Legend of Korra - Is It Good or Nah?
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Then, everything changed when the non-benders, bloodbenders, waterbenders, airbender, lavabender, and metal benders attacked
You forgot the Combustion bender.
Wtf are the benders outside of water and airbenders I’m only on s2 of avatar I don’t get it
@@laundrybasketgamers sub bending.
@@superspectacularstubby what
@@laundrybasketgamers the abilities the op listed are sub bending(s). for example, blood bending is a sub of water bending.
The irony that Zuko’s family was a mess in ATLA but in LOK he’s the only one with a stable family.
As if zuko actually made an effort to be a good father figure. It makes sense that he would personally know what would be the worse way to handle the situation in a family. It’s not like his father was the worst father in existence
Aang/Katara/Tenzin's family is pretty great. Aang may have given Tenzin an unfair amount of attention, but it is justified as Tenzin was the only naturally-born airbender in over a hundred years. Tenzin is raising a fine family other than the hiccup where Ikki ran away for a day.
I can't say the same thing about Sokka (who may or may not be Suyin's father) or Toph's family for that matter.
@@somuchtocook9159 never thought I'd ever see an Ozai apologist
@@EyesWillRule aang is a bad father which makes him and kataras family bad,
Tenzins isnt, he is a good dad
But aang and Katara doesnt have a stable family
@@UnicorniousEyes I think you need to pay more attention to the arguement an 'Ozay apologist' makes. His arguement follows like this: Ozay is a terrible father > Zuko knows that > Zuko does everything to not to be like Ozay; this is the arguement that he makes. Now, where is he apologizing for Ozay's actions? I could be blind, of course.
They should've done more with General Iroh, he's like a one time thing
2*
My biggest nitpick was that he’s called a General even though he commands ships and thus should be an Admiral
@@RJKilroy i think the ships were just the transport they were using to get to republic city, they werent going to do a naval battle. but they got ambushed before they could even set foot there.
@@unkindled6410except they were useing capitol ships for transport. Really poorly designed capitol ships at that Holy shit HMS Dreadnought would stomp them
@@lucasfragoso7634 you know the world technology in Korra is more or less equivalent to the very early 20 century right? aside from specific steampunk fictional stuff like the mechs and such, i dont think it fair to compare their ships to our modern ones.
My biggest problem with this show was adult Aang's characterisation. He went from the sweetest fun-loving kid ever to being pretty cold and serious. I get that he'd been through a lot but I expected him to be more like Bumi and Iroh in his old age
admittedly it's kind of cool reading the ATLA comics (which take place after the conclusion of the show) and seeing the seeds being planted for aang's shift in characterization. it's still BS in Korra but in the comics you can see the ideas being discussed, like taking someone's bending away as a harsh and permanent punishment. it surreptitiously adds some credence to the shift in characterization.
To be fair, Aang’s entire life is just caring burden way too much for one man to carry. He was meant to save the entire world of a 100-year war at just the age of 12. And after he finally had a child who can airbend, the burden of restoring an entire nation (a nation that was once about 25% of the world) fell on him and him alone. I think Aang did what he had to do because he was literally the only one who can do it
We don’t see much of Adult Aang in Korra at all and I never got the impression he was “overly serious” or “cold” from the short scenes we do see from him, he definitely has matured and is more serious but everytime we see him he still acts kind and compassionate to Korra and Tenzin and I like it. Also Adult Aang is still shown to be goofy sometimes like that picture we see in book 4.
If you’re talking about his characterisation of being a bad father maybe I understand a little more. I think it makes sense why Aang would spend so much time with Tenzin and why he would of been so excited when Tenzin could air bend because for most of his life he was the only air bender which just of been terrible for him so if he was tough on Tenzin and made him learn a lot I think that’s understandable and in character. But him neglecting his other kids doesn’t seem completely right. I feel like Aang still would of included them and make time for them so that was one thing I disliked about Adult Aang
@@geox8485 I would have liked his favoritism to have been lowered in severity so it would be more realistic to a loving father while still providing drama.
@@Barakon Yeah it would of been fine is Tenzin was still the favourite but in Korra, Bumi and Kya make it sound as if they had no good memories with Aang and they make it seem like they rarely saw him
What made Sokka funny was the contrast between his overly mature, sarcastic and intelligent side with his goofy, fun-loving side.
Personally, I see Varrick as the Sokka of the show for those same reasons.
I dont why but to me Bolin acts how a older Aang would act without his airbending philosophy. Same nature just not the same nurture. And hell, no parent figures and surviving the streets of a 20's style city does that to you.
@@robberofjacks2072 but aang without his philosophy and maturity (which I'd say would go hand in hand with him being the avatar and all) still wouldn't be as much of a dumbass as Bolin was, Bolin had his likable moments sure but thats only because the rest were more bland and under developed that we started to draw similarities to likable characters from TLA to force a connection(Mako sorta supposed to be a crappy Zuko, Korra has some personality traits similar to Kitara but not as well done, etc).
@@amanpreetgill7564 Dumbass is such a harsh word for Bolin, he is not the brightest when it comes to planning but he still has some intelligence in him. Aang pre war was flying all over the world and in Omashu he was riding the mail delivery system for the fuck of it. And intercepting dragon hunts in the fire nation.
@@robberofjacks2072 Ya you're right, I was a little to harsh my bad, but also Aang pre war was doing all that and ALSO being a gifted protege and the youngest air-bending master at 16, which was unheard of, and he started training almost as soon as he could walk (until korra had to come along and bend 3 elements all without any prior training at the age of 6), his travels much like the avatar journey like a nomad helped him gain a close connection for people and how all the 4 nations lives pre war. But yes aang was a tickster of sorts charcature and loved to mess around as much as the next guy, my point was Bolin or really none of the characters in LOK struck any type of geniune balance in their character like Aang, Toph, Kitara, or Zuko did. Bolin in an essence could be summed up as the stupid, dumb character. And yes they gave him the ability to Lavabend which was pretty op but that wasn't in any ways a alternative to character development and improvement, they almost felt sorry for him and decided he was the weak link so they might as well give him a easy way out of working hard at genuinely becoming good at something.
"The stuff that happens with Zaheer and the Earth Queen took my breath away"
*YOU-*
that's breathtaking tbh
P'li's death BLEW my mind
Too soon lol
And Ghazan's was ground-breaking
Personally, Ming hua's death was was the most Shocking
There is a theory that the handful of people that become airbenders due to the spirit shenanigans in season 3 is due to them having been descendants of surviving air nomads. It really wouldn’t make sense that the entire culture of NOMADS would all be at their temples at the same time to all be wiped out by the fire nation, so it’s likely some survived and laid low in the Earth Kingdom, which is the place they find all these new airbenders. I think that makes a lot more sense than them just randomly having the powers from naught, one example of this kinda being at play is Bumi.
Especially since we only see young preteen children and elderly monks in the temples, you’d figure the most vital to their survival would be out and about in the Earth Kingdom and go into hiding but that doesn’t get explored even in the original.
The wiki said there were also new Airbenders in the Water Tribes so there’s thar
bryke simply did not lay the foundations properly for the re-emergence of air benders. it was just convenient that random people suddenly can air bend. it's simply bad writing.
But that’s just a theory . . .
Honestly, I feel like bending should be more a cultural/spiritual thing than a genetic thing.
