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Mostly art, random facts and funnies, and videogames. Feel free to message me about anything. Lots of crazy stuff happening but because I'm tired of it I'm keeping my blog mostly free of any political or divisive discourse. We're all just people guys, so lets laugh together πŸ’œ Although I may still post gaming stuff, those posts were kind of taking up a big part of my blog so I created a side blog for them (deardumbgamingdiary).
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This is a monumental failing by the Avatar live-action show runners.

Your favourite characters can (and should) be flawed. A massive part of Sokka’s character arc in season 1 is specifically on his sexism and how he faces it.

If you tone that part down, you’re toning down the role of the Kyoshi warriors who hand his arse to him because he thinks he can easily beat them.

"We've noticed that this character doesn't begin the series as a pure and flawless paragon of virtue, but instead begins with a notable flaw which is addressed and overcome during the course of the story as one of his main character arcs. We've fixed this 'problem' by removing that character arc and having him start out perfect so you don't have to go through the horror of seeing a person grow and change over the course of their adventures.✌️"

It’s just such a wild way to look at any media.

Removing all the conflict out of a story, ruins the story. I don’t want squeaky clean characters, I want characters who overcome their flaws, and I also want irredeemable characters who are dickheads.

It’s like putting the cart before the horse, you can’t have Sokka be immediately likeable and perfect. People like him because they’ve seen his character arc.

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