I watched the original series with Aang and I enjoyed it. Never got around to watching pic related though

It's okay, it has its high points and its low points. S3 is the high point of the show, S1 and S4 are alright. S2 is a slog to get through but even it has its moments.

It was universally reviled when it came out for not matching up to its predecessor, but I think most of Yea Forums has come around to it over the years and rewatches - at least to the point of "yeah 'salright"

how do u watch avatar and not love it to the point you immediately korra

All seasons have the same basic problem. They set up complex conflict but then can't resolve it and make antagonist retarded. It only works for season 3 because it had retarded villains to begin with.

I'm always tempted to start up korra after finishing an airbender rewatch. I manage to stop myself everytime, better forget about it.

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I remember watching season 1 with my friends when it was first released.

We had a running joke about how often Korra would fall down and eat shit.
We were watching the episode where she escapes imprisonment from the mountain and I specifically remember my friend saying "Wow, Korra actually did a good job escaping there, and she didn't even fall down!" Only for Korra to immediately stumble over nothing, tumble down the hill and pass out.

I feel like that is an adequate summary of the series in general.

Because Avatar is mediocre

Korra isn't "bad" (well except for season 2), it's just highly disappointing coming off of Avatar. It's nowhere near as deep or developed or nuanced as Avatar.
There are some good parts to it. Outside of the dumb love triangle and everything after the bloodbender reveal, (and those two aspects do drag season 1 down), it does have a pretty solid foundation. So S1 is decent.
Season 2 is bad because not only does it have a terrible villain, it also has a terrible retcon of the whole Avatar system.
Season 3 is probably the best. Solid villains, doesn't focus too much on shippingshit.
Season 4 is... weird. It's just weird, and does a bad job at wrapping up the series, but it's watchable.
Overall, Korra is pretty mediocre and I wouldn't really recommend watching it unless you really have nothing better to do.

Next time watch out for how often she says "i don't know what to do".
Some channeling there maybe?

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I'll just say it again. If the story had the actual balls to be good/amazing, it would have had Korra kill herself at the end of season one where she's standing over the giant wall of ice looking down, just before Aang shows up and deus ex machina's all her problems away. I mean just look at this! youtube.com/watch?v=wWhhwF_I4Ws One of her tears literally falls off the side of the cliff, you can't be that close to the edge without almost being over it already, and once again korra fucking pussies out and fails at doing the right thing. She could have solved the problem with the avatar being locked away or having a shitty one element avatar for a life cycle and genuinely helped the world more with her death. This would have reframed the entire show as a proper tragedy instead of a mediocre at best comedy.

come on man, you know damn well Nick would never let a show end with their main character committing suicide.

It's ok, but one of the bigger issues is that really fucks with the setting and lore.

I'll agree there. But thats part of the problem. By having corporate meddling, we have ended up with a far worse story. Not saying its not rational meddling, as you point out its Nickelodeon, a kids tv studio, and that is extreme given their mandates.

That would have been so fucking stupid, for one thing, for one thing that's the sort of thing you need to build on.

I will give them credit for Korra's PTSD, even though I dislike shows that do it because if they introduce it, almost all the main characters should have it considering how much shit they go through and it would have been much better if Korra hadn't been such a big jobber, this just became another reason for her to job to the final seasons villain-sue

I'm going through the motions in these korra threads.

I swear the franchise could be salvaged if the next avatar show has no cameo and nobody's children shows up and ghost korra appears old and somehow she restored the avatar but doesn't tell us how. She erased the spirit portals and tells her wisdom of how being a bitch retard is not good but REALLY she doesn't specify. "oh republic city that place's a wreck" and then the cast never goes there.
I foolishly believe! It's still possible!
Korra's old woman ghost, timeskip, she fixed everything somehow, fixed herself, became wise but she would be as prominent as Yangchen was. No Bloin's child or whatever and make it a cool story. NO it's still possible.

