Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise

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Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I guess that's another part of my issue - the setting really never grabbed me or seemed worth the investment that others were putting into it. So that might be why you saw world building and I just saw padding. l only saw "generic anti-authoritarian fantasypunk #367", you saw something else. Because really, that's how I see it. It's fantasypunk, bordering on religious deconstruction. Heck, it's even messianic, and the core concept is an unwilling messiah accepting his role and the chaos of the world left without a connection to the divine - a deconstruction that was already trite a century before ATLA.

The movie sticks to the beats of the core narrative and the modified Hero's Journey. The show tries to meander and present multiple heroes - but when the narrative is messianic, you have to get to the point of the messiah saving the world and then departing in some way, leaving the world secure in the knowledge that the divine presence is both with them and apart from them, giving them free will but bearing judgement.

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