So... Why can't they make another good avatar? - A Video Essay

[@MeganGuoin]

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.

[@JoseSanchez-fk9dg]

Yeah that literally the point. As I heard the video it became apparent that he wasn’t real paying much attention to Korra.

[@SonitoShori]

@@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

[@butterflymage5623]

⁠@@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.

[@malikpierre-louis3343]

@@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.

[@madpostman]

​​​@@butterflymage5623A select few water benders being skilled enough to blood bend at any time was fine with me. It is 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.

[@arrogantgodjealous]

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.

[@Salazar.945]

Thank Hod. 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.

[@SonitoShori]

@@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 )

[@alexjewett7455]

Avatar is lightning in a bottle that will never be recreated.

[@lymadusrodriguez2061]

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 :)

[@alexjewett7455]

@@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.

[@predatitor4183]

@@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.

[@alexjewett7455]

@@predatitor4183 made me realize it was probably a good thing avatar ended at season three.

[@predatitor4183]

@@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.

[@djimperium149]

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.

[@Mr.Vanims]

Yeah, anyone who has a functional brain should have come to this conclusion

[@turtle1658]

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?

[@Andrey-vs2zk]

@@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.

[@turtle1658]

@@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

[@marocat4749]

We saw him train with a dragon spirit.

[@morganlucchi]

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

[@SonitoShori]

They said that in the live action?? I totally missed that!

[@Coltingtons]

Actually metal bending only works because of impurities in the metal, so it makes perfect sense that solid platinum can't be bent.

[@SonitoShori]

@@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

[@hermannbarbato]

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"

[@jdminze]

​@@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.

[@UnomagKatzen]

@@SonitoShori No, it's not because we can see impunity's when Toph uses mental bending for the first time.

[@SonitoShori]

@ exactly! felt too out of nowhere and a plot convenience, just like spirit bending and spiritual projection.

[@Nathan_Rocha]

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.

[@SonitoShori]

Thanks Nathan! I definitely thing theres a lot of good and bad to korra, Im glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@aceshadowknight7004]

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

[@SonitoShori]

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!

[@kylejackson7913]

@@SonitoShori there's good and bad but the title says there hasn't been another good avatar? I'm confused

[@cheyy3600]

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

[@Sause1738]

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

[@Makin318]

i mean i can understand ppls issues with it, but i don't think judging it based on leaks is fair.

[@edgeribble]

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

[@Makin318]

@@edgeribble why is the dark avatar route so bad tho

[@edgeribble]

@ 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

[@Makin318]

@@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.

[@nitromiyazaki]

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%.

[@GrimAngel01100]

Also, technically flying is psychic air bending

[@Snow.Clipss2]

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

[@Jlnkht]

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’.

[@two_squared]

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.

[@two_squared]

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.

[@two_squared]

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.

[@two_squared]

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.

[@two_squared]

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?

[@KidArkx]

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.

[@matthewboyd8689]

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.

[@SteadySniper]

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.

[@leezus7875]

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.

[@supremeking3256]

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.

[@davemac9563]

No it’s not lol being compared to the Netflix show and the abysmal movie, it’s gonna look better by comparison obviously

[@quincy9908]

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.

[@leezus7875]

@ I have watched all of those. Do you not grasp the meaning of the phrase ‘one of the greatest?’

[@joshua2764]

F*ck these haters u ain't lied at all!

[@EGH9701]

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.

[@Patrick-xs1ft]

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

[@hamez_the_king1408]

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.

[@SonitoShori]

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 :)

[@AiringAustin]

@@SonitoShoridude I would watch a 2 hour long video on ATLA 😂 make more separate vids!!

[@edgeribble]

@@SonitoShori What are ur thoughts on lava bending?

[@edgeribble]

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

[@crazysquriel]

26:00 sooooooo in all fairness the original series had a fire bender that used "psychic" fire bending to create explosions. I think the writers of Korra expanded on that to create "psychic" benders for other elements. At least they restricted it like the original show. "Psychic" fire bending was only creating explosions and in Korra "psychic" water bending only used blood bending. Still thought it was kind of lame since we had already seen blood bending and with explosion guy we had never seen fire bending be used that way before. Making blood bending be able to be done as a "psychic" implies that all bending could be trained to ignore the requirements of movement, which is dumb.

