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Amon and politics in LoK 2016-12-17 05:20:40 Post No.88478745
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>>88465507
(I'm posting this thread because i finished writing my post the moment the thread archived)
I'm criticizing the writing of the show, mate. My problem is that the show doesn't deal with the glaring reality of a society in which half of the population hold a position of privilege.
Throughout the show, various technologies are shown to be only be able to be used by specific schools of bending, which implies that only specific benders have access to specific jobs. In a world so dependent upon bending, this would mean that large portions of the population would simply be stripped of the opportunity for social advancement. For instance, when Mako works in a factory, his job is to redirect lighting; only firebenders who can redirect lightning can work in this factory (and presumably this would be the case in more factories then this one).
While non-benders are presumably not legally discriminated in achieving political positions, throughout AtLA and LoK, (usually for functional or religious/cultural reasons) those in political power have specific forms of bending. If for functional reasons (ie the Head of the Dai Li should be an earthbender because that's what they do), then see the paragraph above; if for cultural/religious reasons (the aristocracy of the Firenation and the Earth Kingdom often marry to preserve the use of bending; representatives from various nations in Republic City presumably would prefer those with bending, see: Tarrlok) then even if non-benders aren't legally discriminated, millennia of deeply rooted practices would instill a sense of bias that would take many, many years to actively uproot.
The series also shows that access to bending itself is largely genetic, passed from parent to child, and even then there isn't necessarily a guarantee. Do you think it's fair to have a world where someone has better access to higher ways of life simply because of something they got when they were born?
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(My point isn't that the bending world is bad because it's unfair. Wordlimit prevents me from saying that the inherent unfairness would ensure the continuation of an Equalist movement even in the case of Amon's fall. And for LoK's bad writing in just ignoring these glaring facts to make the Equalists look more evil)
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>>88478745
it's just a reversal of the real world where intelligence gives you status instead of physical prowess.
hell they even reversed the real life trend of the physically gifted people being popular heroes. guys like sato and varrick seemed like the celebrities instead
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>>88478745
>Do you think it's fair to have a world where someone has better access to higher ways of life simply because of something they got when they were born?
Like money? Like being born in a first-world country instead of a third-world rated one? Like having both parents with a job instead of one or none?
The Equalist movement wasn't about raising the standard of living for a group or equally making it so people don't slip through the cracks. It was about lowering people down out of hatred and demagoguery.
You put people in certain positions because of what they can bring to the table. There were non-benders in offices of politics. There were non-benders on the police force. Sato had non-benders working in his factory.
The URN changed it's form of government. But what other paths would you have everyone take now that Amon is no longer able to take peoples' bending away?
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Why is it, that, in the past few years, people retroactively, all of a sudden started hating this awesome childhood show? Is it the fault of shoobie propoganda?
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>>88478651
I think it's because the whole X games phase went from something fun everyone tried to get involved in to turning into a heaven for goth/emo/punk/thug teenagers. Look at any skate park today and see for yourself.
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>>88478722
>goth/emo/punk/thug teenagers
Do those even exist anymore? Most teens now, it seems, are "post-ironic" self-depreacting reclusive social media addicts
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>>88478651
i hated all of that kind of shit at the time
fuckin buncha 'go exercise' propaganda. fuck you. i like video games.
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>movie ends with a dance party
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EVERYBODY DANCE NOW
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>>88478650CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES COMON
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>Life end with a dance party.
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Do you like Enchantress /co/ 2016-12-17 05:11:10 Post No.88478576
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Do you like Enchantress /co/
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well do you?
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I guess she was ok in the ostrander series. Don't give a fuck about her movie incarnation or the hideous "actress" that plays her at all.
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>>88478576
I never could find that original image, it's not eve on /aco/
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>>88478576
Swamp witch is one of the best designes i have seen for a villian, green elsa was a terrible look, the exagerated conceptual art for green elsa was fantastic tho
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Who is cuter?
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The one that doesn't give me a shameful boner
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The one not voiced by Sarah Shrillverman.
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>>88478365
Vanellope is like the personification of cute.
She was pretty much artificially designed to be as cute as possible but DAMN if it didn't work. A small adorable little candy girl with oversized big head big eys and every other property signifying cuteness, cute ponytalis hair with sprinkles in it, legs that look like candy canes and a candy wrapper as skirt. a fucking CANDY WRAPPER. She's sweet in like the truest sense of the word. So yeah I know who wins this...
