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Really, though. That was a good finale.
EDIT: I plan to continue regularly submitting new Korra/ATLA fan comics in the coming weeks, so please look out for those.
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Remember this show is aimed at KIDS!
After all what's not kid friendly about people's head's exploding, electrocution, dying in lava,dying in a vacuum, mercury poisoning and INTENSE ptsd?
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It's about as kid friendly as violence and death in general!
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Season 3 finale was definitely the most brutal and emotional episode of the entire series
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Stop comparing the series and treat Korra as a continuation.
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Thank god you used the word continuation. I absolutely hate it when people call Korra a Avatar spin-off
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Why do you bother to read the comics if you don't like it then?
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I almost cry when Jinora was named Air Nomad. And still I want to cry.
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During this finale, I was genuinely scared that they were going to kill off Korra, or even kill the Avatar itself. o___o No finale has put me in as much terror as this.
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I was about to correct you, and ask "aren't both shows named Avatar?" But then something occured to me, and I looked it up. There is no "Avatar" with colon in the show's title! I suppose I should have picked up on it, given that I see them shortened to "A:TLA" and "LoK." But it seems like such a weird way of divorcing the two, considering they're suppose to be in the same setting. For all the mishandling from the guys at the top of Nickelodeon, I'd have thought they would WANT that part of the title to stay. The entertainment industry these days is terrified of new IPs, so wouldn't they want to hammer in how this was a direct continuation of one of their most successful series (A:TLA was a success, right?)? It also just seems disrespectful to Korra herself, given how each avatar is supposed to be unique and different from all the others, but still equally capable.
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Blame James Cameron, not Dickelodeon.
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It's two diff. shows just Legend of Korra is a sequel. (in fact they're draw sligtly differently)
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That explanation doesn't make sense. Along with the thematic violations I pointed out, aren't sequels suppose to share at least of of the original's title?
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Yeah. In fact, they wanted to name it Avatar: The Legend of Korra, but because of the unrelated Avatar movie, they named it:
The Last Airbender: The Legend of Korra.
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Better
Anyone who says otherwise is a moron who doesn't deserve to live
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You're a moron who doesn't deserve to live.
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I wouldn't say it was better, but it was good
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The issues that Korra dealt with were more realistic and applicable to the modern era, and the Villains were less cartoony
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They were all pretty much, "The world is wrong and the only way to fix that is force!"
And that was pretty much everyone. I get that this was to show that the world has gone terrible, but they never realize when they go too far.
I don't care about real life villains, but I do care if they're engaging, and to me only Zaheer and his gang was.
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Usually real life Villains do utilize force to achieve their means, just look at history
The issues that the Villians brought up in LoK were deeper and less cartoony than Ozai and Azula being just about wanting to wipe out anyone and anything who wasn't fire nation
These were issues of Equality, Spiritualism, Freedom and Security
Issues we in the real world deal with on a daily basis.
Also its opinion whom you find engaging or not, but I though Amon and Kuvira were also engaging, only Unalaq was a bit cartoony like Ozai
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Yeah, they dealt with those issues but didn't provide closure.
After their leader was defeated, it was just the end
The Red Lotus just ended
The Equalists just ended
Without any kind of compromise between Korra and them.
I guess it'll be explained in the comics, which I probably won't see.
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The equalists got what they wanted, the President is a nonbender, the previous council was all benders, so now the nonbenders have a strong say in government, no need for the movement anymore.
As for the Red Lotus, they were probably pretty broken after the death and recapture of their top members, it'll take them time to reconstitute as a threat, just as in the real world it takes time for terrorist groups to rebuild, or even change completely after a big defeat.
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that was remnicient of the spider-man creepypasta i read. i felt so bad for her
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Took them about 3 seasons for it to be good or at least better than the first XD
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Finale was a master piece ya nub
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Though I felt very unfulfilled.
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Superior to Last Airbender in every way
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Doubt no longer, the series was better in every way, better characters and situations
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...yeah, really no. I've seen both, and what LoK has added in backgrounds, animation, and grayer situations, it's lost in character, understanding of human relations, respect for the world in general, grounding in philosophy/history/culture, humour, general fun, and (in short) the timelessness of the original. Besides the fact that it downplays everything the first show worked so hard to make so as to try and provide a better comparison for their own main character (which devalues both shows).
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Sorry, their LOK has much deeper characters and relations compared to TLA, in which everything is so much more superficial and the relationships so much more cliche.
In LoK we actually get into more adult and more realistic interactions and relationships and the characters are for the most part far less one dimensional than in TLA, which is often just depicted in black and white.
I also disagree that it downplays the original, rather it shows the original in more depth and allows us to see the flaws in the characters, for example Aang is shown as less one dimensional in LoK and we see that while he may have been a great Avatar, he was a terrible father.
