Ehhhh, gonna be the odd one out and say I kind of liked Korra because it was ambitious and broke new ground, and was willing to tackle issues like fascism which the original ATLA never really wanted to touch.
Okay raise the eyebrows back into the neutral position I was joking, but jokes aside, I did like Korra because politics aside, I liked how they made major changes/alterations to the setting (as plot) which I felt like many shows in general are usually too scared to do. It's been years since I watched it but among the things I liked about it was how they brought the spirit world into the real world and kept it like that rather than make it go back to the way it was like many shows do because they're cowardly. It's been a while, but I think it was during Korra as well that they erased the link between the avatar and the previous avatars, a major alteration to the setting which again, many shows are too scared to do. It's been years since I watched it, but its willingness to alter the setting permanently in a way that would affect any stories going forward was a breath of fresh air honestly.
Obviously the show's politics are very liberal and they repeat the 'romanticized' view of fascist nations (for example the villain at the end actually having a powerful mechanized military when real life Nazis actually had very few tanks, or that the threats she dealt with were actually real instead of a fabrication, etc.), but at the time I wasn't able to view it in a critical lens and just focused on the story, and for myself the show's willingness to make major permanent changes was quite welcome.
it was ambitious and broke new ground, and was willing to tackle issues like fascism which the original ATLA never really wanted to touch.
I mean in ATLA there was a genocide on aangs people
In this one theres people pointing at someone saying "she's doing an authoritatrianism and jailing dissenters!" and has 'anarchists' in it. Its all pretty baby brained
I thought Korra was entertaining, but it lacked a lot of the internal consistency that ATLA had, in favor of superficial explorations of something vaguely resembling political ideology. ATLA dealt with issues of poverty, non-violence and resistance in the face of oppression, while still being a show for children with magic martial arts and beautiful music. I think Korra did a few things very well, but everything else felt like squandered potential.
As for the portrayal of fascism on LOK, i recommend this video to see better why it doesn't really work because of the very clear limitations the show runners have.
Ehhhh, gonna be the odd one out and say I kind of liked Korra because it was ambitious and broke new ground, and was willing to tackle issues like fascism which the original ATLA never really wanted to touch.
Okay raise the eyebrows back into the neutral position I was joking, but jokes aside, I did like Korra because politics aside, I liked how they made major changes/alterations to the setting (as plot) which I felt like many shows in general are usually too scared to do. It's been years since I watched it but among the things I liked about it was how they brought the spirit world into the real world and kept it like that rather than make it go back to the way it was like many shows do because they're cowardly. It's been a while, but I think it was during Korra as well that they erased the link between the avatar and the previous avatars, a major alteration to the setting which again, many shows are too scared to do. It's been years since I watched it, but its willingness to alter the setting permanently in a way that would affect any stories going forward was a breath of fresh air honestly.
Obviously the show's politics are very liberal and they repeat the 'romanticized' view of fascist nations (for example the villain at the end actually having a powerful mechanized military when real life Nazis actually had very few tanks, or that the threats she dealt with were actually real instead of a fabrication, etc.), but at the time I wasn't able to view it in a critical lens and just focused on the story, and for myself the show's willingness to make major permanent changes was quite welcome.
I mean in ATLA there was a genocide on aangs people
In this one theres people pointing at someone saying "she's doing an authoritatrianism and jailing dissenters!" and has 'anarchists' in it. Its all pretty baby brained
I thought Korra was entertaining, but it lacked a lot of the internal consistency that ATLA had, in favor of superficial explorations of something vaguely resembling political ideology. ATLA dealt with issues of poverty, non-violence and resistance in the face of oppression, while still being a show for children with magic martial arts and beautiful music. I think Korra did a few things very well, but everything else felt like squandered potential.
As for the portrayal of fascism on LOK, i recommend this video to see better why it doesn't really work because of the very clear limitations the show runners have.
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