[@Crawledoutfallout]

Even with combustion man, whenever you saw him take a shot he had to take a deep breath I'm, there was still some movement and technique to it. Psychic bloodbending is literally just the force.

[@glueyyDD]

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

[@ruffes3141]

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.

[@SonitoShori]

@@ruffes3141 thanks! And yes I agree completely

[@Makin318]

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'.

[@Michallox]

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.

[@seanwalker6052]

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"

[@shotsgotaim1855]

The Legend of Korra take is crazy. Look up the Bannister effect. Mental and physical barriers are lifted in large scales once people see someone else do it. ofc korra is fictional and on the extreme side with some of its changes but 80 years is a long time. That’s plenty of time for the bending and our world to be completely different

[@Lesso17]

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.

[@Makin318]

Personally disliking that decision is perfectly fine. But, i don't think it's an objective wrong on the show's part.

[@Kameraspie]

​@@Makin318it makes Korra the worst avatar cause she failed at the 1 thing that 1k-10k other avatars were able to keep together

[@Makin318]

@@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.

[@TheApoke]

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

[@WanderTheNomad]

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

[@WeebGuru6]

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

[@Mars30999]

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

[@trevionhenderson5721]

Fun fact: Spirituality was the air nomads’ whole thing. Them learning to astral project makes perfect sense.

[@SonitoShori]

@@trevionhenderson5721 then why did waterbenders get spirit bending? And how did spirituality ever have anything to do with making an astral projection of yourself?

[@InVer-lg6oc]

​@@SonitoShori wdym astral projection is a spiritual technique

[@vetarlittorf1807]

​@@SonitoShoriAstral projection cannot be accomplished without spirituality. And air is an extension of the spirit.

[@GrimAngel01100]

​​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.

[@Makin318]

@@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.

[@joshuagraham2843]

It’s simple, its nickelodeon fault giving too much pressure to team avatars and responsible giving free episodes away

[@umwha]

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.

[@JamesRiley-fb3lg]

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.

[@blobbertmcblob4888]

Can't make something better than something else that was already near perfect.

[@skullknight4579]

bending with your mind isn't new, the fire nation basically achieved this with combustion bending

[@daydeer9912]

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.

[@source3nergy203]

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?

[@teslercoil5174]

​@@source3nergy203all firebending uses the sea of chi bruh not just combustion

[@source3nergy203]

@@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

[@teslercoil5174]

@@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.

[@manithemaniac9788]

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)

[@Jikuri]

Closest thing west has come to building a Naruto of their own.

[@Mars30999]

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

[@MagusFlorren]

Great video! I enjoy stuff where people take a look at the entire franchise as a whole. I do have one thing to comment on that made me feel a little weird while watching. In the wrap-up on Legend of Korra, you said "I almost feel sorry for anyone who enjoys this series" And like... I cant imagine a comment like that would make anyone feel good about enjoying what LoK has to offer. For all of its flaws, I still enjoy it. Its charming and fun. And for someone to say that feel sorry for me for enjoying it, simply does not sit well. I hope that makes sense and you understand.

[@umwha]

I liked the video! It explains the many faults with avatar sequels / adaptations. It didn't really answer the title question 'WHY cant they make another good avatar'? It just explains how they failed in each sequel or adaptations. The answer to WHY they cant do a good one again, is probably to do with the fact that (and this was asserted by E;R) that Bryke weren't the key contributors in the writing room, that it was actually AAron Ehaz, who didn't return at much if at all for the planning of Korra.

[@Rihcterwilker]

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.

[@tylerblake5507]

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

[@kitebrethren]

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.

[@SonitoShori]

@@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

[@kitebrethren]

@@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".

[@SonitoShori]

@@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

[@Mars30999]

21:53 bro this is legit just ur own head canon. toph just bends metal the same way she bends earth 😭 .

[@Kalizoid]

first video i've ever seen by you, and this is great. subbed.

[@SonitoShori]

Genuinely means a lot to me when people say this, thank you so much and expect more !!!

[@needhd7159]

31:00 it definitely does mess up the backstory. But but one of the things I do want to point out is, Juan, did train with a dragon to learn how to properly use fire bending

[@waverlynigheandhe]

I agree with you on everything you've said about Korra. I've been trying to tell people for years that its world building isn't great. I re-watch the Last Airbender once a year, but I can't bring myself to watch Korra ever again because it hurts.

