fanfic rants
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fanficrants. About Zutara fic, of course. It's what I rant about when I have nothing else to do.
Edit: thinking about the subject further, I kind of wish that when I read a fic about Zuko running around as the Blue Spirit, that someone would actually be injured with those swords of his. I mean, that will never really happen on the show because of the network, but come on. Sword fights are scary, bloody affairs. People lose arms and legs and heads. People get disemboweled and impaled. People get their hamstrings cut. How come I read this fics where Zuko gets into a swordfight and miraculously no one loses any body parts, even when the swordfighter wins? Did we not remember our lessons from Kill Bill? Especially if Zuko ever got into a fight with Ty Lee or Mei, who use neither bending nor long-reach weapons. As sad as it is, if Zuko were fighting them for real (such as defending Iroh from them) then all it would take is one moment where Ty Lee dodges right when she should have dodged left and oops, pressure-point contortionist girl is no longer a problem for our heroes.
fanficrants. About Zutara fic, of course. It's what I rant about when I have nothing else to do.Edit: thinking about the subject further, I kind of wish that when I read a fic about Zuko running around as the Blue Spirit, that someone would actually be injured with those swords of his. I mean, that will never really happen on the show because of the network, but come on. Sword fights are scary, bloody affairs. People lose arms and legs and heads. People get disemboweled and impaled. People get their hamstrings cut. How come I read this fics where Zuko gets into a swordfight and miraculously no one loses any body parts, even when the swordfighter wins? Did we not remember our lessons from Kill Bill? Especially if Zuko ever got into a fight with Ty Lee or Mei, who use neither bending nor long-reach weapons. As sad as it is, if Zuko were fighting them for real (such as defending Iroh from them) then all it would take is one moment where Ty Lee dodges right when she should have dodged left and oops, pressure-point contortionist girl is no longer a problem for our heroes.
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Date: 2006-08-31 01:45 am (UTC)That post has incited some interesting arguments, though - which is a little amusing, since Avatar is just a cartoon/anime/whatever; but heartening, since it reminds us that there are still people in the world that bother to think these things through.
While it *is* correct that angels don't only exist in Christianity, I think it might be safe to assume that they wouldn't in Avatarverse, and it'd be even safer to assume that the writer of said fic is ignorant of the angels' nonexistence, especially if (s)he was casually throwing it into some internal monologuing. Which is annoying, and which is the point of your post, I believe. So most of the debate that's gone on really shouldn't be there.
Re: lack of proper gore - It would be pretty loony to expect some appropriate *violence* on the show, but I'm rather surprised at the lack of it in fanfiction. The canon exaggerated-beatings-that-do-no-damage, I can forgive; the lack of accurate violence in fanfiction? No. Granted, there are a few out there ((to my knowledge)), but that's hardly enough. Fanon-wise, it should be there *all the time*, I think.