So... Why can't they make another good Avatar? - A Video Essay
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The number of needless mistakes and misunderstandings in your video is only really overtaken by the overall level of whining that comes through in the back half.
I'm a huge Korra criticizer, but trying to argue it's worse than either live action adaptation is wild.
This man can not be trusted.
@@cmonslowpoke bro 😭
@SonitoShori I'm sorry man, it's obvious you care a LOT about the series, but I'd be doing you a disservice if I didn't share the honest reaction your video gave me, as someone who's entirely unfamiliar with your channel.
Do with it what you will.
I don't normally comment but @cmonslowpoke is right. Your video has a couple of misinformation on how bending works which I believe your points on how Korra did a disservice to bending. Toph is later able to bend metal without being in contact with it. Lightening bending was simply reserved for the Fire Nation royalty as they stole the knowledge and kept it so they would be the strongest. There are other points but all in all yes Korra has a lot of faults but not the ones you have mentioned.
@@Ibrahimdeniyi wasn't about his take, I pinned his comment because "this man is not to be trusted" is crazy for a video about my opinions on a kids tv show 😭
@SonitoShori Yeah sometimes I write something for no purpose other than to be inflammatory lmao
The unfortunate reason that Korra felt so disconnected from the original series, and had so many plot holes, was because Nickelodeon would tell the creators of the show that they would only get one season, only to renew it for one more season and that would be it, and then did that another 2 times. So the writers would never know when the show was ending, and tried to make a satisfying "series" end per season, ultimately causing no overall series arcs like the original ATLA had.
that's misinformation
seasons 2 to 4 were all greenlit at the same time
Korra's issues go deeper than each season feeling like a standalone adventure. And like the other person said, only season 1 was made with no expectation of continuation.
@@GBlockbreaker seasons 3 and 4 were greenlit at the same time, but not 2, and they were all rushed from Nick deadlines to have all 3 seasons air within a year of each other. At least that's what one of the producers/animators said in on The INNERview.
Also the magic system changing makes so much sense cause a big city for benders and nonbenders from all over the world without capitalizing on it or having it be pro-sports?? Bullshit!
Yeah makes sense
I’m not a huge Korra fan, but I don’t mind the proliferation of advanced bending techniques. Humans have always been good at things like this. A few truly exceptional people can do something at a certain level that no one else can, and then we learn techniques, advance technology, spread education, and all the sudden MANY people can do it.
Competitive running is a good example. Just over the past 40 years, far more people can run at competition speeds, and the best of the best continue to get even faster.
The “Dark avatar” is the most placeholder like evil form I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
I was under the impression that the reason he didn't bend during the full moon was to have an alibi in court, a personal choice. They literally trained blood bending during the full moon until they got good at it.
Yeah that literally the point. As I heard the video it became apparent that he wasn’t real paying much attention to Korra.
@@MeganGuoin ah I must have missed this somehow, I was always confused why (pretty sure it was sokka) said he could bloodbend every time other than a full moon, still though, bloodbenders being able to bend all the time ruins its limitation all the same
@@SonitoShoriit’s not blood benders, it’s a specific line of blood benders…also the point of the show is to show how the priors generations ability limits always gets outperformed by later generations. For instance lighting bending only being available to the royal family but that’s a seperate discussion.
Of course at one point there’s going to be a mutation that puts someone leagues above others. It makes that specifically lineage broken…not blood benders as a whole.
Much like how lava bending is stupidly broken. Things evolve and change.
@@butterflymage5623 the MAIN limitation of Lightning wasn't that it was from a specific line of benders it was its long wind up and its need to not be in internal conflict which balanced its deadliness . also ironically lightning bending is weaker in Korra anyways so really they didn't show how that bending can be at full potential.
@@butterflymage5623A select few water benders being skilled enough to blood bend at any time was fine with me.
It was when they introduced telepathic blood bending that bothered me. It just made blood bending, and bending in general, less interesting visually and conceptually when you don't need to apply any martial arts movement or physical action to manipulate an element.
Thing with lightning bending, fire nation kept so much information within the family. It can be assumed zuko let a lot of information get declassified
That's a retcon. Lightning Bending in the original was uncommon because it was really, really hard to do, even more so than Metal or Bloodbending. To be able to lightning bend requires the *absence* of emotion, making it almost the antithesis of normal firebending, which is powered by a passionate devotion to one's goals. Second, even people who *could* do it couldn't really do much more than create the lightning and chuck it at the target. No one was able to alter its shape or intensity like they could normal fire, not even Ozai.
@@HunterStiles651 most of what youve said is things that characters said and unreliable narrators exist, but we know for a fact that Iroh wouldnt be able to, and it makes no sense for Ozai considering he throws lightning in a rage against both Zuko and Aang, hell Azula wouldnt have been able to do lightning in her insane state, it makes sense that the reason lightning bending wasnt taught was because it was way too powerful of an ability and the royal family didnt want to lose hold of that power, considering Iroh was the first person ever to learn how to redirect lightning, meaning if a regular soldier shot lightning at Ozai, theres a non-zero chance it would take him out or atleast injure him
@@comandantethorn9929 I do like the idea of lightning being restricted to the royal family up until korra's era but it is kind of messy if we go with that logic, because kyoshi fought a lightning bender in duel and her fire bending companion who was the daughter of the previous avatar's fire bending teacher, who was also headmistress of the fire school azula and her friends would later attend said she didn't even know it was possible.
That presents two issues, one a fire nation criminal had access to this power, and two, people who were that high up in terms of social hierarchy had never even heard of it. What do you think?
@@Snow.Clipss2 i mean, Kyoshi lived for 200 years or so right? and she was the Avatar before Roku, that plus the 100 years Aang was in stasis, its been ATLEAST over 200 years since that happened, so theres definetely been time for the Royal Family to progressively censor and erase knowledge of lightning bending as they became more and more power hungry
@@comandantethorn9929 Yeah fair enough, I guess that makes sense.
Legend of Korra is solid, as entertainment, as some mentioned.
The original, though, is concise and cirurgical in it's intention, and that makes it feel like it has no flaws. Every episode, even the ones focused on character development, matter.
Anyone else having a REALLY hard time with the “twin avatars” thing…. feels like a slippery slope leading to devaluing THE Avatar… like you said with Korra getting rid of 1 of the 3 things that makes the avatar special and doing this, while keeping the “no more past lives” brings it down to 1 special thing… also leads me to think about what other circumstances can lead to someone being able to bend more than one element
i mean i can understand ppls issues with it, but i don't think judging it based on leaks is fair.
