Legend of Korra

What was his goal again? To fuck up constantly?

It would be an ok pacing if LoK had 20 episodes in season like ATLA has but with 13.....yeah.

Btw, can we all agree that S2 shouldn't existing in the first place and its episodes should have been split betwen other seasons?

It's evocative

My theory is that the fan hatred for korra the character got to the writters and for season 3 and 4 they tortured her on purpose.
Maybe scorched earth, maybe to get back at us, maybe they hated Korra too by osmosis. "Oh yeah you think she's a bitch well you're going to watch her suffer".
I don't know but there was something disturbing around this show and its characters, there a perverse and abnormal air to it all.

Some have tried but you need a creative anus to shit on something like a plinkett.
That being said you can see common threads between starwars-prequels-george and atla-korra-bryke, similarities in relations.

We already had E.R. for that, shame he didn't review S3 and S4 of Korra as well

He doesn't always strikes where it hurts so he wastes a lot of time recounting the scenes and circling about, fuming instead jamming it in.

Season 1 was utter shit
Season 2 was the worst shit
Season 3 tried but failed
Don't know about season 4 and i'm not going to find out if it's shit or not

S1 was decent until two final episodes

It was bad just not as bad as the others
>Season 1 - how are benders treated? Doesn't matter evil blood bender.
>Season 2 - how do spirits work with the modern world? Doesn't matter dark avatar.
>Season 4 - power vacuums? Giant mech, spirit weapons, German army helmets, fascism you get it.
Every season was ruined by subverting expectations to spoil the theme with twists. Now season 3 didn't really have a big twist, but for all of Zaheer's philosophy, his ultimate plan was to create chaos then kill the Avatar. The concept of the Red Lotus etc and the ideas are fine on paper but the execution was bad. His henchmen were just gimmicks instead of characters. So it is still eh.

You mercifully forget the gangbang at the statue episode, the sato subplot, you forget the kiss big-and-long drama, the bane attack, the cage flashbacks 2 EPISODES, the bad daddy episode with bolin's full retardation alongside mako's big blah and more vomit tier romance or comedy that doesn't land.
No it was not good and it's time to stop defending season 3 or season 1 or the Wan episodes, none of it was great. The very first 2 episodes were great and episode 3 and 4 are arguably interesting yet lead into the rest of the season which really brings them down.
The ambient mediocrity of cartoons while bully your tastes into some kind of LoK apologist. It's NOT THAT BAD. COMPARATIVELY, not as bad as it could've been award, it's NOT an achievement.

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3 > 4 > 1 > 2

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korra is more like the star wars sequels, I think

The problem with korra is that TLA set such a high bar that korra seems like it's awful in comparison

not bad, just nowhere near as good as TLA

The problem with Korra is that they didn't bring back Aaron

what you guys actually don't like season 3? thats crazy man

4 went shit pretty quick though

I like 3 but it's still pretty flawed
Random people being granted air bending because of harmonic convergence was pretty contrived.
Kai was boring and they dropped his entire character in season 4.
The Lin/Su conflict is pretty awful.
Zaheer and the Red Lotus carry the season hard and even then they falter in the last act like typical Korra villains

They don't go for the same result using the same technique you can't compare them that way.
Korra aimed for the young adult audience with suspense, drama, close up on the feelings, twists, overarching mysteries.
Airbender aimed obviously for the tweens, younger protagonists, no strings attached adventures, simple plot, coming of age.
As for their methods. LoL at LoK making the viewer feel bad about Korra's inner pain compared to atla doing it when uncle iroh gets shot. Rofl even, the childish show was 10 times more mature.
What's the secret, how did they do that?

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Multiple posts here are mine but i'm much more right than most.

I think 4 had a lot of good elements regarding Korra's character arc, it was just a bit of a mess in regards to the conflict because I sympathized with Kuvira infinitely more than with Suyin or Prince Wu. Also the robot was silly.

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I hated season one so I didn't watch anything else afterward. Why watch anything more when I was unhappy with what I saw?

was it explained why zaheer was instantly so good at airbending?

