Dire wrote:
It's like they are telling the audience it's okay to cheat on your girlfriend and hurt your brother's feelings.
Is it better to stay with someone you don't love (or don't love as much as someone else) out of obligation, or is it better to find your true love and hurt your girlfriend's feelings in the process? Mako clearly loves both of them and is having to deal with how to handle this. In the end he chose Korra, and maybe the show didn't have him outright go to Asami and say it's over (then again, he chose her in the last minute of the show. Wouldn't exactly be a good time to say "Asami, I think we need to break up" from a writing standpoint.
Keep in mind, Korra forced the facebattle on Mako because she read the air wrong. Mako could have reasoned it wasn't a big deal and not worth telling Asami, who could very well get upset over it and blame him and/or Korra. And what happened when she found out? Exactly that.
Bolin got his feelings hurt because he thought Mako stole Korra from him, or that Korra used him to try to make Mako take her from him. It was all a misunderstanding between all of them. None of them did what they did to be an asshole. Bolin wasn't "trying to force Korra to like him because she owed him for the date". Mako wasn't "being a player and leading the two girls on". Korra wasn't "being a manipulative bitch trying to make Mako leave Asami". They're just 3 kids who misread what was going on with each other and wound up in a mess.
Dire wrote:
Am I to assume that all the stuff that justifies how the characters behave happens between the scenes? Last thing I remember Mako saying to Asami was that he cares about her and that they'll talk later. I don't remember him sitting down with her and saying that 'it's over, I'm in love with another girl'. Also, if he wasn't cheating on Asami then his broken relationship with her is hardly a consequence.
We never see anyone pooping in the show. Obviously this means no one poops.
The writers can't shove everything into the show. First off, it could fuck over pacing. Secondly, it could be very boring. They had to walk a fine line between progressing the arc-plot, working in the romantic lovenangle, and having fight scenes. Being too heavy on any one of them could alienate the people there for the others. Dedicating an entire scene in the finale for Mako to talk to Asami would be weird, and especially since they wanted to save him making that choice for the very last part of the finale, having that scene would make things weird. Maybe he'll talk to her at the beginning of next season?