I will wait to see if it is executed well before I judge it. If it is an avatar and a dark avatar I will be pissed off. The ATLA movie coming next yr does sound good tho and the games they're making also sound good. One is a fighting game and one is like a choose ur adventure thingy
@@edgeribble why is the dark avatar route so bad tho
@ It was my least favourite thing from Korra from my least favourite season from Korra. It died and I was happy and if it comes back I won't watch the show. The whole job of the avatar is to bring balance so the idea that the avatar only has the spirit of order and light within them and not the spirit of chaos and darkness is flawed
@@edgeribble i don't think it's flawed but i get where you're coming from. I kind of always found it strange that the bridge between the human and spirit realms was just a randomly selected person. Makes more sense to me that an all powerful spirit chooses a person to be its vessel.
I also think your idea of balance would imply both spirits to be two halves of opposing forces that would come together to preserve balance, when they're more like two whole embodiments of two entirely different concepts. The existence of Raava IS the balance they're talking about.
the book "rise of kyoshi" gets up there for me as capturing some of the original show. a group a miss fits travelling on a quest to take down an nuanced bad guy is really great!
nahhhh korra>netflix live action>movie live action. Korras not perfect but in no world is it CLOSE to as bad as either live action
Even as a Korra hater i gotta agree id watch korra 3 times over if it means skipping the Atla netflix and the movie.
I agree
Was worse
Avatar is lightning in a bottle that will never be recreated.
Yep. I wish people could just move on and accept that nothing will come close in this IP (unless original writers are involved and actually in charge) Oh well. More content to watch :)
@@lymadusrodriguez2061 even then. Aaron Ehaz made another show called the dragon prince that came close to being the next avatar for the first three seasons, then it sort of fell apart at season 4.
@@alexjewett7455 It was basically, practically a perfect ending in the third season, and after that, the writerrs walked into the seasons like a man with demencia without doing nothing very relevant.
@@predatitor4183 made me realize it was probably a good thing avatar ended at season three.
@@alexjewett7455 I say that it endure what it should endure, in the dragon prince, it could endure more, but they lose the plot and dont find one new, that its the problem, if they had an idea of how to continue and with a good reason, they would have give something good.
25:21 Actually it's stated that they don't need a full moon to blood bend, they can in fact do it on a full moon. Yakone intentionally chose to blood bend when it wasn't a full moon to mislead authorities that thought it wasn't possible.
Thank God. When he made that mistake I was so confused I thought I was going to have to watch the show again to confirm the answer.
@@arrogantgodjealous yes so I have been told many times now lmfao, I was always so confused when I heard Sokka say that in the show, never made any sense to me, still though the main point was more about blood bending having its limitation removed, (the whole full moon thing) and psychic blood bending being a dumb idea. Thank you for pointing this out! (And thank you for watching :D )
@@SonitoShorithe blood bending no limitation bushman can get behind as it’s a good concept to make a good villain and is theoretically possible because it’s stated the full moon is when a water bender is at their peak so that means that if a water bender is strong enough then they are able to surpass other water benders peaks in a full moon without the full moon
The mental bending bushman has to agree with is just a bad choice
@@SonitoShori says "season 1 episode 6" words on screen proceed to show "season 1 episode 7" lmaoo
@@b1bbscraz3y looks like someone missed the text lol
I'd like to add that, in the movie, the water bender chief even SAYS "we need to turn off all flames to weaken the firebenders", but when the fire nation invades, there are still fires everywhere!
On another note, they didn't establish a rule for metalbending requiring physical touch: you said yourself that there is a scene where it is done from a distance, plus no other bending stile requires physical touch.
I'm also not a fan of the platinum thing, especially because there is no reason for it to be specifically platinum: they say it's "too purified to bend", so even random iron could work the same purpose if refined enough, but they had to go with platinum for cool factor, I guess
They said that in the live action?? I totally missed that!
LoK doesn’t dismiss how bending came to be. They got the POWER of bending from the lion turtles, but they learned how to USE it from the moon, dragons, bison, and badger moles. There’s literally a scene in Korra where Won is doing the dance of the dragon and they explained how he no longer just used fire as a weapon but more of “an extension of his body”, meaning he mastered it.
It did
30:00 what has always made sense to me was that the lionturtles gave humans the ability to bend but the sky bison, the dragons, the ocean/moon, and the badgermoles taught them how to properly bend. but this is never explicitly stated.
Yeah, anyone who has a functional brain should have come to this conclusion
What about how it's said Oma and Shu where the first earthbenders? They clearly don't live on Lion Turtles so it should be after Wan's time, but then how are they the first earthbenders? Earthbending is shown done pretty well by the benders on the lion turtles. It's not like they're the first ones to learn it properly in ATLA, it seems like they're the first to actually DO IT, and that no one has done it before, In Wan's time they seem pretty good at bending, probably as good as ATLA's bending, so how would Badgermoles actually change that?
@@turtle1658 Probably because its just some local mythology. In general the people of the world had forgot about the lion turtles so they would obviously had created their own myths.
@@Andrey-vs2zk Why tf would you forget abt the Lion Turtles, Aang literally reads a scroll abt them
Edit: And even if they did SOMEHOW forget abt them, it's just a worse writing choice to make them get a superpower from a freaking turtle. Which one sounds more interesting: Turtle touches you and gives you superpower, or Learning an element by going into nature and interacting with that element and it's original bender to learn it like a skill instead of magic
We saw him train with a dragon spirit.
23:43 Being able to project yourself makes a little bit of sense and is not totally unfounded, you can see similarities between the Airbenders and old Indian culture, in the Ayurvedic system there’s Vaata (Air/Ether/Space), air is often associated to space, there’s also Aham Brahmasmi, a phrase in Sanskrit that means “I am the universe”, so basically meaning we are all part of the universe and we are all one, the barriers that separate each of us is mental and not physical, while I don’t love the use in the story it isn’t totally nonsense
I never saw lightning bending as a technique restricted to the most powerful but instead a secret technique kept by the royal family which got spread by zuko after the fall of the fire lord.
that doesnt make sense tho........it simply being a technique that the royal family gate kept completely removes its whole premise and "flair" we only got to see 4 people use lightning bending in the whole show and coincidentally those 4 are the strongest benders in the show, AND mixed with the fact that Iroh said its an extremely dangerous technique that can literally kill you AND that you need specific hand movements to be able to use also puts out the impression that only the best of the best are able to use it, if you say in season 2, Azula was practicing lightning bending on her ship and she still wasn't absolutely perfect, "one hair out of place" shows that even a prodigy like Azula still isnt perfect and needs to practice, besides if it was "spread" by Zuko it would make even less sense because Zuko was literally told that lightning bending and kill you so him spreading it to a bunch of civilians makes 0 sense at all
@@Patrick-xs1ft That's literally a part of the lore though. Lightning bending was made by a gang that was planning to overthrow/take over the earth kingdom, the prisoners were handed over to the fire nation and now only royalty knows how to do it.
