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"
Yeah, that’s another thing I didn’t like in Korra. Metal and lighting bending were supposed to be high level skills and hardly anyone could do. In Korra you got a city powered by dudes lighting bending in a power plant, and where the whole police force are metal benders.
Maybe if they were clever they could have done a like, some commentary on how industrialization meant there was better communication technology and institutionalized bending school, so now instead of having to seek out a bending master by traveling the wilderness, anyone with money and free time could learn high level bending. Maybe that would have been too complex for a kids show.
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I mean if metal bending wasn’t that crazy difficult you’d think... what’s his face? Earth bender dude in Korra, wouldn’t have struggle with it so much.