Yeah team korra was weaker, but I don't see why people are mad about it. Like Aang's team was literally made up of child prodigies. Katara and Toph are still considered the best and they are 85 years old. Could anyone that we've seen on the show step up to Aang's crew? Not really. So why be upset they aren't as good? Give it a rest.
I just don’t know why people have to have such an extremist view of either show. I love atla, i like korra. Im more likely to rewatch atla than korra, and i think the writing was tighter in atla, but korra was not a bad show by anyyyyyyy means. And lets be real, sexism is 1000 percent at play bc these same weird atla fanboys that swear korra was trash hate katara with a passion 🙄
I actually think LOK was much more realistic about power levels than ATLA. Like…of course actual masters who had years of training like Tenzin, Lin, Kya, and Suyin would be the most powerful benders in the world instead of Mako and Bolin, who were actually above average martial artists but didn’t grow up in the middle of a war like Katara, Toph, and Azula did.
@@tariqthomas9090 that too, like these teens had relatively normal/average lives, where bending doesn’t really determine life or death. And we saw that with ATLA too, the regular degular country folk seemed to be average benders
@@tariqthomas9090 I mean, Katara didn't really fight and neither did Toph until they were recruited by Aang. Katara grew exponentially and, to be fair, unrealistically in her waterbending in the span of a year. Toph was a child genius. The only one that mad a semblance of sense was Azula since she was not only a protege from a family of firebending masters but also as a princess was trained with the best of the best her whole life.
Korra and Asami ending up together was HUGE for 2014. First cartoon to do it and one whole year before gay marriage was legalized. Very important crumbs for so many young people and for animated kids' shows. Also plus the fact that Asami was by far the person who best understood Korra by the end of the show makes it a great ending for those characters.
Ok... but Mako was not given enough credit for how powerful of a bender he was. The ease with which he could conjure lightning was absolutely insane. When he was being blood-bended by Amon????! And he lightning bent with just his TWO fingers??? Pure Power.
@@marioalbertomoreno3819 Yeah but at that point in the universe we see there were plenty of other firebenders that could lightning bend. As we see at Mako's old job. I think that's why I never really cared about him
This show is so great. Avatar Korra is one of the best animated characters of all time. A queer brown girl who struggles with PTSD and constantly rises against tyranny? She’s the hero we need in 2021. Also, I love Bolin (obviously). Genuinely one of the best male characters I’ve ever seen.
People ignore the fact that Korra had to face 4 different major villains across the series, with one seaosn having more than one (season 3). Aang only really had Ozai and Azula to truly worry about. So people need to give Korra her flowers
Aang was also a 12 year old child with no living family and a ridiculous time limit to literally save the entire world. Korra had an EQUALLY rough time, lets not pretend like Aang somehow had an "easy" time
@@hillary96renteria82 No definitely. I love Aang and I think Aang faced ridiculous odds considering he had all that pressure on him. But people want to downplay that Korra had just as much trouble
@@7thmizukage it’s not no ones downplaying what korra had to go through it’s that korra is a completely different avatar than aang in the worst way possible, the universe of legend of korra just reckons everything that was established in atla to appeal to korras arc as the avatar
@@dren5810 atla has already established the fact that avatars are a master at the element they’re already associated with and have to go through years of training to master the other elements but it just contradicts the entire establishment of the elements that she already mastered 3/4 elements at age by age 6. And in the first book of lok korra has difficulty learning airbending, which makes zero senses. As a waterbender ain’t no way she should be having difficulty mastering air bending,the element of freedom, korra already exhibits behavior of a firebender, being hotheaded and stubborn, which that should be the element she should have trouble with being a water bender but she has a problem dealing with changes in her life and which element represents change……..water bending 🙃
I’m sorry lin had every right to be acting the way she does(or did) how everyone in that show treated her like she was bitter and overreacting was not lost on me.
I love that you liked the show. Several ATLA fans tend to dislike Korra due to nostalgia with Aang when they are two different persons and characters. Korra has several accomplishments and I wish everyone saw her as a great character. I can’t wait to watch this video.
korra lost me because I was in college and when I did watch it my issue was this is more complicated than I want to deal with right know. then I was just bothered by the fact that you can tell they didn't think there was doubt about more seasons until she energy bended herself into an airbender. then I think at the beginning of season 3 or the end of season 2 I just kind of stopped watching all together. also not related to either show, but there is a lot about balance in both shows, and I want to know why some of the other elemental benders weren't born air benders to help balance. they would probably have to hide that, but that makes more sense to me than suddenly these random people are air benders. though I also don't remember korra that well there could have been a better explanation that I don't remember
The comparisons between Aang and Korra don't make sense because without Aang there would BE no Korra and she'd curb stomp y'all for talking down Aang and his legacy in the first place.
I like to think of Aang and Korra as inversions of each other. Aang never really wanted to be the Avatar, but he had to grow and take up his responsibility. Korra on the other hand, always wanted to be the Avatar. Her as a child, and I quote "I'm the Avatar, and you have to deal with it." And she came out shooting fire, earth, and water. The world just kept testing her resolve If Atla was focused around growing into responsibility and establishing moral; I see Lok as wills, responsibilities, and morals being tested.
Ummm you can literally say the same thing with aang and katara. If katara didn't have the healing spirit water the cycle would have ended there, or if aang didn't learn energy bending from the lion turtle, he would've let the fire Lord destroy the world.
My issue with LOK are with some of the writing choices, but not the characters themselves. They had flavor just like ATLA. Its people hating on these characters with such vitriol like these are real people with agency for me🤣🤣
exactly like. people who despise korra so aggressively but then praise aang like he can do no wrong and is a god just screams sexism. it’s one thing to dislike a character due to the writing, it’s a whole other thing to not be able to sympathize at all with a main character who actually had an incredible character arc
Both ATLA and TLOK have flaws, whatever people complain about TLOK is also seen and ATLA and rarely nobody complain about it in ATLA. Considering the production shit TLOK have to go through, and they were still able to produce something as beautiful as TLOK, i consider the show a masterpiece.
To be honest it kinda makes sense, in the recent comics she was starting to at least care a bit more about responsabilities and put shit people in their place, in the imbalance comic is where she creates the idea of metal cables and she started to make amends with her weird dad, even though the damage to her translated to her daughters.
the first few episodes of S4 of korra are some of the most important episodes of animated tv period. overcoming ptsd trauma with BOTH the help of others AND yourself is such an important message for young people and anyone really.
They held off Korra and Asami until Season 4, to avoid having the show cancelled prematurely cause the white men of Nickelodeon HQ were already against having a brown skin woman as lead, nevermind lgbt. They forced the last season into online only as retaliation, hence whey they then retaliated with finally giving the girls Korra+Asami. The holding hands was the best they could do under their circumstances. However in the books which are by the creators, they finally get their chance💁🏽♂️
of course you're a korrasami stan cause you have taste. power couple of the century, nothing but respect for my avatar and her engineering genius girlfriend 💕
The whole Korra debacle is ridiculous. Like i get that Avatar is a stellar show and exceptations were high for the sequel but nothing justifies the hatred that the atla fanfom has for korra. It's a weird mix of entitlement, immaturity and spite. Like the show is not perfect, but some people seem incapable of giving it any credit at all, simply because it deviates from what they think atla was. They actually explore some really interesting themes, and the way they expand on the Avatar universe is very well-handled. It honestly could have been way worse. With korra, you get a more mature setting, and shit can get quite intense. Like I said, I understand having problems with the show. I do have criticism of it, mostly from a writing and pacing point of view. But it's isn't nearly as bad as some people make it out to be. There was so much vitriol for this sequel that i avoided it for the longest time. I grew up on atla, it is one of my all time favorite shows, so i was afraid korra would ruin it. But during quarantine i finally watched it and what would you know... it has become one of my favorite shows too. I'm so mad i deprived myself of that experience because i listened to all the noise. Like allow yourself to know hapiness yall, the rest is confetti.
