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.
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.
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.
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
I'd love to see that animated
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.
I haven't seen LOK in years, what was especially bad about it?
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.
Now that I think about it, S1 leaned hard on the "corrupt revolutionary" trope.
Tarrlok was a revisionist.
LoK S1 was the first time on my life I was rooting for a villain.
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
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
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If it were a good follow up to ATLA OR had good politics that would be one thing, but it was neither.
Don't read the ATLA aftermath comics, reek with liberalism
Rise of Kyoshi, but Kyoshi is now a man. Kyoshi is a gruff and confident badass.
TIL about Rise of Kyoshi
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.