Talk:Amon/@comment-108.248.176.6-20120729215822/@comment-5225415-20120730132716

I never said the relationships in the show were well developed. Pretty much nothing had time to be well developed and, shockingly, the relationship of Korra, Mako and Asami was one of the things they spent more time on. Too much time, in my opinion.

What I don't understand is this; the relationships in the show that actually have a basis aren't enough? Lin and Tenzin may not be a couple now, but I can understand why people would ship them. The same for Mako and Asami. And I can understand why some believe Bolin and Asami could make a good pairing. At least for some of those pairings, there's at least a tiny shred of justification. There is none for a pairing such as Amon and the Lieutenant. None whatsoever. It's about as ludicrous as Pema and Lin.

So, you weren't satisfied with the relationships in the show. What else can be said but, 'oh well'? Ignoring the fact that I utterly despise the need these shows have for always creating love interests, additional attention to the relationship between Korra, Mako and Asami is not something the show needed to focus more on. No, if the show focused more on anything, I would hope it would be things relevant to the overall plot. I am sorry to say it, but the response you gave explains nothing. I don't understand this need that some people display for romantic pairings at all, never mind the ones that have absolutely ZERO basis in the show. As in not ever possible or even believable.

There's also the fact that fan-fiction based on said pairings tend to be garbage, but that's to be expected, I guess. And no, regardless of how much some may want to believe it, there's nothing said or done between Amon and the Lietenant to suggest that they were anything more than a Leader and a - somewhat fanatical - subordinate, a subordinate who was passionate about the REVOLUTION, not his imaginary 'feelings' for Amon. -.-

To insist that there were 'subtexts' sufficient enough to form such a pairing is wishful thinking. Willful blindness. If you like the pairing, well that's your business, in the end it's not really important, but at least be honest enough to admit that there is no evidence in the show to support it.

And I'd like to point out that a relationship does not need to be romantic in order to be 'interesting and multi-layered'. A fanatic's belief in his leader leaves room for an intriguing relationship that is in no way romantic. So, again I ask, WHY the need to create romance where none exists? It is as though you're saying no relationship can be in-depth, dynamic, interesting, or whatever else you wish to call it, without also involving some sort of romance. If anything, I think such relationships - devoid of all romance - are needed now more than ever to show people that it is possible for someone to be close with another without either of them being romantically interested in one another.

One author who portrayed such a relationship is Tolkien. The relationship I speak of is that between Frodo and Sam. Yes, I am aware of the idiotic belief by some that there was something romantic between the two, and to that all I can do is sigh in disgust and roll my eyes. However, if they bothered to research Tolkien, they would find that he strongly believed in friendships with that level of strength and dedication, he believed two people could be that close without having even one iota of romantic interest. And here I shall stress that their relationship was no less complex, no less interesting or multi-faceted, for that. Relationships need not be romantic to be engaging. A notion that, sadly, seems to have died in the minds of some.

A'Len