Woo, I love them, too! Lust's early death makes me cranky, because I found her pretty fascinating.
Yay!! I was annoyed by Lust's death too, and totally agree that she seemed to be a lust object more than lustful - but then I also found my self a little confused by the way she didn't seem to inspire that much lust either. She had that guy from Mustang's gang (was that Havoc??), but no one else seemed particularly interested. I found myself mostly thinking that we never got to know her before she died, which seemed sad. :( (With the names, I do actually tend to wonder whether it was supposed to be immediately clear that the homunculi were the seven deadly sins, since their names were turned into the English and so not immediately apparent in the Japanese. Pride, Envy and Greed didn't seem to really show their sins until later on in their stories, so I feel like maybe coming to it from an anglophone perspective puts a stronger emphasis on their concepts than might actually be there. Or at least I think lust might have underpinned Lust's character in a way that never got to be seen.)
It's a reason I like Winry, too, actually. She still falls into the "girl waiting at home" trope a little more readily than I'd love, but what she does manage is to have a life, and a job, and friends, while she's at it. She's strong-willed, yet cute skirt-wearing, and kickass without being a warrior chick.
Ack, Winry; I don't know what to do with her. She does seem to have a life, but after she left Wotsit Town of Automail Joy I found it really hard to work out what she was doing with it. Especially when her dialogue seemed to drift into nothing but crying and cliches... By the end I found her scenes pretty tedious (this was also when I realised I didn't like Ed, so it all pretty much compounded on itself).
Having cut my teeth on Buffy, you bet I noticed this one—with amazement and gratitude!
*nods* I think it's broader than Buffy though - I just think of all the cartoons I grew up with, where the kids are almost universally set against their teachers and their parents. And things like Skins over here, where it being a teen show means that the parents tend to be caricatured comic relief bumbling in the background. I think of anime (or anime + Japanese computer games) on the other hand as tending much more towards a mix of adults and children - and I'm not sure how much I'm basing that on fact rather than pulling a conclusion out of the air, but I have a feeling it might have been one of the things that stopped AtLA feeling like anime to me...
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Date: 11/05/2011 17:20 (UTC)Yay!! I was annoyed by Lust's death too, and totally agree that she seemed to be a lust object more than lustful - but then I also found my self a little confused by the way she didn't seem to inspire that much lust either. She had that guy from Mustang's gang (was that Havoc??), but no one else seemed particularly interested. I found myself mostly thinking that we never got to know her before she died, which seemed sad. :( (With the names, I do actually tend to wonder whether it was supposed to be immediately clear that the homunculi were the seven deadly sins, since their names were turned into the English and so not immediately apparent in the Japanese. Pride, Envy and Greed didn't seem to really show their sins until later on in their stories, so I feel like maybe coming to it from an anglophone perspective puts a stronger emphasis on their concepts than might actually be there. Or at least I think lust might have underpinned Lust's character in a way that never got to be seen.)
It's a reason I like Winry, too, actually. She still falls into the "girl waiting at home" trope a little more readily than I'd love, but what she does manage is to have a life, and a job, and friends, while she's at it. She's strong-willed, yet cute skirt-wearing, and kickass without being a warrior chick.
Ack, Winry; I don't know what to do with her. She does seem to have a life, but after she left Wotsit Town of Automail Joy I found it really hard to work out what she was doing with it. Especially when her dialogue seemed to drift into nothing but crying and cliches... By the end I found her scenes pretty tedious (this was also when I realised I didn't like Ed, so it all pretty much compounded on itself).
Having cut my teeth on Buffy, you bet I noticed this one—with amazement and gratitude!
*nods* I think it's broader than Buffy though - I just think of all the cartoons I grew up with, where the kids are almost universally set against their teachers and their parents. And things like Skins over here, where it being a teen show means that the parents tend to be caricatured comic relief bumbling in the background. I think of anime (or anime + Japanese computer games) on the other hand as tending much more towards a mix of adults and children - and I'm not sure how much I'm basing that on fact rather than pulling a conclusion out of the air, but I have a feeling it might have been one of the things that stopped AtLA feeling like anime to me...