Azula was a great female character. She was driven, arrogant, strong and she had goals. Even though she was a prodigy she still trained and worked for her power.
Eh yeah, but I do find her downfall to insanity kind of rushed as they kind of said "meh her mother didn't love her but it didn't really affect her until her became firelord." He did have good character foils with Ty Lee and May tho
@@dvf1736 The reason she lost it isn't as contrived as you think. It's actually because her friends betrayed her. And then her last semblance of a support system vanished when Ozai left her behind to be Firelord. She becomes paranoid because everybody she ever loved left her. It's one of Avatar's many masterstrokes of character development.
@@dvf1736 Everything good in her life slowly broke apart over the course of the last two seasons plus in pretty much every flashback to her childhood you get a demonstration of how she's always been a little bit "off". Off as in genuinely sadistic/fucked in the head. They made that very clear throughout the show. Snapping after years of Ozai being her only role model in life isn't exactly a surprise
Personally, I think- among many problems with the show- that if Aang DID let a statue be built he would have insisted it be of the ENTIRE GANG! Aang was very well aware he didn't and couldn't defeat the Fire Lord and rebuild the world on his own. So was Zuko- so I doubt he would have wanted it to be just them without Sokka, Katara and Toph.
Worse, there are several statues of the gang members separated by the republic city, I just don't know why they had to make a huge one of Aang when they could only have placed one in the city.
MeldThe Steel Well it makes sense. An average person wouldn't survive being hit by a god tier being, plus it wasn't until near the end of the series that Aang could actually control the Avatar State.
E;R Dude look at all the characters that actually die in the show one of the writers even said that it's fair to say that those no named soldiers are just dead with no detail except for dead
E;R also sometimes in the show when you see fire nation soldiers get completely fucked up and then they retreat (well when you see them retreat) you see only a small fraction of them leaving.
E;R I also seem to remember seeing a fire nation soldier just floating off onto the sea when aang went avatar crazy in the northern water tribe episode
They should have released a mini movie of Zuko finding his mom, or atleast a surprise season of the original characters and their progress shortly after Aang defeated the fire lord.
In all of this... Where the hell is Sokka? Sokka is a great goddamn warrior, scientist, and strategist. Where the hell is he? He can't be 6 feet under after being the Dr. Stone of the Avatar world.
Unfortunately, Sokka was the only member of Team Avatar (apart from Aang obviously) to be killed off. Or perhaps fortunately, as it meant they couldn't poorly write a version of him where he's older.
the good thing at least with Sokka is that we saw him as a judge or councilmen i forget exactly but he was a leader in that new city which was something really good to see from the old cast in general
When Korra lost all her bending in the first season, the following episodes should have been her trying to recover the other elements and learning humility and stuff, but no. Some avatar state voodoo happens and then she gets handed her powers back with no consequences for fighting Amon- learning nothing at all from the experience T_T
I can understand skipping over the learning phase, we've already seen an entire series on that. Still, they wrote it like idiots. Yeah she's talented in 3 of 4 elements at age 5. Alright. She loses her bending, except air for some fucking reason, a technique she'd never once achieved just clicks for her, (OoOkaY) and gets it back with little consequence.
Andy McClurg He isn’t. There was an investigation and no evidence was found. Also the person who accused him refused to participate in the investigation .
Yeah, I would rather they had introduced an entirely new cast of characters like 300 years earlier or something. Knowing Aang is dead and all the others old and decrepit really bothers me. I also just think it’s unnecessary. People say that it’s just realistic and you have to accept they’ll grow old but I disagree. It’s ok for the gang in the original show to remain young in our minds forever. They’re fictitious characters so they’re not bound by our depressing constraints of reality, we don’t have to see them grow old. I’m pretty sure it was done intentionally so we’d have to renounce our affinity for them and switch it for LOK’s new gang. A real shame and one of the reasons I just pretend LOK doesn’t exist. The explanation for Aang’s early death is just terrible as well.
It would’ve been brilliant if, after having lost her powers, we would’ve seen an avatar struggle with.. not being the avatar. Especially because being the avatar was such a huge thing for her, she loved it. It would’ve been fascinating to see essentially the opposite of Aang’s arc.
Nickelodeon gave them a 1 season/12 ep to create a story. Her struggling to be the avatar is something they for sure would've explored if nick had just managed stuff better and not tell then its a 1 off and then asking for another season after they finish the story. Yet "her having to deal with not being the avatar" was still greatly shown, not as clearly due to limitations in an all age show. But in the final episode, after losing her bending, korra sits on thd cliff right before aang shows up and she is avtualy about to jump and suicide because in her mind the world doesnt need an avatar that is a spiritual failure and can only bend 1 element, therefor suiciding so that the next avatar can do all the things she can't. I mean, if that doesnt show a great struggle with not being the avatar anymore and her having to decide for the faith of her life and the entire world, then i dont know what does
@SushiSharkCøal the story of wan was am oroginal story the writers came up with during the writing of atla, yet they never had the time and moment to introduce it into the show. Which is why they decided to do the lion turtle at the end of book3 with the plans to explain the story of the avatar in the comics. Then nick asked the writers for a season 2 about spirits which gave the writers the perfect moment to tell their backstory about the avatar spirit
Stefan I never interpreted that scene as her wanting to die. I don’t think they showed it “greatly” at all and therefore missed valuable character growth (and instead made Aang give her the bending back, which is an easy way out in my opinion). But we agree to disagree.
@@breezter yeah i agree it wouldve been better to realy show het struggle on screen, but the intention was there and the meaning behind it was explained by the writers. Just the fact of it being a nick show means they cant just fiddle with ideas of suicide etc. Sadly
This paired, with the inequality between benders and non-benders, could have been amazing social commentary on inequality (both racial and economic), a great character arc, and showed that you don’t need superpowers to be a hero. I’m just imagining Korea shifting from a Malcom X to a Martin Luther King Jr. A character who once relied solely on physical strength gradually becoming a true spiritual leader who fights with their words instead of fists? Sign me the fuck up!
I’m glad that someone finally mentioned that the anti-bending people... actually had a point. Firstly, everyone would rather be born as a bender. It would be kind of annoying to be part of the majority of people who lack such a fun ability. Secondly, benders have more job opportunities. Thirdly, if you were the target of a criminal who could bend, you wouldn’t stand a chance against them. Non-benders have to live with more fear and boredom than benders. It’s obviously bad for them to forcibly take peoples bending away, but the way the show was so black and white on the issue was disappointing.
yea this could have been such an interesting theme to explore! I found myself agreeing with a lot of equalist sentiments, and disliking korra as a main character didn't really help persuade me that the fight against the equalists was justified either
Niamh Adams That’s what I love about the original series. It explored those who were angry at the Fire Nation for the war and terrorized them back. Hama and Jet, for example. In the show, everyone that wasn’t from the Fire Nation had a disdain for them even though we know that’s not the case. Imagine how boring the series would’ve been if they kept it simple Fire Nation bad vs Everyone good.
Loida Perez yes! this is exactly what LOK was lacking, this nuanced view on everything, war, family, even morality. LOK dropped what made this childhood show so wise in an attempt to make it more sophisticated and failed miserably
LOL the movie had a 5-6 second dance/choreography sequence to initiate a massive earth attack but instead you see a measly stone fly slowly across the field. That’s hilariously stupid.
the movie was so bad it.. they made fire benders need fire around them. instead of the show using ones own chi to create fire which why fire benders are the only of the benders to not need anything around them to actually be a fighter.
In the Avatar universe the easiest element for an air bender is water and vice versa. Fire is the hardest for them. They just straight up didn't care about the established universe with Korra
@@crooked9210 hell no, for airbenders its hard for earthbending, and same goes to airbenders for earthbenders, and waterbenders and firebenders have the same for that.
And the fact that she got “trained” at her house/home country instead of Aang who actually had to travel all over the world for many many months and meet different people.
Honestly korra’s arrogance could’ve been dope. Have her realize that she has to get over her conceit in order to effectively serve the world as the avatar. It might’ve been a good character arc. It wasn’t though.
@Manannan anam Dude said it could've been good if "she had to get over her conceit in order to effectively serve the world as the avatar". That may as well be a synopsis of the first season. Regardless of whether or not you liked it that is very much what happens lol.
Starting off with an arrogant, un-spiritual avatar who was the opposite of Aang could've been a good thing, imo. The idea presents new possible struggles. It's apparent that Korra was given praise for most of her life for being the avatar, so perhaps she could've gone through a journey to learn to empathize more with average people. Perhaps only having a brute force/physical understanding and style of bending should've actually made her bending weaker to a serious extent. Also, it makes sense that Korra (or any non-air nomad avatar) would have more pride about being the avatar than Aang, due to cultural differences with how the avatar is perceived by different people. Having a humble, non-materialistic, and non-violent culture, the air nomads naturally may not have given their avatars as much worship and clout for being amazing and strong as the other nations did.
It really would have been a good character arc if they had done that. It's not just the Air Nomads being more spiritual, the Southern Water Tribe's culture is completely destroyed so they don't have any connection to the spiritual. This could have been the chance to see what challenges this Avatar goes through because she is growing up in the aftermath of genocide. Aang still had previous knowledge of the good times before the war. But after the war, Korra would have grown up in a completely different environment in which the traditions of training the Avatar had been broken. I mean, she learns that she's the Avatar at 5. Most Avatars didn't learn about their abilities until they were 16. I am so disappointed that they didn't place the story on Korra's journey in which she realizes that her notion of identity as being the Avatar is unhealthy.
I think it was touched a little when she was afraid Amon would take her bending away, but when it happened, they had to taint Aang to give her back everything because she was sad. And then it was ignored.
from an arrogant to a more humble and thankful character. that would've been a great character Development arc - but *"NOPE"* every season the same shit in Loop
@@esmeraldazamarripa8214 i get that and its smart if done right but where are "*the great character developments*" we had come to love from the original it's not like the show creators are different . Aang's character was all about Growth and accepting responsibilities. korra's should've been about self realization and gratitude.
U even seen s3 and 4? She fking gets completely broken by zaheer and leans what it means to be vunerable and to respect others. Even saving kuveera from death, risking her own. Seeing herself and her own flaws in kuveera and learning to respect them and be more humble towards others. Seems like exactly what you asked for to me?!
@@stefan3597 you read the comics my friend ? my point was they make her look like that at the end of every damn season then a new season comes boom she is back in business, It's like the creators intended to end the show with every season they made "that is it we're done let us celebrate to the end of this new great show the story is conclude it " then the studio comes with a surprise attack "you know what guys let's make a new season" examples :beginning of s1 bas girl the end of s1 good girl , the beginning s2 very bad girl , the end of s2 good girl ,the beginning of s3 bad girl the end of 3 good broken girl , The beginning of 4 annoying bad girl the end good girl, The Comics story lines *so on so forth*. Also I dare say that season 4 was the only one they have *planned ahead* like any other good story telling. And that's what's good about knowing how your Story begins and ends, that's what made avatar The Last Airbender the legend it is today because it had a specific destination.
I was excited for a sequel to avatar even if it wasn’t following Aang, the moment she flew in with I’m the avatar you gotta deal with it I knew I was gonna hate it 😑 simply because I didn’t like the main character, I thought ok she’s a kid she’ll change when she grows, she got worse somehow. Azula is a more likeable character 🙄
In my opinion Uncle Iroh was actually shown multiple times in LOK, which were my only favorite parts. Actually my favorite parts where when the old characters from ATLA were shown.
@@lpfan4491 And you know what's funny, I lived all my life calling her Tamara and when the greek dub of Korra came out they called her Katara and I thought they made a mistake
@@hueyfreeman6262 You know there's 2 sayings us real OGs make. It's called think before, you speak. and If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all. I know those are new for you. But you'll learn soon bro.
Most people would lean towards the original series being better (with LoK close behind) but preferring Korra or even asserting it is better certainly isn't unheard of.
There are certain aspects that I like about LoK, but I still think TLAB was better. Also, Rangerboo, go fuck yourself. Seriously. Go fuck yourself. If you seriously think that that is the only reason people like LoK or that that is an acceptable way to think about people, you're a piece of shit. That said, I liked the fact that Korra represented non-hetero elements, that a sort of confused multi-directional romance evolved throughout the story. Plus I think the little Korra is adorable. YOU GOTTA DEAL WITH IT!
Matthew Pendleton Well I hated the way they represented the "non-hetero elements" they could've done it soooo so much better. The way they did it made no sense, it was more like "yooo Asami wanna bang? lol" than an actual relationship buildup and was completely botched from it's short beginning to end. Also fuck that "You gotta deal with it" shit. Why does the world have to bend to Korra's will when it didn't for Aang?
They basically destroyed many interesting parts of atla like the white lotus,lightning bending,....who am I kidding they basically butchered all the lore The only thing I liked about this show is the music, tenzin and Lin beifong (she deserved more screentime) that's it. Oh and jinora was alright.
@@scorpiocarnage1055 Yeah! So this is what Legend of Korra didn't have that Avatar The Last Airbender had: Aaron Ehasz (and Elizabeth Ehasz I think...)
Even tho it is a fantasy, I feel like they advanced in technology WAAAAY too fast. ATLA makes it seem like ancient China, 70 yrs later it’s like 1920s?!
