The Legend of Korra is Garbage and Here's Why

Avatar the Last Airbender is one of those TV shows that everyone watched as a kid and loved and then rediscovered as adults and loved even more. It's one of the few kids shows that ages well with its audience and has themes deep enough that such a second viewing makes you appreciate all the little things they did to keep your parents engaged while you forced them to sit down as a kid to watch. how the other lady beat the evil lady. This enduring quality generated, among other things, a characteristic. film directed by M Night Shyamalan that made the two biggest mistakes any film adaptation could make by trying to condense a 10-hour, multi-stranded story into just a two-hour movie and make something live-action that had no business being t

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Honestly, no one stopped to think that maybe the show was animated for some reason, so maybe if we're making a movie out of it, we should make a real movie with a new story and not make it live action because that It would be stupid it's like a precursor to Warcraft what have you done sometimes you have to force the hand of fate the mistakes of the movie were obvious to anyone if Nickelodeon wanted to make more avatar they would have had to move on to a new story and keep the animation style combined which made it unique in the first place and that's exactly what they did when making The Legend of Korra.

This program is terrible. He spends most of his time playing. He remembers this in the previous show and never develops an identity of his own. Like the movie, it's still trying to fix things that weren't broken to begin with and is more concerned with trying to position itself as the adult alternative to the original series and what we end up with is a prime example of how not to do that. Making a sequel series not only fails on its own merits, but ends up making The Last Airbender seem like a freak accident we had to experience through pure luck, so join me as we delve into every possible detail of why The Legend from Korra. fail because I had to rewatch the series to write this damn thing and if I had to suffer, so do you in an attempt to present justice because people like to pretend that I'm always negative for no reason.

I'm going to start by listing all the things I liked about Korah. I'm not against the series trying to court a more mature audience than its predecessor, especially since most people who grew up watching Avatar were probably already teenagers when Korra came out. T

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's a difference between a show trying to aim higher than its predecessor out of a genuine desire to do something new and showing that it's up its own ass because the creators are one of those insufferable pieces of trash you think cartoons give. at their best when directed. towards children is a kind of negative stigma that we must fight against, and despite all the problems that come with its attempt at a more mature version of the source material, Korra is clearly taking its tenth place in the former category. -Examined in depth the application of flexion and its different uses.

I'll explore further, although I'll complain later. The ability to power an electrical grid with lightning as a kind of manual labor for fire benders is a wonderful touch to the series' attempt to modernize the technology and show how much it has changed in the sixty years since the War of the Dead. One Hundred Years, even despite a rampant Americanization of everything else. I honestly think the modern aesthetic would have been better if more bending and less generic 1920s steampunk murica had been incorporated. I love how metalbending has expanded with the many different applications for a single sheet of metal.

Kuvera exploits the metal shoulder pads on most of our soldiers to mimic Darth Vader's choking trick and displays a level of attention to detail in at least as far as visuals go that isn't often seen in animated shows, If The Legend of Korra consisted entirely of moments like this, it would have been the best show ever to make you remember how in The Last Airbender Hama talked to Katara about how much bending could be boosted with just a little ingenuity. . The Legend of Korra took that idea to level 11 with each bending school finding new and unique ways to exert control over the elements by making use of small details to affect. things in such a massive way is a much smarter and more creative approach to combat design than simply hitting it with a larger laser beam, although that's exactly what the show ends up doing most of the time.

Bending was always perfect for combat pragmatism, even The Last Airbender, where large pillars of fire were always considerably less impressive than the small ways a bender could rise, plus the

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of Korra gave rise to the only cool spending technique that is always sacred. Are you seeing this? That's lava. Everyone was obsessed with who I am here. Queen of the Earth, this guy is bending lava. I like this line from Kuvira and I don't want people to put you where you are. I know what happens to cities that don't want to give you control, so you know what's in store for Xiaofu.

In fact, unlike all of Cuvier's lines, although I'll complain about her later, she's the only character in this series who seems as tired of all the main characters as I was at this point and practically hands them over on a plate. of silver what everyone asked of them. while they're busy saying platitudes and not bothering, I really like Tenzin, he's a much more interesting character than Korra herself as she has to live with the responsibility of rebuilding the air nomads after her father's death, plus having to teach airbending to Korra. who is somehow more bratty than the 10-year-old egg, his sense of responsibility towards his heritage really comes to fruition in the third season, where he fights the entire Red Lotus and the camera just zooms out as they beat him up as if they too. out.

It's painful to see such a lovable character get hurt, which is more dignity than Korra gets not two episodes later and, speaking of season 3, after Zaire is finally defeated by all the characters who aren't complete failures at everything, begins to shout about what chaos is. the natural order of things and other revolutions have already begun and a group of other libertarian anarchists and bullying literally put a sock on him, that's amazing, it's the only genuinely funny moment Bolin has in the entire series and I love it, I love it too to this guy and Speaking of season 2, I really like the Civil War story before the writers abandoned it to chase as many fan thoughts as they could and thinking about vaatu is a compelling idea and explaining the Avatar cycle in this season is stuck in its complicated and messy Civil.

War story. I wouldn't make this video because that story was so good when the writers focused on it and it really shows what kind of show Korra could have been if someone on the production team had paid attention to what was working and what was working. 't and I think that's it, yeah, that's a few mid-season scenes, some voice actors and we're fine, until I Legend of Korra is a horrible show that makes me want to do all the violence on the drywall in my living room to be. Both The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra have massive overarching stories, but where the two fundamentally differ is in how they present those stories.

The Last Airbender opted for the traditional Saturday morning cartoon format in which each episode has its own story contained within the overarching story. The episodic format, structured with a very long-term objective, was advantageous, since as the story literally took place during a war, it was possible to constantly deviate from the main plot without losing sight of it. Each episode simultaneously built the world and the story. characters while also making significant contributions to the ultimate goal of defeating the Fire Lord, do me a favor for a minute. How many filler episodes does The Last Airbender have? One, the boss stories tell a series of several vignettes of characters that exist to create the illusion. of the time between scenes, all I want is a feeling of fullness in my stomach, I'm starving, no, that's not filler, you're literally watching a Fire Nation propaganda film, you couldn't do that one be more relevant. such a literal culture war that the broad idea of ​​a world at war was the best possible framing device for an episodic series.

This meant that The Last Airbender got all the benefits of a serialized show without any of the disadvantages or rather without the disadvantage of the absence. of a conclusion one of the main reasons serialized shows rarely leave the same mark as episodic shows is because each episode only exists to set up the next this sacrifice is one of the most critical elements of any good story the ending of A good story is only truly satisfying once it's over and in a serialized show that usually doesn't make it to the end of the season, so for the rest of the year a creator just drags you along with the promise that eventually one day it will happen. something interesting that will win.

It's not just a tease for future episodes, these are issues that most people don't see, as by the time they come across a series, it's already over and posted to Netflix for another extremely unhealthy round of watching The Legend of Korra. one of those shows extends a single plot over an entire season and this not only means that there is not a single separate episode during the finales that has a conclusion that you can be satisfied with, but it also means that the creators have made it extremely difficult . To make up the ones that made The Last Airbender so beloved in the first place, when you watch some of the most beloved episodes of The Last Airbender, you'll find that the most remembered episodes are the ones that deviate wildly from the main story, just Zuko . the puppeteer the southern raiders the whole search for Appa is practically a side story the last airbender has three seasons that take place over the course of a few months it's a fairly short running series but it always seems like it's longer because each The characters have their own stories and character arcs and they all have enough time to develop into their own condensed stories by going through the footage in this video.

I was actually surprised by how much story they packed into so few episodes. Most people's favorite episode is the Ba Sing se stories, which are not just one diversion, they are five diversions, one of which is completely heartbreaking, many of them seem like filler, but it's all worth it in the episode ending where each part of the group is doing something different. Aang is fighting Fire Lord Sokka Toph and Suki are taking out the airship Zuko and Katara are fighting Azula and we're constantly switching between all of them and each one is exciting because all of these characters have had enough screen time each, even when Ulla has a lot of characterization, on the contrary, none of the supporting characters of the new gang really stand out or do anything memorable that they are not allowed to because the serialized nature of The Legend of Korra does not allow for those necessary deviations to happen, the only ones Members of the supporting cast that come close to characterization are Tenzin and Lin Beifong and they aren't as present as they should be, while the three main supporting actors, Bolin Mokou and Asami, get virtually nothing to work with. some backstory about her family and even then, ma ko and Bolin are pretty much copied and pasted from Batman, maybe they have a few scenes of their own, but nothing is tasty and the character is established as Azula's disastrous attempt at flirting, watch out, you could pierce the hull of an empire. fire nation class battleship leaving thousands of people drowning in the sea because it's too strong hey sweet sugar cakes how do you like it at this party together you and I will be the strongest couple in the whole world?

Oh I tried, yes that's right, the avatar had an entire episode dedicated to its four antagonists who are just normal kids and hanging a lampshade about how unsuitable they are for life on an envelope I used, it's actually quite sad when you think about it, particularly for a Zula who is only 14 years old, but is so feisty. -hardened and accustomed to war, she literally cannot function in a peaceful environment, that is the effect that Ozai's warmongering has had on his daughter, no one in the circle of friends or enemies gets anything close to this in four seasons and That's because the plot is not allowed to deviate like that, each season's plot unfolds over maybe a few weeks and never has a moment tobreathe more than that, this means that the show can't get rid of a bad idea as easily as the last airbender had its failures.

It had stories that went nowhere, it had ideas that ended up not being as interesting as the creators thought, but they were always able to ditch themselves and come back next week. A serialized program means you can't make those mistakes. every season you need a brilliant story that knocks every ball out of the park because you can't just come back next week with a new one and try again, you have to commit to this shitty idea, the problem is that Korra has a terrible story and fails with more frequency of what you get right, which we'll get into later, so even passing one episode off as a complete work because each episode is six and a half hours divided by fifth grade level philosophy and the extremely lazy antagonist writer, Fire.

