Give me 1 (ONE) good reason why this wouldn't have worked. Both story-wise and for the characters

Give me 1 (ONE) good reason why this wouldn't have worked. Both story-wise and for the characters.

It's too logical and wouldn't pander to SJW's for those precious shekels

Because they needed to shoehorn in a lesbian thing to be progressive, it retroactively saved the show by making two girls hold hands.

It would have worked just fine, but Bryke thought everyone hated Kataang for no reason and loved Zutara for no reason, so they tried to make Zutara this time instead.

Because they need to be progressive to cover-up the shitty writing

Bolin was a beta cuck.

honestly, they wrote Bolin as too much of an idiot for this to happen

Because it would have made the show less memorable.

Cause' it'd have been boring as shit. Don't get me wrong. Her with Mako wasn't any better. But with Bolin it'd been super cringeworthy.

Bolin isn't the dark edgy brooding type, so the show would not have performed well among the teenage girl and young adult audience, and that group was a failsafe in the event that young boys decided to not watch Korea due to there being a female protagonist.
True shit.

Bolin turned out to be a literal retard.

He's too much of a naive moron for it to work. Guy thought he could resolve the Kuvira vs. Zaofu situation by having everyone talk about their feelings.

Bolin sort of went along with anything, and was an idiot. Honestly, he just seemed to like Korra because she was hot and she was there.

Can you convince anyone that Bolin wouldn't have moved on to any other cute girl he saw? That was his character. He sees a girl, he starts throwing his spaghetti everywhere, and generally gets a positive reaction because he is adorable and ripped.

Plus, most importantly, Korra didn't like him. She saw him as a friend. Kind of hard to build a relationship off one-sided affection.

Makes sense. Twighlight was still hot shit at the time.

They sucked. Individually and collectively.

>Korra
A hotheaded, unreasonable cunt that in the end doesn't have neither the skills or smarts to achieve anything.

>Bolin
A boring, uncharismatic, unfunny comic relief slobbering over his waifu like a starved puppy. He made me realize just why women hate betas.

Physically, they are attractive. I'll give you that. But then they open their mouths and the illusion shatters.

was there a character who didn't just like Korra because she was hot and was there?

>Bolin sort of went along with anything, and was an idiot.

So was Aang.

The funny thing is that MIGHT actually have worked, considering that Kuvira did all this shit because she thought Suyin should have done so and in her eyes felt she betrayed her and their country.

>Plus, most importantly, Korra didn't like him.
This, I honestly can't see anything about Bolin that would draw Korra to him besides his physique, maybe.

The big difference is that Aang was the main character. You can be a gigantic idiot and still come out on top if you're the protagonist. A whole genre of Manga works on that assumption.

Aang had the excuse of being a 12 year old kid fresh out of a block of ice. Bolin went from 16 to 20 and really didn't change much.

It kicked off way too early

Yeah, which is why LoK was better than Avatar, overall.

Give me one example of Korra being an unreasonable, stupid cunt past season 2.

That White water-bender she met in Season 1. Her cousin. Any of the people who gained bending. Any of the metal benders.

She got the three main side characters, but she didn't generally have everyone slobbering over her.

In actions show?

main character first love = final love.

I am here for the action NOT the love drama. BolinxKorra is basically like tophxaang.

She wasn't attracted to him that way and he was kind of really clingy and pathetic at times about it.

when she returned to Republic City without tell any of her friends, didn't tell them she couldn't use her powers and wandered into a random swamp following some spirtits

>She wasn't attracted to him that way

I don't remember seeing her being attracted to Asami either.

I meant that everyone who liked her just seemed to like her for her looks anyway

Is asami clingy and pathetic too?

How's that unreasonable? She didn't want them to worry.

Yes the stong independent woman korra who had to be handed everything to her and never made any actual character improvement is better than a twelve year old who isn't stupid just afraid of his roll. With actual fears. spirit bending was bullshit but aang had a fucking arc and he certainly grew. Korra whined and just got things.

I fucking hate how Bolin was initially described as a charismatic ladies man, but then five episodes later he was a permabeta with no game whatsoever

That wasn't that much different than Aang's "running away" episodes if you ask me.

Not Asami.

Which, I guess sort of makes their barely revealed love the purest of all.

Mako just wanted a hot chick.
Bolin just wanted a hot chick.
Asami wanted to take care of Korra.

