Thanks for all the reviews, I just decided to add a little bit of stuff to this. Reviews are nice, but don't feel obligated to leave one. I was being sarcastic, by the way.
Disclaimer: The Oompa-Loompa currently dancing past your window is carrying a sign telling you how much I own Avatar. Or Witch, or Mediator, or Phantom, or X-Men, or- Sorry, continuing!Many of us devout fans wonder: Why do we not get a lot of male shirtless scenes? We have two extremely attractive male characters, I think the real question should be why are they not ALWAYS shirtless? This may have been extremely unpractical in places like the North Pole, but who cares about practicality when you've got two hot guys without shirts on?
We know it's not a matter of physical attraction, these two male characters are actually too attractive for their own good(Sue-fics, anyone?). We actually wonder how two characters, in a show that is a little over a year old, can get so many fangirls. This authoress has a theory that Nickelodeon has developed a way to send pheromones over television, therefore causing every female, including cats and grandma who should know better, to fall madly in love with one of both of these characters.
I have pondered this question for a long time, by which I mean the past forty seconds, and I have come up with a definite conclusion. Picture this scene:
It's the night of the premiere of the Southern Air Temple. Bryan DiMartino and Michael Dante had just left the Nick studios, and headed home for the night. They got to their respective homes early, and began to make dinner. Their families returned home, and they all sat down together to watch Avatar.
Everything was going fine until they reached the Agni Kai scene. Otherwise known as the scene that made Avatar famous. The scene that got this authoress hooked onto the show in the hopes that there would be more similar scenes. The scene that she watched at five thirty A.M. since she couldn't stay up late to watch it the night it came out, and had to wait until the next Monday, and instantly woke the Queen of the Non-Morning People up. My eyelids actually popped open, and I saw one of my female cats stare at the screen with an amount of concentration that I have not seen since I watched the same scene with my gay male cousin, who I do not think blinked the entire time.
Anyways, after the episode ended, each creator turned towards their wives and asked with a hopeful smile on their faces," Did you like it, honey?" Their wives had a blank, glazed look in their eyes as they said in dazed voices," It was very nice. I liked the scene at the end a lot. That scar guy is rather good looking, isn't he? Is he going to end up with anyone?"
"Uh, maybe. We haven't decided yet."
"What a shame. Will there be any more scenes like that?"
" I don't know."
"Oh." Then each wife wandered off to watch the scene over and over again, with the hopes that it would become permanently burned into her mind. The creators' faces paled as they realized that they were in a very real danger of losing their wives to a sixteen year old cartoon character that they had created themselves. After a frantic phone call, it was decided that there would be no more shirtless scenes, except for twelve year olds who have a chest that actually curves inwards. The wives were rather disappointed until they discovered W.i.t.c.h., and saw the episode that Caleb spends mostly shirtless. We discover in that episode many things relevant to the plot and very important to the good guys, but also that Caleb looks very, very good without a shirt on. You tell me which was more important.
Anyways, the only reason why we got two shirtless scenes in the second season was that their wives decided to banish their husbands to the couch until they put at least two non-twelve-year-old shirtless scenes.
And this is the sad, sad tale of why we don't get a lot of shirtless scenes.
