Korra s1 came out in 2012, 4 years with Obama as president. And he betrayed the narrative of his 2008 campaign. Bailed out wall street, put down or allowed the suppression of OWS. So to some extent the authors might have been critiquing the idea of good governments and even worse so called Charismatic Leaders.
Amon being a bender is like Obama being a secret wall st guy.
There’s a lot of cynicism on how the way things change the more they stay the same.
It would require a more subtle and nuanced understanding of politics and populist movements to make such a critique and the writers fail almost every season when it comes to nuance, so yeah.
An argument could be made that Amon is an Obama figure, tbh.
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Korra s1 came out in 2012, 4 years with Obama as president. And he betrayed the narrative of his 2008 campaign. Bailed out wall street, put down or allowed the suppression of OWS. So to some extent the authors might have been critiquing the idea of good governments and even worse so called Charismatic Leaders.
Amon being a bender is like Obama being a secret wall st guy.
There’s a lot of cynicism on how the way things change the more they stay the same.
This feels good, but its far too smart a critique to be what the very bad writers of Korra thought of.
It would require a more subtle and nuanced understanding of politics and populist movements to make such a critique and the writers fail almost every season when it comes to nuance, so yeah.