With 1:12:00 from what I understand the show runners weren't allowed to have an onscreen kiss because it was on a kids network but the romance between Korra and Asami set ground work for other kids show to be allowed to show queer romance more concretely without getting shut down. The last episode also came out in 2014 and in America gay marriage wasn't nationally legalized until 2015.
Korra has one of the best character arcs in both series tbh. People only judge her for season 1/2 but ignore the way she’s matured and began to morph into a much better avatar. People always say that she shouldn’t lose and be some op force of nature and ignore the literal reasoning of why she lost so much. It’s literally stated in the show that she had to go through true suffering to understand others and their suffering
I loved the TLOK and I personally like it better than ATLA. I am so glad that you liked it because a lot of people love to hate on Korra like she isn’t that girl. And unfortunately you are correct there is a lot of hate on Korra and I’m glad that we have someone else to defend her name.
"My sister has healed🙏🏽🙏🏽" I dont know why I died at that part🤣🤣 Also you were so on point with the commentary around a female (also brownskin) character presenting the way Korra does as not being the "norm". I wouldn't be surprised if it played into people's biases against the show. 🙄
Let's be real, if Korra is a man nobody will complain much about her personality. It is like calling woman bitch as being assertive, it applies to this show hating korra's personality.
People always invalidate Korra and Katara trauma by comparing it to other characters trauma which is just so dumb. I mean the way they were hating on Katara cause she mentioned that her mom died a few times was outta pocket
I feel like people's main issue with Korra was the severing of the Avatar past lives connection. That scene was unnecessarily brutal to watch. It was very disrespectful. And I will admit that I was very upset with her about that. But then I got over it after I remembered miss girl is one of two avatars to even deal with this issue. Like did the rest of the class even know where the avatar state even came from or why there is an avatar to begin with? Like nobody thought to ask those questions, but Korra had to answer them. And I am sure the next avatar will restore the connection because that's how it goes. Avatars lowkey have to clean up mess caused by the previous one. You start seeing the mess oncr you look into the lore.
If we’re being honest, the past lives don’t really do much in LOK. The best thing they did was restore Korra’s bending, but Korra mostly defeated her villains without them. Also the severing wasn’t even Korra’s fault. Hell, Aang literally died in the Avatar state in ATLA and Korra wasn’t that much older than him. That being said, I do wish they would have restored her connection before the show was over though. Just because it was a cool part of the mythology.
also it’s time we admit that korra was basically put in an impossible situation. korra didn’t even know ravaa could be pulled out of her in the first place. and even before that, she had beat both vaatu and unuvaatu (by slamming him on the ground). it was vaatu who won that fight against ravaa in the end, not korra.
@@tariqthomas9090 wait, Aang didn't die in the avatar state. Are you talking about the time Azula shot him with her lightning? That didn't actually kill him
@@hillary96renteria82 It did kill him. The only reason that Katara was able to revive him was because of the spirit water. And when he came back he couldn't go into the avatar state because the connection had been severed. It was reconnected during his fight with Ozai
@@jaheimjohnson2267 it did? are you sure? I know Katara's spirit water was powerful but it can bring people back from the dead? edit: I did some research and it seems to be a debate. Personally, I don't think he died because there would be no way to "bring him back" since his soul would be gone and you can heal a body but not bring a soul back from the afterlife. that's the way I interpreted it anyway
Korra and Asami were definitely an item, and the writers wanted to have them kiss at the end but Nickelodeon didn't let them. They do kiss and are a couple in the later comics though!
Korra is indeed amazing and highly underrated. And she does have a Korra defense squad because some people don't know how to show some respect. We need as many people in the squad as we can get! 🙏
glad that people grew up and started to acknowledge the value of korra, we have been waiting in the shadows for too long (the way the show kinda villainizes other economic and social movements to raise capitalism is kinda whatever tho it's nickelodeon in the early 2010s, i'll say that)
@@Slm99 if you look at it, even tho they say that the current sistem is flawed, the solution or "balance" they come to is assimulating new things to the sistem but not really attacking the root of the problem, like "sure, now we have democracy, but y'know varrick, that guy who literally went to prison for being a scumbag of a capitalist?, yeah, he can keep his wealth, he's a good guy deep inside" meanwhile, two villains are literally caricatures of social movements with no grit or actual motivation behind their actions (like, "chaos is order", nickelodeon??), one of them is unalaq (so, pass), and kuvira is literally a fascist. how can you side with any of these weirdos when they're going buckwild and crazy killing everyone with no real reason?
@@allanmedeiros6855 I agree with you and I honestly thought that maybe that's why they used villians who challenge the system. At the end my opinion is up for interpretation and what you just said is a very common critic
The thing about Toph being a cop is that, while Toph hates rules and authorities, she loves getting to boss people around and beat up bad guys. We also have to consider that Zuko and Aang were the founders of Republic City, who else would the pick as head of security than Toph?
If it’s the bossiness she like she could’ve been like a teacher (which I’m pretty sure they set up on the comics?). One of those tutors that’s infamous for having students quit and being accused of being too harsh but she produces the best of the best.
i think she moving towards it is natural, but she obviosly realized that she was down the wrong path and went back to her old ways. the point of season 4 is to tell yes "yea even toph thought being a cop was dum"
@@Jay-kx4jf i’m not sure. According to SuYin, Toph was held with the highest regard up until she retired, and Lin is sure that Toph had to resign. They could both be true, but neither really imply that she regretted being a cop. I don’t think her reappearance in season 4 really implies that either. She got older, eventually left the force, and decided to move to the swamp because in all honesty that the biggest toph thing for toph to do. I think her going back to her old ways is more just he letting lose again now that she doesn’t have that responsibility anymore and can just act as she pleases
BRUH ive always loved and resonated with korra so much because she is such a mature avatar with real flaws that she has to learn to overcome and grow from. the show and so many people give her shit for the consequences of her flaws but i honestly thought that was the best part of her because you got to see her development to her final, matured form. the end of season broke me (it was the best season tho) and season four utterly destroyed me and made me feel great at the same time, particularly because i was going thru something similar and watching korra overcome her adversities empowered me to do the same. the score for to heal still makes me sob. but anyways, the villains in that show were so nuanced and it added a layer of brilliance to everything because they weren’t fighting for bad causes, it was just the manner they went about it, the extremism that showed that “evil” isn’t black or white; it can grow and corrupt even the most noble of us.
“Hello Future Me” has a lot of good avatar-related videos about the world building n stuff and they have a really in depth video essay on Azula that’s very good so I recommend them
I definitely prefer the last airbender just because it handles the parts of the show that I find more important like character development and story. Korra however is great in its own way, I loved the bending/fighting scenes in Korra as well as seeing bending and the world develop over the years. I also think that Korra did very well at hyping up the finales and really upping the tension, honestly had me at the edge of my seat and nervous of a lot of the time. I don’t really care for most of the characters in Korra I only really like Tenzin, Verik, Asami, Sue, Lin, and Ju li(I probably spelled some of these wrong lol). But for this show I didn’t really care all that much it was still a fun time. This drama around the Korra is really silly to me.
