I Rewatched Korra Book 1 & GURL I Have NOTES
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- Amon stole my bending and also my joy.
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0:00 Intro
2:38 Korra’s More Mature Than I Remember
7:09 Why Is This Book Called “Air”?
11:21 The Bermuda Love Triangle
15:09 Oh No They Want Equality
18:52 Bloodbending Bull$@!#
23:18 OH YEAH HOW DID THEY GET TENZIN???
24:32 Gurl, F#$! That Ending 
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I never got how bloodbending basically works like chi blocking, when clogged blood should be the FIRST thing any waterbender healer would notice.
Same! That’s the part I hate the most because I feel like it doesn’t make sense. I feel like they should’ve made bloodbending strong enough where you can basically paralyze someone permanently. I think that makes more sense given how once you’re bloodbended, you can’t move unless you’re strong enough to break out of it.
This is also why I say Amon should’ve been a non bender that found a way to weaken a benders ability to bend when he chi blocks. Like maybe he learned that if you hit harder, or maybe hit them more in places where their chi flows, if that person doesn’t know how to open it back up they can’t necessarily get their bending to be back on par as it was usually. That would also give some depth to Korra when she realizes she can’t just punch as hard as she used to, so she has no choice but to really focus on air bending and non aggressive fighting taticsc and overall becoming a smarter fighter. It would also explain how Katara can only “ease” tension but she can’t actually fix the benders who’ve been affected since their chi paths would need to be reopened (similar to what was being talked about in the gru episode of Atla).
Another thing I never understood was why pure platinum cannot be metal bended
Metal bending is about bending the "pure earth" inside the refined metal (natural vs non-natural)
However pure platinum can be found in nature (just like gold, copper and silver) and thus should be bendable while steel should not
Katara was able to sense the bundle of chi mangled up in aang's back when she was healing him in the first episode of szn 3 but suddently a much more experienced version who actually knows bloodbending wouldn't know to feel that is such a major leap in unbelievability its ridiculous
@@kubomagico8853 even with those that can't be found in nature... they are a result of mixing natural metals. Like it makes no sense.
@@kubomagico8853 I think the difference is the purity. Like 24K gold would probably be harder to bend than 10 karat gold. The more pure the metal, the harder is to bend. You need more random little rocks and pebbles, etc. to be able to bend metal. For instance butter is probably bendable, but it’s probably harder to bend than just milk. Because there is more water in the milk than there is in the butter.
“What happened to sakka?”
What happened to Suki?!
There is a theory, back in ATLA in the fortuneteller, Sokka was told he’d have lots of pain and misfortune (pretty sure I got that wrong) most of it self-inflicted. What if he and Suki went on a mission together, his idea. That got her killed?
As for Sokka, people assume he died while originally fighting off the red lotus.
Still wish they included Azula in the series.
@@natnerdzthere's a theory that Zaheer was the one who killed Sokka, I don't remember where I saw it though 🤔
@@OpticalSorcerer Hm... I think that could have ruined het character a bit if not handled well.
@@Blodreina1kru Korra came out in 2012 and "The Search" came out in 2013. As long as they kept that in mind, it could've worked.
Honestly the older you get and have better understanding of life, lessons and politics of the real world. You go back and watch LoK it didn't age well at all in most areas and cliché. My issue with LoK are the lessons that they pretend to have but contradict one another. and no consistency of both lore and characterization and that. It has so much potential but it's those flaws and inconsistencies that holds it back to the audience outside of the fans/stans
Edit: to the Korra stans getting triggered in my comment section, if you love the show, then I'm happy for you but stop gaslighting me and constantly tagging me to get a response or putting words in my mouth of something I never said. It isn't going to change anything. Watch your show in peace and leave me alone.
No they're actually pretty consistent in a lot of ways. Books 3 and 4 were solid and books 1 and 2 had strong points.
@@ryanmoore6259 not really especially with the lore and world building that they butchered from the ATLA. Bryan and Mike inserted way too much of western and Christian ideology with Eastern philosophy and mythology into it. This is why me and majority of ATLA don't consider it canon as a direct sequel to the original series. Book 2 was the egregious offender out of all of them
Case 1@@ryanmoore6259
Still a great show
@@GiveonKing well I'm happy that is a great show to you
Regarding blood bending, I really would have liked to see Katara using blood bending combined with her healing techniques to revert the blocked bending instead of Korra doing random Avatar stuff to give everyone's bending back. It'd give Katara some kind of redemption since she seemingly hated beeing a blood bender and blood bending itself, and now she can use it for something good. This could also add an interesting new layer to blood bending so it's not just pure evil.
Maybe Katara could have figured out how Amon blocked the bending (and then also explains it for the viewers) after she knew that Amon blocked the elements with blood bending. On the next full moon she could try using blood bending after many decades again and there she actually manages to revert the blocked bending from people including Korra. Katara could teach that to some other medical waterbenders and after some full moons, everyone has their bending back. Would be cool if even Korra learns that healing bloodbending then. Of course, using it in a damaging way should still be kept forbidden and Katara would never teach how to do that.
this is a really good concept!
I wish they would've given Korra the Bloom Enchantix treatment. While she has practically willed herself into learning airbending, she could've had obvious struggles with other ways of airbending. She might've been able to do these air punches, but maybe not the iconic air ball thingy Aang used, or more gentle ways of chanelling air to solve certain problems. In general her style of bending is (from what I rememeber) just aggressive and not that diverse in combat, which could've also been some kind of sub-plot for following seasons. As I said maybe I need to re-watch the show bc i could be wrong abt that.
Yess! I feel as if she struggled but then the writers just forgot about said struggle by the next season.
Agreed. The main two issues that LoK had were the twelve episodes seasons and the stories they were telling. One of the Last Airbender's greatest strengths were the seasons long arcs each character went through.
-Sokka character development from an arrogant boy pretending to be a warrior to one of anime/T.V. greatest leaders.
-Katara didn't go through any visible change but she learned to be my compassionate and less bias to other people.
-Toph learned that being independent doesn't mean having no responsibility
-Zuko, do I need to talk about the masterful writing of his arc?
-Aang was a kid to afraid to face his destiny to someone willing to bare the responsibility of the Avatar.
Each season built on each of the character's developments and it felt organic. LoK seasons feels like a self-contained story which have a small impact on it's next season on the characters.
Now onto the stories of LoK seasons. Unlike the Last Airbender which had one primary villain and few side ones LoK had four primary villains each season. Which could have been great if the seasons were longer, in season 1 the Equalist showed a conflict that was inspired by our own history and even today. If season 1 had been the standard twenty episode length then the writers could have gone in-depth with showing the disparity between benders and non-benders in Republic City to paint Amon in a more morally gray villain. Instead of Amon being the standard evil guy.
Same goes with Korra's evil uncle who just wanted to become king of both the South and North poles not because he wanted to become the Dark Avatar but to get more power or to help the South Polers reconnect to their spirituality.
The Red Lotus and Season 3 were the best of the four seasons.