The one used by the gang members was the same one used in Korra, it's weaker/Less deadly but there's no start up of building up the lightning like Azula did. The royal family improved the skill through human experimentation via kidnapping children fire benders which also led to the creation of combustion bending(Which requires learning to firebend under water with no source of fire while drowning)
@@almessasorrow4950 oh ok
I still hate how it's incorporated into LoK. What they do is what I would more describe ad electricity bending rather than lightning.
@@inconsistentlysleepy They should have explained the difference between gang lightning bending and royal lightning bending in Korra.
•Gang version paralyzes the enemy and speeds up the heart rate.
There's no build up. It's immediate.
It can be blocked with bending.
•Royal Version kills the enemy, the volts being high enough to burn the skin.
It needs to be charged up which is slow.
It can't be blocked, it breaks through everything.
One thing I’d take note of for the “physic bending” is that King Bumi was able to bend earth with just some head movements as well. So it stands to reason that if you’re that extremely gifted of a bender, it IS possible to bend without arms. Just extremely unlikely.
As for metal bending, I assumed you could only use it with your physical body at first because Toph just discovered it, and was still in the process of mastering it by the end of the series. With Decades of practice from her and others experimenting with it, I think it’s safe to say metal bending being used from a distance makes sense after evolving the techniques.
As for the rest of the arguments, agree 100%.
Also, technically flying is psychic air bending
@@GrimAngel01100combustion as well for fire
23:55 bending is LITERALLY ALL ABOUT SPIRITUALITY thats how aang was able to take away bending. while i dont think its the best power it makes sense the one element benders known for being literal monks could do it. if literal SPIRIT projection breaks the illusion of it being spiritual instead of magic then idk what to tell u
To me it really cheapened bending when Zahir received the ability to airbend and then was immediately able to use it perfectly with no practice and then after a few days was able to fly which only one person ever had been able to do. When he was first introduced he couldn't even airbend and now with no training we're supposed to believe that he's one of the most powerful airbenders of all time?
32:16 It's a decision that honestly baffles me. Even when Aang could no longer go into the avatar state he still was able to talk to his past lives cause you know it was obvious to not take that away. But they just changed their minds about that. I was gonna drop the show that season before I saw that then only really finished it to see if they'd bring them back.
Personally disliking that decision is perfectly fine. But, i don't think it's an objective wrong on the show's part.
@@Makin318it makes Korra the worst avatar cause she failed at the 1 thing that 1k-10k other avatars were able to keep together
@@Kameraspie I mean, technically yeah it does make her the worst lol. But she's also the only avatar other than Wan who had to deal with harmonic convergence. I think it's fair to cut her some slack.
I'd argue Kora feeling like you are forcing yourself to be around your friends despite the world trying to keep you apart is something that is fitting because that's how friendship's are these days.
You move out of your house and suddenly if you don't make time for friends in your busy life, you are alone.
Really connected to that part personally.
21:53 bro this is legit just ur own head canon. toph just bends metal the same way she bends earth 😭 .
Yeah I think her usually touching the metal she's bending in the first show was just a cool design choice and/or a way to show that she's still figuring it out.
Making metalbending be the only form of bending you can't do without direct contact would be way more dumb, especially since they literally say you're just bending the earth in the metal, and if earth bending can be done from a distance, then why couldn't this??
So yea, not a great argument that one.
Came to say this same thing. Something not being done before is not the same as establishing a rule. Bending should be able to evolve and improve and it doing that, is not changing the rules, just expanded on them. Also we see toph improve all the time. Her sand bending getting way better, and we saw her bending the metal meteorite without touching it. 🤨
@poycixyz4614 The usual explanation is that it was just figured out, and so there were limitations at first while they were still figuring out how metal bending works. It is for the same reason that the bloodbending Katara does is not fluid but very rigid. She does not do it often and is not well practiced in it. When Hama does it, it looks far more organic since she had done it quite a few times before. As the show progresses, she learns metal bending better and starts to use it more similarly to earth bending
Something that's always been done throughout history is the adaption and evolution of crafts, all it takes is a teacher from the previous generation to teach what they know and have learned. The lightning and metal bending being more used in the Korra makes sense to me.
I couldn't even get through 20 minutes of the movie. I actually love the legend of korra, but I REALLY didn't know that there was THAT much wrong with it. I always knew there was something off with it.
Actually metal bending only works because of impurities in the metal, so it makes perfect sense that solid platinum can't be bent.
@@Coltingtons makes sense, but is clearly just a device the writers used when they realized they couldn’t have anything be made out of metal anymore, just because it makes sense doesn’t mean it was a good decision to put in the story
I think the problem is that it is logical but it isn't previously foreshadowed in any kind of way. In the episode when Toph metalbends for the first time, not only it takes the right time to explain it but we also know that Toph is a prodigy so it's easy for us to accept it. Meanwhile, in the episode when platinum is introduced as a limitation, it really just feels as if they said "oh anyway, here's platinum. You can't bend it. Bye byeee"
@@SonitoShori I honesty would have been fine with platinum as a plot device with impurities in the metal if Toph was able to bend it and the other metal benders just weren't on her level.
@@SonitoShori No, it's not because we can see impunity's when Toph uses mental bending for the first time.
@ exactly! felt too out of nowhere and a plot convenience, just like spirit bending and spiritual projection.
30:50 I thought Wan got the ability to bend from the Lion-Turtle but actually learned the bending martial arts from dragons, flying bisions, etc. I thought that was shown when he does the Dancing Dragon technique with a dragon.
Lightning bending being common makes a LOT of sense if you think about it.
Yes, lightning bending was difficult, but it was also specifically based on water bending, something only a few rich powerful people would be able to study. 80 years later and everyone has been living all mixed together for a generation or 2, so fire benders have been exposed to water bending techniques.
Iroh came up with lightning redirection observing water benders. Lightning generation is an different ability altogether.
Lightning generation didn't come from "studying water bending". You're thinking about lightning redirection
I can assure you that Legend of Korra was great, yes, it has its issues, but it expands the world and explains so many questions. But I liked your thoughts and POV to all the animation and live action we have of this whole thing.
Thanks Nathan! I definitely thing theres a lot of good and bad to korra, Im glad you enjoyed the video :)
Honestly I thought it was a flawed and poorly written show, most characters are have as much character growth as rocks with no overall character development that shows any major differences between the start and end of the series. It deconstructed many of the main elements of the avatar while also ruining what was left especially the avatar wan episodes which had concepts which were just idiotic. A few major things that pissed me off was Amons blood bending without a full moon and how that somehow translated to taking away someone’s bending, the stupid laser beam kaiju battle at the end of season 2 and zaheers “motive” which was not clear at all. Characters were set as plot devices without any actual meaning and even the overall progression of the avatar world didn’t make that much sense. Legend of Korra is praised for being mature and dark when it only looks dark. For example Korras “ptsd” which she got over because she got over it. PTSD is not smth u jst get over with. Korra was not a good show. Sorry for the yap fest
lol love yap fests, I HATE the kaiju fight but like everyone that watched korra knows why that was terrible already, I thought about talking about it in the video but just figured it would take too long, hope you enjoyed!
