The Legend of Whorra: Book 3 (Part 1)

[@TheBelieveit1]

Regarding the romance in Korra. It basically exemplifies what the great CS Lewis once said: "Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend." You could tell that the GAang in TLAB loved each other, but they were not all in love with each other. Sure, Toph had a crush on Sokka and then Aang and Katara had a running thing of romance that ultimately paid off. But that wasn't the core of their relationships. They all could see past their genitals and focus on the task at hand. Shit, even Sokka in the Serpent's Pass while it did make him focus more on his feelings for Sukki, it was born less about him wanting to get his dick wet and more about him fearing about losing someone he has deep feelings for after what happened with Yue. He suffered heartbreak and didn't want to risk it again so long as it was within his power. Korra on the otherhand treats romance like your typical teenage drama. There's nothing truly relatable about it. It's all "Oh you disagreed with me? Well then now we're enemies even though we been making out like there's no tomorrow for weeks"

[@Don-ds3dy]

What would you expect from people who live in a society (takes a shot) that champions and tries to normalize sexual adultry and degeneracy. Hook-Up-Culture, Tinder, Onlyfans, P***Hub, TikTok, constant bombartment of partial nudity and s**ual inuendos etc. (Pardon the censorship we live in a society ((takes a shot)) with inconsistent standards). Can you blame people for loosing touch with what love is or what romantic relationships are supposed to be about?

[@mkultra2456]

@@Don-ds3dy Yes I can

[@applesandgrapesfordinner4626]

​@@Don-ds3dy They're the same kind of people who say "love isn't real" yet make no effort to actually look for authentic love.

[@thorshammer7883]

@@Don-ds3dy The greatest moral tragedy to what Man was supposed to be made for. What have these current generations done to what was seen as good...

[@arturzinurov4781]

The only thing I disagree with is calling what happened between Sokka and Yue a “heartbreak”. Nah my dude your 1st love turning into a faking moon is not heartbreak it’s called trauma. Dude imagine you are making love to your significant other and then you see the moonlight

[@DaywalkerNL94]

I just love how fundamentally broken the sheer concept of friendship and interaction is in this show. So much so that when someone isn't being competitive, snarky, bossy or an asshole to someone else it's taken as a sign of romance. Every romance in the show is like that.

[@jasonwarren9279]

At least half of people under 40 think this way in real life, so it's not surprising to see writing reflecting it.

[@DaywalkerNL94]

@@jasonwarren9279 how many of those "below 40" are teens below 15?

[@Morec0]

@@DaywalkerNL94 It's millennials that started it, and we're twice that age now.

[@aaronlandry3934]

They’re about as romantic together as a steel beam. She legit tells her boyfriend to focus on the plot instead of the stupid romances

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

we should ban romance in general, people don't need it in cartoons. Edit: or just make it straight :P

[@zemo8214]

Adding on to the whole Vaatu/Korra thing, Vaatu states in his battle with Wan that he was the one who broke through the divide between the material and spirit world to have spirits flood in and wreak chaos, which means that Vaatu was the one who created the portals. Once Vaatu is defeated Wan seals up the portals and sends the spirits packing back to their own world, fast forward 10,000 years later and Vaatu is once again free and must be defeated. Except when Vaatu is defeated the second time by Korra he isn't trapped inside the tree like before, he is instead allowed to regenerate freely inside of Raava/Korra. Korra only then decides that it's a good idea to open Vaatu's portals back up and let spirits once again roam free on the Earth, not only that but she also later goes on to open up a portal (just like Vaatu) of her own at the climax of Book 4 at the heart of Republic City. In short Korra is the AntiChrist of the Avatar World

[@LHSMeleeClub]

holy absolute shiz im rly glad i set the youtube comments to "most recent" by sheer small chance rofl. thats insane dude. mighty good observation.

[@LHSMeleeClub]

@E;R PLEASE mention this in your upcoming video(s) lol

[@xk5975]

Nice take. The 10,000 year carpet fight thing is stupid anyway. Never seen so much retconning in a series. Also, the whole plot line of accepting violent spirits as part of our world could be seen as predictive programming for children to accept immigrants no matter the cost, or even aliens/demons.

[@Jdudec367]

She opens up a portal for good reason though...that's not like Vaatu at all. Korra isn't the AntiChrist at all.

[@buttkingsley1403]

@@Jdudec367 what was the good reason

[@InkyBlitz]

Man that "You gotta deal with it!" line really did characterize Korra for this entire series.

[@Southernstereotype]

There’s “YoU GoTtA dEaL wItH It!” “Oh, so it’s all my fault now?” Destroying a priceless artifact over a training sesh, etc.

[@superawesome5780]

I liked Season 1 and 3 of this series tbh but Korra was unironically always one of my least favorite parts of Legend of Korra. She's legit pretty annoying as a character.

[@InkyBlitz]

@@superawesome5780 Stick around. He will ruin S3 like he did S1 for me 6 years ago. ;^)

[@matthewmuir8884]

The irony is that the line was apparently written to help put fans at ease; Mike and Bryan knew they couldn't just repeat Aang's journey for the sequel and wanted Korra to be as different from Aang as possible, and they figured fans would be initially adverse to the new Avatar being so different from Aang, so they wrote that line as a way to ease fans; essentially a, "We're doing something different this time; please bear with us". Evidently, the line had the opposite effect.

[@InkyBlitz]

@@matthewmuir8884 How out of touch do you have to be to think "(F*** you) You gotta deal with it!" Is a good way to ease fans into our new Avatar, whom we never even saw develop as one like we did with Roku whom also had the luxury of peace to become the Avatar he needed to be. Bryke!

[@diamonddavebabe4090]

The blossoming relationship between Straw-nerd and E;R proves that romance isn't dead.

[@JustinCage56]

He's unironically my favorite character on the channel

[@marlom7882]

It’s ♾x better than korrasami

[@elizabeth5561]

@@marlom7882 Straw Nerd and E;R don't even have romance and I agree its a better romance than Korrasalami

[@major_havok7854]

I was going to say the same exact thing

[@nuclearchezburgr3857]

Classic Enemies to Lovers trope playing out before our eyes

[@Laxhoop]

I was in high school when Korra was coming out, and seeing two girls who had fought over a guy becoming friends, was more ridiculous to me, than the element bending or spirit world. Especially if the guy wasn’t actively chasing both of them, but one just stole a kiss from him or something. So many lunchroom fights happened over sh*t like that, and this show expected me to believe that women could become friends after that. I mean, maybe if the guy was cheating on both of them, and neither knew, I could buy the idea that they could become friends afterwards. But in the case of this show, both women knew, and the guy wasn’t the one trying to start the cheating. So the idea that hair wasn’t ripped out, at the very least, is insane to me.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Not just friends, but lovers? No way man lol

[@ZeroX7649]

Lol, I quit after 2 episodes. I saw the Love Triangle wasn't going to be a one episode thing and NOPED the fuck out.

[@56jisanzaman38]

writers were just feeding the male fantasy Edit: I meant imagine you are a guy having 2 hot chicks on your d*ck and cheating on them simultaneously, but they are not fighting about it and just being casual.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

@@56jisanzaman38 No male has that fantasy.

[@thecommenter578]

Friends? Lol, these two f*ck

[@RogueFox2185]

Tenzin going full Genghis Kahn would have made for a more interesting series than focusing on Korra, he’s the main protagonist we needed than the one we sadly got.

[@Sebomai-b8i]

Emperor Tenzin and his bender harem practicing a comprehensive eugenics program to rebuild his race.

[@Aquamentii]

Or imagine that, being the only two airbenders, both Korra and Tenzin had different ideas about what the revived airbending culture should look like for their descendants: Korra has Aang’s memories, which are limited because they are from a child’s POV, while Tenzin grew up on stories of the 100 year war and formed his own opinions about the air nomads based on studies of the remains of the temples. You could have Korra pursue an attempt to recreate the emotional experience of living among the nomads and their spiritual harmony with nature, while Tenzin tries to maintain historical accuracy and emphasizes the ascetic aspects of life.

[@electricangel4488]

Hpnestly thought that be the red lotus guys thing. Reviving a radical s9de of the air nation into a sudo army. Chosen people stuff

[@victora.1329]

@@Aquamentii only flaw I can see is that Korra would have all of Aang's memories, not just the childhood one's. Maybe have it be like she knows Aang's memories but disagrees with his perspective while Tenzin, while not exactly knowing what his father would have done, still does his best to carry forth his ideals

[@erikbihari3625]

Yeah, he's SUCH A great guy with a ton of depth to explore rather than miss entitlement masquarading as the avatar!

[@DeathSongoftheThreeStorms]

"...the vines won't die. They'll just come back as TikToks." That's gold, shadow man 👌

[@ChadKakashi]

Shit I just got that.

[@Slender_Man_186]

Well not quite, they have to come back as Musicly first.

