I just finished rewatching ATLA and Korra, along with a friend who’d never watched either series...

I just finished rewatching ATLA and Korra, along with a friend who’d never watched either series. Despite LoK’s writing faults, I do still really like Korra as a character. You don’t get see a dumb jock female character who also does mature and grow, like she did, with slips and stumbles along the way. Plus, I remembered how much I missed the old Sup Forums threads when this was airing. My friend kept theorizing the same shit we would while it was airing, which was funny. And I just miss action based cartoons, in general.

What did you like about Legend of Korra, Sup Forums? Could we have an old thread, for old times sake?

I like the porn.

Also, Tenzin was cool and had a hard life.

I think the Korra hate is overblown. Really, it doesn't make sense, since she's punished for the attitudes fans hate.

>mature
She matures for four episodes at the end of each season then returns to her previous state of whiny, childlike incompetence.

It makes more sense when you realize that Korra is the sequel to AtLA, something widely regarded as fucking ace.
It's a case of being let down so hard that the anger remains forever.

I just finished rewatching ATLA along with my mom, now she's going to watch Korra too, but I'm not sure when. As for me, I rewatched the first episode and was kinda disappointed. I liked LoK back when I watched it the first time, but now watching it right after Aang, it feels much worse. Dunno, maybe I've grown biased after reading so many bad things about it here. Or maybe it's this , just that ATLA is so good.

Korra is radically different in terms of her problem solving with dealing with Kuvira compared to Amon. Korra, at her core, is an idiot who wants to punch, but she does actually try to talk to people and take everyone’s advice, before going to fighting as a next resort. I do agree that Korra’s development dips quite often, that is a fault in the writing. But also growth as a person, realistically, isn’t linear; people are dumb and often make the same mistakes repeatedly before they learn and grow from it. Korra is no different.

>with slips and stumbles along the way
>slips and stumbles
>EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. STEP. OF. THE. WAY

You forgot being saves by a deus ex. In seasonal order
>taking away bending gives her air bending
>o my spirit nen
>saved by airbenders
>I can bend spirit beams now

im sick of avatar threads on here they all fucking suck

>airbenders that have been built up throughout the entire season and were present before the fight began
>deus ex

Nigger what the fuck.
All the others I agree with, specially the first season where she just magically gets her bending back. But season 3 did not have a deus ex

Are there any archives of Sup Forums during the ATLA finale?

I fucking hate how these horrible characters that are only used for teen drama shit replaced the old cast and they all had bad ends. Im glad all you faggots got an unsatisfying ending, i fucking hate korra and her posse of other cheap cop out replacements.

She was *really* annoying in S2.
>omg Tenzin doesn't understand me
>c'mon Korra, you know he cares about you, just give him a chance
>HOW DARE YOU TAKE HIS SIDE MAKO *stomps off angrily*
How many times does this happen? Why does she take Unalaq's side over Tenzin / Tonraq, even though he has a "humans suck" evil monologue every other scene? Why didn't she turn on him the second he invaded the south? Is it really this easy to manipulate her? Why did they think doing an amnesia subplot was a good idea? Did she really just use the fucking Avatar State to win a race against children?

But I also don't understand the "Korra doesn't develop" meme. She DOES get a lot better in S3. She becomes a lot more sensible. Though some people even go so far as to think she gets worse throughout the seasons and to them I say...how do you think this?

>What did you like about Legend of Korra
First, Tenzin. Tenzin is the character I have empathy for. He's mostly wise, he's a father...I share his opinion on how "sacred" bending is, how insulting it is to turn it into a sport. That kind of thing. Tenzin is definitely a nice character.

There's things about Korra herself I liked, sadly it has nothing to do with her personality. But in a matter of design or physical appearance, for me, Korra is a 11/10 character. I mean, the original design, with the three ponytails, not what she became later. I don't see how she could have been better. She's buff, she's hot, she has an awesome design. I reall love that.
I'll not say a thing about her personality, since you want positive "feedbacks"...

Also, I think the animation was mostly great.

Oh and this too I'm not going to lie.

This entire thread is bait.

Are you retarded? Do you know what bait is?

I think he knows, since his post is basically one

>taking away bending gives her air bending
>using bloodbending to alter someone's ability to bend alters their ability to bend
HMMM THAT'S A REAL HEADSCRATCHER

This sounds so dumb. Sadly that's also the plot...

She's a victim throughout S3. She doesn't even get a chance to develop.

How is she a victim?

The kidnapping, the bondage, the poisoning, honestly I'm not sure if she accomplished anything by the end of that season.

Honestly, sometimes aang was like that. We all like to remember the best episodes. But, ATLA had it's fair share of aang acting like a brat, hurting katara and then apologising. Then it had completely throwaway episodes like the divide or avatar day or the episode prior to black sun.

I think we just remember ATLA better, because the story was a journey first and everything else came second. Whereas Korra didn't always know what it wanted to be. It eventually settled on political, but that was season 3.

How is that throughout the season? Korra had 8 episodes before any of that happened, and 2/3 of those were brief.

>for old times sake
We have these threads very often. But yeah, on Korra, after watching the entire series very intently all the criticism Korra gets as a character is remarkably overblown. She's headstrong, straddles the line between confidence and arrogance and has a savior complex because that is explicitly how she was raised. When your entire life is based around being the new Messiah, you don't really have much else, which is why I assume she's so hard into Pro-Bending. She's made a handful of questionable decisions, but she either paid /dearly/ for them or they all worked out (Challenging Amon, Keeping the Spirit Portal open)

But in the end she's always proved to be a caring and passionate individual. Even working to maintain her temper in the latter seasons due to all the problems getting angry can lead too. You don't often see character development that feels so organic. Korra's one of my favorites, ultimately.

Character is great. Season 2 lost me. Season 3 brought me back, season 4 lost me again. Didn't hate it, didn't think it was badly done, but the mysticism-heavy seasons just did not click for me. I liked the stuff with the first Avatar, though.

>The kidnapping, the bondage
That was hot, no?

Hot like Hannibal Lecter.