[@WeebGuru6]

Facts this world building garbage

[@SatireGod]

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

[@SonitoShori]

@@SatireGod absolutely!! This guy gets it

[@vonsowards1297]

9:54 it was dumb for the movie to change firebending so that they have to draw on existing fire. The movie was terrible. However, I think the reason they did that and then showed Iroh producing his own fire was that the plan would be to show fire benders had lost the ability and only those who learned firebending from dragons (the original source) could produce their own fire. After Aang and Zuko visit the dragons it implies that got better bending but you never really get a feel for it after the episode. I see where they were going with it, but it still just made the movie dumb.

[@RisingShadow11]

I didn't think Korean was that bad but man you bring up good points.

[@jorgec98]

Funny, I got this video recommended from another where someone's first exposure to the Avatar universe was through TLOK, and how they had grown to love it despite its flaws. It's an interesting contrast, and it helped me reinforce my opinion of also liking Korra, even while knowing it's very flawed.

[@mrkaji8913]

0:32 i’m glad they finally giving the show it’s proper animated movie clearly deserves it

[@themercer4972]

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 . . . )

[@SonitoShori]

@@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! :)

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

Since the Airbenders are based on Tibetan monks, there is a belief in their religion where they can use Astral Projection and since Avatar is based on East Asian cultures, than they likely used their beliefs as to why Airbenders can use Astral Projection. Similarly, the Waterbenders seem to resemble the Hawaiians in their spiritual fundamentalism which also means that the writers also took their spiritual beliefs quite literally.

[@Oversoul-u6v]

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.

[@novazaz]

the live action movie wasnt the adaptation for the first season it was an adaptation for the amber island play

[@furyberserk]

It's because it was about a war and every perspective was available and generally explored. Korra was about civilian life and politics. Starwars originals or the prequels with jar jar? It's thst simple.

[@skittle3570]

i loved this video essay man good job

[@umwha]

5:23 - 'The whole point of sokkas sexism was to show that it was wrong'. No it wasn't. This is a very narrow and modern view, and this is what led to bad writing desicision as we see in the live action version. Sokka learned that some women can be capable of fighting. But him being 'sexist' served a much deeper purpose. It showed us that cultures in this world recognise sex differences, - which is realistic. Sokkas foundation is his father, and the need and wish to become like his father, and act as a protector of the tribe. This challenges him to act like a warrior from a childhood age, and not to let himself feel weak. He was the ONLY MALE in the watertribe for like 6 years, apart from babies and the elderly. He took on his sex-role and that defined his early development. That is juicy juicy character material and worldbuilding. His assertions that girls cant and don't fight arent merely 'sexism' that has to be scolded. It shows his culture and his personal experience, and also shows he trying to overcompensate and take on all the weight of combat - even though he's not properly trained. Trying to be strong despite your vulnerability is why sokka is likable, and its also an exploration of his masculinity. His mother was killed because she was believed to be a waterbender - OF COURSE Sokka would wish females (especially katara) to be out of combats way! His 'sexism' here relates to his guilt over his mother dying. Later Sokka comments that he struggled to remember his mother, and thinks of Katara instead, showing that for a long time Sokka has recognised Kataras capability as a motherly figure. So him seeing his Mother in Katara, of course makes him dead set on protecting her by keeping her out of combat. He later meets Suki, who is the same age (almost) as katara, so of course Sokka asserts that girls shouldn't be in combat, and he tried to overcompensate by suggesting he is more capable. Let's get over superficial oppression-theory lenses and look at the multipurpose nature of this writing decision. Also we later see, via Hama, that because women fought in the South, they were killed or captured, leading to so few adults - few women - actually surviving to continue the tribe and keep its number up. The show directly demonstrates that too much allowances of female warriors causes societal maintenance problems.

[@SonitoShori]

@@umwha actually a good take, most people in my comments have been giving me these terrible “well actually” statements and it’s been driving me INSANE. I suppose I shouldn’t have said it was the WHOLE point of it, but definitely A point.

[@umwha]

@@SonitoShori Yeah ok I agree, thanks for engaging.

[@Natey1]

25:58 Well bending with your face expressions is in the original series. Amon did it with bloodbending in legend of Korra, but in the original series Bumi did it with earthbending.