[@someguy4405]

@@Slender_Man_186 Shut up, we all need to collectively forget it ever happened.

[@Slender_Man_186]

@@someguy4405 why? It’s all cringe that *needs to burn.*

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

Ahhh it feels like a breath of air to see E;R uploading in a fairly consistent manner this year. And the fact that its tearing apart more Wrath of Whorra is even better.

[@hodb3906]

He just has to. Too many people accept this godawful retconning mess of a show as canon. When i say “people” i mean tumblrinas. Aaron ehasz has to come back. Only he can continue where the atla ended. Not bryke. The comics written/created by bryke where atla left off are also as bad as tlok. E;R should check those out as well.

[@diegocardenas6494]

It truly is.

[@MrRatchet12661]

@@hodb3906 Really? Huh. Which ones were made by Bryke?

[@He11Jumper]

a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

[@CrizzyEyes]

I stopped watching the show after the fanfiction ending of Book 2 and I'm glad I did.

[@crudestnebula7852]

E:R and the nerd character had more chemistry in 20 minutes than korrasami had in the entire 4 season show

[@piciperkuadrik4636]

lol 💀

[@CrimesForDimes]

Unironically.

[@ab-gail]

Das rite!

[@MLNeidig]

E;R x Straw Nerd otp

[@melvinmerkelhopper5752]

Aw shit! Your fucking right.

[@limemason]

Here I was randomly rewatching the entirety of the whorra series, and E;R blesses me with this. What a time to be alive.

[@ZeroX7649]

That's what happens during Harmonic Convergence.

[@FalonGrey]

Glad I'm not the only one who rewatches his entire channel every now and then!

[@IchCharacter]

I hope you mean E;R's series on Whorra, otherwise you might need help.

[@Kernwadi]

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[@x0j]

bro this shit is garbage, watch avatar instead

[@Nite-Mite]

14:12 “I can see why Korrasami stans are so thirsty. They’re dehydrated!” Now that was a good one 😆

[@insulttothehumanrace3807]

You'd think a Water Tribe Avatar could help with that... but nope. XD

[@GyaruRespecter]

I believe the accurate term is "lesbian bed death".

[@pewgarpolls]

🖨️

[@momo1234368]

What's hilarious about the universe balancing itself out and making more Airbenders, is that its a testimony to how awful Korra was as the Avatar. The universe gave the world the Avatar as a means to maintain balance, and then Korra came along and the Universe was like "I guess I gotta do this myself".

[@2im36]

that makes no sense whatsoever but ok

[@fegeleinherman8587]

Bassicly God is doing Korra's job for her

[@hueyfreeman6262]

​@@2im36 neither does anything in midrra

[@2im36]

@@hueyfreeman6262 bruh the show wasn’t even that bad 💀 you’re j comparing it to ATLA so it seems worse

[@MT-iw6sl]

@@2im36 “You’re comparing it to ATLA so it seems worse” wtf so we can’t compare shows that are direct continuations of each other? By that logic anyone that talks shit about the Star Wars sequels or prequels can’t compare them to each other or the OT, yet everyone does. And if LoK is inferior to ATLA, people will think that and compare them, which almost everyone does even if they liked Korra.

[@Total_DuDe]

Kora: Opens the portals, unleashing Vaatu, and unchecked spirits onto the human realm. "Did I do that?"

[@danlorett2184]

It's crazy too that it IMMEDIATELY goes horribly, and her response is "lol, lmao". YOU COULD ACTUALLY FUCKING DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! You're literally the one person who could. And instead, you just tell everyone to eat cake. 8% is way too damn high, she's lucky they didn't string her up.

[@JazzyReShawn]

No Korra, the Avatar did that.😑

[@hieroprotoganist3440]

@@JazzyReShawn ?

[@albireotheredguard1599]

Yes, yes you did.

[@Jdudec367]

@@hieroprotoganist3440 it's a joke lol

[@migarsormrapophis2755]

"Infestation by murderous spirits is just part and parcel of living in a modern city." It's like poetry, it rhymes

[@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805]

There's been another Peace-bender attack.

[@nigeltheoutlaw]

Oh, so THAT'S why they call each other "vatou".

[@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805]

@@nigeltheoutlaw Can a vatou get some collard greens and a lap dance up in this the-atre.

[@Gormfeld]

Just another day in Sadiq Khan's Republic City

[@Shadow-In-The-East]

It's like pottery, it rims.

[@lamalova6681]

According to Beginnings, bending was never an integral nor spiritually linked ability. It was merely gifted as a temporary defense tool by the lion turtles. So why would harmonic convergence “sense an imbalance” and give random people bending? The Legend of Whorra doesn’t even know how to stick to its own lore, let alone ATLA’s

[@insulttothehumanrace3807]

A little off-topic, but the Beginnings episodes kind of ruined the Avatar in a similar manner. It being changed from a spirit of the world/incarnation of nature to a human fusing with a spirit messes up some things. Like, why does the Avatar being killed in the Avatar State risk erasing all their lives and knowledge, if that all comes from a spirit who returns after a while anyway? Why does the Avatar need to learn the different philosophies and styles of bending, when Raava is why they have that ability in the first place (especially since Wan, as far as I recall, only really learned the "natural" way with fire)? And on a note related to your comment, why is the Avatar still around after the next Harmonic Convergence? The Avatar has been turned from a spirit/incarnation of nature into a human/spirit fusion -- an abomination of nature. So shouldn't that be corrected, if the idea is to restore balance? Especially since the fusion only happened as an act of desperation from Wan to stop Vaatu, not the result of the natural cycle of life?

[@Arkangel630]

@@insulttothehumanrace3807 you've already put more thought into it than the college bros writing this

[@PinClockFuntime]

The Universe is a simple shorthand for "The writers felt like it"

[@qxujevozaeni1240]

Maybe the Earth Nationals have Air Nation ancestors? Most likely people interbred since before the war.

[@antoninuslarpus7107]

@@qxujevozaeni1240 That makes little fucking sense though, besides being pacifists, the air nomads were isolationists.They lived in 4 seperate communites on mountains*. And based off the Avatar World Map, they were also on seperate islands*. Your average Lee merchant would had stumbled onto the Air Temple by accident. And it's unlikely he even got time to spend with an airbender women. It's not impossible per se, but in a pre-industrial era, it's unlikely any earthbenders or even airbenders intermarried and had children. *-Apart from one

[@JohnRed]

It's crazy how they massacred the world building. The world of spirits used to be so cool and now it's just a portal to another world and monsters just come out of the portal. The avatar used to be cool, now it's just some idiot thief who merged with a carpet. What an embarrassment.

[@johnnybrown542]

And completely forgetting the other malevolent spirits that definitely lived there. Koh comes to mind.

[@mfgrobin9657]

thats just a matter of willingly vain you want to be. i for example spite anything that came after the main story of aang and will never aknowledge what came after .

[@Artemisarrowzz]

Hence why its not canon, like everything that has ever came after the original tv show ended. The sequel, the comics, all that stuff? Yeah, no.

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

for the g*y lords, literally lol

[@Kernwadi]

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[@monkeyinapanzer]

An interesting thing about the randos magically granted airbending and now pretending to be a part of a effectively dead culture is that’s it’s basically a more egregious version of a screw up from the original avatar series. Book 1’s The Northern Air Temple had rando earth kingdom people butcher an air nomad temple; turning it into an ugly smog belching and weapons manufacturing pit. Rooms and artifacts are carelessly destroyed and the real kicker is Aang is the one chastised by the plot for not understanding the squatters destroying his mass murdered peoples home and making cheap parodies of his culture. I guess the writers just never really understood just what the air nomad genocide would really mean or how sensitive of a topic that should be. Regularly treating people with no connection to them as successors to the air nomads is the closest they ever got.

[@dansmith1661]

Cool it with the anti-earthbendertism.

[@bartholomewthered9143]

Glad I’m not the only one who thought Aang got shafted in the northern Air Temple episode. His reaction to what was essentially a desecration of a place sacred to his culture was completely human and reasonable, especially given the fact that he was literally the last member of that culture left alive.

[@theylivewesleep.5139]

Ok bozo, keep telling people to remember the four winds. Even if the fire Lord really managed to get to the air temples (literally how? They had no flying bisons) the air nomads probably deserved it.

[@aaronlandry3934]

@@theylivewesleep.5139 The show actually did address that throughout its run, but never outright stated it. The Fire Nation began improving its metal working and eventually created good enough war balloons to reach the heights of the air temples. They’d only have to use more fire to reach higher, so makes sense they’d do it eventually

[@theylivewesleep.5139]

@@aaronlandry3934 I know, I was just doing a funny.