Season 4 showed us that the world is becoming more independent and not needing the Avatar to deal with all the world's issues. I would not have Kuvira make a meha but a rail-road gun instead.
I was genuinely questioning the creators and the writers for approving that plot twist. I also questioned the Korra’s sudden ability to airbend at the end. And yeah! HOW THEY DID GET TENZIN AND HIS FAMILY?! I was like DID I MISS SOMETHING? I dont deal offscreen sh*t well. Lin’s sacrificed was a joke cuz of this
8:26. So glad someone else realizes this is a big problem with LoK. This is a serious gripe I have with a lot of modern media as a whole, a laser focus on plot and only plot with no room for fun character-focus episodes to build the world and flesh out the character dynamics. Republic City could have easily been an entire world in of itself with the cultures of the 4 Nations coming together into a melting pot of culture.
YESSS, like I always wondered why Republic City wasn’t handled in a similar fashion to Zootopia with the different climates and animals living differently. It would also drive in the difference the creators wanted for Korra. Because while Aang literally was going all over the world, Korra would do the same but in republic city, but at least in the series it isn’t large scaled as she stays in the city.
Dante Basco as General Iroh II: "Now why am I in it?" 😂
DEADASS
Bolin kind of reminds me of how I picture Iroh when he was young minus the war crimes.
Imagine if amon ACTUALLY was blissed with a spirit?
Ah, a classic example of a show using populist arguments but never actually intending to make them be taken seriously. Wouldn't want to *actually* validate trying to change the system that is the cause of these inequalities...
5:45 yes, exactly the word, neoliberal
That's.....not really fair seeing how often the status quo changes. The Council government is replaced with a president, the spirit world and human world are merged and the Earth Kingdom essentially ceases to be.
You advocating for populism?
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 left wing populism yes
@@Froggsroxx weird
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 populism
noun
a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.
I advocate for the redistribution of wealth from the ultra rich back into the society they exploit in order to build infrastructure and social programs.
I genuinely just think Amon is a really bad villain. If not for his aesthetic and Steve Blum’s vocal performance, there just wouldn’t be anything to latch onto about the guy.
He’s *boring.*
I didn't know that the creators thought this would be a series finale
They didn't actually. It's a bit of misinformation perpetuated by the creators in retrospect. Initially the internal deal at Nick that has been later revealed but hidden for the sake of not suffering too much ire is that TLoK was approved for two, twenty-six episode seasons
Honestly romance in Avatar is a weakness they kinda refuse to acknowledge (I’m looking at you Kataang) and in LoK since it was a more prominent plot it SHOWS, like a lot, to be fair I’ve seen worse, this is just messy but it’s entertaining which makes it ok, not good, but ok
I don’t give a f about shipping, but personally I didn’t mind there stuff in ATLA because it was such a small part of the plot
Ain’t no way people unironically believe Korra is Mary Sue! Are we seeing the same character!?? This girl right here? The one who managed to F up royally in nearly everyone season is a Mary Sue? Yeah yall can miss me with that.
I think it's an issue of the circles that humor it find Korra is a lost cause, they recognize she has flaws and isnt a mary sue but also dont like her as a character either. Those who call her a mary sue likely checked out early on or never bothered re-evaluating their opinion of "she realized 3 styles as a toddler." It's like "why waste my energy on defending a character I don't like."
@@nonome8206 Also misogyny. If Korra was a dude many of the same people would be praising her.
@@ryanmoore6259 The Mako hate makes that hard to buy.
@@ryanmoore6259if it was a guy I wouldn't like the character doing the same things either like instantly knowing how to bend 3 out of 4 elements at the age of five without any teachers now if she did something similar as a teenager or young adult id believe it if she had the teachers or they came in checking on her progress or they shown a extremely test and she can slightly control the other elements as they give her some simple instructions whenever she's young
Season 1 korra? Yeah i can probably see it a bit. Though after, oh boy, time to kick korra where it hurts mentally over and over again
Korra should've had pushed Amon out the window and regained her bending by meditating and connecting to the the elements on a personal level, that allowing her to connect with Aang and then he could help her learn to bend again, would’nt have taken more than an episode
You can cut the love triangle to have time for that
Honestly as someone who rewatched the series myself I also say that Books 1 and 3 were personally the better written seasons.
Book 4 was just as decent as Book 3 but Kuvira as an Antagonist just doesn’t have the charisma that Amon And Zaheer + Red Lotus have as Villains.
Kuvira was both the Show’s Best and Worst Villain in the series.
Basically metal bending Ozai with less intimidating factor
Ironically it was KORRA who was the most interesting character in Season 4.
I mean Kuvira as a character at least gets expanded on in the comics, Specifically Ruins of the Empire" and going on kind of a redemption arc but I don't know if it makes her any more interesting.
They WERE going to show her backstory in a flashback but Nick cut the budget and so they got a clip show instead.
@@ryanmoore6259 Oh well at least her backstory was shown in the comics at least, shame that Nick tried so much to Sabotage this show.
@@toadlord8594 Mike and Bryan made the clipshow to avoid firing everyone early.
@@ryanmoore6259 Okay yeah I know that.
I say this too that season 1 and 3 are the best.
When I watched LoK with my mom as it was airing she was like "After Avatar, this is awful." And I agreed. I never really watched after Book 1 aired. Years later I came back to it and watched all 4 and I was like "This sucks". I've rewatached it a few times and I don't think it's very good in a lot of ways but I think it's ENJOYABLE and I do enjoy it. It's got ISSUES (God, I despise Book 2) but I can have fun watching it.
I agree. I had to literally force myself to watch LoK if I'm being honest but some aspects are fun icl. Season 3 was okay tho
My story is a bit similar! My cousin actually told my mom and I that there was a new avatar and she was a girl. I’m not sure how my mom felt (I was still in elementary school getting ready to go to middle school) but I was really excited and we would try to catch an episode whenever it aired.
After a couple of episodes (we didn’t watch them in order or like right after the other because we were busy so it would be like one week we watched an episode, the next week we did another, and another on a weekend) , I did notice that my mom wasn’t paying attention like she was when we first started. I never asked and she never said anything. Then I realized that I barely paid attention to the plot because all I paid attention to was the fight scenes. I didn’t even know that Amon was a waterbender yet alone Korra being from the southern water tribe.
Then we kinda stopped for a moment, and I think once I was close to graduating from middle school we started back up again and this time we were kinda able to watch the episodes in order more frequently. Once again my mom didn’t seem as interested and then I started noticing some things that I didn’t like about the show at all. However I wrote it off and once again I only ever paid the most attention to the fight scenes. Then at the start of high school we watched again (this time we were able to watch season 1-2 in order as season 3 was just starting) and then I was no longer as interested as I was beforehand. Once more episodes came out for season 3 however both my mom and I were more invested in the story.
