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I've been reflecting on these last few seasons a bit and something struck me.

For all the t...]]> 2014-08-24T10:12:07-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117876 /a/ >>>/a/117876 image https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117877 2014-08-24T11:22:54-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117877 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117878 >117876
I would say Korra hanging around with rich/powerful people is less "rich people are bet...]]> 2014-08-24T11:52:21-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117878 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117879 >117877
How exactly though? Historically most despots were only taken down once it reached the ...]]> 2014-08-24T12:08:03-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117879 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117880 Of course the Avatar ha...]]> 2014-08-24T12:11:14-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117880 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117881 >117879
Well typically when someone hears that the president/the queen/the pope is dead, their ...]]> 2014-08-24T12:22:52-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117881 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117883 >117881
Yeah, but typically people don't live under oppressive regimes for generations, keeping...]]> 2014-08-24T13:38:33-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117883 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117884 >117883
>A little rioting seems to fit the occasion, wouldn't you say?
Well people could st...]]> 2014-08-24T13:59:50-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117884 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117885 >117884
they seemed to have lost some of their infrastructure since ATLA reporting directly to ...]]> 2014-08-24T15:59:07-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117885 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117887 >117876
It could easily be argued that fantasy is conservative by definition. Not only that, in...]]> 2014-08-24T18:47:10-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117887 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117893 2014-08-24T23:42:34-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117893 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117897 2014-08-25T01:27:46-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117897 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117898 >117897
Probably, yeah.
But Harry Potter and Aang had the advantage of being up against lit...]]> 2014-08-25T02:30:35-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117898 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117899 >117897
Precisely, and not only in fantasy. Protagonists need to have agency, and rich people d...]]> 2014-08-25T04:25:20-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117899 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117900 >117899
>My feeling is that if you have a villain with a valid point, they should have some kin...]]> 2014-08-25T08:51:35-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117900 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117902 >117898

Well intentioned, yes. But the RL killed dozens of people in the course of their r...]]> 2014-08-25T12:40:42-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117902 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117903 >117900
What I mean is that even if Zaheer was clearly a fanatic and kind of a nutjob, he had s...]]> 2014-08-25T14:11:58-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p117903 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p118263 2014-10-17T17:21:34-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p118263 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p118264 2014-10-17T17:31:11-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p118264 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p118267 >118264
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.]]> 2014-10-18T01:27:30-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/a/t117876.html#p118267 /a/ >>>/a/117876 none