[@JetblackJay]

Koh the face stealer in this world now physically whenever is concerning to think about

[@luigi298]

It would be an improvement in society.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

He wouldn't be able to steal anyone's face, because everyone is wearing masks, thus hiding the triangle in their face, thus hiding their emotions. Finally, the masks are good for something!

[@reharl4953]

He would immediately start eliminating the emotionally incontinent.

[@applesandgrapesfordinner4626]

Wow! Korra really did ruin the world, didn't she?

[@CrizzyEyes]

@@applesandgrapesfordinner4626 But it's cool, because strong independent women just get mad, give up and leave. Right? Especially when they're written by lazy stoner dudes.

[@slipstream9619]

Can we also talk about how abusive korra is? Like she threatened mako whenever he didn't agree completely with her. She grabs the president without every repercussion. She abused Bolin when she used him to get to Mako. Used Mako to get to Asami. Used Asami for her money and connections to get weapons gk the southern water tribe. She even broke makos desk, and threaten him with physical violence when he said his hands were tied. I mean honestly if korra was a guy and mako was a girl the show would get its ass reamed

[@meb4224]

Hell, a good number of the asshats that became Korrasami stans would always write MAKO as an abuser, especially during season 1! It's legit one of the many reasons I hate them with every fiber of my being, and then some.

[@kirakira1212]

You jUsT hATe stroOoNg fEmaLe cHaraCtErs u mYsoGiniSTiC HaTEr

[@marlom7882]

@@meb4224 oh of course *Mako* is the abuser

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

she's a self-insert for your stereotypical tumblrina. Of course she's abusive. These types of people don't know what emotional maturity and healthy relationships are, which is why they can't write anything but abusive, toxic mouthpieces. I dunno if it's a Galbrush paradox but reversed.

[@arathar24l]

I think I remember someone saying that it's often female characters who embody the traits of so-called toxic masculinity.

[@AverageSoupEnjoyer-wz7sm]

It’s been 5 years, but THE LEGEND IS BACK!!

[@LHSMeleeClub]

YEEEWASAA

[@inciniumz4671]

After 5 years I hope it will have been worth the wait

[@Kernwadi]

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[@theepicduck6922]

The only thing I found enjoyable from Korra overall.

[@wherethetatosat]

BWAAAAAAH BWAAAH BWAH BWAAAAAAAH!

[@GyaruRespecter]

That Bumi scene gave me such happy thoughts, like how in the actual Avatar, Zuko lost his ability to control fire simply by switching sides, then had to learn from the ground up a new firebending kata/form from the FUCKING DRAGONS. Just because he had a change of heart and mindset. Because bending was *that* fickle and required *that* much focus. I'm glad we progressed beyond that traditionalist mumbo-jumbo and now have randos airbending despite having no idea what the hell they are doing, because now bending is just capeshit superpowers.

[@seg162]

There was so much effort put into conceptualizing and developing bending as a system, that the debasement of the concept in LoK could only be fully intentional. Yet, I don't know *why* they did it.

[@CandaEH]

@@seg162 lazy writing

[@JayTohab]

@@CandaEH and/or malice

[@CandaEH]

@@JayTohab probably just lazy writing.. doubt they want to destroy their own work/reputation lol

[@Slender_Man_186]

Bending really was just turned into a super power instead of a martial art, even complete with the fucking spandex suits later on for the airbenders.

[@thedoruk6324]

We have waited sooo long for this! Rejoice! The ER has returneth! There are soo many people that actually simp for korra series unbelievable

[@IlllIIIIllIIlIIlIlIlllI]

Like Hasan simps for Whorra and calls E;R a nazi and i fr don’t get why

[@Kernwadi]

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[@thedoruk6324]

@@Kernwadi plus a thousand or so social credits confirmed and transactioned to your account

[@jonathanmcgraw3384]

“There are soo many people that actually simp for korra” Bitch dependency is no laughing matter.

[@hanburgundy4317]

It's sad how many people haven't watched the show and take this shit seriously.

[@combosloth1677]

it still amazes me just how irredeemable kora is as a main character let alone the fucking avatar

[@Libtardo123]

She literally became crippled after trying to save everyone

[@ghoul4748]

@@Libtardo123 And she should've stayed a cripple because she is more helpful to the world as a vegetable.

[@3HorsemenOfMovingPictures]

@@Libtardo123 writer's fault

[@Libtardo123]

@Anonymous Cheese it is a facepalm at some points but as a general experience it’s worth it to watch it all

[@fiddlesticks7245]

@@Libtardo123 are you smoking crack

[@hsemicolonc]

It just feels incredible seeing old UnclE;R upload consistently this half of the year, it's just one little peek of light in the completely hopeless dark ages the start of this disastrous decade has been. When we needed him most, he *returned*.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

There is so much this man could rip into. Imagine Rings of Power...

[@lop1652]

@@TheStraightestWhitest He will need a BFG for that.

[@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805]

Aang concerned himself with stopping the Fire Lord as an unprepared child. Korra is concerned with media polling. Instead of seeing people treat her like garbage, they just tell her she's at 8% so. what.

[@Libtardo123]

Struggles are relative. Different Avatars have differing levels of conflict. Look at the previous water Avatar, he basically did nothing his entire life. As for the polling, I think the problem is that it’s contradictory to her heroics in Season 1. People shouldn’t hate Korra so much after what’s she done.

[@misterwhalrus7334]

@@Libtardo123 I am so mad of how big of a chance they missed with Korra, her struggle would have to have been somehow reconciling the Fire-colonies in the Earth-Kingdom that mostl consider themselves Fire-nation territory, being occupied even before the war

[@Libtardo123]

@@misterwhalrus7334 they definitely missed so many opportunities and it could have been written so much better in hindsight, but I think Korra gets way too much hate.

[@misterwhalrus7334]

@@Libtardo123 Why? She is not strong, feminine. I would not even consider her heroic. Her personality seems to belong to some art-school californian dropout, rather than a prodigy trained from youth to safeguard the world. Imagine Korra's character, to somehow fix the disputes of the colonies while hating the firenation and trying to be objective with a nation that almost wiped out her culture. Her very character could have been made from being at odds with the og cast but the very idea of peace, peace with the filthy firenation dwellers who got oof relatively scot-free from waging a genocidal war of conquest

[@mr.weaponsmann1004]

@@misterwhalrus7334 i am pretty sure aang was the one to fix the beef with colonies

[@because-strudels]

"Sit down. We're doing this." No need to tell me twice, this upload singlehandedly salvaged my night lol

[@sahrbabonjoisguiltfree]

I dunno if that was him saying it or just another voice clip he pulled but my god that was awesome

[@esemicolonr]

@@sahrbabonjoisguiltfree That was my voice back when I had the coof, lel. I had the foresight to record some lines with it

[@sahrbabonjoisguiltfree]

@@esemicolonr intense as hell, loved it 👍🏻

[@elizabeth5561]

@@esemicolonr Thank you for posting this video when you did. I came out to my friend, then not even 5 minutes later, I saw the notification for this high quality video. Thank you for making that day even better. Hope you have a good weekend.

[@Dragonage2ftw]

I suppose that’s nice.

[@kojikashiin319]

The curse of the thicc rims killed me Partially because I'm terrified that when I go to get a new pair of glasses I'm going to see nothing but that style

[@SmilesHeavy]

Go online, it's what I do when I still wore glasses.

[@Eisenwulf666]

Are they still in fashion in the US?

[@AnimaVox_]

My lenses are thick, so my frames are thick. 🤷

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

@@AnimaVox_ Same. You could pay a whole lot more to get the thin lenses but why bother, just get both super cheap. Mine also came with extra as where they fold in they also can bend slightly out absorbing the stress on the frames. I wonder if they go thin lenses but thick frame? What is it even supposed to mean as a style? Is there some kinda form, function, fashion I'm not aware of? It is a common trend that shows up more often than not and people always point it out.

[@AnimaVox_]

@@jayeisenhardt1337 Thin frames also feel kind of fragile to me, so there's that too.

[@ChudMcRizzler]

When the world needed him the most he returned 😭

[@Kernwadi]

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[@ilovenovels]

The best series on youtube is back. Thank you E;R

[@sailormoon3393]

6:25 I agree. It would have been really poetic if most of the renewed Air Nomads had come from the Fire Nation. Imagine restoring a culture that your ancestors destroyed.

[@DromusTH]

Yo, that actually sounds awesome

[@mohamedbelkacem9889]

Imagine the discrimination those airbenders would suffer as the earth Airbender or the water Airbender try and shame them for crimes they didn't commit. What about equalists? Imagine you are a non bender who hates bending and are part of the equalists, then you get airbending, how would you react? How would your friends and family feel?

[@crackedemerald4930]

@@mohamedbelkacem9889 actual drama tension and interest

[@mohamedbelkacem9889]

@@crackedemerald4930 something whorra lacks. It is disappointing to know that even with bad ideas you can spring it into something, but even that was not taken.