Lord wasn't much when it came to villains, he was a pretty generic fascist, he didn't need to be anything else because the story was about preparing to fight him, the Fire Lord was a means to an end, as lords tend to do. best villains If his characterization was irrelevant, no matter what his motivations were, he was already characterized by letting viewers see the destruction that Fire Lord Ozai had been causing. His most pronounced motivations are so irrelevant that you're not even shown his face until the final season and just a few episodes before the finale you get to see his baby photos and guess what.

It has no effect on your result that he has to go down because those images of a happy and innocent child do not erase the monster he would become. It would only be bad if the writer started undermining this by trying to shoehorn themselves into some kind of moral gray area or get bogged down in clumsy philosophy while at the same time writing irredeemable trash as villains, which is something all the villains in The Legend of Korra ended up doing, except one who is a greedy, spiteful bastard who occasionally mumbled his words with the philosophy of the day.

Amon is a spiteful manchild who demands a purge of teachers due to his abusive father, but positions himself as the bringer of social equality, also known as communism, for people who don't know what communism is. One Locke. he's a crazy coward trying to become the law, such an edgy dark avatar, but he fills all of this with a lot about faith and spirituality and surrender to Jesus for a year. He's the only one who's actually motivated by his stated ideology, but his ideology is anarchism, which is the worst political ideology imaginable because it only exists to create a power vacuum for the two second-worst political ideologies imaginable.

He doesn't need an ulterior motive because the motive he has is already so stupid that he defies rationality while the other two villains accidentally do. effect positive change by falling into it reverse zygors anarchy does exactly what a chicken turkey always does create a power vacuum for authoritarianism fire lord ozai's motivations were simple conquest and imperialism and that took three seasons complete to complete that story from beginning to end The new villains have to concentrate their stories in a single season and not even in a complete season, each one has only 12 episodes and the new themes are infinitely more complex than the conquest, but each has a sixth of the time.

They were given to the gang, so not only is the story written in such a way that it doesn't have the necessary and important breathing room in the plot, but it also has to condense all of its themes so much that it's almost inevitable that they will go to Unfortunately, something's up, this is the current model of television these days, they're not designed to be enjoyed in bite-sized chunks, they're designed to be binge-watched on streaming services. Netflix even goes so far as to release entire seasons at once and grab them. a while, guess what happens, that's right, people analyze content in a few days because they have no self-control and suddenly they feel hungry for content until next year.

It's like Stephen's bomb problem has escalated to the worst possible scale now. The Netflix model alleviates the constant and ongoing cycle that it really affects, but the new problems it creates are considerably worse. I'm somewhat of a traditionalist in this regard and I think full serialization was the television industry's biggest mistake. The Last Airbender was the perfect marriage between serialized storytelling and the three-act episodic structure by using a war as a framing device that each episodic story was able to contribute to while still being its own contained plot. Remember how I mentioned that Ember Island players sum up the series by portraying it.

As Fire Nation propaganda, The Legend of Korra attempts a similar recapitulation, but only has Ma KO Bolin and a handful of other characters simply recapitulate the story with Varrick even going so far as to emulate old 1920s-style movies, but They don't do this in the world. In itself, this is how the flashbacks are framed. The big reason the Ember Island players worked so well was because you were seeing the story told from the perspective of the Fire Nation and how much they lied. Even better, you got to see everyone's reaction to the play. With everyone hating him, except Toph, who loves every damn second of what he's on stage.

If the Southern Raiders stories about Ba Sing se and Zuko didn't exist, this would be the best episode of the entire series by virtue of how much it contributes right before. the ending that turned it into this is abysmal, they had a ridiculous recap in the original series so now we have to have it here so let's go to the bathroom. The sad part is that Varrick retells his version of it as a 1920s movie, but he's actually making movies. Why didn't she do that by just retelling the entire story in her own key way and showing everyone that maybe throw shade at the latest Airbender movie while you're at it that sounds like it would have been on the table if Korra didn't?

I would have done that? He sacrificed those silly ideas on the altar of serialization, so the closest thing to this is Bolin playing a waterbender in verax propaganda films in season two. If you pay attention, you can spot all kinds of opportunities to make the story fun and rich in both. the world and the characters, but because we are tied to the main plot at all times, we are never able to explore these ideas in detail. Imagine an entire episode of Tenzin teaching Meelo to trained lemurs or Korra training with Toph instead of clips of these released sporadically. between clips of the main plot, that's what you sacrifice when you go the serialization route as we have to keep coming back to the main plot because we've made our bed in this mess and now we have to sleep in it if there were ever there is a lesson to be learned from this mistake, it should be to not fix what wasn't broken to begin with, never let it be said that I am a cynic because I really tried to like Cora, she was already starting the series with a good first impression, she's a fighter, she's got a lot of energy as a protagonist, at least in the first few episodes, she's a natural waterbender, which is the best bender and I'll fight you for that and you could cut a steak off her abs like damn.

She is muscular, you are very muscular for a woman, thanks to you too. The Legend of Korra was one of the few places you could find a ripped female lead, at least until Overwatch came out and I met Lizzie when I learned what the new avatar looked like. I behaved like that and I behaved like that, I was totally fine with it, but as Steven Universe fans already know, an interesting premise doesn't necessarily mean the writers are going to move on and that's how, instead of having to learn the different styles bending. Chorus begins the series about mastering water, earth, and firebending and not only starting the series later in life, but is introduced at the age of five by bending these three elements and is revealed as the avatar at a very young age compared to 16. that is known to be standard in history, the only element he has yet to master is air.

Fans often defend this storytelling decision by saying that exploring the other elements would be redundant after having spent three seasons learning them, however, that common defense decision for this story ignored the fact that Aang and his friends were doing other things while he learned every element, even when he was learning waterbending. I met a firebending master and learned how dangerous firebending can be when controlled poorly, to the point that he carried a crippling fear of firebending until the last season. Aengus's journey to learn waterbending led them to a siege by the Northern Water Tribe. His mastery of Earthbending was accompanied by the search for Appa and the siege of Ba Sing se.

The royal domain of Control was a garrison of the most important stories that are related to the Hundred Years War, which was the reason they were doing all this in the first place. Describing the final airbender story is fishing, the three elements he has yet to master is ignoring 90% of what actually happens in the series, the bending itself was not the story. You could have very easily worked similar bending lessons into each season's stories, considering those four this time instead of the three you want, even needing it to start mastering waterbending. There are so many ways you could revisit the iconic bending lessons and perhaps build on them considering how much bending has evolved and changed in the 60 years between Fire Lord Ozai's defeat and now that doesn't mean starting in the middle of training the choir is an inherent idea. but here's the million dollar question: why did he need to bend them at such a young age?

Her parents know she's the avatar once she starts folding all the items, which is kind of cute and already raises a lot of interesting questions about how to handle them. Raising a child who can bend multiple elements, the masters of each nation seem to know very little about the nuances of bending outside of their own shapes, so the parents of the Water Tribe try to help little Korra keep the Controlling their firebending is in itself a very good idea, but all of that is hamstrung by the fact that we immediately jump forward to incurring as a young adult being trained by masters when they are taken to the Southern Water Tribe, so , why did this scene at the beginning have to exist in all the riders who already had a reasonable? and a viable excuse for why Korra has already mastered three of the four bending styles when we start training her exercises.

I've heard people complain that the fact that Korra is already able to bend properly at such a young age makes her a Mary Sue, and while those types of complaints are usually given more credence by the fact that a better answer for this question, so why didn't the writers choose vash? It's a small hiccup regarding the narrative, but things like this are not isolated incidents. the same people who thought this was the best way to open the new avatar also made the rest of his character arc. The characters always comment on how strong and powerful she is, the fact that she is the avatar is treated with strange respect and yet there is no faith in Korra as a character because she is constantly set up to fail when we open with Korra in the first episode, she is training in a combat arena with firebenders in the Fire Nation seemingly doing little more than training, we later learn that Cora never left.

Kotaro, the Southern Water Tribe, comments on how strong she is, while the White Lotus next to her comments that she lacks control because, of course, she does. She has hired teachers to do little more than teach her how to apply bending in combat. She is training with the guards in a closed area. It was said that every avatar before her had gone on a journey across the world to find teachers to teach them each element, not a council of teachers that dictated their education, but to find teachers. specific bending patterns and form a bond with them, but more than that.

The idea that the avatar is traveling the world to seek out masters on their own largely implies that they are constantly interacting with the world they are supposed to protect, learning firsthand the duties of being the avatar and gaining restraint and spiritual perspective they need. We're supposed to have it, it's not just an experience of learning to master all the different types of control, it's experiencing the world and the problems and coming out of that journey a much wiser and more mature person. Cora, on the other hand, is treated like a child and raised like one, even when she is an adult, the White Lotus criticizes her for ignoring the spiritual side of bending, although that is entirely her fault.

Cora herself even admits that she has difficulties with it and wants to start her training.Airbending because that is 90% spirituality, the White Lotus. Lotus insists that he doesn't respect bending and then proceeded to not teach him how to respect bending in a hasty effort to skip the other elements and go straight to airbending which the writers, whether by design or sheer stupidity, created a character who he's doomed to fail at every possible opportunity, even more so to the point that Cora never has to combat this character problem. One of the big conflicts of the first season involves Korra not being able to airbend due to her innate spiritual connection and the fact that she has not evolved like the other three forms because Aang's son was the only airbending master in the world. world after her death and spit on the idea of ​​modern bending being all martial art and nothing more, but Cora never understands airbending this way when Amon takes away her bending, suddenly summoning her. the ability to airbend when Mako threatened, leaving her with sudden mastery of airbending and none of the other elements, so she can now airbend, but little else do you think this would be a chance for Korra to truly respect bending as an art form now that it has been taken from her, putting her in a humiliating situation as Yacón's counterpart, who lost his control and became bitter and hateful as a result, but before the viewer can truly understand the severity of the situation or if there's time to develop some sympathy for Korra's situation at all and give Korra back her Firebending, Earthbending, and Waterbending, as well as giving her energy to reverse the damage to her mother in Republic City and you know, just in case Maybe let's give her Avatar status too because why not bother having Korra?

