ryukage_sama said:
Speak for yourself. The depictions of relationships, both happy and dysfunctional, in Legend of Korra enhanced my enjoyment of the show. Sometimes we feel for the character's happiness, participate in their angst. That emotional involvement is part of the experience for many fans of fiction. I appreciate that the writers dismantled the Makorra relationship, demonstrating that the having the stereotypical high-emotion, strong physical chemistry just isn't enough to carry a romantic relationship long-term. And that a relationship built on compatibility, friendship and openness to each other can be the foundation of the strongest relationships, romantic, sexual and otherwise. Not everyone will enjoy it, and their lack of enjoyment isn't an indictment of bigotry. Unfortunately, bigotry is still part of the negative voices responding to the finale.
Of course I'm speaking for myself, where did I say I spoke for anyone else? Seasons 1-3 of Korra were awash with so many cutaways to the damn relationship crap when there's supposedly some kind of world threat going on that it lessens my, and my friend's, enjoyment of the series because you can no longer take it seriously when all the show focuses on is highschool level drama and a tiny bit on what the Avatar exists for.
TLA will forever be better because, yes, while it cutaway from the main plot alot(Lover's Hippie Cave and Sea Dragon Road everyone?), each episode developed the world, characters, and helped with the story and showed you the threat Ozai was. Korra can't do that because all it is is a bunch of being told one thing, doing another, and showing yet something else. That is why I consider Korra's handling of relationships childish at best, because there's a huge amount of tropes and cliches being used that you don't have to know much to predict exactly what's going to happen when it comes to that part of the show. It doesn't show adult and mature relationships, it shows the idea of adult and mature relationships. Not to mention they basically made Opposite Aang with Korra and then ended her arc basically the exact same way from what I'm hearing.
I didn't watch TLA for the ZuTara and TyKka shipping and lite-mance, I watched it because the characters were good, the jokes were funny, the action and animation were great, and it was smartly written without being patronizing. Korra didn't have much of the first, they backgrounded everyone that had the second, the third was there for whatever few times Korra didn't just get the win handed to her, and the fourth was nowhere in sight for me. It's still a great show, but it's not anywhere near the quality I expected of an Avatar series because there was alot of telling of development, and not alot of showing development, basically the same criticisms I level at RWBY and alot of other short-running shounen.
LifeCharacter said:
Redryhno said:
Maybe because Bolin was confirmed in-universe? All that KorrAsami got was a bit of hand-holding and walking together into some kind of light(haven't watched it) and a letter from the creator telling everyone "It's totes real guyz, anyone that thinks differently is a biggot".
Except it was confirmed in-universe. Hand holding in the exact same way every other couple on the series holds hands, including those at the wedding that happened a whole five minutes prior (not to mention the staring into each other's eyes) while the two of them go on a vacation without any of their friends or family seems pretty unambiguous.
And the letter from the creator said that if you thought it was ambiguous or out of the blue then you should stop looking at things through an exclusively hetero lens, but why should I ever expect someone complaining about something to have actually read the thing they're complaining about?
Nice jab there, but you're sorely mistaken, I have read it. But why should I expect anything less from someone with an avatar of a character hitting their head so hard it spurts blood and probably causes massive brain damage?
Anyways, exactly how do you hand-hold without it looking like every other hand-holding in the history of the universe? I went on a vacation with a homo buddy of mine once as well without any other family or friends as well, does that mean we also evolved into a new state of being a couple at that point?
I'll agree that looking through a hetero lens can blind you to certain things, but considering that hetero-anything has become slang for bigot in certain parts of the internet, especially alot of Tumblr, can you really blame anyone for thinking that? I mean, it is pretty unambiguous when not viewed through the lens of naivete.
Now, if you'd like, we can drop the passive aggressive insults and actually discuss without them being involved in any way, shape, or form? Yes or no, we'll probably still hold them and tell them to ourselves and keep them out of writing, that is, if we're both adults....