>The Avatar is a single person with hundreds of lifetimes of experience and wisdom.
>A unique setting potentially rife with limitless possibilities
>The Avatar immediately after Aang loses all of them
>All potential ideas for future writers are dead on arrival thanks to Korra
Why does /toon/ praise this franchise so much?
Korra anal
Only if she makes our daughter eat out the cum.
>Veri not required.
It's funny because that IS something Shake would fantasize about.
Sometimes I forget I share this space with depraved wretches like that.
fucking love you retards sometimes
Is Korra weak to anal?
Tied with Azula for biggest jobber to anal.
Didn't one of the spin-off comics hint she could restore the connection?
Given she probably won’t, it’s something that the next reincarnation can do.
I wouldn't be surprised because gutting all the previous Avatars was a top 3 dumbest shit move Korra pulled
My headcanon is this is what the lesbian spirit world vacation was for and Kyoshi was the first one to come back.
I think to mirror this the new Water Nation will be incredibly elitist and materialistic, but also spiritually dead, maybe even dependent on technology to bend water for them. Spirituality vs Science will be a major theme in it. They could even claim that Korra fucking the connection up resulted in past history changing (for the worse) to solely benefit the Water Tribe
Korra didn't kill the story engine that is the Avatar, how Korra was implemented already did that: her background and role as the Avatar in Book One breaks the internal logic of the story:
>Avatar from the Water Tribe
>but has the personality of a Fire Nation + Earth Nation denizen
>yet was raised in a compound in the Water Tribe and surrounded by people in the Water Tribe
>and can bend Water
>yet her overall character does not match how a person raised in the Water Tribe would act
>and despite knowing how to bend Water, belonging to the second most spiritual nation, she struggles with only Air because ???
Book 2 killing off the past connections to the Avatars is upsetting when you realize it was as much shock value as it was Bryke being consistent with making TLOK distinct as possible from ATLA that it not only split it on a fundamental level, it exposed how faulty TLOK's individual logic was. Think about it: it doesn't MATTER that Korra cut off the connections because the show hardly gave a shit about that.
Fans are not upset that the show fucked itself over, what they're really upset about is how the show willingly did so, didn't care about what that meant, and gladly pressed forward as if it was a good thing. That's more insulting than if it was a fuck-up done with good intentions.
Hell, just the fact that Korra opens the spirit gates (which is, ya know, what the villain wanted) and keeps them open despite knowing that spirits were and are a danger to humans all over the planet is internally inconsistent. Nevermind Avatar, she got the knowledge straight from the first avatar (oh, and humans didn't learn bending from animals because fuck interesting lore. Spirits did it. Spirits do everything).
That was like watching a show tear up its own canon.
Korra didn't understand Wan's flashback at all, but understanding was never her strong point.
My headcanon her her personality at the beginning is her bending effecting her personality. Like you said she acts like a fire + earth bender. Because she is. Maybe doing that sort of bending effected her personality. We wouldn't really know because no other character could bend 3 elements that young.
That headcanon makes no sense because toddler Korra's introduction already breaks the established logic of how the Avatar learns bending (in that they have to learn it from a master, something that takes years, if not a lifetime to master). Aang was only a special case because of DESTINY and mumbo jumbo willing that so.
She didn't master earth and fire though. She just knew how to manipulate them on a basic level. It was probably accidentally. Then her bending earth and fire at such a young age made her more hot headed. I really feel like it was just freak luck that she figure out fire and earth so early. Only thing that's absolutely cringe is he proclaiming to be the Avatar and everyone having to deal with it. Like the writer wasn't confident enough in Korra so they made her proclaim she's the new main character. You never saw a new Jojo doing that. Korea also developed terribly and the world was completely raped.
Except her manipulating Fire and Water at a young age is still ass since ATLA's logic established it took YEARS for a bender to even really grasp bending.
