Sep 1, 2020
Saying republic city is westernized because other cosmopolitan asian cities are also doesn't make sense? Because those cities have western influence due to imperialism and colonization from the west. In the avatar-verse what we know as the "west" (USA and Europe) doesn't exist, there's no such thing, the closest equivalent would be the former fire nation and even that is a stretch. The creators had a perfect opportunity to imagine what a modern asian society and world would look like without western influence, but apparently, to their minds modernization and progress is not possible without the west.
#anti lok#anti bryke#im rewatching to get my fic done#and ughh#just remembered why i hate it so much#i can write a whole paper with what wrong with this show#pointless rectcoons#no character development#westernization#harmful backwards romantic tropes#don't even get me started on the airbenders#because i start shaking with just thinking#to what they did to the.#honestly this show should just have been about tenzin#and his fam rebuilding the air nation#not suddeb magical airbendrrs#but the air temples could have becomed a refuge to families escpaping war and poverty