thecakewasalie - Profile (original) (raw)

This is a community created for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender who were disappointed with the series' conclusion. Specifically for ranting/venting about the problematic storytelling that made up much of the last season, and came to a head in the series finale. As lots of people in general communities will summarily jump down the throat of anyone who dares to say the entire third season had some serious flaws and was not up to the quality of the first two, this community was created to give those people a place to air their grievances without the fear of being ridiculed or written off.

THE RULES:

1. THIS IS NOT A DEBATE COMMUNITY. You have to not like certain aspects of the third season. If you loved the series' ending and have no problems with it, stay out.

2. Mindless character/ship-bashing is not allowed. If you hated a particular character or the way a certain relationship was portrayed, come up with a good reason why. Was it badly executed? Was the character underdeveloped or inconsistent? Was s/he praised for doing something s/he should've been reprimanded for? Give us a reason with a little more depth than "so-and-so SUCKS!"

Special note: This also applies to the creators! Criticize their writing/ideas all you like, but leave the personal insults out of it.

3. Intelligent, reasoned, calm criticism and discussion of storytelling, character development, plot elements, and other parts of story structure is widely encouraged. As is commentary on the message these blunders can send to a potentially impressionable audience. We are, in fact, srs bzns here. If you're just in it for the squee, stay out.

4. No personal attacks on members. Discuss how much you hated the show's ending all you like, but the buck stops there.

5. No deleting your own comments (unless correcting HTML/spelling/grammar mistakes if you don't have a paid account), and definitely no deleting your own posts or disabling comments. If you can't take the responses to your post, edit it to set your comments option to "no mail." If people are dogpiling on you for a comment you made on another post? Suck it up and think before you type next time. Anyone who deletes comments because of disagreements, or disables comments on a post will receive an automatic permanent ban, no questions asked.

If you feel that another member is harassing you (thus breaking Rule #4), contact me and I will delete the post/freeze comments/disable comments/whatever to remedy the situation if it's warranted. Do not take it into your own hands. This is a discussion community, and you can't really have discussion if people aren't allowed to comment.

6. I doubt there will be much need for this, but I'll say it anyway: large pictures, blocks of text, and adult content go behind a cut with appropriate warnings if necessary. Likewise, links to adult content must also contain a warning.

7. NEW RULE -- No one or two-word or acronym-only agreement comments. It's great if you agree. Really, it is. But if you have nothing to add to the conversation other than your agreement, then don't. It creates comment clutter, and more importantly spams inboxes. It's annoying.

That pretty much covers it. Have fun!

ass pull, atla, avatar season 3, avatar the last airbender, critical watching, criticism, dethroning moment of suck, deus ex machina, fridge horror, fridge logic, headscratchers, jumping the shark, out of left field, retconning, spiritbending, standard hero reward, too many loose ends, wtf did ozai live, wtf was that, your mileage may vary