I hope that isn't what ends up happening with Asami. =(
You have a point about the whole bending/nonbending thing, but I mean...the show is literally about bending, so of course it's going to be a focus for the audience. And if you consider what an important part of a person's identity their bending must be...like if I were Lin, I'd feel like I lost a part of myself. A HUGE part.
I think we should have had more of a hard look at the moral implications of Amon's campaign and the attitudes some of the benders don't even seem to realize they have towards non-benders. The portrayal of "benders = good, equalists = bad" was way oversimplified. But I don't think the problem was portraying the loss of someone's bending as horrible, because I think it really is, for that person.
no subject
You have a point about the whole bending/nonbending thing, but I mean...the show is literally about bending, so of course it's going to be a focus for the audience. And if you consider what an important part of a person's identity their bending must be...like if I were Lin, I'd feel like I lost a part of myself. A HUGE part.
I think we should have had more of a hard look at the moral implications of Amon's campaign and the attitudes some of the benders don't even seem to realize they have towards non-benders. The portrayal of "benders = good, equalists = bad" was way oversimplified. But I don't think the problem was portraying the loss of someone's bending as horrible, because I think it really is, for that person.