Talk:Asami Sato/@comment-184.7.99.119-20120603204058/@comment-98.200.164.35-20120604021404

He's pretty bland so far, I'll give you that. But so's Bolin, except for the fact that he's hilarious. In fact, so is Asami, for that matter. (I can't figure out why people seem to really like HER, either. It was only in the last two episodes that her character was developed at all, aside from being Korra's romantic foil and Mako's arm candy.) Every time she and Mako go all lovey dovey, I'm right with Korra (making "yuck" faces), not because I'm rooting for Mako and Korra to get together, or because I hate PDA. It's just all so. . . "schmoopy."

The thing about character development is--it takes TIME. We're only nine episodes in, and there's a LOT of stuff that's being juggled in the air at once: Korra's airbending block, Amon and the Equalists, Tarrlok's machinations, the mystery of what happened with Aang and Yakone, and (formerly) the pro-bending stuff. Frankly, I think the pacing of this series is a bit off, and though I know Bryan and Mike wanted to tighten everything up, it just feels a bit too crammed and rushed to me. I liked the "filler" episodes of TLA, because they gave you room to breathe and see the characters in different situations that allowed for more development and nuance ("Avatar Day" was one of my favorite "filler episodes," and you learned a lot about Aang and the Avatar; plus, it had Sokka's ridiculous Sherlock Holmes-esque gettup).

So, to sum up, Katara and Sokka were a lot more present to the audience than Mako and Bolin so far, and they interacted more with all the other characters, allowing us to learn more about them. So I think it's more fair to withold judgment until you let Mako et al "catch up."

Frankly, the most well-rounded and interesting character is Korra (which makes sense). And I like her crush on Mako, just because it's humbling for her not to have him--and let's face it, at least at the beginning of the series, she needed some humbling. It also makes her appear more human and relatable. I thought the same thing about Aang and his crush on Katara. They could have made Aang absolutely detatched and calm all the time, but they didn't--and that was great!