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Main hero, no. Main antagonist...
Plus shit wouldn't it have been utter kino if the climatic battle of the show ended with the main characters ruining each other's lives to the point that, after each was groomed from childhood to accomplish one goal, they both fail.

flopped show for faggots that needed 2 fags 2 keep in retards minds

Holy shit user did you just accidentally unlock the true potential of this show. When you think about it, Amon and Korra both are child soldiers groomed to accomplish one singular goal to destroy the enemy without actually thinking about the enemy, and a mutually assured destruction of their lives is a fitting ending. Except that Amon's suicide kills off the bloodline of uber blood benders, pure selfishness, while Korra's suicide is acceptance that while she failed someone better will come after her.
This is utter fucking kino and now I'm mad about the missed potential in Korra all over again damn you.

>130162408
low effort bait

If they were going to rewrite the entire season to be that story they could have written it good in the first place.

except it was rewritten halfway through the season cause they had originally been told there would be only 1 season. They got renewed like, 2/3 of the way through the season and had to make slapdash story reworks to make the show not definitively end by their own admission.

They wrote episode 5 before this scramble, no excuses.

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It has cute lesbians

Season 1 is solid, though feeling both a bit rushed with the romantic subplots and spending what felt like too much time on Pro Bending games. Some will REEE how much things have advanced but the seeds were there in the previous series and it seems like more than a natural progression.

S2 had a pretty solid start but went off the rails in a dumb way. Honestly, it it was just the subject of the first couple of episodes it would've been amazing. I'm pretty indifferent about the Wan episode but a lot of people liked the refreshing change of style.

S3 is the most solid all around. Overall very enjoyable.

S4 kind of feels like it meandered and was dealing too much with the setting breaking consequences of the second season onwards.

On average, I quite liked it, and the parts that were "bad" were at least fun to discuss in ways that could be better. More good moments than bad.

I didn't really care that the level of technology increased, except when it made lightning bending a boring blue collar job. The problem is that it suddenly looks like 1900's America. Why?

Well they couldn't gp straight to Cyberpunk like the original concept in 60 years, could they?

Republic City sucked.
Needed more locations than just being in the city for most of the series.

So why was it a water Avatar? Say hey, after Aang came Korra and she was pretty powerful as a bender, the world technology blossomed under the unity perpetuated by having the world leaders all being the direct decendants of five kids who were all best friends, but good times created weak people and now that we're about 200 years removed from Aang and co winning during Sozin's Comet the new Earth Avatar is coming into a cyberpunk world with high internal tension. No shame in skipping over a cycle when choosing what Avatar the show focuses on.

Republic City sucked because we only ever saw 4 families: Aang family, Mako family, Sato family, and Beifong family. If the show had the confidence to show anyone who wasn't either part of Team Avatar or descendant from someone part of Team Avatar for more than a scene or otherwise an antagonist, suddenly the show would feel far more alive and the city that we were hinted at seeing in the first episode would be allowed to grasp potential.

It is really weird to me that they pushed Korra and Asami together.

It was so shitty of Korra to make repeated open advances on Mako when she knew that he was date Asami, and it was equally shitty for the writers to encourage that behavior through Pemma telling her "lol just do it anyways, that's what I did :)))"

Imagine being Asami at the end of season one, the Avatar comes into your life, steals your new boyfriend and gets your beloved, sole family member outed and jailed as Equalist scum, now you're saddled with supporting Sato Industries and you don't know what the fuck to do and you have no one to turn to for help. I can't imagine her even wanting to be Korra's friend, let alone ever even considering dating her.
If I was her I'd not want anything to do with her.

Who are the people who say it's bad? Because it's rated highly everywhere.

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idiots on Yea Forums only, because it wasn't exactly what they wanted. How people make this show out to be irredeemable shit, when it's better than 99% of western animation is beyond me. People spew at the mouth over this show while praising garbage like Steven Universe. Don't take anything seriously here

>good reviews means it's good media

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>idiots on Yea Forums only, because it wasn't exactly what they wanted. How people make this show out to be irredeemable shit, when it's better than 99% of western animation is beyond me. People spew at the mouth over this show while praising garbage like Steven Universe. Don't take anything seriously here

Go back

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>the people who hate Korra must love Steven Universe
this only makes sense inside your head

Storywise it's okay, there's some points it gets really retarded and it feels like it's trying to be smarter than it actually is, but for the most part it's fine (with S2 being noticeably worse than everything else).
Animation wise on the other hand it's easily the best cartoon of the decade, hell, outside of high budget movies it might just be the best period. The fights are incredibly well choreographed and the animation is silky smooth. The only exceptions being a few notable moments of CGI.