Toddlers knowing HOW to bend (and bend well, seriously, look at how little Korra manipulates that) is stupid. It's as stupid as TLOK taking the martial arts out of bending for the sake of things looking like MMA, on top of making every bender OP (more benders makes sense, but benders being this adept at bending this fast is retarded).
what's also cringe is that she managed to even bend Fire and Earth: Fire is the exact opposite of Water (so as a Water Tribe Avatar, she'd struggle with that the most), and even then the first element an Avatar learns and bends is the element belonging to the nation they're born to
other than that, I agree
You (along with alot of other people in this thread) seem to interpret the "opposite" element thing as being ingrained in the Avatar's DNA.
It's cultural. In Iroh's speech to Zuko the different philosophies in bending come from the culture. A waterbender baby does not just go with the flow and let their emotions flow like water - they're taught that. Korra was raised by an exiled giga warrior who used water/ice to power up his punching, not direct water whips. Which element is best at powering up punching and kicking? Fire.
If you take up the extended canon then it's even further shown that it's all mental. There are no true opposite elements, just opposite mindsets.
>studio/executives meddling
Doesn't change anything. That is a canon event that exists and is a great example of why having the past lives so easily accessible and impactful is bad for the narrative.
I like the concept, but it's been broken since S1 of ATLA.
>it only really exists to justify her being a "master" out the gate (yet she always loses
Yes, the White Lotus compound being shit at teaching Korra was a plot point in S2 and S3.
>acts nothing like a Water Tribe Avatar
This is nonsense. Avatars act in the manner in which they were raised. The Avatar is the Avatar.
>that godawful intro toddler scene
Nothing wrong with it.
You can cry all you want about REEE MUH GIRL AVATAR but you're still wrong. Instead of sperging out about made up shit like how a "Water Tribe Avatar" acts you should be complaining about Bryke getting worshiped even though ATLA was carried entirely by Aaron Ehasz and his wife.
>Retardedly broken mechanic that takes away any threat
>Remove it
>People mad that it'll NEGATIVELY impact the storytelling
What the literal fuck are you brainlets talking about? Getting rid of the past lives is great. Avatars before Korra could speed dial a past live and get answers to any question. Blame Bryke for creating such an easy way to get answers to any problem.
Season 1 would've been solved in the first episode if Korra could've talked to Aang and, guess what, even though she couldn't it was Aang who restored her powers and stopped her from learning any lessons.
>that they have to learn it from a master, something that takes years, if not a lifetime to master
This is not true for normal benders, and it's definitely not true for the Avatar. One Avatar even started Earthbending the moment he was told he was the Avatar.
>it took YEARS for a bender to even really grasp bending
Korra was locked in a training compound for 17 years. At the start of Season 1 she gets Master status in Firebending. She spent 12-13 years training. That's like four years for each element.
>it was Aang who restored her powers and stopped her from learning any lessons.
That was likely studio/executives meddling with the end of the show.
Honestly, I liked the past lives being available for the current avatar to bounce ideas off of or ask for advice. It's not like Aang actually listened to them anyway when they all told him to kill Ozai.
We have no idea if it was Nick, and given Bryke's comments on how much creative freedom they were given (a lot), I doubt it. Nick meddling with TLOK is vastly blown out of proportion and gets tossed around as a means to mindlessly defend and suck off Bryke and justify one's interest in TLOK.
While I hate defending Bryke, it's way too fucking stupid even for him to take Korra's bending and then have Aang give it back to her in the same episode. I'm of the opinion that it was likely Nick not wanting their now popular show to suddenly have to spend several episodes in S2 getting her powers back.
>I'm of the opinion that it was likely Nick not wanting their now popular show to suddenly have to spend several episodes in S2 getting her powers back.
Then... you're wrong. Korra was lit for only one season. It was completed before the numbers even started rolling in. It was Bryke's choice to use an existing get out of jail free card to help Korra. They didn't know Korra S2 would ever be made, which is probably why when S2 was approved they got stuck with that bad animation studio since that's all they had access to.
>forgetting that most of the benders we saw in ATLA weren't masters at it (thanks 100 year old war), the masters being born prodigies or old fucks, everyone else ranged from being intermediate to veteran users
>Korra being locked in a training compound is still ass because it only really exists to justify her being a "master" out the gate (yet she always loses, acts nothing like a Water Tribe Avatar, fucks up learning Air, and that godawful intro toddler scene). It means nothing, and the intent it is meant to have is nullfied entirely.
