carla
Since: Jan, 2010
11/26/2010 10:35:45
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FanficRecs Aerodactylus' review
This fic strikes the perfect balance between comedy and in-depth character analysis. Many lampshades are hung, and you might just shed a tear or two for the older Miss Bei Fong.
carla
Since: Jan, 2010
11/26/2010 10:35:06
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FanficRecs Kalaong's review
More than anything else, this is an examination of Fan Wank. Go to any Avatar site and you'll find reams of gushing about the unmitigated awesomeness that is Toph Bei Fong. In Full Metal Bitch, Lavanya Six turns Toph Up To Eleven to show that there is such a thing as being too Bad Ass. Underneath it all, even the strongest need love and companionship; call it Glurge if you must, but Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped. This one's for Toph.
FanficRecs It tries to hard. And it just fails.
Honestly, this "tough toph" is two things:
And I don't mean an direct parody of the Action girl, like other reviewers are implying. It's like seeing a 12 year old girl trying to be a cold hardass and failing at it, which is ironic since the actual 12 year old was a fascinating amalgamation of a great warrior, a genius and a scared, insecure high born girl. This is just a jackass who try to hard to impress the audience.
Just from the title you know that it's a silly fic. It's not a deconstruction of Fan Wank in the same way that crank is not a deconstruction of action films. It's not even a take that of the Fanon wank since it doesn't use the obvious reasons why toph is so adored (she is strong but not a bully, independient but still in need of others, a genius who can still grow and so on), it doesn't explain its reason well beside a generic backstory and the context is almost offensively badly implemented.
This Toph is offensive, it's rude and just plain unlikable. It's not a bad fic, but a bland one and that just make it worse.
The Full Metal Bitch... showing that Toph, in fact, can't make everything awesome.