I have to learn the severity of the Avatar State like Aang did. In fact, the first thing we see her do in the Avatar State is that to win a race against kids, why bother having Korra? Actually, we have to learn anything, let's just give all the information. Avatar Tools and delete the last part of Avatar's journey because apparently that would just be a rehash of the last Airbender, except it's not actually like that. In fact, Korra even receives the demonstration of mastery and each avatar, mastering all four elements, puts on an impressive demonstration. of his mastery and over the course of the last airbender we can see Avatar Roku and Avatar Aang perform this display, these are not only great moments of badass shamanism, aimed at each avatar mastering the four elements and the Avatar state, but Korra simply she achieves it, she doesn't even achieve it herself, seemingly on autopilot, everything that the other avatars had to earn through hard work and training, Korra just gives it to her on a silver platter.

Korra doesn't even have to suffer the consequences of her own actions or the actions of the people around her. Events that would normally warrant a massive change to Cora's character are often abandoned entirely. We just mentioned that Korra was turned away, but this happens every season. Then in the second season, Louie Locke rips out the avatar's spirit and destroys it, effectively making her the last avatar, but thanks to a shaky plot point from earlier, he immediately regains the avatar's spirit and everything goes back to normal, Except he can't talk. For Aang or any other previous avatar, in the third season, the Red Lotus poisons her with Mercury and beats her so brutally that she ends the season in a wheelchair, which might make you think that the core has to deal with being disabled by For a while, in fact, she screened it in the final episode of the season, but the fourth season picks up three years later and she's up and walking and her recovery happened off-screen.

Korra doesn't even learn anything from fighting these people in both season two and season three, since she's losing so much. saved by Jinora rising in a new busy budget and evil is defeated this is a fundamental problem with Korra the setup with the White Lotus teaching her to control herself in a way that completely destroys the avatars journey is not an interesting story idea, could have been and at the beginning of the second season it almost seems like they are going that way when the unlocking makes it clear to Korra that she wasn't supposed to be protected this way, but nothing comes of it other than Korra being angry at Tenzin for a while and forcing the opening of a path for her to be manipulated by the season's villain, it's clear that the writers were so determined not to have an avatar journey that they simply gave Korra all of the avatar powers without having to bother performing none of the real work.

To understand you, what compounds all of this is that they were given a very brief glimpse at the kind of avatar Korra could have been if the writers had had any interest in letting her be one in the first episode of the third season, many non-benders develop spontaneously airbending. one of them is so scared by these new powers that he climbs a bridge and almost kills the police chasing him. Korra drops down to his level and they just talk, don't panic, I'm just here to talk, please don't. I don't know what I'm doing and I don't want to hurt anyone.

Tell me. A difficult day. Hey? I'm having a tough day too. Do you mind if I sit here? Look. I know you're scared. I've been through a big change and it's my fault, but you're not alone. There are other airbenders who want to help you. In fact, they are very excited to meet you. I don't want to be an airbender, please, you are the one. avatar make him stop I'm sorry I can't but I promise things will get better if you give him a chance let me take you to Air Temple Island and we can talk about this okay this is Tenzin he's going to help you he's a real nice to meet you DAW.

I'd never met a new airbender before, well, at least not one whose diaper I didn't have to change. I actually fell off a bridge so I could wear a clean diaper. Now this is the only time the show feels like a sequel to The Last Airbender, you have an honest conversation about having to deal with change and that change can scare a lot of people, but there are others who want to help and then we're done. In a dad joke, this is the best scene in the entire show, it's heartwarming and leaves an impact that far surpasses the lasers to the chest and airbending asphyxiation that the rest of the show relies so heavily on.

It's the first and only time Korra is anywhere. Somehow a compelling avatar or you could really feel that she has grown up. Would it really have been so horrible if Korra went through a similar journey to Aang but with new characters and settings? Remember that Aengus's journey wasn't just about learning the elements there. Furthermore, it was a war that required him to master the elements faster than any avatar before. There is no journey in the

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of Korra, so the story focuses entirely on her villains, three of whom are horribly broken with a contradictory philosophy. on par with Pokémon Black and White and the fourth of which is simply Fire Lord Ozai with less of an intimidation factor, plus all that later seasons use the Steven Universe tactic of using trauma instead of actual development of the character after being poisoned by Zaheer.

Korra spends most of season four wandering around the Earth Kingdom after having lost her avatar. Well, okay, I guess it makes sense that Dean was defeated so badly, we'll certainly leave this kind of effect on someone, but the problem is. that she is the avatar and three years have passed. An avatar who constantly faces near-death experiences and even had his damn soul ripped out of his body and slapped like a wet paper towel, has been wandering around in a catatonic state for three years after this fight. which wasn't even gave him the most traumatic experience he had ever had.

The fact that Corus' mat is so much worse than this means that the attempt to pull this person's trauma card reads completely hollow and smacks of desperation in response to an increasingly critical gaze directed at Korra as part of the character. , is that the character whose The response to Zaire is the most compelling and is also the character who is least interesting in the show bowl in response to zai's ears and is kissed by a pendulum that swings in the opposite direction and supports a authoritarian dictator with an almost jealous conviction that anything is better than the chaos the last year has brought to the Earth Kingdom, but the show doesn't dwell on that, apparently they took Bolin's alesia out of Kuvira as a result of him being stupid, given how sure everyone is that Kuvira is evil, we'll head into the season. 4 in a bit, but this little overlooked fact says a lot about the difference in priorities when it comes to character design.

The show wants me to feel sorry for Korra because she's struggling with PTSD, but I've seen Korra ignore things much worse than this. and that's why I don't feel sorry for her at all, this is also the hardest part of Korra's character to criticize in any meaningful way because the writers use trauma as a character design card specifically because most people will fall for it, the Most people will see this as a compelling story concept rather than the lazy tugging at the heartstrings, what it really is is that Korra is presented as a brash, impulsive avatar with no respect for the spiritual side of bending and little understanding of his role as an avatar, and ends the series exactly the same. person, but what sets him apart from similar characters like Toth is that the show pretends that they have evolved his character and then has the nerve to expect you to believe it in the last airbender.

Bending was more than just combat, it was art there. A lot of effort was put into the styles of each pushup form and all of its subforms, as well as the four elements, all drawn from real-world martial arts, meaning that each different type of pushup moves differently, not You only identify the masters by the element they handle, you identify them by their actual style of martial arts. This is not just a design flavor. This is a plot point during the second season. I wrote each one is Zuko about how he discovered a firebending technique to redirect lightning by studying waterbenders and teaching them the value.

Incorporating the spiritual aspects of different control styles into his own and then later, at the crossroads of destiny, Zuko makes himself learn a new way of controlling fire by studying the waterbenders and it is transmitted completely through the way the master actually moves conjuring fire like a wave. The reason Aang finds it so difficult to learn how to control the Earth is because it is ingrained in him that being light on his feet and agile is the best tactic. Earthbending depends on him being grounded and immovable. You have to change the way you approach an encounter.

To master earthbending, that's the plot of an entire episode, it's not just about martial arts, it's also about being resourceful. Toph is the first person to discover metal bending because our seismic sense is so attuned that he can feel the impurities inside. metal cage and she's the only one who thinks I wonder if I can bend, that it's not a matter of Toph being special or suddenly coming up with this ability like Bolin does with his lava bending, she was just the one who had the tools at hand to discover they were there and the rest was just a matter of making them move and she is White Off again as the world's greatest earthbender because she pays attention to details that other people wouldn't think to look for.

The legend. from Korra takes all these details, rolls them up into a ball, and then throws them into the fire so they can masturbate to shitty 1920s technology some more, first of all, for 90% of the show, fold four has been watered down little more than generic. punches and kicks, this is more or less out of the question with Korra commenting on modern fighting styles and Tenzin disdaining them, but we all know the real reason why the animation is so focused on making things look pretty without regard for how they are supposed to be. movement, so making a character overly designed like Korra or half the anime rejects we found in the first season, the action is simply outside the scope of the animation budget, even down to the lip syncing, which is little more than open and closed mouths, except in certain cases where characters are deliberately enunciated for comedic effect even though each individual frame looks much better in The Last Airbender, the actual quality of the animation is has degraded considerably and the same studio worked on that Voltron cartoon where the same thing happened, the quality of the artincreased while the actual animation falls apart because making her move is too difficult, just take a look at how over the top Korra is in the design, from the hair bows to the waist skirt to the bows that come off with that extra flap under your baggy, loose clothing and all that.

That free-motion detail is completely stupid for anything that can be animated, especially if you're working with traditional 2D animation, which is as easy to use as Microsoft's home page and is why most animation studios Animation has been discontinued in favor of flash or CGI, by the way. It was a joke in The Last Airbender, what do you think? What is a wind sword? It's where I swing a sword and then I just spin it and bend the air like a sword. Yeah, well, I'll stick with what I have, something from the creators. what they made fun of is now something they are doing with a straight face and that is just sad, in fact once season 4 came around and Nickelodeon cut the team's budget they responded by completely removing most of this detail from the model of Korra and she wasn't there. the one and only Asami also tweaked most of her defining details so the animators could move her without causing an economic downturn, but it's more than just a need to make everything prettier to the point where it's too hard to move, let's take the Avatar State.