>has the personality of a Fire Nation
She's a product of SCORCHED.
>and despite knowing how to bend Water, belonging to the second most spiritual nation, she struggles with only Air because ???
to be fair Aang had trouble with Fire cause it was his opposite, just like Air....is....to Kor....
wait a minute, what the fuck
Aang's opposite was Earth
Oh shit that's right yeah he did have the most trouble with earth
had me confused for a second
Aang’s opposite was earth, not fire. He actually managed to bend it relatively quickly, but became hesitant to continue learning after harming Katara
That's an unintelligent take, anon. You could have been born anywhere but acted against the grain of your culture. Korra was naturally a hothead, and this set her up to be spiritually dull.
>and yet she learned Water but struggled with Air
shut up bro, korrafags can't stop the copium
We say moron around here, newfag. Contemplate how much of a bitch Katara was. Airbender shows us how both violent rage and warm love of life both are powerful drivers of firebending. Korra can be a tempestuous waterbender and lacking in airbending.
Grizzled bounty hunter for the non-bender has already been decided, but non-bender that eventually learns to bend is kind of kino.
Korra being shit at Airbending is a retarded idea, never mind how badly it was written.
Now, Swampbender Korra learning how to bloodbend...there's a novel idea.
>Swampbender Korra uses sandbending to manipulate glass, makes little purdy gator-dile sculptures
>Swampbender Korra
based
Korra being able to bend everything but air as a five or six year old and still being unable to do it when she was in her teens is still really, really weird
What we missed out on
She was a literal baby that was surrounded by nothing but other waterbenders, though. If she had acted like that maybe *after* leaving the tribe it would make sense, but it just straight up doesn't. There's no reason they made her like that, they just did it.
I still think it's weird that at a time where the Avatar wouldn't have been murdered on site by a military superpower, they just decided to lock her in a compound until she was a teenager?
And then when she went to another country she was lagely unsupervised?
It was explained in S3 (the only worthwhile one) that she was raised in the compound due to Zaheer & co.'s kidnapping attempt. Which, mind you, begs the question as to how the fuck they even stopped those guys in the first place. Maybe that's how Sokka kicked the bucket?
>Maybe that's how Sokka kicked the bucket?
Yes, he died in the most brutal way, stopping and imprisoning 3 super elemental masters and a warrior monk using only a boomerang.
>Chance to show how the world would react to knowing that the Avatar cycle would continue
>Chance to show an Avatar slowly grow into their role while growing up with peers in their element, something we never got to see Aang do
>Chance to show Korra slowly learn more elements overtime and how those elements react to a new, growing world
>Chance to have Pro-Bending look cool at all
>Chance to have a story about the Triad
>Chance to have more technology that harmonizes with bending
>Chance to have a story that focuses on maintaining spirituality while living during an industrial revolution that systematically tears that down
>Chance to have a main character that acts at all like a Waterbender
All of that, scrapped so we can have a dyke running around in a sterile American city from the 20's with lame ass jokes like "movers" and pic related. This story felt like a Wattpad fanfiction of Avatar, which would have been fine if they just treated it like it was, like some kinda spin-off, but they didn't.
Dude, pro bending!
Pro-bending episodes were awful but the board game is suprisingly good; I bought it from a sale (as a jest) and it was actually pretty fun.
Pro-Bending was always retarded
>guy is from Brazil
>does not love football, Capoeira
HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN? SHIT STORY, TOTALLY UNREALISTIC
All you had to say was she bent three elements as a toddler.
If you really walked away thinking each nation has an assigned personality you didn't watch the series. They're countries, not Hogwarts houses. It's not some betrayal of the lore that there's a hotheaded waterbender.
Korra has a lot of flaws but her not acting sufficiently 'Water Tribe' isn't one of them. The concept of an Avatar being in tune with the physical side of bending and easily grasping water, fire, and earth but struggling with air because of its spirituality is a good one considering the last Avatar.
I'M THE AVATAR DEAL WITH IT
>It had a good first three seasons
Season 2 was dogshit
Meant for
>Why does /toon/ praise this franchise so much?
