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"

  • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • AllTheRightEngels [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      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

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Rise of Kyoshi novels have excellent worldbuilding, check them up

      • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        A village and a massive city.

        I also got the impression that village Sokka and Katara were from wasn’t the ONLY southern water tribe village. That really woundnt be a sustainable population.

        Also the Earth Kingdom is supposed to be like China in that it is technically one Kingdom but contains a lot of fractured semi-autonomous nations and tribes in it with their own culture so you can get a lot a diversity in there. I mean they did, there was swamp and desert tribes and towns with weird crazy legal systems dreamt up by local leaders.