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No, I must apologize–why do we keep saying that? If we didn't intend to offend neither of us would have answered. The relationships in ATLA may have been between younger individuals, but they were most certainly not cliché. There were characterizations, certainly, but the entire world was set up to receive that. Korra's world is as intent on separating those as possible, but unlike ATLA, we never actually get a chance to see them properly interact. Want proof? Name one episode where they weren't entirely focused around Korra or the crises at some point. At all. I'm not talking about talking, I'm talking about filler. Because that was one thing about Avatar that they nailed perfectly. The interactions COULD be better, but they really aren't, because we're expected to accept that the half-baked way they're played out actually counts for something (after all, we all know it's just more backdrop for Korra).
Really black-and-white? Explain Zuko, then. Or Iroh. Or Katara, there's a really good shot of her in "The Southern Raiders" where she's actually about to kill someone for revenge in cold blood–not often seen on a kid's show. Or even Aang; we didn't need to have him devolve into a horrible father (seriously, for someone who got along so well with kids, and had a wife whom he actually listened to, they really didn't need that), because his character already had flaws, and we could accept that. In fact, they managed a whole episode dedicated to accepting his flaws. More than one, actually.
To summarize: the flaws they introduced for previous characters weren't necessary; if you actually look at their interactions without blinkers on you may be surprised. Now go back to some of the relationships in Korra and tell me that–apart from rare exceptions like Lin and Tenzin–they weren't as cheap, rushed, and unhelpful to the plot as you could possibly get. Because what's the plot? Korra saving the day. Not a group effort, not a deeper sense of history and harmony and nature working together within real-life-ish constraints with set rules that can be bent not broken, nope, it's just Korra saving the day because she can. It's her series, after all; who really needs those pesky extras Avatar made so much of except to give her some contrast for her awesomeness? If you can give me a legitimate example where the conversation isn't somehow twisted to deal with either her or the problem that involved all four members of the "Team Avatar" they put together, well, I'll be surprised. I'll listen, but I'll be surprised.
Besides, you left out something else, namely everything else. Will you tell me the places they destroyed for a Worf Effect were a good idea, like the Foggy Swamp and the Northern Air Temple? Are you telling me cutting off ten thousand years' worth of history is ever a good idea? That the default two-sided presidential democracy works everywhere? That you can kill spirits by thrashing them with elements? That an Avatar can skip years (or at least days) of effort and dedication and have their chakras opened all in one go? That a relationship can stay at the beginner's phase for six months without any development at all? This lot is just insulting, especially for a series which some claim to be much deeper than its predecessor which it goes out of the way to avoid any connection to while relying deeply on that connection for any of its plot to make sense.
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Sorry if I'm ranting; I've had a long day. But I'm confident I'm making legitimate points, at least.
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They were cliche in the sense that it was so obvious what was going to happen and without any depth, it's been done a billion times before in more interesting ways, and TLA was nothing new or interesting (towards the end it was pretty much Sokka carrying the story)
In Korra you actually had some things that were unexpected and the characters and their interactions didn't come across as just the same old tired storylines.
Zuko was pretty black and white for most of the series, he wanted parental approval the "Good Job Son, Guy", first he wanted it from his dad, then when he realized his father was a complete scumbag he sought it from his uncle.
Katara having one great episode didn't make up for her constant anoying traits, heck they even lampshaded her in one episode showing how one dimensional most of the characters were.
Iroh was an enjoyable character, but didn't get the screentime he deserved in TLA, he was pretty much just a surrogate father for Zuko for most of the series, they gave a very superficial look at his life and the depth he had.
Aang being a horrible father makes sense when you think about it, he was a pretty self-centered person who never really grew up, his focus was pretty much on what he wanted to do and what he wanted, so the needs of others, such as his children would have mattered only as far as they would satisfy his goals.
As for the claims you make at the end, destroying those artifacts are realistic occurrences (just look at ISIS and the Taliban and how they destroy ancient monuments), also I don't think the Foggy Swamp was Destroyed, just a whole lot of vines were taken.
The Presidential Democracy was shown to be really weak, and poorly run, which is why they needed Team Avatar to save them (Also the idea that it was all Korra is false, the Final Battle was a team fight, same with the Fight against the Equalists and the Red Lotus, just cause Korra leveled the final blow doesn't mean she did it on her own)
Also it doesn't seem like Spirits were killed, perhaps temporarily dissipated, but it seems unlikely that any die unless they choose to take mortal forms
And opening the Chakras was because she was brought down to a point of her life where she was open to the spiritual (no Atheists in foxholes type of deal)
As for relationship staying at the beginner's stage, not sure which one you;re referring to in LOK, but in TLA, that's how Aang's relationship with Katara is for most of the series (pretty much until the final episode)
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Woah, let's not get crazy now.
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No crazy, just truth.
The characters were more developed, the situations more applicable to the real world and the writing was all better in LoK
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