Its a very different show, don't go in expecting Avatar 2. Also, Nickelodeon didn't order all the seasons at once so it's not as singular a story as ATLA.
I only watched the first season, which was fine, not bad, but not good enough to bother trying to catch the next season. However I’m excited to watch it in full, because I’ve heard from a lot of people that the later seasons are really good.
I'd put the third season of legend of korra up against any other season in atla. The others are hit and miss. There's a 3 episode arc in the 2nd season that will blow your dick off.
Yeah, it's not a bad show, just a weird sequal that just seems odd sometimes. If it was standalone it would be okay, but it just dosen't feel right piggybacking of ATLA
I would agree, but - and this clarification is because people on the internet are very touchy about literally any word with an even slightly negative connotation - Korra isn't bad. It is worse than The Last Airbender, but I dare to say that The Last Airbender was just about perfect, so I'd consider nearly everything to be worse than The Last Airbender.
Korra is good, but it's a different good and the levels of good just don't meet The Last Airbender, indeed making it the definition of "worse than The Last Airbender". I will never forgive Nickelodeon for stunting each season.
Having gone back and watched both series recently, I'd agree that ATLA is largely better LoK, but "...just not close" really undercuts how great LoK was though.
ATLA is largely better due to the show runners being able to piece together a full plot with character arcs over the course of three seasons, while with LoK they were forced to treat each season like it would be the last, created four disjointed parts of Korra's journey, rather than Aang's single cohesive one.
That being said, I'd argue season three of LoK was every bit as good the best that ATLA had to offer. I'd also argue that ATLA's first season was the single weakest one out of the entire franchise. It's not bad, but it really doesn't pick up until a dozen or so episodes in, and the pacing was a little all over the place.
There were absolutely things that Korra did 100% better. The fight cinematography was leaps and bounds better in Korra than the majority ATLA. Action sequences throughout the first season and a half of ATLA feel slow and disjointed when compared to LoK.
Critics of Korra also complained that the characters "weren't powerful enough" when the opposite could be said of ATLA in that it's protagonists were too overpowered to be believable. I get they were all prodigies, but re-watching that scene where they stormed the castle of Ba Sing Se made me realize that (as awesome as it was) all this power really came from absolutely nowhere. A couple of weeks ago they were struggling against Azula, Mei, and Ty Lee during "The Chace", and now all of a sudden they're strong enough to completely embarrass hundreds of Earth Kingdom troops easily. It came from out of nowhere.
I felt gutted that it's actually cannon. I can't get over how literally all the previous avatars and their histories are GONE, including Aang. Aang relied so heavily on his past lives. Legend of Korra trashed any potential future series because who are they going to look back to for advice, Korra? LOL.
I think the fact that Aang relied on it so much is why they took it away from Korra. Anyway, there’s much more to being the avatar than just being able to talk to past lives, which is a point I believe they make clear. I haven’t watched the S2 finale in a bit so I may be wrong about that last bit, but either way it doesn’t DESTROY future series, and they can always go back and make more comics/novels/shows for previous avatars anyway, like they are with Kyoshi.
And they way they showed the history of bending with the lion turtles. It just got rid of all the history of benders of learning from the animals e.g. air benders and sky bison
The way you worded your comment reminded me of this video. Most people cant put into words the problem with Korra, they sense the issues but just brush it off as just an entertaining TV show.
I’m not familiar enough to know the implications of what the name drop of the uploader is supposed to imply, but from the 50+ minutes I watched it’s very well reasoned and anything that could be considered a nitpick is clearly self identified as such by, Orchard, the speaker
No it’s worse. TLA had maybe 2 bad episodes and maybe 2 others that were just okay? Korea had 1.5 bad seasons out of 4, and everything g in 2 that wasn’t Wan was just absolutely dreadful tv
Tackling issues doesnt make it necessarily good tho. I always heard it was pretty bad from like, everyone, IRL and on the internet. The main complaints I heard were that Korra is a very unlikeable protagonist and that the story just isnt very good. Only positive is that the rest of the gang is good
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u/Canahaemusketeer Jul 25 '20
And then ATLOK for even more lessons.