What do you think attraction looks like? Because subtle things like blushing do, in fact, indicate that.

Nice memes you've got there.

You sound like someone who saw a Korra hate thread after season 1 and never watched anything after.

I don't think anyone in this thread is going to argue that Korrasami was the better choice. Borra just wasn't a good one either. Korra should have just ended the series single.

>calling someone an unreasonable cunt because her PTSD caused her to go off the radar for six months
Actually I think of a selfish thing she did in book 4 and that was leaving Republic City all torn up so she can go rub clams with her new real doll in front of a bunch of Miyazaki cameos.

what part about it is reasonable? rewatch early season 4, would be one thing to not talk to her friends about her problems but she threw herself in the fucking fighting pits for no reason

>Mako just wanted a hot chick.

Didn't mako was force in this relationship? Korra kiss him from some reason and didn't know what to do.

I saw a few issues after Season 2 they were awful. it was shit from start to finish. I don't know why you like it but you can have it.

>but she threw herself in the fucking fighting pits for no reason
She was hallucinating, did you not watch the episode?

Uh... what?

Yes, because she should be fixing the whole thing herself. God forbid a person wants some peace and quiet after almost dying again.

>Asami wanted to take care of Korra.

My question is why

them quickly becoming such good friends felt incredibly forced in, especially considering the circumstances.

>Bolin was a beta cuck.

That was after they decided Korra was going to dump him for his brooding and "2deep4u" older brother.

Before that, he was totally confident, outgoing, the heart throb among the Fire Ferret's female fans, and took the initiative in asking Korra out.

Mako was the quiet one who- when faced with Asami- fumbled over his words until SHE asked him out. Korra was the one who forced a kiss on him. Then he didn't have the balls to really devote to one or the other and ended up pissing both of them off, at which point they actually dated each other.

Bolin and Korra would have been fucking awesome had they not decided to take Bolin's character in another direction.

>Actually I think of a selfish thing she did in book 4 and that was leaving Republic City all torn up so she can go rub clams with her new real doll in front of a bunch of Miyazaki cameos.
What if she films it so that other people can watch it later? Would that still be selfish?

was she hallucinating?

They never really explained that shit, because one of the spirits that was trying to help her was able to see that Avatar Mode Korra too

Had it, love it, amazing series. The ending was a bit wtf (even if I'm fine with Korrasami), but season 3 and 4 were both awesome. Season 2 was the only let down, and that was only because the conflict didn't feel like it was about Korra, and the final fight was ridiculous.

I dunno. Asami never actually blamed Korra for the whole relationship debacle. She even says so in Book 1. She blamed Mako for being an indicisive cunt.

>them quickly becoming such good friends felt incredibly forced in, especially considering the circumstances.

Korra and Asami went through as much bullshit together in season 3 as Korra and her "best friends" Bolin and Mako went through in seasons 1 and 2.

The writers were never able to fit any of these characters into a good niche. Even main characters who had been in the show since the first season still hadn't found a comfortable role to fill in the story by season 4. the romance subplots were so poorly done that they could only have been written by either beta nerds or low-IQ tumblr women.

1. Mako didn't want her
2. Korra forced kiss him
3. He felt bad for her.
4. He got stuck into bad relationship with a crazy avatar.

Bolin still thought with the wrong head, but at least he got over wanting to do the nasty with Korra.

I bet she was a good lay though.

user, there was a 8 month time gap between Books 1 and 3. They had all the time in the world to develop a genuine friendship.

It's okay we can't all be born with good taste.

It's selfish when there's literally thousands of people homeless, yes. It really doesn't suit Korra's, and maybe even Asami's (if you believe she has a personality) character to just leave. They got so caught up in trying to recapture how iconic ATLA's ending were they failed to realize they made Asami and Korra look like selfish assholes.

Asami was a pretty good gal pal ever since Korra helped with her dad. I mean, they were just generally friends.

Then after Korra got screwed up by the Lotus, the boys both ran off to do whatever, and Asami was the one who stayed behind to clean out the invalid's folds, if you know what I mean.