[@detecticebeans]

Best childhood show by far, 99.99% perfect (The canyon one was buns)

[@SonitoShori]

This guy gets it

[@detecticebeans]

@@SonitoShori It would've beena 99.999% but the canyon was just too bad compared to the rest of the series :(

[@justafan5179]

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.

[@izukumidoriya8600]

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

[@Kameraspie]

​@@izukumidoriya8600they knew what they had to live up to tho. The show wasn't created in a vacuum

[@blackhoven]

I agree with many points except the one that blood-bending with the mind is nonsensical. Zuko and Jong Jong made clear very early in the series that not any martial art movement is needed to Bend. Later on, King Bumi was able to free himself the entire time when Omashu got captured (it also was made very clear, that he isnt able to move any part of his Body), but didnt do it just because he waited for the right moment. Therefore showing that bending develops this way is a good decision I think.

[@oculusb0y88]

great content sonito, didn't even notice this was you until like half way through the vid😂

[@SonitoShori]

@@oculusb0y88 long time no see man! Thank you so much, hope you’ll stick around for the new content, hope you’re well :)

[@Narlaw1199]

I don't think most of the complaints about sub-types of bending in Korra are fair. It's not abnormal that these arts would be better understood and better taught by being more widespread. It's the same logic as to how modern average athletes are much better than champions from decades ago.

[@soldiermarvinbackup]

28:33 i thought it was clear they were dark and had purple glow was because Vaatu was free, if Vaatu was locked away for 10,000 years then of course he was still locked away during Aang’s time which was why we never saw any dark spirits. Let me know if I’m wrong or misunderstood something here

[@umwha]

10:10 - You know, I actually like the idea of most firebenders not being able to create their own fire. None of the other benders are self-generating. It would create a nice weakness for most firebenders and that would be reflected culturally - firebender groups would carry around lanterns, and braziers, and there would probably be a special position within every battalion called the 'Fire Bearer'. When I think about it - if all firebenders can create their own flames easily, then why would the Fire nation even bother to manufacture lanterns and candles at all? Only non-benders would need such things, which would culturally mean that it would be looked down on to need lanterns and candles, as it shows you are inferior.

[@hermannbarbato]

Honestly I agree with most of your takes in this video, but personally I think that the choice of seeing more and more characters capable of sub-bending in Korra was deliberate and it makes sense with the established worldbuilding. If you think about it, in the many years that have passed between Aang and Korra, the entire world has undergone literally an entire Industrial revolution. This means more education more easily accessible to everyone. In ATLA we see that the Northern Water Tribe is very strict in choosing who to teach, and Fire Nation only discloses some of the techniques to nobles and members of the royal family. Even the Earth nation is mostly poor because of the war. So while in ATLA these sub-bendings are only accessible to prodigies like Toph or Katara, it makes sense that in a world like Korra's where kids are taught to bend from childhood the average level is generally higher and this allows more people to sub-bend. With this being said, the way these sub-bendings are trated is completely another thing, and the use of metal bending does feel a little bit simplified and overused, especially in the first season.

[@marocat4749]

And Mako if he is a standard, the people know as mich lightning bending, to create lightning, which subbests its specific taught for industrialisation, i just wish wwe had a short, Zuko did need his army to get another job so started industrial revolution stuff, and taught very basic lightning. Because its basic. Mastering lightning is hard but, thats not mastering. Also elite police force, probably is talented. as seem tophs genes. and yeah family gotten good education there. and thats the metal bende rwe know, not everyone. Ther is thought in who has it, and its an elite group taught by toph first of people or tophs family. which isnt everyone.

[@AreteG]

Saying Legend of Kora lived up to ATLA is silly. No one will take the opinion seriously. While it didn't completely drop the ball, it doesn't come close.

[@Mars30999]

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.

[@GrimAngel01100]

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.

[@Mars30999]

@ 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.

[@GrimAngel01100]

@@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.

[@Lesso17]

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

[@Mars30999]

@@Lesso17 damn gg. nvm then i revoke this take

[@jes_901]

all this hard work.... just for THIS. gosh.... this is amazing

[@predatitor4183]

Korra, basically misunderstood two vitals things, the world of avatar and the new themes, if we talk about the world, look at the spiritual theme where from an Asian Myththology it basically became a Christian one for nothing, and in the themes the Amon arc.

