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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.