#i have to go back and rewatch atla but i'm afraid it won't hit the way it used to | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

novadreii · 5 days ago

Text

netflix's the dragon prince: hey, we're here to ride the nostalgia wave from those of you who never emotionally recovered from avatar: the last airbender. we're gonna give you 7 seasons of a similar but insanely watered down formula depicting 4-5 different factions forced to work together for the fate of their world, while grappling with familiar moral quandaries such as:

growing up means not seeing things as black or white; they are actually shades of grey! every other theme in this show however, will contradict this. don't worry about it.

don't let the pain you endure turn you into a bitter old bitch. it's actually infinitely cooler of you to always, without fail, take the high road and be the Bigger Person.

since hatred and bitterness can't undo the wrongs committed against you, they are functionally useless emotions and you shouldn't have them. dummy.

we are all made up of Good and Bad, but only the actually Good Guys who tell the Bad parts of themselves to F off deserve to be happy.

retribution and revenge and violence are always Bad, and committed by Bad People only.

you can save everyone!

everyone is capable of change, they just gotta make the right Choices. Easy peezy.

everyone deserves to live, even killers.

also, there will be so many quips written into the dialogue that you'll risk breaking a tooth from cringing so hard. and lots of gay so we don't get shit from you all like the last time we had to bend over backwards to network TV LGBT restrictions. enjoy feeling good about being doormats, nerds!

#the dragon prince #idk man this show started out with promise #or maybe i've changed since it first came out #but i am starting to detest these goofy faux moral narratives #the older i get the more i see these kinds of themes as shit that keeps lower classes in line tbh #am i reading too much into it?#who does it really help to turn the other cheek all the goddamn time?#all i'm saying is maybe sometimes a bitch needs to get their shit rocked and they'd deserve it and that's not a moral failing #maybe it's okay for people to suffer the consequences of their actions #it's not virtuous of someone to just keep taking shit and doing nothing about it lmao #it's sad and weak and betraying of one's own self to keep bending over backwards and bestowing mercy where it's not owed or appreciated #feels like christian nonsense and i don't like that shit in my media #sometimes the good guy is the guy who stands the fuck up for themselves and chooses not to enable shit behavior #sometimes an eye for an eye is justice and justice is what's right #maybe in screenwriter aaron ehasz's world i'd be considered a villain and i'm okay w that #i have to go back and rewatch atla but i'm afraid it won't hit the way it used to #also there are soooooo many couples in this show??? idk it's nice to have a romance or two in a show like this #but when there's like 5 adjacent love stories it gets distracting and feels pointless #don't you all have bigger fish to fry how can you think of getting your nut when the world's ending

7 notes · View notes