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    • booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      Legend of Korra was bad from second 1 of episode 1 and it never got better. There are no redeeming qualities anywhere within it.

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        The de-mystification and industrialization of mysterious elite techniques like lightning or metal bending into sweatshop labor is potentially fascinating, but the show absolutely bungles it. The worldbuilding also suffers from too short a gap between the two shows for it to make sense imo.

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          I don’t think the problem is really the gap. It doesn’t seem unreasonable for people to invent cars and radios in the gap between the shows. The real problem is that America popped out of nowhere as a result of a melting pot of a variety of Asian inspired cultures. It’s like the creators thought America is just the natural result of any melting pot, rather than the result of a European led melting pot.

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          It does that classic thing of fucking up the world building so you get engaged trying to fill in the gaps yourself.

          Anyways I’ve got a head canon that lightning bending was restricted to the royal family because they executed anyone else who figured it out (like the color purple back in the day) and Zuko decided he wouldn’t or couldn’t pursue people who did it in Republic City

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        korra has terrible politics but i like a decent amount of the characters and think it’s a culturally important show that helped pave the way for a lot of queerness in kids shows that might not have otherwise been there. (i know representation politics can suck, but i think it’s good to have kids shows where the kids just see queerness as a normalized thing in day to day life)

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          i think it’s good to have kids shows where the kids just see queerness as a normalized thing in day to day life

          I agree, which is why I don’t think Legend of Korra adding ambiguous queerness in the last 30 seconds of the last episode is good enough to count as a real redeeming quality

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        I thought the animation was pretty but that the politics were thoroughly neoliberal. As with Marvelslop, whenever you have “left wing” villains, you have to make them do something unquestionably evil, like punch a baby, so that it can be said of them “their heart was in the right place, but they went too far!!!”

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      Korra has very shitty lib politics. Season 1 was anti-communist fluff. Season 2 broke all the pre-established rules of its predecessor, Season 3 was pure lib view of anarchy and also torture scene, Season 4 was the only one that wasn’t complete dogshit, but thats not saying much since it’s also the queerbaiting season.

      Avatar tlab also had some lib stuff but at least it understood basic storytelling and narrative framing.

      Of course if you enjoyed it, more power to you. I didn’t unfortunately.