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God, fan theories are so fucking tiring
Maybe take that time and energy and engage critically with the themes and messaging of a show instead of trying to prove your specious nonsense
@coriander okay sure, but have you heard of my legend of korra season 1 fan theory
@wallhackio @coriander as i recall your “fan theory” was proven wrong by canon a few episodes later which automatically converts it from “fan theory” into “fix-it concept”
@Lady @coriander actually yeah that's right
@wallhackio @coriander fix-it concepts are better because instead of claiming that canon IS making this niche and weird claim, you are claiming that canon SHOULD have made this niche and weird claim, which is more critical
@Lady @coriander @wallhackio i don’t know i would have phrased it quite like that if only but it was definitely a catalyzing moment in fan culture
@Lady @coriander @Satsuma what did book 5 do, I never read the Harry Potter books
@wallhackio @coriander @Satsuma killed the gays
and also was like “maybe some people like being in slavery”
and also some other stuff probably idk it was way too long
@Lady @coriander @Satsuma oh its that one lmao
@wallhackio @Lady @coriander books 1-4 were published on an annual basis and then she realized sue wrote herself into a corner so book 5 took three years, during which fans speculated extensively on what was going to happen next. And then she solved everything in a much more boring way then the fans had and everyone was disappointed
@Satsuma @Lady @coriander was book 4 the goblet of fire?
@coriander @Lady @wallhackio yes, book 5 (post gap) was order of the pheonix which introduces the secret society by the same name
@Satsuma @coriander @Lady when my little brother read the books in high school he said that goblet of fire was easily the best one and that he felt the rest of the series was overrated
@wallhackio @Satsuma @coriander wrong, prisoner of azkiban is the best one, goblet of fire is overrated
@Lady @Satsuma @coriander i really have nothing to contribute to this argument lol
@Lady @coriander I'm not sure I would say that Korra should have been done my idea, although I do like my idea more than what they did.
for me season 1's critical problems are:
1) the showrunners seem to imply that the inherent disparity between benders and non-benders isn't a genuine source of inequality in the show's universe
2) a significant source of conflict for Korra near the very end of the season is immediately resolved, when it should have been a source of conflict in the next season(s)
3) Mako, Bolin, and maybe Asami are not interesting characters (although this plagues the whole show and not just season 1)
4) Mako, Bolin, Asami, and Korra do not spend enough time with each other for them to be a believable friend group (this also plagues the whole show and not just season 1)
My fix-it concept won't resolve any of these problems.
@wallhackio @Lady @coriander to my understanding season 3 eventually walks back point 1 in pretty explicit terms but i don’t know what that actually amounts to
@aescling @wallhackio @coriander no not really; season 1’s conflict is actually “resolved” in the recap at the beginning of season 2 when they say that they replaced the council with an elected nonbending president, but this doesn’t REALLY address the main point (which i think is impossible to address in the Avatar universe)
@aescling @wallhackio @coriander point 2 on the other hand is walked back thruout season 4, but only thematically (in that Korra continues to deal with psychological fallout from the events of the previous 3 seasons)
@wallhackio @coriander i think @Satsuma has ranted before to me at great length about how modern fandom was created when J.K. Rowling published book 5 of Harry Potter and all the fans who had spent the previous 4 books creating fan theories were suddenly confronted with the fact that actually J.K. Rowling has much worse ideas than they did and also couldn’t write