[@RTU130]

hmm

[@FeHearts]

Korra: Diversity is Republic City’s strength. Giant vines and spirit crimes are part and parcel of living in Republic City.

[@Shoxic666]

I love how the strawman geek gets a better arc than Korra the carpet-spirited carpet-muncher.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Carpet tastes better boiled, it loosens up the glue.

[@Lorgar64]

@@diegodankquixote-wry3242 Now quit complainin', I pulled a lotta strings so they'd let a child work.

[@luisrodriguiz7170]

@@Lorgar64 no daddy I don't want to go

[@seijin4426]

I thought they made her into a peach-puffer for no reason despite being straight from the majority of the series?

[@turkeysgotmorecloutthanyou]

@@diegodankquixote-wry3242 air nomads were born to burn

[@JustAnArrogantAlien]

To this day I have no idea what the point of leaving the spirit portals open even was. Wan’s story showed Korra how utterly urgent it was to keep those hateful, deadly spirits away from helpless humans. Several characters claim that separating the worlds 10,000 years ago was a mistake, and it’s clear the writers endorse that; but NO ONE ever qualifies why. Was it really just to add extra conflict in later seasons?

[@deadliestvice5356]

Much like leaving borders open in the real world, yes it was. No conflict, no -taxes- story.

[@jacobrivera1721]

It dumb idea that should’ve been close permanently in order to prevent any bad spirits from getting through

[@insulttothehumanrace3807]

An arguably even worse part is that the Beginnings episodes tried to frame the conflict between the humans and spirits in Wan's time as the humans being unwilling to coexist with spirits... except that, as the mastE;R pointed out, even the peoples that did try this, like the Air Nomads, still had to live on the Lion Turtles because many spirits just hated humans anyway and the environment they brought was that dangerous. The spirits in Wan's, Korra's, heck even Aang's to a degree, all think humans should help and respect them, with none of them (aside from Twi and La) willing to reach out to or help humans in return.

[@Ihrun]

Diversity is out strungth!

[@3HorsemenOfMovingPictures]

@@jacobrivera1721 i like the weird spiderman version clothing in ur pfp

[@TheKilopoo]

“We need to lock down the city.” Fauci: 😏

[@burningspeed]

I went back to do a double check on what happened in the last book where we met the first Avatar, and already Book 3 not only fuck up the pre-established lore from The Last Air Bender and Book 2 at the same time. Book 2: The original benders were blessed with the power to bend the elements by the Lion Turtles. Also Book 2: YOU CAN'T BE ABLE TO BEND MULTIPLE ELEMENTS UNLESS YOU HAD THAT ONE SPIRIT FUSE WITH YOU TO DO IT. This confirms one thing to me, no one on the writing team for Legend of Korra knows anything about the lore from The Last Air Bender, or even their own new lore from the sequel series. Great video, keep up the great work.

[@Kernwadi]

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[@Thalanox]

It sounds to me like the writers for this are different from the writers for TLAS. They are either people who actively hate the current lore, and are looking for an excuse to "update it" in order to get over major "creative differences" (maybe a feud with the writers of TLAS), or they are the type who literally doesn't care about established lore and just makes up a new set of special rules for every new plot arc they make. It's like they're kids who had a few imaginary friends and wrote about them having different kinds of characteristics on a per-story basis. In one story, they're on a pirate ship. In the next story, a space ship. The stories are not connected except for using the same character names and personality traits. It's a kid having fun with writing random stories with the same personality cores over and over, not a writer producing a good work of fiction.

[@kdash2657]

Sounds like a pre-established problem prior to season 3.

[@NEWFIExGAMING]

@@Thalanox The writers for LoK were Bryke, Tim Hedrick and Joshua Hamilton, all writers for AtLA. AtLA had more writers that Bryke definitely should have brought back such as Aaron Ehasz, Elizabeth Welch, John O'Bryan, and May Chan. "...or they are the type who literally doesn't care about established lore and just makes up a new set of special rules for every new plot arc they make." I'm willing to bet it's this one.

[@DukeBluedevil70]

The editing and comedic timing in your vids is actually pretty good. I don’t typically like these type of youtube essays but after seeing your Halo vid you’ve earned my sub.

[@ZeroX7649]

It's a shame Mommy Susan took away his bending the J word and N word.

[@ldeezy3422]

@@ZeroX7649 j ??

[@vevvev696]

@@ZeroX7649 Did they take the F one too?

[@slicedtopieces]

New to E;R? The real question is can you handle concentrated amounts of 2:22?

[@mkultra2456]

@Bluedevil70 lol you gotta stop misusing the word actually.

[@Matkovic99]

"Living in a vine infestation is just part and parcel of living in a big city!!" -Literally Kora

[@-Azure.EXE-]

This show feels like it's speedrunning a writing troupe counter.

[@nullprop]

it's like watching a parody of good series

[@wilder11]

Dude your elaboration on bringing Air Benders back with a snap of the writer's fingers was epic. I'd never really thought of that before, but when you take the idea seriously and think it through, it's horrifying. Bryke are basically insulting their own creation here, by doing this. It's almost like...storytelling genocide or something. They had the Air nomads genocided by the Fire Nation right? Then, in Korra, they decide not to honor the weight of that terrible, heinous act and its victims. Instead, they press a button and make it all better, with people who aren't even the descendants of the ACTUAL Air nomads. That'd be like if the Americans had FULLY destroyed the native population, except for one survivor, right? Then, after he has children, and they have children, God steps in and suddenly calls a random sample of white people "natives". Then, God names you, the descendent of the Last Native, to try and teach these white people your ways. Obviously it's a little different because we're talking about superpowers vs. an ethnicity, but I think it illustrates my point: the destruction of the Air nomads should be respected, even by its writers. To fix it all with a switch just doesn't fly. Because we fans respect the genocide of the Air nomads. We understood how terrible a thing it was and how it would have impact for generations in this world. Even if we didn't think about it much, I think most of us would expect to see the consequences of that genocide and how Aang's progeny were doing with rebuilding the Air nomads. Instead we got this...constant humiliation of the last hope for the Air nomads (Tenzin) and an attempt to simply deflect from the historical significance of a terrible in-universe event the writers refuse to honor properly. Also 11:28 always fucking kills me. XD

[@aleciad7218]

Now that I think about it, LoK rugsweeping the Air Nomad genocide gets even worse. The show could've brought back some airbenders through energybending or specific spirit intervention (like the airbending equivalents of Tui and La), but then a new airbending culture would be established. You could get a very interesting conflict with Tenzin trying to reestablish the old Air Nomad culture versus the new airbenders, who are developing their own unique ways of life. Syncretisim should happen, because the "uniting of the four nations" is supposed to be a theme in LoK. Ultimately, this would emphasize the theme that things change, but other things cannot be undone. The genocide would be treated with the gravity it deserves. To hammer this home, Tenzin could state that some aspects of the Air Nomad culture are lost forever. It would've been great for Korra talk to her past Air Nomad avatars, so she could help record their lost histories and wisdom.

[@wilder11]

@@aleciad7218 Yeah that's an interesting idea. But Bryke aren't interested in good ideas. Only THEIR ideas. XD

[@neroidius6915]

It’s amazing when E;R puts out more content in one year than Disney Star Wars for once

[@Kernwadi]

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[@austinbaker8042]

That's exactly how I felt about Airbending. The writers have deteriorated to the absolute laziest way to write supernatural abilities: Xmen. People randomly spontaneously obtain superpowers that they can easily control/fluctuate with their emotions and they get better at controlling them by just squinting their eyes and TRYING HARDER, or from some bullshit surge of emotion. There was literally a scene in S3 episode 1 of Korra that was straight out of an Xmen comic where Korra invites this kid who randomly and dangerously started airbending to her school of gifted youngsters to "train." Just totally throw all the beautiful work the first series crafted in the fucking compacter to burn. All the intricate rules and mastery and culture. Unbelievable. Disney did the same thing with the Force and everything else they touch. Unbelievable.

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

"and that's a good thing! - Kotaku or whatever.

[@maz2483]

Relax my man. Everything is a copy nowadays. DC, Marvel, Harry Potter, Star Wars Hard to come up with something original.

[@maz2483]

Relax my man. Everything is a copy nowadays. DC, Marvel, Harry Potter, Star Wars Hard to come up with something original.

[@ChadKakashi]

No disrespecting X-men. They don’t get their powers from nowhere, they are evolved humans.

[@austinbaker8042]

But there's zero explanation for the actual powers. Superman gets his powers from the sun because he is a race of Kryptonian. X-men just wake up one day with powers because of an "X gene" just one genome that can mutate any power you could imagine. I know that it doesn't really matter, all supernatural stuff makes no sense when you really look at it and you can also explain any superpower to make sense narratively but they're not all created equal.

