Talk:Asami Sato/@comment-184.7.99.119-20120603203155/@comment-98.200.164.35-20120604083843

I dunno. Maybe this is a characterization, but to me it sounds like you're saying subtlety in storytelling is irrelevant, and the only thing that matters is big and unmistakable "impacts." Asami's little look of what many people took to be jealousy is a very subtle touch, I'll give you that. But that's all the more impressive of Bryan and Mike, if you ask me, and testifies to the overall quality of the storytelling.

You're right, though, in a sense, when you say that some future event when Asami clearly and undeniably showed jealousy would cinch it, and prove that she was jealous. But then you'd have to go back and look at her little "squint" in a different light, no?

Asami might get the short end of the stick a lot, but in some ways that's Bryan's and Mike's "fault": setting her up as Korra's rival, making her pretty much uninteresting until "The Aftermath," etc. People who are "rooting" for Korra in general have a lot of built-in reasons to dislike her, and that's only to be expected. And I think it's safe to say she's not one of the more developed characters in LOK yet. It doesn't look like they'll have a lot of time to develop her, and wrap things up, if we've only got a few more episodes left in the season.

From personal experience, I can say that it was a lot of little things that made me sure Zuko would join Team Avatar eventually, even all the way back in Book One. The same goes for being sure that Katara would end up with Aang. Of course, I didn't "know" that either of those things were going to happen until they did. They didn't "actually impact the characters or story" until they did. But so what? Again: foreshadowing. I was going off of little things. I could have easily gotten it wrong, but I didn't that time.

I admit, I'm "going on" a very tiny reaction; but it's a tiny reaction set in an overall context.