Those most in tune with the elements are able to bend them.
Kotara actually acts a mini avatar within the water element. She’s a bit of a prodigy like Ang. She units the two sides of water bending (healing and fighting) she embodies both the stormy seas and life giving spring.
Zuko does the same thing. Fire lord is all destruction. He looks down on the warmth and support fire can also give.
Zuko embodies the brashness and aggressiveness of fire. But he also learns the lessons of restraint that turns the destructive forest fire into a welcoming hearth.
Zuko fails at fire bending because his example is out of balance. When he learns from Iroh, he’s able to best capable fighters. He’s the complete element of fire.
I don’t have good examples for tof but I’m sure they’re there. It’s Taoism ying/yang with the avatar being the thing that connects everything.
I always thought Mako should have more of a serious backstory. I mean, think about it. On the surface, he's a character who had ties with city gangs and tried to keep his brother out of the gang only to become a cop later himself and be accused of being a dirty cop! That sounds interesting, yet somehow it manages to be completely boring. Because he never did anything wrong; he was only a bookkeeper, so he didn't need redemption anyway. Despite his background, he immediately accepts Asami trying to make him over and hand everything to him. And when he winds up in prison, the brother he helped raise just basically ignores him and goes off to start an acting career. STUPID!
Agreed. Mako should've been an active member of the Triads who grew a conscience and cut ties with them, maybe for his brother's sake, but he can never quite outrun his past.
just like most of the characters in this show, mako was wasted. he was basically a stand-in for zuko in terms of team avatar and bolin was an attempt to do sokka all over again.
they were half-baked characters, and the entire dynamic of team korra is cringe-y and forced teen romance. there is hardly any meaningful connection between korra / mako, korra / bolin, and korra / asami. compare that to team aang, even toph has a better relationship with zuko, and their friendship is the LEAST developed.
Mako and Bolin both should've been the Zuko equivalent for this show, give us semi regular flashbacks to their past, tying their history with the criminal underground into the plot as it comes naturally, that Amon lacky with the dual lightning sticks could've been a guy they knew way back when.
Schaffield: “Very Childish and not for me.”
>was literally a child at the time.
He probably wasn't comfortable with the Anime Faces at the time.
I think he meant that in the sense that it was pandering to children which always comes off as cringy even to kids.
"When I became a man I gave up childish things, including the fear of enjoying childish things"
Probably that age when the very though of watching something with a target demographic even slightly below your age is unbearable.
Well when I was a kid I wanted watch things that treated me like an adult so I can understand where he is coming from
I still like how the villains in this series are benders of every other element *EXCEPT* Fire like in ATLA
Amon/Unalaq-Water
Zaheer-Air
Kuvira-Earth
Damn, you're right.
P’li bends fire
@@internetdinosaur7678 She's more of a secondary villain since the season focuses much more on Zaheer.
@@munkee_man also she has a big forehead
Also, Korra was the one to learn Air bending when she already knew the other 3 beforehand unlike Aang
Varrick is amazing. When I originally watched Korra he was constantly going all the way around the "I love you or hate you" clock. Like he's constantly looping around from "ugh Varrick" to "YEAH VARRICK" to ". . . Varrick" to "VARRICK!" and eventually he ended up like going around the clock 20 times and ending on "I fucking love you Varrick"
IKR
Nah Varrick was always awesome even when he made AWFUL decisions. Still one of the best characters throughout the show.
Varrick was literally a terrorist who helped fund the fascist Kuvira and only defected when he realized it was inadvantageous to himself and his business interests, in an event the show even made him acknowledge as uncharacteristic of himself to make the joke that he'd finally developed a conscience. Sorry to say, but it might reflect more about you that your opinion around him switched so much than it says about his character development, and even if he did become more moral, how many capitalists can you think of who funded fascist coups against their governments and magically came to the realization "Oh no, I'm with the bad guys, aren't I!?" That never happened in history. This is a cartoon, and Varrick would totally never do this if not for plot convenience, as he himself almost explicitly acknowledges line for line.
@@Serelor Chill out it's a kid's show not a moral dilemma....
Exactly the same experience here, that man is a great example of effective character writing to be sure!
How dumb was I when I was a kid and saw Korra and Asumi walk into the sunset holding hands to live their lives together and I thought, "Man they're pretty good friends"
I just finished this today watching it for the first time and thought the same thing. I didn't catch relationship vibes at all... More like girls trip to me 😂
@@zeric_ I guess the nickelodeon censors did their job right.
Because that’s how they were written before being shoved into a poorly written gay ship for the sake of a gay ship. If you wanna do a gay shop cool. But for the love of gog please write it well.
@@infinityheart_tm9270 True. But all my friends who were watching it at the same time as me got it.
@@infinityheart_tm9270 fr i was getting besties vibes
The fact that the writers gave ZHAO closure and NOT SOKKA still offends me.
korra personally offends me bc my 2 favorite people to work on/be in AtLA, Aaron Ehasz and Jack de Sena didn't come back for it
@@a-ramenartist9734 Thank god I'm not the only one
@@a-ramenartist9734 I'd like to at least hope against all hope that Netflix is smart enough to ask Aaron Ehasz to come back for the live action ATLA they're doing (they're still doing it, right?) now that Bryan and Mike jumped ship. He's doing Dragon Prince for Netflix so it can't be that hard.
@@katakalamari and thankfully dragon prince is pretty good
To be fair... Sokka had proper closure in ATLA and sometimes, mystery is pretty good. Plus, they needed an organic way to include Sokka... which was hard... it's better to not do something and do it badly and ruin it...
“Tenzin is the best character”. No lies detected.
BUT THERE IS NO IROH!
@@spooderman6312 True
when togh one of the weaker characters is infinitely better then most of the characters in kora and kora herself is hilarious
One word: Varrick
Tenzin is the only reason to watch tbh
The moment I knew season 3 would hit different than season 2 was when Tenzin had the really emotional moment with his kids about there being new air benders and wishing aang could be around to see it. Not only was it just a super sweet and touching moment, but it also is one of those moments that really taps into that feeling I get whenever I watch ATLA. That whole arc gave me the same feeling I got watching aang truly mature and come into his own as the avatar, making genuine change and peace in peoples lives. It was the first time Korra and us, the audience, ever really got to see what her actions can do for people and it was a really strong story beat.
I hate that Korra was out specifically online with season 2 onwards
also, can we talk about how amazing the LOK soundtrack is??!?! i get chills when i listen to it.
Yeah
The "We are bonded forever" orchestral Avatar theme with Wan... chills every time
"A boyfriend so terrible, he turned 2 of his girlfriends gay", is now my official description for anyone asking what I think of Mako.
That was basically said the few days Korra and Asami got together.
TBF bad writing and characters made it so. Some of it isn't even his fault
@@neloverg3774
True, in the comic after the show, he basically gets ccuked. All the while Korra is double the bitch than she is in the show.
Halfway to being mako...... yay
I never thought I
Would hear this but it cracked me up
"Nickelodeon treated this show terribly"
That should go without saying. Not just with this show but just about any property they own.
Man nick is so trash dude. They keep spongebob on life support for years but shows like Korra and fairly odd parents get treated like garbage. Ugh.
And they still do to this day smh: Glitch Techs almost didn't see the light of day, all these "Spongebob universe" shows in development, it's so worrisome...
