My thoughts on this when it was first mentioned 2 months ago:
seven settlements and everything outside of them is a wasteland
Lol, do they not realise how much worse this continues to make Korra?
This new girl is assumedly the next part of the Avatar cycle, since Earth follows Water and is then followed by Fire, so she is born into the world Korra leaves. Why are there only seven settlements now? Why is everything else a wasteland? What did Korra do, or not do, that led to this situation?
Korra was born into a world of unprecedented peace because Aang ended the Hundred Year War by defeating Firelord Oozai and brought everyone together forming Union City, which Korra later helped destroy of course.
Aang was born into a world on the brink of war because Roku, the previous Fire Avatar, failed to stop Sozin who knew the Avatar was the only person who could be a threat to him so preemptively struck first at the Air Nomads to remove that threat first.
They really can't help themselves making things even worse when trying to create a hook for an audience 🤣
How hard are they going to try and play the nostalgia card this time because unlike the last time there isn't going to be any chance of recurring characters unless suddenly everyone special ends up being the grandchild of characters from the Korra series, which still doesn't mean that much other than excluding any possibility of there being blood descendents of Korra after she was retconned to be bi. Or will they retcon that again and write off Asami so there are in fact descendents? 🤔
Also that prosthetic leg means a significantly diminished ability to feel vibrations through the ground as per Toph, Aang, Korra, and multiple other characters who learned that way from the Badger Moles, so yet again already setting up problems just for the sake of DEIversity... 🙄
Lol, do they not realise how much worse this continues to make Korra?
If they were capable of thinking through implications or maintaining internal consistency in their settings, Korra’s story would have been written much differently in the first place. It’s really incredible that they managed to make something as good as the original ATLA. From what I understand, even the post-ATLA comics that followed the original characters after the events of that series did an impressive job of disappointing fans. Were there other writers involved in the original that were not in for the sequel products?
One of the main problems the series had was each season was ended up being far more standalone than what Aang had done. While each season/book of Aang was separate they were still part of the larger story about Aang mastering the other elements and finally facing down Firelord Ozai. Korra meanwhile ends up as 4 mini stories with no real direction.
If they didn't want Korra to be blamed so directly, they really should have set the show several centuries later but I suspect they can't survive without rememberries at this point
Whorra is cursed to be Eternally;Ridiculed. And rightly so.
It really says something that modern writers constantly, consistently and obliviously write scenarios that make their Mary Sue protagonists out to be horrible people despite how perfect and lovable they're supposed to be.
One of the few interesting things about the Korra series was how they advanced their technology utilising bending. With that all gone, it'll be an inferior Aang clone. Worse when you consider his world was just war torn in areas not a wasteland.
Yep that Air bender temple really helped push things forward, the Fire Nation utilising it for war then after Zuko, Aang and even Toph's metal bending helped use that to push them forward immensely in terms of Tech.
To have one 'strong woman' wreck that to now in the future it's a wasteland, says a lot.
That was the worst thing about Avatar 2, even worse than the titular character. The 1910-1920 New York City setting was incredibly off-putting. No attempt at making it fit the previous world or try to be a progression of it, it was just The Big Apple with magic powers. More zeppelins though which was nice. I gave up after a few episodes so maybe it makes sense later.
Didn't the tanks and that one big drill of the Fire Nation require constant use of bending for power? The industrial revolution was about finding harnessing energy to remove the need for labor. How that works in a world with dudes blasting fire I have no idea. I probably shouldn't think hard about it.
They did show a scene in Korra of fire benders lightening bending to charge up a power plant so that explains where electricity comes from.
I wouldn't be surprised if electricity can simply be produced by bending and stored that explains the power requirements without the need of fossil fuels.
The fact that so many firebenders can now use lightning in Korra is in and of itself bullshit. There were a grand total of 2 (maybe 3) firebenders capable of using lightning in Aang's time because it was so difficult to use and required apparently superhuman levels of focus. It wasn't some new technique that once found could just be taught to everyone, it was a known quantity that was simply nearly impossible to pull off.
Now it's so common an ability that entire swathes of people make 9 to 5 careers out of it. Bullshit.
Critical thinking is not a skill in their playbook. If they have to examine why things are, they might think like the rest of us, and that's the bad bad thoughts created by bad bad people.
I don't particularly like Aang and the pacifist stuff can get boring, but he at least was a character with nuance (pre-netflix series) who attoned for his mistakes. The airbender genocide had weight because it wasn't something that could be remedied in a couple of generations, if even. Nobody gives him a pass for the energy bending shit either
Korra fucks up, Aang restores her bending, she faces no real consequences.
Korra fucks up and erases the Avatar ancestral line, a fucking child saves her ass and the spirit of light appoints korra as the new first avatar
Korra fucks up, leaves the spirit portals open and at most she gets some people annoyed at her
As is tradition.
My thoughts on this when it was first mentioned 2 months ago:
Lol, do they not realise how much worse this continues to make Korra?
This new girl is assumedly the next part of the Avatar cycle, since Earth follows Water and is then followed by Fire, so she is born into the world Korra leaves. Why are there only seven settlements now? Why is everything else a wasteland? What did Korra do, or not do, that led to this situation?
