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What the heck is going on with Legends of Korra (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, The Last Airbender is good. Korra is also good, in a lot of ways. Animation? Brilliant. Choreography? Yes. Anything beyond a surface deep reading of its representation as politics? Well....

Its so weird, how did they go from AtLA, to this show where every good guy is either a cop or a CEO or literal royalty and every single villain is some caricature of a leftist? In the last season, theres a king whos demonstrably dumb, vain, and in no way should be in charge but hes just still played as the good guy and anyone who doesn't want him to be king is evil???

The Avatar, protector of the people, seeker of balance, coming in just to restore the status quo leaders every single time. Its the definition of liberal politics. Just made this thread to bitch, but lets all complain about how many times the heroes in these stories blindly return everything to how it was because "any change = bad"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

LoK also took a massive dump on the sense of adventure ATLA had, I was never a fan of 90% of the show taking place in the same modernized city

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think the Avatar world is unfortunately tiny. The whole thing is 3 countries, because the Air nation just has a few temples. The whole consists of the population of New York.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

It is tiny, but at least with ATLA they visit different villages/cultures and like learn from them and expand their worldview; LoK doesn't bother with this. One of the things I love about ATLA is watching its characters expand their worldview, learning and growing from others, and adding new bending techniques into their own, etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Rise of Kyoshi novels have excellent worldbuilding, check them up