To do a little jump cause my comment is getting long, my last 2 years of high school (I think it was my last or whenever they had tlok on Netflix) I wanted to rewatch both Atla and Tlok with my mom and we did. Once we got to Tlok we kept falling asleep on it, not paying attention, and overall scoffing at the show. I think I was the one who was more annoyed by it but my mom ended up loving season 2 especially Bolin. I only ended up loving season 1 the most, and surprisingly so, I wasn’t really interested in season 3 like I was before. Then my mom and I decided to talk about the show and that’s when I learned she didn’t like the show too much but there were some things she enjoyed about it. However she liked watching the show WITH me so she kept watching anyways.
She does think Atla is better and stronger narratively (she’s an English teacher lol) but she says tlok is not that bad. I’m just the one who pays attention to details and lore more than she does so when I see how they went about some things especially after freshly watching Atla, I started disliking it (but I noticed this a bit beforehand). I did watch the show again like maybe a year ago by myself to see if my opinion would change because I really want to like Tlok as much as I like Atla, but once again I only pay the most attention to season 1 in its entirety, half of season 2, and the ending part of season 3, and maybe the 1st 3 episodes of season 4.
Honestly even Book 2 is kinda a blast to watch. So much awesome moments.
I don’t even like LoK but I’m glad people are revisiting it and liking it more. I think if it wasn’t in the same universe as the closest to perfection American animation has ever gotten, it would have been a lot more well-received
I think this too but they would have to edit some stuff. However I can say if LOK came out now people probably would love it way more. But me personally, what I really want is a remake of the show because I think it deserves it and I don’t like when things get remake.
@G3NTOK1 This deserved the Netflix remakes treatment more than The Last Airbender. Aside from giving us an improved version of the 2010 film, which still pales in comparison to the original series and satisfying uncultured people who think animation is only for kids, who was NATLA for? The Legend of Korra should have gotten that treatment instead.
This would have given the writers an opportunity to iron out the kinks in the original series and make it more streamlined season by season. The smaller episode count Korra had, compared to ALTA, would be more beneficial if they pulled a Netflix and gave us 8 1-hour episodes which combined a bunch of plots together as compared to NATLA and TLA2010 which cut out a bunch of somewhat important "filler" content and moments.
Along with the more limited location variety, it would be a lesser effort on the CGI landscape animators because they'd mostly be making CG recreations of Republic City and the other minor locations seen throughout the show as compared to having to make multiple locations like the Southern Water Tribe, The Southern Air Temple, Kyoshi Island, Omashu, Northern Water Tribe, etc.
You were actually correct. Because Korra had no connection to air there was no airbending to take
Something I hate is that we have no idea who taught her earth-bending
It was probably earth benders of the white lotus
White Lotus, just like firebend.
Do we know who taught her firebending? I forgot tbh
I just wish we actually met her former teachers and they were actually characters
@@american1207Yes we see her master in the first episode
I personally did not like Amon’s motivation or his abilities. Instead of a water/blood bender he should’ve been a non bender who learned how to disable bending through the spirits. This would’ve been a good entry into the second season and along with his “scar” a much better motivation.
3:03 Yangchen did worse and sezto started the whole mess
Wasn't the whole point of energy bending that your mind and heart haft to be clear of lies and hatred in order to remove another person's energy? Not to win the war through might makes right but through clarity and love. I guess that doesn't matter anymore because all you need to remove someone's bending is to be a really really strong water bender, and a touch of eugenics.
I dont think so, i remember the fight with Ozzai and Aang, which correct me, but the lio turtle said, your will has to be stronger than the person you facing. I think
@@ShogunApach3
“The true mind can whether all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being harmed. Since beginingless time darkness thrives in the void but always yields to purifying light.”
“To bend another’s energy, your own spirit must be unbendable or you will be corrupted and destroyed.”
In other words, your proficiency to bend someones energy to remove their element is dependent on the unbendability of your own spirit, which is itself determined by your ability to navigate through lies and hatred. While yes, will is an important aspect, the pursuit of love and truth also plays a big role.
Even if I am wrong and that it's just will alone, which I'm fine with that interpretation, its still bs that you can do the same thing just by being a really really good water bender, and a touch of good genetics.
For me the essential problem of LoK is that its a neoliberal, 'enlightened centrist' show that gets all the politics it tries to do so so so wrong. It just drips with how american it is. I'd recommend Kay and Skittles as a basic intro to these things. DO NOT watch that aussie/new zealand guy because oohh boy, does he have the same problems. The political illiteracy is wild.
The earth empire going democratic (without the people voting for it like Italy in 1946) like Republic City because America in S4 was the most in your face of examples. Not every established power is bad or evil. There are yeah but not all. The earth kingdom people were doing fine with or without the royals. The king in the og show was an idiot because of a Chinese monarchy joke that doesn't even exist post 1940s. Will the poorer side of the EK in Korra enjoy that or create their own stuff? What about the middle and richer classes? Will it last?
Probably yes cause the show ignores the non benders after S1 but still.
Except the centrists aren't portrayed as right either; Raiko (the embodiment of centrism in the show) is a craven fool at best. The issue is that the solutions each villain comes up with is self gratifying.
As someone else said "I agree with you that most of the villains’ ideologies are so entangled with the world they live in, that it’s difficult to directly apply them to our world. People have to remember that even though the tone is a bit more mature than ATLA, Legend of Korra is still a children’s show. The children are just a bit older this time around. As a result, I think this show is much more interested in asking the audience questions that giving them clean answers.
It’s prompting viewers to engage with issues without spelling out what they should think. It does have some opinions though. For example, the protest scene in When Extremes Meet makes it clear what the writers think about use of police violence against marginalized groups. Also, more broadly, it’s clear that the villains usually need to be stopped because their solutions to such legitimate problems are extremely violent and self-gratifying. It’s trying to make the viewer engage and try to find their own position in the middle ground. I think this is a fair approach to take with an audience that is only just beginning to engage with politics.
I think people who don’t like the show’s politics are expecting a more explicit endorsement of an ideology, and these kinds of opinions are the result of a failure to find that. Facts and opinions get distorted until the show is sponsoring “good” politics or “bad” politics.
Personally, I probably would have been annoyed if the show explicitly embraced any ideologies, because I don’t think it had the audience or the screentime to give these things the full breadth of the attention they deserve if you want make up solutions to these problems. People are still struggling to do that convincingly for most of these issues in real life."
Kay and Skittles are extremely intolerant to any differing interpretations and they also get a lot of basic details wrong. If anything the Australian guy is entirely correct.
No they're politically literate. Kay and Skittles is overly smug and refuses to countenance any disagreement. He's angry that HIS idealogy is being threatened.
@@falconeshield Actually the comics show that the process of making the Kingdom more democratic is an uphill battle in a lot of ways.
@@ryanmoore6259 k sure whatever you want yeh you think that 🙄
I feel like the biggest problem with the equalists is their inconsistency. The writers just can not seem to make up their mind whether or not nonbenders are actually oppressed, because the equalists seem to flip-flop multiple times between a genuine political movement with valid grievences, critiques and ideas who just take their ideology too far, and basically a cult that uses populist rhetoric to turn benders into a scapegoat for Republic City's crime and poverty issues and/or settle their own personal grievances with bending/benders.
