So, after re-watching Avatar to relive some of my childhood, I decided to try this out.
Wasn't a huge fan of the Korra Asami shit, not that I hate the AMAZING representation of gay couples being the best thing ever, but it just seemed so contrived and uninspired that its almost an insult to the people that have such an unwarranted boner for LGBT representation.
As for the actual story, I liked the 1920's New York theme of republic city but it kinda got old pretty fast for me. I got tired of seeing massive robots every 1.325 seconds. Also Korra may have been pretty successful as an Avatar but my god did she fuck up a LOT. I feel like the Red Lotus was the best the story ever got in terms of my personal interest and caring for the outcome.
Overall I rate it a 7.5/10. The gay couple stuff kinda saddened me because while I understand the message they were trying to send, it is no excuse for poor character development and obviously lazy writing.
Zaheer gets the show an extra point alone. bro character, would learn to fly with/10
Why is 50% of your review about the last 2 minutes of the show? 3/10 Shit review.
Justin Foster
Because that's literally all anyone remembers from the show other than Amon.
Xavier Adams
>ATLA is someone's childhood
Shit.
Joseph Hughes
Honestly? Because its what everywhere I go everyone is always talking about. That and I just watched it mainly. But to be honest, what you said is kinda my main point, in a way; the show really lacked any sort of direction as far as overall plot progression. The only thing that ends in the grand scheme of things is Korra's progression from an angsty teenager to a very spiritual and even pacifist (at times) Avatar. Every season portrays x new bad guy villain man and at the end of season three, I felt like Zaheer being defeated meant that the moment they got a chance, they would just shoehorn in a new villain to battle it out. Then again, they DID also rebuild the Air Nation while doing so, and that does mean a lot.
It wasn't bad, but my problem with the ending is that in my opinion, a story should end with the characters getting the RIGHT ending. Not happy, not sad, not neutral. Just what would fit the story and the character best. In my opinion, I just felt like it was a real cop out on the end of the creators.
Jaxson Long
Kill yourself tripfag.
Noah Long
Since OP cares about it so much, I'll do him a solid and post some Korrasami.
>shit, not that I hate the AMAZING representation of gay couples being the best thing ever, What representation? That out of nowhere hold hands and walk into the sunset barely counts
Dominic Gray
This, pretty much.
If you want representation, you should have had the two holding hands and swapping spit sooner rather than later. Implication is not representation, and if you have to come out after a show has concluded to explain whether or not a character is bisexual, then it's not representation. It becomes apparent that their bisexuality (or whatever sexuality they have) was more or less an afterthought; something that the writers would look at and say "Hey, let's imply this, but by no means should we actively discuss it within the show itself, nor should we actually develop the relationship or how if affects others."
Benjamin Nelson
The thing is that Bryke basically said that they didn't plan for it, but that sometimes characters have a life of their own and it just felt "right" to them.
While that is certainly true and writers often just flesh out the character and see where they take them, that's usually something that happens in an EARLY draft. The later parts of the writing process is to smooth these things over and make 'em flow naturally.
That is to say that they should have laid the groundwork for the Korrasami ending WAY sooner. I have no issue with these two hot chicks winding up together (especially considering the crappy alternatives), but you have to work towards that sooner. And no, this doesn't count.
Noah Hill
Cred Forums can't stfu about LoK
Hudson Bailey
OP here, thats kinda what I meant. I couldnt care less who they wanted her to end with, and honestly I dont even feel like this is that bad of an ending for her either. It just really feels like a "wow hey lets do this" sort of situation and they made some really hasty "buildup" for it to make sense.
Asher King
Why would you want to shut up about /fit/ brown lesbian and the dozen cougars prowling this show?
Jayden Young
They should've built it way more to be more effective. Right now it just has a taste of scoring easy publicity points to it. Like if it would've been a developing thing since season 1, would've been really interesting.
Aaron Campbell
I don't even think that's an actual quote from the show, and just came up after the fact.
But yes, one of the main complaints about the reveal was that it was a payoff for something that never actually occurred.
Henry Hernandez
That's essentially the only reason this crap is still talked about - porn and dykes. It has no value beyond being a fap bait and a SJW propaganda piece.
Carson Foster
>Korra may have been pretty successful as an Avatar OP, she literally causes S02, S03 and S04 of her own show.
Ian Howard
>Zaheer gets the show an extra point alone "muh chaos".
Xavier Gray
>they DID also rebuild the Air Nation while doing so taking a bunch of earth nation citizens that knows airbending is hardly 'rebuilding the air nation', and even so it doesn't really mean anything.
Joshua Mitchell
you seem frustrated.
Owen Rogers
>representation of gay couples being the best thing ever
What the hell are you talking about? It was shoehorned into the last thirty seconds of the final episode. There's no indication it was better or even as good as all the other heterosexual romance the other characters got.
Luke Harris
The message that LoK is trying to push in the last minute:
Homosexuals are gay.
Ian Lewis
They did also start teaching those people about the air nation so they could rebuild it over time.
Easton Diaz
I don't think the concept of 'X nation citizen' is just based on beliefs. They will always be earth nation people.
Juan Richardson
Why? because of genetics? If they live like airbenders and treat air nation history like their own, why wouldn't they be air nation?