It gets even worse. They show it at like 1 in the morning to retain the rights to it
Cough Rise of the tmnt Cough
That's to be expected when your show is hemorraging viewership no matter what strategy you employ to stop the bleeding.
Here's my opinion.
Avatar the last airbender: an absolutely phenomenal series with interesting characters, an intimidating line of villains with interesting motives, and a great message.
Legend of Korra: Phenomenal... Mostly. Its obviously not as good as ATLA, and I never expected it to be, but it's still a really fun and enjoyable watch. I'd recommend it.
Ha. Legend of Korra is not phenomenal. It's decent. It has great moments, but most TV shows have great moments. LoK is an average TV show that gets shit on too much because it was the sequel to one of, if not the best TV show of all time.
@@en4833 This. This is what perfectly describes Legend of Korra. An at least watchable (3/4) standalone series that was abysmally overshadowed by taking place in a timeline with a phenomenal predecessor series and its preestablished world.
@@wildfire9280I mean i think it makes sense though to despise a series that isn’t just a continuation of a phenomenal one, but one that also really messes up the lore of it. I wouldn’t mind korra as much if it didn’t just take a dump all over its predecessor.
at best, tlok is mid. at worst, it betrays atla.
the spirit world was completely retconned. the original benders have been retconned as well (it atla, it's the sky bisons, dragons, badger moles and the moon and ocean). they even managed to destroy the characterization of the owl in the library. suddenly, he's a moron who has very human-like motives and behavior.
while the red lotus faction was actually done right, OMG, that evil kite completely destroyed the essence of the avatar cycle itself. i guess bryke just conveniently stopped drawing inspiration from hinduism, taoism, and classical east asian philosophy when it came to the very heart of the avatar cycle. it became this boring, one-dimensional good vs. evil trope embodied by the corniest depiction i've ever seen -- a friggin kite.
team korra is the most forced group dynamic you can find in popular fantasy media. the attempt to copypasta the magic of team aang is just silly.
honestly, the show should not have done anything new with the spirit world. the red lotus should have been the main baddie of the entire show, with the equalists as a warm-up to that. the whole spirit portal nonsense just destroyed the very delicately balanced lore of atla.
@@maggyfrogI'm still watching through it, but I just finishes season 2 and I didn't like it. I could actually get behind the first season, it was pretty good (ended a bit abruptly but still good) and then after season 2 it's like "oh yeah, Kora is now basically the first avatar and all the other ones don't count because the connection was severed." That to a character that all the good guys love (Bo Lin apologies to her after she kissed Mako in season 1 which seemed out of place) and who gets things resolved pretty quickly I can see why people called her a Mary Sue. But that doesn't ruin the show. It's no masterpiece or even anything to wright home about, but it's fine. The only way to enjoy it is to have never watched the original though.
Bolins the only part of team avatar I like fully. I think he's unique enough from sokka. He's a lot more sensitive and in touch with his emotions but macho unironically when sokka is the opposite in both.
Don't forget Cabbage corp, that was the single best joke in the series.
Omg yes
That moment when a NPC from the previous series has a actual role in the story. Perfect.
Okay, agree, but honorable mention to when Korra goes and finds Tenzin on vacation and proceeds to fill him in on everything that has been happening in specific detail for his only reaction to be " I knew this would happen" lol
Cabbage Guy has some connections he's not leading onto. Always runnning into mcs in last airbender, was one of the main sources from that ember island play, fast forward cabbage corp
Yeah....he n his legacy has to be white lotus or something
MY MULTIMILLION DOLLAR COMPANY!
Korra's dad muscles were literally thicker than Makko's whole character.
*Most of the characters
No
@@kotorandcorvid4968 Nah it’s true but fanboys like you can’t accept it
@@Flome810 What is wrong about the characters?
@@kotorandcorvid4968 Besides everything, I can’t think of anything else
I guess it makes semi-sense that Mako is going crazy that Korra is captured since she's the avatar, but it still makes no sense that he doesn't get equally crazy when Bolin gets captured.
He was legit worried sick that entire episode Bolin was missing and he opened up emotionally about how Bolin was his only family left, and he hardly opens up ever so nah I disagree with this, he expressed different emotions sure but he still cared that Bolin was kidnapped. he acted the same with Prince Wu too.
@@CleverToad yeah, did he just forget about Mako worrying about Bolin and opening up to Korra? That's literally one of the huge plot points of that episode
@@nevaeh9125thank goodness tbh. It's been a bit second since I watched this and listening to him I was like "wth makko that's ur brother u idiot" so I'm hella glad he actually did care
@@clearly_a_racconthough the lack of action sucks there is most likely some background deals in search of him as a assumption
Season 2 had my favourite fight scene: when Mako and Bolin is trying to stop Unalaq around the portal. It just looks amazing. The area is beautiful and earth and fire are used together against water. I just can't get enough of that fight.
I love season 3’s weird and horrifying ways of killing people
Metal gets placed around p’lis head while she tries to combustionbending
Out of context
It was so satisfying the see the earth queen's death
I swear the edited out a few seconds of each death to make it less explicitly violent in the Netflix release, which sucks
That's a interesting pfp u got there
"The boyfriend so bad he turned his 2 ex girlfriend's gay"
This is by far the greatest quote I've ever heard, I need more
Ha
My friend said he didn’t like the legend of korra because the main character is a girl
@ Swag Monke I called him sexist and he agreed
@@anti-symptoms6985 what
@@anti-symptoms6985 How old was he? That sounds like something 4 year old me would say because of fear of cooties and because I didn't want to seem "girly." Most people outgrow that phase by the time they turn 7.
I appriciate that he did these reviews by season, the inconsistency makes it hard to judge the show as a whole
Personal Headcannon:
Amon was just bloodbending to kill the section of the brain that controls bending
also: is Zuko's scar on the wrong side?
Btw the Zuko's scar in the wrong side it's just edited
basically shows that waterbenders are op
*"iT's nOt iN tHE wRoNG sIDe!"*
-Says Tenzin in the best character in season 1 summary.
-Doesnt talk about the season 3 fight where Tenzin gets triple teamed
Yeh, Zaheer was being curb stomped like a little bitch, then Zaheer got his friends to beat him up as well
he probably blocked it out of his memory
imagine that.. it took three people to take him down
Best fight in the series
Was def waiting for him to talk about that Lol
“The boyfriend so terrible, he made both of his girlfriends gay.” That’s a good roast to use on a guy
Edit: I said it as a joke. It wasn’t meant to be taken seriously I was just saying it bc I thought it was funny so chill 😑
Ngl, that is pretty good.
Reminds me of Randal from the clerk's cartoon
I'm so sick of that meme (If you can even call a meme). For the final time for anyone still willing to make this comment, Mako didn't drive Korra and Asami into each others arms. He had failed relationships with both of them and both of them then deepened their relationship with each other independently, resulting in a spirit world first date. That's what happened.
@@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168 That reply you made is fine, I or anyone won’t disagree with your claim or view, but also remember it is a matter of perspective my friend. Everyone has it.
@@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168 Do you know what a meme is at all?
For me, honestly the main issue is really simple - in season 1 and 2 they got too bogged down in the relationships and love triangles. You have these villains with fantastic potential that ends up squandered (MUCH more with Unalaq than Amon, but still) because there's more time devoted to relationship stuff than building up the characters as individuals.