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Does anyone know where to find that one comic strip where Darth Vader is dying and remembering Padme and thinking about what his life would have been like if he didn't go to the dark side? I can't find it anywhere. I think it's fan made.
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>>88478001
Jesus. The guy probably wasn't even 50 by the time he died and looked like that.
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>>88478033
No its a different one. I remember it showing padme crying and him asking for forgiveness.
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10/10 villains only
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>>88477628
>Xanatos
>villian
pick one
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>>88477719
You can be right and still be a villain, anon.
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>>88477628
Technically not /co/ but I have to include him in threads like these...
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>Fat joke after fat joke
>Jokes about making women do the cleaning
>Piggy doesn't even get comeuppance she's still the joke at the end
How do the Muppets have more balls than anything else in the media right now?
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Whoops wrong tweet in OP
twitter.com/TheMuppets/status/809805803507093504
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wow that alien one was kinda fucked up at the end there
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>>88477764
I always forget the kinds of things Muppets gets away with.
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/co/ characters who are literally your dad
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>>88476852
I wish I had a dad like Greg. :(
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Pic related.
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>>88476852
He fucked your mom to death?
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Extended Trailer for "Boss Baby" 2016-12-17 03:38:28 Post No.88476672
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Extended Trailer for "Boss Baby" 2016-12-17 03:38:28 Post No.88476672
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Extended Trailer for "Boss Baby"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud8j5GaqH3c
What does /co/ think?
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>>88476672
Interesting. I had 0% chance to watch this in the past but now seems decent to good.
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>>88476797
It's awwwwright
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mooooooooooooooooods
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>all these people suddenly saying that Bruce Wayne is Batman
For fucks sake people, there are even several pictures of the two together, like this one. How can people be this stupid?
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>>88476351
It's clearly Oliver Queen.
Batman wouldn't be stupid enough to emerge so soon after Wayne returned and there's no way Queen's beard isn't fake.
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>>88476351
Why does your filename says batsuit and Bruce Wayne?
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>>88476351
Why would you need to see them together? He's Bruce fucking Wayne! Would you break some punk's jaw when you could be banging an entire synchronized swim team because you had the money to buy the pool they practise in in your pocket? Shit, that guy must be the happiest dude in the world.
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Have you cried like a bitch for Christmas yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHCZhUZXhZU
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man I loved this as a kid. thanks for rekindling old memories
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>>88476859
It's a holiday tradition for me. You're welcome.Bowie ;_;
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>>88476259
Marathoning Toradora and just hit episode 16.
So the answer is yes.
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ROBERT E HOWARD STORYTIME
DARK AGNES
ROBERT E HOWARD'S ASS KICKING SHE-BITCH
MORE ROBERT E HOWARD STORYTIMES HERE:
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HERE:
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AND HERE:
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>>88476224
bump if you're reading
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Believe me if you want to, but I work staff at CN. The original title of the SU episode "Gem Drill" was "For We Are Many." A reference to the Bible in which Jesus confronts a possessed man and confronts the demon for his name, who replies "My name is Legion, for we are many."
The title was scrapped because overt religious reference is really hard to get past censors, especially with such dark connotation.
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>>88475976
Forgive me for asking but, with steven universe as it is, plus the fact the the creator is of jewish(they only believe in god as the one true god, not jesus) background, why would they even consider that title in the first place?
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>>88476874
I know it sounded stupid, but it felt like a good question when i thought about it
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>>88476899
No need to apologize.
1) Rebecca Sugar is ethnically Jewish, but she is essentially non practicing.
2) You don't have to agree with beliefs to take inspiration from them. The villain of the 2006 Sonic game is Iblis, a name of the devil in Islam.
If you don't know, the Cluster is an amalgam of millions of shattered gems, and still had a form of consciousness that Steven was able to communicate with in the episode. The title is very fitting as the Cluster is a forced fusion made through artificial means and unlike other fusions doesn't have a singular mind.
So, besides this show being particularly underrated, and on point with some of the better action/comedy 2000's shows like TLA and TT, there's something that I still keep thinking about.
Was Omi's character racist? I almost guarantee that in 2016, people would have a shit fit over his design...also Xaolin Showdown thread
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show was made by a Chinese woman so not really
any word about the re-reboot?
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>>88475826
Does that really mean it's not racist if its made by someone who is Chinese?
also
>re-boot
you mean Xaolin chronicles? That shit is dead and rightfully so. Are they re-booting again??
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>>88475826
I doubt it when WB owns the rights they even had the rights for the magical items that's why the reboots used stupidly named shit on random everyday objects