@@SonitoShori there's good and bad but the title says there hasn't been another good avatar? I'm confused
23:44 magical ? It’s the spirituality that helps airbenders do this anyway. Which means they’ll need some type of chakra opening. Which can literally b compared to Naruto’s Clone jutsu. I really could debunk a lot of these points u made bc u made them based off ignorance. No hate to u just tired of the korra hate
0:00 ATLA Glaze
4:35 Netflix Glaze
5:05 Netflix Haze
8:35 Avatar 2010 Haze
14:35 Korra Glaze
15:34 Korra Glaze ends (This is like half the video)
33:00 Korra Haze Ends
33:11 Closing thoughts
34:32 Fan Art Showcase
They HAVE made another good avatar, it just isn't animated or live action.
You make a lot of good points but your gripes with LOK seem very nitpicky. For example, A lot of people dislike psychic blood bending but never have an issue with combustion man from ATLA, who is literally projecting explosions from his head. Gives off the impression that if metal bending were invented in LOK, it also would be a hated new concept.
When you're quick to disregard anything that didn't happen in ATLA first as not making sense. It feels like you're more of ATLA fan than an avatar fan. It feels like a very biased review when people overlook ATLA's inconsistencies and plot conveniences and yet completely drag down LOK's
I agree, adding that we did see some of the new things already in ATLA without realising it: Bumi was able to earth bend while restrained in a metal cage by simply moving his head. To me, that seems similar to the ‘psychic blood bending’ but without the need to give it a name. It feels logical to me that in a world with this many benders, some’s capabilities can be greater than others’.
It’s still not the same. ATLA established that blood bending has very strict limitations, that it’s during the full moon, and that it is achievable by a strong, realized waterbender. Even Hama, who spent years perfecting it would still show signs of struggles when doing it. And then in LOK someone can just think bloodbending and it happens?? Idc how gifted they are, that does not make any sense.
Bumi bent a small hill with a head nod. Combustion man takes heavy deep breaths and a martial arts stance and concentrates fire (when we’ve already established a lot of firebending is focused on breathing, so this idea is not too out there).
Blood bending is not some basic form that any hillbilly can pull off.
His head it just where the bending domes out of, like a fire benders fist, when you m rewatch it he clenches his stomach and leans forward to shoot. He doesn’t just stand there
Plus, one thing I think is pretty cool about flight:
Zaheer can only do it after P'li dies, meaning she was the only thing that kept him attached to earth.
That's really some high quality video! Honestly I had same thoughts about the Legend of Korra and never saw someone talk about it. I was really pissed of after watching that continuation because I just love original Last Airbender so much. They have changed so many things that it was hard for me to even finish watching it. It's really cool to see someone talk about these problems.
The same reason there was only one good Jaws movie and the same reason why some say only the first Star Wars trilogy was good. I don’t agree. I love the prequel, but same the principal applies
Great Video! Another thing about the bending in Korra is that even the basic use is simplified extremely, by mostly removing the ties it had to real-life martial arts in the original. Now everyone is just throwing punches and bends something else.
@@ruffes3141 thanks! And yes I agree completely
i see people say it removed its ties to martial arts a lot but i never really understood it. It still is very heavily martial arts influenced, the entire training process of korra's airbending, practically any pro bending scene (especially the 1v1s), and the Wan flashback in season 2 to name a few.
There's also a lot of instances in ATLA where you have people just throwing elements around. LOK made a clear distinction between the 'power of the element and 'Bending'.
I love that aspect of places and characters getting mentioned or alluded to far earlier than they’re introduced, like in the flashback of zuko and Ozai’s agni Kai you can see azula and zhao watching. It’s a great effect that can give the story a sense of fate, I think it’s an “all roads lead to Rome” type of thing if that can be applied to this
@@SatireGod absolutely!! This guy gets it
Edit: chat I wrote way too much am I cooked
Power creep is kind of a big problem. I don’t really have a problem with psychic bending though, because it feels like the show just naturally getting bigger and expanding people’s movesets. A lot of Legend Of Korra criticizers say that psychic bloodbending was a bad idea but past season 1, like… no one psychic bloodbends again. Rare new powers are perfectly fine when they keep it small and contained, and don’t let everyone use it or else they’ll be too overpowered and you’ll write yourself into a hole.
Hey wait, the characters in LOK have lots of different arcs, especially with Korra. Korra learns how to calm down and deal with things with more tact instead of head on especially when dealing with her PTSD. Bolin gets a new skillset and has to deal with doing the right thing which he believes he’s doing by being a part of Kuvira’s group, Asami’s father literally dies and she has to grapple with handling her company, the 3 airbending siblings learn to appreciate each other more, (along with Kya, Bumi and Tenzin.)
You can’t describe LOK characters in one word either. They all have multiple personality traits and things they have to deal with. By reducing their personalities to one word you’re leaving out the things they have to deal with.
Mako’s slick, but he’s also broody and loves his brother.
Korra’s a hothead, but she’s also a go-getter and is really eager to be an avatar.
Bolin’s a goofball, but he believes in doing the right thing and is also a hopeless romantic.
Honestly I could argue that LOK’s group is slightly less forced together. Korra LOVES bending and part of her arc in season 1 is learning to be free, which is why she persues freedom by going to the pro-bending tournament despite not being allowed to. It feels like 3 teens meeting because they enjoy each other, the objective isn’t really at the forefront. Asami also does kinda feel forced, which I can understand but she’s there for a reason too, the pro-bending team needs to be sponsored. (Also it’s because in early versions of the script she was gonna be an equalist spy)
The Fire Ferrets are poor. Do you see where they live? No understudy, they were lucky to have Hasook in the first place, which is why when one waterbender left and another one appeared they jumped at the chance no matter how unprepared she was, because pro-bending was their chance to get rich.
“Pure chance” the original Team Avatar literally got sucked into a swamp with no explanation as to where that tornado came from. If they didn’t, they never would have seen Toph. This is also really really contrived.
The people who say Bolin is a less funny Sokka are so dumb, it’s like they didn’t even watch ATLA. Sokka is smart, witty, a punching bag and brave. All of these things Bolin isn’t. You’re actively insulting ATLA by comparing these 2.
Being interested in something is completely subjective. Most of the callbacks are there for furthering the current present plot. Aang is there to warn Korra. Toph is there to help Korra out of her misery. Iroh literally takes Korra out of the dark and into the light. Zuko helps track down the red lotus. Katara and Sokka barely do anything yet they’re interesting? They left Sokka’s wherabouts a mystery on purpose, intentionally leaving stuff out because this is about the present. Not the past.