I personally favour the latter interpretation, because we only ever see a handful of instances that could even be remotely interpretted as nonbender discrimination throughout all Avatar media, while we have plenty of evidence to the contrary.
Both can be true.
Take red pill incel people. Nobody in their right might would call men on the whole oppressed. But men who are unfamiliar with how feminism actually does encapsulate concern on their end and fighting toxic masculinity which imposes unfair expectations on both genders, they don’t feel that way. So lost, they turn to the group which acknowledges their daily struggles and that’s how the internalization of problematic behaviors and rhetoric begin. Men face a hefty amount of social stigma online when in mixed spaces, their emotions are often cast aside and disregarded by both genders, and they’re judged very heavily for vulnerability. These are real issues which are valid. Using these issues to downplay the actual danger women face from dangerous rhetoric is obviously wrong, but young men get radicalized by turning to the ear which hears them and then the rhetoric sneaks in like a worm or a snake.
The nonbenders might feel oppressed. The entire police force are benders, most the politicians are benders, there are jobs and things which are closed off entirely to nonbenders. They might not all be radicalized, but they might go “well I’m not supporting the terrorists, but these people are voicing my concerns and nobody else is.”
I would say that the show does (unintentionally) show that non-benders are oppressed in that the entire council is made up of benders (or at least, the only people who talk are benders) and the entire police force are benders - to the point where they're able to round up non-benders as a whole using bending. We don't see a single non-bender in a position of importance in the city, the only non-bender is Asami - out of a huge cast of characters, only naming a single non-bender (who isn't an antagonist) is clearly showing what type of person the writers think deserves time and attention. In the OG ATLA, characters like Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors, Jet and the Freedom Fighters, the random villagers they meet along the way, the leader of the Northern Water Tribe, June, Mai, Ty Lee, The Mechanist and Tao, Bato, Hakota, and the list goes on and on and on of great non-bending characters, some of which have institutional power, shows that you don't have to be a bender to be important to the story - LoK, specifically season one, only focuses on benders with a single token non-bender - that speaks volumes about the world the writers created whether they knew it or not.
@@aprilshighfantasysoul5891 While I agree there are things that hint at nonbender oppression, there are just as much if not more that hint/show that they aren't oppressed. Like, yes all current members of the council are benders, but they kind of undermine that point by having Sokka as its leader in the past.
Additionally they go out of their way to show that both benders and nonbenders are affected by poverty and that it's not a bender vs nonbender issue. In fact (unintentionally) they kind of hint that poverty effects benders more, given that all wealthy industrialists seem to be nonbenders, while most bender-only or bender-majority jobs, except healing, seem to be jobs that in real life are/were mostly done by people of immigrant, low income or otherwise marginalised backgrounds, like factory work (Mako's lightning bending job at the powerplant), organised crime (see the origins of the Irish and Italian mafias in the United States), police work (see the origin of the stereotype of the Irish police officer in the United States) and probending (boxing, etc.).
And those are just two examples and there are a lot more.
And while I do agree that the original show handled nonbenders way better and that Korra should've had way more important nonbending characters, that is more of a writing issue than a sign of in-universe oppression. And in fact all of ATLA's powerful, wealthy and skilled nonbending characters make the equalists' points even more questionable, considering Amon claims in multiple speeches that nonbender oppression has been a thing for centuries, when the original show just shows us that that is flat out untrue.
So I still think the writers don't make it clear whether or not nonbenders are actually oppressed.
@@SvenVersluis I think that's exactly why this show is so frustrating to me. Every decision shows the writers don't understand how real-world social justice movements work nor how irl society works, and they did no work to show us how/why their bending society might operate differently from what we'd expect in social and economic equality terms despite making that the focus of the season.
It's so frustrating when writers try to introduce real issues and represent them so poorly, it could inspire a great deal of misunderstanding in those watching it if they, themselves don't know better
Honestly the twist wasn't bad, but it wasn't something built up; we had no idea who Noatak was at that point. And I wanted redemtpion over suicide, seeing the brothers change and grow past their trauma.
I kinda thought it might be a possibility back when it aired. How would a non bender gain the ability to take it away?
And where was Noatak gonna go?? Do you really think they would give him a second chance, even though he started a race war and literally taking bending away from gang leaders for the entire public to see. No, honestly I don't think they'd ever forgive him..I'm not saying suicide was a good choice, but where would he even go after they found out he was a waterbender-? Sure, he may lay low for a few months, but how long will it take for whatever place he settles in to find out what Noatak did in his past life. Honestly, there's no other way.
@@ryanmoore6259 I mean specifically Noatak, since his character hadn't been introduced yet.
@@Little_Duckling18 I personally think they could've went off the grid, found some sympathizers, and pop in and out. Their bloodbending abilities allow them to lay low a bit easier vs if they were another type of bender.
@@OpticalSorcerer I thought he might be Tarlokk's brother.
One of the big problems I have with Blood Bending is that the show treats it as inherently evil, much like they did with Fire bending in the episode the Deserter with Jong Jong. When that’s never been the case for bending. And it’s more about the people using it than the power itself.
Not to mention can you imagine all the medical applications blood bending could do for people?
But no it’s one of the most overhyped bending abilities out there.
Book one being called Air can be explained with there only being one season.
Making it Water, Earth, Fire and Air for the 3+1 seasons it could have ended up as.
okay but the thing about "air" not getting enough screentime because every minute needs to be dedicated to the equalists is just wrong. Why the hell did we WASTE half of this season in the arena? or with the bermuda trio? And don't you dare tell me the first was about learning air bending, they drop the evading-&-dodging shit after the second ep. Not to mention this is not what air bending is all about
I feel like it would have made her journey into learning the philosophies of the other elements more cohesive if she actually travelled and got to learn about them (yk…. like the Avatar’s Journey) by understanding the communities and the people and their culture. She could have received her ability to bend but should still not have been able to control the elements (like when Zuko lost his “spark” and had to go to an ancient temple were the original dragons were kept safe so he could learn how to fire bend again). It’s what frustrates me about this series (although I still enjoy it but it doesn’t engage me as much as the og series does). Sometimes bending in LoK seems more like magical bs than an actual spiritual philosophy.
It gets worse in season. 3 when half the Earth Kingdom gets air bending.
I feel like it sort of makes sense considering the philosophy of air and how it's opposite to earth. Or that descendents of air benders settled in the earth kingdom long before. Obviously, they could have made the storyline more cohesive. Maybe even answer questions about Ty Lee's ancestry since that's been a topic of debate for awhile.
It's kind of like how people begin to feel a sense of enlightenment when they connect to their culture, language, people, etc. That's how interpret it.
But ig it's easier to convey that one event gave people the ability to airbend all of a sudden. I feel like the writers feel that people aren't media literate and that's why the show is so blah.
