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So changing a love story that DIRECTLY related to Ang and Katara in the moment they were in and might have them both realise their feelings towards each other more...
..is now removed for a cheap virtue signal. R34 writers for jerkbait have more talent than studio writers today!
This is part of the mistake people keep making. This isn't a "cheap virtue signal" for them at all, it's deliberate malfeasance for subconscious subversion.
Instead of looking at it from "they changed fiction", look at it from how they view it: what feelings does this instill in the viewer?
You said yourself that the love story directly related to a couple in the story, and to help them cement their feelings toward one another.
By changing it to a homosexual relationship they are directly inferring that homosexuality is ancient, normal and destined (even though there is zero possibility for mammalians to continue the species this way).
Impressionable people will see this as "affirming their truth", or reinforcing their notions about accepting aberrant behaviour.
Isolated, it means very little. But if you step back and look at the big picture and how prevalent this messaging is in modern media -- as others in the thread note -- it's everywhere.
This aims to further normalise within viewers -- on a subconscious level -- that homosexuality is as "pure" and "ancient" as normal behaviour. And that there is a romanticised element to its normalisation just like normal couples.
People continue to misconstrue their malice for stupidity and laziness. But this is all very deliberate. And while its presence isn't subtle at all, how it is presented is what makes it so malevolent.
At this point it's really only newsworthy if they DON'T inject LGTV or race identity politics signalling into their shitty "reimagining"
I mean, Korra got pretty "woke" towards the end there, with the alphabet soup shit, so this is not that surprising, unfortunately...
As a fan of the OG series, the first few Korra seasons were ok, but man did it really fall off a quality cliff/jump the shark, storyline-wise, there (much like GOT, I guess)...
But yeah, this is much, much more blatant, obviously, lol...
If you still watched past "I'm the (brown woman) Avatar and you gotta deal with it" from the beginning of the first episode then your standards are so low that anything you consider "good" is invalid.
Korra was literally screaming its wokeness in your face from moment one, its entire conception was built that way.
ATLA is one of my favorite series of all time, and i remember watching Korra about a decade ago, after first episode all i could think of was "this isn't Avatar", proceeding to drop it not even half-way through second episode
if only i knew back then what agenda it was trying to push
It also opened the door for "we can make clear and open gay characters in primetime kid's shows" to be acceptable.
So its not just a terrible show, but an actual major stepping stone in why things have gotten as bad as they are.
I disagree on two levels.
Firstly, the next avatar in the cycle was supposed to be a waterbender, who are all Eskimo save for the swamp tribe. Her being born in the southern water tribe and not being brown would have stood out as inconsistent.
Secondly, "you gotta deal with it" was a great introductory line and immediately sets up her character arc. She starts off bold, brash, uncaring of others, and downright destructive. Her first escapade into the city literally leaves a wake of destruction worse than the damage the bad guys caused, and she gets called out on it by the adults in the room. While blue-haired whales were obsessed over this line for stronk womyn reasons, anyone who actually watched the show knows that Korra's rash behavior was not being glorified. over four seasons she learns respect, restraint, and dignity, and is a shadow of her former "you gotta deal with it" bratty self.
except the part where Aang was considered a prodigy knowing just airbending at age 12, while Korra could bend all 4 elements at age 4 despite living in a place where only water and air exist
and another part which was highlighted at the end of first book, in which she conveniently gets her avatar powers back and gets forgiven by all previous avatars because reasons
and let's not forget that she learns airbending, the bending style that requires user to stay calm, cool and collected, through getting angry at Amon and punching him really hard
just go and watch E;R's review videos on the series, it's pretty entertaining even if you like the show
The villains were always the best part about Korra
agreed
Whatever the show's flaws, I do think her having most of the elements down at 4 was part of a genuine attempt at characterizing Korra as entitled and immature, showing her the same at 17 as she was at 4. Not the only purpose, but part of it. It may have been undermined by the writers' own beliefs, but it wasn't actually a grrl powah moment. The egregious strong women schtick was more ATLA's thing.
The issue in Korra's characterization is that, no matter how wrong she is, somebody else is always more wrong, either because they're suddenly written as nutcases, or just because they made Korra feel bad. The consequences she faces are only shown for brief moments, being reversed very quickly, while the focus is more on how her feelings, no matter how quickly they change, or how much of them are self-inflected, are valid. None of this is for propaganda reasons, but because the writers themselves are woke. I think they actually wanted to write Korra as troubled, but simply weren't capable of it. This is actually how progs interpreted troubled women in the early 2010s.
Where Korra does most of its propagandizing is in its proto-liberal patriotism. You can smell the Obama voters on the script. It's all about how cosmopolitan liberalism is so plainly the sole intelligent and moral belief system that you'd have to be evil or retarded to choose otherwise. Even if you recognize and attempt to fix flaws in the system yourself, you, as a pleb, will inevitably fuck it up. Only a true priest(ess) of liberalism can integrate your beliefs, and only insofar that they can be interpreted as an extension of liberalism, rather than a criticism of it.
There's definitely a connection between Korra's characterization and liberal patriotism, because one is the product of unchecked female narcissism and the other is fueled by it, but that's a whole separate wall of text.
agreed. the power level of the main character was definitely overblown, my thesis is just that her character arc was compelling.
