Sokka: "It's so dark, I can't see anything."
Toph: "Oh no, what a nightmare."
Oh no oh how terrible oh if only someone were there to warn these lovely ladies about this 30 years ago.
Her sincere but still completely off guess of it being upside down is fucking priceless, it's one of the scenes that stuck with me for literal years rent free. For me, it's when Katara is a little bit pissy at Toph for not wanting to go into the library and she's like "I've held books before, it doesn't do a lot for me." They went above and beyond the necessary during the desert arc, and also it added some drama to the pre-accepted Appa flight scenes.
That's the lowest blow in the series. And most characters are partial orphans and 3/4ths of the villains blow up in Korra.
That's very true. Also Metal bending, she's in a metal crate and can't see or attack. I remember how it was 4 episodes into the show before we saw our first Earthbender, and it was one of the most powerful characters in the show flatout, he threw the WALL and WON. So when we next see an earthbender about four episodes later we don't really get why he's struggling to move one rock through the air. Compare that to the constant showcase of firebending and rudimentary water bending and master Airbending (Making it 6 seasons of the show before we ever saw an airbender who couldn't singehandedly take out ten elite guards even by age 7.
The Dutch are in the midst of an uprising by their farmers. The uprising is happening and there's a chance a significant portion of the soldiers are looking home and not wanting to give command the satisfaction of passing conflict ready battalions.
I welcome being seen as the Dark Ages. We deserve it. The key is to foster the human spirit in these gusty hazy days so that it may come alight whenever fresh fuel is found.
Even worse: They want to feel more beautiful than heroic characters. It's not enough that a 260 3/10 can get her hole drilled every now and then, it's about the 3/10 getting her hole drilled moreoften than a 7+
Toph is blind jokes were never abused but always were perfect. Right down to her first episode we had gems such as Sokka hitting her in the head with the belt, and the Library's "IT'S THERE! That's what it'll sound like when one of you seeing people see it waves hand in front of eyes" is a top 10 joke. Plus all of the times people hold up posters, always a good time for a poster joke "What is this?" "I DON'T KNOW, HONESTLY WHAT IS IT WITH YOU PEOPLE?"
It's really healthy how the team just kinda flat out forgets at times. Like if she was in anyway hindered yeah those jokes may be a bit more venomous, but 90% of the time she can tell where things are much better.
Her flexing improved sandbending in the finale with that model city was such a great character moment. Completely useless in the final fight but it answers the question of how does she respond to her greatest failure: By becoming hyper precise with sand in her off time.
I like how there were legitimate moments where Toph's blindness was helpful, and legitimate moments where it just fucked things up a bit. It wasn't a lightswitch that could be turned on and off at will, even in the finale "Powerful but blind child can't see where she's jumping to" Becomes a point of stress.
There are two kinds of people in the world. The kind of person who can look at a collective of traits that are in a character and see what that says about someone, how they act, how they react, what their wants and desires are.
And someone whose only interests ARE those traits. Good writers can take traits and weave a story out of it. Bad writers write to prop up traits. Take Toph for instance: She's IMMEDIATELY introduced as an overpowered god of her magic system. There's no question about it. And yes we learn that it's because she is a nearly self taught guru, but her skill is then very rarely seen as the solution to an episode. No plot asks "Hey, can Toph throw a rock really, really hard?" before it asks "What are Toph's weaknesses." In order right after her introduction, the plots are things like "Everyone gets frustrated at each other and Toph's unyielding nature is a huge thorn in the team's side" "Toph has never taught anyone before and Aang can't catch on" "Toph legitimately fails a fight and feels like shit." And "Toph bristles at anything that reminds her of regiment and order and has to learn to swallow her pride to help her team out." A poorly written show instead would have been like "The team learns to appreciate Toph's blindness." "Toph has to throw a REALLY REALLY big rock to take down an airship" "The team doesn't respect Toph's power enough and they split up."
On the flipside, imagine how fucking boring solving black murders would be. "Suspect drove his own car, brought his phone with him, and then streamed shooting up his neighbors in broad daylight before speeding off, officer caught him doing 95 in a 35 four blocks from the still warm body, witnesses are stupid but a body on the stand is a body on the stand." Hell just last week the brother of a prolific NFL player. Literal multi-multi-millionare, was filmed shooting a youth football coach in public. Let's see if we can get 30 minutes of programming out of that mystery.
Humanity is 80 years behind the curve it could be in if we finally used nuclear power. No one advocates that explosives shouldn't be used for digging constructions and destruction even though bombs have killed more than nukes. Cheap, limitless energy would drive so much innovation much like the steam engine did (Although the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for humanity; at least let's live in this post IR world properly)
History, time and time again, shows that in the end the good guys win. Sure there are losses here and there, infighting, but winning 100% of the time is just hard. The Russian Civil War of the 20's and WW2, and the following years that put us into this mess, were the biggest time where evil prevailed because good didn't understand evil and just went with the flow, but inevitably evil doesn't understand how it won. This present darkness is making way for great light.
It's representative of the writers' own strugles. Step 1: Hear that comic books/fantasy/sci fi are popular. Step 2: Own a vagina. Step 3: Ask to write. Step 4: Showrunner. Same arc as Flat MCU Superman girl and sassy brown spiderman girl.
"A cishet white male just wrote a law show about some privileged Irish punk whom has no obsticles in life, it'd be twice as easy to make a law show about a waman of kulur"
Roving Red Pill distributor/jester checks to make sure White woman is properly educated on the failures of the 2010's, colorized.
Another checkmark for religious violence
Women thought that they were going to get tiny harmless guys as submissive little pets in the troon migration and instead got the most emboldened most socially retarded most demanding slobs imaginable. Not my fucking problem.
No chick is holding that hat that way. Dude has his balls in the cap.
How many gay public school teachers has it been this year? There was the asian who fucked a kid and distributed the pictures, at least this guy was going after a fed.
"EAT SIX TO EIGHT SERVINGS OF BREAD A DAY, ELIMINATE DAIRY AND MEAT"
Very funny how most things near the top are processed or otherwise don't come from animals. I'm pretty sure if you turned this chart upside down, you'd do pretty well.
Entirely plausable. Like she got passed to maybe twice in clear "Heave it or sack it" moments and people kinda felt bad that she got leveled by a backer while just standing there. And then it's like "Holy shit never again." Like my team knew this one kid who went on to play P5 football as a "Don't punt it to him cause he'd house it" after one play in a 24-17 rumbler that we lost, "Don't even allow the girl to get mauled by some Bavarian unit destined for Washington" for her.