@@bobuxman5034 I know, those bending games or whatever was such a joke. Bending was supposed to be an art and they turned it into a joke. Sometimes I just pretend that Korra never existed haha.
@@Antimony145 And 70 years later they had techno Tokyo. Way too quick of a leap given how everything was steam powered in ATLA. Even with the ability to lightning bend, it doesn't change the fact that they've got no experience or knowledge with harnessing electricity for use.
@@Antimony145 Right, but as addressed in the video that was a result of a war, which tends to accelerate technological growth in certain very specific areas. None of the rest of the Fire Nation's tech we see in AtLA was (as far as I can remember) nearly as advanced as their military equipment. So if we were to apply the theory seriously, something like Republic City could conceivably have things as advanced as mid-19th century trains, but certainly not automobiles, given that Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom tanks were both bending-powered.
Tbh not really. Compare 1950s and 2020. Thats 70 years and look how much we progresed in literally everything. The only thing actually acceptable is progression of world in terms of tech, science and other things. But i still think they shouod have kept it similar to Aangs world and not go so modern
Avatar Stories I'd rather see 1) a continuation story that follows Aang, Zuko and everyone else after the war ends and rebuilding the war torn world. 2) a prequel story that follows Iroh after Lu Ten dies and his journey to becoming the wise, gentle, old man we love him for.
Avatar: The Last Airbender was about a boy and his friends going on a journey to discover themselves and learn all the elements in order to defeat the genocidal fire nation. The Legend of Korra was about a petty love triangle.
@Imperial Judesmen138 i feel like it was easier for ATLA since they were all younger. But Korra is 16 which is basically the most popular age for a girl in a teen romance drama. Only problem is that Korra's story wasnt supposed to be a teen romance drama in the first place, but that was basically all Mako was good for in Season 2
No, It wasn't. Yes, that was a big part of it. But The Legend of Korra dug deeper into the hardships of being the Avatar that ATLA. Here, www.cbr.com/legend-korra-better-avatar-airbender/
I love how Korra is called Whorra when Mako was the real whore of the show. And look at Sokka from Avatar. Dating 2 people at seperate times doesnt make you a whore. Misogyny though, i get the agenda.
>Korra arrives in Republic City. >Runs into the street, causing thousands in vehicle damage, and several deaths. >See's thugs. >Freezes the head of one and smashes his head into a car, cracking his skull open, breaks another's spine, and throws the last one through non-safety glass glass, cutting him to ribbons. >Their corpses get into a car, and Korra slams it into a building, causing them to be burnt to a crisp, as well as crushed, while also destroying someone's buisness. >Korra is pulled over by the police >"What!? You can't arrest me! I haven't done anything wrong!" >Evades police, possibly killing several in the process. >Arrested. >Bailed out by Tenson for 75 cents and an unused condom (not like he's using it). >PROMOTED TO HERO OF THE CITY!!! Basically the entire plot of the series
"mature writing" yeah more like edgy writing.The last airbender had mature writing if you knew where to look,from a very scary conspiracy theory inside the capital of the earth benders all the way to an all out GENOCIDE of the airbenders,this show is filled to the top with mature content with a mix of some nice cartooney elements.Remember when Iroh went to mourn his son on his birthday in basingshe?? yeah well i was a kid back then and even i could recognise the maturity and the gravity of the matter much more than the dumbster fire that is the legend of Korra writing...
You're nostalgic. I watched both 2 shows for the first time just recently, and as far as "mature themes" go, The Last Airbender didn't do anything that hasn't been done a thousand times before. It wasn't that deep, which is obvious, as the cartoon is clearly aimed at kids. I personally enjoyed The Legend of Korra more (S2 was legit really good), but imo the writing was overall more solid in The Last Airbender.
You see that a show is bad when the main thing its fandom does is: Shower the show with appraisals for only having an LGBT ship that was only there to meet a quota and making memes about people who hate it. Seriously if the only two things you do in a fandom is to say how much a ship is good and progressive or how people that didn't like it, doesn't get it or is something-phobic, your show kiddo is garbage.
@@justahumanwithamask4089 That's cause such a show doesn't exist. There's a manga/anime called The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window that makes a good effort but the end result was still basically average. Maybe the reason a gay, trans, etc. protag doesn't work that well is because when a writer actually does create a character who is interesting in some way who happens to align with some other sexual orientation or identity, that orientation always becomes their defining "character trait" like clockwork. It is almost like the script writers get so excited about representation that they forget to make the story interesting to the 99.9% who want to watch a show to be entertained by a more dynamic plot.
@@Houlgravely we could argue that Josuke from JoJo is gay , and he is one of the best mc from the show... then again this is Araki the god . One of the best writers
She didn't even "master" them she just shot them out of her hands, how is that "mastering" to you and it makes sense that they would change the age that the Avatar would know they were the avatar since Kyoshi was the avatar 482 years before Korra
@@liamwilson5670 You are one of the dumbest people on youtube. "Simp" isn't an insult if you don't know how to use it. I just said how your point is stupid and now you're talking about likes, as if likes are at all relevant to any conversation
From the moment I learned Korra, born to waterbenders, mastered firebending as a toddler without a firebending master, I knew the show was going to be a crapshoot with no respect for the original. No more consistent lore, no more poetry, no more balance, just plot conveniences and plot contrivances for the rest of time. Not canon, too inconsistent with the definitive canon.
Omg that made me so sad! And with this disappointing new characters, it felt even worse. I would love it that they made the series about them grown up. That would have been cool and seeing Aang raise his son would have been so adorable.
IMO, Legend of Korra would have been a much better show if they: - had Korra lose her bending around the midway point of the first season, forcing her to HAVE to learn spirituality because she can't do any of the other bending styles anymore - didn't have the stupid Amon plot twist where he was a waterbender using a fake sob story to get people to swing to his side (imo that should have been the actual backstory, instead of "oh my daddy taught me how to bloodbend and I used that to take people's bending away") - Amon was a chi blocker who could stop take away people's ability to bend by semi-permanently damaging their chi nodes - had Korra re-do the Avatar Journey into, and including, the Spirit World and Civil War diatribe - went through with the civil war arc entirely - dropped the stupid Avatar Wan shit - have Zahir just be a nonbender who's incredibly goddamn skilled at subterfuge and using underhanded tactics to get to his end goal - showed Kuvira actually doing some of the shit people had said she'd done - didn't focus on fucking ship wars so much
@@theanti-christ2842 Wan is also a terrible character so that's another reason. Or at least a terrible person. He kinda let two people die just because they wanted to eat, and gets rewarded for it
@@librathebeautifulwarmonk1283 Are you talking about the part with the hunters in the spirit wilds? I guess that's more of a moral gray area, since he was defending nature.
@@theanti-christ2842 Aint no moral gray there, the Wan special putright says the spirits are the invaders. Ignoring the fact that Wan was kicked out for trying to screw over his fellow humans he still let those men be killed for no reason. The Catdeer he saved wasn't even a spirit and he is fully aware that his former home is full of people who are risking their lives just to eat.
5:37 Actually it’s not a flaw. The attack on the air temples happened during Sozin’s comet, so fire benders would’ve been able to use their bending to reach them, sort of how Ozai was able to iron man all over the place during the comet.
I only discovered Avatar recently- never had the chance to watch it as someone without Netflix. It was amazing. I’d have sleepless nights binging the show- I couldn’t get enough. I loved everything about it: the characters, plot, worldbuilding, and the turtle ducks. Then I saw there was a sequel, and I got so exited, I watched episode 1, and it was garbage. Korra was a jerk, the locations looked weird, the worldbuilding was funny, the species and character designs sucked, they even killed my boy Sokka! Glad the first episode wasn’t just a fluke, and the whole thing was garbage.
@@FargonNemeloc Sorry if I spoiled anything for you. I have multiple favourites, it’s too hard to choose. It’s weird bc Sokka is my (second) favourite character (I said my second because uncle Iroh is everyone’s favourite so it doesn’t count) but many of my favourite episodes focus on Zuko. In chronological order: The storm (season 1, episode 12) Zuko alone (season 2, episode 7) Tales of Ba Sing Se (season 2, episode 15) The western air temple (season 3, episode 12) The Ember island players (season 3, episode 17) Least favourite episode is the fortune teller (season 1, episode 12) Enjoy the show! I’m currently on my 3rd rewatch, so I can confirm, even if some of the earlier episodes are a bit weak and fillery (but half the episodes I listed are filler, there’s lots of TH-cam video essays on why ATLA has good filler), it gets so good.
@@willowdigger617 no, i meant you as a new watcher, i saw all this when it came out and dreaded when seasons finished, hated the wait time in between and loved how the story unfolded I love this series and have seen it multiple times since then Also, good choices, sokka is.good, but truly the character that gets more development is Zuko, so no surprise hes the one you like most
@@FargonNemeloc oh, I thought you’d just began the series. Yep, I’ve accidentally become obsessed, literally watching episode 6 right now (I’m a multitasker don’t worry). I do prefer Sokka over Zuko (but not by much), I just feel like he doesn’t get enough screen time. Tales of Ba Sing Se and Ember island players I both like mostly for the Sokka parts (but I still like the Iroh sections in both)
You have great taste. As someone who watched it when it for came out on television and then rewatched many times after, I feel the same way about nearly everything, second favorite being Sokka, favorite episodes, korra being hot garbage, etc. I'm guessing you're a logical person who can see past most of your own and other people's biases because I'm often told I'm like that.
Hannah Kim And so that they have time to master their first element. Aang was only told at age 12, because he was a child prodigy and mastered air bending by 12 and invented the Air Scooter
How does one not know he or she is the avatar? at some point they are going to accidently bend an element other than the one they already master, so what are you supposed to say to them? you're mixed race or smth? they would have guessed they were the avatar
@@mcherry3.147 Aang and Roku didn't know they were the avatar until they were told because they can't just bend elements without learning them unless they are using the avatar state which is why Aang couldn't use the other elements until he learned them. I guess you could say korra already knew because she bended as a child without any practice but the Legend of Korra breaks a lot of rules established in avatar so idk
And with Ozai being the egoistic, power-driven narcissist that he is, getting spiritually castrated by a 12 year old bald monk child from the same people he called weak and having his throne taken away by the child he thought was a failure was a far worse turn of events than "paying the 'ultimate' price" with his life. Not to mention being humiliated by his ex.
Juke119 The issue is that it’s a Deus ex machina.... narratively speaking it’s shit, there was very little build or any hints at all until the end of the series From a world building and magic perspective. It makes sense that there would be spirit bending... after all the 5th element would be life itself so naturally bending the essence of life ( the spirit) makes sense but again, from a narrative point, it came out of no where and as such destroyed some of the major themes presented in the show Towards the end of the series, all of the group had to grow up, they had to mature.... yet aang in his stubborn naivety acts different from the air nomads and was immutable to change.... air nomads supposedly Go with the flow, they move around and are formless hence why aang has issues with earth bending yet he acts like an earth bender towards the end of the series with his stubbornness to not kill ozai, despite most likely killing hundreds when he was in the avatar state in the northern water tribe, when he was in the earth bender camp trying to actively manipulate the avatar state, and also while he was just casually fighting I’m almost certain some of his moves that he pulled off would have killed people but they go off screen so we never know for sure; anyways I digress, the point I’m making is that katara, toph, sokka, zuko, even azula had to change characters as they grew throughout the series but aang.... aang never once had to change beyond a superficial trait in his character.... katara had to forgive her mothers killer, zuko literally did a 180, azula despite her issues actually came to admit that she somewhat thought of herself as a monster (hence why she said her hallucinations of her mother thought of her as a monster ) but aang had very little change in his character, he literally refuses to master the avatar state to save katara, then proceeds to master the avatar state later in the series anyways.... I understand that you guys get sadistic pleasure out of “castrating” ozai but come on, it’s narratively weak. Despite dragon ball being legitimately cancerous in its modern series, when goku first defeated frieza, I thought that was how aang should of handled ozai.... aang would beat ozai and leave him to wallow in defeat but ozai being ozai would feel such shame that he would attempt to back stab aang only for aang to “kill” him with the force of a thousand suns In essence, aang would have let ozai go but due to ozai attacking aang despite losing, forces aang’s hand thus ultimately making aang “grow up”.... and learn that some times, you will be forced to do things you hate but it was ultimately necessary. I also liked the idea of spirit bending but they needed to work it into the story rather than actually staple it on to the end
Targitaus Rithux umm everyone is saying that but energy bending was a forgotten art of bending and it’s not cliche because the lion turtles were shown in book 2 and aang is the avatar so he might have unknowingly called for help
R0CK R0CK He never said it was a cliche And during the avatar wan bullshit in Korra energy bending wasn’t a thing and that was the age before the avatar so energy bending was just there for the ozzai fight and that one episode in korra and that’s it
@@wilsonclaire3352 Just some anime and cartoon stuff. Here's a link to one of my drawing videos if you want some proof: th-cam.com/video/kvVWDaHSPvY/w-d-xo.html
Except for the fact that killing one genocidal maniac is bad but apparently killing thousands of fire nation soldiers by destroying those airships is somehow fine
Yeah in the original it felt like there was actually progression to someone’s skill of the element and they could get better but apparently now if you try an element you can now just master it instantly
they made all specialist bending way too accessible. it feels like all the earthbenders can metalbend, all waterbenders can bloodbend and all firebenders can lightningbend. in the original series, only the most powerful benders could specialist bend, and they could only do it in the most dire situations. now they have lightningbenders working in a factory. like what the hell? they took away the all the mystical parts of specialist bending just so they could have some cool fight scenes.