Also, I agree with you about Korrsami. I knew they were gonna get together, but from what I remember they have one conversation together just the two of them before the finale, for the ENTIRETY of season 4. I get that they couldn't show the romance, sure, but it felt like their intimate close friendship was something we were told about rather than shown, and so it felt like Korrsami kinda came out of nowhere. I just wish we'd had a couple more moments with the two of them alone together - not even as a couple, but just as friends. Show, don't tell, after all.
The thing I don't like about the origin of the avatar is that the explanation of bending wasn't needed because in the first show they say air was flying bison, earth was banger moles, fire was dragons, water was the moon and tide so they just forgot this explanation and made a new one wich I didn't like
Its recon honestly
I know this is old comment but i like to imagine that lion turtles gave people powers to control elements but different animals showed people how to master elements. Like for example we see first avatar doing the dragon dance that zuko and aang do in season 3 of last airbender. Just a little headcanon of mine and not confirmed.
@@jozi_oziuhmm, we are told that the moon, badgermoles, dragons and sky bisons are the first benders of their respective elements. So does this mean that the writers are lying to us in ATLA? Nah, I do not buy this lion turtle giving power to the first human benders.
Also, the lion turtle who gave Aang energy bending said that the era before the avatar, they are bending NOT the elements, but the energy within themselves. But in TLOK, before Wan became the avatar, lion turtles were already bestowing bending powers to people. Bryke literally destroyed the entire bending system that was well established during ATLA.
@@jozi_ozilol you don’t have to imagine it that is 100% what was implied in the Wan episode but people don’t get that for some reason. If I remember correctly it was said in the wan episode that he was the first person to use fire bending as an extension of his body which he learned from the dragons. The lion turtles giving people their powers does not negate the idea that people learned how to bend form dragons, sky bisons, etc.
@adre7806 It still a recon
“Plus it’s fun to see Mako *suffer* “ TRUER WORDS HAVE NEVER BEEN SPOKEN
Why?
He's just a badly written character, that's all.
I honestly feel sorry for him. Bryke first promoted him as OH SO GREAT Zuko 2 character, then f*cked him up, then made fun of him. Pathetic.
It’s fun to see snow suffer ffxiii.
@@smart.but.stupid he wasn’t bad in season 1 but after the writers were like let’s make him suffer
@@the-dramatic-nerd in season 2 he was a cheating idiot for some reason and in later seasons he was a laughing stock. Also Bryke blamed him for their own lack of writing skills.
Yes
“the legend of korra is a very mature show, with a lot of thought, time, and effort put into it”
**meelo farts intensify**
I had to take a double back after hearing that.
I feel like because they were trying to be mature they have to have more lowbrow humor
He's the only minus in the show I saw lol
Yeah, having low brow humor like that in a show that’s suppose to be more mature is very distracting. There’s tons of moments like this during scenes that are suppose to be intense and serious. Like when the equalists launch a blatant terrorist attack on the arena, and the commentator tells everyone that he’s wetting his pants. You’d think that a show that is talked up as being more mature than avatar would want to distance itself from this kind of humor. Or at least not place it during times that aren’t very appropriate.
@@austinjohnsen4430 to be fair their were jokes in some avatar battles for example zuko and aang's first fight "I've been looking for you for years only to see you're just a child." Aang. "And you're just a teenager" but the show isn't really. That serious and the jokes aren't that immature. Korea wants to be mature and funny and that doesn't work most of the time
I think the biggest letdown for me for season 2 was Raava and Vaatu just being generic “good vs evil” when Avatar was all about gray morality, balance, and complicated morality. For it to be black and white “good vs evil” is just… really weird for avatar and a ton of missed potential honestly. I would’ve loved it if Vaatu had a point about creating chaos in order to make change, like Zaheer’s whole deal was. Or That Raava’s ideology might not always be good (too much control and order is bad, as we see in the earth kingdom and the fire nation). I honestly didn’t think season 2 was outright terrible, I personally still enjoyed it, but it’s def the weakest season and, again, has a lot of missed potential.
yeah that's what I don't like either. in the eastern philosophy is like what you said. but the vaatu and raava concept makes the eastern philosophy "abrahamic" if you know what I mean. it's diverging from the root
Not really tho ozai was straight up evil and that is all
Best line in season two “Is this boat fast enough to get away from my crazy water bending ex” Varrick “why do you think I built it” 😂
i like that appa gets his episode and most of korra characters don't
That's because Atla had 60 episodes building up to defeating one big villain while Korra had only 12 episodes each season to introduce and resolve a new conflict and villain. If they had the time to have filler episodes and develop every characters they surely would have done that
@@manuba_ nah appa’s just built different
@@manuba_ nah appa is just better then every character that existed in korra
@@thebleachbartender1312 You know.. I can't disagree with this.
@@manuba_ You right tho. Nickelodeon really fucked over Korra, only giving them one season at a time instead of a full series like ATLA. So the team working on Korra couldn't really plan it out properly as a long storyline. Fuck Nickelodeon, i think for the amount of BS that happened during it;'s run, Korra turned out to be a very solid show.
The villain in TLA: Gets defeated with spirit magic and isn’t even killed.
LOK season one villain: *Murder suicide*
yeah so edgy korra is for adults and not for kids cos stuff made for kids are shit unlike tla korra if mature and you can see that in the love pentgon
@@khattab5351 what?
@@khattab5351 God who hurt you? Everyone in the fandom knows Atla is a mature show with heavy topics and it's not childish at all. But LoK just had the opportunity to show some more violent stuff and they did it. And that's great isn't it? We went from "Did Jet just die?" To seeing a woman be suffocated to death (ok it doesn't sound that nice saying it like that but the queen was a monster lol)
@@solaireofastora9178
i am shitposting obviously
@@khattab5351 I’m not saying it’s bad. I love both shows respectively. I just thought the difference was kinda funny.
The only thing with general iroh, they tried to do different voices with Dante Bosco, but the voice they liked the best was his normal talking voice
While I loved Lok, One of my big problems with it was that they didn’t bring back sokka and suki. Sure it’s realistic that not everyone survives this long but this show is about people creating fire from their hands or making rocks fly. In my perfect world the clip show episode would be replaced by maybe something where sokka and suki are living out on retirement on kyoshi island
@@fart321 I never said he was alive in the actual story, though I should have probably mentioned it. I’m just saying that in my own personal preference I would have liked it if he was alive in the actual story.
they had katara toph zuko and aang, they don't need every single character again
@@za6604 yeah true, it probably wouldn’t have been the best decision from a critical storytelling standpoint but since sokka was my favorite character I just would’ve liked to see him
@@Door227 I find it very weird that we don't even get closure to their relationship. We see Sokka on the council on that one flashback, but Suki is treated as if she didn't exist at all, I don't think they even mention her once. Did they have children? Did they not? Is Suki alive? Did they break up before they became adults?? We get no closure whatsoever
@@Zenala considering how much they hyped the red lotus, one would think they would show them kill one of the now older members of the gaang (maybe sokka and/or suki) who died trying to protect baby korra.
but i guess they thought "that would be too risky" (and cause the fandom to hate them forever) so they didn't consider do that
“The stuff between Zaheer and the Earth Queen took my breath away.”