[@WeebGuru6]

If Amon was chi blocker that would’ve been way better

[@JoelFeila]

when did they establish that astral projection is part of airbending? But I am most worried about the changes to the world. One reason why the Old Republic is loved by fans because it feels just like star wars. The sounds, hyperspace, the force, lightsabers, they are all just the same. A lot of fans did like the changes to world when they moved to Korra, and now they are changing the world again. Some fans fall in love with the world, its their favorite character. Creators don't want to just write the same thing over and over and want change.

[@Lodada]

Korea’s group is literally a harem

[@WARLORD626]

They can't make another good one because they tried to hard with certain polotics that the majority don't care for.

[@jaredballoonboy7944]

Despite its flaws, I still enjoyed watching The Legend Of Korra way more than the 2010 film or the netflix show.

[@SonitoShori]

@@jaredballoonboy7944 I agree, it’s the best content wise

[@rachelslur1404]

Lion turtles gifted the power of bending, people learned the techniques from the bison, dragons, etc. they show this in Korra with the wan flashback. there are a few times in this your hate for Korra shows stronger than deserved, even tho Korra does deserve some hate.

[@Patrick-xs1ft]

very nice video bro, i agreed with literary everything

[@trablunt6587]

We simply wanted more animated aang and gang

[@trevorbolin4011]

Korra was awesome dont hate on it, she had it hard as the avatar tbh i love her

[@marocat4749]

The firebending subtype isnt bad, it kinda makes sense, if ou gave a backstory in the show where Zuko to demilitarize gave the army a basic form of lightning bending. Mako isnt really that mastering that, but he can do it enough to create lightning, and thats it. Lack of explaining why its so common, not that it is. He isnt good either at it, he can just make it. We dont know why only the royal family is shown, maybe they stole it and hunt down anyone who tries else to deitify the royal family? We dont know that the average person cant in the last airbender but its probably a taboo? Which, makes sense if you just did add suuch a thing that the royal family did ban it to anyone else. Which honestly something Zuko showed the veterans to go work in republic city would suffiive. Why shouldnt metalbending not have envolved for that police, and artistic practices. Toph started it, not being the be all end all.Hell Tenzin did do that badass air scoozter mode. Oh and how is it udoing, the liontrutles, are from avatar, and the liontrutles giving a basic ability tha thinned out and yeah they learned from the spirits.

[@AiringAustin]

The thumbnail comparing TLoK to two failed live actions is a bit drastic. Korra was great on its own merits.

[@digitalzealot7026]

Korra's amazing 😭 I guess I'm biased bc I watched that b4 the original Avatar series when I was younger, but I really dont get the hate, especially here with the 2010 movie and Netflix remake as being "worse". Thumbnail is crazy

[@dannysday2001]

Really nice video🙏 but the insecure part at the end is doing more harm than good...Why give us reasons to doubt the quality of your product, when you made a perfectly interesting video? I would even love to listen to you elaborate for longer! Just keep doing what you're doing and have fun with it:)

[@AliJehReik]

Bro @26:00 you make a point i kinda disagree with. Remember in the original series Bumi could psychically bend the earth to free himself from his metal cage on the day of black sun? I think its fair for some water benders to be able to achieve that too with good practice.

[@teslercoil5174]

That and he assumed that bending is only possible because they mentioned learning it from animal in the world when we see that there are people that can't do bending in the original series. What they meant that they learnt the bending martial arts and not the ability to bend. I just don't get how people ignore that fact. Because by the logic mentioned in the video it would mean everyone could learn to bend when the original series shows otherwise.

[@Patrick-xs1ft]

i get your point but the thing that makes blood bending cool is the creepy and unsettling hand movements and the fact that you need an amp to be able to do it, the fact that like 4 characters can do bluetooth blood bending without even moving an inch AND without a full moon is stupid, it would be significantly better if we got an explanation for how he stumbled upon that ability or SHOW us how powerful he was to be able to do that.

