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

    The animation, fighting, character design, all incredible. A lot of it is good, and thats why the stuff they don't nail is so jarring. Zaheer is a very cool, interesting villain, our first bad airbender, theres honestly a lot to like (and hes Henry Rollins! How cool is that?), but you're right on all accounts.

    • redthebaron [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      like the animation early is kinda not great but they do pick up after the wan part and there was production hell on this which is kinda why it has so many weird stuff like they did for at least a time during the production think that they were going to do only one season and then only two seasons which is probably why both of these seem to be just closed like amon does not affect anything in any way and mr gundam from season 2 does not do shit the world convergence is a choice that korra makes it would have happened by then anyway while zaheer killing the queen is directly causes kuvira whole deal it feels like more conected

      • them_fatale [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        idk I thought the animation was the one thing that Korra consistently kicked ATLA's ass with

        • redthebaron [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          The second season, Book Two: Spirits, premiered on September 13, 2013 and concluded on November 22, 2013. It consists of fourteen episodes. Animation work was done by the South Korean animation studio Studio Mir as well as the Japanese animation studio Pierrot.[43] Studio Mir was expected to solely work on Book 2, but executive director Jae-myung Yoo decided that Studio Mir would animate The Boondocks instead because the animation process was less rigorous. Pierrot was eventually called in to fill the void and animate Book 2. According to Jae-myung Yoo, Studio Mir was later contacted and re-asked to animate Book 2. Yoo feared that, if Book 2 failed, Studio Mir and Korean animators would have their reputations tarnished for Pierrot's failures. Consequently, Studio Mir accepted the offer and worked alongside Pierrot.[44]

          like it is fine but it gets better after book 2 like korra production was a mess nickledeon is not a good company who knew