For example, the Avatar State was a simple idea when the avatar or someone the avatar loves is in grave danger, they can summon the combined power of all the previous avatars in a desperate attempt to get out of danger in the last airbender, the Avatar state. is an event precisely because they had to be expelled for it to activate, so it was not only rare but extremely powerful and did not carry the risk that being killed in the Avatar State would mean no more avatar but good. luck doing that in The Legend of Korra Korra can activate the Avatar State at will, meaning that the Avatar State can't be as powerful as it used to be, otherwise it's completely unkillable, so Korra goes into the Avatar state constantly, but it doesn't actually do it.

She benefits a lot from it. She is thrown into the Avatar State almost every time she uses it, and in most cases, entering the Avatar State only puts her on the same level as whoever is fighting the Avatar. The state doesn't mean anything, it doesn't have to mean anything because if it didn't, then no conflict would have any tension at all. The Last Airbender recognized this and did it on purpose to activate the Avatar State at will. picked up everything she cared about and didn't want to do that instead of doing something as clever or character establishing the writers went with the princess celestia approach where

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can use the avatar state all the time but it's as effective as slapping someone with a wet paper towel the very idea of ​​bending became so watered down that they changed it and made it into a professional sport.

He could now talk for hours about how so much time is wasted on career curves and how it defeats many of the interesting ideas. to bend to the point that it accidentally serves as the only example of inequality in Republic City that a mon is talking about, but someone already beat me to it on that topic and I can't find a way to write this thesis in a way that doesn't It seems like explicit plagiarism in Avatar. The bending made the world move. Everything, even entire cultures were built around bending in some way. In Korra, the world design was abandoned.

We see very little of the water, earth and fire nations, and now the majority of the story takes place in a very steampunk city that is just screaming new york circa 1920 and that's the problem the nations in Avatar have always been based on. in elements of Asian cultures, but they also fuse that idea perfectly with the element of each nation by drawing most of the history of the different nations and for the United Republic the impact that The bending has on the culture around it and has been replaced by a hybrid of real-world cities of the most criminal of the worst era of the 20th century.

I don't know what it is about the 1920s that keeps making people think it's a good idea to put animated works in there, but after years of imitations by steampunk wannabes pulling images from that period, the whole concept becomes unnecessarily trite. and the funny thing is that Republic City is the only place where this happens. Many glimpses of the Water Tribes are seen in the Earth Kingdom, they are still very immersed in their architecture and cultural design. What's worse is that the United Republic is radiating American flair from every orifice to the point of being bolted to the Earth Kingdom like a persistent infection.

For love, there's a giant statue of Aang. on an island in the harbor that screams Statue of Liberty, the entire design of its public city is reminiscent of New York, the avatar's origins are full of Christian connotations about God and Satan and surrendering to Jesus, capitalism is creeping in more in the world like a viral plague and every theme of the series can be reduced to democracy is great, everything else sucks because I said so, except in the first season where we have to maintain the status quo, except for the part where the leader of the United Republic is not yet called president, it's almost as if someone looked at the rich eastern layer of the Avatar universe and thought it didn't have enough music and started putting stars and stripes on everything they could see, but the biggest act of vandalism to the world's design is the Airbenders the Air Nomads were on the brink of extinction even at the beginning of The Legend of Korra after the death of Aang Tenzin and his children were the only airbenders left This is a scar left on the world by the Hundred Year War, a scar that will take hundreds of years to heal and will persist as a constant reminder of the horrors of the Fire Lord Sozen Azulon and Ozai is a joke starting in the third season. spiritual magic makes airbenders appear everywhere because the lasting effects on the world the scars caused by war the very concept of things that take time to heal an episode airbenders go everywhere and you yourself are like Korra, but it takes you on a larger scale to undo one of the most notable crimes in the entire history of the world of Avatar.

I don't even know why this was. In fact, I can only assume that the reason was that we wanted to see the air nomads return to their former glory, but doing so in a way that didn't completely spit out the symbolism of the previous series apparently wasn't good enough to do so. do it in an episode with spirit magic let's have more airbenders because that would be cool without really thinking about the impact it has and if you thought airbending culture would be on its last legs and have to slowly rise back to prominence it would have been It's really interesting that you can eat because we wanted more airbenders and we also wanted an evil airbender who is very edgy and we're also going to hang a lampshade for the fact that we're doing away with the whole air nomad culture to just be airbending.

If nothing else, it's actually alarming how much of the cultural origins of the world of Avatar are erased by the increasing Americanization of the entire world, which is ironic because the themes of The Last Airbender explicitly condemned this type of imperialism in the United States. The Republic was created from the occupied territory of the Earth Kingdom to the point where two different villains comment on it with plans to take it back and this is seen as a bad thing, it's a good thing, this was the Earth Kingdom inspired by Korea instead of the Water Tribe or more. people would have realized the implications to the point that their unique culture is credited with the result of immigration and the technological revolution, just like the United States.

What if it's weird that The Legend of Korra tries so hard to erase it? that made avatar a unique oriental culture that is not japan, being the basis for all world design and thoroughly explores the differences between those cultures with each cycle's avatar continuing to sport the attire of their homeland and now we get to see all that. removed in favor of Western architecture Western technology Western politics Western neoliberal capitalist propaganda The first few seasons the bad guys are essentially the bastardized, misunderstood version of the communism that has so terrorized Americans for decades, dressed in a fresh coat of Occupy paint Wall Street.

They were really married to this idea. Oh, by the way, talking about marital romance was always the black sheep of Avatar, but since most of the characters are between 12 and 14 years old, it was never so present outside of a few episodes at the end of the series with the new cast it has little 20+ years, things get complicated, talking about the romance issues is much harder than anything else in this script because it's the one thing that even the most die-hard fans agree was handled extremely poorly. Let's start with the obvious. one of the love triangle so the bullies love the core because he can crush a watermelon with his thighs, he only has bats, Rocco because he's generic and brooding with the Batman story and that's what the men who write the show think that women only like my co-star. stating that Asami is the generically pretty businesswoman who manages to go 3/4 of the series with no personality, but then Cora kisses Mom Cohen G, which breaks Bolin's heart, but it's okay, he gets over it, only Asami finds out. later and suddenly she gets super jealous and starts wondering.

Why did Makos care about Korra when Korra was captured by him? Seriously, I saw myself, what kind of time do you have, you little insufferable? and then the zombie spends the next few episodes being really passive-aggressive towards Mike, oh and I guess they break up because at the end of the card, Marco gets together and I'm the season finale, an awkward amount of the first season is spent thinking about this diamond of love, but because the writers have all the tact and social graces of Justin Bieber and the Holocaust Museum, all the actual material takes place at the most inopportune moments.

Asami begins to suspect that ma ko feels something for Korra because he is extremely concerned for her well-being as they search for her after she was supposedly captured by the Equalists who were planning to take her. and without the avatar, all the writers picked the worst possible time to start developing more of this romantic subplot. Worse as the season progresses, the characters involved in these subplots become less and less interesting in season 2. Maka breaks up with Korra and gets back together with Asami, but then returns when Korra loses her memory, this made that Ma Co was hated among the viewer base, but what I wonder is why Asami or Bolin never talked about it, they both knew it and they were both in a position. do something about it, but instead, Bolin briefly mocks Maco about the whole thing while Asami remains suspiciously quiet.

This whole scene is treated like a big story change when we just stop to reiterate how unpleasant this subplot and the characters involved are. In season 2, Bolin enters into an abrupt relationship with Aloc's daughter, but I used the word relationship very loosely. Eska simply decides that Bolin belongs to her and doesn't respond when Bolin asks her if she means boyfriend or slave and then proceeds to drag him around for half the season abusing him at every possible opportunity and tying him up to marry and make him öhlin's brother or his friends will, they laugh, you could say that's to be expected considering what happens between mokou

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and asami, but the show treats us like a big joke, besides raising the law so that Bolin is chased across continents by a murderous woman who he leaves at the altar because of course he leaves Eska at the altar, she's crazy and if Bolin stays with her she'll die and then towards the end he just writes it all off as if we didn't happen part of the Seas and we laugh at Bolin's obvious anguish and anxiety.

The sad thing is that this could have been the most interesting thing in the entire series if the writers had taken it even remotely. seriously and not just assume that abusive relationships are fun when the abuser is a woman and I know that's why they thought it was funny because it's the same reason Korra can't seem to get out of a paper bag and keeps needing Makohe Bolin. and Tenzin to save her. Oops, can you tell one of the creators used to work on Family Guy? That's actually not a fair comparison because at least when the family led them through an episode about domestic abuse, they had the decency to kill off the obviously abusive piece of something worse. is that ESCA returns in season 4 to spout rhetoric about being a girlfriend to be the boss of the same.

This feels like all those comedy routines about how marriage is a sacrifice of one's freedom, but without the sarcasm or the realization that It's still not funny, even with the sarcasm, thankfullyduring season 3 they kept the romance at the same level as they had it in The Last Airbender and even in season 4, common sense for maintaining most relationships has already been established by taking all three. -Year time difference to open these pairings in mid breaks, but they just couldn't help themselves and at the end of the season they paired Korra Saamy, the two walk together into the spirit world apparently having become a couple and I mean. apparently because the writers had to confirm it in a public statement because apparently it was that ambiguous, apparently this time they had a statement to make about it stating that it was a major leap for representation and stuff like that, but it all rings hollow because it happened At the last possible minute of the final season, presumably to avoid any possible reaction that could hurt his results, his bisexual avatar shouts very quickly before closing the door behind you and running down the road, he says oh, we're here for our friends.

