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I didn\'t say he was a Stu. I specifically said, \
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I didn\\\'t say he was a Stu. I specifically said, \\\"I don’t think Zuko has quite reached the level of being an over-powered protagonist.\\\" My main complaint is that it\\\'s gotten SILLY and unnecessarily complicated. It reminds me of [[http://www.politedissent.com/archives/1741 this strip]] from Phil Foglio. Past a certian point, additional power sources for a character just complicate things without adding anything to the story. Zuko could have pulled off most of his stunts so far with just creative application of fire-healing and hot-water-bending. Hence, \\\"One of these could be the basis of a good story. Having all of them in play at once is rather silly at times.\\\"
Edit: To express this another way, dragon-blood Zuko is an interesting idea worth exploring and developing in a story. The same is true of moon-touched Zuko, and reincarnated Zuko. I think trying to explore and develop all of these ideas in the same story was a bad choice on Vathara\\\'s part. They are distracting from each other and from other aspects of the story. I think only Vathara\\\'s skill as a writer has kept this from turning into a total train wreck so far, but the effort and attention she has to use in juggling all these elements could have been put to better use focusing on a smaller number of concepts.
Edit: To express this another way, dragon-blood Zuko is an interesting idea worth exploring and developing in a story. The same is true of moon-touched Zuko, and reincarnated Zuko. I think trying to explore and develop all of these ideas in the same story was a bad choice on Vathara\\\'s part. They are distracting from each other and from other aspects of the story. I think only Vathara\\\'s skill as a writer has kept this from turning into a total train wreck so far, but the effort and attention she has to use in juggling all these elements could have been put to better use focusing on a smaller number of concepts.
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I didn\'t say he was a Stu. I specifically said, \
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I didn\\\'t say he was a Stu. I specifically said, \\\"I don’t think Zuko has quite reached the level of being an over-powered protagonist.\\\" My main complaint is that it\\\'s gotten SILLY and unnecessarily complicated. It reminds me of [[http://www.politedissent.com/archives/1741 this strip]] from Phil Foglio. Past a certian point, additional power sources for a character just complicate things without adding anything to the story. Zuko could have pulled off most of his stunts so far with just creative application of fire-healing and hot-water-bending. Hence, \\\"One of these could be the basis of a good story. Having all of them in play at once is rather silly at times.\\\"