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You know you have a good argument when they bring out the soijaks.

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1/10 made me reply

kill yourselves, trannies

how big your Korra folder

if korra is so good why are all the shitty netflix remakes about aang

Cause we're leaving the Millennials nostalgia phase into the zoomer nostalgia phase of culture. Can't wait for all those shows based on beanmouth resurrections.

aang made more money and wasn't taken off the air in the final season

Aang's show is one of the most watched on netflix. Korra's isn't. It's that simple.

You can like it or not, but it doesn't hold a candle to ATLA, it suffered for many reasons

>the show is totally good just no one watches it and the only talk about it nowadays is how it had a gay kiss but it totally is good

It's genuinely awful.

No bro, it's genuinely bad. The writing is nonsense, they fucked up the setting immensevely by advancing things too much, we didn't need bendingchlorians and almost all of the villains were, at best, incompetently handled. They also kept trying to write romance stuff which they clearly weren't good at. It's about as bad as the Disney Wars trilogy.

I, for one, am glad it exists that way we don't get retarded Dr. Who franchise where the MC changes to a new "Avatar" every couple of seasons.

The biggest sin is almost no reference to Sokka, the chaddest character from the original series. Fucking cabbagefag got a god damn statue, Sokka got a flashback where he got bloodbended. Unforgivable

S2 killed all the mystery of the spirit world
Sokka literally gets mentioned on the first episode by her sister, saying he's dead, Azula also gets no mention. maybe both ran away and lived together happyly afterwards

It's legitimately baffling how Sokka just kind of was written out of the show outside of a single flashback where he says "Toph and Katara are strong." Katara is in the pilot and featured here and there, Toph kicks the badguy's ass twice and trains the protag, Zuko shows up and his daughter and grandson kick ass for a while... And then Sokka (And Sukki to a lesser extent but she was like part of the C team) gets zero mention. No "Oh there goes Sokka's son on the council" no "Ah yeah Sokka developed the intercontinental rail system" or any mention that he ever lived. Shit, give me a "My brother died defending one of the Avatars" line from Katara and I'd be happy

It's an utterly blink and you miss it line, with zero context of what happened, how he lived his life, was he just an old dude who caught pneunoma or did he get killed during a Lotus raid, a protester killing him, what. Plus, zero offspring from him considering Aang and Katara's kids are basically the protags of the series, Toph's kids are the secondary protags, and Zuko's grandson gets to fuck around on aiprlanes.

Remember that they spent an entire season forgetting to show why the fascist was actually wrong since everything shown on screen (not just stuff mentioned by characters) was her doing everything she could to rebuild a nation that had been thrown into chaos by war, two generations of incompetent rulers and anarchist revolutionaries and through sheer force of will rebuild it into a stable, safe and rising country while the leader of the strongest city-state who the good guys were allied with basically went "not my problem" and cloistered herself allowing the world outside of her walls to go to shit.

They screwed up so badly in showing why Kuvira was wrong that the only out they could come up with was to have her build Liberty Prime for no reason and say she was wrong for trying to take back Republic City, a portion of the Earth Kingdom that Aang (some with no political authority) and Zuko broke off after going back on their deal with the Earth King because it wasn't politically expedient for Zuko to honor it. Somehow this meant that letting the Earth Kingdom turn into a liberal Republic headed by the foppish heir to the previous two incompetent rulers of the state (who himself shows no signs of competency either) was the right thing in the end, even though Republic City (its inspiration) was a shithole filled with crime and poverty.

Legend of Korra is a bad show with bad writing from start to finish. It's not "okay", it's not mediocre, it's not even sub-par. It is bad, bad, BAD.

This, Kurvyraaa literally got redemption on the afterwards comics and barely anyone talks about it
Izumi's hawt

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