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We’re gonna make a change so that Katara’s already a water bending master because in the origional show she faced constant sexism in the northern water tribe and we think we want to tone that down.
We’re gonna make a change to the Emperor and the Dai Li so they resemble Xi Xing Ping and the Chinese communist Secret Police. Additionally we’re also changing Lake Laogai into a concentration camp for the Sand benders who we’ve decided to call the Yuhgurs.
We’re gonna make subtle changes to the Fire Nation to tone down the historical allegory that portrays them as Japanese Imperialists. To that effect, we’re softening their image so they’ll be perceived as liberators to the poor brainwashed and oppressed people of the Earth Kingdom.
We’re gonna make a minor alteration to the storyline regarding the Airbenders with regards to ensuring historical accuracy by making the Airbenders a religious order that Aang was the born the religious head of, and that that it was Earth Bender death squads that exterminated them who in turn forced a young Aang to flee into that ball of ice.
But actually that ball of Ice is actually the fire nation, and he’s there to petition them to reveal to the world the terrible war crimes of the Earth Kingdom.
Also the Firelord is Biden
Here’s the deal Jack I’m the most pro-Earth-Kingdom firelord since FDR
lmao korra-ass writing
“we felt that the Gaang harming the small business owner known as the cabbage guy was sending the wrong message about aspirational entrepreneurship, so we tweaked it to let the gaang support the man to take out a microfinance loan to set up a kiosk in ba sing se’s second ring”
The cabbage vendor ended up becoming a multi-national capitalist oligarch. The gaang terrorizing his petite bourgeois ass was an act of proletarian praxis.
Why is everyone here so worked up about a Netflix slop adaptation of a cartoon for babies?
It’s basically hexbear’s Harry Potter; Biden is like Ozzy the fire king.
Avatar is good and worth talking about. Harry potter is stupid and worth making fun of. Simple as.
The comparison to Game of Thrones sounded a death knell.
that fucking show has done irreparable damage to fantasy media
tbf I don’t think GoT will represent 1/100th of the damage LotR did to fantasy media (though for very different reasons that don’t reflect as negatively on LotR). Capitalism loves fads, so the influence will fade to nearly the level of background noise in a decade or two (assuming we don’t see some monumental event like WW3, which may shunt or perpetuate it depending on how it’s absorbed).
how did LotR damage fantasy media?
With respect, have you looked at fantasy media of the last half-century? The reception of Tolkein’s work became one of the greatest magnifications of the problems in “genre writing” in the entire history of the concept, with endless, endless imitation that has so over-saturated the genre that it is legitimately difficult to imagine “fantasy” that doesn’t use recycled Tolkein-esque tropes. Ironically, you can even see some of those issues in GoT, though it mainly has the issue of being directionless, misogynistic smut.
I strongly encourage you to read literally any pre-Tolkein fantasy to see what a difference it has.
Pre-tolkien fantasy is like, wizard of Oz and stuff