@@Nano-zr3bt Korra as a character had better development than most ATLA characters (I don’t want the Zuko fanboys to attack me) but every person in her team was lacking in that area which can’t be said about ATLA. By the time the show ended I hated Mako and felt nothing towards Bolin or Asami.
@@hobisdishwater9792 Korra definitely did get the most development, everyone else is kinda a letdown and I don’t really care for them, yeah I felt the same at the end like, I hated mako and Bolin!!
@@hobisdishwater9792 I guess I also feel like I didn’t really care about Korra’s development the same way I cared about the team in ATLA, at times I felt like it was really rushed or something, I do think the paralysis recovery was handled pretty well. Korra was a stronger character than Aang for the most part but ATLA’s side characters absolutely DESTROYS Korra’s
@@watermelonlt9596 Although I disagree, I can definitely see where you're coming from. The show was rushed and was under the threat of cancellation all the time lmao, they had to work with what they got. But I disagree in the sense of a "need" for character development. Now, would have it been good for some of the characters be further fleshed out? Absolutely. But like, some of them didn't necessarily have a flaw to overcome, at least, not one that would be important to the plot (not at the grand scheme of things at least). Let's take Bolin for example. What does he have to overcome for the audience? His childish behavior? not really a flaw. They could have, however (and that's a big issue with me lmao) fleshed out more his relationship with Mako. (I have a whole emotional scene in my head that I just say it's canon lmao). My point is, since the show is about Korra's journey, and how she perceives her identity, the other character get the chance to also simply live their lives, and make mistakes, and fix it up. Which is an aspect of the show I have really grown to like :) I understand it's not every one's cup of tea though, so I get how you didn't like it as much
it really depends maybe on preference, i feel like ATLA was a drag, it only caught my attention because of kyoshi, after that i was like meh... (and i watch it when it first aired),TLOK though, i like the straight to the point plot, when korra want to immediately face the problem , i was like "yeah girl , go!",
I really appreciated the mix up of martial art styles in this series, seeing as that the nations have integrated. One example is Kya's fight with Zahir and her mixing water bending martial arts with air bending martial arts (like yall saw with the helix she made around herself). It was very interesting to break down.
Video Essays For Amanda MattCMG - Korra is a Good Show | Defending the Legend of Korra (Avatar Month 2020) - CMG Sage's Rain - Korra's Growth - Why I Love Korra (Legend of Korra) Riley J. Dennis - The Case For The Legend Of Korra I chose these video essay's because most people online think Korra is an awful character and that the show itself is awful. The first video essay is a critique to most of the arguments thrown at Korra and the other videos are more reflective deep dives.
First off I’m so happy your back Secondly I loved LOK I bit more than ATLA…I loved korra as a character and when I rewatched the series for the first time since 2014 I CRIED at the end of S3 when though I knew how the show would end. I think her being a brown bisexual hero also played apart in my love for her
I definitely prefer the Legend of Korra over Avatar the last Airbender. I really liked that they show went into Korra's emotional issues she was dealing with
Also people don't consider the production of both shows. ATLA knew they could make 3 seasons from the start. Korra had to make their shows per season so they couldn't make an overall arc.
To this day, nothing has made me feel really alive and emotional like “The Legend of Korra” has. An emotional trip from teenager to a young adult and I’m glad I had that experience. I felt really connected to Korra. Also, whenever I’m down I listen to the soundtracks and they never fail to lift my spirits up. My favorite show and Korra my favorite character of all time.
My one comment I always like to give when someone finishes Korra is answering the question: Why didn’t Korra and Asami kiss? First, we have to remember the time. The last episode aired in 2014. Gay marriage wasn’t even legal in the US until the next year, 2015. At the time, the creators Bryan and Mike (referred to as ‘Bryke’ from here on) were receiving cancellation threats over minute things, much less showing K&A kissing on screen. Their relationship was a natural progression that had not been planned, but Bryke couldn’t see any other ending for K&A. Yet, they were receiving immense pressure to not have them end up together. They had to be subtle, as did many on screen queer relationships at the time and before. This meant they had to be smart about it, which leads me to… Second, Bryke directly mirrored the end of ATLA to leave no doubt in viewers’ minds. The music (Avatar’s Love), the holding hands, the turning towards each other. The only thing missing is a kiss! It was a way for K&A to establish a relationship without Nickelodeon outright forbidding a relationship. Third, the progress we’ve made since the airing of this last episode shouldn’t be held against it. It was the first canon relationship of two women in children’s cartoons. The reason we have the wlw relationships we do now is because Korrasami and Bryke set a precedent. Fourth, technically, it was a first date! I always like people to ponder: would you kiss someone at the start of a first date? I’m a lesbian and while my fiancée and I basically UHAUL’d, we still didn’t kiss when she picked me up for our first date. I recommend reading the comics to see K&A’s relationship (and kisses) be shown on paper! I know it’s a lot to read, but I hope you do! It is a product of its time in terms of LGBTQ+ representation.
the argument about "it come out of nowhere" baffles me but also quite understandable, as a lesbian, i understand that wlw romance is not a typical i flirt with you immediately kind of thing, it usualy starts with being friends, knowing each other, and by the start of season 4 korra only wrote to asami, that means something already in my perspective as a lesbian. But in het perspective, i kinda understand they are not seeing it that way because they are so used to immediate courtship. And also, it is a start of a romance, not the climax of it, in the comics after TLOK, they are still working on the relationship.
i choose to believe toph was assigned chief of police bc she could metalbend and she reluctantly took the position then felt stuck in the job for years
The channel “Hello Future me” has some great videos on LOK & ATLA. Also my favorite is also Korra, I appreciate your hard work as part of her defense squad.
I'll always have a deep love for Avatar: The Last Airbender however Korra will always be the avatar series I hold deepest in my heart. As someone struggling with both PTSD and my sexuality seeing a character like Korra on screen was everything I could have needed. I will forever be grateful to the creators of the series for exploring PTSD in the way that they did because seeing someone go through something similar to me helped push me to understand something was wrong and I needed the help.
About the korrasami stuff yeah it was 2014, the 4th season was airing really late at night and then the show was put out of tv for it last like 4? and exclusively on nicks site, and they censured a korrasami, so yeah it was the most they could do, make them hold hands and like one hour later release statement saying they're together and it sucks, But, it is because of korrasami that we get to be where we're now in regards to representation specially in kids media, korrasami had to crawl so shows like the owl house could fly (and also because u don't know, and a lot of people new to korra also don't, they had lot of interference and struggled with the show because of nick, they had they bugged cut, they thought s2 was their last season and then got renewed to 3 and then 4, yeah, it was a whole mess unfortunately, but hey at least there's the comics and they got to explore more the aftermath of Kuvira attack and korra and asami's relationship)
For the confusion of why people didn’t question how amon could take away bending: it’s shown that he told them he was given the power by the spirits in order to “cleanse” and “balance” the world and get rid of bending. And yeah..Kuvira was actually supposed to get an episode about her backstory but Nickelodeon was shafting their episodes badly so they had to cut it out.
