Weirdly, The Vampire Diaries does this really well too. Season 3 was all about how everyone they know has died, there's no way out of the death gauntlet that has become their lives, and how that's worn on all the characters.

P.O.S. Sings!
What's so novel about that? Stef always sings, both in rap and Building Better Bombs…

totally racist premise
Feministing and Racialicious made good points about there being not reason for a white dude avataring it up in the first place. If you really want the politics to be "radical," let the na'vi save themselves. Fun fact: The Battle of Algiers originally was gonna have a viewpoint character from…

super late, but fuck it
Todd, not being a shrill feminist surrounded by shrill not-feminists, you don't know HOW true to life the girl bathroom stuff was. I mean dead fucking on. It was one of my favorite parts of the episode.