@@icemaster9728 From what I've read the dude was just lazy as shit. The issue with this is the avatar lives a life that can never be that. Furthermore, he died in his thirties before any real political damage could be done. The tragedy of Korra's existence far outweighs Kuruk's. Not only did she permanently lose ties to all the previous Avatars and their knowledge but she also opened the divide between the spirit world and the physical world. Without even consulting the leaders of other nations and its possible ramifications it could have to everyone in that universe. She just does it because "Shes the avatar and you gotta deal with it." Fuck Korra.
The only good part of Legend of Korra is seeing old lady Toph absolutely destroy her Edit: And all the Uncle Iroh scenes. Im proud of this reply section Edit #2: Forgot about my baby Tenzin hes on the list too.
I would like to point out. Avatar Aang never started those fights, and he never intended to kill anyone. So it still stands that he cant just go around wiping people out he couldnt like. Also the avatar stage doesnt count as he wasnt in control there.
maxrivera38 Well, they didn’t have the war balloons until after stealing the wrecked one the scientist made at the end of episode 17 in Book 1. However, they did have the tanks which could climb the mountain in the same episode. I assume they probably used those when attacking the Air Temples.
It's Ya Boi Connor yeah its been years since i watched it and had a feeling that, what you said was the case thanks for the clear up, I knew it wasn’t a plot hole though
Nostalgia For Infinity not according to the rules of the world everyone in that show can take a beating and still get back up. There are many instances of people take what would essentially be death blows in our world but ATLA goes by a different standard
Yeah in real life, the Avatar series doesnt follow real life physics, 99% of the fights in the shows would have ended in death, nobody could take a rock the size of a cannonball to their body at like 100km/h and still be in one piece, but in the series theyre just knocked to the ground and then stand up.
Is really good at bending = Mary Sue Loses every fight = Mary Sue Gets away with most things = Mary Sue Gets PTSD = Mary Sue Is sometimes cocky = Mary Sue
Basically this review would 100% apply to Boruto as well. In every way. OP child prodigy. Super modern Konoha village. Annoying irredeemable brat for a main character. Shits on all the moral lessons of the far superior previous series....
Moral lessons like: if you're stupid and put in only the bare minimum effort you can succeed with your parents' hard work and unbelievable luck. Naruto is just as bad as a character as Korra. It's supposed to give the lesson that even an average joe who isn't very bright can succeed with hard work and determination, but Naruto only manages anything because he was handed the strongest tailed beast. Granted, that doesn't mean every character in Naruto is that bad. Rock Lee actually does embody that lesson perfectly. He actually worked hard his entire life on taijutsu to overcome the fact he couldn't do ninjutsu where Naruto was simply handed better affinity for ninjutsu than he actually had and because of that didn't have to work. Naruto is just as much an irredeemable brat as his son, so Boruto's nature is perfectly in line with his father's example.
Except it wouldn't... Boruto being "op" is literally a complaint I've never seen until just now; because Boruto is actually incredibly weak compared to the cast in part 1 or Naruto at the beginning. Konoha being more modern is neither here nor there, it's not like they didn't have that technology already anyway. Boruto being an "irredeemable brat" is just fan salt. The kid's mad at his father for not being a father. Naruto does bullshit like send a shadow clone to his daughter's birthday party (which ruins the day) instead of being there himself while leaving the clone to do desk work. He stays away from home for extended periods of time and it affects the household, something Boruto picks up on. It's the same kind of lashing out a kid with a parent always gone on military duty, or police duty, or always at the office does. The entire arc with Momoshiki was addressing this and afterwards Boruto and Naruto have a great relationship; that aspect of the character is basically gone. And most of the fans weren't even worried about that because the Boruto movie had been out way before that so everyone already knew what that character arc was. Outside of that, what does he do that makes him an irredeemable brat? Hell, Sarada pulled the worst shit, straight up doubting to her mom's face who her father was. And all of the moral lessons are different and unrelated... so... you're going to have to be specific about that.
Legend of Korra is one of those works where I can't help but keep saying some variation of "Wait, no! That's a good idea! Stop botching the execution of it!" Korra herself is probably the best exemplar of this. I can see a really interesting protagonist buried under all that 'Whyyyyyy would you do it like this?!' Korra was born in a time of peace and prosperity, told that she's basically the latest in a long line of Most Important People Ever, and then told that said label comes not only with their world's equivilant of superpowers, but _quadruple_ the normal number. I could buy the level of power she demonstrates after the prologue's timeskip because of just how many years she's had to train, as well as the fact that her instructors are actual...well, instructors. Aang's teachers were skilled, but not very conventional. Maybe that could even help explain Korra's spiritual deficiencies. She's learning the elements as if they're just cool superpowers, and she has no personal connection to her teachers. But they screw it up right out of the starting gate, because not only can she just somehow bend three of the four elements immediately, she's just as immediately arrogant about it. 'Kung Fu Panda' came out four years before LoK, and it didn't make the mistake of depicting Tai Lung as a bad egg right from childhood. Hell, Tai Lung is actually a pretty good parallel to draw: for all his talent and work-earned skill, he lacked the wisdom to recognize what was stopping from from growing any further. Korra is much the same, or rather she _could_ have been much the same. If we got the sense that she had actually earned her bending prowess through years of hard work (ie, if we didn't have that stupid prologue introduction), then not only could we understand why she takes so much pride in it to the point of arrogance, but we could also understand why her failure to grasp even the most basic airbending causes her so much frustration while also blinding her to what she actually _needs_ to do in order to overcome that obstacle. So much of this comes down to that damn prologue scene. If they could have just resisted having that awful character intro gag, then we could have assumed that Korra's bending prowess came from having _thirteen years_ of formal training, and that her pride was a result of actually having worked to get where she is as opposed to just 'being the avatar = instant multi-elemental mastery.' A seventeen year old avatar whose years of training during a time of peace and plenty led to her being a cocky bruiser, only to realize that what she lacks in wisdom has made her genuinely ill-equipped to combat an unexpected new threat to world order? Sign me the hell up for that! Just...it'd be nice if it was better executed than 'Legend of Korra.'
Hm the writers would need to explain pretty damn well why korra couldn’t bend air if she could learn to bend fire, the direct opposite of water, but other than that your idea sounds really interesting
I don’t understand why Fire is Korra’s most used and first choice of bending. Since she is born in a water tribe, shouldn’t her most powerful element be water and the worse fire?
Because it’s not the opposite element from you’re original element but the element most opposite from ur personality. For Korra it was air because her personality is far from an air nomad in the beginning.
Because they retconned it to keep validating their sue in every way. In the original, it is as you say, the opposite element to their main one is the hardest. It was the case with Aang and Roku, who had issues with earth and water respectively. However in LoK they retcon it so now is the opposite to the personality of the avatar (which is stupid and makes no sense. Zuko wasn't able to bend fire because he wasnt acting like a fire bender, for example). If they do that then suddenly their sue being able to master fire makes sense, but then she shouldnt be able to bend water either. That and the whole crap with the lion turtles handing bending to humans are all bullshit devices to justify whorra being able to bend when she is like 4.
Being able to master an element requires a knowledge and understanding of the philosophy of that particular element. Avatars who start with a particular element would naturally have a harder time learning a form of bending that contradicts what they're comfortable with. It's why Aang who is used to being light on his feet had such a hard time with the heavy and forceful nature of earth bending. With that reasoning it makes sense why an Avatar wont always have trouble with their opposite element since you cant expect all members of a nation to have the exact same personality. Korra being bad at fire bending is counter intuitive but it makes a lot of sense why grasping airbending was so difficult for her. The real issue is her being able to bend 3 elements at age 4. It's so ridiculous
@@golf100 Uh... in ATLA they literally said it was the opposite element from yours?? Tf?? You can't just go around changing the rules of your universe when you please. Makes no sense bud.
I was 14 years old when this video released, and now I’m 21 years old watching part 2 of book 3. See you all in 2040 when this TH-cam series comes to a close
Why can't people write female characters who struggle for their powers? What is so hard about this? See literally any female lead written in the past 10 years.
People are so scared of seeming sexist that they sacrifice any relatability to the character, dont they realize that to get people to care about the character they need to be shown working hard, failing and eventually become more powerful, killbill did such a good job developing their female lead and now people will pass off any randomly powerful female character as female empowerment
Because they are afraid of the female character seeming weak. Women must be portrayed to be perfect, and hilariously powerful without any struggle. The people who do this are the ones who really degrade female characters because they take anything interesting or deep out of them, which is the most sexist thing to do.
My sister watched legend of korra and not atla So i told her to goddamn finish atla at least, but she said it seemed too childish for her age and I legit felt like strangling her
Yep. That's where I'm at. I even had in my head how you can do 7 books totals with Aang and team because 7 chakras. Book 4: Air - zuko's mom, azula redemption, rise of air nation (acolytes) Book 5: Energy - energy bending giving rise to airbenders; lion turtles expanded stuff; story arcs of Toph, Sokka, Suki, whoever Book 6: Beginnings - prequel of sorts and journey through the past avatars' stories as he needs to connect them all because of a looming sort of threat to the Avatar state. Kind of like "Escape to the Spirit World" Book 7: Life - where he married, have kids and died; then team avatar had to find the new avatar quickly because of a threat bringing Aang's airbending son with them to help.
I started watching LOK when it first aired, but when that scene came up with Korra as a child saying "I'm the Avatar and you better deal with it", and then proceeded to bend all the elements (something that took Aang years to accomplish), I instantly knew I wouldn't enjoy it. Despite this, I stuck with it till the end as it gradually got worse and worse. TLA was a journey. LOK was a waste of time. The icing on the cake was when they pandered to the LGBT community... And in such a shitty way too...
Awh man izzy you totally got me. This entire comment that I spent a while typing to express myself and how I feel about LOK was just a front so I look cool. Yeah I made it to impress randoms on the interwebs so I feelz specialz :^)
I rewatched the first episode of Korra recently. I never noticed the first time watching it how quickly paced it was, they just don't give time to build things up before Korra is off to Republic city. Avatar spent two episodes in the south pole setting up their cast before setting off on their adventure. there's also a lot of characters just announcing their own character traits without letting us see them.
The Stages of watching Whorra for the first time (my experience): STAGE 1: Excitement. "Hmm, so this will follow up on Avatar? I'm fine with that. So long as the writers know what to do. STAGE 2: Hope "Ok. The first episode wasn't good. But the show is in baby steps. They outta polish Korra." STAGE 3: Confusion " Wait, why they did that? They never explained that in Avatar." STAGE 4: Disappointment "You could've done it right. But you chose to do...THAT." STAGE 5: Denial. "Amon has got to be cool. Right, I mean he has a semblance of motive." STAGE 6: Realization "This show is a disaster." STAGE 7: Pessimism "I take that back. This show is a disgrace, a blemish on what made Avatar good."
It was such a disappointment. I usually give most shows the first season to figure things out so I reserve judgement, but wow did it go downhill will a trail of garbage juice behind it.
Not super related to the vid, but it’s crazy how Aang just fricken woke up in a totally new world to him. Like imagine waking up when only yesterday things were what he knew and now being thrown into a completely unknown world, where all of his people have been massacred, his entire culture destroyed, he is the last of his kind, and he is expected to save everyone. He never even had time to properly grieve.
Last time I rewatched the series I was thinking that too. For him it wasn’t even like it was a real wait. He ran away, crashed, and from his perspective woke up a few minutes later. That’s incredible terrifying especially since it was a timeframe of 100 years
@@seirrawilson504 exactly. Imo, Aang is just trying to refuse to accept that his people were wiped out. But he knows that deep down inside they are dead
@@yukijames1321 1.) Pema advised Korra to go for it - it had worked with her and Tenzin. Korra was taking the advice of an older woman, and the wife of her master. Moreover, Mako and Asami had only been dating for a couple months at most - teenage romances rarely last longer than that. Additionally, the whole "love triangle" "will they, won't they" plotline has been established in fiction for centuries. It's hardly outside of the norm for a character to kiss another one to try and steal their love from another. 2.) Bolin asked _her_ out to try and make _her_ feel better - chivalrous and a good friend. After she hurt his feelings, she apologized and mended their friendship. 3.) She's the Avatar - you don't begrudge Aang for running into problems, do you?
I always take that as indicative of the show/game/etc. being trash. If the fans can only talk about shipping and nothing else. For example I've been around voltron fans since high school and i still have no idea what the show is about, i only hear shipping discussion.
Republic City is the biggest gripe I have with LOK. World building is a big part with creating the atmosphere of Avatar, so wtf were Bryke thinking doing this? I1920s Steampunk? Like we haven't seen that before. I'd expect this with the Earth, or Fire avatar. And they did this at the cost of preserving the Asian influence of the world. Now people have this idea that ATLA was set in the 1850s when the Avatar world is actually really ancient, even in the industrialising Fire Nation which still has a lot of Han/Qing Dynasty architecture.
12 year old Aang in the Avatar state: I defeated the fire lord, ended the 100 year war, and established world peace 17 year old Korra in the Avatar state: so I was having a race against these kids......
