They actually planned not to have to many episodes over the summer. Mako's death has nothing to do with it. The entire second season has already been recorded. The question is what will they do for the third? I perdict Iroh getting into some kind of accident which permanently alters his voice so there is an excuse. If not there are other voice actors who could portray the roll.
I think when it comes to animation Avatar is far better than most Japanese animation. *hides in side fort of iron* It also a good show considering all the censoring that American animators have to work around.
I'm just not a fan of the ideals that yaoi portrays. The seme/uke thing is my main problem, and stereotypical personas people put onto already established characters. I know some people don't do this, but then a lot of people also portray a yaoi or yuri couple with an arrogant sometimes adult looking dominant persona with a submissive persona that lquite honestly looks like a child.
The only thing that bothers me about yaoi is that some fans are very insistent about it. This is to the point where it reaches beyond the point of fanfiction. I find the yaoi fandom frightening myself because when it comes to seme/uke, you have some fans screaming this is what homosexuality is.
Good point, I guess I should have reworded it better. The problem that I see with most yaoi fanfiction is that most of it isn't believable. They don't give a plausable excuse for a character being gay in world or out of world. Not that you have to go through the process of a back story, but I would like seeing the character have the same personality and not be tottaly turned around this way and that. I go for the same in het of fanfiction, and I only really like an out of character story when it is humor.