LGBT and family, but not if it means potentially causing a breakup before it no longer matters. I guess I should consider this a blessing considering the horrible spectacle we've had to experience so far, but ever since Steven Universe has been finding ways to hide all of its Gay Relationships behind meltdowns and death. I'm sick and tired of creators claiming to be big supporters of LGBT people but taking every step possible to minimize their presence in their works to avoid potentially angering conservatives if this show were as supportive as it says it is. if so, they would have gone all out and opened episode one with them as adults and already married, worse than that.

The romance focus of the entire show is born purely out of obligation because the last Airbender had a romance and that's why we have to have it here. Furthermore, so many characters have so little chemistry that fan art can capture more emotion and chemistry in a single wordless frame than the writers can achieve in four years. Supposedly this is all based on the turf war comic. I don't know because I honestly can't think of a good reason why I would pay to experience more Legend of Korra content. I already had to rewatch the series in its entirety for this video and that was pretty torturous, I certainly don't want to experience it in comic form and I certainly don't want to experience that on the off chance that this tertiary element of the story can be done better.

The key word might be that the fact is that the romance was the worst element of even The Last. Airbender and the writers had the common sense to keep him to a minimal presence in the series there was one episode and then brief moments and a few more before closing with a shot that everyone wanted to see in the end the best written relationship was between Sokka. and Sookie, and you barely saw much content, this is because their relationship after the Serpent's past was mostly limited to occasional couple banter, because banter is where Sokka is the strongest.

Aurra makes the big mistake of not only having love triangles but also pretending that those triangles are as engaging as the main story instead of being a fun little side story and that the inflation of a side story's prominence makes its problems even most obvious: The Last Airbender would only have suffered if half of each season had been dedicated to it. to build on the romance and if Sokka was stuck in an unhealthy submissive relationship with you, uh, seriously, what the hell, writers, did all that happen? We're going to talk about what makes the other seasons a disaster, but the second season is the only one. that most Korra fans are extremely critical, which is to be expected, most fans are generally not critical of the material, if said material stays consistent with itself, it's only when you put a good story and a story terrible side by side that begin To notice the difference, as long as the material doesn't constantly switch between two different versions of itself, most casual viewers will simply accept that it was all intentional and won't bother spending energy to really analyze and digest what they've actually seen at the beginning of the season. with the chief of the Northern Water Tribe offering to teach Korra about spirits, commenting on the fact that she has been protected from the Avatar journey her entire life, from there, Locke begins to talk about unifying the Water Tribes and a civil war breaks out. between the north and the south and Korrase learns that her father was banished from the north for burning a spirit forest and angering the spirits.

Korra desperately tries to remain neutral until her father is imprisoned for inciting the rebellion and she learns that Unlock planned all of this, including her father's banishment years ago and the spiritual unrest occurring in the Water Tribes was her fault all along. time Korra stops being neutral and retreats to Republic City to find help that connects to multiple different stories after Republic City's new president refuses to send the united forces. Asami agrees to sell weapons and mecha-tanks to the south to save her company, but Varrick sabotages her and wants to put Future Industries in a position where they have to sell to him because he wants his assets to profit from the war. civil.

Varrick also begins pushing propaganda films. to pressure Republic City to support an open war led by Bolin and incite terrorist attacks in Republic City to blame the North for a shitty civil war that is based on material introduced in the latest war propaganda by the Airbenders and a profiteer the war, all connected to each other and we're At this point, only halfway through the season, the amount of detail and complicated storytelling on display is amazing and it's the first time the show really grabs you and never lets go, as even minor fights between the main characters start to build a lot of tension. because you've seen what kind of ripple effect it can have on the rest of the story, you even get old school plot divergences with Tenzin going on vacation with his family, who are still the best characters on the show, this is the kind of writing. that the entire series needed a much denser, more interconnected story that would take full advantage of the fact that the series unfolds in a continuous narrative and can continue to throw curve balls at you with new developments and play with the material we established in a few episodes.

Does to guide said curveballs straight into your groin, well, that all sounds great, you might be saying, so what's the problem? Well, we still have another half of the season left. That's what after leaving to seek help from the Fire Lord, Cora is ambushed by a dark one. spirit and reaches the shores of the fire sages, where we are offered the true reason why the dark spirits run rampant and Duloc is hungry for power and the origin of the avatar, the avatar is the result of a fused light spirit permanently with a human in a constant state of reincarnation to endlessly fight a dark spirit that wants to burn all mortal life in the world every 10,000 years and Oona Locke wants to free the dark spirit and everything she has been doing has been just a means to finish because what this story needed about the chaotic interaction between the four elements constructed from Eastern mythology was God and Satan objectively good and evil, proselytizing between light and darkness, that's the kind of nuanced attitude we need on this show anyway as the tension over vaatu starts to rise. the civil war falls by the wayside, we get maybe a battle between the northern and southern water tribe and we conclude that part with Varrick trying to escalate the war for profit and then all our attention is focused on the conflict between raava and vaatu immediately season two commits the cardinal sin of character-driven storytelling: it starts treating its story as something very important that needs to be developed.

I've talked about this before, but there is a severe dissonance between the values ​​of good storytelling that makes something memorable. and interesting and what the hardcore fans think makes a story memorable and interesting and the detailed story is largely in the latter category, all this rubbish about the spirit avatar and the avatar Wan and the harmonious convergence and that vaatu will be in prison for another 10,000 years so he doesn't do it. Covering the world in darkness is unnecessarily worse, even this unnecessary exposition does three things to ruin the story: One, it undermines the civil war. Civil wars are great conflicts because there is no objectively good or bad side to them, if you write them right you can have each side be as tense or mean as you want and force the viewer to get involved in the story and choose a side they remember.

Captain America's Civil War, where the two sides fight over whether the Avenger should have complete autonomy or submit to the United States. Nations, you know how you can say it was a very well written movie because the viewers may be teamcap or teamironman, each side makes enough good points that they had enough valuable ground that it was possible to break the base and breaking the base is what Se Civil war stories are supposed to work if you don't have fans arguing about which side was really right. Korra season 2 begins to do this with Oona Locke talking about how she wants to regain the spirituality of the Water Tribe that was lost.

In recent centuries we see signs of that all over the world. The Legend of Korra takes place in a much less spiritual time, even with the very spiritual Tenzin struggling to enter the spirit world, we can see how the brash and headstrong tonraq is the only way to achieve this. Loc was even able to trick him into being banished because he knew that his brother had no respect for spirits and would destroy that forest that was still his fault. He should have known better. We could have had the kind of nuance and thought-provoking. story the writers clearly wanted to make but just couldn't contain themselves: explain the magic, don't explain the magic, just don't do that, we all saw this right, it's a good movie that is extremely overrated, but this scene is really dumb.

Honestly, there were a lot of people at the end of Avatar begging to know the origins of the Avatar cycle and where the lion turtles came from. Actually, there probably were and the writers listened to them and now the second season is the most hated. season among the fanbase because of course the fans always say they want the magic explained and they want all this history and backstory for everything, but the fans have no idea what they want, especially when they completely misunderstand the values ​​of things. consume that they believe that explaining that the Avatar cycle was something that had to happen three turns the story into a fanfic if there was a list of things you should never do when writing a story about the avatar the words dark avatar would be right at the beginning In the The top of that list, in bold, underlined, surrounded in red ink and with arrows pointing to it, reads "don't pass by this casually, right below it would be Dragon Ball Z, hadouken lasers, Legend of Korra season 2 does both things and some people can find it.

These lazy Triton methods of ratcheting up tension and pretending a fight scene is more intense than it really is. This was the point at which most Korus fans were immediately kicked out of the season. Coincidentally, he also points out how fanfic the nature of the writing is. Fanfics emulate Dragon Ball Z and its stories because it is the only way they understand increasing the tension, while the works presented properly increased the tension by working on the relationships between all the characters involved, but all that work that has accumulated during the season it was abandoned at the time.

Korra discovers that Locke lied to her and joins the party to kill Locke, which feeds into the season's larger problem that all the goodwill of the story was abandoned the moment raava and vaatu were introduced because it turns a messy Civil War in a battle against God, Satan and Korra was never written with that idea in mind, it was written from a Knights of the Old Republic perspective where things are messy and you learned that the reason the SIF continued existing despite being constantly eliminated is because people are always becoming disillusioned with the Republic and the Jedi, but what Korra differs from Kotor 2 is that it keeps inventing reasons why its antagonists still have to die because killing a villain is the only way we know how to make things feel climactic, so we leave season 2. with locke trying to destroy the world after freeing vaatu, but korra concludes that maybe he was right and opens the spirit portals anyway, concluding that avatar Wan made a mistake by closing them despite having a very good reasonto close them out in the first place, the reason I compare this to fanfiction is because this tangle of contradictory ideas, themes, and execution is something to be expected from fanfiction precisely because the people who write it are often newbies and these mistakes are to wait and eventually be solved, but they are professionals who work on the payroll of a large company.

I don't have to make these mistakes. More to the point, season 2 is not isolated; the same people who thought this was a good way to write a story made the rest of the show; It just happens to be the most egregious example of their problems compounded by how well the season begins, even raising the same issues with Cora's upbringing and training and how she suffered such a sheltered life and abstained from the avatar journey, but it They dropped out with everything else once it was time to start delving into the story. and explain the magic that makes season 2 stand out to even the most casual viewer is that you limp away from what could have been chorus storytelling, as if it's the only time you can see how the series could have been great and that makes it bad.

The writing stands out so much more than everything else, well this show relies heavily on its villains to drive the plot. It could also happen to the most infamous of the group, Red Lotus's father, introduced as one of the non-benders gifted with Airbending as a result of Korra doing the jute hijra thing with spirit portals, unlike the other new Airbenders, we see. that the zai ear demonstrates innate mastery with airbending. The moment he is able to apply it, we see fragments of Zaire releasing other extremely powerful masters. but for the first quarter of the season they focused on Korra and the gangs scouring the Earth Kingdom looking for other Airbenders, this leads them to Ba Sing Se, where it becomes clear to everyone that the Earth Queen has become an extremely powerful tyrant. more concerned with preserving her own opulence rather than ruling her people and was even kidnapped.