It had a good first three seasons, then shit the bed on the ending. Korra was just continuing the downward trend of Last Airbender's finale.
>shit the bed on the ending
Nonsense, Book 3 is the most entertaining
> buh my spirit turtle
Yes, it's a kid's show, concessions have to be made. Aang was going to kick Ozai's ass whether Ozai was incapacitated or not.
you were referring to LoK. Nevermind what I said
Aang could have just done what Goku did to Piccollo. Beat him up at tell him "I won't take your life, but you'll never take over the world because I'll be there to stop you every time" and that would've been fine.
11th hour Spirit Turtle was just hack writing.
The problem with that is that it comes off as tone-deaf as the actual ending. Aamg learned NOTHING from his journey and completely disregarded his past lives' advice and instead relied on deus ex turtle. Even Yangchen called him out on his selfish bullshit and he just doubled down and moped.
Better he create a third option through his own power and ability than have it handed to him right before the end.
It's not a great ending, but it's better than the turtle.
Anon, the avatar can't be everywhere at once. He needs to make the Firelord an invalid ruler so that Zuko can take over and end the war.
Since he can't kill, that means he has to take away his bending. For the Fire nation, having a ruler who can't bend is a ridiculous concept. They wouldn't accept Ozai, and he can't lay claim to the throne over Zuko any more.
Just kicking Ozai's ass, and telling him "now don't be an evil warmonger any more, or I'll come and do it again" wouldn't help anything as he'll easily regroup and do it again.
Really imagine what you're suggesting. Ozai gets beaten, and just fucks off. Zuko gets crowned Firelord, and we're supposed to think that the entire fire nation will just accept this? Or that Ozai will just not try to take his nation back?
They're teetering on it in the comics, but it's never thought of as a possibility for Ozai to come back as Firelord because he's not fit for the role without his bending.
It works for Piccolo because they just sort of ignore the world domination and mass murder thing he tried, and he's set up as more of Goku's Punch-buddy than anything.
I think it's decreasing now but there seemed to be some weird trend of making these girlboss main characters who have a character arc of shrugging off expectations of others because they have a ton of innate power when really they were just being fucking idiots. The result was a bunch of strawmen set up for these strong female characters to knock down without any growth or paradigm shift. It's why characters like Rey and Captain Marvel were criticized as not having character arcs but character lines.
In Korra's case, it was because Bryke wanted to make her the complete opposite of Aang without understanding that we already had that.
>Toph
But since they wanted TLOK's philosophy to be the exact opposite of ATLA, yet still didn't budge on certain aspects, Korra ended up having the personality of Toph (crossed with Zuko) minus the redeeming aspects and put into the body of an older Katara, then made OP and did jack all for most of her series.
And having an annoying on-screen presence would be one thing if the show wasn't designed to crap on her for no justified reason other than for cheap sympathy/pity/conflict. So now not only is she introduced as having the biggest dick ever, she doesn't even get to use it because she ALMOST ALWAYS JOBS (in the most helpless way possible, seriously, she always immediately folds) after starting fights because she's written like an idiot (and not as an in-character thing, she's written to hold the metaphorical idiot ball in place of an internal struggle).
What you're left with is someone WORSE than a Rey or CM: a main character who's established to be OP, gets metaphorically raped and rendered helpless through four seasons of ryona (to the point it becomes a "character arc" about trauma in an attempt to save face), and ends up making the world worse and gets a nothing burger of a female love interest as her prize.
Bravo, Bryke.
Doesn't help that she also spends a lot of her first season just trying to steal someone's boyfriend.
Because that's a totally likeable thing to do.
>Doesn't help that she also spends a lot of her first season just trying to steal someone's boyfriend.
Also, she stole the boyfriend of a girl she knows and who is nice to her.
and for some reason the other characters are fine with it, even Pema encourages her to keep going, There is a difference between fighting for love and being a thirsty slut.
>a girl she knows and who is nice to her.
I forgot Asami was just always a nice person. You're right, that does make it worse. Korra was a two-faced bitch.
>mad Korra is lusting after cock
She was locked in a compound for 90% of her life. Can't blame her for being stupid horny
For being horny, no.
For having no self-control and maliciously hurting her friend, yes.
