Was lesbian korra the dumbest plot progression you've ever seen in TLOK?

was lesbian korra the dumbest plot progression you've ever seen in TLOK?

It was her inability to be a badass

Not even in the top 10.

The ending was the worst thing to happen because it's all anyone talks about anymore. None of the legitimate writing problems get discussed.

no, it was just a huge disappointment on a show that already followed a masterpiece.. one that had some serious ups and downs, but basically ended on a good note.. RIGHT before that happened. It felt like a big fuck you to people who sat through all the shipping bullshit and boring sports shit in the first season. now suddenly they're lesbian tennis players out of nowhere.

>Korra suddenly getting Airbending for no reason
>The entire Equalist movement is dismantled by punching Amon out a window
>Aang shows up, fixes everything, and gives Korra the Avatar state for free
>Turning the Avatar cycle into a good vs. evil dichotomy that doesn't fit with the themes of balance at all
>Giant energy Korra from nowhere
>Whatever the fuck happened with Jinora
>Portraying Suyin as being in the right when she just gets more horrible and selfish at every turn
>All of Kuvira's evil actions are off-screen
>Pic related
>Trying to connect Korra and Kuvira when there is zero thematic connection at all

The lesbians were completely inconsequential.

>one that had some serious ups and downs, but basically ended on a good note
The end WAS the down.

>The entire Equalist movement is dismantled by punching Amon out a window

>people who have no understanding on how politics work.

Amon was a cult leader that was proved to be a lie wirhout spiritual suppoet as he claimed, and also everything that the group fought to destroy: a bender, a liar and a guy using non benders to have power. Most complains regarded street violence and triads, that were dealt with, on any other place it wasn't show a sistematic opression of non benders, and non benders were allowed to get their representation in charge of the City by elections.

According to Bryke, Equalists are also discredited and divided on many conflicting small groups.

The rest that you mentioned is mostly right, but not this one because it actually makes sense.

>to have power
Everything, including the dialogue, suggested that he genuinely wanted to get rid of bending because he thought it was bad.

>Jinora suddenly becomes spirit jesus out of nowhere

I still dont understand it.

>According to Bryke
So it's noncanon.

>I still dont understand it.

What is so difficult to understand?
Korra is the main character and has a plot about being able to overcome the negativity of the spiritual, learning a physical technique since this is a show about fighting, have faith in her abilities beyond the Avatar, and compliment Tenzin's plot.

So of course Jinora does what Korra should have done all by herself.

I TOO believe on it, but you think that the other Equalists would? The first thing that his second in command tried to do was kill him.

It would also reveal that his talk about being put in charge to balance of the world by spirits is fake, and he doesn't have a special magic power that would protect them against a bigger invasion to get the City back.

>a plot about being able to overcome the negativity of the spiritual
That's a lofty description of "Is turned giant for no reason and punches the bad guy".

Jinora's powers came from nowhere and served no purpose, since Korra already got free bullshit powers.

>but you think that the other Equalists would? The first thing that his second in command tried to do was kill him.
...because bending is bad. Amon PROVES HIS OWN POINT, and yet the Equalists fall apart? Fuck no, they should gain even more resolve.

>Amon PROVES HIS OWN POINT, and yet the Equalists fall apart?

Because Amon said that he had spiritual authority to change the world. But turns out, that he would never even be able to remove all the bending of everyone on the City, much less the entire world.

So their entire fight is useless. They would lost the City when any of the nations decide to take the matter more seriously.

Better vote for better representants, which they managed to get.

>progression

there was no progression, they decided to reveal Korra and Asami as queer as a last-ditch effort to make something about the series remarkable.

>So their entire fight is useless. They would lost the City when any of the nations decide to take the matter more seriously.

Amon sucked.

To keep control over the City he would need a peace treaty with the other nations or something to survive a long siege or invasion on the City. He probably didn't even had more than 1000 capable fitghers and the element of surprise with their tech would be over by the NEXT attack. He also didn't had anything to bribe or negotiate with the other nations apart from bender lives.

He was fucked.

He would never be able to survive 1/10 of the FN fleet that attacked the North Pole.

>He also didn't had anything to bribe or negotiate with the other nations apart from bender lives.

>Other nations that don't want to kill the people who seek to destabilize them and kill them (Red Lotus, Zaheer still being in a prison at the end.)
The bleeding hearts of the other nations would back off from Amon's "thinking bending is bad despite blatantly using energybending and everyone of his followers being okay with it initially" tactics if he held hostages. Except why would the guy who is completely 100% right no exceptions take hostages?

>Zaheer still being in a prison at the end
I think this is perhaps one of the stupidest things the entire show did. Aside from keeping dangerous terrorists alive beforehand, they keep the flying regicidal anarchist in prison within flying distance of the White House.

The prison for him and ESPECIALLY the ones for P'li and Ming were far, FAR more cruel and inhumane than just killing them.

Would have been better had it not felt like it was only added to seem progressive. Would have been much better if they added development for the relationship, then people wouldn't hate the ending

>All of Kuvira's evil actions are off-screen

The re-education camps and purging non-Earthbenders were way over the top. Kuvira's unprovoked attack on Republic City was enough to make her a villain.

this thread again

I hope that other people notice that it is shitposting.

>Kuvira's unprovoked attack on Republic City was enough to make her a villain.
It was rightfully Earth clay.

>plot progression.
That would have required it to be a part of the plot or even a subplot to begin with.

It was a last ditch effort at establishing some level of weight to the finale in a love letter to the shippers disguised as some kind of progressive leap for LGBT representation, nothing more. Might have actually been interesting if these two chucklefucks actually interacted beyond four or five lines of dialogue in Book 4. If you aren't a shallow shipper setting your yuri goggles to maximum like half the fandom that lost their minds at the finale, this wasn't a payoff so much as a weird note for not only the show, but possibly the entire franchise to end on. It has no bearing on anything that was established up until then. Katara and Aang were built up from the get go, which meant ATLA ending on their relationship beginning was kind of a charming closure. I'm not sure what to make of Korra and Asami since they don't really have any kind of built up tension or chemistry between them. It just sort of "happened."

Although when it comes down to it, it's underwhelming nature was more of a side effect of a far larger issue plaguing far more than book 4; nobody in the entire cast has any kind of chemistry outside of maybe Varrick and Zhu Li, and that was more of a gag chemistry than any sort of meaningful relationship. Strangely enough, it's also the only chemistry with any development and payoff in the entire show.

Bryke just have no idea what they are doing. They are idea guys given the job of an entire writing staff, and it shows.

It was the fact that that Kuvira and even Chief Beifong are better "strong female protagonists", than Korra, causing the former to be written as cartoonishly evil and the latter to not have much to do after Season 1.


Suyin is the devil though


The Lesbian thing felt out of place, but it wasn't what damned the show

Not really, but it was very poorly handled.

Writing one character wrong doesn't make it that the other two have to also be written wrong. Korra being bad doesn't make the others bad, the terrible writing makes them all in the same sinking ship.

Also that greentext in the image doesn't make sense. Asami never managed to help Korra in terms of words. Asami wasn't getting a point across in that conversation in the clip show, Tenzin stepped in to do that part.

I probably wouldn't have noticed if it weren't for the sjw creators explicitly saying so. Pretty much everything could've been passed off as just them being close friends.