The reason why I'm fine with Korrasami but still think it was weak, is because it implies a relationship that happened during time skip. Like, evidently Korrasami built up while Korra was injured, but we went straight from Wheelchair crying Korra to 'I'm training to recover and be the Avatar again' Korra, with only a hint that Asami helped take care of her for a reasonable chunk of that time.

don't pretend that season 1 wasn't awful

they shoved a love triangle so hard down our throats that the entire fan base gagged

and then they some managed to completely screw up their villain, totally negating any message this villain could have actually had by making him a selfish, liar and manipulator with daddy issues

All that precious screentime that could been used to meaningfully flesh out cast members wasted on some asshole juggling two girls so poorly they both became lesbians. If I had time machine that could send me back to the mid '00s and told people this is what happens to Avatar, no one would believe me.

user, do you concern yourself with every single person down on their luck? Do you not put any time aside for what you want?

Wasn't downtown pretty much the financial and political heart of the city?
I doubt there were a lot of people actually living there that couldn't afford a second home anyway.

>Korra and Asami went through as much bullshit together in season 3
Yeah, as we know, fighting and being badass ladiez and never showing any of their personal talks and just having Asami stand three feet closer to Korra is actually a really good basis for a relationship.

>Oh I'm gonna go watch Korra meditate for... some reason. Even though I couldn't protect her if Red Lotus showed up. IDK it's what Katara did with Aang and we're obviously Kataang 2.0!

>Wow us being stranded in the desert would be a good opportunity to talk about Korra's insecurities and maybe I can actually show some personality besides sad pretty girl and comfort her- never mind we have to run away from this giant shark thing with a cool chase scene.

95% of Korra and Asami's interactions in book 3 were purely physical, not emotional. It's like they deliberately avoided giving them meaningful interactions.

After what korra done to her friends?

I am surprise that she still got friends. She literally fuck everybody except for bolin and tenzin.

Not really. Season 1 was awesome, great conclusion as well with a reveal that came out of left field but gave the villain a tragedy to explain his actions.

Season 2 was the weakest.

I haven't watched them all recently enough to put them on a scale against each other besides that though.

Two hacks without any control or selfrestraint would have still done it poorly

>The reason why I'm fine with Korrasami but still think it was weak, is because it implies a relationship that happened during time skip. Like, evidently Korrasami built up while Korra was injured, but we went straight from Wheelchair crying Korra to 'I'm training to recover and be the Avatar again' Korra, with only a hint that Asami helped take care of her for a reasonable chunk of that time.
This is why I'm guessing the comics will feature a pretty lenghtly flashback to the time where she took care of her. That shit writes itself.

bolin should have been the OC

That was only like two weeks, no way in hell did they get together before Korra came back to Republic City.

>it was awesome
>great conclusion
How old are you?

>This is why I'm guessing the comics will feature a pretty lenghtly flashback to the time where she took care of her. That shit writes itself.

Oh god, I can imagine the cringe romantic scenes together.

Older than you.

But is that really the competition you want to have when talking about a cartoon series made for 14 year old girls?

That's as funny as the 'Asami should have been the Avatar' ideas.

nah, tragedy to explain his actions, was Amon being a burn victim of a firebender

The waterbender thing was just stupid, his father pushed him and his brother too hard so everyone has to lose their bending, it also made him a hypocrite because he was still using bending

Season 2 is the weakest, but that doesn't mean season 1 was good

Bolin was a manchild and Korra was a womanchild. It couldn't work.

>Yeah, as we know, fighting and being badass ladiez and never showing any of their personal talks and just having Asami stand three feet closer to Korra is actually a really good basis for a relationship.

They had a personal talk. A personal talk where they actually talked about how they were both the real female friend the other ever had. A talk that was actually more of a relationship talk than one she ever had with Mako or Bolin before she started dating them or that Mako had with Asami before they started dating or between Bolin and .

All the guy/girl relationships were basically, "You're attractive. let's kiss." with no real conversation leading up to them.

Even Varrick/Julee's relationship was more like that between an eccentric and his overworked/underappreciated assistant before they decided that - once separated for half the series- they had secretly been in love the whole time, but just never shown it to anyone... even each other. Then they got married.

Korrasami definitely should have been more fleshed out. All of the romantic relationships in the series really should have been more fleshed out, though.

Well not together obviously, but show some close scenes. Like Korra having nightmares and Asami being there for here.

Still discussing Korra, Sup Forums?
You guys are a sad bunch.

>Korra just looks like a dead inside vegetable who never responds to anything Asami says or does
Realistically that's what it should be but we all know Asami's going to ~get her to smile for the first time~ or something really stupid and badly written.

