allchildren: nyota uhura remains unconvinced (☄ª cry moar)
Amy Ponds of the 99% ([personal profile] allchildren) wrote 2012-04-02 10:00 pm (UTC)

Yeah, it's just -- AVATAR IS ONE OF THE MOST MORALLY SOPHISTICATED SHOWS OF ALL TIME. (OF ALL TIME!!) I started to say "it was never about dichotomies" but, I mean, in some ways that's all it was -- but in the Taoist tui and la sense of cosmic dichotomy that also reveals that within every yin there is some yang, and vice versa. The Earth Kingdom included freedom fighter terrorist teenagers and brainwashing disappearing operations and the Fire Nation was home to the poor and oppressed! "The Southern Raiders"! ZUKO! So whether people are ready to Oncelette out on Amon or hate him because he's the bad guy, I'm sitting here thinking, but really? Because whatever happens, he will have had some kind of a point, and to cast either side as good or evil misses so much of what these stories and these storytellers have encouraged us to embrace.

FEELINGS.

And yes, I am very very excited indeed for a story that could potentially be about the dismantling of social privilege, for kids, with pov poc!!!

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