@@gewawdypooh Except that's not how the avatar state works. It connects you to the collective mind of ALL the past avatars. Why would she use the most powerful weapon in that universe for such a mundane reason?
They get 'butthurt' because people actually bash on it so hard. There are tons of videos out there calling it a waste of time and all that. You can't blame fans for wanting to defend something they like.
@@frozenweevil4022 No? I didn't even say LOK is better than ATLA. I'm just stating what I've seen and I find it absolutely hilarious when people who don't like ATLA (who aren't even LOK fans) criticise some part of the show and fans rush to defend it. That's exactly what the LOK fans are doing.
A few decades? 7 really isn't a few. 1947 was a really long time ago. And Korra is very much set in a 1910-1920 time period (besides the giant mech) and not a modern one
Meh. The girls are objectively inferior to Last Airbender though. Although to be fair who could compete with the likes of Toph, Katara, Meng and best girl Ty Lee?
We didn't see any actual deaths caused by Aang. Serious injuries at best. It was only when he was in the Avatar state we see true devastation, but as we know the Avatar state is a culmination of his past experiences, so his thoughts and beliefs are cancelled out. Just thought I would point that out because of that montage.
What I don't like about Korra is that she was acting line a kid. Aang WAS A kid so he had an excuse. Korra was a young adult, but she destroyed an Air Nomad artefact, was a privileged brat even tho her parents weren't that well off compared to the North, and so many more things. And she seemed weaker than Aang. She was supposed to be a genius too. I hate to be that person but the villains were more entertaining than her. Kuvira ? Varrick ? the Red Lotus ? + I hated Tenzin's siblings at first. Getting on his ass for being too serious about the Air Nomads was so weird to me bc Aang was the last Airbender, so Tenzin HAD to pop out kids and manage the Air Nomads. This is logic.
Everyone honestly says they’d rather watch Adult Team Avatar.
And I agree.
That crap would’ve been awesome
I’m just imagining a Toph/Sokka/Zuko episode filmed like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
*The Gaang Kidnaps the Firelord*
yeah, that *crap* would have been fantastic, but that's just my *opinion*
IKR
*if they did, then everyone still complains*
@@deliriouszora I would beg a differ unless they did it horribly.
Azula was a great female character. She was driven, arrogant, strong and she had goals. Even though she was a prodigy she still trained and worked for her power.
Eh yeah, but I do find her downfall to insanity kind of rushed as they kind of said "meh her mother didn't love her but it didn't really affect her until her became firelord." He did have good character foils with Ty Lee and May tho
@@dvf1736 The reason she lost it isn't as contrived as you think. It's actually because her friends betrayed her. And then her last semblance of a support system vanished when Ozai left her behind to be Firelord. She becomes paranoid because everybody she ever loved left her. It's one of Avatar's many masterstrokes of character development.
@@dvf1736 Everything good in her life slowly broke apart over the course of the last two seasons plus in pretty much every flashback to her childhood you get a demonstration of how she's always been a little bit "off". Off as in genuinely sadistic/fucked in the head. They made that very clear throughout the show. Snapping after years of Ozai being her only role model in life isn't exactly a surprise
Korra also worked hard.
I liked her hair and the color of her fire. :)
what ppl dont know is herobrine is steve but in avatar state
I never thought of that it makes since sence some people belive has a liggting stick
*He's too dangerous to be kept alive*
I have to tell that to all my friends- ur a genius!
This is one of the most creative comments I’ve seen 😂
this changes my perception of minecraft
Personally, I think- among many problems with the show- that if Aang DID let a statue be built he would have insisted it be of the ENTIRE GANG! Aang was very well aware he didn't and couldn't defeat the Fire Lord and rebuild the world on his own. So was Zuko- so I doubt he would have wanted it to be just them without Sokka, Katara and Toph.
Worse, there are several statues of the gang members separated by the republic city, I just don't know why they had to make a huge one of Aang when they could only have placed one in the city.
Well Aang probably couldn't save the whole world on his own, but he certainly did defeat Ozai alone.
Probably built it after his death
Probably built after his death.
fun fact according to the writers the soldiers aang attacks in the avatar state almost always die
MeldThe Steel Well it makes sense. An average person wouldn't survive being hit by a god tier being, plus it wasn't until near the end of the series that Aang could actually control the Avatar State.
Source on that? That's hilarious if true.
E;R Dude look at all the characters that actually die in the show one of the writers even said that it's fair to say that those no named soldiers are just dead with no detail except for dead
E;R also sometimes in the show when you see fire nation soldiers get completely fucked up and then they retreat (well when you see them retreat) you see only a small fraction of them leaving.
E;R I also seem to remember seeing a fire nation soldier just floating off onto the sea when aang went avatar crazy in the northern water tribe episode
"Destiny?"
"Destiny!"
"Destiny."
"Destiny!"
"Destiny!"
"Destiny?"
"STOP IT UNCLE!"
Yeah well that's what pretty much what happened
HOPE
They're actually saying Dust A Knee
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When he said "are you tired of living under the tyranny of benders?" I could only picture Bender from Futurama
'Bender' means something entirely different in British English slang. A world ruled by benders would be a horrifying one indeed.
Kaz What does it mean?
Remember that episode where Bender became god?
Spack Jeeka I thought you hated gays and their bullshit agenda
Kingfloppynip The 3rd where did that come from?
Zuko’s “stop it uncle,” in the middle of all those destinies had me rolling.
6:11
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Best played at 2x speed lmao
caught me off guard but it was funny as shit
They should have released a mini movie of Zuko finding his mom, or atleast a surprise season of the original characters and their progress shortly after Aang defeated the fire lord.
That whole thing is covered in a comic. I'd love to see it animated, but either way, the story has been told.
@@321cheeseman my heart hurt reading that comic, it hurt bad.
They should really retcon the story of Zuko's mother. And Legend of Korra too
or a movie about the cabbage man
IKR
"Destiny. Destiny!"
"Stop it, Uncle."
I lost it.
Troll Iroh best Iroh.
Iroh Iroh is best Iroh fight me
Overuse of the third virtue in Bionicle
My favorite part of this vid xD
I was drinking tea when that came up, freaking tea shooting out of my nose... it hurts
Iroh: dEstiNY! DesTINy!
Zuko: *stop it uncle!*
Everyone: Destiny
Zuko: Destiny
Iroh: Destiny
Zuko: You aren’t allowed to say that
Pyrrha from RWBY: *sobbing intensifies*
129 Subscribers With No Videos oh I see you.
“Do you believe in destiny✨✨”
The avatar Aang photo at the sushi shop was the best part.
Only good part*
@@maclaren9645 yeah pretty much.
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Destiny is destiny
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*Density*
Begrudgingly accepts it "destiny...."
Dust the knee
In all of this...
Where the hell is Sokka? Sokka is a great goddamn warrior, scientist, and strategist. Where the hell is he? He can't be 6 feet under after being the Dr. Stone of the Avatar world.
Fuck you. Just fuck you and your reference to modern cancer anime
Unfortunately, Sokka was the only member of Team Avatar (apart from Aang obviously) to be killed off. Or perhaps fortunately, as it meant they couldn't poorly write a version of him where he's older.
@@buffoonustroglodytus4688 Atleast, a fucking fictional character has more believers than you fucking idiot.
I’m glad he wasn’t there. He was my favourite character and if I saw him in that garbage, I would be even more pissed.
the good thing at least with Sokka is that we saw him as a judge or councilmen i forget exactly but he was a leader in that new city which was something really good to see from the old cast in general
When Korra lost all her bending in the first season, the following episodes should have been her trying to recover the other elements and learning humility and stuff, but no. Some avatar state voodoo happens and then she gets handed her powers back with no consequences for fighting Amon- learning nothing at all from the experience T_T
lol yeah
ChocoGummies thats because Nickelodeon only intended for the show to be one season
I can understand skipping over the learning phase, we've already seen an entire series on that.
Still, they wrote it like idiots. Yeah she's talented in 3 of 4 elements at age 5. Alright. She loses her bending, except air for some fucking reason, a technique she'd never once achieved just clicks for her, (OoOkaY) and gets it back with little consequence.
@@asanaquarian1302 yeah but then again they could have cut out asami and used that extra time.
Would have been cool if she had to learn the other forms of bending instead
"I'm The Avatar and you gotta deal with it!" literally every problem with this show boiled down to one sentence by a toddler age Korra.
When you hear Destiny so many times, it stops sounding like a word
Same with Ba Sing Se, it just devolves into syllables
Dusty knee
That, my friend, is what's called semantic satiation.
Just a knee
The Steenie
Idk bout y’all but seeing the old characters makes me depressed
Literally the full, complete, comprehensive reason I cannot watch Legend of Korra
I can't hear Councilman Sokka's voice the same way now that I know that the VA is a sex offender
@@andymcclurg9916 bruh
Andy McClurg He isn’t. There was an investigation and no evidence was found. Also the person who accused him refused to participate in the investigation .
Yeah, I would rather they had introduced an entirely new cast of characters like 300 years earlier or something. Knowing Aang is dead and all the others old and decrepit really bothers me. I also just think it’s unnecessary. People say that it’s just realistic and you have to accept they’ll grow old but I disagree. It’s ok for the gang in the original show to remain young in our minds forever. They’re fictitious characters so they’re not bound by our depressing constraints of reality, we don’t have to see them grow old. I’m pretty sure it was done intentionally so we’d have to renounce our affinity for them and switch it for LOK’s new gang. A real shame and one of the reasons I just pretend LOK doesn’t exist. The explanation for Aang’s early death is just terrible as well.
It would’ve been brilliant if, after having lost her powers, we would’ve seen an avatar struggle with.. not being the avatar. Especially because being the avatar was such a huge thing for her, she loved it. It would’ve been fascinating to see essentially the opposite of Aang’s arc.
Nickelodeon gave them a 1 season/12 ep to create a story. Her struggling to be the avatar is something they for sure would've explored if nick had just managed stuff better and not tell then its a 1 off and then asking for another season after they finish the story.
Yet "her having to deal with not being the avatar" was still greatly shown, not as clearly due to limitations in an all age show. But in the final episode, after losing her bending, korra sits on thd cliff right before aang shows up and she is avtualy about to jump and suicide because in her mind the world doesnt need an avatar that is a spiritual failure and can only bend 1 element, therefor suiciding so that the next avatar can do all the things she can't. I mean, if that doesnt show a great struggle with not being the avatar anymore and her having to decide for the faith of her life and the entire world, then i dont know what does
@SushiSharkCøal the story of wan was am oroginal story the writers came up with during the writing of atla, yet they never had the time and moment to introduce it into the show. Which is why they decided to do the lion turtle at the end of book3 with the plans to explain the story of the avatar in the comics. Then nick asked the writers for a season 2 about spirits which gave the writers the perfect moment to tell their backstory about the avatar spirit
Stefan I never interpreted that scene as her wanting to die. I don’t think they showed it “greatly” at all and therefore missed valuable character growth (and instead made Aang give her the bending back, which is an easy way out in my opinion). But we agree to disagree.
@@breezter yeah i agree it wouldve been better to realy show het struggle on screen, but the intention was there and the meaning behind it was explained by the writers. Just the fact of it being a nick show means they cant just fiddle with ideas of suicide etc. Sadly
This paired, with the inequality between benders and non-benders, could have been amazing social commentary on inequality (both racial and economic), a great character arc, and showed that you don’t need superpowers to be a hero.
I’m just imagining Korea shifting from a Malcom X to a Martin Luther King Jr. A character who once relied solely on physical strength gradually becoming a true spiritual leader who fights with their words instead of fists? Sign me the fuck up!
I absolutely hated how Korra suddenly entered the avatar state for no reason at the worst time
I’m glad that someone finally mentioned that the anti-bending people... actually had a point.
Firstly, everyone would rather be born as a bender. It would be kind of annoying to be part of the majority of people who lack such a fun ability. Secondly, benders have more job opportunities. Thirdly, if you were the target of a criminal who could bend, you wouldn’t stand a chance against them. Non-benders have to live with more fear and boredom than benders.
It’s obviously bad for them to forcibly take peoples bending away, but the way the show was so black and white on the issue was disappointing.
yea this could have been such an interesting theme to explore! I found myself agreeing with a lot of equalist sentiments, and disliking korra as a main character didn't really help persuade me that the fight against the equalists was justified either
Niamh Adams That’s what I love about the original series. It explored those who were angry at the Fire Nation for the war and terrorized them back. Hama and Jet, for example. In the show, everyone that wasn’t from the Fire Nation had a disdain for them even though we know that’s not the case. Imagine how boring the series would’ve been if they kept it simple Fire Nation bad vs Everyone good.
Loida Perez yes! this is exactly what LOK was lacking, this nuanced view on everything, war, family, even morality. LOK dropped what made this childhood show so wise in an attempt to make it more sophisticated and failed miserably
Thats why they need GUNS BROTHER.
@midgetydeath lol what whole lot of wrong that was.
LOL the movie had a 5-6 second dance/choreography sequence to initiate a massive earth attack but instead you see a measly stone fly slowly across the field. That’s hilariously stupid.