Kay and Skittles did a great series of videos on how Korra fundamentally misunderstands the four political systems it ties to the four villains (in order): communism, colonialism, anarchy and fascism. I drop them anytime there is a discussion on korra, cause they are just so perfectly insightful! Edit: I did this even before you asked for suggestions xD thats how good it is
You better preach girl!!!! We can be co-vice president of korra defenders. People love to shit on Korra constantly, but everytime she comes out on top even when most of her failures were because of a disadvantage she is forever that bitch. Plus, she is so relatable to me. Like her, I have gone through severe depression and seeing that at a young age In a animated show geared to kids or teens was groundbreaking, especially on a kids network.
I knew you would be the one to defend the QUEEEN AVATAR KORRA. She has been through it all and people keep trash talking her. Sometimes it is exhausting defending her but I keep doing it because she is that girl
I watched the show on TV as a child and Korra was such an amazing main character to look up to. Still one of my favourite characters ever. 99% of the people who hate her are misogynistic and they don't even try to hide it.
Welcome to the Defense Squad!!! I'm a day one member and I'm so glad you liked Korra. I knew you would because **taste** but I think she's even better with a rewatch. You'll also love the Kyoshi novels since you're a bookworm, but you might like Korra's comics too if you're down with graphic novels
I saved this video in my archives til I finally got to watch the series, but now that I have, I was pleasantly surprised. It was very good and a fun time. Definitely agree with your points. Korra and Asami at the very end?! I had to rewatch it like 3 times to finally understand that they were a couple at the end😅 but I lived!🤷🏾♀️
Korra really gets so much unnecessary hate tho. I couldn’t even fully enjoy the first time I watched because every other episode my brother was in the background shouting about his deep seated hate for korra
Idk if I’m the only one who feels this way, but I was so glad when Korra and Mako broke up cuz their relationship was very messy and toxic. And also, I started off not liking Asami, and even after that I always felt like she was a “meh” character
love that you watched Korra! Also, happy that you didn't let yourself fall victim to the crazy weird amount of hate that it gets. I named by dog Bolin so that'll tell ya who one of my faves is 🥴
Korra is a controversial subject because it's a sequel to an original series that was rightfully praised as one of the best US animated series of a generation at the time. The comparisons are what killed the general opinion of Korra. That being said, the storylines in Korra were all over the place, some were excellently told and stuck the landing, while other arcs completely fell flat. In one episode I'd be completely immersed and invested in what's happening, and the next episode I'm abruptly taken out of that immersion by some BS decision or lines said by the characters. Korra was victim to a common trope in most series; characters doing stupid things for the sake of moving the plot forward, setting up the next scene. Original ATLA had no stupid moments, every decision and every line made sense, it followed logical reasoning.
Korra and Asami kissed in the comics that continue right after they go on their trip. Look it up!! I was so shocked tbh. And the colors in the background while they were going into the spirit portal were the colors of the bisexual flag.
Toph being a cop was actually prettty straight forward if you read the original series comics her basiclly going form a vigilante to a official town sheriff/ hero within the origin of republic city
If Aang was in Korra position as Avatar he would of died if you look at all the villains Korra had vs Aang who basically only had Ozai as his main villain you see that Korra is a better avatar because of what she has gone through she restored the Air nation and basically embraced her role of Avatar when she was much younger while Aang ran away from his causing the Fire nation to take over the world
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You have to read the manga to know why she became a cop
The live action is a must.
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Yeah team korra was weaker, but I don't see why people are mad about it. Like Aang's team was literally made up of child prodigies. Katara and Toph are still considered the best and they are 85 years old. Could anyone that we've seen on the show step up to Aang's crew? Not really. So why be upset they aren't as good? Give it a rest.
I love seeing logical takes instead of people just crapping on new characters for not meeting their standards
I just don’t know why people have to have such an extremist view of either show. I love atla, i like korra. Im more likely to rewatch atla than korra, and i think the writing was tighter in atla, but korra was not a bad show by anyyyyyyy means. And lets be real, sexism is 1000 percent at play bc these same weird atla fanboys that swear korra was trash hate katara with a passion 🙄
I actually think LOK was much more realistic about power levels than ATLA.
Like…of course actual masters who had years of training like Tenzin, Lin, Kya, and Suyin would be the most powerful benders in the world instead of Mako and Bolin, who were actually above average martial artists but didn’t grow up in the middle of a war like Katara, Toph, and Azula did.
@@tariqthomas9090 that too, like these teens had relatively normal/average lives, where bending doesn’t really determine life or death. And we saw that with ATLA too, the regular degular country folk seemed to be average benders
@@tariqthomas9090 I mean, Katara didn't really fight and neither did Toph until they were recruited by Aang. Katara grew exponentially and, to be fair, unrealistically in her waterbending in the span of a year. Toph was a child genius. The only one that mad a semblance of sense was Azula since she was not only a protege from a family of firebending masters but also as a princess was trained with the best of the best her whole life.
They put Korra through too much...girlie had to run off into the mountains for 3 years because of all the stress.
Kuvira WAS supposed to get a backstory episode, however Nickelodeon cut their budget so they did a recap episode instead
Season 3 was honestly elite imo
period!!
Point blank period
I better not see anyone arguing with this one ☝️
@@wvan1174 It's the Avatar fan base chile...you know that's not realistic , they gonna
season 3 korra > all of atla
Korra and Asami ending up together was HUGE for 2014. First cartoon to do it and one whole year before gay marriage was legalized. Very important crumbs for so many young people and for animated kids' shows. Also plus the fact that Asami was by far the person who best understood Korra by the end of the show makes it a great ending for those characters.
Too bad there was little to no actual chemistry between them
Korra is just THAT GIRL what else can I say?
Facts
Ok... but Mako was not given enough credit for how powerful of a bender he was. The ease with which he could conjure lightning was absolutely insane. When he was being blood-bended by Amon????! And he lightning bent with just his TWO fingers??? Pure Power.
Everyone bends lightning with two fingers lol
@@indoorplant2392 I think he means without doing the circular movements Azula, Ozai or even Iroh used in order to conjure lightning
Mako is still wack
@@marioalbertomoreno3819 Yeah but at that point in the universe we see there were plenty of other firebenders that could lightning bend. As we see at Mako's old job. I think that's why I never really cared about him
This show is so great. Avatar Korra is one of the best animated characters of all time.
A queer brown girl who struggles with PTSD and constantly rises against tyranny? She’s the hero we need in 2021. Also, I love Bolin (obviously). Genuinely one of the best male characters I’ve ever seen.
Bolín was 100% my character crush of the show lol
People ignore the fact that Korra had to face 4 different major villains across the series, with one seaosn having more than one (season 3). Aang only really had Ozai and Azula to truly worry about. So people need to give Korra her flowers
Aang was also a 12 year old child with no living family and a ridiculous time limit to literally save the entire world. Korra had an EQUALLY rough time, lets not pretend like Aang somehow had an "easy" time
@@hillary96renteria82 No definitely. I love Aang and I think Aang faced ridiculous odds considering he had all that pressure on him. But people want to downplay that Korra had just as much trouble
@@7thmizukage it’s not no ones downplaying what korra had to go through it’s that korra is a completely different avatar than aang in the worst way possible, the universe of legend of korra just reckons everything that was established in atla to appeal to korras arc as the avatar
@@_tia.no.tamera how so?