I see what you did there.
Also 20:03
That joke made me Die out of laughter and run out of breath
That part was pretty chilling, but Zaheer flying was pretty stupid
not funny, did'nt laugh.
same lmaooo
Of all things that show up in this series, MechaHitler was something I was NOT expecting
Without context, that sounds like you’re referring to a crossover episode with Wolfenstein.
It was pretty crazy, but also surprisingly good as a final season even compared to the power creep levels of Vatuu the over dramatic evil rug spirit
I wasn’t either, but when it popped up, I was into it enough to roll with it
"I didn't expect the third reich to show up"
Wouldn't it be more of Stalin because of y'know gulags and communism?
24:31 “Plus it’s fun to watch Mako suffer!” I love that
The Won episodes are unironically my favorite in the series lol. I just like the plot line.
Varrick’s writers is were the writing budget went to.
Varrick was probably the only character in the show who was genuinely funny.
Do the thing!
i loved him so much but kinda hate myself for hating a war criminal
*where
You mean the profiteer who never got punished or criticized despite being a major villain for a season? And then ended up being accepted by the main cast without question? And literally grew a conscience out of the blue when there was suddenly another major opportunity for war profiteering?
Are we talking about the same character???
This man went through criticizing LOK without mentioning losing the past avatars in season 2. Which is actually really impressive, kudos.
I think that’s because that’s not really the problem. It’s the DELIVERY that doesn’t make sense.
He was going relatively spoiler-free, so he probably ommited it on purpose.
@@BonaparteBardithion relatively is the word right there, pretty sure he spoiled most of the show.
This is so irrelavent to the story that its not even worth mentioning.
it wasnt said because that isnt a problem with the overall story
My list of my bending teachers,
Fire: Iroh (because of his personality and he can teach me lightning bending. He is also, calm and respectful)
Air: Guru Laghima (because I want to fly)
Water: Katara (because of her caring and her advanced healing)
Earth: Toph (because of her seismic sense and her powerful metal bending. Also, she was shown to sand bend on a beach so, I can learn that)
That’s actually something that squashed Korras potential. The fact the went for everyone being older meant relationships would come into it more, but they put so much romance that meant nothing and it wasted time. Aang and Katara were the single relationship, other than Sokka’s ridiculous side story romances. There was just too much, but it was still a good show.
Ridiculous? He had two serious romances, one girl who had a crush on him, one girl who might have had a crush on him, and the Haiku scene. The two serious ones were very well thought out and meaningful, Ty Lee was mostly played for jokes, Toph only had like three scenes where she showed she might like Sokka, and the Haiku scene was maybe 5 minutes of one episode. None of them were ridiculous.
I have to agree on that one. Every teen flirted with everyone and started a relationship on first sight, that often ended just as fast. Bolin for instance tried to hit on Korra, then Eska, then Ginger and then Opal, and all pretty much as soon as he met them. Mako swapped from Asami to Korra then back to Asami then (involuntarily) back to Korra before breaking up for good. Jinora immediately fell in love with Kai and they became a couple as well (she's 11 in season 3). Even Meelo (at age 9) wanted to impress "his love of his life" after bumping into a girl he's never seen before. And of course you need to have Korra ending up with Asami, because it's 2023 and you gotta have representation and stuff.
Most romantic relationships could've been cut out completely (or kept at friendships/romantic interests) and nothing would've changed at all, and at times the show would've even improved (especially the awkward love triangle involving Mako).
The last Airbender on the other hand was different. Sure, Aang fell in love immediately upon seeing Katara, who also got flustered by him frequently, yet while Aangs romantic interest in her was addressed often, the show waited right until the ending for the romantic conclusion and just kept it at "close friends with romantic interest" for the time being.
Sokka on the other hand had two relationships going on and the first started just as rushed as all the other ones in TLOK, but it ended in a tragic way instead of a breakup. His second one was actually more in depth, as he got to know the character beforehand and we see him still scarred and scared of losing his loved ones when she confesses to him, to the point of denying the first kiss. It really added some mayor character development to the otherwise comical relief character.
Zuko got together with his childhood friend, which was actually important, because it both portrayed that even after getting everything he wanted he felt horrible about his life and by betraying the fire nation he'd have to abandon her as well, but she also ends up betraying Azula because her love to Zuko is stronger than her loyalty to Azula.
Apart from that true show doesn't focus on romantic relationships (let's not forget that this is a nickelodeon show with kids as a target group) and the few ones in the show are actually used properly for character building. The characters complexity goes far beyond just the romantic feelings for each other.
"Tenzin is the best character"
Truer words have never been spoken, or more like "the floor here is made out of floor"
Verrick, Tenzin, Eska, Korra are the best characters for me
@@galkastelic8906 how could u forget Bumi
Okay, but have you considered the following:
Lin
@@MetFanMac oh man, Lin and Sue are dope as well... And I guess Zhou Lee? I guess I just love everyone in TLOK xD
I dont know why but i prefer zaheer
Korra is what happens when good ideas and good stories get crushed under the heel of a studio with inconsistent deadlines, limitations, and demands.
korra was good
Still good though
Nick did not interfere with Korra's story, the most they did was cutting the teams budget which only impacted the visuals, everything wrong with Korra is entirely the fault of the writers, not Nick.
i thought it was awesome but still not as good as avatar the last airbender
It was terrible. The story ideas were very promising and good, but executed terribly. All the villains could have been well rounded with clear goals, motivations, and much deeper than Ozai, but they screwed all of them up.
I LOVED season 1. Amon is such a good villain and the ending with him had me in tears. When he took Korra's bending, I was like, "Oh shit!" Tarrlok was also great to watch. Their relationship and the way the season ended (and Amon's tear, omg), it's just beautiful. I always thought Korra was annoying af though. I never liked her very much, but when I rewatched season 1, I kept reminding myself that she's just a hot-headed, hormonal teenager but she was sooo annoying. I stopped caring halfway through season 2 and never watched season 3, though I heard it was good.
I hated season 2 so much I couldn't even enjoy season 3. I intellectually knew it was good but my brain gave me zero dopamine for it.
Season 2 is pretty terrible but I really enjoyed season 3. It’s worth watching if you have any passing interest.
@@noaha6185 The second season was bad and boring, but the story of the first avatar in history and the origin of the bending was very cool.
Season 1 was my favorite season
@@illumi9044 Everything is good. Except Amon revealed
season 3 was my favorite season, I appreciate the villains & their motives so much
Bryke: "Hey Nickelodeon, can we have the appropriate time and funding to make sequel series?"
Nickelodeon: "Here's $7, you have 2 weeks."
Bryke: Uh, can you give us a better deadline?
Nickelodeon: Ok! You now have ten.
Bryke: t-ten what?
Nickelodeon: nine. eight. se
the more you exagerate it, the better!
and it was still a fucking masterpiece 😔✊🏻
Btw you guys lost your time slot and you are an online only series now
@@sophiewells7318 😂😂😂
tenzin tries to act calm and refined like aang but ends up lashing out and losing his shit
*which you CANNOT tell me he doesn't get from katara*
😂 Exactly
You just made me realise it 💀
Ahhh yes Imma going to bask in this
Calm? IM COMPLETLY CALM!!!
