• muddi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    I might be confused on this but doesn’t a morality play involve some flaw or sin causing a tragedy? So Sokka would have to be sexist and then get karmically punished for that?

    • Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      Yes, and ironically the original Avatar was actually a pretty good example of a show that wasn’t ambiguous in its messaging. However coked up media executives are dumb and always going to take the worst interpretation of everything.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah looking at your comment I think I agree the earlier naive interpretations of “no protagonists should be bad” is dumb, but clarity is really important in media and artists do assume viewers are able to see their message too often