The Airbenders in Ba Sing were also recruited into his army. At the same time, we also learn that Zaheer and his three friends had tried to kidnap Korra when she was just a little Babu and this is apparently supposed to serve as justification for the White Lotus to train her within the compound for her entire life, then the season breaks for several episodes as we deal with Su Yin and Lin, who we'll get to later, the new generation of Airbenders, and then. We finally get back to the plot when Red Lotus also kidnaps Korra for the second time from xiaofu, leading to what is probably the best actual fight scene in the entire series, as the main characters face off against absurdly powerful masters whom who are forced. fight much smarter by using metal bending to create cover, exploiting Bolin's honed precision to stun a Combustion Vendor who binds the staff by the ear and then slashes his glider using firebending to evaporate the water tendrils. and taking advantage of small openings to completely destroy their plans, it's one of the most brilliantly written fight scenes in the entire series right up there with Toph fighting in the Earthbending rings.

Later, each guard is interrogated about how the Red Lotus even infiltrated Xiaofu using a truth seer to determine who is lying and it is evident that the truth seer himself is responsible and the program's linkers enough to It makes you wonder if the writers are really going to pretend this is some kind of big secret, luckily they don't know anyway, they eventually track him down as I make it to the spirit world where he explains to Korra that he's part of a society that wants to free the world of governments in the name of true freedom.

That's right. The big bad of the third season and the resident philosophy is anarchism, among all the terrible philosophical ideas they never invented for the worst. The funny thing about the bottom of the barrel is that this is the only time The Legend of Korra really demonstrates the flaws of the philosophy it's trying to cover, while the goals Amon and unlocks purport to have finally achieved by hearing Locke flat out admit that turned into a dark avatar, oh yeah I forgot to mention when Locke was working for the Red Lotus when it wasn't part of his plan and later in season 4 one year he admits that he never expected Kuvira to reach as much power as She said this It is because anarchism is a power vacuum.

A period of anarchy will always result in new infrastructure taking its place, whether it be city-states, authoritarianism or communism, something will always fill that void. This is a reality that many real-world anarchists are not aware of. I don't think about that because most anarchists are idiot teenagers or libertarians whose thought processes seem to be the root of all government because government is bad and they never think about the long term effects of that decision and this is going to be extremely important in At one point the Red Lotus traveled to Ba Sing se and after failing to negotiate the capture of the avatars with the land, Queen Zaire attacks and perhaps I forgot to mention something to you.

I don't believe in Queens. You believe that freedom is something you can give. Take a whim, but for your people freedom is as essential as air and without it there is no life. For many people it was just darkness. This was kind of a badass climax moment. It was a year to burn Maggard. I have to sit here while this grown-up child repeats the mistakes of the Iraq War by plunging the Earth Kingdom into chaos as people begin rampaging across the nation, looting places and evolving into Fallout-style raiders and bandits. One thing I find absolutely hilarious is that Zaire declares that they will no longer be oppressed by tyrants but in the very next season they start being oppressed by new tyrants because of course they were, that's how anarchism always turns out anyway after the Kingdom on Earth, in the name of short-sighted idealism, here I threaten Kora that he is going to destroy the new ones.

Air Nation after failing to track him down in the spirit world, Korra seeks wisdom from Fire Lord Zuko and if I'm being completely honest, this is one of my favorite scenes in the entire series, this scene and another one we'll get to in one moment. They are two of the most heartbreaking moments in the series and, like the first half of the second season, really show what Korra could have been if the writers had given even half a Zuko tells Korra how to rebuild and protect the air nation was Aang's dream and that while he would have sacrificed anything to protect it, Korra needed to remember that the avatar belonged to all nations, the wonderful thing is that this mirrors a scene from The Last Airbender when Aang is gaining wisdom from his past lives about whether he should kill the Fire Lord that he is.

Increasingly frustrated that no one tells him his beliefs are that way, in a last-ditch effort at confirmation bias, he contacts the latest air nomad avatar, Yang Chen, chastises Zhang for his selfishness, and tells him that the avatar must do what is best for the world regardless of her personal beliefs, Zuko tells Korra that turning herself in may be effective in the short term, but that unlike a year, she needs to consider the long-term consequences of her actions, but she What really seals it is the look Zuko gives Korra. upon learning that he spoke to Iroh in the spirit world, it can be said that Zuko is just learning that his uncle is in the spirit world and he could possibly see him again.

It's a reminder of how good the character work was in The Last Airbender. One year he arrives at the Air Temple and holds the Airbenders hostage after telling Tenzin of his plans. Tenzin immediately attacks a year and tells the airbenders to evacuate while he kya and Bumi defend the Red Lotus and this is where that second heartbreaking moment occurs. it's over while I breathe Tencent has been one of the best characters in the series up to this point, you see him struggling to teach and becoming less and less willing to learn Cora, you see him raising his children, you see the rebirth of the air nation he gains a more valuable characterization than any of the series' actual main characters, seeing him so brutalized is horrible, so horrible that the camera zooms out so you don't have to see the worst.

This is especially concerning because the series has an almost fetishistic love for brutalizing Cora and showing you every gory detail. I got genuine chills as the camera panned the wall of the air temple because so far Tenzin has been the only character I really liked and that made watching him get hit even more horrible and enjoyable. The scene with Zuko shows you what kind of show it could have been if the writers had put so much effort into all the places where Korra arrives at the air temple and turns herself in while the rest of the team plots a flanking strategy that leads to a very different one. . long battle and so soon after the last one, the control fights are starting to get very boring.

Simply put, the firebender dies a gruesome death. Bolin discovers that he can wash Bend. We're all supposed to be shocked when a year demonstrates this legendary control technique. Even though we see this technique used by the Sky Bison in every episode since The Last Airbender and get a flashy name from a particular metal client soldier that won't be important later, we promise that it turns out that Zaire intends to poisoning Korra into the Avatar State to permanently kill her and then launching into a speech about freedom that sounds like it was ripped straight from a Metal Gear scene; in fact, considering Metal Gear Rising came out a year and a half before this particular episode aired, it would.

Don't be surprised that they wrote most of Senator Armstrong's zai ears when one year he starts administering the poison and we get a nice close-up of Cor arriving in extreme agony, hallucinating and red Jesus, our soul in Christ. I've avoided talking about it until now, but I think this is the right time for this show to have a really unhealthy fascination with brutalizing Korah and showing you every detail of her screams of agony while other characters get the chance to take her beatings with dignity. Korah doesn't. come close to that kind of dignity and the writers seemed eager to show them every possible moment of their torture and every possible opportunity.

I don't like to assume extremely horrible things about people unless they give me a proper reason to do so, but I can get to that point. for no other reason why this happens so often and in so much gory detail to Cora and only Cora other than the writers are having fun with it, so after the writers finish cleaning up, Cora finally goes into the Avatar state, is released and begins. her chasing Zaire up the mountainside for about a minute before falling back down. in the way she must treat all anarchists by putting something in her idiot's mouth so that she finally shuts up.

I was horrible about this whole terrible experience. I guess the writers seriously couldn't think of how to raise the stakes any further after taking out Satan. card and the only reason they even chose anarchism as their philosophy of the day was because its inherent destructive nature generated many mass scenes. It makes sense considering Zaheer is such an overwhelmingly powerful airbender after only airbending for a few weeks and why bending fights are so common and go on for so long that the sounds of fire and air begin to bleed together. why air nation is suddenly experiencing a boom of new airbenders due to combustion bending returns to pepper episodes with literal bass plugins, that's actually what it feels like it feels like michael bay blew up the series the character moments are so sterile and empty compared to every other season, which is saying a lot and doesn't have the saving grace that the second season was a really interesting plot during the In the first half there is a lot of fictional philosophy, more than in seasons one and two, because the villain doesn't turn out to be a liar halfway through, he's just that stupid, but it's more than just the jingling of keys that's the nature of how villains are portrayed.

Types of interesting story ideas appear and disappear like clockwork. We are used to Sister Lin Suyin, who evades authority and commits crimes in her youth and spends most of her life free of consequences. This attitude of hers carries over into her adult life, where she puts it. She puts the most faith in people with some of the most horrible backgrounds and she talks about the established government as if it were some kind of poison. There's a scene where she's provoked into ranting about how outdated the concept of queen is after hearing who Tings are, and I guess that's luck.

The Fire Lord wasn't around to hear that, but after this brief period of anti-royal feeling, she'll be there next time.season eating so that Prince Wu takes back the throat of the land. The Kingdom reintroduced Tamaco and Bolin's family and got a few scenes where Mama Co almost manages to pretend to be a person before abandoning that idea completely, it's almost like checking off a checklist, story ideas to which they had to give a passing wink, we get a full arc with the Airbending students and dozens to teach them to live like air. nomads and it almost seems like this is going somewhere, but it's apparently scrapped after a minor event with Jinora and Kai and getting back to these four idiots, the season even ends as if this core has been beaten and poisoned so badly that she's in a wheelchair and If you think we'll finally get to see Korra experience real tangible change in herself for the first time, the next season picks up three years later and the core can already move again, the closest thing the Corps has to deal with It's lingering PTSD and poison in his body, but he manages to clear the poison after some training with Toph, but he still has his PTSD, well, no.

Korra deals with symptoms of PTSD for two-thirds of season four, but it's like everything else. he draws magic from her in the meditation scene. Korra spends most of the fourth season unable to fulfill her avatar duties because she is constantly haunted by his eight years of trying to kill her. This is actually a big deal, as much as Cora having endured much worse by being affected by something for the first time in her life is at least an improvement, but instead of getting over that trauma and dealing with it, Korra manages to almost erase it. completely meditating in the spiritual world and speaking with raava.

