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Nephthys
Mar 27, 2010

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

I feel that the most important question about the show is who is the best princess and why is it Scorpia?

Fool. The best princess is obviously Catra. Maybe.

Nephthys fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Nov 22, 2018

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Nephthys
Mar 27, 2010

Ragnar34 posted:

Catra is great. I still can't tell if she's irredeemable, but she sure as gently caress wants to be.

She's redeemable in my book. She hasn't done anything worse than, say, Zuko yet. And certainly has as much potential to change as he did.

But yeah, she doesn't want to be redeemed. She isn't going to play number 2 to Adora anymore. My ideal ending at the moment is that she backstabs Hordak and negotiates a peace as the new leader of the Horde.

Nephthys
Mar 27, 2010

Wildeyes posted:

Catra leaving Adora to fall to her death was a gut punch. I don't think she can come back from that. This isn't like Zuko in Avatar S2.

Catra does say that she fully expected Adora to survive. TBH I'm still not 100% convinced she'd actually flat-out kill her if she had the opportunity. She didn't even really try to in the last fight.

Zuko and Azula literally killed Aang.

Nephthys
Mar 27, 2010

I was kind of obvious they were being teased at about the point Catra deep-dipped her at the dance and Adora stuck her knee between Catra's legs.

Theres a bunch of shots in that episode where it would look like they're dating in another context. Or just about to kiss.

Nephthys
Mar 27, 2010

Senerio posted:

I liked it as a parallel to how gay couples get treated in cartoons, where they aren't officially confirmed so the network has plausible deniability.

Yeah they had much more than Korra/Asami got.

Nephthys
Mar 27, 2010

No Korra was pretty dumb even in the last season. Kuvira totally walked over her and it took a lot of smarter people to get her to actually figure out what to do. And obviously she got totally outsmarted by Amon and Unaloq and even Zaheer.

In fact Korra being actually flat out stupid was one of her main character flaws. Alongside just general incompetence.

Nephthys
Mar 27, 2010

Cattail Prophet posted:

Yeah, Korra is definitely a big ol' meathead like Adora in terms of her general approach to things, but (and honestly this applies to Adora too) going from that to "she's dumb" feels... kind of reductive and meanspirited? I dunno.

E: To be clear, this isn't necessarily a criticism of the fanart specifically, they're both extremely on brand there.

It's not intended to be meanspirited, just frustrated at how badly I feel she was written. I feel like they wanted her to have flaws that would make her relatable but instead she just fucks up at every point and has to pull off an asspull win at the end of every season. She gets easily outmaneuvered, captured and tricked in every season. Shes captured 4 times in season 3 alone! At one point she says she's the worst Avatar ever and boy does it feel like the writers wanted you to believe her.

I'm not saying she's dumb because I hate the character, but because she is written to make dumb decisions and mistakes 90% of the time. If anything I feel like the writers kind of hated her for how much poo poo the narrative gives her.

Nephthys fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Sep 4, 2020

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Nephthys
Mar 27, 2010

Asami should have been an Equalist and proven that they were right about a lot of stuff that Korra ends up helping them reform.

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