>Admittedly, she isn't quite herself these days, but this seems...
>overly philosophical for Azula, or at least, overly philosophical for
>her to be sharing it with someone she hasn't decided if she's going to
>burn to death or not yet. I dunno. It's tonally off, more like
>something Iroh would say.

She's coming off a kinghell fever dream and you're bitching that she's Tonally Off. I just don't know sometimes.

>Hrm.
>
>I know that this is a convenient way of conveying certain facts and
>information to Laura so that the story can move forward, but, well...
>Laura is being very perceptive here. I have a hard time seeing
>Azula, even broken and battered as she is, speaking about the Fire
>Nation and it's colonial wars in any way other than, say, a supremely
>patriotic Victorian-era Englishman would speak about the glories of
>the Pax Brittanica and the White Man's Burden, or an
>Imperial-era Japanese military officer would speak about what a great
>idea the Co-Prosperity Sphere was.
>
>I know that Laura is pretty smart and all, but she's also not all that
>socially adept just yet, and Azula would give her a LOT of bullshit to
>shovel through to get at the kernels of truth contained therein.

She may not be socially adept, but she's read a fuckton of military history, a lot of which has contained exactly the same jingoistic tropes. If she hasn't learned to sort those into their respective size classes more or less instinctively by now...

>A modern 24th-centurty shinkansen would probably be much, much
>shinier and sleeker than things Azula was used to in the past, but she
>would, I think, take one look at it and go "Oh, that's a train. It's
>very big, and very fast, but I know trains. I've been on
>trains."

"... wait, where are the wheels?"

>I don't really buy the attempted suicide. At all.

I'm not entirely sure it was an attempted suicide. At that particular moment, she might well have concluded that she was already dead.

She is insane, after all.

>The story as a whole... it's pretty good. It is... uneven, and rushed,
>in places (some of it reminded me of the pacing issues LoK has
>displayed at times, and hopefully the comparison doesn't cause you to
>instantly stop taking me seriously)

Why, your very soul to the Devil, sir.

On the other hand, I would be a lot more willing to forgive the Korra team their trespasses if I knew they'd done what they did in nine fucking days, I'm just saying. :)

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