[@AyubuKK]

It makes me so mad that everything that was important in ATLA had all of its significance stripped away from it in LOK.

[@sirmenace8161]

Not really

[@roel250]

Lavabending goes brr

[@darken2417]

@@sirmenace8161 Yes really. Aang the Avatar meant to bring balance to the world just straight up took control of occupied Earth Kingdom territory to make a cringe diverse Republic. That is the fundamental premise of Legend of Korra and it completely doesn't line up with Aang's character or the world-building. Not to mention that barely any of the main cast had decent screentime or a fulfilling progression. -Toph ends up with some random we have never seen or heard of and has a rough marriage life and ends up as a hermit. -Zuko's wife is a mystery probably also some random. -Sokka doesn't even show up as some sort of epic Water Tribe lord and we don't know if he even had offspring.

[@sirmenace8161]

@@darken2417 So Zuko & Aang creating A place were non benders & Benders could live & thrive together isn’t within Aang’s character to do? The guy who wanted to help ppl in need & wanted peace? Ur not making sense The OG cast isn’t meant to be in the show all the time it’s a sequel for a reason Lol & even then the OG characters don’t get ruined & if anything they get humanized even more Toph & her daughters had their little plot line & so did Aang’s kids & Katara, Toph & Zuko all help the sequel Cast in some meaningful way.

[@sirmenace8161]

@@darken2417 It doesn’t really fuck up the world building anyway Ba Sing Se is still on its shady stuff with the Dai lee, The fire nation isn’t shown so it can’t be ruined & everywhere else they go doesn’t mess up the world building The portals make sense to & So does the Avatar spirit being Raava as well as lion turtles giving bending & the animals teaching ppl to master them Ppl just wanna nit pick anything they can about TLOK when it really didn’t ruin anything it just expanded upon the world building that avatar didn’t

[@RipperMaggoo]

When the world needed him most... He Returned

[@timothygremlin9737]

He bacc mothafucka!!

[@rapanuikapu904]

You telling me Ko the face stealer is just freely running around the mortal realms stealing faces

[@tortuga8470]

I like how Korra thought it would be okay for the spirits and humans to live together despite the spirits having an ENTIRE WORLD all to themselves in which they will kill (or worse, permanently imprison etc) any human that enters the spirit world.

[@Libtardo123]

To be fair, the ancient Air Nomads lived peacefully with the spirits and Korra saw Avatar Wan learning to life with them. If you watch the entire season, there’s pros and cons to both options.

[@tortuga8470]

@@Libtardo123 yeah but air nomads were always very spiritual culturally so that's why it worked out for them

[@insulttothehumanrace3807]

To highlight how stupid this is... it reminds me of Kingdom Hearts. The need to balance light and dark... in the Realm of Light, which means opening and pouring Darkness out of its natural realm, which causes nothing but trouble and suffering for the residents of the Realm of Light and just advances the Realm of Darkness and the two were just better kept separate. Except even that was handled better, because the guy who got that idea was quite clearly evil (and insane), while Korra doing the same thing is supposed to be framed as a wise and right decision.

[@mad4song01]

@@tortuga8470 except not really. Only the “friendly” chibi spirits were allowed to live with them. Otherwise, it would defeat the purpose of the Lion Turtles giving them airbending for defense and evasion, plus they didn’t have to worry about the more dangerous spirits on the ground since their lion turtle were several thousand feet in the air. Hell, with that logic, why didn’t the air nomads just live and travel along the ground if their “spirituality” made them sssooo safe from their malicious attacks?? 🧐🤔

[@trigunfox2325]

@@Libtardo123 Did you not see the reason people lived on turtles? And a spirit probably wouldn't have the morals and outlook a human has. Plus they lived 10,000 years away from a human how are they supposed to co exist suddenly. Korra took them from their homes for no reason and told them to just deal with it and then she leaves not fixing anything. She doesn't even know why she did it.

[@TheDragonCat99]

Holy crap I JUST rewatched your Legend of Whorra series last night. This is a gift from God.

[@3HorsemenOfMovingPictures]

SAAAMMMEE

[@elizabeth5561]

SAAAMMMEE

[@limemason]

SAME. There's something in the air... 😏

[@edohanma]

Capitalise God

[@unmaistired]

I was literally just watching the last one and I saw this

[@IsaacDavidLopez]

I really liked the idea that the "hater" (memed as the guy with nerdy glasses) that used to contradict E;R, now is the one that brings the good points. It's like if time has helped him to mature :)

[@turtek12]

Or the show is just so bad that even its apologists can't keep up the facade.

[@Theranthrope]

Hater went through a redemption-arc.

[@Yoseqlo1]

@@turtek12 That right there. Even the fanbase that was able to look past the abomination they tried to pass as lore the last season, soon would have found all the inconsistences that the next season brings about, betraying its own lore.

[@Jdudec367]

@@turtek12 Nah, the show got better, the first two seasons sucked but things did improve after that.

[@Jdudec367]

@@Yoseqlo1 But seasons 3 and 4 didn't betray it's own lore.

[@RaichuWizDom]

It was bad enough already with the signs on the wall in Book 1, honestly. Part of what made Last Airbender great was that it kept the typically Eastern idea that certain powers are linked to a certain level of spiritual growth. You can't access certain powers if you're not enlightened enough, from a simple practical perspective: there's a logic behind the spiritual energy. In Korra, though, it all became mundane, and common. Benders were indistinguishable from mutants, just less variety. And the biggest kick in the teeth that showed it off was right in Book 1: Mako's lightning bending. Not only does he now have a power thought legendary and rare a hundred years ago, he uses that power to get work in a power plant. Yes, it makes sense that education progresses, so more people have access to knowledge. But the whole point of it was that even if you knew how, you couldn't do it unless you had some spiritual power, unless you had gone through some sort of awakening. Metalbending was an innovation on existing techniques, something that can be argued to be purely knowledge-based. Lightning bending wasn't: Zuko didn't master that skill, for example, he only got the redirection.

[@3HorsemenOfMovingPictures]

He mastered it in the comics

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

I mean a few world wars and we go from horses to space ships. Then stop and revert backwards for a few decades till here we are now. "In Korra, though, it all became mundane, and common." I coulda went with it and wanted too but maybe I just had too high of hopes from the first series.

[@edwardrafferty782]

I hate the fact anyone can use lightning generation in Korra it sucks from a power scaleing perspective it sucks from a world building perspective it was a terrible idea

[@RaichuWizDom]

@@3HorsemenOfMovingPictures And this matters, why? It's still cheapened, he's still just one of many workers in a factory to have that skill. It's still a separation of the spiritual from the powerful. It's still an evolution towards mundane and common, towards the same kitchen sink fantasy that several other properties suffer from.

[@3HorsemenOfMovingPictures]

@@RaichuWizDom yea, sadly, ur right

[@MM-he2iq]

I hate how many times of re watching this it took for me to get the reference “korra then goes to tell everyone at a press conference that the Vines won’t die, they’ll just come back as TikToks”. S tier writing man!

[@animeballsdeep]

We in for a treat, the goat has uploaded

[@aldrichemrys]

Didn't know Anime Balls Deep is based.

[@POINDEXTER-TV]

Ayeeee what up KING

[@reharl4953]

I forgot what a terminally arrogant solipsist Korra was. It panders to morons trapped in eternal childhood.

[@mad4song01]

I think she legitimately counts as a borderline sociopath.

[@Sand-Walker13]

For sure. She's absolutely unhinged. Some say she's developed through the series and yeah maybe she did... but it was immediately undone in the comics where she returns to being a total @ss to everyone again.

[@sammydray5919]

@@mad4song01 Borderline???? She flew past that border a LONG time ago my friend 🤣

[@PikachuLittle]

I’d argue for narcissist myself. She’s just so wrapped up in herself she can’t accept reality

[@maskofthedragon]

@@Sand-Walker13 Her ego always bounces back, it only took until the comics the last time because she was ill for most Book 4

[@skelemanbrie]

It’s so weird how they try to shoehorn in them being friends and getting over their issues, when Katara and Toph were younger and had less “serious” issues with one another, and they still took multiple episodes to truly work on their relationship and become real friends. And again, their only issues were their personality differences. Neither of them were so shady and backhanded early on like Korra so clearly is towards Asami.

[@skelemanbrie]

OKAY I commented this before I got to the part where you point that out. Thank you so much for being so on point with that

[@UmbraMan1]

You know, it’s funny, Korra complains to Asami about having low approval numbers, when Asami is currently running the company responsible for a hostile city wide takeover by terrorists as the daughter of the guy who participated in it. If her company can come back from *that,* Korra’s gonna be just fine.

[@6thgraderfriends]

That did always weird me out. After Hiroshi was arrested for terrorism, he should have had all of his assets taken and Asami would be left with nothing. Also, if my father ended up becoming a terrorist, I'd want to separate myself from the company as much as possible.

