Much of the conditions of post 70s culture is shrouded under a veil of mystery, which is part of why I'm not super enthusiastic about people speculating about it because we're going to crush a lot of headcanons when the time comes.
Reds fanfic
- Thread starter E. Burke
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I hope they will stop turning a schoolgirl into a fairy for the sake of an awkward transformation process and make the main character ... smarter ... more responsible ... braver.Sailor Moonas socialist magic girl
Fact - At us at localization the moment with lesbians have kept. So my and a little older and younger generation found out what happens and such. Now in our country is prohibited "propaganda" of homosexuality - development in a spiral however!
Yep...
Is the trend of the main character of shoujo anime being a whiner and dumb as a brick less prevalent in TTL? I Still don't get why we're supposed to be sympathetic to OTL Usagi Tsukino as a person during the first several episodes.
In fact, I do not think that this is specifically a Japanese trait - scenarios for TV series about children are written by those who are no longer a child. And attempts to depict their specific character traits turn out to be too grotesque .... For example, one can see this in Soviet works about boys-pranksters. I think this is just an unsuccessful attempt to prescribe an ordinary schoolgirl ...
And yes - climbed into Wikipedia and noticed - "Ray Hino - is a servant in the Shinto shrine ... Engaged in a private Catholic school." How so ?! A natural pagan to learn from Catholics! No, I can assume that she respects the Christian God as one more kami. But where do the teachers look?
I've come to the conclusion that the writers of the Legend of Korra weren't actually very happy with Season 1 in the long run given that the 3rd season comes across as a rehash/deconstruction of the first season. Or at least it gets across the idea that Zaheer has a point* and is generally sincere in his political views far better than in season 1 while also showing the extremity of his views as objectionable. So a Reds version of Korra season 1 might look like a lot like season 3, which I'm perfectly okay with.
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*As in the Earth Kingdom was legitimately a hell hole at that point and it became a fascist dictatorship in season 4.
This comment chain sums up a lot of what troubled me about LoK. Because otherwise, I loved the show and the characters, but so much of the world-building seemed troubled. Like, they start with something so cool (East Asian dieselpunk) and then flub the plot related details.
I attempted to square the circle between what was depicted and what the writers thought they were achieving with a fanfic, but it'll be a long time before I get around to finishing it. My take was that Amon and the S1 Equalists were the kind of Blanquist national revolutionaries who in all actuality didn't know what they wanted but by god they knew how to get it. And the Red Lotus I recast as a sort of Bakunin-style conspiratorial anarchists approaching the problem from the wrong direction but getting oh so close to figuring out the riddle behind the social system they oppose.
Damn, Amon as Blanqui is a good comparison.
I would definitely read that fanfic if you ever write it!
The show also suffered from the fact that the writers seemed to have trouble focusing on the story they were trying to focus on. They got better in the later seasons but Season One tried to cram a love-triangle and a sports tournament arc into the, fairly convoluted, main story of political intrigue and revolution despite the limited runtime they had whilst Season Two starts off with a civil war and what looks like a discussion on the conflict between modernity and tradition, then takes a detour to explain the origins of the Avatar and dump some lore, before revealing that the civil war is actually a front for a cosmic battle between the forces of good and evil and finally ends with Korra deciding to bring back the spirits for reasons that aren't really explained (especially given that the Avatar origin story indicated that there was a pretty good reason the link to the spirit world was sealed in the first place). The show could have befitted from some more clarity and focus.
Nice Compass in the middle, jk. I really like this flag!I made a stylized version of the UASR's emblem as described:
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Theres nothing sadder in the whole world of fiction than getting your headcanon shot through, well, a canon
How different is education handled un the Redsverse? I still have nightmares about the 7th Grade, and how they would publish all our tests results on the announcement board and read our grades out-loud to the entire class to, I guess, promote competition. Because I guess if children are not going to be motivated by the joys of learning, they will be at the thought of lording over everyone how better their grades are. And God forgive you if you’re that kid that gets a D- in Mathematics so the whole class average goes down just enough for the class not to win the “Smartest Class” trophy at the end of the year. It was ruthless
Always hated that sort of forced competitiveness
Progressive education theorists have always been skeptics about grading's utility at the very least. The most common form of grading post revolution would be Pass/Fail.
He called Ian out for his terrible defense of his political positions and essentially conceding the argument to LHB in the most backhanded way he could.
Looked at the content of the conversation - the decision was stupid and unfair.
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What do you mean? I meant that he basically gave up arguing with LHB but tried to make himself look like he had the high ground with his usual smugness.