I laughed so hard xD
the movie was so bad it.. they made fire benders need fire around them. instead of the show using ones own chi to create fire which why fire benders are the only of the benders to not need anything around them to actually be a fighter.
What movie? THERE IS NO MOVIE WITHIN THE WALLS
@@pride2184 well they need air but like airbenders that ain't so hard to not have available
In the show, with that amount of build up, they would splite open a goddamn tectonic plate.
"Destiny"
"Stop it uncle!"
Always hated that she struggled with air and not fire and we started with her already knowing elements instead of progressively training
In the Avatar universe the easiest element for an air bender is water and vice versa. Fire is the hardest for them. They just straight up didn't care about the established universe with Korra
@@crooked9210 hell no, for airbenders its hard for earthbending, and same goes to airbenders for earthbenders, and waterbenders and firebenders have the same for that.
@@crooked9210 so no
@@3HorsemenOfMovingPictures that's what I was saying. I guess I just phrased it weird. I was saying how fire is the hardest for water benders
And the fact that she got “trained” at her house/home country instead of Aang who actually had to travel all over the world for many many months and meet different people.
Honestly korra’s arrogance could’ve been dope. Have her realize that she has to get over her conceit in order to effectively serve the world as the avatar. It might’ve been a good character arc. It wasn’t though.
Did you like...watch the show?
@Manannan anam Dude said it could've been good if "she had to get over her conceit in order to effectively serve the world as the avatar". That may as well be a synopsis of the first season. Regardless of whether or not you liked it that is very much what happens lol.
@Manannan anam Good for you for having that opinion
+Ashar Rasheed L
@@XxBlumannxX I tried to do a comic sans L but I don't know how and 2 people have already done it so I figured I'd just say hi. Hi
After hearing "destiny" a couple of times I started hearing "*just a knee*"
A knee in the gut of this show’s potential smh
STOP IT UNCLE
I heard “dusty knee”.
@@nicholasgenovese2454 thats what she said😂😂😂
Des tiny
uncle: "Destiny... Destiny.. Destiny-"
Zuko: *"STOP IT UNCLE"*
Best part of the video hands down 😂😂😂
It’s like honor
dats the knee
It doesn't sound like a word anymore
DESTINY IS DESTINY!
The legend of Kora just said “fuck the source material”. That is its biggest flaw.
"Destiny" in Avatar is like how "Justice" was for Death Note
Both are great stories with dumb-dumb remakes
I think you got it mixed up with HONOUR
and just like "Stand" in JoJo
That and honor th-cam.com/video/UIXNOQ8ej9c/w-d-xo.html
@@jjcjr how is it like stands in JoJo at all? They're nothing alike
Starting off with an arrogant, un-spiritual avatar who was the opposite of Aang could've been a good thing, imo. The idea presents new possible struggles.
It's apparent that Korra was given praise for most of her life for being the avatar, so perhaps she could've gone through a journey to learn to empathize more with average people. Perhaps only having a brute force/physical understanding and style of bending should've actually made her bending weaker to a serious extent.
Also, it makes sense that Korra (or any non-air nomad avatar) would have more pride about being the avatar than Aang, due to cultural differences with how the avatar is perceived by different people.
Having a humble, non-materialistic, and non-violent culture, the air nomads naturally may not have given their avatars as much worship and clout for being amazing and strong as the other nations did.
It really would have been a good character arc if they had done that. It's not just the Air Nomads being more spiritual, the Southern Water Tribe's culture is completely destroyed so they don't have any connection to the spiritual. This could have been the chance to see what challenges this Avatar goes through because she is growing up in the aftermath of genocide. Aang still had previous knowledge of the good times before the war. But after the war, Korra would have grown up in a completely different environment in which the traditions of training the Avatar had been broken. I mean, she learns that she's the Avatar at 5. Most Avatars didn't learn about their abilities until they were 16. I am so disappointed that they didn't place the story on Korra's journey in which she realizes that her notion of identity as being the Avatar is unhealthy.
All of that would be sick if Korra didn’t stay that way the entire time
This would have been great.
I think it was touched a little when she was afraid Amon would take her bending away, but when it happened, they had to taint Aang to give her back everything because she was sad. And then it was ignored.
Stop using your brain.
from an arrogant to a more humble and thankful character. that would've been a great character Development arc
- but *"NOPE"* every season the same shit in Loop
Dr Holiday I know right, it’s soooo incredibly frustrating.
They had to have an arrogant avatar to be completely the opposite of Aang, who was humble and passive
@@esmeraldazamarripa8214 i get that and its smart if done right but where are "*the great character developments*" we had come to love from the original it's not like the show creators are different .
Aang's character was all about Growth and accepting responsibilities.
korra's should've been about self realization and gratitude.
U even seen s3 and 4? She fking gets completely broken by zaheer and leans what it means to be vunerable and to respect others. Even saving kuveera from death, risking her own. Seeing herself and her own flaws in kuveera and learning to respect them and be more humble towards others. Seems like exactly what you asked for to me?!
@@stefan3597 you read the comics my friend ?
my point was they make her look like that at the end of every damn season then a new season comes boom she is back in business,
It's like the creators intended to end the show with every season they made "that is it we're done let us celebrate to the end of this new great show the story is conclude it " then the studio comes with a surprise attack "you know what guys let's make a new season"
examples :beginning of s1 bas girl the end of s1 good girl
, the beginning s2 very bad girl , the end of s2 good girl
,the beginning of s3 bad girl the end of 3 good broken girl ,
The beginning of 4 annoying bad girl the end good girl,
The Comics story lines *so on so forth*.
Also I dare say that season 4 was the only one they have *planned ahead* like any other good story telling.
And that's what's good about knowing how your Story begins and ends,
that's what made avatar The Last Airbender the legend it is today because it had a specific destination.
I was excited for a sequel to avatar even if it wasn’t following Aang, the moment she flew in with I’m the avatar you gotta deal with it I knew I was gonna hate it 😑 simply because I didn’t like the main character, I thought ok she’s a kid she’ll change when she grows, she got worse somehow. Azula is a more likeable character 🙄
They just made here a self centered narcissist lol!
Season 3 was cool tho, I always wondered what a bad airbender could be like and I was honestly blown away.
I am so sorry for tht last part.
Azula best character wth
@@terisewolf5042 you like your own comment cringe
@@princessleotardovadincithe7771 So you didn’t see that she grows as a character then.
Legend of Korra sucks because of one important thing
Not enough uncle Iroh
In my opinion Uncle Iroh was actually shown multiple times in LOK, which were my only favorite parts. Actually my favorite parts where when the old characters from ATLA were shown.
It sucks for every reason
Fair point
i agree iroh is one of the best characters
Give me subs with no vids they should have made a prequel on kyoshi or Kuruk or ANY OTHER FUCKING AVATAR
Wait...DIO was Amon the whole time?!
This show wouldn't have sucked if he was.
BestWayKilla
Personally, I think this show would be MADE if Yoshikage Kira was the villain.
michael dorsey I'm not even a fan of Avatar or Korra, but making DIO or Kira the villain of anything would make it better.
Korra would never have stood a chance against the power of ZA WARUDO!
time bending
Fun fact Katara in the Greek dub of Avatar was named Tamara because katara means ''curse'' in Greek
sad. it actually kind of would have fitted her role in the series
@@lpfan4491 And you know what's funny, I lived all my life calling her Tamara and when the greek dub of Korra came out they called her Katara and I thought they made a mistake
wow. what shmugs were responsible for the dubbing when they cant keep that straight? xD
@@lpfan4491 And no joke nickelodeon Greece has around 15 voice-actors so all dubs have the same voices ( most of the time )
have you watched the nostalgia critic?
Why people are not more upset about the Legend of Korra destroying ALL the previous avatars, including Aang, is beyond me.
Then you clearly aren't very smart
@@hueyfreeman6262 Oh no, I actually care about the characters I’ve spent years watching grow, develop, and learn! I must not be very smart! 😪
I'm beyond upset about that
@@hueyfreeman6262 You know there's 2 sayings us real OGs make. It's called think before, you speak. and If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all. I know those are new for you. But you'll learn soon bro.
@@INTERNECION101 "us real OG's"🤓
*Shows montage of Aang beating people up*
Me: "It's a cartoon. Blunt force trauma doesn't exist."
Except in the case of Jet........
*laughs in suf*
holy shit
did people really think the legend of korra was better than the last airbender
ikr thy shd kts
Original avatar fan here and hell no, I thought it was only O.K. and only an idiot would think Korra was better.
Most people would lean towards the original series being better (with LoK close behind) but preferring Korra or even asserting it is better certainly isn't unheard of.
There are certain aspects that I like about LoK, but I still think TLAB was better. Also, Rangerboo, go fuck yourself. Seriously. Go fuck yourself. If you seriously think that that is the only reason people like LoK or that that is an acceptable way to think about people, you're a piece of shit.
That said, I liked the fact that Korra represented non-hetero elements, that a sort of confused multi-directional romance evolved throughout the story. Plus I think the little Korra is adorable.
YOU GOTTA DEAL WITH IT!
Matthew Pendleton
Well I hated the way they represented the "non-hetero elements" they could've done it soooo so much better. The way they did it made no sense, it was more like "yooo Asami wanna bang? lol" than an actual relationship buildup and was completely botched from it's short beginning to end.
Also fuck that "You gotta deal with it" shit. Why does the world have to bend to Korra's will when it didn't for Aang?
They basically destroyed many interesting parts of atla like the white lotus,lightning bending,....who am I kidding they basically butchered all the lore
The only thing I liked about this show is the music, tenzin and Lin beifong (she deserved more screentime) that's it. Oh and jinora was alright.
No wonder. I think its because Atla and Lok have different writers.
Atla is cooler though. It also rocks, and is lit.
@@axonfox Same writers lol
@@napster3075 Correction: all but one of the writers returned. That missing writer definitely helped shape what we have now in ATLA.
@@scorpiocarnage1055 Yeah!
So this is what Legend of Korra didn't have that Avatar The Last Airbender had:
Aaron Ehasz (and Elizabeth Ehasz I think...)
@@axonfox Correct.
Even tho it is a fantasy, I feel like they advanced in technology WAAAAY too fast. ATLA makes it seem like ancient China, 70 yrs later it’s like 1920s?!
@@bobuxman5034 I know, those bending games or whatever was such a joke. Bending was supposed to be an art and they turned it into a joke. Sometimes I just pretend that Korra never existed haha.
@@spencerphillips2658 no atla had ships and advanced machines like a big ass drill
@@Antimony145 And 70 years later they had techno Tokyo. Way too quick of a leap given how everything was steam powered in ATLA.
Even with the ability to lightning bend, it doesn't change the fact that they've got no experience or knowledge with harnessing electricity for use.
@@Antimony145 Right, but as addressed in the video that was a result of a war, which tends to accelerate technological growth in certain very specific areas. None of the rest of the Fire Nation's tech we see in AtLA was (as far as I can remember) nearly as advanced as their military equipment. So if we were to apply the theory seriously, something like Republic City could conceivably have things as advanced as mid-19th century trains, but certainly not automobiles, given that Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom tanks were both bending-powered.
Tbh not really.
Compare 1950s and 2020.
Thats 70 years and look how much we progresed in literally everything.
The only thing actually acceptable is progression of world in terms of tech, science and other things.
But i still think they shouod have kept it similar to Aangs world and not go so modern
The beginning should have been:
Water... Water... Water... Water...
and don’t forget water
@@pedmonds2011 dont forget water
@@e7624 forget water
@@karlyescobedo9237 dont forget water
I dont get the joke? Anyone?
_"You can't really pretend it never happened"_
Yes I can
Raahima Rizwan no u cant this isnt ba sing se
There is no Korra in Ba Sing Se...
Captain Cataclysm Oh come on. TLOK isn’t that bad, it beats all the other cartoons like Steven Universe anyways.
@@shrekisthebestfranchiseand5032 eh....
HaremGodRance Not really. I think you’re just hating on it because others do too. It’s okay though, that’s how some of are.
Avatar Stories I'd rather see
1) a continuation story that follows Aang, Zuko and everyone else after the war ends and rebuilding the war torn world.
2) a prequel story that follows Iroh after Lu Ten dies and his journey to becoming the wise, gentle, old man we love him for.
There is a comic series about number 1 which is the continuation story after the 100 year war. U should check it out
they already did that in the comics tho
Pre Madonna That’s... what the other comment already explained?
Also where zuko finds his mom!
3) A prequel brand new avatar series, so we can see the Air Nomads in full action
I don’t consider legend of Korra canon tbh
Same, it's just a bad fan-fiction
there is no lok in ba sing se, here we are safe
Same
same.
Why?
“Stop doting on me, I’m not helpless I’m just pregnant” *said no woman ever*
I laughed so hard I fell off my sky bison
F
F
F
F
F
I want our daughters name to be special
I know what I'm going to name her now
*Stop it uncle*
Gosh dangit this comment nearly killed me, I was eating at the time and almost choked to death.
Destiny
DeStInY
DESTINY
dEsTiNy
Stop it UnClE
HONOR HONOR HONOR HONOR HONOR HONOR HONOR HONOR
“Pull out step bro”
reminds me of what me nephew says to me 😎
The word destiny sounds weird to me now
iran lassninja Strange, isn't it? The more you say a word, the weirder it sounds. xD
Destiny
Das de knee
DES TINY
das de *knee*
The fact that Korra rekindled her exes feeling for her, only to steal his girl...