[@UmbraMan1]

@@6thgraderfriends Exactly. It’s why I’m fully convinced that Asami would be better as an antagonist. Maybe even a twist one. I feel like it would be way more interesting direction to take her character than just the normal one of the team that tags along.

[@cloud8521]

@@UmbraMan1 Pretty sure Korra is the antagonist, you cannot change my mind.

[@queenberuthiel5469]

@@UmbraMan1 And you're right. ASAMI Sato, with her dad, are intended to be the antagonists along with Amon in book 1. She's originally written as a spy/double agent or whatever and a member of the Equalists and her being a non-bender + her mother's death backstory kinda confirm this original characterization but they changed their minds and made her character "heroic" instead. This is a wasted opportunity, to me, because she could have had a Zuko-like redemption arc, but unique to her own character.

[@gaelstromproductions]

It's difficult to express how much I enjoy your brand of humor. There's too much pussyfooting around everyone these days and I am grateful for the absurdist style that makes even the most scathing jokes sound fun-loving. Thanks a lot.

[@littlemoth4956]

"pussyfooting around everyone these days" The fuck are you talking about?

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Yeah same. I love bombastic and violent humour.

[@RabbiHerschel]

I agree, but at the same time there wasn't nearly enough Gem-bashing for my tastes this time around.

[@thisdudeagain]

Exaclty what I was thinking, ER is just too good, be brings balance to the force ba dum tsssss**

[@thesteelecrusader7778]

E;R is one of the last remaining vestiges of old KZbin where you could still say what you wanted

[@beardog7020]

I really like that the Commando “I lied” scene includes the scream and obvious dummy body being dropped off the cliff

[@redman9493]

Commando is an awesome movie.

[@VitaliyMilonov]

Still one of the funniest scenes in action movies.

[@cymes82]

@@VitaliyMilonov "WRONG!"

[@VitaliyMilonov]

@@cymes82 *falls off the chair*

[@theguylivinginyourwalls]

"Let off some steam, Bennet."

[@Longlius]

Air bending was never strictly hereditary at all. It was all propaganda promulgated by Tenzen so Pema would let him hit it raw.

[@mikkellowe1270]

Lol

[@nondescript4138]

Considering that earth nation was inspired by China and air nomads by Tibet, the fact that most new airbenders were chosen from earth nation hits differently.

[@elisawilde8623]

I find the Life is Strange bit especially fitting because Korra and Chloe always infuriated me to no end for the exact same reasons: self obsessed, imature, bratty, irresposible, trashy friends, brash and with a tendency to blame everyone else for problems that are entirely their fault. They truly are the embodiment of everything I hate in a character.

[@nohomo4774]

it's like Chloe is Korra but just in another universe their character traits and voice lines are simply too similar.

[@combativeThinker]

@@nohomo4774 NPCs, bro.

[@weeb3244]

only difference is chloe has the "severe daddy issues" look, which is pretty hot

[@nextgennolan]

Except that with Korra that’s supposed to be part of her character and they mellow her out over time. With Chloe the writers don’t even seem to realize how much of a shitty person she is.

[@juliaturk7054]

I remember when I was a dumb teenager, I liked Chloe a lot. Then I got older and experienced life a bit lol. Now I can't stand "feisty" female characters, even if they are written well. Well, I guess there's one exception. If she's like Regina George from Mean Girls, I can't lie, those types of female characters are hilarious to me. Any other kind though? Nope, I don't really care if she's written well and has likeable moments. That trope's absolutely ruined for me.

[@knightshade2654]

4:01 >Korra writers tried to rebuild a nation by giving random foreigners the dress and powers of a nation without its culture or blood Hmmm...

[@Harry11enderson]

Oy vey

[@merucrypoison296]

That’s just every white first world country nowadays.

[@SashaFYI]

Part 1: 20 minutes. Part 2: 42 minutes. Part 3: 59 minutes. Calling it.

[@WidSilson]

We can only hope.

[@azzzanadra]

maybe one day the curse of the longman will get him.

[@miracles4219]

@@azzzanadra it got to him in TLJ. We are close

[@RabbiHerschel]

@@azzzanadra **Plinkett voice** "The Legend of Korra is the most disappointing thing since MY SON."

[@FMK03]

@@RabbiHerschel That actually sounds like something Fire Lord Ozai would say.

[@theironmuttonchops5398]

Wow, imagine cutting from the book 1 intro where Korra enters Republic City to the book 3 ending where she leaves the city in absolute ruins. You can tell the writers have no idea what they're doing.

[@LHSMeleeClub]

roooofl

[@XBloodyBaneX]

I know there's plenty of jokes about your being back, but I just wanna be real with you. I'm really glad you're back to making videos. You put a lot of effort not only into the script and video editing, but also into the thought of the problem, and you're not afraid of being blunt and just saying something is shit, and even providing a better alternative. And that's really hard to come by these days, when people are dead set on just being polar extremes, either felating something, or decrying it, without putting thought into if it could be better.

[@hanburgundy4317]

He leaves out the resolution for every plot point and only presents Korra's worst behavior to make her look bad. It's disingenuous at best and slimy at worst. If we did the same for Aang, he's an unapologetic thief that lashes out at his friends, disrespects his elders, disobeys his masters, destroys property, lies, runs away to pout, and inadvertently caused the genocide of his people and unleashed 100 years of war on the world. Waang, the worst Avatar that learned all of the bending styles in a few weeks from self taught children.

[@AnimaVox_]

The worst thing about Harmonic Convergence is how it creates a scenario in which there are no longer permanent consequences for the airbender genocide. It utterly stifles any sort of gravitas. This is as bad to me as the mistake carpets. If the writers had been more creative and less dependent on plot contrivance, they should've included non-bending descendants of the nomads-results of inter-mixing with other cultures. Then, they could've crafted a story in which these descendants could be re-patriotized and integrated into nomad culture, and slowly but surely start bringing airbending back by intermingling with Aang's descendants.

[@collincaperton6718]

If they really wanted the Airbenders back they should've done it in a way that's not just deus ex machina like imagine how much better it would've been at the very end of (a re written) season 2 we see on of the air acolytes Airbend after intense meditation or something like that. Shiw that to actually develop the bending you needed to embrace the culture as well but what lok did was just lazy

[@AnimaVox_]

@@collincaperton6718 The meditation route works too. Really, anything with a modicum of thought put into it is better than what LoK did.

[@ghoul4748]

@@AnimaVox_ It would've been cool if Korra had to travel to the spirit world with Tenzin in order to figure out a way to bring air bending back. And because bending doesn't work in the spirit world at all Korra would actually have to develop and grow as a character without relying on her bending. Then once the spirit world adventure is over have repercussions like angry murderous spirits because there shouldn't be a cheap easy way to bring back air benders without consequences.

[@aleciad7218]

@@collincaperton6718 Bringing back airbending through intense meditation and embracing the culture makes a ton of sense. It would refer to Iddhi, the powers attained through advanced meditation in Buddhism. But writing that into the story would've required more than 5 minutes of thought.

[@FlameLFH]

I love how your nerdy strawman character is suddenly right about things.

[@turtek12]

Ya know, I never thought of it until just now, but since book 4's entire plot revolves around weaponizing spirit vines into basically a-bombs, everyone who's killed or hurt by those weapons in the next season is also on Korra's empty head. Aside from spreading air-bending, I can't think of a single upside to that decision--and I think even Aang would have been like "yeah, airbending ain't worth this" if he'd been asked.

[@matthewmuir8884]

That one can't entirely be blamed on Korra, as the inventor of the weapon took inspiration from Vaatu's energy beams and, when the villains weaponizing spirit vines lose access to their supply of vines harvested from Republic City, they instead harvest spirit vines from the swamp (I can't remember its name; the swamp that was in that episode of season 2 of ATLA), which prove even more potent than the vines from Republic City. So, the weapon was likely going to be made even if Korra shut the portals.

[@3HorsemenOfMovingPictures]

@@matthewmuir8884 nah i dont think so

[@TheBerchie]

It saddens me that we didn't have an overall character arc where Korra starts as one of the worst avatars (which other characters would call her out for) and over the course of the four books she would learn all of the traits that would make her a great avatar with the book titles reflecting the trait she would learn. For example, the traits would be integrity, empathy, influence, and wisdom. Also, during the fourth book, the last conflict won't be fighting a giant robot; but with Korra needing to use all the lessons she learned over her journey to negotiate a peace treaty between two large factions that hate each other before more factions get pulled into this conflict. The last conflict of the series would be her trying to maintain the peace that Aang worked so hard to start. Personally, I think this would be an interesting series to watch with a lot of life lessons to learn.

[@PikachuLittle]

You see the problem with that is it would require strong, intelligent writing, a firm plot outline from day 1, and a removal of shipping angst. And why bother when you can just piggyback off the success of your predecessor like some trust fund twat living off daddy’s money?

