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Korra legitimately had bad writing. I come here for ATLA but if we are talking about LOK that's just something we all have to get over.
Maybe we can argue to what extent, but we all know that the first season was extended at the last minute which led to a very poor execution.
I wasn't a fan of season 2 because of literally all the new concepts it introduced. Don't like wan, dark avatars, random jinora ex machina, korra soul mech that she literally never does again, getting tricked by obviously bad people and ignoring her day 1s.
S3 was when Korra actually got good. But by this time, I would have expected Korra to be more of a fully realized avatar; more able to defend against what is arguably the best villain in the series. S4 is okay, the ending was the best part which isn't saying much.
Korra, as a character, fine or even great--but the decisions the writing makes her make? I mean, come on. She should be allowed to learn. I still think the avatar line being destroyed doesn't make sense conceptually if Raava never technically died and also still had all 4 elements.
Through it all, it's not because it's our childhood, ATLA is just a better show. It still holds up and I can't recommend LOK to people without mentioning it doesn't really get interesting until s3. There is TONS of sexism for literally no reason, but any LOK criticism isn't inherently wrong.
Sure, it's not unheard of to become a master at 14, but a master of moonless psychic bloodbending? Come on
I looked up the scene ahead of time because it does sound a little ridiculous and I wanted to just confirm I remembered it correctly.
I'm saying Korra had bad writing because the entire direction of the first season was changed while it was airing.
It's disingenous to say that S1 had good writing despite the nature of production. There are maybe 2 episodes in all of ATLA that aren't good.
I mean, regardless of how you feel about ATLA we both agree that there's an entire season of LOK that isn't very good. We can throw opinions at each other all day, but I'm not wrong when I say that LOK isn't as good as ATLA--that's something you concede.
LOK is fine, but overall it's not as consistently high quality as ATLA.
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I don't think Korra and LOK ever had any real nuance, but that's just IMO.
I mean, love triangle (square?) in what, episode 5? Murder Suicide? Not just psychic bending, not just psychic bloodbending, but psychic bloodbending without the moon?
I mean if there's nuance, I probably missed it, maybe that's why I don't like it as much.