@@dren5810 atla has already established the fact that avatars are a master at the element they’re already associated with and have to go through years of training to master the other elements but it just contradicts the entire establishment of the elements that she already mastered 3/4 elements at age by age 6. And in the first book of lok korra has difficulty learning airbending, which makes zero senses. As a waterbender ain’t no way she should be having difficulty mastering air bending,the element of freedom, korra already exhibits behavior of a firebender, being hotheaded and stubborn, which that should be the element she should have trouble with being a water bender but she has a problem dealing with changes in her life and which element represents change……..water bending 🙃
Both LOK and ATLA have such a special place in my heart 😭 Also can we talk about the MUSIC????? It’s TOO excellent.
So true I'm literally making a kalimba cover rn. It's so melodic and nostalgic
the soundtrack for both are SO good it's absolutely insane
Especially the music from both finales… that korrasami ending hits😭😩
I love that you treated mako with fairness because the wider fandom never gives him a break 😭😂 & Korra BEEN THAT GIRL
I’m sorry lin had every right to be acting the way she does(or did) how everyone in that show treated her like she was bitter and overreacting was not lost on me.
Fr her mom and her sister we’re gaslighting her the whole fucking time.
But she was bitter but it’s her character tho
I love that you liked the show. Several ATLA fans tend to dislike Korra due to nostalgia with Aang when they are two different persons and characters. Korra has several accomplishments and I wish everyone saw her as a great character. I can’t wait to watch this video.
korra lost me because I was in college and when I did watch it my issue was this is more complicated than I want to deal with right know. then I was just bothered by the fact that you can tell they didn't think there was doubt about more seasons until she energy bended herself into an airbender. then I think at the beginning of season 3 or the end of season 2 I just kind of stopped watching all together.
also not related to either show, but there is a lot about balance in both shows, and I want to know why some of the other elemental benders weren't born air benders to help balance. they would probably have to hide that, but that makes more sense to me than suddenly these random people are air benders. though I also don't remember korra that well there could have been a better explanation that I don't remember
IM SO GLAD YOU DID!! people shit on it for no reason like it’s not a whole different show from avatar but they both ate.
There are plenty reasons
Agreed. LOK has it’s flaws but the hate is very overdramatic. There’s plenty to love about this show.
There’s plenty of reasons why it’s disliked. Why do people like you think people dislike it because it’s not like avatar
@@BabyGirlTiny bc y’all always give dumbass reasons as to why you hate it like it’s not that deep
@@Chance.Wilson Not really
The comparisons between Aang and Korra don't make sense because without Aang there would BE no Korra and she'd curb stomp y'all for talking down Aang and his legacy in the first place.
She really would . It’s comparing apples to oranges they are two different people who deal with their trauma differently.
I like to think of Aang and Korra as inversions of each other. Aang never really wanted to be the Avatar, but he had to grow and take up his responsibility.
Korra on the other hand, always wanted to be the Avatar. Her as a child, and I quote "I'm the Avatar, and you have to deal with it." And she came out shooting fire, earth, and water. The world just kept testing her resolve
If Atla was focused around growing into responsibility and establishing moral; I see Lok as wills, responsibilities, and morals being tested.
To bad sang destroyed his own legacy and she has zero connection to him sense all the avatar connections are gone
Ummm you can literally say the same thing with aang and katara. If katara didn't have the healing spirit water the cycle would have ended there, or if aang didn't learn energy bending from the lion turtle, he would've let the fire Lord destroy the world.
@@BabyGirlTiny
To be fair though its impractical to ask ancestors living in a different time advice thats specific to the present.
My issue with LOK are with some of the writing choices, but not the characters themselves. They had flavor just like ATLA. Its people hating on these characters with such vitriol like these are real people with agency for me🤣🤣
Exactly!!! plus the issue with the writing was largely because of nickelodeon and production hurdles
exactly like. people who despise korra so aggressively but then praise aang like he can do no wrong and is a god just screams sexism. it’s one thing to dislike a character due to the writing, it’s a whole other thing to not be able to sympathize at all with a main character who actually had an incredible character arc
Both ATLA and TLOK have flaws, whatever people complain about TLOK is also seen and ATLA and rarely nobody complain about it in ATLA.
Considering the production shit TLOK have to go through, and they were still able to produce something as beautiful as TLOK, i consider the show a masterpiece.
toph becoming a cop was such a character assassination to me like??? TOPH???? out of all characters????
To be honest it kinda makes sense, in the recent comics she was starting to at least care a bit more about responsabilities and put shit people in their place, in the imbalance comic is where she creates the idea of metal cables and she started to make amends with her weird dad, even though the damage to her translated to her daughters.
I feel like a lot of people in season 3 are just combat people. Or innocents with no personalities.
lol you act like the characters can't change.
@@mharlon09. still since the comics are supplemental material it would be kind of jarring to transition from ATLA toph to seeing how she is in LOK.
the first few episodes of S4 of korra are some of the most important episodes of animated tv period. overcoming ptsd trauma with BOTH the help of others AND yourself is such an important message for young people and anyone really.
They held off Korra and Asami until Season 4, to avoid having the show cancelled prematurely cause the white men of Nickelodeon HQ were already against having a brown skin woman as lead, nevermind lgbt. They forced the last season into online only as retaliation, hence whey they then retaliated with finally giving the girls Korra+Asami. The holding hands was the best they could do under their circumstances. However in the books which are by the creators, they finally get their chance💁🏽♂️
of course you're a korrasami stan cause you have taste. power couple of the century, nothing but respect for my avatar and her engineering genius girlfriend 💕
The whole Korra debacle is ridiculous. Like i get that Avatar is a stellar show and exceptations were high for the sequel but nothing justifies the hatred that the atla fanfom has for korra. It's a weird mix of entitlement, immaturity and spite. Like the show is not perfect, but some people seem incapable of giving it any credit at all, simply because it deviates from what they think atla was.
They actually explore some really interesting themes, and the way they expand on the Avatar universe is very well-handled. It honestly could have been way worse. With korra, you get a more mature setting, and shit can get quite intense.
Like I said, I understand having problems with the show. I do have criticism of it, mostly from a writing and pacing point of view. But it's isn't nearly as bad as some people make it out to be. There was so much vitriol for this sequel that i avoided it for the longest time. I grew up on atla, it is one of my all time favorite shows, so i was afraid korra would ruin it. But during quarantine i finally watched it and what would you know... it has become one of my favorite shows too.
I'm so mad i deprived myself of that experience because i listened to all the noise. Like allow yourself to know hapiness yall, the rest is confetti.
With 1:12:00 from what I understand the show runners weren't allowed to have an onscreen kiss because it was on a kids network but the romance between Korra and Asami set ground work for other kids show to be allowed to show queer romance more concretely without getting shut down. The last episode also came out in 2014 and in America gay marriage wasn't nationally legalized until 2015.
Korra has one of the best character arcs in both series tbh. People only judge her for season 1/2 but ignore the way she’s matured and began to morph into a much better avatar. People always say that she shouldn’t lose and be some op force of nature and ignore the literal reasoning of why she lost so much. It’s literally stated in the show that she had to go through true suffering to understand others and their suffering
I loved the TLOK and I personally like it better than ATLA. I am so glad that you liked it because a lot of people love to hate on Korra like she isn’t that girl. And unfortunately you are correct there is a lot of hate on Korra and I’m glad that we have someone else to defend her name.
