Quote:blackaeronaut wrote:And if you look at the bibliography he has there, you can see that what he is doing is applying real-world rules to each of the character's psychological makeup, background, and culture, and rewriting the story accordingly.
This would be fine, if the author started the AU from ground zero. But they didn't, they started branching out after Book 2 started which means you have to accept Book 1 happened. Which means if Katara had some horrible vendetta against all Fire Nation peoples, she and Jet should have been high-5ing each other while a Fire Nation settlement gets washed away. I also wonder why the hell Pakku didn't mention this emotional manipulation bending when training the freaking Avatar and another water bending prodigy, people who could concievably reach the upper eschelons of water bending.
Quote:As for the power-ups... chill. Zuko ain't the only one. He's just the one that gets the most screentime. And I strongly suspect that there are others that are going to wind up bending more than one element later on down the line.Again, this would be fine, if the time that wasn't spent focused on Zuko doing awesome stuff cuz he's awesome was spent on people not talking about how deadly and determined and resourceful Zuko is. Unfortuneately, that's pretty much what they do, taking some time out to explore how dumb and spoiled and borderline sociopathic Katara is becoming.
I guess I'm just upset that a story I really liked has in my view devolved in such a way.
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Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"