The new avatar is a brown disabled girl
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Korra literally opened with "I'm a strong brown woman Avatar, you gotta deal with it" and you thought it had somewhere to go downhill from there to begin with regarding wokeness?
Like it certainly did get worse and woker as time went on, but they literally told you that was going to be the case in the first episode openly.
A regionaly-fitting Inuit-inspired child throwing an arrogant tantrum wasen't a red flag to me yet. It would now ( bending 3 elements without training like a good little girldboss )
It would certainly look worse rewatching the show, which I have no interest for.
The big racial melting pot city was a red flag on first watch though. But the Avatar getting there was ''allowed'' by the authors to act like a retard ( I think it was it fishing / hunting and camping in a city park ) instead of lacking character development. It wasen't all garbage.
Fair, I think we all missed flags like that back in those days in our own hobbies.
The fact that they actually wrote "I'm the avatar and you gotta deal with it" to introduce a character is a level that most things now don't sink to. And not even in a "this person is very in the wrong and will get shut down hard for it" set up, as she gets away far too much still in that regard.
It still boggles the mind.
That still happened repeatedly, however.
Lost her powers multiple times.
Almost ended the entire Avatar cycle multiple times
Trusted the bad guy over her friends and family multiple times only to be betrayed, again.
Only ever wins because of a really badly written Deus Ex Machina that has zero precedent or any prior foreshadowing.
Unironically the kind of person who never actually listens, never learns, constantly needs bailed out, and never really thanks those picking her out of the self made fire yet again.
In 2012? Yeah, I didn't think it was a red flag, it was simpler times, before the woke nation invaded, followed by the rise of the hairbender and NPCs lost their collective minds.
I thought it was just their way of making her look like an annoying brat
Gave up on the show after the first season, went back after the series ended and read some wikis about it and it might as well have been Avatar: the legend that only happened because dumb bitch made dumb decisions.