>>99672699This is actually the kind of thing you see people so in love with their fantasy-setting do. Predict the future.
Magic (in this case bending) allows for advancements that we'd think fucking down right pants on head retarded. I.E. giant robots and gigga-lazer-cannons.
Now to be fair, the gigga-lazer-cannon uses a resource they showed, earlier in the series, being so volitile. And it's not lasers, it's taking that resource, sticking it in a barrel to direct the blast, and firing it. That's not very advanced technologically speaking. That goes all the way back to the Firebenders and Airbenders magic bending doors that unlock by blowing into tubes.
AT THE SAME TIME THOUGH, I noticed shit that also those same fans tend to do; assume what is common knowledge to us is common knowledge to them. "Oh hey let's make a radio" fucking out of nowhere. Bending didn't make that. Sure we can assume that someone invented it, but it's a major leap for the audience after coming out of Journey to the West (with steam punk technology from the firenation tanks, zeppelins, and giggadrills)
But we -can- complain, and rightfully so, about the stylistic choice. Because SOME MOTHER FUCKER on the PLANNING TEAM thought it was a good idea TO HAVE FUCKING GIANT ROBOTS.
Have your tech advancement, and you can defend it all you want with "Oh, but they would imagine this!" It doesn't make it any less jarring or FUCKING STUPID.