Korra was born into a world of unprecedented peace because Aang ended the Hundred Year War by defeating Firelord Oozai and brought everyone together forming Union City, which Korra later helped destroy of course.
Aang was born into a world on the brink of war because Roku, the previous Fire Avatar, failed to stop Sozin who knew the Avatar was the only person who could be a threat to him so preemptively struck first at the Air Nomads to remove that threat first.
They really can't help themselves making things even worse when trying to create a hook for an audience 🤣
How hard are they going to try and play the nostalgia card this time because unlike the last time there isn't going to be any chance of recurring characters unless suddenly everyone special ends up being the grandchild of characters from the Korra series, which still doesn't mean that much other than excluding any possibility of there being blood descendents of Korra after she was retconned to be bi. Or will they retcon that again and write off Asami so there are in fact descendents? 🤔
Also that prosthetic leg means a significantly diminished ability to feel vibrations through the ground as per Toph, Aang, Korra, and multiple other characters who learned that way from the Badger Moles, so yet again already setting up problems just for the sake of DEIversity... 🙄
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If they were capable of thinking through implications or maintaining internal consistency in their settings, Korra’s story would have been written much differently in the first place. It’s really incredible that they managed to make something as good as the original ATLA. From what I understand, even the post-ATLA comics that followed the original characters after the events of that series did an impressive job of disappointing fans. Were there other writers involved in the original that were not in for the sequel products?
it really might have been lightning in a bottle
One of the main problems the series had was each season was ended up being far more standalone than what Aang had done. While each season/book of Aang was separate they were still part of the larger story about Aang mastering the other elements and finally facing down Firelord Ozai. Korra meanwhile ends up as 4 mini stories with no real direction.
If they didn't want Korra to be blamed so directly, they really should have set the show several centuries later but I suspect they can't survive without rememberries at this point
Whorra is cursed to be Eternally;Ridiculed. And rightly so.
It really says something that modern writers constantly, consistently and obliviously write scenarios that make their Mary Sue protagonists out to be horrible people despite how perfect and lovable they're supposed to be.
Why the semicolon?
Is this some Science Adventure Series joke? Because I adore Steins;Gate, and I don't see it.
It has to be a reference to the youtber E;R. He is critical about "modern audiences" stuff and Avatar.
Ohhh, I see it now. Haven't thought about him in so long.
He also said some pro ethnonationalist stuff that triggered a bunch of faggots lol
One of the few interesting things about the Korra series was how they advanced their technology utilising bending. With that all gone, it'll be an inferior Aang clone. Worse when you consider his world was just war torn in areas not a wasteland.
Their tech jumped from fantasy to steampunk within aangs lifetime
Yep that Air bender temple really helped push things forward, the Fire Nation utilising it for war then after Zuko, Aang and even Toph's metal bending helped use that to push them forward immensely in terms of Tech.
To have one 'strong woman' wreck that to now in the future it's a wasteland, says a lot.
That was the worst thing about Avatar 2, even worse than the titular character. The 1910-1920 New York City setting was incredibly off-putting. No attempt at making it fit the previous world or try to be a progression of it, it was just The Big Apple with magic powers. More zeppelins though which was nice. I gave up after a few episodes so maybe it makes sense later.
Didn't the tanks and that one big drill of the Fire Nation require constant use of bending for power? The industrial revolution was about finding harnessing energy to remove the need for labor. How that works in a world with dudes blasting fire I have no idea. I probably shouldn't think hard about it.
They did show a scene in Korra of fire benders lightening bending to charge up a power plant so that explains where electricity comes from.
I wouldn't be surprised if electricity can simply be produced by bending and stored that explains the power requirements without the need of fossil fuels.
The fact that so many firebenders can now use lightning in Korra is in and of itself bullshit. There were a grand total of 2 (maybe 3) firebenders capable of using lightning in Aang's time because it was so difficult to use and required apparently superhuman levels of focus. It wasn't some new technique that once found could just be taught to everyone, it was a known quantity that was simply nearly impossible to pull off.
Now it's so common an ability that entire swathes of people make 9 to 5 careers out of it. Bullshit.
My favourite Korra episodes were about Wan, the very first Avatar, and had almost zero Korra presence in them.
Korra had some good villains. Season 1 was probably the best because of Amon and the Equalists. Zaheer was a great villain too.
fine, i'm sexist. how does that invalidate what was said?
Critical thinking is not a skill in their playbook. If they have to examine why things are, they might think like the rest of us, and that's the bad bad thoughts created by bad bad people.
Were the tweets deleted already or something?
I don't particularly like Aang and the pacifist stuff can get boring, but he at least was a character with nuance (pre-netflix series) who attoned for his mistakes. The airbender genocide had weight because it wasn't something that could be remedied in a couple of generations, if even. Nobody gives him a pass for the energy bending shit either
Korra fucks up, Aang restores her bending, she faces no real consequences.
Korra fucks up and erases the Avatar ancestral line, a fucking child saves her ass and the spirit of light appoints korra as the new first avatar
Korra fucks up, leaves the spirit portals open and at most she gets some people annoyed at her