Women would throw the totality of men in a blender if they could press a button to make it happen
@@fallingrock7225chill, it's just a drawing of lesbians
@@fallingrock7225agreed
@kyle857
Korra is DEFINITELY for the streets.
Boyfriend so bad he turned both his gfs gay
"Destiny Destiny"
"STOP IT UNCLE!!"
Destiny doesn’t even sound like a word anymore.
@@CruiserDynasty I think you're the one who doesn't make any sense
Are you sure it not "Dustiny"?
Cause that is what I hear
*"Destiny is Destiny"*
@@Aibadenshi dust the knee
Avatar: The Last Airbender was about a boy and his friends going on a journey to discover themselves and learn all the elements in order to defeat the genocidal fire nation.
The Legend of Korra was about a petty love triangle.
Actually, it's more of a love square thing infected by a Cthulhu monster.
honestly season 3 was my favorite season partly because they completely dropped the love subplot. It was just a major disruption in seasons 1 and 2
@Imperial Judesmen138 i feel like it was easier for ATLA since they were all younger. But Korra is 16 which is basically the most popular age for a girl in a teen romance drama. Only problem is that Korra's story wasnt supposed to be a teen romance drama in the first place, but that was basically all Mako was good for in Season 2
@@deiondre0 you know, what I slightly agree with you
No, It wasn't. Yes, that was a big part of it. But The Legend of Korra dug deeper into the hardships of being the Avatar that ATLA. Here, www.cbr.com/legend-korra-better-avatar-airbender/
Monk Gyatso: "Gonna prank Aang when he comes back"
Day 1..
Day 2...
Day 3...
Day 35,600:
*skeleton*
36500*
This came from the cover of a meme video
Welp, gyatso really pranked aang hard
Stolen from a video
Can someone give me the original
ATLA: aang having a stable relationship
Legend of whorra: dating everyone in the group cheated on them all just to find out your gay
I love how Korra is called Whorra when Mako was the real whore of the show. And look at Sokka from Avatar. Dating 2 people at seperate times doesnt make you a whore. Misogyny though, i get the agenda.
This leaked into the previous cast too. Like how it’s seemingly implied that Sokka had at least one child with Toph despite being with Suki.
@@doopdoopdopdop7424 I'm sorry, WHAT
Toph’s second kid. Dark skin, arm bands, etc. Tokka cultists latched onto it and declare Sokka as the father.
>Korra arrives in Republic City.
>Runs into the street, causing thousands in vehicle damage, and several deaths.
>See's thugs.
>Freezes the head of one and smashes his head into a car, cracking his skull open, breaks another's spine, and throws the last one through non-safety glass glass, cutting him to ribbons.
>Their corpses get into a car, and Korra slams it into a building, causing them to be burnt to a crisp, as well as crushed, while also destroying someone's buisness.
>Korra is pulled over by the police
>"What!? You can't arrest me! I haven't done anything wrong!"
>Evades police, possibly killing several in the process.
>Arrested.
>Bailed out by Tenson for 75 cents and an unused condom (not like he's using it).
>PROMOTED TO HERO OF THE CITY!!!
Basically the entire plot of the series
That is sooo Wan... :DDDDD :'(
not really...
I fucking love you
Have my babies...
That shit's hilarious lmao!
Sounds about feminist. 10/10
The only thing Korra has done for me is help me appreciate TLA even more
@Rick O'Shay animation
@Rick O'Shay Season 1 was good enough. Everything after was downhill.
Rick O'Shay but we dont even have solid korra porno on the interwebz so whats the point
Rick O'Shay thats all pictures.
Rick O'Shay Cringe
"mature writing" yeah more like edgy writing.The last airbender had mature writing if you knew where to look,from a very scary conspiracy theory inside the capital of the earth benders all the way to an all out GENOCIDE of the airbenders,this show is filled to the top with mature content with a mix of some nice cartooney elements.Remember when Iroh went to mourn his son on his birthday in basingshe?? yeah well i was a kid back then and even i could recognise the maturity and the gravity of the matter much more than the dumbster fire that is the legend of Korra writing...
True avatar had way more mature elements compared to Korra which was made for teens 😂
You're nostalgic. I watched both 2 shows for the first time just recently, and as far as "mature themes" go, The Last Airbender didn't do anything that hasn't been done a thousand times before. It wasn't that deep, which is obvious, as the cartoon is clearly aimed at kids. I personally enjoyed The Legend of Korra more (S2 was legit really good), but imo the writing was overall more solid in The Last Airbender.
@@Flyingtart well , if you COULD make it past half way through season 2 , you have my praise. At that point it literally hurts to continue for me.
@@turkepic3637 I guess patience is my greatest virtue.
Flyingtart
That’s pretty cringe, bro.
You see that a show is bad when the main thing its fandom does is: Shower the show with appraisals for only having an LGBT ship that was only there to meet a quota and making memes about people who hate it. Seriously if the only two things you do in a fandom is to say how much a ship is good and progressive or how people that didn't like it, doesn't get it or is something-phobic, your show kiddo is garbage.
I can't name a single show with a gay protagonist that was good.
@@justahumanwithamask4089 hey buddy, you’re sounding pretty homophobic.
/S.
@@justahumanwithamask4089 That's cause such a show doesn't exist. There's a manga/anime called The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window that makes a good effort but the end result was still basically average.
Maybe the reason a gay, trans, etc. protag doesn't work that well is because when a writer actually does create a character who is interesting in some way who happens to align with some other sexual orientation or identity, that orientation always becomes their defining "character trait" like clockwork. It is almost like the script writers get so excited about representation that they forget to make the story interesting to the 99.9% who want to watch a show to be entertained by a more dynamic plot.
@@Houlgravely we could argue that Josuke from JoJo is gay , and he is one of the best mc from the show... then again this is Araki the god . One of the best writers
Sounds like RWBY in a nutshell
RIP that show
Really just wished we'd have gotten a series with adult Aang instead of a few measly flashbacks. 😔
I know! It’s too heartbreaking to know our boy Aang is dead 😭😭😭
Nah fans like you would still complain
Then you shouldn’t have watched the show if that’s what u wanted then no one told u to watch the show
We will now
Deal with it!!!!
4 year old Korra: mastered 3 elements
16 year old Kyoshi: didn’t know she was the Avatar
She didn't even "master" them she just shot them out of her hands, how is that "mastering" to you and it makes sense that they would change the age that the Avatar would know they were the avatar since Kyoshi was the avatar 482 years before Korra
macintosh computing device OK Korra simp
@@liamwilson5670 guys its funny cause he said simp!!! The funny thing is that you don't even know what the words mean
macintosh computing device except I do... it’s funny bc you had no other comeback! My comment has likes, yours doesn’t... who were you talking too??
@@liamwilson5670 You are one of the dumbest people on youtube. "Simp" isn't an insult if you don't know how to use it. I just said how your point is stupid and now you're talking about likes, as if likes are at all relevant to any conversation
We should get a spin-off for the Legend of Iroh, the Dragon of the West.
May Mako Awatsu rest in peace
Now this I agree with.
Wait, Mako has a last name??
@@jaminsim5965 The voice actor of Iroh, yea... Makoto Iwamastu
10000000% both for the voice actor(R.I.P Mako) and for us fans
It would be nice but idk without the original VA……
From the moment I learned Korra, born to waterbenders, mastered firebending as a toddler without a firebending master, I knew the show was going to be a crapshoot with no respect for the original. No more consistent lore, no more poetry, no more balance, just plot conveniences and plot contrivances for the rest of time. Not canon, too inconsistent with the definitive canon.
When old katara said "and my brother is gone" I was so sad :(
I cried for days
World would never be same without Sokka...
Omg that made me so sad! And with this disappointing new characters, it felt even worse. I would love it that they made the series about them grown up. That would have been cool and seeing Aang raise his son would have been so adorable.
Especially since he apparently had no kids? Are you telling me Sakka and Suki didn’t have children, they were literally banging during TLA.
@@rickkcir2151 They probably did, but the creators probably ignored Sokka and just didn't reveal much information about him.
IMO, Legend of Korra would have been a much better show if they:
- had Korra lose her bending around the midway point of the first season, forcing her to HAVE to learn spirituality because she can't do any of the other bending styles anymore
- didn't have the stupid Amon plot twist where he was a waterbender using a fake sob story to get people to swing to his side (imo that should have been the actual backstory, instead of "oh my daddy taught me how to bloodbend and I used that to take people's bending away")
- Amon was a chi blocker who could stop take away people's ability to bend by semi-permanently damaging their chi nodes
- had Korra re-do the Avatar Journey into, and including, the Spirit World and Civil War diatribe
- went through with the civil war arc entirely
- dropped the stupid Avatar Wan shit
- have Zahir just be a nonbender who's incredibly goddamn skilled at subterfuge and using underhanded tactics to get to his end goal
- showed Kuvira actually doing some of the shit people had said she'd done
- didn't focus on fucking ship wars so much
Why do people hate the Avatar Wan subplot so much? Aside from Raava and Vaatu being objective moral entities, I don't think the rest is too bad
@@theanti-christ2842 Wan is also a terrible character so that's another reason. Or at least a terrible person. He kinda let two people die just because they wanted to eat, and gets rewarded for it
@@librathebeautifulwarmonk1283 Are you talking about the part with the hunters in the spirit wilds? I guess that's more of a moral gray area, since he was defending nature.
you watched "the legend of Korra is garbage and here's why" huh?
@@theanti-christ2842 Aint no moral gray there, the Wan special putright says the spirits are the invaders. Ignoring the fact that Wan was kicked out for trying to screw over his fellow humans he still let those men be killed for no reason. The Catdeer he saved wasn't even a spirit and he is fully aware that his former home is full of people who are risking their lives just to eat.
5:37 Actually it’s not a flaw. The attack on the air temples happened during Sozin’s comet, so fire benders would’ve been able to use their bending to reach them, sort of how Ozai was able to iron man all over the place during the comet.
Hot air ballons
Alexander Schoen Those weren’t around at the beginning of the war.
Which makes the air bender, who trained Aang (don't remember the name) and was found in pile of fire bender corpses - even more of a badass.
Evil toaster of pure EVIL Monk Gyatso?
Yup, that's the loveable bastard :D
I only discovered Avatar recently- never had the chance to watch it as someone without Netflix. It was amazing. I’d have sleepless nights binging the show- I couldn’t get enough. I loved everything about it: the characters, plot, worldbuilding, and the turtle ducks. Then I saw there was a sequel, and I got so exited, I watched episode 1, and it was garbage. Korra was a jerk, the locations looked weird, the worldbuilding was funny, the species and character designs sucked, they even killed my boy Sokka! Glad the first episode wasn’t just a fluke, and the whole thing was garbage.
As a new watcher, whats your most favorite and leats favorite episode?
@@FargonNemeloc Sorry if I spoiled anything for you.
I have multiple favourites, it’s too hard to choose.
It’s weird bc Sokka is my (second) favourite character (I said my second because uncle Iroh is everyone’s favourite so it doesn’t count) but many of my favourite episodes focus on Zuko.
In chronological order:
The storm (season 1, episode 12)
Zuko alone (season 2, episode 7)
Tales of Ba Sing Se (season 2, episode 15)
The western air temple (season 3, episode 12)
The Ember island players (season 3, episode 17)
Least favourite episode is the fortune teller (season 1, episode 12)
Enjoy the show! I’m currently on my 3rd rewatch, so I can confirm, even if some of the earlier episodes are a bit weak and fillery (but half the episodes I listed are filler, there’s lots of TH-cam video essays on why ATLA has good filler), it gets so good.
@@willowdigger617 no, i meant you as a new watcher, i saw all this when it came out and dreaded when seasons finished, hated the wait time in between and loved how the story unfolded
I love this series and have seen it multiple times since then
Also, good choices, sokka is.good, but truly the character that gets more development is Zuko, so no surprise hes the one you like most
@@FargonNemeloc oh, I thought you’d just began the series. Yep, I’ve accidentally become obsessed, literally watching episode 6 right now (I’m a multitasker don’t worry). I do prefer Sokka over Zuko (but not by much), I just feel like he doesn’t get enough screen time. Tales of Ba Sing Se and Ember island players I both like mostly for the Sokka parts (but I still like the Iroh sections in both)
You have great taste. As someone who watched it when it for came out on television and then rewatched many times after, I feel the same way about nearly everything, second favorite being Sokka, favorite episodes, korra being hot garbage, etc. I'm guessing you're a logical person who can see past most of your own and other people's biases because I'm often told I'm like that.
A child with an annoying voice: "I'm the avatar!"
Will Smith: *Unloads Colt AR-15*
Just kills me.
Can will smith smith will smith?