Right, and The Last of Us 2 showed the exact response that is expected and logical from Joel's actions! The story works and is consistent chud and any response you have to it is clearly your fault not how we wrote it! It totally wasn't written with its woke intentions first and then bent to justify them from there.
Making "sense" and saying it was "setting up something" doesn't suddenly make something good, nor does it suddenly make their clear goals less duplicitous.
A PoC girl as a literal toddler walking in, acting like she is the hottest shit who ever existed because she, again as a literal toddler, was better than the previous MC who spent an entire show doing what she had already done mastering all the elements, is them outright insulting you and saying "you'll eat this slop anyway."
Saying the story is about her needing to get humbled doesn't get rid of that nonsense.
I would rewatch the scene. She is a far cry from being a master as her bending is extremely sloppy. she looks like one of those toddler ""blackbelts"" that McDojos hand out.
TLOU2 was shit.
Generally when you gotta focus on a specific word and say "she wasn't that good", it means the rest of it is still completely accurate and my point stands.
TLOU2 was shit, and its defenders use the same arguments you are to say it wasn't.
People lump LoK with the likes of TLJ, TLOU2, Captain Marvel, Amazon's LotR:RoP, Amazon's Wheel of Time, etc etc.
having watched most of these movies, I can see why people who haven't watched Korra would come to this conclusion. much of the marketing and social climate around these movies and shows was the same.
I'm not saying legend of Korra was a masterpiece or anything, but being unfortunate enough to have seen most of these other movies and shows, I can tell you it is nowhere near as bad.
I didn't say it was near as bad. Few things reach the level of TLOU2.
I used it as one of the most obvious examples of "we wanted X representation/woke BS, and then wrote the story to conform around it." And then how fans will twist around that by saying "yeah but its logical and set up that way" as if the writers just had their hands tied in doing so.
It was created years before you could be outright hostile to your fans and get away with it, and was coming off the heels of a successful and well made series/team. So its not gutter garbage, but its clearly being used to push an ideology that should have told you to not watch it from moment one.
Let's not forget that its Korra canon that homophobia is one of the worst things about Sozin and his effects on the world, up there with a century of war and genocide.
And remained that way throughout.
End of season 1: fucks up and loses her powers
End of season 2: fucks up and destroys the Avatar cycle along with the connection to every single previous Avatar from the past thousand years
End of season 3: fucks up and almost destroys the Avatar cycle again, gets poisoned with mercury, chained up with platinum, and forced into the Avatar state so that when killed in such a way the whole cycle dies forever
End of season 4: fucks up and destroys the united city then fucks off to the spirit world avoiding the consequences of her actions yet again
Korra is one of the worst protagonists ever. She accomplishes next to nothing. She wipes out decades of heritage. She never listens to Tenzin. She was horrible to both Mako and Bolin - both of whom deserved far better. She constantly falls in with the wrong people despite being warned otherwise. She almost ends the world at least twice. And she is constantly needing bailed out of her fuckups.
More like:
Season 1: learns to respect the teachings of old as well as respect the delicate new world. She pays a heavy price to learn this lesson, but it is fixed through deus ex machina.
Season 2: learns to be weary of authority, even when the goals of said authority sound just. Pays a heavy price to learn this lesson.
Season 3: she is literally beaten down to her lowest, and has to rely on her friends to save her.
Season 4: recovers from the harsh reality of season 3 after heavy counseling, learning to empathize with the villains such that she can deescalate a crisis. (granted, the de-escalation comes pretty late).
Seasons 1-4: is a shitty romantic interest and toys with the love lives of her friends.
The creators of the animated series jumped ship from the Netflix live action quite early on in the project and said "They're not listening to us." It was pretty clear from that point on what this show was going to be.
For Last Avatar:
1st season good start off
2nd season better
3rd season masterpiece
For legend of Korra:
1st season ok start off
2nd season apart from a good funny side character/minor villain introduced, really bad despite providing a good avatar origin story
3rd Every story BUT Korra's was great
4th Other than old woman Toph, awful.
I rolled my eyes first at the strong whammen walking sterotype, but the "suddenly, lesbians" show it was malicious from the start. Woke retards ruin everything.
I'm sure Leftists will draw no useful moral conclusion ( and the writers certainly didn't realize the implications ) from that time Korra stepped-in to save the poor opressed black spirit... who immediately started growing and destroy the world thanks to nobody keeping it in check.
It's also a feminist power-move, because that story supposedly involves the origins of earth-bending. Two lesbian feminists created earth bending in Netflix's Airbender. :')
Every bit of news that comes out about this show seems deliberately designed to tell us how woke it is in the most inflammatory way possible.
At this point I feel like its aiming for outrage marketing to do its job for them, because it feels too heavy handed compared to the norm.
"See, earthbending was born out of a terrible lesbian domestic violence shattering the ground itself".
Lesbian badgers confirmed.
https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Badgermole
considering dead lesbian bedrooms, if they actually would've been two lesbians the entire tunnel would not have been built in the first place lmao
because they own these stories and you don't.
for goodness' sake, we HAVE to compete. learn to write your own shit, stop fawning over what they destroy. learn to animate, draw, work together, cooperate, manage a small team. learn to code and make video games. DO something. if you own a story it cannot be destroyed like this unless you do it yourself.