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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.
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.