With the psychic bloodbending thing, a lot of the fights in Avatar require you to think creatively or out of the box. In LOK, Korra doesn’t defeat Amon by punching him harder, he’s ultimately defeated by Korra exposing him for who he truly is, depiecing his political facade. Similar things happen with Ming Hua and P’li. They’re outsmarted by tricky maneuvers as a natural extension of the bending.
With metalbending: No one said the rule outright. Physical contact being “correct” is a matter of personal preference. You said it yourself, Toph bends the metal without touching it, but she only does it once. A natural progression would be in 70 years of bending experimentation it would probably get way easier for metal to be bent. Or what if they specifically make metal that has more earth in it and is more bendable?
Psychic bending puts a limitation on bending. This means that if i put handcuffs and ankle cuffs on you, you cant just bend. But psychic bending means you are always a threat.
My gripe with the Avatar sequels is that they keep moving forward in the timeline and Avatar just doesn't work as well with modern technology let alone futuristic crap like robots. Like just go back 800 years or something and tell a story there.
Hmm, I dunno... a sci fi futuristic world with bending incorporated into it could make for some really interesting world building. 🤔 I feel like that should be an entirely new series though.
Korra isn't a bad series, and having it placed beside The Last Airbender (2010) & Netflix's Second-Screen Slopfest is an insult.
Korra's production was marred by Nickelodeon's constant meddling, but she is one of my favorite female characters ever.
She is hot-headed and stubborn by the start of the series, a big departure from Aang's personality, but by the end, she gains a greater understanding about herself.
The Legend of Korra isn't perfect, but the fact it turned out as well as it did despite Avatar Studios getting jerked around so often is a freaking miracle.
You clearly don't even know what you are talking about half the time in this video and it's frankly embarrassing.
I know most Korra haters haven't watched the show, but to see someone who has and just not even comprehending major plotpoints is sad.
You ask questions that are answered by the show, which clearly shows that you aren't paying attention.
You perk up only when the old characters show up, like a kid having keys dangled in front of his face, instead of giving the new characters a chance.
Yakonne had the ability to bloodbend without aid of the moon, so he purposely conducted his crimes on days never falling on a full moon.
The fact that you miss this when it is so painfully spelled out in the courtroom flashback, makes so much sense.
The reason he trains his Sons during the day and on nights without the moon is to make them even MORE powerful.
If the Moon is out, then their power would be increased tenfold.
I'd be here all day pointing out your errors, so I'll stop.
People hate what they don't understand, and TLOK haters don't understand a goddamn thing.
I think Korra Season 3 and 4 tell a much better story and portray much stronger characterisations with the cast. However, I had not considered your point about how the prevalence of the bending sub-types seen in Korra devalues them, and I would have to agree with you. That's why Lava-bending is so cool, because of the novelty.
Omg yes! I wanted to talk about lava bending but It would have made the video too long lol, glad you enjoyed! and thanks for your take :)
@@SonitoShoridude I would watch a 2 hour long video on ATLA 😂 make more separate vids!!
@@SonitoShori What are ur thoughts on lava bending?
Korra s3 is almost as good as ATLA. One thing I noticed is that Korra actually isn't in any of the fights from s3 apart from the final fight so maybe that has something to do with it. S4 was kinda essy and boring at times
I can't agree more I've been thinking the same way for a while now.
To add on to what you said I think that every addition to the avatar universe will become it's starwarsification. ( i.e. originally the creators had an idea and now with every addition it strays farther from it leading to a very divided fanbase)
Is their direction a bad thing? the best way ive heard it is that because the legend of Korra strays so much from the original it isn't canon and can't be canon. But that doesn't mean it doesn't make an interesting standalone story.
I also think people are going to be upset about the new additions even when they engoy the legend of Korra as a pathological story.
I think someone does need to stand up to the avatar studio and make an official sequal to avatar one that follows the rules of the original and one that also adds to the world of avatar. Because one thing Korra did do well is add a lot of world building even if it didn't follow the narrative.( Will this happen no! if someone tries to make an animated show with the name avatar on it they'll get sued out their brains and even in a world that they don't it won't work because it most likely won't be taken seriously)
Rise of Kyoshi in my opinion is just as good if not better than the original. I am so glad it was worked on in cooperation with the original creators, and on top of that, it didn't have the restriction of being on something like nickelodeon, so they could really let loose with some absolutely gruesome uses of bending. That and shadow of kyoshi are my two favorite books, and they did the best job of keeping the spirit of the original for me.
Like its weird that ppl learning to metal bend without direct contact but not being able to bend platinum bc it doesnt have enough impurities in it is too much of a leap. But 1 guy in prison who read a book about a guy we never heard of before can fly after getting airbending 2 days before is "perfectly introduced"
Good vid. I can agree with most of the points you made.
I can also stress the point about back story being better off left as a mystery.
Ever hear of a film called Highlander?
After the main character finds out he is an immortal, he asks his mentor, "How does this happen?" a very normal question to ask. The answer he gets is pure speculation on his mentor's part, amounting to "Who knows?" Its a mystery, we dont need to solve to enjoy the film. In fact, not knowing is better than any specific answer might be. It is much better than the lame ass answer we are given in a sequel.
Which brings me back to the actual point, a sequel is a dangerous thing because not only can it suck or fall short of the original, it can introduce things that screw up the entire story. ( yea Korra, you had some good parts, but . . . )
@@themercer4972 exactly! Movies that know how to save things for later or just never explain certain things are always the most intriguing to me, gives me some thinking to do on my own, very glad you enjoyed the video! :)
Heres my thought on Yakone bloodbending any time.
They should have shown that he possessed a shard of the RED MOON. Remember when in Avatar Season 1 finale, the death of the fish caused the Moon to Turn red? Let's say that the death of the moon caused red moonstones to fall down, and some were found by watertribespeople, and treated as sacred artefacts. Yakone came to possess one, and naturally, having an actual piece of the moon would allow you the full moon powers at any time, and would heighten a waterbenders powers to enable bloodbending.
That red moonstone can become the gem within Amon's Mask forehead, explaining his unusually strong bloodbending powers. Hence, his belief isn't just that bending should be eliminated - but he would have a religion fahsioend after what Zhao did in S1 - that the death of an ancient spirit yielded powerful artefects that can be used to redistribute power among mortals. He believes that destroying the avatar will allow him to steal her power to posses or redistrubite as he wishes, just as the death of the moon-fish yeileded moonstones.
That directly goes against the original spirit of Avatar. Bryan and Mike have said on record that when they created avatar they didn’t want any magical artifacts and or power up’s from objects. If they did this it would go against the spirit of avatar. A power up from a celestial or cosmic body is one thing and very inline with the spiritual nature of the show, but a shard of the red moon is giving Inuyasha. Which is fine if you want to create that kind of show with that Kind of lore. But avatar isn’t and hasn’t ever been that.