[@mrkaji8913]

6:18 they wanted to prove a point about Ozai

[@the8u9]

Reading the comments, I can see why Avatar lost its way. You don't design by committee. There's a difference between what you find acceptable / understandable and what constitutes strong design choices with sound verisimilitude. By the logic of some of these people, a Chevy and a Ferrari is the same because they are both cars that take you from point A to point B. It's precisely these kinds of fans that lead unsure storytellers and anxious production companies astray. People do not realize that when they do not question why every firebender and their grandmas can lightning bend, it quickly destroys airtight worldbuilding. The bending was not a mere means to an end, the original team avatar and their enemies were gearing up for a final battle, those talents were in the realm of geniuses and also those who were open minded enough to learn about the other benders. Toph was able to metalbend, BECAUSE she was blind. Her reliance on "earth" was so strong and along with having the most stubborn personality of all the characters in the story, it ALLOWED her to achieve a new height. It's not something you are supposed to be able to just teach anyone. A bunch of rando fire benders producing electricity for the city with lightning bending does not stop for a second to ask why that would even be necessary in a world where fire can be conjured out of the air. You can just use combustion as the main mode of energy use, not electricity. We only did that in OUR world because we found fire to be inefficient and dangerous.

[@jdminze]

I think a lot of your takes are pretty valid but saying LOK is worse than the live action movie is not something I will be taking up for discussion and any attempt to is say so is nostalgia for ATLA

[@seanwalker6052]

Man the nitpicks on Korra are crazy lol

[@Rebelheart1985]

Another problem with the terrible live action movie: All the people of color are either in the background or are villains.

[@joshua2764]

They did do a good Avatar show with Korra, otherwise it wouldn't have had a huge loyal following even after over a whole decade lol. Just cos it wasnt good to u and majority of the ATLA fandom doesn't mean everybody hated it And don't get me wrong ATLA is definitely a timeless classic but i still prefer ATLOK to it Different strokes for different folks

[@acenull0]

Korra could have been great if Nick wasn't interfering!

[@neofluxmachina]

The Kyoshi novels are pretty good

[@demigreen6495]

Amazing vid bro 🎉❤

[@mechajay3358]

People can like Korra all they wantz but you have to admit on narrative and character driven level it doesn't hold up to The Last Airbender.

[@Lialey22]

good video :) had the same thoughts about LoK and never wanted to watch it a second time. In my head its not canon because most of the additions they thought of are just breaking the existing lore. AtlA is so special and unique in its direction and writing and espcially the dark spirit thing, the "if you are born a prodigy you can bend with your mind", Korra loosing the connections to all her past lives, the dissconection and drama of the lead characters and the unpleasant ent-glorification of our past heroes made it so unbearable to watch at times. Its not a bad show but it redcons to many things that made AtlA special. I wish we could have a sequel that followed the already established rules and storyline but I fear the next series will stray more and more from the original. But lets see ^^

[@ItsMeCrazyMc]

I actually thought Korra was a great show. It seems pretty impossible to live up to ATLA. But still a a good continuation nonetheless

[@NikhilKumar-rq2rv]

Also the humour is good feels like real people in ATLA but in the new netflix series its really bumb

[@GrimAngel01100]

NGL for anyone who has gripes with Korra, go watch the Captains review on why Korra isn't actually that bad. Did it have issues? Sure, mostly due to constantly being green lit for only one season and forced to pump that season out under threat of cancelation, and partly due to the weird season orders (S2 shouldve been the end of series based on villain alone); however it certainly better than people pretend it is.

[@anemoinsanity8208]

I watched the movie before I got the chance to watch the show, and I personally don’t think anything could top or even live up to the original. The movie doesn’t work as a movie, let alone an adaptation. I forgot everything about the movie a few hours after I watched it, but Avatar has stuck with me until today. For Legend of Korra, it could definitely be better, but it’s ok-ish as a show. I stopped watching it after the Zaheer arc. I do feel like it fell flat outside of a few things.

[@gentwhoisoverit6992]

Lol i'm sorry but I have to agree with all this. For me the M Night film is more something to laugh at so I find value in it that way but that's about it. I didn't even bother watching the netflix adaptation. As for LOK, I resent it because it had so much potential but the writing... the undoing of what was established before... the characters... the corny villain/theme of the season format... season 2 as a whole 💀 and I have zero interest in the whole twin avatars/ 7 havens show concept going around

[@SonitoShori]

@@gentwhoisoverit6992 lol yes, I was really excited about Korra and first watch through I kinda liked it but felt this weird uneasy feeling, I started to realize its issues the more I rewatched it. I’d give the seven havens a chance also, I was really worried after all these bad installments they’ve been making, but I wouldn’t write it off so soon, give it a season at least

[@mrkaji8913]

4:37 it’s better than the live action Ben 10