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"
Why do you think it's so popular with the American audience? This is the exact reason it has been so incredibly successful in the US while less so in other territories.
Not really arguing with you, but its not that popular. I'm pretty sure both avatar shows were pretty shafted when they aired, I remember having to go to Nick's website to watch Korra back in the day.
from what i understand is that nick invested a ton of money into Korra so that it would be like 2-3 times as big (like what AAA video-game companies do) but it didnt, so nick claim that korra was a financial failure so that it got a tax discount with the IRS
Oh sure. But it is now and that's occurred in part because of ideological alignment. It's not popular in the slightest here in the UK other than "meh" and there's a reason for that despite sharing a language, it doesn't align with most British people the same way.