First of all - you have Avatar icons!!! Oh, I'm jealous... Aang and Momo, yay!
Don't be jealous! I got them here: http://avatargraphics.livejournal.com/ =D
We have to make Avatar videos. We really, really do.
And especially when she run away to this guy who wanted to kidnap Deke?
She apparently can't help that because her Nebari brainwashing kicked in and she has no choice but to be with him (and sleep with him) because her biology predetermined that this is Who She Must Love and her love for D'Argo wasn't real, and argh. Seriously, Chiana would be throwing herself out an airlock before she gave into this! It'd be like John going along with the chip in his head, no torment, no conflict, no desperation, just "oh well, what can you do?"
Aeryn & the religion is something that's bothering me more the more I hear that it bothers other people; when that story was developing I was trying not to pay attention to the comics, so I haven't really thought about it. It does seem absurd. Where my head exploded in regards to Aeryn is her letting Grayza go free because "no child should be separated from its mother" - Grayza has raped, tortured, and killed countless people, and she shouldn't be put in jail or put to death, she should just be sent off alone with an innocent child who she can warp to her heart's content? I can't see Aeryn ever doing that. Feeling torn about it, feeling sympathy...but she would take and raise that child alongside her own before she left it with a woman like Grazya. That's an insult not only to the character and the readers but to all the people who have had abusive parents.
I'm not also very fond of stories where Aeryn or John become some kind of leaders in the future, it happens sometimes in future fics (for PKs or Earth interstellar forces, whatever). It can be well executed, yes and it happened it some really great fanfics but it makes me uneasy. I just can't see them in that context.
I completely agree. Stormdrain, over at GE, had a great list of his problems with the comic, and summed this up nicely (quoted with permission):
-Aeryn becomes supreme leader of the PKs although there are thousands, even millions in line ahead of her, she is a known enemy of the PKs, is permanently ineligible and is unqualified.
-Aeryn's husband is not an officer at all, is anti-PK, threatened to destroy the universe to engineer PK surrender in a war and is the most mistrusted man the PKs know of, but is Aeryn's more significant other present at all times and making the judgments for the fate of all PKs which Aeryn easily goes along with.
-Most PKs accept the above.
-Aeryn is most engaging when fired up but she is developed to being peaceful instead. Prior to being made supreme commander of PKs during war.
-John is most affecting as a vulnerable everyman and a peaceful scientist but he is developed into a kick arse unquestionable and powerful master of the universe instead.
Sorry for the long rambly reply - this gets me riled up LOL I should watch some Avatar. Are you looking forward to Korra?
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Don't be jealous! I got them here: http://avatargraphics.livejournal.com/ =D
We have to make Avatar videos. We really, really do.
And especially when she run away to this guy who wanted to kidnap Deke?
She apparently can't help that because her Nebari brainwashing kicked in and she has no choice but to be with him (and sleep with him) because her biology predetermined that this is Who She Must Love and her love for D'Argo wasn't real, and argh. Seriously, Chiana would be throwing herself out an airlock before she gave into this! It'd be like John going along with the chip in his head, no torment, no conflict, no desperation, just "oh well, what can you do?"
Aeryn & the religion is something that's bothering me more the more I hear that it bothers other people; when that story was developing I was trying not to pay attention to the comics, so I haven't really thought about it. It does seem absurd. Where my head exploded in regards to Aeryn is her letting Grayza go free because "no child should be separated from its mother" - Grayza has raped, tortured, and killed countless people, and she shouldn't be put in jail or put to death, she should just be sent off alone with an innocent child who she can warp to her heart's content? I can't see Aeryn ever doing that. Feeling torn about it, feeling sympathy...but she would take and raise that child alongside her own before she left it with a woman like Grazya. That's an insult not only to the character and the readers but to all the people who have had abusive parents.
I'm not also very fond of stories where Aeryn or John become some kind of leaders in the future, it happens sometimes in future fics (for PKs or Earth interstellar forces, whatever). It can be well executed, yes and it happened it some really great fanfics but it makes me uneasy. I just can't see them in that context.
I completely agree. Stormdrain, over at GE, had a great list of his problems with the comic, and summed this up nicely (quoted with permission):
-Aeryn becomes supreme leader of the PKs although there are thousands, even millions in line ahead of her, she is a known enemy of the PKs, is permanently ineligible and is unqualified.
-Aeryn's husband is not an officer at all, is anti-PK, threatened to destroy the universe to engineer PK surrender in a war and is the most mistrusted man the PKs know of, but is Aeryn's more significant other present at all times and making the judgments for the fate of all PKs which Aeryn easily goes along with.
-Most PKs accept the above.
-Aeryn is most engaging when fired up but she is developed to being peaceful instead. Prior to being made supreme commander of PKs during war.
-John is most affecting as a vulnerable everyman and a peaceful scientist but he is developed into a kick arse unquestionable and powerful master of the universe instead.
Sorry for the long rambly reply - this gets me riled up LOL I should watch some Avatar. Are you looking forward to Korra?