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posted by [identity profile] icecreamemperor.livejournal.com at 07:05pm on 25/08/2008
They are certainly limited by the constraints of ostensibly being a show for children: no one can die, no can be killed, and most "mature" themes (i.e. sex and violence) are off limits.

Yeah, that's not really what I meant, though. Adding 'adult topics' does not result in an adult treatment of character, and I didn't feel like the show lacked at all in terms of needing more people killing and dying. It just felt like, as with so much entertainment aimed at children or otherwise, the show felt that it always had to spell out exactly what was going on at any moment -- there wasn't much ambiguity or doubt, and when push came to shove problems turned out to have easy solutions.
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posted by [identity profile] semioticity.livejournal.com at 08:53pm on 25/08/2008
Fair enough, and I'm never one to assume that the presence of child protagonists automatically relegates something to the confines of "young adult fiction," for example. (Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is not young adult fiction, to my mind.) But published fiction and television broadcasts have different standards, and I think that's where Avatar ran afoul. I think Avatar as published fiction could have done what needed to be done, but broadcast Avatar could not.

Third season definitely pulls its punches. I would be curious to read how you (or Ben) might have executed the ending differently. Where does it come off the rails for you, and why?
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