Tf you mean half the Earth Kingdom, it was like a tiny group of people
While Legend of Korra DOES have its problems, there are quite things in it that I like but I'm too lazy to be listing some of those things cause I just woke up and say that Thomas posted but again there are things that I like in it but some of them aren't enough to save the show. As Thomas always says, "The Legend of Korra is a mess, but it's MY mess." I always quote Thomas whenever I talk about the show with my friends and/or my cousins.
Also I'm kind of fearful for the Earth Avatar series after the mess Legend of Korra. I can only hope that it's not bad but a mess like Korra is because I think it will also be is the original Avatar series' shadow like Korra was.
Honestly Thomas is wrong here. Korra's flawed but hardly terrible. Many of the complaints are bad faith.
@@ryanmoore6259no its not. If this wasn't connected to Avatar? Sure. But since its connected it makes the setting WORSE.
@@berilsevvalbekret772 A lot of the criticism is people upset that it doesn't meet THEIR idealogical views. I've noticed that a lot of younger people are embracing communism because Capitalism is a deeply flawed system......True, but communism still doesn't address the problem.
@@ryanmoore6259what do you mean “bad faith”?? what do you think the secret motivations are behind this video lol?
@@shellersle128 I think that the criticism is in many ways an instinctive "they criticized my idealogy, so I'm going to assume it's bad and terrible"
A plot twist should make the series more interesting, and have hints leading up to it so you can look back in hindsight and see how it all ties things together.
Amon being a super blood bender isn't more interesting than being gifted by the spirits, and doesn't have any lead up.
If they wanted to do the bloodbending route for Amon, they should have made him do these gatherings where he removes the bending from someone only when the moon was full. Would have been a cool clue for the audience and characters to work out (first couple of times we see him there could just be a shot of the full moon, and then pan down to the scene, later they notice the pattern of once per month and eventually during the full moon, spend some time wondering why before the reveal that he's bloodbending), and it gives Amon an interesting limitation to work around.
I like this twist better than the one early on in the show's airing where people thought one of Aang and Katara's kids was Amon, like Bumi.
18:30 OMG THISSSS! I was about to bring up how it felt like people saying having a Black president "fixed" racism.
Late to the show but, I was always under the impression that the final part of Korra's Airbending block came from her connection and ease of acquisition of the other 3 elements. By being disconnected from the others, her final obstacle was "overcome" and thus, "I'm an airbender now!"
My interpretation is that her fears of losing her bending the entire show was what stopped her airbending progress. So when she did lose it, she became free from her fears, and she finally developed the skill.
Here's the one of the factors that i think makes it a semi bad semi good sequel: Some of the things in show rely on you having watched the first show and knowing how the world works. In my opinion a good sequel is one that is capable of being watched as a stand alone for first time fans.
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28:29 Book 2 was about spirits with some discussion on how humanity has pushed them back and disconnected from nature. Reconnecting with their elements could have been a great way to tie the spirit world in with how it relates to bending.
my personal feelings about kora being a marry sue is being a 4 year old capable of bending 3 elements, something at that point unheard of. for 10,000 years most avatars didnt know they were the avatar till they were 16. they had to be instructed on how to move, figure out the chi flow, and a mindset in order to bend an element. it takes me out heavily when a rambunctious 4 year old could somehow figure out a chi flow that other avatar take months to years to learn
She still has to learn how to use it. What she did was flailing around. And even then she has to grow as a person.
@@ryanmoore6259 what? If you're talking about 4 year old korra bending 3 element, she actually bends them pretty well. From the looks of it, it looks as if 4 yo korra has a better handle of her bending control then the first time we see katara bending in atlab. She has great form for a literal 4 yo and my question is who taught her that? Did she teach herself?
We all know who's the worst Avatar. It's Szeto. He made the Fire Nation strong enough to do a genocide. End of discussion.
19:23 the art of bending is constantly evolving, so bloodbending evolves as well
Years later the more I think about it the more it makes sense that benders would be discriminated against in Republic city. Unlike basically all the other nations there is no built in place and purpose for benders in society. Plus with the city's focus on industrialism and capitalism it makes sense that Republic city would be considered the place for non-benders, most likely making Non-benders the majority population in the city. We don't see any benders in prominent positions of power, outside of Tarlock and Tenzin. And the jobs we see benders in the most are criminal, manual labour, or cop.
Will forever say that Books 3 and 4 saved the series, though it’s sad it took that long for the show to feel coherent, authentic, and complete.
i used to hate Korra because i felt like she was just not what i expected but recently i realized that if we had more episodes to get to know her outside of main plot id probably have liked her more.
This video is delightfully cathartic.
Might have to check out the rest of your channel. :)
Korra could have been great
I mean you pointed it out perfectly well.
The reason why people see Korra as a Mary Sue is because she is a random 4 year old that somehow flawlessly bends fire, water, and earth, ignoring the connection to element by personality and learned culture as well.
Then how she bends air is just by the plot essentially "giving" it to her so she could win somehow.
Do some people hate her for being a woman? Yeah, sadly. But I do think there's some legitimate reasons as to why people don't like how Korra is written, especially for first impressions, which basically completely poisons the well.
19:27 I think Yakone was the first psychic bloodbender while every other bloodbender in his family before him and Amon could only use it with their hands.
I think Korra is a Mary Sue in her Introduction. The youngest Avatar to master all four elements was Aang with 16 and the world was at war and he had to speed run the 4 Nations.
Meanwhile Korra can bend 3 elements flawlessly at 4. And that without having left the South pole, having no teachers, not having been told she was the Avatar and there being no situation that would force her to quickly learn them.
Dismissing everyone who uses the word Mary Sue as being ungenuine might be true, but it doesn't mean they are wrong.
For some book one idea o like to share…
I think they could swapped some plot point around.
Like say the episode where Bolin get kidnapped could have happened after when Mako started dating Asami.
Like it’s kinda weird for Korra and Mako have this bonding moment of finding and rescuing Bolin only to toss it away when Asami shows up and then when Korra is taken away Mako now acts on his feelings to her.
Ya know, I really liked how LoK didn’t just forget all the sh*t that happened to Korra over the seasons. Like all stress and pain she went through actually came back to bite her and put her in 3 year long slump that struggled to move pass. She couldn’t just walk away from all that, she had to accept what happened and face her fears.
Maybe Amon was closing up peoples Chi paths?
Thank you for this video and i couldn´t agree more with you, you listed every problem i have with the show. I think a lot could be fixed by extending the season to at least 20 episodes. I don´t care about love triangles, especially when they are done in such cheap way. I want to know who Mako, Bolin and Asami are as people, not as potential love interests for Korra.
I actually like the plot twist of Amon being Noatak but it needed some foreshadowing, because it came out of complete nowhere.