Korra subverting all its themes for twists. Instead of discovering the world and world building. How are benders treated? It doesn't matter because an evil blood bending gangster is out for revenge. Avatar, like you said, had simple adventure/morality tales that helped it's world building and characters grow. In trying to be "mature" Korra suffers from what a lot of modern fiction does, it fails to actually explore the themes it puts out. Successful themes with simple storytelling will always best someone attempting themes with more "complicated" storytelling.

He studied old texts about airbending. Remember how he mentioned an air bending guru who could fly then he could.

I mean plenty of good shows have bad first episodes/seasons. Gintama was very unfunny in first episodes, Stain Gate was trash until ~20 episode and even ATLA itself was very meh until "The Storm" episode came out

Steins Gate*

When it comes to character's feelings at least it's a simple story told complicated. I just meant LoK handles inner struggle in a childish manner compared to the other cartoon so if user wants to compare the bars then what are the bars?
Witness the adult adults: Tenzin, Lin, Sato, even Tonraq and the bad guys. They are the adults that punish, the ones you fume about while consigned to your room and boy do our heroes seethe at them. But not Bumi or Kya them are the cool uncles that give you candy.
You who still reads this thread, next time you watch LoK, pay attention at how often Korra says that she doesn't know what to do. Like a child. Aang knew how he wanted to do things because he was written with principles.
And don't tell me the ATLA villains are shallow and simplistic, ATLA had its deeply thoughtful villain called Zuko. How's that for a bar.

Season 3 was awesome because the villains were good but they should have had a better build up instead of just introducing them like that in season 3.

Why do i come to the boards to argue and sway and flex. My evening is gone now!
It's all Korra's fault.

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Why do zoomers and late millenials need 2 hour reviews to confirm their opinions?

That stupid decision to make each season a separate story definitely hurt show. Kuvira is the only villain with some kind of build up

>Random people become airebenders because of random portal magic bullshit
>Everyone is, reationally, upset with Korra for opening the portals, the series ignores this conflict after episode 1 and acts like Korra did the good thing, like Wan episode didn´t show shy the worlds need to be separated
>Suyin is a bicth that just resolved all conflics with her mother off screen just just ignore her being a bitch to her sister in that flashback
>No one in hunders of year has been able to fly with airebending, but Zaheer the larper does it as soon as her gf dies
No, I hate it

Unironically filtered

This. There is something passive aggressive about it.

Millennial do

>wastes time on boring bender dodgeball
>wastes time on badly executed romance
>doesn't really teach Korra her lesson
>spends too litle time on villain. Amon's motives are pretty weak, his powers aren't explained in satisfactory detail and his identity isn't properly foreshadowed.
>platinum mechas are bullshit

Let the record show the only reason Korra exists is because Bryan couldn't get his own series greenlit without riding off the coattails of ATLA since Aaron was the lead writer

Season 3 isn't good, maybe decent at best. I don't think the fights are bad on a technical level. But there is no substance or context to make me care, just like the rest of Korra. Also Suyin and Kai suck.

i despise kai with a passion but otherwise i quite like s3. i think zaheer is a fucking retard so im not sure if hes supposed to be the "villain-with-a-point" kind of antagonist but just interpreting him as a retard doesnt really hurt the story. the fights are cool and i like the characters, not really looking for much more than that out of a kids' show

How was the woman with water arms a threat?

I mean she's most powerful waterbender in LoK (after bloodbenders) and could make her arms very sharp and solid

So did this lady really have no arms and was just using water tentacles?

>Make a short video
>Retards cry about it being short
>Make a long video
>Retards about it being too long

Armless chick bending without arms is weird and doesn't make sense to me since water bending is extremely arm motion heavy just like earth bending

It feels like a person with no lower body preforming capoeira

user, this is the same book with Bolin doing lava bending just because, book 3 sucks

>her gf
Lol

Legend of korra was just shit in every way. The red lotus accomplished nothing. They were worthless to the plot. All they are there for is so the season has a bad guy to punch in the face. And when he gets punched you feel actually like nothing happened because he was never a threat.

Season 3 was just as shitty as the rest of the show, fuck you. In fact, it might even be shittier since the entire fucking premise of the series relies on happenstance of truly absurd proportions to possible.

Yeah the best thing was zaheer