Talk:Bolin/@comment-5239735-20130501200557/@comment-166.205.68.21-20130514212121

You know MajorOctofuss, You have a really excellent user picture (or whatever that's called) because every time I read one of your comments, even without looking at the picture, I see somebody making a face like that. Really. Every comment.

Also yes, I agree with all the people who blame bad character development, because while it may have been adequate for some shows, we got used to a heck of a lot better in ATLA. Just look at Azula, an hour, maybe two (tops) of screen time, and only maybe MAYBE fifteen twenty minutes of glimpse into her mind and in that very short amount of time, she gained as much depth and epicness as Zuko, who was a main character for the entire series and appeared in well over half of the episodes.

We're just saying, they did that good on Azula, and most all of the other even remotely major characters for that matter, but in LOK nearly everyone is hard to empathize with because we didn't have time to get to know them. We got to know everyone in TLA pretty well; LOK, not so much.

We empathize with Bolin because a lot of us guys know how sucky it feels to be friendzoned, we empathize with Asami because guys like me think she's hot, and a lot of girls know how it feels to be dumped for somebody else.

We don't empathize with Mako hardly at all because he's the one doing the dumping and getting his brother friendzoned. We don't really empathize with Korra that much because despite the fact she got all the character development, she also got everything else. She's attractive, extra powerful, confident to the point of cocky, she got her man, and all in all everything just really  wrapped itself up a little too neatly for her. We like Lin and all the airbenders because Lin is too epic and heroic to not like, and the airbenders are all a heap of fun, even stuffy old Tenzin's pretty dang funny ("Don't bring my mother into this!").