Asami wasn't her friend then
It was planned from the beginning to make asami her "special friend"
Season 1 Korra and Asami were not friends.
LOL
LMAO, even.
S1 Asami wasn't even her friend until the last episode, and before you spout any bullshit, we know for a fact that it was made as a standalone season and completely finished before it aired. The decision to continue milking the brown cow was made after the cash started raining and Nick twisted Bryke's arms.
That's the feminist conception of the hero's journey. Overcoming the patriarchy and realizing your true self.
It isn't so much the feminist conception of the hero's journey as much as it is fourth-wave feminism perpetuating misogyny to the point it believes it needs to "liberate" women of womanhood and femininity while posing men as being inherently evil to whatever degree.
When men write modern feminist heroes, you get Korra (where the female hero lacks feminine aspects, is established as OP to fulfill male power fantasy, but then because of sexism and trying to appeal to women, she gets beat up and metaphorically raped).
When women write modern feminist heroes you get Rey, Carol, Harley Quinn (where she's either feminine in a basic way, or EXTREMELY feminine, but done so in a way that lacks objectification...or style in order to avoid men drooling at them as sex toys, and they're OP and everyone loves them...but they're still beholden to evil men who have all the power UNTIL they don't when it's time for the girls to win, so you're left with a boring blank slate of a protagonist who is treated as a dindu nuffin and can do anything she wants without consequences but has no internal conflict, responsibility, or humanity, just a plot device for shallow wish fulfillment).
And even then with BOTH examples, the way they carry themselves as women minus womanhood and instead a male caricature, but from the perspective of masculinity as inherently bad.
So you get a woman who doesn't act like a woman but instead acts like a man, but without any of the agency or accountability or redeeming aspects, yet is favored unambiguously by the narrative despite lacking autonomy or motives.
So you're left with an annoying plot device with her feminine aspects cut off and her positive masculine aspects are mostly erased while her remaining negative aspects remain, with only some positive being labeled as "good", yet never being treated as how they would be in a logical end-point.
So the OP female protag, ironically, does nothing, and can't BE anything.
It's a feminist theory thing. You gotta read some pretty obscure stuff to know exactly where it comes from.
>Why does /toon/ praise this franchise so much?
/toon/ only praises the original series and even that has a lot of people pointing out its flaws or hating it. Korra gets shit on and did so poorly that Nickelodeon cut the budget for the last season and had new episodes premier online only. The movie was bad and the comics suck. It's a cursed franchise.
While this thread was clearly made in bait faith, I'm still answering for some reason.
One, past Avatars are just a small fraction of the setting. Even then, e.g. Kyoshi's legacy was very important in ATLA, and I think she possessed Aang once, in a single filler episode, for like a minute? 99% of what she was to the story would persist without the Avatar state connection.
Two, /toon/ only praises ATLA; Korra is mostly good for coomer fanart. Arguing that the sequel ruined the franchise is preaching to the choir here.
Wasn't it implied that the connection still exists somewhere and it was lost only to her due to the spirit rape?
No, recent supplementary material revealed that Korra CAN'T fix the breaking of the connection, no one can except MAYBE the next Avatar. So for now, she's the first Avatar of the new connection.
And even then, newer comics broke the specialness of only the prior Avatar incarnations being able to be reached through the current Avatar as Kyoshi just rolls up to speak with Suki when she was in the Boiling Rock.
No, I get that she's fucked for life. I meant that then next Earth Avatar could still possibly connect to thier past lives, because the spirit-breaking fuckery happened to her specifically.
I mean, if Aang fucking dying while in the Avatar State didn't nuke the connection for all his future lives, getting her shit pushed out then back in shouldn't affect Korra's reincarnations either.
Aang did not die using the Avatar state, he died from accelerated cellular degeneration caused by being frozen for 100 years.
NTA but he was talking about the end of Book 2 where Azula killed him.
>Why does /toon/ praise this franchise so much?
We praise ATLA, shut the fuck up
All they have to do to fix this is make a prequel series that has flashforwards to Korra and ATLA
How? That only worked for the Clone Wars because it had the EU material and the Prequels themselves to work off of, and even with the Prequels it didn't shoot itself in the foot as badly as the Sequels did.