I also have such problem with the ending. Korra magically getting airbending unblocked without learning anything and then she gets all her powers back again without learning anything. Like i get it they thought there won´t be any more seasons but they could´ve done it differently. Korra reaching her bottom, thinking about jumping off that cliff, Aang appears and Korra has a talk with him - like all of this is good, but instead of Aang giving her back her bending he tells her that there is a way to get them by reconnecting with true nature of bending, it´s spirituality and philosophy. This way audience would know that Korra will be OK because she will get them back eventually and it opens doors to many potential plot lines for future seasons. This ending would nicely tie with Season 2 main theme - Spirits. Just imagine it: Throughout whole season Korra is spiritually reconnecting with elements and learning their philosophies and grows as a person while also dealing with spirits. It would be much more interesting than whatever season 2 was.
Raava and Vaatu worked fine; Razbuten had their own version of book 2 that's pretty good.
@@ryanmoore6259MF why are you in every comment on this video
@@wisdommanari6701 I'm somewhat of a fan of Unicorn and I am allowed to express my opinion.
@@ryanmoore6259 know what, fair.
your writing is SO good
I've been wanting to try rewriting this show just for fun to see what i can do with the resources and characters of this show for like a coupke years now, but idk I also don't want to make it worse. 😅
Now that i think about it why is taking away a person's bending associated with bloodbending when its associated with Airbending due to the air nomads being more spiritual. I'd understand if they were blocking the bender's chi, but we never get that explanation from what i remember from the show.
19:07 Bloodbending is such Bullshit, (in a good way) power scaling wise. That when Kitara had it officially reported as a technique, she moved to have it banned immediately because it was just too powerful.
But it was kinda cool that the writers wanted to expand upon it for the first season. It just wanted written the best.
Hey hey hey now, Kuruk did good for what he was given, he is NOT worse than Korra
I honestly love LOK, sure has its issues, but it’s my mess too, and I will defend it to the death.
also, Bolin has always been my favorite character in the series.
You know what the best parts of Korra? When well written, Korra. The talk she has with the guy who gained airbender powers (which was SUCH a bullshit let the horrific scars of war stay for a WHILE or just let small handful gain powers my god) and was so terrified he wanted to kill himself. The way she handled the situation was AMAZING and showed us what a kind person she truly is and truly a worthy person to be avatar. I fucking LOVE that scene.
Tenzen and family is amazing so is Opal and her family etc. Tenzen is such a compelling character with janora? Sorry Idk how to write her name!
We ignore the "god vs satan" christianity/abrahamic religion nonsense its not canon. Ignoring is a great thing!
When written with care relationships
Not really. Raava and Vaatu is fine; it's Zoroastrian at best, and even then it manages to capture elements of Yin and Yang (Raava is kind of a jerk when we meet her and a spirit of order combining with a chaotic and passionate being like a human fits the dynamic fine).
Given that Raava starts out as a massive jerk and has to develop to see humans aren't bad it's hardly a christian vs satan thing. Moreover, evil does exist in Asian myth.
In it's defense, it was only mean't to be a one-hint miniseries before it became popular enough by fans to have more seasons. If the showrunners had been given the 4 seasons from the start, I'm sure it would have been petter for everyone.
1:48 Yeah like did the writers REALLY need to dedicate so much time to PrO-bENding and the love triangle?!? 😅
MASH was one of my parents' favorite shows! Of course, they saw it as it was coming out. To put how old that show is into perspective, my mom turned 60 yesterday, and was a young adult when the show aired. We don't talk about the dad and paternal side.
I just rewatched the series. While it does have a fair share of issues, it's a pretty engaging series. The love triangle nonsense is still bad, but I almost felt bad for Korra and Mako's breakup in season two. Their relationship isn't amazing, but they had some kind of chemistry in season one. Season two throws that away for them to argue almost nonstop. It was a better and smarter choice to keep them as friends going forward, but it might have been better received if they actually did something with their relationship instead of fighting all the time.
The ending doesn't really bother me that much, or at least I can't hold it against the writers that much. Maybe it would have been worse if it was the series finale, but when they were given the orders for more seasons at the last minute, that does make it harder for them to make a natural lead into the new seasons. Despite being pretty unlikable for most of season two, Korra herself has some really great development. Tenzin is terrific too. I think that if they had been able to plan all four seasons from the bat instead of what happened, the character writing might have been stronger for the rest of the main cast.
amon is just a bad villain in general for what was supposed to be the final big bad. The equalist as well just kinda didn't make sense as they say they want equality but we never see them being oppressed. Its less of 1900s racism and more like that one chick at McDonald's who yells racism when the cashier doesn't give them what they want. I thought that was the point as well, maybe amon is targeting the poor not because they are nonbenders but because they are poor and easy to manipulate, this makes sense as we see non benders have good lives like the person who invented flipping cars. The show wants to show nonbenders as disadvantaged but in fact shows the opposite. Its the same reason gang members tell people all cops are racist and you have to trust the community and not cops, because the gang members are not looking for a change in the police force they are looking for control. I thought that's what amon wanted, not change but control. Given that the twist is actually better because its a person with power using the powerless to get what he wants, ultimately being the thing he's warning others about. HE could even believe it as a lot of criminals believe people would commit crimes would do so if they could get away with it, or secretly want to they are just afraid. Showing amon as a person who's manipulating the poor instead of a person who wants equal rights is better because it actually delivers on the twist.
The show clearly doesn't have a corrupt government, and the only nonbender discrimination we see is from gangsters which isn't a governmental thing, its a personal thing. And no matter what policies you put into place you can't fully get rid of something like racism BECAUSE it lives in a personal level. So LOK tearing down the system and starting a new one does NOTHING because the problem they are presenting is not a governmental problem, its a person by person problem. The only time we see the government discriminate is when the police start rounding up nonbenders but they did that after amon starts gaining traction, and because the equalist party are basically terrorists, the people are on edge, so I don't see it as racism but instead fear. America actually did something similar after the bombing of pearl harbor, in fear of Japanese spies and soldiers they gathered Japanese Americans into camps, this isn't me saying that its a good thing, but pointing out that ifs not racism that is the driving factor, its fear of a terrorizing movement. Again its NOT good, just something that should be noted.
Overall the biggest problem is that they wanted both sides of amon, they wanted a terrorist psychopath with a redeemable goal. They wanted to talk about equality while also having a villain that is evil and a fraud. Those two aspects don't work.
as a lifelong ATLA fan and someone who was in the Legend of Korra fandom back in the day... the show appeals to me less the more I go back to it, largely because of other shows that were off branches of the creative team, like The Dragon Prince. the dragon prince has Less episodes than tlok per season (only 9) and also has "magical epiphanies unlocking new powers" as plotlines, and still manage to show how and why a character reaches said epiphanies while becoming someone new or understanding something fundamentally different than what they were searching for before, sometimes with seasons of quiet buildup in advance, or just in 9 episodes.
Aaron Ehaz is still a predator and a creep though.
Picture this... Instead of Korra gettingher bending back on her own. And you know giving it back to the rest.... WHAT IF we had Katarra find out that it was blood bending... and KATARRA who swore off blood bending dedicated herself to using it to restore the harm that was done.