*_SMITHING 100_*
Lol! Fuck you. XD
Holy shit dude I died of laughter😂
_"Hey, thats's pretty good"™_
Colt M16 A4 with a sopmod pack actually, but yeah it was pretty fucking funny
I can see why Avatar's are supposed to be told when there the avatar when they turn 16
I think it’s so they’re grown enough to let them live like a normal kid for awhile but not too old as to start their training too late
Hannah Kim And so that they have time to master their first element. Aang was only told at age 12, because he was a child prodigy and mastered air bending by 12 and invented the Air Scooter
@@aaronlandry3934 I thought he was told he was the avatar early because thr air nomads sensed something bad was coming (the fire nation attack)
How does one not know he or she is the avatar? at some point they are going to accidently bend an element other than the one they already master, so what are you supposed to say to them? you're mixed race or smth? they would have guessed they were the avatar
@@mcherry3.147 Aang and Roku didn't know they were the avatar until they were told because they can't just bend elements without learning them unless they are using the avatar state which is why Aang couldn't use the other elements until he learned them. I guess you could say korra already knew because she bended as a child without any practice but the Legend of Korra breaks a lot of rules established in avatar so idk
It kind of makes sense because instead of killing Ozai. Ang was like hippity hoppity your bending is my property.
And with Ozai being the egoistic, power-driven narcissist that he is, getting spiritually castrated by a 12 year old bald monk child from the same people he called weak and having his throne taken away by the child he thought was a failure was a far worse turn of events than "paying the 'ultimate' price" with his life.
Not to mention being humiliated by his ex.
Juke119
The issue is that it’s a Deus ex machina.... narratively speaking it’s shit, there was very little build or any hints at all until the end of the series
From a world building and magic perspective. It makes sense that there would be spirit bending... after all the 5th element would be life itself so naturally bending the essence of life ( the spirit) makes sense but again, from a narrative point, it came out of no where and as such destroyed some of the major themes presented in the show
Towards the end of the series, all of the group had to grow up, they had to mature.... yet aang in his stubborn naivety acts different from the air nomads and was immutable to change.... air nomads supposedly Go with the flow, they move around and are formless hence why aang has issues with earth bending yet he acts like an earth bender towards the end of the series with his stubbornness to not kill ozai, despite most likely killing hundreds when he was in the avatar state in the northern water tribe, when he was in the earth bender camp trying to actively manipulate the avatar state, and also while he was just casually fighting I’m almost certain some of his moves that he pulled off would have killed people but they go off screen so we never know for sure; anyways I digress, the point I’m making is that katara, toph, sokka, zuko, even azula had to change characters as they grew throughout the series but aang.... aang never once had to change beyond a superficial trait in his character.... katara had to forgive her mothers killer, zuko literally did a 180, azula despite her issues actually came to admit that she somewhat thought of herself as a monster (hence why she said her hallucinations of her mother thought of her as a monster ) but aang had very little change in his character, he literally refuses to master the avatar state to save katara, then proceeds to master the avatar state later in the series anyways.... I understand that you guys get sadistic pleasure out of “castrating” ozai but come on, it’s narratively weak.
Despite dragon ball being legitimately cancerous in its modern series, when goku first defeated frieza, I thought that was how aang should of handled ozai.... aang would beat ozai and leave him to wallow in defeat but ozai being ozai would feel such shame that he would attempt to back stab aang only for aang to “kill” him with the force of a thousand suns
In essence, aang would have let ozai go but due to ozai attacking aang despite losing, forces aang’s hand thus ultimately making aang “grow up”.... and learn that some times, you will be forced to do things you hate but it was ultimately necessary.
I also liked the idea of spirit bending but they needed to work it into the story rather than actually staple it on to the end
Targitaus Rithux umm everyone is saying that but energy bending was a forgotten art of bending and it’s not cliche because the lion turtles were shown in book 2 and aang is the avatar so he might have unknowingly called for help
That describes it perfectly😂😂😂
R0CK R0CK He never said it was a cliche
And during the avatar wan bullshit in Korra energy bending wasn’t a thing and that was the age before the avatar so energy bending was just there for the ozzai fight and that one episode in korra and that’s it
rewatching this masterpiece.... er's analysis of lok, not lok itself...
I listen to it everyday when I'm sketching. It's therapeutic.
@@timtam3730 What do you draw? :D
@@wilsonclaire3352 Just some anime and cartoon stuff. Here's a link to one of my drawing videos if you want some proof: th-cam.com/video/kvVWDaHSPvY/w-d-xo.html
@@timtam3730 that was actually a really smooth way to promote your channel
I actually liked that scene where Aang takes the fire lords bending away. I thought it was pretty cool
Except for the fact that killing one genocidal maniac is bad but apparently killing thousands of fire nation soldiers by destroying those airships is somehow fine
bekah saxon well cartoon logic
Shaman Xeed I can agree with that.
@@awesomegaymer5786 taking away his bending was worse then death.
@@MrC77 exactly
All bending is now is punch and kick the air and water air fire and rocks will shoot out of your limbs congratulations everyone is a bending master
Yeah in the original it felt like there was actually progression to someone’s skill of the element and they could get better but apparently now if you try an element you can now just master it instantly
Coveting bread 44 yea apparently everyone can bend lightning and in avatar only very skilled and powerful benders who understood it could ...
they made all specialist bending way too accessible. it feels like all the earthbenders can metalbend, all waterbenders can bloodbend and all firebenders can lightningbend. in the original series, only the most powerful benders could specialist bend, and they could only do it in the most dire situations. now they have lightningbenders working in a factory. like what the hell? they took away the all the mystical parts of specialist bending just so they could have some cool fight scenes.
Gary The Hippopotamus not only that they basically made metal bending water bending
mixed martial arts is a thing lol
My favorite part of the show is when Toph said Korra was the worst Avatar ever I was like yessss sifu toph PREACH
What about Kuruk?
@@icemaster9728 Somebody didn’t read the Shadow of Kyoshi books 🤭
@@icemaster9728 From what I've read the dude was just lazy as shit. The issue with this is the avatar lives a life that can never be that. Furthermore, he died in his thirties before any real political damage could be done. The tragedy of Korra's existence far outweighs Kuruk's. Not only did she permanently lose ties to all the previous Avatars and their knowledge but she also opened the divide between the spirit world and the physical world. Without even consulting the leaders of other nations and its possible ramifications it could have to everyone in that universe. She just does it because "Shes the avatar and you gotta deal with it."
Fuck Korra.
@@pokeman5000 yeah, you've never read the Kyoshi novels lmao
Also, while I do really like Lok, I can't stand korra's decision to keep the portals open. Caused too much chaos in the world.
I will always perceived Korra as non cannon
Me to brother me to
The only good part of Legend of Korra is seeing old lady Toph absolutely destroy her
Edit: And all the Uncle Iroh scenes. Im proud of this reply section
Edit #2: Forgot about my baby Tenzin hes on the list too.
And the few scenes of uncle iroh
I loved it when Toph said Korra was the worst Avatar ever
Jessica Degante Hernandez she says that? Awesome
Jessica Degante Hernandez Toph is the best character ever
Twinkle Toes :(
I would like to point out. Avatar Aang never started those fights, and he never intended to kill anyone. So it still stands that he cant just go around wiping people out he couldnt like. Also the avatar stage doesnt count as he wasnt in control there.
Drudan comepletly agree and the idea that the fire nation couldn’t destroy the air temples when we see that they have war balloons is funny
maxrivera38
Well, they didn’t have the war balloons until after stealing the wrecked one the scientist made at the end of episode 17 in Book 1. However, they did have the tanks which could climb the mountain in the same episode. I assume they probably used those when attacking the Air Temples.
It's Ya Boi Connor yeah its been years since i watched it and had a feeling that, what you said was the case thanks for the clear up, I knew it wasn’t a plot hole though
Nostalgia For Infinity not according to the rules of the world everyone in that show can take a beating and still get back up. There are many instances of people take what would essentially be death blows in our world but ATLA goes by a different standard
Yeah in real life, the Avatar series doesnt follow real life physics, 99% of the fights in the shows would have ended in death, nobody could take a rock the size of a cannonball to their body at like 100km/h and still be in one piece, but in the series theyre just knocked to the ground and then stand up.
Aang always overcame every obstacle but Korra always got beaten in every fight and seemed to never learn from her mistakes or grow as a character.
D.C. Dave I agree she is portray as strong in the beginning but loses everytime, and she has no epic moments.
Is really good at bending = Mary Sue
Loses every fight = Mary Sue
Gets away with most things = Mary Sue
Gets PTSD = Mary Sue
Is sometimes cocky = Mary Sue
@@onthelam6316 what are you talking about we all know Jinora is the mary sue.
Thats women for you.
She learned so much in the last 2 seasons tho
Dear Hollyweird: Self-righteous, conceited, abusive, loud, near-psychopathic does not make one a strong character.
Those are actually the traits that Hollywood deems most valuable.
Watch the entire show please. If you did, then I am *really* confused as to how you would think this.
@@caseyurich9190 Korra shows these traits alot, even in this video. It's concerning
@@caseyurich9190 No. I watched the show and Korra is a horrible person and a horrible character.
@@SpagettiSpeltWrong this mf stole asami's man by forcing herself onto him
Basically this review would 100% apply to Boruto as well. In every way. OP child prodigy. Super modern Konoha village. Annoying irredeemable brat for a main character. Shits on all the moral lessons of the far superior previous series....
This ∆
James Onen this comment made my day. Here is your like.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Boruto is what Naruto would have been if the flaws of late Shippuuden had been around since the beginning.
Moral lessons like: if you're stupid and put in only the bare minimum effort you can succeed with your parents' hard work and unbelievable luck.
Naruto is just as bad as a character as Korra. It's supposed to give the lesson that even an average joe who isn't very bright can succeed with hard work and determination, but Naruto only manages anything because he was handed the strongest tailed beast.
Granted, that doesn't mean every character in Naruto is that bad. Rock Lee actually does embody that lesson perfectly. He actually worked hard his entire life on taijutsu to overcome the fact he couldn't do ninjutsu where Naruto was simply handed better affinity for ninjutsu than he actually had and because of that didn't have to work.
Naruto is just as much an irredeemable brat as his son, so Boruto's nature is perfectly in line with his father's example.
Except it wouldn't...
Boruto being "op" is literally a complaint I've never seen until just now; because Boruto is actually incredibly weak compared to the cast in part 1 or Naruto at the beginning.
Konoha being more modern is neither here nor there, it's not like they didn't have that technology already anyway.
Boruto being an "irredeemable brat" is just fan salt. The kid's mad at his father for not being a father. Naruto does bullshit like send a shadow clone to his daughter's birthday party (which ruins the day) instead of being there himself while leaving the clone to do desk work. He stays away from home for extended periods of time and it affects the household, something Boruto picks up on. It's the same kind of lashing out a kid with a parent always gone on military duty, or police duty, or always at the office does. The entire arc with Momoshiki was addressing this and afterwards Boruto and Naruto have a great relationship; that aspect of the character is basically gone. And most of the fans weren't even worried about that because the Boruto movie had been out way before that so everyone already knew what that character arc was. Outside of that, what does he do that makes him an irredeemable brat? Hell, Sarada pulled the worst shit, straight up doubting to her mom's face who her father was.
And all of the moral lessons are different and unrelated... so... you're going to have to be specific about that.
Legend of Korra is one of those works where I can't help but keep saying some variation of "Wait, no! That's a good idea! Stop botching the execution of it!"
Korra herself is probably the best exemplar of this. I can see a really interesting protagonist buried under all that 'Whyyyyyy would you do it like this?!' Korra was born in a time of peace and prosperity, told that she's basically the latest in a long line of Most Important People Ever, and then told that said label comes not only with their world's equivilant of superpowers, but _quadruple_ the normal number. I could buy the level of power she demonstrates after the prologue's timeskip because of just how many years she's had to train, as well as the fact that her instructors are actual...well, instructors. Aang's teachers were skilled, but not very conventional. Maybe that could even help explain Korra's spiritual deficiencies. She's learning the elements as if they're just cool superpowers, and she has no personal connection to her teachers.
But they screw it up right out of the starting gate, because not only can she just somehow bend three of the four elements immediately, she's just as immediately arrogant about it. 'Kung Fu Panda' came out four years before LoK, and it didn't make the mistake of depicting Tai Lung as a bad egg right from childhood. Hell, Tai Lung is actually a pretty good parallel to draw: for all his talent and work-earned skill, he lacked the wisdom to recognize what was stopping from from growing any further. Korra is much the same, or rather she _could_ have been much the same. If we got the sense that she had actually earned her bending prowess through years of hard work (ie, if we didn't have that stupid prologue introduction), then not only could we understand why she takes so much pride in it to the point of arrogance, but we could also understand why her failure to grasp even the most basic airbending causes her so much frustration while also blinding her to what she actually _needs_ to do in order to overcome that obstacle.
So much of this comes down to that damn prologue scene. If they could have just resisted having that awful character intro gag, then we could have assumed that Korra's bending prowess came from having _thirteen years_ of formal training, and that her pride was a result of actually having worked to get where she is as opposed to just 'being the avatar = instant multi-elemental mastery.' A seventeen year old avatar whose years of training during a time of peace and plenty led to her being a cocky bruiser, only to realize that what she lacks in wisdom has made her genuinely ill-equipped to combat an unexpected new threat to world order? Sign me the hell up for that!
Just...it'd be nice if it was better executed than 'Legend of Korra.'
Hm the writers would need to explain pretty damn well why korra couldn’t bend air if she could learn to bend fire, the direct opposite of water, but other than that your idea sounds really interesting
@@curryfishheadenjoyer its not he direct opposute element but direct opposite personality
I don’t understand why Fire is Korra’s most used and first choice of bending. Since she is born in a water tribe, shouldn’t her most powerful element be water and the worse fire?