What Korra did was pull a Prequels (good ideas, horrible execution) but then also pull a Sequels (torch everything to the ground and expose that said ideas were fundamentally fucked). You CANNOT save it.
And like the Sequels, it was made on the precipice of being DIFFERENT from the originals as for the source to not overshadow it and also distinguish itself, yet they couldn't let go of the past to the point the new material was ass by comparison (a lack of interest and a lack of depth). And just like the Sequels, the events of the story are paced like ass to the point no amount of new content can fix it, broke the internal logic so much it can't be fixed, and had absolutely no direction until it was too late. And even then, said direction is bad.
ATLA was good, and S3 of LOK was good. Also, coomer brain for the Avatar girls clouds out the flaws and most people consider S2 to be a bad fever dream.
Isn't S3 the one with the Dark Avatar and earthbending mechas?
S2 has the Dark Avatar, S4 has mechas.
S3 was Zaheer and the red lotus.
>Why does /toon/ praise this franchise so much?
you ask this like /toon/ hasn't been constantly shitting on korra since day 1
/toon/ was praising this shit since it was just a still of korra's back over republic city
Back then we still didn't know for sure it would be bad.
Come on, it's not that hard to figure out. Ditching the past lives is symbolic representation of young stronk womyn not being beholden to mistakes/failures of past generations, and fixing all the shit they caused (eg. global warming / sexism / etc). Basically a test run for the "winning" Disney formula.
let the past die, kill it if you have to
Korra needs corrective dickings
I should really re-watch this show from start to finish.
>that swampbender
oh yes
What would you do with her?
Anal.
>gaslight and abuse Korra into completely giving up, turn her into a tradwife babymaker
Thankfully Korra isn't canon because the writers became retarded.
The idealized Korra exists in my head where all it's shitty moments don't exist.
Yep, you just grew up.
I would like some Ai korras please?
thats a regular IAHFY drawing dipshid
He wanted to post AI, but then realized like 99% of AI Korra art is futa
pretty impressive she spent the entire series jobbing and didn't get raped even once.
Shit, sorry I meant AI voice Korras
Post what you'd like to hear and I'll get to it later
"I love you."
https://vocaroo.com/1ay0CFhWxsgz
Since this is really short and doesn't have enough context to give the words the right connotation I put a few different versions here.
https://vocaroo.com/1jlNSvcu0W51
Same situation as above, but the punctuation gave the AI more room for interpretation.
https://vocaroo.com/1nSJsVzYjtoj
https://vocaroo.com/102KVHADePoi
the context is this image
I mean conversational context.
If Asami didn't prompt this with a remark, then what was Korra thinking of that lead to this?
that greater context is what gives smaller remarks the right delivery, then you edit out the extra lines.
Thanks! These are really good!
is this Elevenlabs 2.0? it doesn't sound 100% like Janet but it also sounds much smoother
voice actors will be obsolete come 2025
>Elevenlabs 2.0
It is not. It's just skill and pure, lossless quality Janet.
Honestly it's kinda sad I didn't even realize 2.0 labs even came out...
Here ya go, anon. I did a comparison since I was also curious how different it was.
https://vocaroo.com/15c0aMOuTDVL
"you should skip your meeting."
"don't ask me, I'm just a girl"
In depth ageplay accomplice script.
have her fantasizing about fucking Aang in his prime
i really want to hear these
Korra reacting to Asami divorcing us.
Swampbender Korra finding out Toph lives nearby or that she can bend other elements
all my ai korra is nsfw
>read artbook of ATLA
>they mention the special effects of water and fire are some of the hardest things to draw in animation
How true is this?
It is difficult to draw the fluid movement of water and fire, rock is a solid element, air is almost invisible so you have almost nothing to draw.
Brown girl
>Why does /toon/ praise this franchise so much?
lmfao stop lying
Last Airbender was good but I don't think it as special and as good as people say it is. Nonetheless, I would have liked to have seen a spin-off of pic in his earlier years in the army.
>LoK insinuates he's a brilliant tactician and melee combatant despite being a non-bender (which until that point hadn't happened before to someone with two parents who were benders).
