so we (the audience) don't have to deal with the consequences of what Amon is doing through the lens of someone we care about; like the characters, we can view it from a comfortable distance ...
I don't know. If the episodes were longer, maybe, and not geared towards kids, maybe, but I feel like taking away Mako & Bolin's ability to participate in the pro-bending tournament would be too much for 12 22-minute episodes to handle. You'd either have to add in another bender character, or you'd have to show how Mako & Bolin deal with being evicted, jobless, and having to rebuild their lives yet again. Which would be really interesting, but I don't think you could have both that storyline and the Equalist storyline in just twelve episodes and do either of them justice.
I also feel like having that happen right after we find out about the boys being orphans and what they've had to do to survive on the streets would push the show too far into really depressing territory. Bolin is a great big golden retriever of love... there's only so much I can watch him suffer while still being entertained. >.>;;;
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I don't know. If the episodes were longer, maybe, and not geared towards kids, maybe, but I feel like taking away Mako & Bolin's ability to participate in the pro-bending tournament would be too much for 12 22-minute episodes to handle. You'd either have to add in another bender character, or you'd have to show how Mako & Bolin deal with being evicted, jobless, and having to rebuild their lives yet again. Which would be really interesting, but I don't think you could have both that storyline and the Equalist storyline in just twelve episodes and do either of them justice.
I also feel like having that happen right after we find out about the boys being orphans and what they've had to do to survive on the streets would push the show too far into really depressing territory. Bolin is a great big golden retriever of love... there's only so much I can watch him suffer while still being entertained. >.>;;;