That said I admittedly don't get all the spiritual bits and admittedly liked Korra more so than atla... as someone who watched them both as they unfolded.
We want a video dedicated to Zaheer's character arc❤❤🎉🎉🎉
I haven’t finished Korea yet on the end of season 2 but I’ve sorta been spoiled over the years for the remaining episodes and I like to think it’s an underrated show.
I need a buddy to watch this series with me.😂😅
In just season one would Bolin be considered a himbo?
M*A*S*H* was one of the most important shows of my childhood, on a similar level to Avatar. It taught me to find joy in hardship and alotta other good lessons.
Sure could see how non-benders are oppressed by benders, be it through gangs using their power to change the environment in their favor to even just people with bending prowess being preferred simply because of that, but this show really needed more time and a more in-depth exploration of it.
It's also a shame that it was blood bending all along instead of energy bending, which never struck me as Avatar exclusive, given what the Lion Turtle said. Would have been nice to explore that category of bending, that could be at the root of all bending(As in channeling ones own energy outward).
She typically gets called a Mary Sue for two reasons;
1) With the exception of Airbending, she instantly unlocks all her bending abilities by age 4 and can use them well (Shady Doorags did a video on this)
2) She might get called out for her actions at times, but never suffers consequences & ultimately gets what she wants
She literally almost died and got mind fucked by the red lotus
No she suffers consequences. Season 4 shows her suffering with PTSD, she looses the Avatar State in Season 2 (and at 4 she's basically flailing.) She also admits she's wrong quite a few times.
@ryanmoore6259 the fact that she can bend all the 3 elements at age 4 doesn't mean she had complete control over them if she had the white lotus wouldn't have trained her for 12 years
And no2 she dies suffer consequences like believing her uncle which cost her the ability to access her past lives and she had ptsd and trauma after fighting the Red lotus like are actually watching the show or spouting nonsense
@DominicAduGyamfi-pz5qi 1) The mere fact that she can just access them is Mary Sue-ish, seriously, watch the Shady Doorags video
2) that's late in season 2, and she never has it negatively impact her
@@ryanmoore6259 season 4 was written waaaàay later, and the Avatar State was later in season 2, and it never negatively impacts her
And just cause she admits fault at times, doesn't negate Mary Sue status either, cause she doesn't suffer for been wrong
I really like Korra as a character and think the show had a lot of good ideas, but because of the lot of the issues you mentioned, it felt like so much potential wasted.
And it's hard because most people either completely ignore the positives or completely ignore the negatives. I appreciate the fact that you like the series and can share what you like about it, while also acknowledging the flaws and understanding the reasons why other people may not like it. I would love to see a Korra rewrite from you.
Legend of Korra basically capitalized bending and had not nearly enough character development.
I'm a big defender of Legend of Korra, one time I watched a book 2 (+book 1 finale) rewrite and it was amazing. I really wish season 2 had been greenlit right away... I love the characters of Korra, Tenzin, Lin, Bolin (minus in book 4), Suyin, Asami so much
For Korra, wouldn't the avatar state alone be sufficient to restore her bending? As it's bloodbending and the avatar state have blocked bloodbending in the flashback.
Also there's some irony with patience being attributed to air, when we had Bomi giving it to earth.
Legend of Korra would be great if it wasn't for some of the characters (not you Korra, tenzin, and Lynn, I like you) some of the writing especially how they tended to end seasons (not you red lotus, you guys were pretty consistently good), especially them kiju fights and that mfing Republic City, may we never return
S1-S2 Korra is a disaster
S3-S4 Korra is the GOAT
@@falconeshield Actually I'd say
S1: Bumpy but fun even if it stumbles somewhat at the end
S2: Rough first half, VERY good second half
S3-S4: Great.
@@ryanmoore6259 I can see that
@@ryanmoore6259 Yeah I can understand that. Even if I wished the Civil War of the Water Tribe could've been better expanded on and not just shoved aside for Dark Spirits
I think if anything Korra should have struggled with water, as it is the element of change.like can you imagine her struggling to connect to her own culture? Alas I still love her and the series as a whole
I think korra should speak to aang for the first time on the cliff & he tells her about the spiritual dates & times & how can they enhance someone's spiritual energy & in the first 4 episodes of season 2 could be about korra learning more about bending & spirituality & then she tried a final solutions provided by her uncle unalaq (him being the villain was stupid) who told her about harmonic convergence & how spirits are threatening them without the avatar to stop the conflict later when korra opens both portals she regained her bending back but now after navigating the spirit world & the dangerous furious spirits & humans who are fighting with spirits.
I agree 100% that learning the elements should come with change in the character, embracing the "element" of the element. But to be fair, Aang kind of unblocked his fire-bending magically too... The dragons gave him fire-bending as much as Noatak gave Korra airbending. I'm not saying that neither is ideal, though.
Yeah. The issues with Korra for me didn’t really come up until later seasons. In book 1 I disliked that as a child she was already bending 3 of the elements (before it was revealed officially that’s she was the avatar) without difficulty. A comment on another video pointed out that it would’ve been interesting if she actually struggled with water since her personality fits more to fire and earth, and her water bending actually ended up looking more like the others
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So, I always took Korra struggling to learn airbending as how she was raised. Air's the element of freedom and korra's been pretty much a prisoner, locked up in a compound her whole life, then when she finally *does* get to Republic city she's watched over by the White Lotus. Once again, a prisoner. She's never known freedom, so how is she expected to learn air? When Amon takes her bending, it kind of makes sense why her airbending wasn't taken, because that chakra was blocked. So, when she has nothing left, when her friend/crush is moments away from getting his bending taken, that's the moment that chakra unblocked since she doesn't want his bending (bending = freedom) robbed from him.
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Honestly, I'm not a fan of how the equalist movement dropped at this reveal. I could see some equalists feeling betrayed, but if anything, this should reinforce the movement. Since a bender is the one leading nonbenders, it would make them see that not all benders are oppressors, and because their leader is only using bending to remove it from others, he hates bending as much if not more than them.
BTW, speaking of there not being any gays in the show, I've read a wattpad fanfic that makes korrasami look like even more of a mess than it already is. To avoid spoilers, the fanfic is about another member of Team Avatar, a girl name Kihone, and in books 3-4, her and Korra end up a couple. They have so much chemistry together, way more than makora or korrasami ever will, and I just eat it up!
I disagree but okay. Amateur writers can have talent but it’s giving “too perfect” that it slaps you silly in the face
Whatever watching shows like Ruby or The Legend of Korra I always like a bad taste in my mouth because of how I don't know the villainize people who just want to be treated equally like the White Fang just want equal rights and they try to be nice about it and not fight anyone but they were getting shot so I decided to screw it where you going to shoot you all now which honestly shouldn't make them villains and the equalist in The Legend of Korra you can tell it was made by white people because the equalist aren't evil people they just want to be treated fairly and they want to not be used around by benders The equalist's aren't the problem it's the unfair legal system that allows benders to use non benders
Equalists aren't evil and their argument is right but it doesn't justify the means through which they wanted to achieve their ideal. Amon clearly manipulated these people, even if he truly believed in equalism
Revolution isn't a bad thing in and of itself, but it CAN be abused to justify evil acts. Marco Inaros in the Expanse is basically Adam Taurus done right; he's a creepy incel who uses revolutionary causes for his own evil ends, but we've met OTHER revolutionaries who while willing to use violence are principled, and we also see actual oppression (unlike RWBY where it's largely bad individuals.)
