Current Events > so does anyone still like legend of korra

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sure hope not

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season 1 and 3 were really good at least

DarthAragorn posted...

season 3 was really good at least

Kami_no_Kami posted...

season 3 was really good at least

This. Though Amon (like zaheer) did nothing wrong. Seasons 2 and 4 were irredeemably bad with no good parts. Wait, Prince Wu was good.

DarthAragorn posted...

seasons 1, 3, and 4 were really good at least

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DarthAragorn posted...

season 1, 2, and 3 of The Last Airbender were really good at least

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Season 3 of TLA had way too much filler and bad pacing to be really good imo. Still good tho

Didn't the ending randomly have the main character be in a lesbian relationship just because? I know they had a love triangle with the male leads that went nowhere, it had one brother cucking another.

Honestly I stopped watching after the first season's murder suicide. Avatar was way, way, WAAAAYYYY more entertaining.
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Slayer_22 posted...

Didn't the ending randomly have the main character be in a lesbian relationship just because? I know they had a love triangle with the male leads that went nowhere, it had one brother cucking another.

Honestly I stopped watching after the first season's murder suicide. Avatar was way, way, WAAAAYYYY more entertaining.

Eh I rewatched it a couple weeks ago and some seeds were planted in season 3. Can't blame Nick too much IMO, LGBT was still fairly stigmatized in America when Korra aired

Did anyone ever like it to begin with?

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Still waiting on Giant Energy Korra x GNR R34 btw.

there are people who actually think season 3 of korra is on par or BETTER than TLA and i just can't

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Except season 2 I thought it was all good. 3 being clear best

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Delirious_Beard posted...

there are people who actually think season 3 of korra is on par or BETTER than TLA and i just can't

I'd put s3 korra at 9.9 while book 2 tla at 10

Platoe posted...

Eh I rewatched it a couple weeks ago and some seeds were planted in season 3. Can't blame Nick too much IMO, LGBT was still fairly stigmatized in America when Korra aired

From what I've been told, it was just lazy pandering. I can't bring myself to watch it cuz I just honestly don't like the show, but it wouldn't surprise me if that was the case. And I am 100% someone who likes a well crafted gay relationship in a show, but most shows just...fall flat, you know? Or resort to pandering, which is even worse.
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Slayer_22 posted...

From what I've been told, it was just lazy pandering

sounds like you been talkin to some homophobes, sorry bro :/

lesbians

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Platoe posted...

sounds like you been talkin to some homophobes, sorry bro :/

Lol. Just because someone hates pandering doesn't mean they're a homophobe, you know.
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I thought that it was mostly great throughout, with season two having a dip in quality.

Zaheer > Amon > Kuvira >>>> I can't even remember

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Imagine not liking Legend of Korra just because it's not as good as The Last Airbender. Still a great show.

Slayer_22 posted...

Lol. Just because someone hates pandering doesn't mean they're a homophobe, you know.

it wasn't really pandering; you see the two grow closer throughout the season, and it makes sense for an avatar to be bisexual

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I almost like it better than the original series tbh

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boxington posted...

it wasn't really pandering; you see the two grow closer throughout the season, and it makes sense for an avatar to be bisexual

I'd trust what a friend said over someone I've never met, honestly.

Idgaf about the sexuality of the character myself, I just really don't like pandering. It's lazy and doesn't do much for anything, besides adding an extra bit of bad writing for the sake of saying "LOOK HERE, ACCEPT US". I LOVE well written gay relationships, though. I quite enjoyed Jakobs and Hammerlock in Borderlands 3, for example, despite the whole game being trash despite that.
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I mean, Ive never thought TLA was all that great either. Its essentially a US made generic shounen and only has a leg up on other generic shounen because of (a) its comparatively immense budget, which allows it to offer great animation, as well as (b) having a story that doesnt drag on for 15 arcs before getting to the point. Other than those attributes, its pretty standard.

So Korra being worse than TLA is kind of rough, especially with 3/4 of the seasons ranging from okay (S1) to awful (S2).

that show pissed me off when they severed korra's connection to her past lives. after that i was just sour on the whole thing and i found korra obnoxious.

baddies were cool though.

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when people say the baddies are good i think they really just mean amon and zaheer. also i think it's kind of a failure of your show when your viewers are actively rooting for the villains in part because of how awful your protagonists are

too bad amon gets absolutely punked at the end by the writers. his motives were a lot more interesting than henry rollins anarchy man

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Literally none of the character in Korra grow.

No development in 4 seasons.

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I don't hate Korra, but I do feel it wasted SO much potential. The divide between benders & non-benders was a legit good subject for the Avatar world. It's a shame it's abandoned after the first season. Also liked the technology vs bending/mysticism undertones.