@ the red moonstone is a celestial body turned into an object- like how the Fish were spirits turned flesh, than could be stolen and broken. Also Aang literally uses the live fish as a power up to go into a super form.
Bryke were saying they didn’t want dragonballs to be the central magguffin- but there being an unnatural commodification of a celestial body that grants unique power to a few is not the same as the dragon all’s
Man the nitpicks on Korra are crazy lol
Great video man. I generally enjoy Korra but your criticisms were valid! Would definitely watch more Avatar content from you
I'm trying to make this channel just general video essays, Won't be another avatar video for the foreseeable future because I don't want to be known for one thing. They probably won't do as well but id be happy if you stuck around anyway!
@SonitoShori Understandable, but I mean it’s the most viewed vid on your page by a long shot AND you seem like a huge fan. Having another in the pipeline would definitely help grow your channel IMO. Maybe the opposite of this video covering what made the OG series so perfect? I enjoyed your style anyways so I’ll stick around regardless👍🏼
@@sensyseth I’ll definitely think up some ideas for more avatar stuff because, you’re right, I do love the series. It’s just tough cuz most of these videos I think of either aren’t a in depth enough question for a 30 minute video or have already been done. I knew I wanted my first video essay to be avatar stuff but this is the only one I haven’t seen anyone do. I know you can’t make a career on this platform by worrying about what others are doing but for right now at least I would like to try to create mostly original stuff. Thanks for saying you’ll stick around! New video is already in the works. :) sorry for the rant I’m just very passionate about the whole UA-cam thing
either the next avatar series will take place so far into the future that there have been many incarnations between korra and the twins to consult, or korra will be their only guide insisting for them to reconnect them to their past lives somehow
It’s simple, its nickelodeon fault giving too much pressure to team avatars and responsible giving free episodes away
Korra is great and the hate is forced. I love both atla and korra
first video i've ever seen by you, and this is great. subbed.
Genuinely means a lot to me when people say this, thank you so much and expect more !!!
I'll say the spiritual projection thing makes a bit more sense when you think about the kind of people airbenders are. They're monks, they're very spiritual, so I'd say spiritual projection isn't really a type of sub-bending, just something only airbenders can do because they're extremely spiritual (even though I think it's stupid that a little girl who probably isn't that spiritual can do it. Almost as if she just "believes" or something).
What I loved about your take on Legend of Korra is the bending, I always thought the only way Korra would learn Air bending was to be less rash in her fighting skills and flowless and effortless like Aang and Zaheer , but she still uses brut force techniques as she airbends
this bro was making sense in the beginning until he man sprained about his unconscious sexism of LOK
I think the contradiction of where bending comes from works, because bending is so old humanity forgot where it came from and started making up stories about it. You see this all the time in the real world.
@@kitebrethren I suppose that could be the case, and I actually would like it if it was, but almost all other signs point to it being lazy writing. Putting aside that Korra was the avatar that had to deal with the next harmonic convergence and of course would have to learn about wan anyways, how did no avatar in ten THOUSAND years ever think to just, go ahead and talk to the first avatar, they can talk to any one of them they want Yknow? And then the avatar could’ve just told everyone where it came from. Much more likely that this is just lazy writing
@@SonitoShori 10,000 years? All it takes is a couple generations for a culture to forget something. It's definitely possible that avatars told them what actually happened over and over, and over a long enough period of time, they would forget and start making new stories. I imagine Omashu is nowhere near 10,000 years old. I mean think about what humans were doing 10,000 years ago in our world? Do you have much of any idea? They even play with this idea that information can be lost quickly in one of the book 3 episodes when the fire nation is propagandizing their children about the airbender "army".
@@kitebrethren I suppose, but I feel like if they had thought of people realizing this possible writing/retcon mistake, they would’ve made that more obvious. With all the other poor writing decisions it’s just much more likely that they hadn’t even thought of that and it really was just a mistake
Korra is goated. Not as good as ATLA, but that’s a high bar. Its still one of the greatest American animated shows of all time.
To say Korra is "goated" means its the "Greatest Of All Time."
I will respectfully disagree with that take. Some of the writing choices that the show runners made in Season 2 and onward was so terrible. After a point, the show felt like a chore to watch. Change my mind.
However, they were some moments that I really enjoyed.
No it’s not lol being compared to the Netflix show and the abysmal movie, it’s gonna look better by comparison obviously
You haven't watched a lot of animated shows then.
Castevania, ATLA, and The Boondocks are all goated shows.
Tlok is generous for it to be considered mediocre.
@ I have watched all of those. Do you not grasp the meaning of the phrase ‘one of the greatest?’
F*ck these haters u ain't lied at all!
A few things I want to say.
1. You sounded fine. I didn’t think of a kid giving an essay in school. More like any typical video essay. It didn’t even cross my mind til you said it. Kinda just felt normal.
2. I feel you. I’m new to this video making thing for UA-cam and not very popular yet. I talk about Sonic stuff on a channel called SonicFaxx and also do live streams on The Hedgehog Zone. But videos take longer to edit than I expected them to. So much so that like you said, by the time you get really far into it, you’re not really sure if it’s even any good anymore. Sometimes I’m proud of what I’ve done, but simultaneously a little embarrassed. lol
3. I did actually enjoy Korra and the Netflix live action series, and yet I also agree with most of not all of what you said. It’s more like some of those things I agreed with, but they just didn’t really bother me. Or I disagreed with those decisions, but just not enough to hate the series. It just wasn’t my preference. Like… the bending in Korra. I don’t think it’s horrible. But I do agree about them changing it. And I wish they hadn’t.
In The Last Airbender, I also want to say that I think the music was also pretty good.
In the Netflix series, they tried too hard to push Kyoshi over Roku so we never got that iconic Roku moment sadly. And they tried to make Katara too “independent woman” to the point it didn’t make sense. She wanted a master but didn’t need one because she was a master who was taught by none other than… herself. wtf?
It’s crazy because even if you get political and “woke” about it, as people say, the cartoon already had really good female representation done right… lol
6:00 in the live action series he does refuse at first, and zuko only almost wins because ozai is clearly not trying very hard. HE HAS ONE HAND BEHIND HIS BACK C'MON! Bad faith argument detected
For someone as strong and skilled as Ozai, having one hand behind his back should not weaken him to the point of being bested by Zuko.
That would be like dropping his strength from 100% to 95%, while Zuko is still at 5% at that point in the story
"Finally, the director did an amazing job on casting. Each character looks and sounds similar to the originals..."