RWBY's problem was that it came out during the "very special episode" era. A lot of shows treated racism as a problem of individuals that could be solved with a talking too. While it got pushback, it took Trump being elected to shatter a lot of illusions
I feel the same way every time a show does this too. When a group of people who are at a severe disadvantage and express their gripes, the current system either at best doesn't care and ignores them or at worst violently attacks them for "not knowing their place". Then when said group starts taking the aggressive route when the peaceful one didn't get work, like you said their almost always portrayed as "going to far" in there methods. Yes, there's insistence's where groups like the White Fang and Equalists go a bit extreme, but it was only because they were pushed into that method as the peaceful one was barley getting results. Especially if it's been going on for years. But what makes it worse is when the writers want to victim blame the group for fighting back and unwilling to be treated like crap anymore. A great example would be Blakes stupid speech to the other Faunus at Menagerie.
Plus this reminding of the twitter incident revolving around X-Men 97's second episode.
@@devinhamb6586 Rwby's issue was mentioned the fact that it was largely conceived of during the "very special episode" era of pop culture. Media portrayed racism as the problem of bad individuals rather then a systemic issue, and that a good talking too is needed. RWBY came out right when that was being challenged, and the rise of Trump was the death blow to a lot of that.
Other examples include having the SDC be a good company that Jacques corrupted (when if you look at REAL companies like Da Beers they were racist and corrupt from the start) or having Weiss overcome her racism quickly rather than having a more painful and gradual process.
Thing is, it IS possible to have revolutionaries be bad guys while not demonizing the revolution itself. I'd recommend the Expanse as an example of this. The main antagonist of the second half (Marco Inaros) is basically a power crazed monster who uses revolutionary ideas to advance his own power while being happy to sacrifice Belters (the oppressed people) for his own gain. He's even like Adam Taurus in that he was previously in a relationship with the heroes lover and spitefully targets her and her new lover after she saw him for what he truly was and left him.
The main differences are that a.) We see clear examples of the Belters being oppressed b.) We also see revolutionary leaders who, while willing to use violence, don't approach Marco's brand of insanity and are shown to be genuine in their desire to help their people c.) , after Marco's defeat James Holden (The hero) not only states that Marco's rise was only possible becacuse of how badly the Belters were treated, he also manipulates things so that the Belters will have equal standing with the Inner powers (he tricks the other powers into authorizing an organization where Belters have equal power to Earth and Mars by saying he'll be president of the group....and then resigning in favor of one of the aforementioned Belter revolutionaries).
Bad people CAN hijack good causes for their own selfish ends (Robert Mugabe is a good example, Jean Jacques Dessalines is another since despite being a hero he only turned on the French after using their power to eliminate a rival). Pointing that out in and of itself is not a problem, but a lot of people seem to have difficulty accepting that revolutionaries can be corrupted and led astray.
I love korra mess and all Tbh I used to be upset when ppl complained about the korra book 1 finale but I started thinking more the writers at the time only thought it would be a one and done so why didn’t they keep the part where she lost her bending and have aang visit her but instead of her get all of it back he tells her there’s a way for her to get back and then cut to black kind of like an open ending where as fans you could theorize maybe she did or didn’t get it back and tbh I did like the psychic bloodbending they just needed to explain it more like how did yakone learn he could do it why does it work at any time expect during all full time and real like this might be a hot take but I do feel really bad for tarrlok during his backstory regardless of what he did
How to ruin a story in one simple twist
You say Aang had a spine made out of jelly and later say how much more mature Korra was. 1. Aang was raised by monks and is a monk, no shit he's gonna be on the less side of non confrontional, but he still managed to deal with the threat that was Ozai in the biggest humbling I've seen in entertainment. 2, Korra is not as mature as you're making her out to be, and even then she's 17 in her book 1 and Aang was 12. 112, but mentally 12 for fucks sake
Korra is mature. She learns to defeat Kuvira using compassion and she handles Daw (who's on the edge of suicide due to his traumatic power awakening) with incredible grace (offering him help). In book 3 she only lashes out against the Earth Queen, who's so awful Mr Rogers would punch her in the face.
The growing a spine commemts of Aang were heavy handed sheesh.
Also, Korra should have never been able to airbend. She has no growth in spirituality through out the whole show.
Also, we could have had less probending.
No she does, especially in Season 2. She's a lot calmer and more reflective and she does learn some intelligent.
@@ryanmoore6259The complete opposite is the case
Season 3 > Season 4 > Season 2 > Season 1
I know everything that happens in Korra thanks to a friend that asked me to watch it and was reviewing the thing to me, but I never really watched it. I couldn't go further than half of Book 1.
Sorry not sorry, I just can't.
Good analysis very fun to watch!
Unicorn should watch witj the director’s commentary. They try to explain how Amon only took 3 elements
Yeah, Amon's family's bloodbending has always confused the 💩 out of me. ATLA pretty clearly established that waterbenders could only bloodbend during a full moon because that's when their bending is the strongest. But lo and behold, Amon and his family can always do it with no issue regardless of whether there's a full moon or not. Also, Amon can somehow use it to take people's bending away? 🤨
Anomalies exist. Sure, on average set conditions need to be in place for blood bending to be possible, but realistically, somewhere out in the world, someone would be capable of utilizing in without the prerequisite. (How it took away bending is a mystery, but imo they should have tied it to the spirit bending thing introduced in season 2.)
@@BlazeWolf9511ok for like one thing ok, it's a reboot after all.
but that and also in the same scene you don't have to move anymore which was a thing throughout the entire last series.
You don't actually get points for the "realism" of random shitt happening and a lack of foreshadowing in a fictional story because it be like that sometimes.
If the same twist was good and people liked it more than the old story then it would be okay but it was bad, 0 points for style.
25:49 What if Korra didn't get her other Bending back until the end of the second season. There when she achieves her self Avatar state, she figures out to break through Amon's Blood bending blocks due to sheer force of Will. Especially since Angg in his Avatar State was also able to block out Blood Bending entirely.
The Legend of Korra isn't a perfect series by any means, but I've always enjoyed it. It's messy but they clearly had stories they wanted to tell. The only part i never tolerate is the neo-lib approach of the series, and not wanting to change the status quo
The status quo constantly changes though. At the end of Season 2 the human and spirit world are united; the Earth Kingdom collapses in Season 3, and even when Kuvira is stopped it's going to break into smaller kingdoms.
I think there is an Avatar Comic that explains how Sokka passed away,sorry worried about bots
There isn't.
I still think Steve Blum did a great job for the villian