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

submitted 4 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 4 years ago (2 children)

another thing is that LoK has to make its villians do 100% evil things so people know they are evil, The equalists have to be bending racists and nothing else, Unalaq its like an avatar fanfic villian when he becomes the dark avatar and he was always evil, Zaheer is the best and they have to make him a 14 year old edgy anarchist so people dont sympathize when he kills a literal tyrant, and finaly Kuvira has to be the avatar version of literal hitler so people dont like her and in the books they end up redeeming her!.

i agree with this video and the other 3 in the series that goes in depth about Legend of Korra not knowing what political ideologies are

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (2 children)

Zaheer is cool actually

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

Zaheer was cool, but they gave him one line that invalidated his whole ideology. His anarchism is worse than ancap, it's "everyone look out for themselves."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

Zaheer is the coolest, and i like Amon even if the equalist were trash

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

The thing with Kuvira have several parts:

They protrayed an obvious Hitler like "oh just some good intended person that got power crazy"
The reasons why Kuvira got to power were a good critique, but she went full Hitler.
They give a redemption arc to fucking Hitler.
THE FUCKING GIANT ROBOT

[ Nice thing Korra had to talk to Zaheer to learn how to beat Kuvira, almost like liberals don't know how to fight fascist but only enable them].