I love both zaris, what's not to love? And I love the idea behind the timeline change. My complain is that both characters were sidelined for the sake of romances and it was such a waste of an opportunity to explore zari(s) inner self, the similarities and differences and how the environment they grew up in affected their character, relationships, perseption of the world etc. The timeline change and what the writers were trying to do would hit 1000 times harder then imo. Instead they changed between zaris in s6 for the sake of nate and John.
You're preaching to the choir! I 100% agree.
I'd say it's one part the legends writers hesitation to commit to zaris 1.0 season 5 ending. you can see they planned to keep her gone because they had her and nate break up and they wrote in a zarlie kiss but they changed their mind in season 6. Speculating that it was because zari 2.0 and John were already going to break up and they had no idea how to end Nates storyline so they brought her back. So it leaves both characters quite hollow in some ways, in later seasons because it ends up cutting into both of their screen times and arches they could accomplish.
The other part is that the legends writers weren't that good at writing romance and when they put characters into relationships that's the only story they seemed to give the characters after. So if you're writing something your not that great at for characters 80% of the time the characters suffer.
We get a bit of it with some characters like Ava, and Mick and showing how the dynamics are different between the two Zaris. But we also lose out some dynamics too with Sara, Behrad, Ray, Charlie etc.. why? Lose all of that nuance just to focus on romances no one really asked for? I'll never know
and lastly the writers didn't want to get deeper, they turned it into a crazy wacky show (which i don't mind much of the time) but it leaves them only tackling base level of characters when they could get deeper into it. And it effects the characters of colors because you lose a lot of nuances when you erase race completely from a character, we saw that slowly changing in season 7 and that's why it's one of my favorite seasons of the show. And hopefully it would have stayed that way if zari was the main focus of season 8.
Because zari(s) story is sad! One was a child at a young age and lost her family and friends because of it and repressed her feelings, then when she finally finds a place to belong its ripped from her because her brother is now alive. And she's always wanted that but it's also not her brother from her timeline and some part of her resents that and other zari for it
The other zari lost her childhood to Hollywood and fame, so much that the family she did it all for resents her for it! She doesn't know who she is with cameras and trying to be a star, the people around her that are her friends miss a ghost version of it! She believes she deserves nothing good!! She's insecure about other zari because she believes if she was more like her she would deserve more love
This is interesting!! Complex! And they just didn't explore it! But no we have to use both characters to show how sad nate/john are without their girlfriends
Sorry for that rant! I don't play about this shows wasted potential lol
legends giving/exgratting Zaris canon love interest traits that have similarities to Charlies/Amaya main traits to echo the fact that they could never make any of those ships canon. And also that these m/f ships are a substitute for the fact that they couldn't make em canon
I think a lot of people I followed liked this ship so I wasn’t overly vocal about it while I was watching, but I hate them together
I was fine with them hooking up once or twice as a minor side plot because the on screen chemistry between the actors was definitely there. But once I realized the show was trying to push them into dating I changed my mind.
They have nothing in common. Not one single hobby or interest. They’re everything each other is against. John is a poor, punk, socialist warlock, and Zari is a shallow, preppy, capitalist influencer. They fought constantly. It was annoying to watch. The show should’ve just let them fuck without trying to tack on a relationship that made zero sense.