But yes he gets it from his mother for sure. She tried to fucking kill the man who killed her mother, and was willing to blood bend to get to him. Thankfully she has a strong moral compass to always keep her steady and from going to far. But when Katara is pissed, really pissed and unleashing, it's like she enters the Avatar state but only with water
I think you described the first season very well, the entire buildup with the storytelling was absolutely on point, that goddamn ending scene gives me chills every time I see it
Its a dumb ending story wise but an amazing scene. "At your lowest point you are open to the greatest change" is legit the best wisdom to come out of the entire series. I honestly like it more than anything iroh ever said in terms of the value of the insight.
Another thing about the final fight in the 3rd season is that it is a parallel to the Ozai fight in the finale of AtLA, with a powerful bender attacking a helpless Airdender in a canyon full of rock towers
Thank you for thinking so highly of me
U deserve it king
omg i love you
“YOU DID THE THING!!!”
You made this account just to say this
@@alumlovescake is.... is... is that a *PROBLEM?*
"It took my breath away"
SCHAFFRILLIS I SWEAR TO GOD
bruh...he went there lol
I was almost expecting a " JUST LIKE ZAHEER DID TO K-" and it cuts to the next segment of the video.
The deaths in season three were breathtaking, shocking, groundbreaking and mindblowing
Wait a god damn minute..
SCHAF’S A SOY BOY?
YES XD
I luckily wasn’t negatively effected by the avatar adverts because I watched ATLA as a kid, probably right as they were freshly dubbed.
I watched the first episodes of LoK when it was brand new online!
I literally just don't care about the negatives with this show. I get too immersed every time I binge it. It might be imperfect but I adore it.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with that! It's just far too many people get pissy when something they like gets judged. Not exclusive to Korra fans, even as a Star Wars fan I gotta admit there's a decent chunk of the fan base that just absolutely suck.
Nothing we do is perfect. And this show was daring. They did not go the safe way but tried to really deliver. The result is a fantastic show with some issues.
Same here. While Avatar is better, I rewatch this way more 😅. I love it that much
My biggest problem with the show is it’s a sequel to AtLA but is nowhere near as good
@@Ace-ql5ct yep
Korra tries to kiss Asami but Nickelodeon jumps out from the shadows and beats her over the head with a steel chair
"Bye God, a steel chair!"
I laughed too hard at this
*Jim Ross has entered the chat*
Good, Korra and asami have 0 chemistry the only chemistry they have is the fact that mako dated both of them, Nickelodeon was just tryna rush Korras love story because they didn't want Korra to be single that's literally the whole point of the ship
@@Ejaz100 ikr where were the times they literally had any heart to hearts or actual moments that felt like chemistry it felt kinda forced to me and was a huge letdown lgbtqia representation wise good thing we have the owl house now and lumity has chemistry and moments where that chemistry shines
I'm pretty sure General Iroh was just added in because fans missed Zuko too much
He was a pity character
Tbh I do not like how he was handled. I would've loved to have seen him actually be a character ( i think my interest in him stems from the fact I have a MASSIVE crush on Zuko ). It really would've been nice to see what he could do and contribute to the story
I forgot that character existed and was being a dumb confused idiot for a whole minute and a half trying to understand why y'all didnt like uncle iroh
His voice doesnt fit him-
Just like the whole show its fan service
In my defense the reason I like Mako (and Bolin) is because of the mini series that came out about him and Bolin as kids living on the streets.
Every time I think about this show I just get disappointed because (among many other things) of the way they changed spirits to basically animals. In Avatar the last Airbender spirits were greater almost abstract entities that very few could actually understand, but in Korra they're just animals or blobs with the most complex ones being pretty much humans in terms of consciousness
They're just talking pokemons and typical "good and evil"☹️
I identify with bolin so much. This is because I too am an offbrand sokka.
Most relatable character in all of Avatar tbh.
"I'm starving! I want meat"
Best Comment Ever!
Bolin is Sokka with more himbo energy but less charm.
#offbrandsokka 😆
"The stuff that happens with Zahir and the Earth Queen took my breath away."
*shows clip of Zahir suffocating the Earth Queen*
Yeah no shit
*god how did I miss that?*
I actually did watch/rewatch both this and Avatar recently (there's this whole thing that I didn't finish either season as a kid cause they just stopped airing at their usual times or something). I had heard that Korra was bad, but I think going into it expecting that made me not end up disliking it. I think I was even told "Season 2 sucks, the rest is pretty good" so I didn't even hate season 2 because of my low expectations of it. I definitely think Korra's better watched casually, just don't over think it, enjoy the great animation.
I want to point out one big difference I realized Avatar and Korra have that I think made Avatar better. Avatar had a much better sense of direction. Probably from the very first episode you know that the Fire Lord is the villain and the show will end when Aang confronts him. Korra doesn't have that, each season deals with a new major villain solely for that season. There's also the problem of the team thinking they were making Korra as a miniseries rather than a multi-season show, because more often a story that the writer knew how they would end it from the beginning turns out much better than ones where they don't. Knowing the story's beginning, middle, and end means you only have to fill in how the characters reach these major points.
This video got me to finally finish watching Korra. I saw season 1 as it premiered then dropped off. After this though I just hopped into season 3 and really enjoyed myself from there!
(Keep in mind I had the plot of season 2 basically summarized for me beforehand)
Whenever Schaffrilas connects his sentence with “-OH WAIT,” Ur writing has srsly pulled an oopsy
Yep
@Tamarix yes - quite
"Varrick, AKA the single best character to ever come out of TLOK."
Finally, someone understands my obsession with this guy!
Yes
Varrick and Bolin carrying the show on their backs with their goofyness.
the scenes with varrick and zhu li in the platypus-bear are literally the best scenes in the entire series. i don't think i have ever laughed so hard in my life tbh
ZHU LI DO THE THING! *bear farts money* "That Platypus-bear is pooping money!!!" favorite moment in the whole series.
@@margarethmichelina5146 just Varrick
I only watched the 1st season of Korra but the way I see it is:
Avatar was a show that was smarter than it acts
Korra was a show that acts smarter than it is
Season 1: 1:30
Season 2: 7:41
Season 3: 15:05
Season 4: 19:47
Funny Moment for me 16:07
Season 1: Yes
Season 2: NO
Season 3: Sure
Season 4: HITLER
You could also say that about Earth
Kuivara gets fucking redeemed in the comics and in this essay I will talk about how this shows how modern neoliberalism is willing to accept fascism over the end of systems which make people unequal (whether that be good ole' capitalism or in this case bending).
@@TheRunningLeopard Kuvira getting redeemed was horrible and unearned
@@DudeCrazy198 Exactly. Kuivara is an interesting character and I do like her, I don't feel a need to redeem her because she doesn't deserve it, at all. But then I don't understand the recent obsession with redeeming villains, so maybe I'm missing something?
It just is especially bad in her case considering all that she's done. She's not just some antihero who just killed two bad people or some shit. She was a fascist conquerer
I can’t believe he didn’t mention Bumi’s introduction, that is character gold
*yes*
What’s funny is that if Korra had stayed a miniseries with just season one that would have been Bumi’s only onscreen appearance. How sad would that be?
@@austinjohnsen4430 I think they knew about more than one season at that point but it was rushed tbh
@@Abhi-xy2hm They knew that they would get another season after book 1 started airing.
