes a show good, forget politics
It's uncommon for a show like it to have even good politics, much less in-depth/interesting. Plus LoK is trash in every other regard as well.
I would disagree. The only way he lines up with JBP is his giving out calendar wisdom, which says more about JBP thank Iroh.
I don't think so. He barely listened to funny tea man until the end, whom he already liked. He wouldn't like JBP.
Yes but imagine that instead of having a goal in life (capturing the avatar), he had to pointlessly exist while having an internet connection.
then everything would be so different it's not even worth considering. His life is molded by his relationship to the avatar and the 100 years war as a whole, removing him from that he'd just be a different person.
Terminally online comment time? Terminally online comment time.
So does this make Azula the female version of Bronze Age Pervert? Or just a generic /pol/ minion? They all talk the same, and Avatar even makes fun of the way she talks in The Beach.
"Yes! We have defeated you for all time! You will never rise from the ashes of your shame and humiliation!....well, that was fun."
"Together...we will be the STRONGEST COUPLE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD! WE SHALL DOMINATE THE EARTH!"