Because it’s not the opposite element from you’re original element but the element most opposite from ur personality. For Korra it was air because her personality is far from an air nomad in the beginning.
Because they retconned it to keep validating their sue in every way. In the original, it is as you say, the opposite element to their main one is the hardest. It was the case with Aang and Roku, who had issues with earth and water respectively. However in LoK they retcon it so now is the opposite to the personality of the avatar (which is stupid and makes no sense. Zuko wasn't able to bend fire because he wasnt acting like a fire bender, for example). If they do that then suddenly their sue being able to master fire makes sense, but then she shouldnt be able to bend water either. That and the whole crap with the lion turtles handing bending to humans are all bullshit devices to justify whorra being able to bend when she is like 4.
Being able to master an element requires a knowledge and understanding of the philosophy of that particular element. Avatars who start with a particular element would naturally have a harder time learning a form of bending that contradicts what they're comfortable with. It's why Aang who is used to being light on his feet had such a hard time with the heavy and forceful nature of earth bending. With that reasoning it makes sense why an Avatar wont always have trouble with their opposite element since you cant expect all members of a nation to have the exact same personality. Korra being bad at fire bending is counter intuitive but it makes a lot of sense why grasping airbending was so difficult for her. The real issue is her being able to bend 3 elements at age 4. It's so ridiculous
@@golf100 Uh... in ATLA they literally said it was the opposite element from yours?? Tf?? You can't just go around changing the rules of your universe when you please. Makes no sense bud.
Fire is easy, you just have to angry about something and then, fire go boom.
I was 14 years old when this video released, and now I’m 21 years old watching part 2 of book 3. See you all in 2040 when this TH-cam series comes to a close
Lmao same
Why can't people write female characters who struggle for their powers? What is so hard about this? See literally any female lead written in the past 10 years.
whomst'd've because women are above hard work. That’s for the weaklings like cisgendered straight men.
People are so scared of seeming sexist that they sacrifice any relatability to the character, dont they realize that to get people to care about the character they need to be shown working hard, failing and eventually become more powerful, killbill did such a good job developing their female lead and now people will pass off any randomly powerful female character as female empowerment
Because they are afraid of the female character seeming weak. Women must be portrayed to be perfect, and hilariously powerful without any struggle.
The people who do this are the ones who really degrade female characters because they take anything interesting or deep out of them, which is the most sexist thing to do.
Uhhhhh I don't know if this counts...but Lara from the Tomb raider??
Didn't you watch book 3 and book 4 ? Korra is clearly struggling and rising from the bottom
My sister watched legend of korra and not atla
So i told her to goddamn finish atla at least, but she said it seemed too childish for her age and I legit felt like strangling her
Fuyuhiko in a Bunny Suit did she finish it yet?
Do you visit her grace very often?
plzshutupmaam *breathes. In heavily*
SayaRock121 You ever heard of an exaggerated statement buddy?
_You should look it up sometime_
That is pretty childish of you
"You can't really just pretend it never happened"
Oh but how I will desperately try
F star Pretend what never happened?
You've been invited to lake laogai
Sounds to me with game of thrones last season
F star I was being sarcastic
Yep. That's where I'm at. I even had in my head how you can do 7 books totals with Aang and team because 7 chakras.
Book 4: Air - zuko's mom, azula redemption, rise of air nation (acolytes)
Book 5: Energy - energy bending giving rise to airbenders; lion turtles expanded stuff; story arcs of Toph, Sokka, Suki, whoever
Book 6: Beginnings - prequel of sorts and journey through the past avatars' stories as he needs to connect them all because of a looming sort of threat to the Avatar state. Kind of like "Escape to the Spirit World"
Book 7: Life - where he married, have kids and died; then team avatar had to find the new avatar quickly because of a threat bringing Aang's airbending son with them to help.
This actually really represents how different 2015 was from now.
in what way?
@@craigime before less political shit now it's that what matters is woke shit
Trult was a better time. I know its a horrible fucking meme at this point, but day one of 2020 up until now has been a shit show compared to 2015
@@RaceTheAce77 propaganda and inversion of reality all in ultra high definition = woke shit
@@RaceTheAce772024 here and I’m still watching, it’s only before in the matter of time it’ll get worse.
To be fair, rule34 definitely is enjoying the show.
Daniel S i am too;-)
Hate to say it but so is tumblr.
True
This is how you know kids never watched this show lmfao
@@spook-n-doodle6188 Not anymore. R.I.P tumblr
Destiny, Destiny, Dust the knee, Dust the knee, dat’s the knee dat’s the knee
Stop it uncle
bend the knee
@@iamaheretic7829 to Triple C
That's tiny
I started watching LOK when it first aired, but when that scene came up with Korra as a child saying "I'm the Avatar and you better deal with it", and then proceeded to bend all the elements (something that took Aang years to accomplish), I instantly knew I wouldn't enjoy it. Despite this, I stuck with it till the end as it gradually got worse and worse. TLA was a journey. LOK was a waste of time. The icing on the cake was when they pandered to the LGBT community... And in such a shitty way too...
I like to call it, "SJW fuel"
Positive Vibes You explained everything I felt!
Nah you're just saying this to look cool lol
Awh man izzy you totally got me. This entire comment that I spent a while typing to express myself and how I feel about LOK was just a front so I look cool.
Yeah I made it to impress randoms on the interwebs so I feelz specialz :^)
yep true
I rewatched the first episode of Korra recently. I never noticed the first time watching it how quickly paced it was, they just don't give time to build things up before Korra is off to Republic city. Avatar spent two episodes in the south pole setting up their cast before setting off on their adventure. there's also a lot of characters just announcing their own character traits without letting us see them.
The Stages of watching Whorra for the first time (my experience):
STAGE 1: Excitement.
"Hmm, so this will follow up on Avatar? I'm fine with that. So long as the writers know what to do.
STAGE 2: Hope
"Ok. The first episode wasn't good. But the show is in baby steps. They outta polish Korra."
STAGE 3: Confusion
" Wait, why they did that? They never explained that in Avatar."
STAGE 4: Disappointment
"You could've done it right. But you chose to do...THAT."
STAGE 5: Denial.
"Amon has got to be cool. Right, I mean he has a semblance of motive."
STAGE 6: Realization
"This show is a disaster."
STAGE 7: Pessimism
"I take that back. This show is a disgrace, a blemish on what made Avatar good."
TheUndeadGamer I may be 6 months late but my sentiments exactly
So agree with you
It was such a disappointment. I usually give most shows the first season to figure things out so I reserve judgement, but wow did it go downhill will a trail of garbage juice behind it.
I went thru the same thing!!!!!
STAGE 0: goolge Korra on rule34 sites.
STAGE 0.1: Be happy.
Not super related to the vid, but it’s crazy how Aang just fricken woke up in a totally new world to him. Like imagine waking up when only yesterday things were what he knew and now being thrown into a completely unknown world, where all of his people have been massacred, his entire culture destroyed, he is the last of his kind, and he is expected to save everyone. He never even had time to properly grieve.
Last time I rewatched the series I was thinking that too. For him it wasn’t even like it was a real wait. He ran away, crashed, and from his perspective woke up a few minutes later. That’s incredible terrifying especially since it was a timeframe of 100 years
I think we all can agree that 12 year old Aang was much more mature and better than 16 year old Korra.
Yeah, sledding on penguins and playing with kids sure is mature...
@@hanburgundy4317 didn't you see his character growth? In the first season itself he had grown up a lot.
@@seirrawilson504 exactly. Imo, Aang is just trying to refuse to accept that his people were wiped out. But he knows that deep down inside they are dead
@@yukijames1321
1.) Pema advised Korra to go for it - it had worked with her and Tenzin. Korra was taking the advice of an older woman, and the wife of her master. Moreover, Mako and Asami had only been dating for a couple months at most - teenage romances rarely last longer than that. Additionally, the whole "love triangle" "will they, won't they" plotline has been established in fiction for centuries. It's hardly outside of the norm for a character to kiss another one to try and steal their love from another.
2.) Bolin asked _her_ out to try and make _her_ feel better - chivalrous and a good friend. After she hurt his feelings, she apologized and mended their friendship.
3.) She's the Avatar - you don't begrudge Aang for running into problems, do you?
@@hanburgundy4317 those don't make someone immature.
You know a fandom is doomed when it's been infested with shippers
Facts this shot is sad to see happen
true the korrasami shippers are cringe asf
ATLA shippers are worse than LOK's
@Ally Gruber we do not talk about that
Fanbase...
I always take that as indicative of the show/game/etc. being trash. If the fans can only talk about shipping and nothing else.
For example I've been around voltron fans since high school and i still have no idea what the show is about, i only hear shipping discussion.
Republic City is the biggest gripe I have with LOK. World building is a big part with creating the atmosphere of Avatar, so wtf were Bryke thinking doing this? I1920s Steampunk? Like we haven't seen that before. I'd expect this with the Earth, or Fire avatar. And they did this at the cost of preserving the Asian influence of the world. Now people have this idea that ATLA was set in the 1850s when the Avatar world is actually really ancient, even in the industrialising Fire Nation which still has a lot of Han/Qing Dynasty architecture.
Shut the hell up.
@@gtas321 nigga stfu
gtas321 no
For real how do you go from 1920s style steam punk cars to FUCKING GUNDAMS in 2 years. This shit isnt Civ 5.
th-cam.com/video/omB6FnzU270/w-d-xo.html watch this it explains why the last Airbenders was set in the mid 1800s
Edit: spelling
12 year old Aang in the Avatar state: I defeated the fire lord, ended the 100 year war, and established world peace
17 year old Korra in the Avatar state: so I was having a race against these kids......
I think Korra went into the avatar state because she wanted to have Aang play with his grandkids.
@@dantdmfangamingrich9802 that sounds about right
@@gewawdypooh That sounds daft. What would Aang enter the avatar state because he was eating Kiyoshi's favorite meal?
@@enumaelish9193 dude, that’s playing with your grandkids, what grandfather wouldn’t want to do that? Eating a meal is totally different
@@gewawdypooh Except that's not how the avatar state works. It connects you to the collective mind of ALL the past avatars. Why would she use the most powerful weapon in that universe for such a mundane reason?
LOL that butt-naked Korra standing on the bridge was just random. 😂
It is just a perfect view to be honest.
where the fuck did he get that picture wtf, is that in the offical art wtf?
He pulled a sneaky 😫
When does this happen
Madman 4:42 my boi
I dont hate Lok rather indifferent to it, but it extremly funny how butthurt the fans got at any critisism the show get xD.
They get 'butthurt' because people actually bash on it so hard. There are tons of videos out there calling it a waste of time and all that. You can't blame fans for wanting to defend something they like.
@@coldfrenchfry5181 thank u- a korra fan who likes it better than atla
@@frozenweevil4022 No? I didn't even say LOK is better than ATLA. I'm just stating what I've seen and I find it absolutely hilarious when people who don't like ATLA (who aren't even LOK fans) criticise some part of the show and fans rush to defend it. That's exactly what the LOK fans are doing.
@@coldfrenchfry5181 i didnt say you did. it was just nice to see someone who doesnt completely hate it and people who like it
@@frozenweevil4022 ATLA is better and I don't regret disliking your opinion
If they wanted a more modern world for Korra why not set the story centuries after the original instead of a few decades?
A few decades? 7 really isn't a few. 1947 was a really long time ago. And Korra is very much set in a 1910-1920 time period (besides the giant mech) and not a modern one
Don't forget that Fire Nation's technologies were already pretty advanced in the first series.
consistent world-building i guess
No,because they wouldn't be able to bring in Pandering Material if you know what I mean.
If you think about the type of tech they had in the first series, the world in LoK actually advanced slower than the real world.
It does have good r34 though.
For you.
this guy gets it!
That it does.
Owler = Grade away 1
Meh. The girls are objectively inferior to Last Airbender though. Although to be fair who could compete with the likes of Toph, Katara, Meng and best girl Ty Lee?
We didn't see any actual deaths caused by Aang. Serious injuries at best. It was only when he was in the Avatar state we see true devastation, but as we know the Avatar state is a culmination of his past experiences, so his thoughts and beliefs are cancelled out. Just thought I would point that out because of that montage.
And you can blame that error about him beating the fire lord with magic on Bryke.
Well he did kill this flying ikd what that kidnapped Momo after it had already lost Momo...just saying
no shit, I don't think he meant to blame it on Aang lmao
joey obyrne I mean the avitar is the world or their god(s) or something in human form. So I guess a mod machine would be a thing for them
yea because knocking people off a 200 foot wall isnt killing anyone right?
What I don't like about Korra is that she was acting line a kid.
Aang WAS A kid so he had an excuse. Korra was a young adult, but she destroyed an Air Nomad artefact, was a privileged brat even tho her parents weren't that well off compared to the North, and so many more things.
And she seemed weaker than Aang. She was supposed to be a genius too.
I hate to be that person but the villains were more entertaining than her. Kuvira ? Varrick ? the Red Lotus ?
+ I hated Tenzin's siblings at first. Getting on his ass for being too serious about the Air Nomads was so weird to me bc Aang was the last Airbender, so Tenzin HAD to pop out kids and manage the Air Nomads. This is logic.