We're really not gonna talk about the elephant(s) in the room?
i watched this whole thing through being like damn this is insanely good and i come to find out it has LESS THAN 1K LIKES??? UR SO UNDERRATED
Honestly good video lol, this part at the end about "feeling like the video isnt good anymore after editing for a while" is such a relatable problem, I felt you bro loll
But in case you were wondering, this video is VERY well done, I sat through the whole thing, and I didnt agree with everything you said but your points were all thorough and well explained. Also if you're sayimg you pumped this out in a week then I am very much impressed
@@Fibless thanks a whole lot! The editing itself was done in about a week yes, script writing took like another 2 days
It is also know that Airbenders are very spiritual and this was explained in the Last Airbender, thus it makes sense as to why they can astral project.
I was lucky enough to be disappointed by the last airbender on the big screen
Closest thing west has come to building a Naruto of their own.
I will always hate that people think the movie creators just didnt know how to pronounce the characters' names and whatnot - it was intentional! The pronunciation choices were based on how those names should/would sound if they were actually in the Asian cultures and languages they are based on. It was a choice to be more culturally correct/accurate.
Like the movie was terrible, dont get me wrong, but that was a choice and there are good arguments for it.
I wouldn't call the destruction of artistic license a "good argument" by any stretch.
@LordUrfael Using something (like artistic license) is not destruction of said thing.
@ Denying the use of artistic license by saying the names of fictional characters have to be pronounced how they would be IRL, however, is.
@@LordUrfael that's a literal example of artistic license, idk where you got the idea of "had to", like they made some deeper comment about all Avatar TLA with their choice, because it was just that. A choice on how to make art. Idk why your panties are in such a twist about this. It was a choice to respect the cultures that so much of this series is openly based on. There's nothing wrong with that motivation 😂
@ I'm used to fans of various media claiming the creators of characters are pronouncing their character's names incorrectly, which actually is denying artistic license. Changing the pronunciation of a character's name for your own content would be artistic license. Why the senseless passive aggression?
The shymalan live action movie was actually just an elaborate rage bait
22:09 ur born with lighting generation (hence why zuko cant use it). you then have to be trained to use it. it makes sense that only high nobles would be taught how to use it and in a world w/o an evil gatekeeping dictator as fire lord, itd make sense that the secret to how is no longer a secret.
This is not true. You are not born with lightning generation. As it stands the only sub bending which might have some relation to birth are lava and metal, and those are more likely based on personality.
The only reason Zuko can't generate lightning is because he wasn't taught. Iroh explicitly explains how it's done, so to say you have to be born with it is silly, also, that would make no sense given the number of people that know how to use it in Korra.
@ why was he never able to use it, even after the dragons and presumably even in late age. iroh taught him and in theory initially the cause was because he wasnt at peace but azula wasnt at peace in their final fight.
also, we dont get any reference towards the ratio of lightning benders to fore benders so we dont know if its too much. if i had a room where i gathered only ppl with blue eyes in a room, the trait is still relatively uncommon. i just gathered a bunch of them in a room.
@@Mars30999 because he never learned, that's really it. Iroh didn't teach him. He might've learned later in life but LOK doesn't show him using it or mention it so it's likely he just never learned.
Idk why you think we need some ratio. There's literally buildings that run off electricity which is produced by fire benders. It's literally Mako's job to provide electricity because he works at a power plant. Unless you think a handful of people are providing power for the entirety of the city, which would mean Mako the poor guy would never leave the factory.
Lightning bending is a skill that you can learn in fire bending if you're good. While we don't see Zuko lightning bend in the show there are comics that explore the events after season 3 where he does lightning bend. Hope this helps
@@Lesso17 damn gg. nvm then i revoke this take
What makes you think "can't" make a good avatar when they haven't made one to begin with and a bunch of Twitter handlers spewing leaks doesn't mean anything.
I would add to the lightning-bending issue that it's not just trivialised by being so common, it also doesn't _look_ difficult anymore.
In the original, to generate lightning, you had to do some complex movements with both arms to slowly build up the energy. Even during the comet a little bit of extra movement was necessary.
In Korra, any average-level firebender can just point a finger and BOOM lightning. It's completely lost its special status
Edit: Also, one thing I liked about OG lightning generation was that it showed off how powerful Ozai is, when he was able to generate lightning in like half a second with only a sliver of the sun showing after the eclipse. It's a great way to subtly show just how powerful he is as a bender, because every time we're seen lightning generation previously, it's been Azula circling her arms around for like 5 seconds, with no eclipse. Korra ruins that power-scaling completely
Your video showed up randomly in my feed. It was sharp and well done. 🙂
Until the outro I had no idea this was a new venture for you. I hope you find success making more of these.
Its because they wanted to make it like "Game of Thrones" to attract "adult" viewers too... Which how i understand they didnt watch, like, or understand ATLA in the first place. One cartoon that gets an adult audience to watch and love the original show
Finally a man that speaks sense! I have the feeling they were a one hit wonder, but that 1hit is still my all time fav show
@@MaxStainton-p3q very true, I love the last airbender sm 🤫🤫
The worst part of this siblings/offspring is that they don't get that anything aren't supposed to be serious, Korra sure, But the other two take themselves too seriously, And when there's serious moments it just felt stale because the characters just stayed as serious as when there's nothing to be serious about
Yeah....the projection thing is fine. Air benders are most likely to meditate so it makes sense that they'll be able to do it. In theory maybe anyone could do it but if anyones going to do it it'd be an air bender probably.
It's basically like astral projection that's where they probably got it from since Airbenders meditate
IMO they did. With Wan. I was hooked on his story when watching the legend of Korra. Then the show went back to her, and I was a bit disappointed😭 based on how well his story was told, it would’ve made a great series of itself.
The short answer is they wrote the original with a larger team of writers and didnt bring them all back for korra... then in korra the people they picked tried to stuff in topics and bending while simultaneously copying and moving away from the first to the point of betraying the core themes established by the first. The live action show does this again but applies ot to the first series itself again changing the tone and characters to make the show fit into a mold that it never belonged in at the expense of what worked for it.
Tldr. Writers.
The humans didn't obtain the ability to bender from the "original benders" the learned from them, meaning all the techs and dances and the like were stuff developed from observing the "original benders" to the advantages of benders. It makes sense that they got it from the Lion Turtles esp since Aang obtained his spirit bending from the Lion Tuttle at the end to remove Ozai's bending ability.
the reason is simple: you don't remake a cult classic. the appeal of a cult classic is that the fanbase sees every line, every scene, every aesthetic, as a work of art and doing anything other than a carbon copy will just piss people off.
the real question is why are we trying to remake things that people already like the original? Remaking Dune made sense because the 1980's one was not well received. Remaking something that is universally known as a masterpiece and virtually perfect really can't justify itself. Sometimes remakes can work because the creator takes a new spin on it and makes it it's own thing, and that's fine as long as it's done well.
