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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2008-11-17 04:29 pm

[ SECRET POST #682 ]


⌈ Secret Post #682 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Not OP

(Anonymous) 2008-11-19 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I always thought of Mai/Zuko as a joke. Not a bad joke, mind you. It was kind of like, "Look at us angsty teens in our angsty love" and poking fun at that. I liked it; it was funny. And I always thought of Mai as a kind of caricature of that too.

I like Mai/Zuko in that sense because they're just...loyal. Not as cute as Aang/Katara, and not as sexy and adorable and super awesome as Suki/Sokka (is my OTP showing?) but I liked the fact that even though Zuko kind of up and left her, she still stood by his side and helped him at the end. At that part I guess it stopped being a caricature. I wouldnt' say that the relationship is the best developed, but in my point of view, you could pull deep out of there.

But tttly, Aang/Katara is the cutest thing ever, isn't it? :)

Re: Not OP

[identity profile] xanykaos.livejournal.com 2008-11-19 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I could go with them as a joke. When you had that whole "You're so beautiful when you hate the world" thing, I groaned, but I figured that if the relationship ended for good, it would just be for hilarity. But if the relationship were real, it would just be stupid.

Thing is, I don't think there should have been joke-relationships in Avatar. All the relationships (in a mostly platonic sense now) between the characters came off as realistic, so a joke one just seemed to...damage it all somehow. And by the end, yeah, it could be deep. But that's the thing--given Mai's actions all throughout the second season, I can't accept her as more than a caricature. It's not a matter of character development. It's that anyone who's capable of being anything more than a self-absorbed sociopath shouldn't've acted that way unless it was "Excused by Hilarity"--which doesn't work unless the character's not real.