The backstory for Wan & the fact that he's ultimately the one who separated spirits from the world is interesting, & Korra returning the world to the way it naturally was, could have opened up a lot of plot for the relations between humans, spirits, & bending. The return of airbending is the only point of this that seriously gets covered.

Zaheer & other non-benders suddenly gaining bending could have made a big schism if building on season one, but all of that was dumped in season 1.

Kuvira could have been such an interesting villain if the battle were more more about mind games & politics. At that point, Korra was fully realized Avatar, that had recently defeated the embodiment of evil. No chance Kuvira could defeat Korra in a straightforward battle. Would have been much more difficult if the hotheaded Korra had to think about an opponent who was beloved for her revisions of the Earth Kingdom & actual leadership, after a string of inept leaders in the form of the Earth Queen & TLA Earth King. Kuvira could have been someone who clearly needed to be stopped, but just punching & launching fireballs wasn't an option.

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refmon posted...

Literally none of the character in Korra grow.

No development in 4 seasons.

Thats mainly because Nickelodeon fucked them over. It was meant to be a 1-season show. Thats why it seems so disjointed and the first season has such better pacing than any of the others.

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refmon posted...

Literally none of the character in Korra grow.

No development in 4 seasons.

I'm baffled when people say this because Korra grows quite a lot.

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Slayer_22 posted...

I'd trust what a friend said over someone I've never met, honestly.

Idgaf about the sexuality of the character myself, I just really don't like pandering. It's lazy and doesn't do much for anything, besides adding an extra bit of bad writing for the sake of saying "LOOK HERE, ACCEPT US". I LOVE well written gay relationships, though. I quite enjoyed Jakobs and Hammerlock in Borderlands 3, for example, despite the whole game being trash despite that.

There are literally articles about how their relationship develops. Sounds like your friend is hella sensitive to anything deviating from heterosexuality.

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darkbuster posted...

I don't hate Korra, but I do feel it wasted SO much potential. The divide between benders & non-benders was a legit good subject for the Avatar world. It's a shame it's abandoned after the first season. Also liked the technology vs bending/mysticism undertones.

i think the problem is that the show opts for the equalist movement to more closely resemble a communist revolutionary group instead of a civil rights movement. the reveal of amon and his backstory, aside from being clumsy exposition, is just really lame in the context of his position as leader of a movement. in theory, the idea of two brothers who were traumatized by their father's ambitions but end up unknowingly reenacting them is tragic and interesting, but they drop it on you basically right at the end for a cheap twist and basically just to undermine Amon's motivations

honestly the ploitcal messaging in the show kind of sucks hard, and the focus on it really only detracts from potentially developing the main cast more

also i dunno how unpopular this is but bolin is the fucking worst. he's not funny, and given that's the only purpose of the character that's kind of unforgivable. the show is just a lot less funny which is kind of amusing given how "mature" it's trying to be

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Blue_Dream87 posted...

There are literally articles about how their relationship develops. Sounds like your friend is hella sensitive to anything deviating from heterosexuality.

having the rich girl take care of korra made a lot of sense, korra writing to another female for comfort over months and months, also made sense. Making them hold hands at the end of the series means insta gay. Idk, still felt like pandering to me. What was even worse was in the comics when kya tells korra she's gay, and kyoshi is gay, and like all the air nomads during aangs time were gay/pan, and thats why korrasami should work, even though it doesnt really work as well and they have problems

Yeah, i just dont like korrasami, characters steven universe are an example of good relationships, gay or not.

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I liked Korra.

Its amusing how people trash Korra but ignore how boring ATLA book 1 was.

People trash Korra season 2, but applaud ATLA Book 1 finale.

Its weird shit.

I personally preferred Korra as the MC compared to Aang too. But I prefer characters actually having to change to win conflicts. Not just get saved by a left field turtle.

ATLA had wayyyy better side characters though. Team Avatar in Korra was undeveloped and the love triangle shit was abysmal.

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I like Korra. But not for any of the main characters. Honestly I can't remember anything that they did, like at all.

I just liked the art and the world building, along with the villains
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cuttin_in_farm posted...

People trash Korra season 2, but applaud ATLA Book 1 finale.

I like Korra, but those two situations aren't comparable.

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I love it man, what's wrong with that?

Sure, it's not as good as AtlA, but it's still good. Still plenty good.

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Delirious_Beard posted...

sure hope not

Sorry to disappoint bro but its still better than <your favorite>

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cuttin_in_farm posted...

