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⌈ Secret Post #7057 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

Oof yeah. Having been raised as a pacifist, I really appreciated seeing Aang struggle with having those beliefs and his ability to live by them *tested*, and then finding a way to *not* kill someone, without having to *forgive* him, either! And it's so exhausting sometimes to see people not get it, but even if it was not something that was so personal to me, as a pacifist who has been tested (not with the temptation to do a murder, but I mean you know, there's an obituary I would read with pleasure etc), it's just like... oh, so you don't actually care about THIS story, with THIS protagonist, you care about Generic Story Where I Feel Satisfied Because Bad Guy Gets Killed, so there's no point even talking about the show with you because you aren't engaging with the story being told, you're not engaging with *Aang*.

I had mercifully not seen that particularly cold take on Hama, but I've seen a lot of people ignore the part where Jet is cool with killing innocent civilians en masse because he's 'cool' and he 'deserves' to kill people.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

I think the way the show had Aang find an out to killing Ozai was a little clumsy but I also loved that they actually addressed it. Having Ozai get something like a Disney death (because the kids show was not ever going to show Aang bloodily murdering him) would have been a cop out. Actually having Aang struggle with his duty vs his beliefs, especially as the last of his people, was a really great storytelling choice imo.

The one I've seen for Jet is that the writers 'made' him go after Earth Kingdom civilians as well because they had to demonize the oppressed fighting back against their oppressors, which absolutely misses the whole point of Jet's story. He's a 'those who fight monsters' type of warning. The series already *showed* the oppressed fighting back against their oppressors! The Gaang were literally doing that! In the *same season* we have Imprisoned, which is all about Earth Kingdom people fighting against Fire Nation soldiers who have occupied their town. The Gaang are also pretty clearly fine with Jet trying to get rid of the Fire Nation soldiers, they only object when the people Jet is supposed to be trying to save would get wiped out too. I'm finding there are some people who are just so wrapped up in the self righteousness of 'colonization is evil and all people fighting against it must be good, all forms of resistance are valid and showing any actions as negative means you are on the side of the evil colonizers' that they can't even handle the children's TV show suggesting that maybe you can fight back without losing your humanity.

Re: Worst fandom interpretations/takes

[(Anonymous)]

"They made the oppressed do bad things to demonize them" takes always make it clear that the person with the take thinks it's a strawman trope, they think in real life oppressed people never fight back in unethical ways, they never hurt anyone innocent, to depict them doing that in fiction is to spread a false narrative and is deliberate and the writer is a fascist.

Mind you these are the same people who think it's fine that Israeli children died in Hamas's attacks. So that really goes to show what they think about who gets to be in the category of "innocent."