>Don't really get to see any of it until after he gets airbending.
>Even then he acts like a complete idiot most of the time when we see him.
>Don't get to see him get taught by Sokka who undoubtedly trained him in some capacity.
But I attribute most of the above to LoK's very poor writing.
>LoK insinuates he's a brilliant tactician and melee combatant
This only makes me question what bellicose conflicts happened between the end of the war and Korra's time for Bumi to have proven himself as a military leader.
Wasn't it kinda implied with his rescue montage that the outlandish shit he spouts is at least 80%~ true?
The issue with TLOK for me is that it just wasted a lot of its potential. S3 for example is hailed as the high point of the series, but even that wastes half of its runtime on gags or Korra being tard wrangled instead of developing the ever-growing cast. Like who the hell cared about the zealot grandma or Jinora's boytoy that much that they required multiple episodes? At least the latter developed Jinora's character by proxy, but still.
Also, the notion of Aang being a shit father AND Katara allowing it is as laughable as the Avatar suddenly being a "spirit of goodness" instead of a bringer of balance. Wan should have fused with both Raava and Vaatu if his flashback were to make any sense thematically.
Only things I can think of are ice morons doing ice moron things, and Fire Colony skirmishes. It's very doubtful everyone was happy with the United Republic's formation.
I assume the Earth kingdom wouldve had problems as well, the Queen was a tyrant ruling over a fractious third world shithole that had been invaded and raided and sacked for over a 100 years. Also in ATLA I got the feeling that there were multiple earth kingdoms with the only remaining ones being Ba Sing Se and Omashu, yet in Korra we see a unified kingdom. So there was probably some annexation going on
>The issue with TLOK for me is that it just wasted a lot of its potential
It wasted pretty much all of its potential due to how poorly written it was and it effectively killed the series, as outside the comics that no one read the only other thing they're doing with it is The Last Airbender live-action remake on Netflix. And that will definitely kill the series for good.
It really wasn't that bad.
It isn't an offensively terrible piece of media but it is a disappointment due to its predecessor setting the bar high. If it wasn't a sequel I feel like TLOK would just be considered a good piece of western animation and a mediocre attempt at storytelling, not a failure.
LoK got made off of the success of The Last Airbender. The fact that Nickelodeon hasn't made any other Avatar content since LoK says otherwise.
They literally made their own studio for its projects.
I worry for those
I fear that, combined with the new animated show, they may have to end up retconning or finding a way to write Korra out of existence entirely.
Don't worry, they'll just rewrite and retcon the original series instead with complete new voices for the characters that were actual kids at the time.
Anon why are you defending Korra like your handler flipped a switch? Is this also why you slept on me predicting the Water Nation would become a capitalist dystopia?
When Korra aired, I really didn't think that having the new, spunky "strong female character" destroy the past, belittle her predecessors and expose them as incompetent and impotent was going to become a running trend, but here we are now and it's the one cliche that I wish would die as soon as possible.
Korra didn't belittle her predecessors at all.
And she wasn't even spunky.
Hell by the end of the series Korra is one of the most level-headed characters in the franchise.
My biggest problem is that every new villain brings with it a moral or political problem that is never resolved, I mean she is the avatar her job is supposed to be to solve that.
The Avatar's job is specifically not supposed to be involving themselves in petty political squabbling. Maintaining the balance withing the physical world and between it and the spiritual one is far beyond those things in scope. Kingdoms rise and fall all the time.
I want to suck on Korra's dark nipples
I love Korra!
Honestly it may as well be one of the most insufferable tropes I see in most fantastical settings used by people trying to be "deep" or something. They always have to make it so the book gets slammed shut and the major mystical/magical things in the setting die off or go away and then humans become like regular real life humans.
That is quite literally the opposite of what happened.
It did partly happen with the avatar, but the trope definitely doesn't apply to TLOK...
https://vocaroo.com/1esHB2LfqOdl
https://vocaroo.com/13L26yY6yydC
I laughed way too hard at that first one.
I just want a series about a group of benders and non benders protecting the new avatar baby through warring nations and facing rather unique opponents and benders