The Only Flaw with Avatar would be the Romance between Aang & Katara since it felt rushed tbh
Maybe they should have made a prequel about one of the previous aviators
I think there's complications making a new avatar cuz Korra showed all viewers that she's the greatest anime character to ever exist cuz her courage to keep going even when things seemed too hard was beyond amazing and let's not forget that she was a female. ✌
Great video, I agree with pretty much everything you said except for the flight part. I will never like the the flight addition no matter what.
great content sonito, didn't even notice this was you until like half way through the vid😂
@@oculusb0y88 long time no see man! Thank you so much, hope you’ll stick around for the new content, hope you’re well :)
I completely agree about LoK, I know opinions are quite mixed about it but I absolutely hated it, glad to see others feel similar!
Also great video! Just subscribed, looking forward to seeing what you do next! :)
Thank you! new video essay in the works starting tomorrow :D
atla can easily be recreated if bryan would just stop trying to progress and move on from it so fast. thats literally the only reason
Amazing video. Would love to see something about HxH since you mentioned Chrollo being your favorite new character.
bending with your mind isn't new, the fire nation basically achieved this with combustion bending
That was diffrent. combustion bending had one way to bend it, and took a specific type of breath to use it. it was a one for one. one movment, for one type of attack. still within the rules. its not like they can do anything with the explosion other than make it go where they're facing. with blood bending you could bend the blood in all types of ways just thinking it.
Didn’t that require the stomach thing, and as iroh state it was like a “sea of chi” focusing it through that bit on the forehead equaling to that combustion bending?
@@source3nergy203all firebending uses the sea of chi bruh not just combustion
@@teslercoil5174 yes but the specific action for combustion bending is to do a specific breathing technique and forcefully make your stomach go inward, which would force all of that energy to that specific point on the forehead leading to combustion bending
@@source3nergy203 it's not that breathing in the stomach automatically forces the chi through the forehead.
Breathing through the stomach is a common practice for firebending to begin with.
You have to actively force it through your the Chakra located in the forehead. If it was that simple the combustion bending wouldn't have required special training programs for it be achievable.
Very well spoken. I’m glad I’m not the only one.
0:32 i’m glad they finally giving the show it’s proper animated movie clearly deserves it
Because they keep changing it but the first one was perfect.
There are two sides to the coin when it comes to the sub bending. It makes sense that bending would evolve, and more people would pick up sub bending, but at the same time, i dont like how they took some aspects away from it. Now, fire benders can just force chain lightning with no movements, and metal bending is just earth bending but with metal. Even if it did make sense, it's less interesting overall
Ozai was generation lightning quickly and without those exaggerated movements....
I think Legend of Korda should have been something like an alternate universe of Last Airbender rather than a direct sequel, I'm thinking like Deltarune and Undertale. Because then they would be able to create an entirely new story with some similar elements, like bending and such, but also make their own world building and such. I think most of the show would work great like that.
Fun fact: Spirituality was the air nomads’ whole thing. Them learning to astral project makes perfect sense.
@@trevionhenderson5721 then why did waterbenders get spirit bending? And how did spirituality ever have anything to do with making an astral projection of yourself?
@@SonitoShori wdym astral projection is a spiritual technique
@@SonitoShoriAstral projection cannot be accomplished without spirituality. And air is an extension of the spirit.
The water benders didn't "get spirit bending" Unalaq is the inventory of spirit bending, which he created using water bending healing techniques.
The only two people who can spirit bend in the show are Korra and Unalaq because of this.@@SonitoShori
An astral projection is just using the air to create an image of your mind and spirit. I agree it has some issues logistically, but air is the element of the spirit and freedom.
@@SonitoShorihigh levels of spirituality can lead to insane feats. There's an earth sage in the kyoshi novels that can literally 'put back' his deteriorating body and has practically become immortal because of that.
Fire benders separating yin and yang to create an electrical charge is in the same boat of randomness as astral projection and spirit bending, but because it was given in ATLA everyone just ran with the explanation.
That Mike/Brian combo simply had their names on as the creators. It's obvious they aren't having no link to Asian cultures in their bios. I will give them credit for LOK. That's definitely theirs.😅
i loved this video essay man good job
If only they did not keep firing the original creators in every new iteration.
Avatar is like illmatic. They can’t be remade.
Ok so the lion turtle aspect actually make sense them gaining the ability from the turtle doesn’t contradict the original benders they could still learn from they just knew how to do it properly that i actually like u gaining ur power vs learning how to use ur power can be separate
I'm looking at Korra, and what you have there really is Nickelodeon being scared to commit to a full series, foring them to write smaller, more disconnected stories such that each season finale could be a series finale. I think it could have worked if they'd had more time and space to breathe... i could see a remake working for that show... not to live action, just a remake, that stretches its storylines into something more interesting and intertwined.
Probably because diehard fans hold the original to whimsical standards that nothing else can hope to meet.
But seriously... how many Batman films, shows, etc, have there been? ...and only like 6 of them are considered universally great.
I'm just saying, there has been a lot of really good ATLA content since the original series ended, including the recent live-action, LoK, and many comics.
Sure, there have been abominations, like the 2010 film... but back to Batman as an example... ever seen the 1997 Batman and Robin? ...yeah... I rest my case.
I've watched a dozen reactions to season 1 of the original series... and most are a solid meh... it's not until season 2 that people get hooked, and not until season 3 that people proclaim it's epic... only to go back and re-watch season 1, and be so impressed with the world-building they overlook everything that made them go "meh" the first time.
Personally, I'm just glad it's not more mcu, Spiderman, Superman, or Batman.
Thank you, I grew up with Korra and loved it as a kid, I felt annoyed at the love triangle stuff but was obsessed with the rest of it and felt understood with Korra way more than I did with Aang, Korra is someone who can be given a simple task like take down the Firelord (simple not easy) and commit to doing it and get there but she has to deal with a bunch of grey area problems with difficult solutions which I related too a lot, the fact that she messes up is great since not only is the show trying to live up to such an amazing legacy but Korra herself is having to follow Aang's run as Avatar, I loved what they did with the first season, honestly enjoyed the second, was hooked with the third and wanted more by the end of the 4th and it hurts to see such a good show be treated as crap just because it couldn't live up to the best
@@izukumidoriya8600they knew what they had to live up to tho. The show wasn't created in a vacuum
that point about reactions to S1 are spot on. I can't remember the channel name but they did a whole series of watching ATLA again for the then upcoming Netflix series with three people who had never seen the show before. Throughout the first season the three people dozed off while the rest who watched it before were giggling and actually reacted. At like the middle of the season two of the three left and they continued watching the rest of the show with just that one person. Ofc that one person started taking more interest around S2 and absolutely loved it by the end, even cried multiple times.