I'm not entirely sure what this is like. It's supposed to help her, but this is The Legend of Korra, so you'd expect life-changing events to be randomly ignored at this point, but the key problem here is that Korra can't enter the spirit world. , she needs someone to guide her there, so who? Does she have Tenzin Chaya Jinora as her spiritual guide? No, that's the right thing to do: being led into the spirit world by the same person who put her in this position in the first place and being told to trust him, which is like trying to sue the Vietnam War. veteran by showing her your collection of firecrackers and saying "ear peppers" this with all kinds of nonsense about her core she is simply deflecting him and blaming him for her own problems and Jesus Christ.

I could hear the writer standing behind the camera saying who is direct. The metaphor for someone's abuser is helping Korra overcome metaphorical abuse. We're so nervous and considering how the rest of the series sucks that someone is unsure to what extent The Last Airbender was a kids show at heart. I wonder how many of these horrible decisions like this were made with the same mindset. These for me are the defining moments of The Legend of Korra. It is the most revealing part about the priorities written in the most direct expression of all his problems. A compelling idea of ​​the character is erased and the The implications of that erasure are less valuable than the idea of ​​everything being erased in the name of the villain having a few pints because that sounds clever to someone who is incapable of thinking about it any longer. of half a second.

The Legend of Korra is the show where the creators try really hard to convince you that they are very grown-up and intelligent, and it's the show where they manage to convince you that they are neither of those things, which weakens the hamstring quorum more than any other. thing you have done. What has already been talked about are its themes. The Legend of Korra really wanted to be a smart show for older audiences and break out of the animation-era ghetto that, for reasons that continued to elude me, we apparently no longer want to be in, but as long as its intentions.

It Can Be Good to Have to Tackle More Complicated Topics reveals how little the writers understand these topics they're talking about and how little they pay attention to how their own writing affects that in the first episode, Korra, and by extension, the viewer. . introduced to a protest about teachers oppressing non-sellers, this fundamental theme forms the basis of the season's entire conflict, with the main villain being the leader of the so-called Equalists who want to strip the sellers of their power after having been oppressed by them for so long. just a tiny, annoying, huge, huge black hole, a problem aside from a single fight between Korra and the triad gang, the viewer is never shown any cases of teachers actually mistreating non-sellers, even that fight with the triads appears after you.

You're introduced to the Equalists and that gang literally never shows their face again until their leader shows up later for Amon to take control of them, but if you think they were going to take the approach of the Equalists actually being the aggressors, then be wrong because other characters, including Tenzin and other members of the council that controls Republic City, talk about inequality as if it has been a problem for a long time. In the opening scenes, Tenzin mentions that Republic City has become increasingly unstable and that Amon has been a problem for quite some time, we have been told several times that Republic City has a classism problem, however we were never shown it.

The closest thing to that later is Tarrlok trying to form a special task force to eradicate the Equalists. essentially becoming a secondary antagonist of the season, but even then Tarrlok's actions are a response to the Equalists' problem. He's doing his job. As far as viewers are concerned, there is a brief moment where Tarrlok starts trying to impose curfews on all nonbenders, but it lasts about an episode before Tarrlok is written out of the plot entirely, but the writers do it. What they did was create an allegory for the civil rights movement, but they forgot to create an allegory for the centuries of bigotry and Jim Crow that preceded, interestingly enough, the last airbender actually. had this element, Toph constantly berates Sokka for not being a bender and does it so casually that you could be forgiven for thinking that non-benders are actually looked down upon and it comes up later when Sokka searches for a master in sword fighting.

He would be more able to help in combat football. He belittles himself for not being a non-bender despite being an invaluable asset to the team from day one. The fact that he still can't bend affects him on a fundamental level. This is the kind of material that The Legend of Korra needed a lot more of. The introduction to The Legend of Korra describes the united republic as a place where benders and non-benders from around the world can live together in peace and harmony, so there is a Lots of context where masters can look down on non-benders, but they never show it to you.

This fundamental lack of explicit context puts the Equalists in a very strange position insofar as the antagonistic ghosts remember all the Other information surrounding the characters expects the viewer to believe that the oppression of nonbenders is a real problem and serious and that the Equalists were pushed into their position, but because none of this important world-building is presented directly to the viewer, it is instead fleshed out. like the straw man version of social justice that internet conservatives like to make believe exists. Amon himself is a waterbender and his rhetoric about equality is a lie. He wants to purge the world of bending because his dad was abusive.

He even fakes a story about being warped by a firebender, so why does Amon have to lie if the problem he pretends to care about supposedly exists? You could say that this was the point where the writers really held these beliefs and that the entire first season was a critique of social justice and yes, me. I've heard people say that, particularly people who are foolish enough to think that Amon is a communist, but remember that not only did the government of this Republic City change to better accommodate nonbenders in the end, but the Amon himself is deliberately designed to look like v-a terrorists who actively fought against an unjustifiably fascist government that you can actually see before you're introduced to him, so the most likely explanation is that the writers were too lazy to bother with that annoying build of the world that would have put context to the situation.

Egalitarians, there's a lot to say, but absolutely zero to show that you're introduced to a villain who lies about his own motivations, talks incessantly about a problem you never get to see even though its existence is confirmed by more trustworthy people and at the same time. final you. We are expected to conclude that he might have been right and was simply doing it the wrong way. The specific and consistent problem with The Legend of Korra is that the first three villains are supposed to be well-intentioned extremists in some way, but they all lie and all the problems they claim to fight against, whether they refused to show their faces, Are they their doing or are they actually an improvement on what they were trying to create in the world, that sounds intentional, but considering that their actions end up also having positive effects on the world calls that assumption into question after Amon takes care of City.

Republic shows a changing government to better accommodate the non-benders after a blockade on that stupid dark avatar overpowers humanity ends up having to share the land with the spirits anyway and it's often said that the world is better off because I believe , has no positive effect on the world. His anarchy does what anarchy always does and creates a power vacuum for a tyrant and he turns out to be the heir to the throne who decides to implement a democratic system not out of a genuine belief in freedom and voting, but because he doesn't believe he is capable To lead a nation, these three antagonists seem to stumble upon positive solutions to real problems completely by accident, so what's the problem?

The lessons were supposed to be here. What did Amon want equality for everyone? Oona Locke, he brought back the spirits and Zaheer believed in freedom. I guess the problem was that those guys were totally unbalanced and took their ideologies for too long. That's the lesson viewers assumed. To take away from this, are you sure about that? Because all of these problems were completely unresolved and got progressively worse until these three stepped in to push for progressive change. The Legend of Korra wants to position itself as anti-extremist, that's what the show thinks it is in practice. However, The Legend of Korra strongly advocates for extremism because that's the only thing that seems to accomplish anything.

It wasn't until someone started making a lot of noise and causing trouble that Republic City was forced to change. Until someone forced open the spirit portals, humanity became more in touch with spirits. It wasn't until someone killed the Earth Queen that the Earth Queen stopped being the worst. In this scene, Toph commits the mortal sin of storytelling and tries. to reconsider the motivations of the three villains to eliminate all their real motivations, the writers painted themselves so much into a corner that the only way they could push this bad narrative of extremism was to lie and hope that no one was smart enough to remember the previous seasons so foreign.

The hodgepodge of contradictory motivations and accidental progress turned out to be so confusing in the final season that the writers practically abandoned the idea of ​​covering more mature themes and the fourth season's villain is just a generic dictator, but apparently the writers thought that was too subtle. , so we need to talk about re-education camps and manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and in case you still don't understand that she might be evil, let's work on the Darth Vader strength joke so you really know that she's evil, the only thing we're missing is a pathological hatred of foreigners and rhetoric about making the Earth Kingdom great again and that there will officially be Nazis in Avatar.

Kuvira is the only antagonist who does not affect any kind of positive change in the world, not even indirectly. She's also the nicest. She has a simple goal. She unites the scattered Earth Kingdom into a strong Empire and, although she is willing to use force, she tends to prefer negotiation whenever possible. There are more actual conversations with Kuvira than with any of the actual antagonists you were supposed to take seriously. You remember the problem with am. and how the supposed oppression against non-benders has been talked about a lot, but never shown, that happens again with Kuvira, but in reverse, where many of the main characters, especially Opal, are constantly talking about all the clichés that the dictator is doing, but because the majority.

What you've ever seen are some shots of Kuvira looking a little sinister crushing a medalreal and completely ending this governor. It all rings hollow because Kuvira has a very different approach to designing him compared to the previous antagonist. I honestly thought that for a while the writers were setting up a bait and switch, Kuvira was initially tasked with reuniting the Earth Kingdom after it had fallen into disarray, but Soo-eun was initially asked to do the job. job and she refused because she's not interested in imposing her ideals on an entire nation, which is the dumbest reason in the world not to quell civil unrest.

She says that marching into Ba Sing se with an army is largely asking for trouble, but I'm pretty sure she could broach the possibility of rallying an entire nation. country that is falling apart and in a much more delicate way than this, the sad part is that her yen was last seen ranting about how outdated the concept of monarchy is and this is her chance to propose something more inclusive for the people , but it doesn't. Take it for seemingly no reason, Soohyun's explanation is so absolute, so black and white, so devoid of any nuance that he couldn't imagine it was written sincerely, he could only assume it was written just so he could get it back to her. face, she does this again, kuvira announces that she is overthrowing the monarchy, now she is faced with the real reasoning that kuvira might be letting the power go to her head.