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

You bring all that up but it really makes ya wonder what went wrong in the water tribe to miss all that. "traits would be integrity, empathy, influence, and wisdom." She seemed to never have her spirit tempered even as she was taken in by the White Lotus. More like she could have been spoiled and allowed to do as she pleases as long as they can protect her. I might have to rewatch the first episodes just to see how she stayed the bratty "you gotta deal with it" kid forever.

[@flamestoyershadowkill]

alternatively it cold be prudence, justice, courage, and temperance

[@nigeltheoutlaw]

It would also be a very good counterbalance to her Mary Sue like powers as she's forced to acknowledge that being able to singlehandedly level a city is very different from protecting one, let alone the world.

[@Sorakeyblademaster37]

Her incompetence got link with all the past lives severed. That makes her the worst Avatar ever.

[@maskofthedragon]

Korra must have a lifetime warranty on her ego, no amount of damage to it stops it from coming back!

[@awsomebot1]

2:43 never appreciated this line before. "midnight sun madness", he's referring to the sun never setting in the arctic, and the madness caused by it. The madness of course is fictional, although it can screw up with your mental health.

[@mightyfineincredible2252]

Straw-nerd becoming the MVP was truly the unforeseen twist in this Season of E;R

[@warlocksnevereverdie]

man this show was like a knife to the heart of my childhood.

[@g.sergiusfidenas6650]

And the saddest thing was that the creators were the ones that did that not Shamalan and his godawful movie or like Disney did with Star Wars so outsiders that don't care about the world this was done by the ones that should had cared the most about the very thing they created.

[@publiusventidiusbassus1232]

@@g.sergiusfidenas6650 As I understand, the main writer was not around for Korra. So that's why the worldbuilding, character development and lore went out the window.

[@matthewmuir8884]

@@publiusventidiusbassus1232 It's not just that the head writer was no longer around; initially, there wasn't an organized writing team, so the show's _creators_ stepped in as head writers and continued to be the head writers even after a proper writing team was finally organized. In other words, the writers either were the creators or were subservient to the creators and couldn't filter out their bad ideas. Basically, it's the difference between the Star Wars Original Trilogy and the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy.

[@Blizz3112]

That Fauci insertion had me in stitches... XD

[@jameskazd9951]

holy shit, didnt expect this series to return, happy it did

[@jooyoungkang3858]

Every 5 years

[@IN-tm8mw]

I still can't get over how a First Generation Dark Avatar could match one with 1000 or so extra lives of past experience using the power.

[@DisplayThisOkay]

Even worse. Korra had lost Rava before the Dark Avatar BS. She just mediated in a tree for 5 minutes and then suddenly could match the Giant Dark Avatar in battle even though it was powered by both the carpet spirits.

[@IN-tm8mw]

@@DisplayThisOkay oh i had forgot about that, your totally right, that is worse. HAHAHAA.

[@maskofthedragon]

Korra was written as a massive jobber for some reason

[@jonathankarsh3874]

I know we're all going to say it. *WHEN THE WORLD NEEDED HIM MOST, HE RETURNED*

[@hodb3906]

But…but no chocolate milk this time. I want my choccie milk

[@Chud_Bud_Supreme]

When the world needed a cartoon critic who's not an insufferable woke-scold breadtuber...he returned

[@TheLoneReni]

What's extra funny about airbending coming back at random is it that is also undermines the stakes in book one as well (Not that the stakes weren't undermined in the last episode of that season anyway) with the threat of Amon killing off the last of the airbenders himself and every cheering him on.

[@michaelbrandon1222]

If Aron Ehasz isn't lead writer it's not The Avatar.

[@AngelicBeatdown]

Yep

[@matthewmuir8884]

I'm sure that a good writing team would've been able to make a good sequel to Avatar: the Last Airbender even in Ehasz' absence. The problem was that this show didn't have a writing team; Mike and Bryan decided to step in as writers for the first season and, when a writing team was finally made, Mike and Bryan were still in charge. So, there was no one who could filter out Mike and Bryan's bad ideas.

[@trigunfox2325]

Truth

[@RanMouri82]

@@matthewmuir8884 In other words, Bryke was finally free to publish their fanfic.

[@matthewmuir8884]

@@RanMouri82 In a word, yes. A good comparison would be the only two Star Wars trilogies that exist: for the original trilogy, George Lucas was surrounded mostly by experienced and invested staff who readily provided input and filtered out his bad ideas, whereas, for the prequel trilogy, a lot of those staff weren't there and those in their place were far more hesitant to provide input or filter out bad ideas.

[@lonebattledroid4474]

When killing all the past Avatars also means you never have to see Korra in future Avatar media: "The hardest choices require the strongest wills."

[@supernazighost1749]

I love how our "hero" the avatar is more concerned with approval rating than with helping the people of republic city.

[@beowulf916]

As the world grows more modern, it's politics become more modern too. It makes sense that the avatar would get roped into those politics as well

[@supernazighost1749]

@@beowulf916 Yeah, but I'd be lying if I didn't say that was a depressing scenario.

[@Daxank]

Another show about Heroes has that... It's called "The Boys" and weirdly enough... said heroes aren't actually good people in the show's eyes

[@mohamedbelkacem9889]

@@beowulf916 being concerned about approval ratings isn't modern.

[@3HorsemenOfMovingPictures]

@@Daxank i love watching this show, i'm still in season 2 yet, and im enjoying every single min of it, and as the person who hates Whorra, i agree... I kind've found Korra and Homelander similar, narcissistic, acts like they're doing the right thing even if they really don't and thats the reason why i think that The Boys has a realistic complex writing(and im still reading it's comic counterpart)

[@jayst]

What a day. EmpLemon, Internet Historian, and E;R all had videos come out. This rocks man

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

Are they all the same person? (X-Files Theme)

[@jayst]

@@jayeisenhardt1337 woah and we have the same name…. Are we the same person :-0 (x-files theme)

[@Sayquidnidly]

I had the same thought. I was scrolling through new uploads and I was like damn......Damn.....DAMN!

[@jayst]

@@Sayquidnidly some days it’s just like magic. I was so stoked when I started seeing my “watch later” playlist getting stacked up with some goldies because I knew I was gonna be able to really enjoy my time getting off of work

[@Sayquidnidly]

@@jayst haha are you me bro? I went through the same exact motions. Usually my watch later playlist is filled with the usual space/video games/random subject I'm interested in video but once it started fillin with those heavy hitters I was psyched for my train ride home from work from this place that used to be a nice city called Philadelphia but is now a nightmarish hellhole, back to my house. Kinda funny to know there are other people that have landed on the same gamut of channels I have considering the size of youtube. Enjoy your weekend brother man

[@moonguy456]

11:43 The way you told of Korra's actions throughout the series was just poetic in and of itself, but with the way they butchered how characters react to such things and their own world building, I wouldn't be surprised if the world had a happy ending after all. As she always says, she's the avatar...and we have to deal with it.

[@PikachuLittle]

There’s a certain point where you seriously have to ask yourself “do you think we should roll the dice on an Earth kid?”

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

"with the way they butchered how characters react to such things" IS the scary part because that kinda reaction is related to the 'curse' that seems to make some people behave that very way.

[@blankadams3120]

Asami: "Oh, I knew about you and Mako a long time ago" sounds like she's lying to me.

[@mad4song01]

Copium’s a hell of a drug.

[@austin9568AuraMasterDX]

@@mad4song01 That's what the new Sato Mobiles are powered by

[@antoninuslarpus7107]

She did actually know about it, from Bolin back in Season 1.

[@CC-io6os]

Straw Nerd blushing as E;R entertains his interjections is simply perfection.

[@S.A.O.D.A]

17:44 I don't think there has ever been a better example of "An image speaks a thousand words" than this clip.

[@mistergrool3941]

Between the edgy jokes and Korra's insufferable voice, this video hits like a wave of nostalgia. I never thought I'd see another Whorra review but here we are, and I couldn't be happier. Also it's hilarious that the guy who the media called a n*zi cares more about the genocide of the air nomads than anyone who worked on this show

[@JanitorScruffy]

I am sensing that the writers decided that they didn't like the idea of something like airbending being a thing you were born into via genetics or a people. They must be fans of the Magic Dirt theory.

[@vgotm1594]

The last Jedi approach

[@Meowblivion]

What’s the magic dirt theory? Gimme a TLDR

[@gaspachoo5046]

@@Meowblivion the idea that where you live determines your behavior. Rather than genetic or cultural differences.

[@Meowblivion]

@@gaspachoo5046 omg… something tells me this feels like a can of worms. I definitely disagree but SHEEESH

[@thehumanoddity]

@@gaspachoo5046 That isn't really wrong though. Nurture is far more decisive than nature, studies with twins separated at birth have proved this. Though, that includes more factors than just where you're born. It includes your parents, the values you were taught or learned, the culture you were put in, and countless other factors that could happen during your upbringing.

