Still having Korra squee

[lizbee]

It excites me that I keep seeing people saying that all the buzz about Korra makes them think of watching Avatar: the Last Airbender. Because that's how I got into it, back when the sequel was first announced!

It excites me less that people are saying they're totally going to watch Korra, but not Avatar, because that's a kid's show. People who dismiss all stories written for children are every bit as annoying as people who say YA is the only good literary genre. (Yeah, I saw something along those lines recently. Where I would say that YA is a sales category, not a genre, and certainly YA sci-fi is where a lot of the really interesting writing and character-driven speculative fiction is happening, and dismissing the majority of literature just makes you look like a bit of a jackass.)

(I think I'm also having leftover rage from last year, when people were saying there were too many children in Doctor Who, and they're not proper people, and it's not like any children watch the series OH WAIT.)

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[holyschist]

ARGH. My current peeve is people who won't consume anything that doesn't have sex in it. Because apparently that's the only thing worth writing about.

But I also object to YA-as-a-genre (marketing category is a good term; I'm going to start using that), and both dismissing it and holding it up as the only thing worth reading and...

In conclusion, KORRA! And I need to rewatch ATLA.

[lizbee]

I'VE SEEN THAT, TOO. As a reason for not watching Avatar, actually.

"Oh, they're all kids, there won't be any sex."
"There are also adult characters. And two of the older teen couples are strongly implied to have slept together."
"BUT THERE'S NO SEX."

[holyschist]

.....

Do these people literally never consume any media except porn and erotica? That seems to be cutting oneself off from the vast majority of all media ever.