THE DEATH OF THE EVIL AIRBENDER TEAM WERE BRUTAL ONE GOT THEIR HEAD BLOWN OFF AND ANOTHER GOT ELECTROCUTED TO DEATH
And Ghazan straight up committed suicide whilst trying to MURDER Bolin and Mako, oh that Season 3 finale was INSANE!!!
@@Sozile I was worrying so much 😭
Aang’s kids and grandkids needed more screen time, I love melo
"because we know Tenzin was no help" Amanda please I screamed
"My sister has healed🙏🏽🙏🏽" I dont know why I died at that part🤣🤣
Also you were so on point with the commentary around a female (also brownskin) character presenting the way Korra does as not being the "norm". I wouldn't be surprised if it played into people's biases against the show. 🙄
It definitely did, because them same people hate katara for being “annoying” instead of the trauma victims they are 🥴
Let's be real, if Korra is a man nobody will complain much about her personality. It is like calling woman bitch as being assertive, it applies to this show hating korra's personality.
People always invalidate Korra and Katara trauma by comparing it to other characters trauma which is just so dumb. I mean the way they were hating on Katara cause she mentioned that her mom died a few times was outta pocket
I feel like people's main issue with Korra was the severing of the Avatar past lives connection. That scene was unnecessarily brutal to watch. It was very disrespectful. And I will admit that I was very upset with her about that. But then I got over it after I remembered miss girl is one of two avatars to even deal with this issue. Like did the rest of the class even know where the avatar state even came from or why there is an avatar to begin with? Like nobody thought to ask those questions, but Korra had to answer them. And I am sure the next avatar will restore the connection because that's how it goes. Avatars lowkey have to clean up mess caused by the previous one. You start seeing the mess oncr you look into the lore.
If we’re being honest, the past lives don’t really do much in LOK. The best thing they did was restore Korra’s bending, but Korra mostly defeated her villains without them. Also the severing wasn’t even Korra’s fault. Hell, Aang literally died in the Avatar state in ATLA and Korra wasn’t that much older than him.
That being said, I do wish they would have restored her connection before the show was over though. Just because it was a cool part of the mythology.
also it’s time we admit that korra was basically put in an impossible situation. korra didn’t even know ravaa could be pulled out of her in the first place. and even before that, she had beat both vaatu and unuvaatu (by slamming him on the ground). it was vaatu who won that fight against ravaa in the end, not korra.
@@tariqthomas9090 wait, Aang didn't die in the avatar state. Are you talking about the time Azula shot him with her lightning? That didn't actually kill him
@@hillary96renteria82 It did kill him. The only reason that Katara was able to revive him was because of the spirit water. And when he came back he couldn't go into the avatar state because the connection had been severed. It was reconnected during his fight with Ozai
@@jaheimjohnson2267 it did? are you sure? I know Katara's spirit water was powerful but it can bring people back from the dead?
edit: I did some research and it seems to be a debate. Personally, I don't think he died because there would be no way to "bring him back" since his soul would be gone and you can heal a body but not bring a soul back from the afterlife. that's the way I interpreted it anyway
Korra and Asami were definitely an item, and the writers wanted to have them kiss at the end but Nickelodeon didn't let them. They do kiss and are a couple in the later comics though!
The writers actually wanted to make their romance way more obvious as it developed! But nick shut them down because, you know, dumb
Korra is indeed amazing and highly underrated. And she does have a Korra defense squad because some people don't know how to show some respect. We need as many people in the squad as we can get! 🙏
glad that people grew up and started to acknowledge the value of korra, we have been waiting in the shadows for too long (the way the show kinda villainizes other economic and social movements to raise capitalism is kinda whatever tho it's nickelodeon in the early 2010s, i'll say that)
Did it do that, because it didn't exactly potreid capitalism the best way. I always understand that the show was looking for balance.
@@Slm99 if you look at it, even tho they say that the current sistem is flawed, the solution or "balance" they come to is assimulating new things to the sistem but not really attacking the root of the problem, like "sure, now we have democracy, but y'know varrick, that guy who literally went to prison for being a scumbag of a capitalist?, yeah, he can keep his wealth, he's a good guy deep inside"
meanwhile, two villains are literally caricatures of social movements with no grit or actual motivation behind their actions (like, "chaos is order", nickelodeon??), one of them is unalaq (so, pass), and kuvira is literally a fascist. how can you side with any of these weirdos when they're going buckwild and crazy killing everyone with no real reason?
@@allanmedeiros6855 I agree with you and I honestly thought that maybe that's why they used villians who challenge the system. At the end my opinion is up for interpretation and what you just said is a very common critic
No people grew up and realized that the writing is this show is even worse than they thought
@@BabyGirlTiny i didn't know that when you acknowledge the value in a tv show made you magically forget it's flaws, but maybe it's just me 🙃
The thing about Toph being a cop is that, while Toph hates rules and authorities, she loves getting to boss people around and beat up bad guys. We also have to consider that Zuko and Aang were the founders of Republic City, who else would the pick as head of security than Toph?
If it’s the bossiness she like she could’ve been like a teacher (which I’m pretty sure they set up on the comics?). One of those tutors that’s infamous for having students quit and being accused of being too harsh but she produces the best of the best.
@@turner15 yeah she did that too though. Why not both? Toph hates rules, but she wouldn’t hate them as much if she’s the one making them🤷♂️
i think she moving towards it is natural, but she obviosly realized that she was down the wrong path and went back to her old ways. the point of season 4 is to tell yes "yea even toph thought being a cop was dum"
@@Jay-kx4jf i’m not sure. According to SuYin, Toph was held with the highest regard up until she retired, and Lin is sure that Toph had to resign. They could both be true, but neither really imply that she regretted being a cop. I don’t think her reappearance in season 4 really implies that either. She got older, eventually left the force, and decided to move to the swamp because in all honesty that the biggest toph thing for toph to do. I think her going back to her old ways is more just he letting lose again now that she doesn’t have that responsibility anymore and can just act as she pleases
BRUH ive always loved and resonated with korra so much because she is such a mature avatar with real flaws that she has to learn to overcome and grow from. the show and so many people give her shit for the consequences of her flaws but i honestly thought that was the best part of her because you got to see her development to her final, matured form. the end of season broke me (it was the best season tho) and season four utterly destroyed me and made me feel great at the same time, particularly because i was going thru something similar and watching korra overcome her adversities empowered me to do the same. the score for to heal still makes me sob. but anyways, the villains in that show were so nuanced and it added a layer of brilliance to everything because they weren’t fighting for bad causes, it was just the manner they went about it, the extremism that showed that “evil” isn’t black or white; it can grow and corrupt even the most noble of us.
“Hello Future Me” has a lot of good avatar-related videos about the world building n stuff and they have a really in depth video essay on Azula that’s very good so I recommend them
Im am fucking terrified of the red lotus. They would tear my ass up
I definitely prefer the last airbender just because it handles the parts of the show that I find more important like character development and story. Korra however is great in its own way, I loved the bending/fighting scenes in Korra as well as seeing bending and the world develop over the years. I also think that Korra did very well at hyping up the finales and really upping the tension, honestly had me at the edge of my seat and nervous of a lot of the time. I don’t really care for most of the characters in Korra I only really like Tenzin, Verik, Asami, Sue, Lin, and Ju li(I probably spelled some of these wrong lol). But for this show I didn’t really care all that much it was still a fun time. This drama around the Korra is really silly to me.
