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"

  • them_fatale [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah no the politics suck shit. I like it more than ATLA because Korra is a much more relatable protagonist to me, and I think the tone of part 3 and 4 is better than ATLA was, but I kinda had to turn the politics part of my brain off so as not to have an aneurysm in literally any scene involving Wu