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>>112837
Mako isn't really a bad concept for a character:
>Orphan living on the streets >Struggles to make a living for himself and his younger brother >Had to grow up fast if he hoped to survive >Tries to be the responsible and mature one of the two brothers >Still is quite immature and knows so little about the world himself >While he makes mistakes and can be inconsiderate, he isn't looking to hurt anybody on purpose.
The problem was that they took this decent character/concept and threw him in a show where he didn't have much to do with the plot except being there to sling fireballs and shoot lightning when they needed him to and to be a prize for the female lead. But I think that in the earlier episodes the way they presented Mako was a little better because they presented him in a way that felt like he was a real main character that had something to do with the story and whose character arc was actually going to play some role in the main conflict. Even when he was with Asami, for the first few episodes of this relationship, being with Asami was never really presented as the purpose of his character and it wasn't quite clear just yet when or if he'd ever get with Korra. The problem is that once you get to Out of the Past, they no longer try to even hide the fact that they want him to lock lips with Korra by the end and that point it becomes his only purpose for even being in the show. And on top of that they try to rush it, because they used up so much time already, and they rush it in a way that glosses over or ignores Mako's faults, making it look like he's suffering no real repercussions for his actions cause in the end he gets what he wants either way, regardless of how sorry or not sorry he is about the way he acted towards Asami. Even in earlier episodes where Mako was wrong, he suffered clear consequences for his actions and his apologies seemed to carry more weight to them.
Mako is not a bad character like some people think, he's a sad waste of a pretty good character. Bolin at least had the "luck" of being sidelined, so he's less hated and probably seen to have more potential. But I think brothers have potential if they were just given something important to do in the story.
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