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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.
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.
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.