The fact they're going to use the comics to cover their asses is really, really shitty of them.

S2 hyper bitch Korra would have walked all over him and it would have just been sad. Bolin doesn't deserve that, no one deserves S2 Korra.

Really because you act like a 16 year old girl with shit fucking taste. With a misunderstanding of how a proper story should work.

>All of the romantic relationships in Avatar really should have been more fleshed out, though.
Fixed that for you

Yeah, I guess you're right

And you sound like an 18 year old virgin neckbeard arguing about how characters would act to make the perfect story you would want to read, instead of something with any actual substance.

What is your point?

because it would imply bryke were good writers and korra wasn't a shallow whore

Yeah, they had one talk at the start of book 3 that really should have been spread out over the entirety of it. This was such a good opportunity to address that Korra and Asami weren't really close and they... rushed over it within the first ten minutes of the first episode. I wonder why- oh it's because the writers never cared about Asami and it showed in pretty much every scene she was in that wasn't a fight scene (even then, she never ever got a fight on par with her one with Hiroshi).

>All the Avatar relationships were badly written
Shit user I never said anything to argue against that. Korrasami deserves to be in the pile of shit with every other ship in this show, that's what I'm saying. It being f/f doesn't exclude it from the fact Korra and Asami have no chemistry and were only put together because the fandom wanted it.

Korrasami didn't happen because Korra and Asami were bisexual. Korra and Asami became bisexual because of Korrasami. That's not good writing.

>deserves to be in the pile of shit with every other ship in this show
Not all

>That was after they decided

Mako/Korra was shipped by Bryke like from the first day they showed off the character designs @ SDCC. It was never not an option and Bolin was always going to be cucked by Mako.

Yeah, but if bad writing invalidated a relationship in the Avatar universe, everybody would be single.

Korra/Mako happened because Mako was supposed to be brooding and hot. The Korra/Mako/Asami triangle happened because they wanted drama and a foil for Korra and Mako's relationship. Bolin and Opal happened becaused they wanted someone for Bolin to hook up with. Varrick/Julee happened because... well there's no real reason why that should have happened.

But if any relationship in the series had anything approaching a relationship built on mutual friendship, adventures together, and trial by fire, Korrasami is as valid as any other.

I would still have liked to have gotten a fighting/training focused Korra that wasn't interested in romance and just wanted to be BFFs with Mako and Bolin.

That never became canon so it doesn't count.

will we ever find out if Su Yin was actually their daughter?

This. I wanted the three of them to be bending bros, running around having adventures and fucking people's shit up. But BRYKE felt they had to pander to the fucking shippers.

Bryke didn't like Tokka and I'm pretty sure we've seen Su's dad in the comics already.

we still don't know, we only know that Lin's father wasn't Sokka

Her sister's father could still be Sokka

>sjw
>shekels.

Pretty sure Nickelodeon produced that show at a deficit. They didn't care about being progressive throughout it's entire airing.

I don't even get the idea that Bryke even cared until Book 4, when they realized literaly NOBODY but shippers give a shit about their show anymore and now suddenly they're all "You were just watching it with hetero lenses."

I worked at a gay bar at the time, and I met all my usual customer's lesbian friends, and I didn't meet a single person that cared or even knew it happened. Most of them just looked at me weird like "oh, you watch cartoons? That's cool." Literally the only group that showed any large amount of interest in the fact that LoK ended on bisexuals is the shipping fandom.

And that's kind of why LoK felt so weak. I get the feeling that Bryke figured out that the shipping fandom latched onto ATLA like a fly on shit, and they tried to pander to that audience hardcore in Books 1 and 2, and then with 3 and 4, they tried to actually just have everyone as friends (which is when any of those four retards actually have chemistry, come to think of it) and the show was actually getting better. Then when they realized that their viewership had crashed to the point that it went online, and the fact hit them that no one gave a shit about their show, they just ended the franchise on the most popular ship to go out on a mildly notable moment.

LoK is literally a show for the shippers. Oh well, at least Korra was a complete qt.

Actually his profile on the site listed him as a ladiesman always with a girl.

After the first season, they changed for "insecure because his brother always get the girls".

You can see traces of his previous characterization when Mako complain that he always bring girls.

Race mixed couples have a higher failure rate.