<div class="quote"><i>Slaphappyjoy wrote:
<div class="quote">Truthteller7373 wrote:
<div class="quote">Slaphappyjoy wrote:
<div class="quote">Truthteller7373 wrote:
<div class="quote">Slaphappyjoy wrote:
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</div><span style="font-weight:normal;">SOME of the romance in the series (like the PDA) is obvious, but not all of it is. Like I previously explain, a key element of </span>
romance<span style="font-weight:normal;"> </span><span style="font-weight:normal;">is that it is NOT ALWAYS obvious and is SOMETIMES a mystery. Here is an extremely mature example. In Shakespeare, Juliet kills herself, upon finding her star-crossed lover Romeo dead. All of a sudden, committing suicide is a romantic gesture, even when it's not normally seen this way. Romance isn't always seen as hugging, kissing, and all other forms of PDA. Sometimes it's just not easily understood. However the material is still there to observe.</span><span style="font-weight:normal;">I think Asami was just a love interest until the end of Book 1. Afterward, she kept purpose, because she had access to Future Industries and all its applications, hence the reason all those mecha suits were around.</span></div>Lol the example you listed is a higher example of fictional work than avatar. The viewers and the audience shouldn't be required to dig too deeply or infer simple gestures. It is a show designed for a general audience. Which for the most part requires a different mood altogether from something like shakesphere lol.</div>Explain what higher example of fictional work means.
<p>Suicide is not simple gesture. It's an act many people have struggled to do. Yet it is connotated to be a romantic gesture through a social dynamic. You say what the audience shouldn't be required to do. However in order for an audience <i>unlike</i> Juliet to comprehend her suffering, the audience may need to perceive more <i>like</i> Juliet. For example, children may not fully comprehend why death by stabbing oneself in the gut (which is not at all a simple move) is one way to bring a soul to its mate in the afterlife. Most adults would understand this extreme act and yet Shakespeare's play is still shown to children.
</p><p>The mood an audience is in as it watches the show is irrelevant to the fact the material is still in the show to observe.
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<p>Works with more effort put into the relationships. LOK at the end of the day was just an action cartoon meant for a general audience.
</p><p>LOK main audience would for the most part be young audience . Hidden overtures and complex themes would defeat the purpose of telling a story to such an audience. You have to realize the average audience memeber wouldn't even care to look for such hints. That is why a more direct approach is needed in a cartoon. You do realize there is still probably a decent group of people who don't even know Korrasami is canon. So at the end of the day it's a bit of loss for the show trying the route it did. Pointless especially considering alot of the original audience moved on.
</p><p>It is completely relevant. Going in with the mindset of watching an action cartoon vs reading something like game of thrones for example requires totally different mindsets. Different expectations for both series and the judgement of both will be completely different for the most part. Professional critiques will tell you this fact.
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