It's so over rated
Imagine if while Kuvira was giving her speech, a sudden windstorm picks up and Kuvira looks up and we think it’s Korra getting her nerve back but it’s Zaheer just floating above her like the Threat he is. We get a flashback of Zaheer agreeing to defeat Kuvira as his ideology won’t allow him to let her tyranny go unopposed. 3 years is long enough for a guy who can access the spirit realm to get perspective.
I love the fact that you found kora first. Any way that people can find their way into a new passion is beautiful.
The only thing I didn’t like about Kuvira was when she saved Korra’s Dad, she introduced herself with a spooky evil chord to show she was evil, which I thought was irritating
She was also the one soldier that just kept showing up or hanging around the entire season. You could tell by the beauty mark.
She was the main one dancing when we meet Su, she always comes in to let Su know about something, etc. So there is setup for her actually being Su’s right hand but it’s still somehow a big deal when she gives her name at the end of the season as foreshadowing
@@TheOriginalPoon It would have been fine IF they ended the series with her as the focus of a neutral scene (her getting a promotion/hanging out with Korra or Opal) AND didn't give a giant ominous evil tone. Like seriously I remember that scene watching it with my brother in the room (who didn't really know anything about LOK or ATLA). I just laughed and even my brother was like she's a bad guy right?
i didnt like how she was a fascist who did ethnic cleansing but was redeemed way more than anyone else
@@jobeiden She wasn't.
@@Spherrum In the comics it was declared that she never did any ethnics clensing and that the two guys who stated she did were just liars.
The Amon mask on the Aang statue is the equivalent of if someone put a bowser mask on the Statue of Liberty
Majora's Mask on the Statue of Liberty.
Okay but it's honestly hilarious
jack black should do this as promo
Okay, can someone actually do that, please? I'm sure the president would forgive that kind of debauchery, it's been a rough year and people could really use a laugh.
@@archduke0000 The word cringe is cringe
Thank u for a legitimate review that’s actually thought out and not just fishing for negative shit to say. Most reviews are just shitting on this show without proper judgment or pretending everything is perfect. This is refreshing to see
14:16 the inexplicable jinora fairy LMAOWJEHE
Honestly, the biggest problem with Korra as a whole with the characters is that there just isn’t enough time for them. They don’t feel like a new team avatar because there isn’t enough time for them to develop as a team and maintain the pacing of the plot (which is more or less due to Nickelodeon screwing with the series WAYY too much). You could say the same thing for season two and later season four as well. Both had some great ideas, but the build-up either was nonexistent and felt jagged, or they had to rush the buildup and threat of the season to make the story work. Basically, these seasons needed more episodes than they were allotted
exactly! They should have stayed with an episodic format like ATLA was, with each season being built up as 20 episodes that have an overarching goal but also episodes that divert from the main plot to provide world-building and quality character and relationship development. The way LOK's binge-series- style approach doesn't work, everything is rushed and there's not enough time to really flesh out the characters other than Korra herself.
The problem with Korra is that there are too many characters.
@@adeptdamage3669 especially with the time allotted for each season and episode. Like you can tell they wanted to make these all good characters, but they didn’t have the time to make them work well together. They work okay as individuals, but team avatar doesn’t feel like a team, just kinda some people that occasionally work together when the plot permits.
@Dakota M-A that's the the problem, a series format is having a smaller number of episodes each season, if they had 20 episodes each season instead if only 11, it would have worked so much better
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The fight where Bolin fights to save the president from kidnappers is one of the most hype fights in the series.
True that fight is underated
That fight is like 25% of why I like season 2
I would like but it is at 666 likes
@@mr_me3835 And now it's at 939, and I won't disturb the doggo!
@@SCP-vo6js correction, 1k
Amon and zaheer bullying unalaq was the funniest thing of all time. Also gave me flashbacks of the ember island players
Varrick is a great fkn character. Honestly one of my top 5 fave animated characters. Also I would totally let Kuvira walk all over me, just sayin'.
i really feel bad for asami actually. losing her mother, cheated by her boyfriend, betrayed and almost killed by her own father, her company get stolen, and then losing her father right after she managed to forgive him..
edit : and also LIN BEIFONG!! she suffered the most
She was actually supposed to betray Korra and the gang in season one but Brike had other ideas for her.
Dude Asami just got combo'd for like 90% of the show, like the second something good happened to her she just got destroyed
how'd she lose her mother again lmao i forgot
@@timtam3730 howwouldshebetraythem
At least she gets big titty non-goth GF at the end.
“The boyfriend so terrible he turned both of his girlfriends gay” IM SCREAMING OMFG 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The pinochle of roasting, no one will ever top this.
Congratulations 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
You can say that Mako had so much chemicals that turned his GFs gay.
this actually happened to this one guy i knew! his first gf came out as a lesbian and broke up with him, then he dated this one girl for a week, and she broke up with him to be with me (who he also had a crush on earlier) and finally he dated one girl who is currently dating the first gf. its really funny
@@Raccon_Detective. *Congruetsluations
@@javaplum8364 Not actually that funny...more sad tbh.
I don't know, the one thing I would add that might revive a .5 out of 10 on season 2 would be seeing Iroh doing Iroh stuff again. I know he has literally outlived his time but just having a fragment of him wandering through the dreamlike realm of the spirt world actually fits really well
You strait up gave me goosebumps when you said she was the way to make the Earth kingdom into the new Fire Nation, and I just socked when I truly realized it. Keep up the great work dude.
Even people who love LOK agree that Season 2 sucks
Edit: tbh, Season 2 is not as bad as people make it out to be, but it's still the weakest in the series
The difficult thing is telling people they can't skip it.
I don't hate season 2, but I agree its the worst of the series. I feel like they had a good amount of ideas and concepts to work with but the execution was really sloppy. Though for the most part, I blame much of it on Nickelodeon not planning Korra properly.
TBH the only thing I liked from Korra Season 2 was Avatar Wan and that was it! Everything felt meh continuing onward....
@@haruhirogrimgar6047 because Avatar Wan episodes are amazing tbh
Honestly, I don't mind the season. I agree with most of its flaws The Crab Person mentioned, but they either don't bother me nor do they lessen its strengths.
Schaffrillas: I don't want to spoil anything
Also Schaffrillas: * Shows Zaheer murking the Earth Queen. *
Here’s the problems with the series:
- Having it become a hugely more technological and modern world, to the point where not only does it make the avatar and bending look stupid but also makes things such as Zukos dragon not seem possible anymore since there seems to be no room left for magic and fantasy.
-Making the world more american like by removing all the asian features and customs, heck the clothes seem to have become britsh victorian gentleman and ladies style instead of the beautiful and varied clothing of the last airbender series.
-Removing all the spiritual stuff including philosophical points such as having to learn to give up things in order to grow or how one must ask themselves what they want.
-Staying in Republic city, this makes it very boring since we don’t get to see much beyond the city, and it makes it feel less interesting then when the original gang was travelling across the world.
-Disrespecting Sokka by not having a single appearance by him, adress on what happened to him, no old characters mentioning him, no thing such as maybe seeing his sword in a museum.
- No appearance or mention of Suki or Ty Lee as well as other characters.
-Getting rid of connection to past lifes.
-Overexplaining the avatar and bending thereby killing the magic and making earlier moments seem stupid.