I think korra did better at character development and mental health but that’s my opinion
@@Nano-zr3bt Korra as a character had better development than most ATLA characters (I don’t want the Zuko fanboys to attack me) but every person in her team was lacking in that area which can’t be said about ATLA. By the time the show ended I hated Mako and felt nothing towards Bolin or Asami.
@@hobisdishwater9792 Korra definitely did get the most development, everyone else is kinda a letdown and I don’t really care for them, yeah I felt the same at the end like, I hated mako and Bolin!!
@@hobisdishwater9792 I guess I also feel like I didn’t really care about Korra’s development the same way I cared about the team in ATLA, at times I felt like it was really rushed or something, I do think the paralysis recovery was handled pretty well. Korra was a stronger character than Aang for the most part but ATLA’s side characters absolutely DESTROYS Korra’s
@@watermelonlt9596 Although I disagree, I can definitely see where you're coming from. The show was rushed and was under the threat of cancellation all the time lmao, they had to work with what they got. But I disagree in the sense of a "need" for character development. Now, would have it been good for some of the characters be further fleshed out? Absolutely. But like, some of them didn't necessarily have a flaw to overcome, at least, not one that would be important to the plot (not at the grand scheme of things at least). Let's take Bolin for example. What does he have to overcome for the audience? His childish behavior? not really a flaw. They could have, however (and that's a big issue with me lmao) fleshed out more his relationship with Mako. (I have a whole emotional scene in my head that I just say it's canon lmao). My point is, since the show is about Korra's journey, and how she perceives her identity, the other character get the chance to also simply live their lives, and make mistakes, and fix it up. Which is an aspect of the show I have really grown to like :) I understand it's not every one's cup of tea though, so I get how you didn't like it as much
I came here to say that I love this serie and that Bolin is ADORABLE. I love him, I hope he is successful and happy
YEESSSS WE STAN BOLIN AROUND THESE PARTS❤️❤️
Bolin is my everything, he deserves the world!;
bending techniques and skills have evolved so much since atla like it was insane. it's like watching olympic gymnastics in the 50s compared to today
I hated it 🙈!! It looked horrible compared to ATLA bending. ESPECIALLY the Earth and Firebending.
I see where you're coming from bc the bending techniques(?) were sooo different from atla like it gave me whiplash 😭
@@leila8701 I mean, all the fight scenes in Korra were significantly better choreographed that in Atla, but your opinion is your opinion.🤷🏾♂️
I LOVE LOVE that Korra is your favorite character (and Asami is your 2nd!) omg that give me such serotonin! FUCKING STAN
I've honestly watched lok way more than atla. People treat korra so bad and she really did grow over the seasons.
it really depends maybe on preference, i feel like ATLA was a drag, it only caught my attention because of kyoshi, after that i was like meh... (and i watch it when it first aired),TLOK though, i like the straight to the point plot, when korra want to immediately face the problem , i was like "yeah girl , go!",
@@carmcam1yeah the pacing of atla got on my nerves
that korra vs zaheer fight was absolutely my favorite scene in the entire show she was amazing
I really appreciated the mix up of martial art styles in this series, seeing as that the nations have integrated. One example is Kya's fight with Zahir and her mixing water bending martial arts with air bending martial arts (like yall saw with the helix she made around herself). It was very interesting to break down.
Video Essays For Amanda
MattCMG - Korra is a Good Show | Defending the Legend of Korra (Avatar Month 2020) - CMG
Sage's Rain - Korra's Growth - Why I Love Korra (Legend of Korra)
Riley J. Dennis - The Case For The Legend Of Korra
I chose these video essay's because most people online think Korra is an awful character and that the show itself is awful. The first video essay is a critique to most of the arguments thrown at Korra and the other videos are more reflective deep dives.
Also “ the legend of Korra is not trash” by the admirals analysis is a great 3 part video essay that is over 2+ hours of info
First off I’m so happy your back
Secondly I loved LOK I bit more than ATLA…I loved korra as a character and when I rewatched the series for the first time since 2014 I CRIED at the end of S3 when though I knew how the show would end.
I think her being a brown bisexual hero also played apart in my love for her
I definitely prefer the Legend of Korra over Avatar the last Airbender. I really liked that they show went into Korra's emotional issues she was dealing with
Also people don't consider the production of both shows. ATLA knew they could make 3 seasons from the start. Korra had to make their shows per season so they couldn't make an overall arc.
I would like to mention that Zahir would've gotten his ass handed to him by Tenzen if the rest of the red lotus didn't jump in
E-xactly!!!!!
That part
To this day, nothing has made me feel really alive and emotional like “The Legend of Korra” has. An emotional trip from teenager to a young adult and I’m glad I had that experience. I felt really connected to Korra.
Also, whenever I’m down I listen to the soundtracks and they never fail to lift my spirits up. My favorite show and Korra my favorite character of all time.
same. the show has hns gotten me out in my depressive episodes it's insane.
My one comment I always like to give when someone finishes Korra is answering the question: Why didn’t Korra and Asami kiss?
First, we have to remember the time. The last episode aired in 2014. Gay marriage wasn’t even legal in the US until the next year, 2015. At the time, the creators Bryan and Mike (referred to as ‘Bryke’ from here on) were receiving cancellation threats over minute things, much less showing K&A kissing on screen. Their relationship was a natural progression that had not been planned, but Bryke couldn’t see any other ending for K&A. Yet, they were receiving immense pressure to not have them end up together. They had to be subtle, as did many on screen queer relationships at the time and before. This meant they had to be smart about it, which leads me to…
Second, Bryke directly mirrored the end of ATLA to leave no doubt in viewers’ minds. The music (Avatar’s Love), the holding hands, the turning towards each other. The only thing missing is a kiss! It was a way for K&A to establish a relationship without Nickelodeon outright forbidding a relationship.
Third, the progress we’ve made since the airing of this last episode shouldn’t be held against it. It was the first canon relationship of two women in children’s cartoons. The reason we have the wlw relationships we do now is because Korrasami and Bryke set a precedent.
Fourth, technically, it was a first date! I always like people to ponder: would you kiss someone at the start of a first date? I’m a lesbian and while my fiancée and I basically UHAUL’d, we still didn’t kiss when she picked me up for our first date. I recommend reading the comics to see K&A’s relationship (and kisses) be shown on paper!
I know it’s a lot to read, but I hope you do! It is a product of its time in terms of LGBTQ+ representation.
the argument about "it come out of nowhere" baffles me but also quite understandable, as a lesbian, i understand that wlw romance is not a typical i flirt with you immediately kind of thing, it usualy starts with being friends, knowing each other, and by the start of season 4 korra only wrote to asami, that means something already in my perspective as a lesbian. But in het perspective, i kinda understand they are not seeing it that way because they are so used to immediate courtship. And also, it is a start of a romance, not the climax of it, in the comics after TLOK, they are still working on the relationship.
I really liked the way they handled Korra’s depression in season 4 because even though it made me sad to watch it, I still enjoyed it
i choose to believe toph was assigned chief of police bc she could metalbend and she reluctantly took the position then felt stuck in the job for years
The channel “Hello Future me” has some great videos on LOK & ATLA. Also my favorite is also Korra, I appreciate your hard work as part of her defense squad.
