Fucking five years ago Nickelodeon barely funded LoK (which is at least part of the reason LoK is so heavily flawed compared to ATLA) and didn't even televise the last season (it was streamed online). And now this? Bizarre.
I never watched Legend of Korra and did not know it was streamed exclusively on the internet. Nickelodeon definitely did not really care about the show when it was on.
It was aired on TV, but they kept changing the time slot, then pulled it in the middle of season 3 and made it exclusively on their website because I think bad ratings and the later half of the season got kinda violent.
they've seen the successful resurgence and now they wanna beat the fucking cash cow.
Just like every other franchise, it will be terrible but will make a profit so they will continue making more. But like they say, capitalism breeds innovation!
I seriously find it hilarious that they had one of the greatest kids shows ever and it took them 10 years to actually realise people love the show and that its profitable. The people that run these companies are fucking stupid. They can't even do capitalism right.
To be fair, the two main franchise installments that came out after the original were not well received (the M. Night Shyamalan movie) or as popular (The Legend of Korra).
The M Night film was dead on arrival. He'd already made The Happening so everyone was already expecting crap. Plenty of loyal fans still went but he managed to do everything wrong with the film so it died. For LoK they wouldn't put any proper investment into it, not even advertising when the show would air. Even though the show is far inferior to the original Last Airbender, LoK would have succeeded for mainstream audiences if people knew about it, which is what is happening now after it was put on Netflix. Nickelodeon took way too long to realise they have a cashcow and even tried to bury it. They're incredibly stupid.
I didn't see the movie in cinemas, it was last year that I said "oh c'mon how bad can it be". Good lord, I didn't made it through the first five minutes. Everything was wrong, E V E R Y T H I N G.
How can you fuck up THAT bad?
My general view is that it is nice to see more content in the franchise, but if I don't like it, I simply won't watch it any further.
There's still a lot more they could do with the setting, and the creators are still calling the shots. I think this will be fine for at least a few years.
they arent going to leave a single millennial touchstone alone huh
Wonder what they'll do to the zoomer stuff in ten years time. Adventure Time remake/expansion? Capitalism must squeeze every stone available for more profit.
Aw shit no, please, let it die. Rise of Kyoshi had amazing worldbuilding but this wont be good I'm :10000-com: sure
Edit: OOOOH AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE ATLA AFTERMATH COMICS GOOD LORD WHAT A PILE OF SHIT
After the messaging/writing trainwreck of LoK, I don't want fuckin Nickelodeon even a thousand km near the Avatar universe.
I watched it again over the summer and still liked LoK for some reason. I did think to myself, this really feels like the Obama years in terms of messaging.
Basically, liberalism and how there is no alternative to it, how megacapitalists that sell arms can be redeemed actually, how killing horrendous oppressors is bad actually, how monarchy is good actually, etc etc.
Average fans will shit on different details comparing it to ATLA, but if you watch it now as a leftist, you're gonna roll your eyes hard.
killing horrendous oppressors is bad actually
The first series actually valued radical pacifism. It just made a much better case for it.
True, but destroying Zaheer character dumbing him down in the end to a cartoon villain was a sin
Now that I think about it, S1 leaned hard on the "corrupt revolutionary" trope.
Zaheer would have been an unambiguous hero if the creators understood anarchism properly. Instead they make him go from hating all oppressive governments to hating all authority, which includes Tenzin and Korra, because otherwise there wouldn't be a big battle at the end
Instead of giving him that cartoon villain twist Zaheer could have went underground after killing the Earth Queen and appeared in the fourth book doing some good praxis against Kuvira, maybe getting killed as a hero in the process.
Would have been much better in an alternate reality where the creators weren't libs
If it were a good follow up to ATLA OR had good politics that would be one thing, but it was neither.
Rise of Kyoshi, but Kyoshi is now a man. Kyoshi is a gruff and confident badass.
The worldbuilding is A M A Z I N G, the end of that book is totally rushed, the last 20% of the book deserved a whole other book for the pace be right, and of course more slop in my face.
Shadow of Kyoshi is good too cuz more worldbuilding, the pace is consistent, yet it left me underwhelmed given it wont be a third Kyoshi novel.
It would be cool if it was less, like, white writers justifying imperialism this time around lol
They won't have enough patience for that. They're gonna try and get the franchise off the ground too quickly with a movie like Avatar vs Korra and introduce a dozen new characters every movie and have no coherent plan.
Fetus Korra bloodbending Aang to death so she can be born already and start doing avatar shit? Thats the only way Aang vs Korra could happen.
The Last Airbender was pretty good, but The Legend of Korra had a terrible, terminal case of lib brain. Still, it was pretty enjoyable when I turned the politics part of my brain off. I hope the show runners learned from their mistakes.
Nice. I feel like a minority here that actually liked Legend of Korra (and still liked it on my rewatch this past summer).
Korra is good, as long as you remember that Zaheer did nothing wrong, and that this is canonical.
Zaheer did tons wrong and that's coming from an anarchist.
Honestly the showrunners politics are true lib shit and it shows. The only villain ever presented in a sympathetic light is the fascist.
Kubota gets a fucking redemption arc in the comins 🤮
The only thing she was right about is that republic city rightfully belonged to the earth kingdom
I'm a consoomor with no critical brain whatsoever so I'm just happy for content. Slop in my fucking face.
I was radicalized by watching Avatar: The Last Airbender
Hey, I found Joshua Collins' account.
Why can't they just make new IPs any more? I got 2 bangers in my head
Too much financial risk and not a high enough rate of return to justify the experimentation, whereas tried and true methods of show production and popular IPs are guaranteed cash cows even if you fuck it up.
Always follow the money, baby!