I personally preferred Korra as the MC compared to Aang too. But I prefer characters actually having to change to win conflicts. Not just get saved by a left field turtle.

man if you want to talk about characters who aren't saved by deus ex machina or zero agency, korra is about the least qualified character you could think of

also i don't think aang's resolution with ozai really harms his character. his arc was always about becoming the person that would face him in the first place

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I do. I generally rate Korra around an 8/10, while avatar's a 10/10. I prefer Korra to Aang by a little bit, but otherwise Avatar is better in every way.

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Slayer_22 posted...

From what I've been told, it was just lazy pandering. I can't bring myself to watch it cuz I just honestly don't like the show, but it wouldn't surprise me if that was the case. And I am 100% someone who likes a well crafted gay relationship in a show, but most shows just...fall flat, you know? Or resort to pandering, which is even worse.

Then you were told wrong. It was subtly built up, mostly because they had to fly way under the censors. So if you werent looking for it, youd probably miss it. Apparently in the comic spinoff they were allowed to be more open about it.

Im never sure what people mean when they say pandering

tbh the safer move isnt to go for the LGBT pairing; do people complain man why is this dude straight are they pandering? Nah. But theres always someone complaining when its the other way around. Opening yourself up to that when you could just not is more of the risk.

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The ending didn't feel like pandering to me at all. But it also didn't even come across as them being in a relationship like that. I just thought it was them being in a wholesome platonic friendship and they didn't need to have a romantic interest to complete them.
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Sure I hade fun watching it

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MrNintendo1213 posted...

The ending didn't feel like pandering to me at all. But it also didn't even come across as them being in a relationship like that. I just thought it was them being in a wholesome platonic friendship and they didn't need to have a romantic interest to complete them.

Read the comics. It shows what happens immediately after they go through the portal (which is go on a super cute date and make out a lot).

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Blue_Dream87 posted...

There are literally articles about how their relationship develops. Sounds like your friend is hella sensitive to anything deviating from heterosexuality.

Of course there are. There are articles justifying the ME3 ending too, despite it being dogshit. If I give you an article that says 'robots from the future will steal your brain' will you believe it simply because it exists?

Webbernet posted...

Im never sure what people mean when they say pandering

tbh the safer move isnt to go for the LGBT pairing; do people complain man why is this dude straight are they pandering? Nah. But theres always someone complaining when its the other way around. Opening yourself up to that when you could just not is more of the risk.

Pandering isn't a safe move, no. It's just...there to appease people. Pandering is basically putting something in just to appease people. When it's done in media, it's just done as a shameless cashgrab, headline grabber, pleasing fans. To provide an example, there's a show called Arrow that aired on the CW. They had a clear vision, then fans got really interested in shipping the main character with a side character...so they made the fanship a thing.

It's basically just like throwing in something just to please people. It can be done well...but rarely. This is a case, from what I've heard, of shameless pandering.

And don't get me wrong. I love gay relationships in games or movies or shows, I love anything relationships in media...provided it's well written.
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I loved it from the beginning.

But I also hadnt watched Avatar until a few months before Legend of Korra premiered so I didnt really have this weirdly strong emotional attachment to Avatar like a lot of people seem to have, so Legend of Korra really just felt like Books 4-7 of one big show.

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I thought it was overall ok

Season 1 is good
Season 2 is awful
Season 3 is incredible
Season 4 is alright

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Slayer_22 posted...
Pandering isn't a safe move, no. It's just...there to appease people. Pandering is basically putting something in just to appease people.

Thats quite literally what I meant by the safe move. Its not the path of least resistance to have a homosexual relationship on television. Its not the easy move that pleases the most making of people. A lot of people are going to bitch and moan like you wouldnt believe. You may think they didnt sell it, but there is no way in this day and age that that is the easy move to appease the larger group.

Have you even seen how pissed off people are getting about the last of us 2? How we have a president thats actively taking protections away? LGBT people have to fight to exist. If they wanted to appease the most amount of people they wouldnt do anything that polarizing.

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Delirious_Beard posted...

i think the problem is that the show opts for the equalist movement to more closely resemble a communist revolutionary group instead of a civil rights movement. the reveal of amon and his backstory, aside from being clumsy exposition, is just really lame in the context of his position as leader of a movement. in theory, the idea of two brothers who were traumatized by their father's ambitions but end up unknowingly reenacting them is tragic and interesting, but they drop it on you basically right at the end for a cheap twist and basically just to undermine Amon's motivations

honestly the ploitcal messaging in the show kind of sucks hard, and the focus on it really only detracts from potentially developing the main cast more

this is basically what I was going to say. the show has extremely bad politics

also the fact that the communists were funded by Henry Ford

also how, in season 4, Korra starts a civil war and turns to Henry Ford's daughter to help stop it

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