After watching these LOK and avatar i was literally jealous of their adventure and environment
PURRRRRRRR MY FAV IS FINALLY APPRECIATING THE GREATNESS THAT IS THE LEGEND OF KORRA
I'll always have a deep love for Avatar: The Last Airbender however Korra will always be the avatar series I hold deepest in my heart. As someone struggling with both PTSD and my sexuality seeing a character like Korra on screen was everything I could have needed. I will forever be grateful to the creators of the series for exploring PTSD in the way that they did because seeing someone go through something similar to me helped push me to understand something was wrong and I needed the help.
About the korrasami stuff
yeah it was 2014, the 4th season was airing really late at night and then the show was put out of tv for it last like 4? and exclusively on nicks site, and they censured a korrasami, so yeah it was the most they could do, make them hold hands and like one hour later release statement saying they're together
and it sucks, But, it is because of korrasami that we get to be where we're now in regards to representation specially in kids media, korrasami had to crawl so shows like the owl house could fly
(and also because u don't know, and a lot of people new to korra also don't, they had lot of interference and struggled with the show because of nick, they had they bugged cut, they thought s2 was their last season and then got renewed to 3 and then 4, yeah, it was a whole mess unfortunately, but hey at least there's the comics and they got to explore more the aftermath of Kuvira attack and korra and asami's relationship)
For the confusion of why people didn’t question how amon could take away bending: it’s shown that he told them he was given the power by the spirits in order to “cleanse” and “balance” the world and get rid of bending.
And yeah..Kuvira was actually supposed to get an episode about her backstory but Nickelodeon was shafting their episodes badly so they had to cut it out.
Also if you read the korra comics it's made canon that Korra and Asami are girlfriends 🥳🥳
Kay and Skittles did a great series of videos on how Korra fundamentally misunderstands the four political systems it ties to the four villains (in order): communism, colonialism, anarchy and fascism. I drop them anytime there is a discussion on korra, cause they are just so perfectly insightful!
Edit: I did this even before you asked for suggestions xD thats how good it is
I loved the legend of korra. It made me cry several times. The animation and music are so good.
Korra is my favorite animated character. So happy to see her get some life.
The poison stuff had me. I hate when people hate on Korra. She rose above some serious shit
You better preach girl!!!! We can be co-vice president of korra defenders. People love to shit on Korra constantly, but everytime she comes out on top even when most of her failures were because of a disadvantage she is forever that bitch. Plus, she is so relatable to me. Like her, I have gone through severe depression and seeing that at a young age In a animated show geared to kids or teens was groundbreaking, especially on a kids network.
thank you for just being open to the show because people hate it on principle of it not being avatar and they just miss out on how fun the show is.
"do i respect you as a danger to society?" what a perfect quote
I knew you would be the one to defend the QUEEEN AVATAR KORRA. She has been through it all and people keep trash talking her. Sometimes it is exhausting defending her but I keep doing it because she is that girl
This was refreshing! Korra definitely needs a defense squad!
Season3 was peak that tenzin fight oof so good
I just love how they do strong female characters. I also appreciate Wan and Roku's episodes 🔥 I wonder if they're gon reconnect the Avatar cycle.
Personally I prefer LOK more than ATLA I just love the dynamics more in LOK and loved korra as an avatar and as a character
NOT THE SUSPENDED TWITTER 😭😭
yes!! so glad u love korra! im tired of all this korra slander going on especially when ppl say they didnt even watch the show but still hate it.
"i thought 'dinosaur' then i thought 'wrong time period'..." your brain oml 😂😂
i literally have no comments for this piece of art. 100% agreed with u. TLOK is one of my favorite shows and def. my favorite anime/animated show.
I watched the show on TV as a child and Korra was such an amazing main character to look up to. Still one of my favourite characters ever.
99% of the people who hate her are misogynistic and they don't even try to hide it.
Welcome to the Defense Squad!!!
I'm a day one member and I'm so glad you liked Korra. I knew you would because **taste** but I think she's even better with a rewatch.
You'll also love the Kyoshi novels since you're a bookworm, but you might like Korra's comics too if you're down with graphic novels
I haven't finished TLOK but I missed Amanda, so, heeey
Korra my queen 👑
Korra’s mental health struggles in season 4 and the PTSD battles in s4 should be studied!!
FINALLY some proper appreciation for Korra and Asami (also my 2 favs). FINALLY feeling like me and someone else watched the same show
bolin and asami
I LOVE BOLIN
Agree
I saved this video in my archives til I finally got to watch the series, but now that I have, I was pleasantly surprised. It was very good and a fun time. Definitely agree with your points. Korra and Asami at the very end?! I had to rewatch it like 3 times to finally understand that they were a couple at the end😅 but I lived!🤷🏾♀️
Korra really gets so much unnecessary hate tho. I couldn’t even fully enjoy the first time I watched because every other episode my brother was in the background shouting about his deep seated hate for korra
He prob misogynistic
if that is my brother, i will slap him to shut up.
I watch the Unalag, Asami and Korra parts everyday because these are on POINT
I’m so glad people are seeing that this show is a masterpiece
HELL YES zaheer and gang were so good. I'd love to see a spin off about them, each of them have interesting powers and traits.
Yay! We love another member of the Korra defense squad 🛡
Idk if I’m the only one who feels this way, but I was so glad when Korra and Mako broke up cuz their relationship was very messy and toxic. And also, I started off not liking Asami, and even after that I always felt like she was a “meh” character
love that you watched Korra! Also, happy that you didn't let yourself fall victim to the crazy weird amount of hate that it gets. I named by dog Bolin so that'll tell ya who one of my faves is 🥴
Korra is a controversial subject because it's a sequel to an original series that was rightfully praised as one of the best US animated series of a generation at the time. The comparisons are what killed the general opinion of Korra.
That being said, the storylines in Korra were all over the place, some were excellently told and stuck the landing, while other arcs completely fell flat. In one episode I'd be completely immersed and invested in what's happening, and the next episode I'm abruptly taken out of that immersion by some BS decision or lines said by the characters. Korra was victim to a common trope in most series; characters doing stupid things for the sake of moving the plot forward, setting up the next scene. Original ATLA had no stupid moments, every decision and every line made sense, it followed logical reasoning.
Korra and Asami kissed in the comics that continue right after they go on their trip. Look it up!! I was so shocked tbh. And the colors in the background while they were going into the spirit portal were the colors of the bisexual flag.
Just clicked the video, but yes. LoK is amazing and super under appreciated by most of AtLA fandom
I’m so glad you love it. Korrasami was crumbs but it was OUR crumbs. Also the way I was yelling “RESILIENT” at you lol
Lok definitely has it’s problems compared to atla,
but as a stand alone show it’s amazing imo.
Def does not deserve the hate it gets
Toph being a cop was actually prettty straight forward if you read the original series comics her basiclly going form a vigilante to a official town sheriff/ hero within the origin of republic city
If Aang was in Korra position as Avatar he would of died if you look at all the villains Korra had vs Aang who basically only had Ozai as his main villain you see that Korra is a better avatar because of what she has gone through she restored the Air nation and basically embraced her role of Avatar when she was much younger while Aang ran away from his causing the Fire nation to take over the world
So glad you’re reacting to this show! Can’t wait to watch after I do my midterm 😌
Midterms already 😮 you got this sending all the support
@@lovesplus3879 Thank you, all finished now thank goodness 🥳
Please never stop making these videos lol