-The gang has pretty much zero real chemistry, the original gang seems real and they bond by shared experiences etc, this gang is either split up or just kinda awkward, they barely work together.
-Korra never grows or changes, she makes the same mistakes over and over, including trusting random people too much, she never really acknowledges her flaws.
-The point of view of non benders is entirely skipped as much as possible, we never get to see them laying out their issues such as maybe having some earth kingdom farmers who have their land stolen by neighbours because they can bend the ground to make a new wall to steal land or showing people using bending to bully and intimidate, thereby making Korra have to realise that she can’t merely call herself the avatar and punch her way through problems.
-Season 2’s love triangle making it even worse.
-Bolin being a direct rip off of Sokka.
-Korra and Asami having zero real interaction or chemistry.
I definitely agree with some of your points, but I think you are being a little unfair with others:
It’s true they never captured the original chemistry of the OG Gang, but everyone in this gang are all adults who have lives outside of helping each other, so it makes sense why they seemed more disconnected (the three year time skip didn’t help either)
I didn’t mind the industry and technology aspect. I think they definitely could have made a plot about the world changing so rapidly, but I don’t think it took anything away. Technology and Magic/Fantasy/Spirtualism don’t have to take away from each other. Heck, in my opinion it makes Zuko’s dragon look even cooler.
The whole idea of non-benders viewpoint doesn’t really bother me. I don’t think it’s fair to criticize the show considering they had a whole season dedicated to non-benders. Plus, Varrik, Zhu Lee, Raiko, and Asami were all non-benders who played important roles.
Korra definitely does change. Season 4 Korra is way more responsible and level headed then Season 1 Korra.
But I agree that:
They never really traveled or explored the world, which is a shame, because the world building is part of what made the show so cool.
Sokka and much of the OG cast was either ignored or given minimal roles.
The Love Triangle(s) did nothing but take away from the plot.
The focus was taken away from Korra to often, which made it harder for her to grow in a way the audience could connect to.
@@bigj1905 I think when OP mentioned the non-bender view point, he meant during season one where the whole premise was that there was discrimination against non-benders, but we never get to see any discrimination. The best we get is some gang members harassing street owners and pro bending, which isn't enough to get the point across.
About the more advanced technology...
Technology advances pretty damn fast in the real world. And with people who can bend the elements to their will, technology would advance even faster.
@@captaincozmo8529 It makes a ton of sense from a world building perspective, but it's an aesthetic issue, if that makes sense. It just feels weird, even if it's totally reasonable to progress that way, it doesn't quite FEEL right. Logically it makes sense, but when i watched the series it kept pulling me out of it. It felt like a trade off a very interesting world for one that shifted to something a bit more boring and mundane, making it more like a typical western superhero movie, if that makes sense.
I 100% get why people like the show, but it sadly fell flat for me in a lot of spots.
One thing you missed in Season 2 that really bothered me was Mako and Bolin.
Holy crap, in the mid season, when Bolin pretty much just dismisses his older brother after he came to him for help, even after he saved his bending from Amon, that bothered me.
Then he literally refuses to believe his OWN BROTHER, WHO IS A COP, when he says Varrik is up to something, just absolutely infuriated me.
Now I have a sibling, and if they were acting like how Bolin treated Mako, I would not have just seemingly forgotten it once everything was revealed. And honestly, if I was acting like Bolin, I hope my sibling would be pissed at me.
Everybody: "I hate Korra because its sucks"
Me: Haha, Varrick said "Do the thing"
I mean, even if it's bad it still has dank memes.
Yes yes. He is my inspiration. I’ve started telling my sister to ‘do the thing’
@@PancakeTheKat That doesn't really matter. "Do the thing can be quoted by anyone. Its a quote/reference to Varrick.
The memes are the only thing that kept me watching this failed abortion of a show lol
@@windowguylol yeah the show had some major flaws. However The animation and humor was pretty good at times. But those weren't good enough too make the show even half decent.
The Verrik and Bolin combo is *chefs kiss* season 4 was the funniest season
Which is ironic, because the stuff with Korra herself in that season was easily some of the darkest shit in the franchise.
Le chefs kiss
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@@windowguylol what
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@@austinjohnsen4430 I don't know if I'd call it ironic, cuz I think that comedy is often at its best when the drama tension is at its highest (though it must be done with care and at proper timing). Thats why its comedic "relief".
I really liked season 4 and I enjoyed Kuvira as a villain a lot but I think she suffers from the same mistake as count Dooku. For the first few episodes she was a character on the edge of good and evil, noone knew which side she would end up on. Korra thinks she's evil and she actually is but can you imagine if the writers chose to let her not be the villain? Like she would unite the earth kingdom and not give up the rule but she wouldn't want to murder or genocide anyone. Korra would still think she's evil but she would be proven wrong.
My problem with Korra was they went with to many villains. I think we just needed amon and the red lotus. For the entire duration of the show. I also feel that everything the show had story wise could of been told with those 2 villains. The show having a different antagonist every season lowers the stakes everytime cause by the 4th season we already have had her take out 3 other fire lord Ozai threats. Yes they have The defining character moments but they don't feel genuine to me because they just have a new villain and new characters evertime for a ending we know she's gonna win.
I always hated how people talked about Korras time being too technologically advanced but ignored the fact that over 70 years before korra they’re perfectly fine with a 100ft long drill used to get into ba sing se
Ikr hahah they are just stupid
The drill was made by the fire nation, the most technologically advanced nation. They built that thing in secret for *months* and chances are it was their only drill like it. One big weapon that took forever to build is pretty different from full on *cars* and *electricity*
@@barbaraw1245 cars? do you not think the tanks and the battleships in Atla would have not influenced technically *170 years* later they have progressed in technology about the same speed we did, the first car was Made in 1886 Korras time was reflecting the 1920-30. Also people can literally make electricity from their fingers.
@@Alexm0321 just because Korra was based off the 1920's doesn't mean that's literally what it is.
My issue isn't the fact that they have cars, it's the fact that their cars look exactly like ours did in that time period. In ATLA, trains were powered by earthbenders. I'd be more okay with the technology if more of the original world bending was incorporated.
I like the idea of fire benders powering cities. It incorporates bending with modern technology. But it still feels weird to see lightbulbs in use in this world.
I'm aware my opinion is all over the place and I'm fairly biased. I dont hate the technology it just feels so weird and it kinda takes away the realism that ATLA had
Also wasnt it 70 years, not 170?
@@barbaraw1245 you do make some good points with the earth bending trains but still they had steam powered battleships when fire lord sozin was alive so it was around 170 years
LOK: “I’M THE AVATAR AND YOU GOTTA DEAL WITH IT!”
ATLA: *THAT WAS HIS MISTAKE*
i'M tHe AvAtAr YoU gOtTa DeAl WiTh It!
Amazing. every word of what you just said, was wrong.
No one:
The entire steven universe plotline: *THAT WAS HER MISTAKE*
Korra: I'm the Avatar and you have to deal with it!
Zaheer: Oh Yeh, it's all coming together
White Lotus: o...okay? we were never upset
The scene with Zaheer and the earth queen “took me breath away”. 😂
I loved the parts in atla where they would get more cartoony when they got extra emotional but that was a very rare thing in tlok. I think in the entire First season it happened twice a moment of two apart!
Tlok also really went back on the humor and that was my favorite part!