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.
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.
LoK S1 was the first time on my life I was rooting for a villain.
Tarrlok was a revisionist.
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