Another issue with S3 is they really could've explored personal stories more (Eddie's relationship with his dad which is disregarded after Sweet briefly expels the Sibunas, and the descendants plot). Instead, they over relied on the romance which caused problems for new characters (KT being considered an obstacle for Peddie) and old ones (Patricia being jealous the entire season and Fabian not having a plot due to a lack of a romantic partner and being paired with Mara at the last minute).
I have no idea how long this has been waiting for me to read cuss I never check my inbox but OMG THIS THIS THIS! especially the relying on romance. So often (even before season 3) romance was used as a driving force for the narative or character arcs and whilst thats great...it gets boring. It's quite a large main cast with side characters being introduced every season. There isn't realllly enough school romance plots that can fit in WITH the mysteries for every character to constantly have this romance plot line. But as you said with Fabian, the writers also don't know what to do with a character once they remove that romantic partner. I think it's espeically hard for the writers to continue writing a compelling and strong character arc once the person is in a relationship. Patrica I think is the best example of this character growth stunting because in season 1 she didn't really have a massive romance arc like in other seasons. her growth happened through her platonic love for Joy sure, and eventually learning to be friends with the sibunas and realising that she CAN trust other people to help her. But no massive romantic love stories. Then eddie comes and as much as I LOVE them her own character growth was pushed back to focus on the romance. and that focus on her growth just never returned in a satisfying way for me. But also your definitly right with Eddies relationship with his dad it was such a complex and tricky relationship that seemed to only cause problems when the narative needed it to. Honestly thats how a lot of the characters negative aspects work, they are fine untill the narative NEEDS them not to be. And no this isn't me trying to say "characters need to constantly be suffering from past issues with no growth" even though as I'm reading it back it kinda sounds like I am, but certain things just don't randomly go away before returning at the same extreme level as when it was before. If they had worked through Eddies relationship with his dad and explored it before them finding a working solution, fantastic, but then they don't need to bring it back up UNLESS something new happens that shifts the peace from before. Imagine if Nina never got over her home sickness but it only popped up every 5 episode. That would feel strange and weird. I would like to add that this isn't me saying that season 3 is awful and that the first two seasons don't also have these issues, but its more prevelant in season 3 and there was less 'intresting 'special' moments to make up for it.
GUYS. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN WRITE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE FICS ON AO3
Imagine if chat just randomly start chasing an akuma butterfly thing and all people see is a black vwooom ad he speeds by attempting to either shove it in his mouth or tear it apart with his nails like a real cat. Or atleast my black (ha) cat Apollo
All of those “team cap comes back and just live off Tony’s wealth without care for him until finally someone shuts them up” has the exact same vibe as all the suitors just eating Odysseus out of home during his 20 years away from home. Especially since Odysseus comes home and kills them all. I've read a couple fics were Tony either kills or exiles them (somehow idk the logistics of that ever truly happening in the mcu)
“they tricked me, they both tricked me. I thought they liked me. all they wanted was the secrete, and i-i wouldn't tell them. I don't want to live forever” is one of the saddest lines said in this stupid show and I wont take critism. if I read that in a classic novel with my english teacher he’d be weeping tears and creaming over this stupid little quote because it hurts and the actor of Sarah who I cant rember the name off did SUCH a good job saying those lines I swear to god. like okay the acting in this show at times feels like a gcse performance but god damn when the acting's good its good
Arisu takes care of tadpoles and one day when him, karube, and chouta where drunk as fuck their thought it would be incredibly funny to try place some in Arisu’s collar bone.
So you have a drunk giggly Arisu frantically pushing his shoulder forward to try make his collarbone more defined and holding back his shirt, karube with a spoon full of tadpoles gentry pouring them in and chouta shakily holding his phone to record it as he laughs. Obviously the tadpoles just splat to the ground.
The boys forgot it happened cuss their like 4 bottles in at that point and continued to drink still or whatever idk anyway in the morning Arisu checks their instas and he just stares in horror at the video before crying becuse “ I killed my fucking babies!!”
random head cannons I have that mean nothing in cannon Arisu is a furry and his fursona is a wolf hybrid thing. idfk I'm not a furry Kuina was a discord kitten and got so much money of that shit. Chishiya only writes using quills and ink because he feels fancy as fuck using them and they also make fantastic weapons you know how in like 2015 (?) monster was like the chad drink that all assholes chugged like it was water? yeah honestly I see Karube being that person with like a can, a monster shirt, shoes custom designed for monster like the shebang. chouta can recite any Shakespeare play of the top of his head. he has no recollection of when he learnt them let alone ever had a reason to learn them but he can do it. Usagi slammed her hand in a car door once and had her entire right hand nails essentially fall off as a child Last boss was that one kid who when the got braces thought “ahhh getting reds gonna be rad” and then had to walk around for like 3 months looking like his gums had been stabbed my something metal and were now bleeding constantly
no thoughts just Kuina making those shitty little bird feeders I was forced to make in scouts where you’d get a pine cone, cover it in like syrup then cover it in bird seed and tie it to string and hang it up. they were shit but if you make enough you can make a cool sorta chime that gets lots of birds ( and squirrels)
Hearing Aang over explain how bending works each episode is genuinely so annoying. Now listen, I know the original show also has info dumped about bending. But at appropriate times!
It feels like whenever Katara is bending with Aang around he just takes the time to say how air bending works. And then Katara can magically do the move. It doesn’t draw this obvious distinction between the bending forms, if he had said that for air benders it's about blah blah or if he had mentioned how a friend used to do an exercise where they follow the push and pull of the ocean that would be decent. It would show the difference, show how Aang as a bending master can be helpful, but also how he isn’t a stand-in for an actual water bending master and also explain why HE can’t just start water bending like a genius.
I think a lot of the issue stems from making Katara an idiot when it comes to water bending. She couldn’t even draw a water droplet up in the live action, yet in the animated show she was teaching aang during the first few episodes what she DID know. This allowed for the two benders to play off each other, to explore Kataras own self-worth issues when it comes to being the last bender of her tribe, and also explore how Aang's inability to self regulate because he is 12 can unknowingly hurt his friends. But in the live action, Katara isn’t skilled, she can’t do anything, they literally remove the entire fighting scene of Zuko's ship which is SUCH an important moment for Katara and her bending! It's frustrating. Honestly if she can’t even teach herself to lift a water droplet on her own I don’t have that expectation of her growing into a master bender status once she DOES learn the actual forms. It's her determination, her natural ability, her attempts to use her bending to help that make her a really interesting and powerful character in the early episodes of season 1. She doesn’t have that in the La and any sense of natural talent or personal experimentation is replaced with Aang going “well the monks said-”.
No Aang, the monks didn’t say anything because Air bending and water bending are different bending forms!