[@joemadrid9706]

I was in mid book 2 and I was about to drop the show but people told me that the book 3 is the best out of all of them... only for me to see a man who mastered air bending in a few days/weeks after he got the power, in a 5x5 cell and fought white lotus soldiers by himself and went and freed his other teammates ALONE.. and this Ghazan dude knows how to lava bend out of small rocks ... Zuko knew they have the potential to destroy the world.. so he took the smartest choice ever, he went to STOP THEM, what a badass... by himself, without an army or a backup or a team of elite fire benders.. the fire lord couldn't think of doing that... I thought Zuko is THAT strong.. only for him to lose to this random Ghazan in a few seconds. With the introduction of Zaheer and Ghazan, I felt that Aang and Azula and Toph are just utter garbage, because Zaheer became nasty for no reason in a 5x5 cell in a few days/weeks when Aang mastered air bending by training for years.. because he was 'studying' the air nomads and reading this Guru book... and Ghazan is a master of a skill only avatars could do, because they are the only ones who could earth bend and fire bend, and lava bending is not realy a subskill, but a combination of both... only for it to be a BS bending to make the villains more threatening and badass... and later, even fucking Bolin could lava bend... very sad Didn't even finish it.

[@StickyFinguz]

19:31 bending has become so trivial this man uses it to move a fucking barrier he's a foot away from.

[@w.o.jackson8432]

I mean, why not? If you have the ability to move something a foot away from you using a natural ability you latently have, why not? Bending isn't some superpower, it's just supposed to be a natural extension of oneself.

[@StickyFinguz]

@@w.o.jackson8432 because it trivializes it.

[@w.o.jackson8432]

@@StickyFinguz It is trivial, it always has been. Aang used airbending to launch pies at people and make marbles rotate in middair.

[@StickyFinguz]

@@w.o.jackson8432 The pies were Monk Giatsu (have no idea how to spell his name lol) comforting Aang and the marbles were shown at first to be Aang seeking attention (Kiyoshi island) and then turned into a running gag that Aang would use when in awkward situations or to use as a distraction.

[@w.o.jackson8432]

@@StickyFinguz That doesn't contradict the fact that bending itself was trivialized to a parlor trick very early on in the series.

[@aaronrowell6943]

Never let them live this series down. Never. They will never scrub this stain no matter how much they pander.

[@xel1673]

Honestly, when they started to introduce all of these "Surprise! Airbenders!" into the storyline, I could only see this as railroading people into a religious order with pretty strict rules (living simply, no meat, shave your head, wear only the allowed religious garb, etc). They were Earth kingdom people, with that history, clothes, and traditions, who suddenly have a problem that they can't solve alone. They are in a very vulnerable state and desperate for guidance. Like that one example of a guy whose air bending abilities are outside of his control and he's at his wits' end. So the only help these people can get is from Tenzin and co. and become an Air Nomad. The alternative is being captured and held by the Earth Kingdom's monarch to do as she pleased. So you are forced to join the Air Kingdom and expected to completely adopt a culture that isn't yours and live and breathe it every day. I always kind of felt sorry for a lot of the background forced-Airbenders because they only get a choice between prisoner, weapon, or pretending to give a rat's behind about a culture forced on you by the universe playing magical-power raffle. Sure, Tenzin isn't trying to abuse them or be malicious like some cult leader, but he's still taking advantage of the situation to advance his own goals of restoring the Air Nomad culture. Perhaps he doesn't actually expect them to stay and continue to carry on his culture, much like someone coming to learn Shaolin martial arts and living the life of a monk for a time before leaving the school or something to resume their normal modern life elsewhere, but that wasn't how it felt in the show. It honestly seemed like he regarded them as the next generation that will carry on his wishes and they are now Airbenders, expected to live and die as Air Nomads did 100+ years ago. I might have some details mixed up, since I haven't watched this Shit-show of Korra since it aired, but it's basically the impression I walked away with. I wouldn't have wanted to wake up with powers and then been forced to adopt a culture and way of life I didn't want.

[@No_nameOG]

Forced assimilation because of random chance. Yeah, that was totally smart writing.

[@alecrutz956]

every time I turn around this show gets worse holy fuck

[@tannercarter9493]

This made my day, E;R is a Philosopher and is dissecting the vacant headed folks who produce trash that pass it off as art. Bro your doing a great job of truly making this world a better place, keep it up. 💯

[@dutch_asocialite]

This man is absolutely spoiling us this year. And I thought _one_ upload across the whole 365 days was a good deal.

[@weslysmith8450]

I jokingly called KorrAsami the first time mako started having trouble with Asami, was like, " oh the girls should just date eachother lol." Then my joking attitude turned dour when I realized with all the feminism and what not - that it probably will happen even though Korra and Asami are both tops, One's a butch tomboy and the others a femme fatale belladonna... they have no chemistry almost nobody believes me to this day because even most fans of the ship realize THERE WERE NO SPARKS...

[@zentik7494]

Korrasami is pretty much a Heteronormative relationship

[@publiusventidiusbassus1232]

@@zentik7494??

[@Sernival]

I remember when people were even questioning why Asami wanted to be around the Avatar gang in the middle of season 1, and they called her the new Appa since she'd just drive them around.

[@johnwax9606]

It’s real easy for Korra to say learn to live with the vines when she lives on an island untouched by them

[@lastchanceamv]

Korra be like: I made a huge mess, was selfish and never even had the slightest remorse of my action, but i saved the city afterwards so you should be thanking me. WITHOUT ME YOU WOULDNT HAVE SURVIVED. .....like girl, without you they wouldnt even have half the problems

[@Dani-Claw]

Thank you for EVERYTHING on this series. Other than retconning and destroying all the world-building and lore for the ATLA universe, I was extra pissed off about the creators gaslighting us into thinking we as the audience were too stupid to pick up any semblance of a romantic relationship between Korra and Asami. I was right all along, especially with you replaying it: it was derived from thin air, just like the sudden air-bending powers.

[@pheonixshaman]

The added it in last minute, having the cast come in again after recording ended to record new lines. They literally redid the end because of how bad the show was tanking

[@publiusventidiusbassus1232]

I watched Korra right after it ended back in 2015 and went into it KNOWING that Asami and Korra ended up together. And when there were like 5 minutes left in the series finale all I could think was "wait, was the lesbian couple stuff a lie?". Then they held hands and credits rolled. THAT WAS IT? THERE IS ZERO INDICATION THERE'S ANY ROMANCE BETWEEN THEM BEFORE THE LAST 30 SECONDS OF THE ENTIRE SERIES.

[@RTU130]

ye

[@bennywolfe4357]

I don’t remember much of the fourth, but I do think the “villain”s motive was good. Why did ant get to take the land the fire nation took from the earth kingdom and make his own state in it? Doesn’t make sense.

[@bennywolfe4357]

Edit: not ant, aang

[@joshgroban5291]

@@bennywolfe4357 you can edit your comment

[@bennywolfe4357]

@@joshgroban5291 I don’t like too. Nobody can claim I changed what I said.

[@joshgroban5291]

@@bennywolfe4357 that's understandable. That's happened to me before too.

[@knightshade2654]

The writers must have realized that they made Kuvira too sympathetic while writing the season, so they randomly added a humongous mech and a minor reference to concentration camps.

[@TheWunWhiteWolf]

When the world needed him most…

[@tropitropitropo]

He fucking came back

[@TheKilopoo]

HE RETURNED

[@crypt0sFX]

@@tropitropitropo Watch your language.

[@DrazCo88]

RETVRN!!

[@lingricen8077]

And when the world needed cliche unfunny comments on right we never needed you. Relt

[@justininexile3445]

The Airbender lottery could actually be fixed with - each of the new airbenders could have had an air nomad ancestor - the air nomads lived kind of in the middle of earth nation territory, some intermingling could have happened, maybe some nonbinding nomads left the tribe or had some bastards or something, a mention of that could have made it feel less like deus ex machina.

[@6thgraderfriends]

Yeah, after seeing that episode where Tenzin forces all the new airbenders to live as closely as the old monks used to, I can see some air nomads leaving that lifestyle behind and living ordinary lives in different nations.

[@ChickenSpeed]

imagine aang dating katara then toph and ending up with sokka 😂

[@3HorsemenOfMovingPictures]

Indeed

[@3HorsemenOfMovingPictures]

Everyone already said that

[@butteryfriedwizard2219]

So that would mean katara cheated on aang...with sokka. Why not

[@ChickenSpeed]

@@butteryfriedwizard2219 why not momo and appa have a baby 🤣

[@RanMouri82]

@@ChickenSpeed That's what E;R jokingly theorized in his first Korra vid. **shudder**