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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2020-09-16 05:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #5003 ]


⌈ Secret Post #5003 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2020-09-17 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
In the case of atla specifically, this is not true. The themes are really serious - dealing with war, genocide, abuse, propaganda, the plight of refugees, among more generic/universal things like responsibility and moral duty. What makes atla ""for kids"" is that it deals with those themes in a way that's accessible to kids.

Like, when I was a teenager and ATLA was first running on Nick, my school in Texas took in a bunch of refugees from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The refugees trying to get into Ba Sing Se in ATLA helped me have some frame of reference for what those kids were going through. The characters are kids, there's no gore, it's got jokes and superpowers and funny animals, it's designed to appeal to younger audiences, but the fundamental things the story is about are things that anyone of any age could care about.

It still might not be your cup of tea. And certainly there ARE media designed specifically about the concerns of specific age audiences. But atla's concerns and themes aren't age-specific.