FaceTheCitizen wrote:Edgar Cabrera wrote:As pretty much every single article about these themes by Cracked, it left me on the fence. Yes, the Sherlock episode with Irene made me wince at some moments (goddamnit Moffat), but the other entries seemed like low-hanging fruits. I mean, Avatar: The Last Airbender? It was almost like the "sexist video game problems bigger than the boobs" one.
I disagree. In the show, Katara was competent, able to go toe-to-toe with tough opponents, and was even one of few people to learn a powerful, but deadly skill. In the movie, she was turned into a little bitch.
So yeah, that was disappointing.
I think that I was misunderestood there, or I used the wrong wording. When I mentioned The Last Airbender I was referring to the "low-hanging fruit" thing. As in, how the movie was such a tragedy on every sense, including the whole "let's recast the protagonists as white kids but leave the villain's race as it was." As one of the comments said, "If only that was the only problem with M. Night's 'The Last Airbender' massacre."
But yeah, the frustation is completely understandable when both of the Avatar series are filled with badass women, and it took Shyamalan to make one of the most capable ones a damsel in distress.
TheSyrupNugget wrote:Were I a conspiracy theorist, I would accuse the higher-ups of making such a decision for the expressed purpose of attracting more vitriolic comments and hate-speech in a Machiavellian attempt to prove their own point about the alleged misogynistic evils of the comment section. But I'm not, so I'm just gonna take this opportunity to express that I don't actually think that's what's going on.
But if that is what they were going for, it would admittedly be a pretty brilliant Batman gambit.