Seohyun has the chance to tell Kuvira that this is exactly what she feared and that Kuvira's bitterness towards the monarchy and fatigue from cleaning up her messes led her to make rash decisions, but she can't really think of anything to tell her anymore. beyond the cliché of what makes you think you are so different. A useless non-criticism that infests the YouTube comments is the The best line we can think of for a supposed world leader in the first episode, when Kuvira is trying to negotiate unity with a governor, she starts complaining about how great his been when you are being harassed by bandits at every possible opportunity and they are barely holding it together and the situation becomes so dire that your refusal is probably going to work.

The cuvee people respond by giving him the most appropriate look imaginable after hearing everything, all the ridiculous nonsense, the meaningless platitudes, all the moaning and whining and crying and bellyaching from the main characters all season long. I fully expected the writers to pull the rug out from under everyone and have Kuvira actually build a functional nation and just ask why the avatar is so incompetent that she's getting her ass kicked. at all times to the point that a complete lunatic was able to destabilize the Earth Kingdom, a lunatic who, by his own admission, did not expect such anarchy to create a power vacuum even though it is common knowledge that anarchy always creates a power vacuum, why?

Did the most trusted world leader and most respected figure in the world think that it was not possible to reunite a broken country without being seen as Hitler? Why did everyone who wanted the Earth Kingdom reunited suddenly start bitching and complaining when it was actually being done? made while the avatar was on the run fighting boxing matches and playing in the mud with Toph, but if you were like me and thought maybe the writers were about to address all the problems with the show so far, you can eat because instead of So what? What we actually got was Metalbending Ozai getting into a giant robot to try to take Republic City after echoing the Earth Queen's sentiments about the United Republic being Earth Kingdom territory. and the reason you didn't see her doing any of the horrible things people say she was doing.

It was for the same reason you didn't see the non-benders being oppressed out of laziness because he sounds like a dictator and that's all we need, apparently it's exactly the kind of ending you'd expect from the rest of The Legend of Korra and get it somehow . I still feel disappointing and we suddenly realize why Su Yin had a sudden fit of stupidity earlier because the writers created such a stupid story idea within their own fiction that suddenly the hyper-progressive woman who would normally jump at the opportunity To embrace the virtues of democracy they have to develop a sense of doomed paranoia.

This all boils down to one huge problem: writers are trying to cover heavy, complicated topics that they are not prepared to cover for an audience that is not prepared to absorb them. In fact, it's quite common for Legend of Korra fans to compare a Mons egalitarian movement to communism or Marxism, something that would completely baffle you if you have any knowledge of communism or Marxism, but since Amon says a lot about equality, that triggers the senses of communism and the permanently uneducated and criminally stupid or, worse yet, how the show very strongly pushes the idea that democracy is the best option, but never once decides to show the virtues of democracy itself, it's just that it's good because we say so and all the other options suck because they're not democracy, which is an ironically fundamentalist view of the concept.

It's often said that The Legend of Korra is aimed at older teens, and I believe it because it shows a teen's understanding of the sociopolitical issues he tries in vain to cover. The way he talks about freedom, equality, order, and chaos is the kind of nonsensical rhetoric you'd expect to hear from 14-year-old me. It's a useless spit in the face for anyone who expects their intelligence to be respected and for a series they love. position itself as the mature alternative to the last airbender the way it presents all of its themes is extremely childish extremism is bad except it's the only thing that really works your life will be affected by the change except it's not actually the key to overcoming the trauma en Put yourself in a vulnerable position with a person you accuse of domestic abuse.

It is funny. The scars of genocide can be healed by praying a lot. Democracy is great and everything else is an evil virus from Satan. No, we will not explain why you, the big reason. The Last Airbender stuck with people so well because it's a story about characters, it's not a story about themes, the villains are a generic evil empire centered on the most destructive of the four elements, the Fire Nation has a constant presence in everyone, showing you specifically. why they are a threat the heroes are a ragtag team of kids fighting a giant, all-consuming evil it's the first Star Wars but with the monks it's a very simple and direct story the closest thing to a complicated moral issue that ever arises is whether or not Aang is going to kill the Fire Lord a question that ends up not having to be answered because the writers backed out at the last second the appeal came from things like Sokka's sarcastic superior attitude which I wrote speaking about the nature of elements and the nature of individual characters, specific decisions, not abstract, nebulous concepts like freedom, it's a simple story with a simple conflict, it had to be because it was aimed at children, so most of The internal struggles arose from things that resonated with children, like absent fathers, abusive families, The pressure of sudden responsibility, all things that resonate with many children, all dressed in Star Wars and Mulan cosplay, but in essence, at Being very simple to digest and with valuable lessons, the villains of The Last Airbender are not complex, they did not need to be.

If the complexity came from the main characters, it didn't matter if Ozai Azula Ty Lee wasn't particularly complex, the characters that needed to be compelling were, and Katara Toph Zuko and Sokka the Fire Lord didn't need to spout half-baked philosophy. It needed to be powerful and dangerous because its purpose was to be the culmination of Aang's character arc and it served that purpose. excellent purpose The Last Airbender is not a very mature show, it's silly, it has simple themes and extremely simple antagonists, it's a show in which you could call a villain, sparky, boom man and not bat an eyelid, there are a lot of really insecure people who I get very angry at the idea that animated shows are just for kids, but the reality is that animated shows and movies a They often work best when done with children in mind;

There is simply no topic worth exploring that actively requires embellishments. from an adult film Harry Potter is loved by children, but that is a book series that is literally about the rise and fall of an autocrat with a villain who is defined by the idea that anything but a purity Total bloodshed will lead to the destruction of the magician Connie. Pixar movies are pretty deep and actually pretty smart. When you stop to think about them, you're not going to get more value out of an R-rated animated movie. A movie doesn't get an R rating for clever themes and exploration of horrors. of Mankind will get an R rating because there are tits and penises and a lot of swearing and blood, that's not a derogatory remark, that's just the reality of how the MPAA decides their ratings, the reason their alternate animation is bland and fails is because it was never made by The people who wanted to make a good story are made by people who are really insecure about animation being for kids and when you start from that base, nothing you make will be good.

Avatar was a very smart show because it didn't focus on being anything more than what it was, it just had to work with the tools it had, we get a really fun episode where Azula tries and fails to adapt to civilian life and that she implicitly tells us how much harm her father has done to her or Zuko on their journey. just through the Earth Kingdom and seeing the effects his father's war has had on the people and how quickly they turned against him upon finding out who he was, because we weren't getting bogged down in some poorly thought out philosophy, we got to see something truly amazing. .

The effects that war has on people. This seemingly superficial setup that many fans today try to pretend is less interesting. The Legend of Korra opens up many opportunities as the characters travel the world, meet new people struggling with the war, and get involved in many things. From smaller adventures along the way, the writers had no way of knowing which moments would resonate the most with people and that might be why they resonated with so many people. The fact is that when it came time to make a sequel, the writers were more concerned with payback. that magic instead of just telling an interesting story, which is why the new cast of characters are just the old cast of characters, but grown up and more generically pretty, why all of Ozai's Reese relatives try to build on the Lord of the Lord's manifest destiny.

Fire Sozen because the writers mistakenly thought that was the interesting part about the Fire Nation. I'm sure a lot of people would blame Nickelodeon for executive meddling, how the creators didn't have time to develop all their interesting ideas and that's why they failed, but the sad thing is that the creators had time, they just didn't bother to remember. Civil War story, they had an entire second half of the season to build on that, but the creator clearly felt it was more important to explain the avatar's origins. and introduce the God and Satan analogies, they made the decision to fill the third season with explosions and control fights over any real story, they made the decision to spend more time on pro-bending than establishing the real conflict of the first season . choice to clone the previous gang without thinking about really developing any of them, you see the opportunities they had to do something really great in the moments with Tenzin and his family or Lin Beifong and you wonder why they weren't the supporting characters instead if it is not done.

Zuko no Sokka and no Suki no korra's problems are not Nickelodeon's fault it's entirely Bryan and Mike if they didn't have enough time it's because they wasted all their time on all this and the only way I could see them organized The worst thing is if they did a Netflix exclusive show to close despite all my complaining and complaining over the course of this video. The Legend of Korra has one notable achievement: it's the worst thing HL Gabriel has ever been involved in and that's got to be worth some kind of metal. You could say what you want, but this is what really motivated me to go through the torment I've subjected you all to for the last hour.

It's a small scene from the first season and it only lasts about ten seconds. For a long time, when I think about this scene, I think about the very obvious fact that someone wrote into the script, Korra's face sticks out like Pee-wee's Big Adventure as the background explodes and lightning strikes and flashes repeatedly before back to reality and this somehow went from the first draft through multiple revisions thetable reads the final draft the storyboards the animation and then to the final editing room without absolutely anyone asking why do you remember what I said The Legend of Korra is working hard to repeat known parts of the last good airbender, The Last Airbender was well known for its goofy, goofy faces because that's the kind of show it is because the writers are so desperate to recapture every bit of magic they can that they went as far as they could to create as many mean faces as they could. possible and this is one of those attempts taken to the extreme of the impossible out of curiosity.

I went and searched for Korra's face on Google Images and not only was it not the first result, but the first result was an extremely better, less desperate version of Korra making a surprised oh face not 20 seconds later because the writers are more successful when they stop trying to lick up the remains left by the previous series some people will say that Korra wasn't well received because she wasn't the last airbender, but I firmly believe that Korra wasn't as well received because she tries too hard to be the last airbender. air. Most of the secondary characters are children or grandchildren of the old characters.

The new gang is the hot topic. Versions II of the old gang. The new villains are. the old villains with ten times the political themes, all the old stuff, but even more, or if I could cut a few more lines from the H-bomber, slight variations on this framework, the only thing Legend of Korra didn't copy from The Last Airbender is the one thing that made the last airbender special was different, it did things no other show has ever done. The Legend of Korra is cliché after cliché after cliché, good night.