You forgot the Combustion bender.

Wtf are the benders outside of water and airbenders I’m only on s2 of avatar I don’t get it

@@laundrybasketgamers sub bending.

@@superspectacularstubby what

@@laundrybasketgamers the abilities the op listed are sub bending(s). for example, blood bending is a sub of water bending.

Personally, I see Varrick as the Sokka of the show for those same reasons.

I dont why but to me Bolin acts how a older Aang would act without his airbending philosophy. Same nature just not the same nurture. And hell, no parent figures and surviving the streets of a 20's style city does that to you.

@@robberofjacks2072 but aang without his philosophy and maturity (which I'd say would go hand in hand with him being the avatar and all) still wouldn't be as much of a dumbass as Bolin was, Bolin had his likable moments sure but thats only because the rest were more bland and under developed that we started to draw similarities to likable characters from TLA to force a connection(Mako sorta supposed to be a crappy Zuko, Korra has some personality traits similar to Kitara but not as well done, etc).

@@amanpreetgill7564 Dumbass is such a harsh word for Bolin, he is not the brightest when it comes to planning but he still has some intelligence in him. Aang pre war was flying all over the world and in Omashu he was riding the mail delivery system for the fuck of it. And intercepting dragon hunts in the fire nation.

@@robberofjacks2072 Ya you're right, I was a little to harsh my bad, but also Aang pre war was doing all that and ALSO being a gifted protege and the youngest air-bending master at 16, which was unheard of, and he started training almost as soon as he could walk (until korra had to come along and bend 3 elements all without any prior training at the age of 6), his travels much like the avatar journey like a nomad helped him gain a close connection for people and how all the 4 nations lives pre war. But yes aang was a tickster of sorts charcature and loved to mess around as much as the next guy, my point was Bolin or really none of the characters in LOK struck any type of geniune balance in their character like Aang, Toph, Kitara, or Zuko did. Bolin in an essence could be summed up as the stupid, dumb character. And yes they gave him the ability to Lavabend which was pretty op but that wasn't in any ways a alternative to character development and improvement, they almost felt sorry for him and decided he was the weak link so they might as well give him a easy way out of working hard at genuinely becoming good at something.

2*

My biggest nitpick was that he’s called a General even though he commands ships and thus should be an Admiral

@@RJKilroy i think the ships were just the transport they were using to get to republic city, they werent going to do a naval battle. but they got ambushed before they could even set foot there.

​@@unkindled6410except they were useing capitol ships for transport. Really poorly designed capitol ships at that Holy shit HMS Dreadnought would stomp them

@@lucasfragoso7634 you know the world technology in Korra is more or less equivalent to the very early 20 century right? aside from specific steampunk fictional stuff like the mechs and such, i dont think it fair to compare their ships to our modern ones.

admittedly it's kind of cool reading the ATLA comics (which take place after the conclusion of the show) and seeing the seeds being planted for aang's shift in characterization. it's still BS in Korra but in the comics you can see the ideas being discussed, like taking someone's bending away as a harsh and permanent punishment. it surreptitiously adds some credence to the shift in characterization.

To be fair, Aang’s entire life is just caring burden way too much for one man to carry. He was meant to save the entire world of a 100-year war at just the age of 12. And after he finally had a child who can airbend, the burden of restoring an entire nation (a nation that was once about 25% of the world) fell on him and him alone. I think Aang did what he had to do because he was literally the only one who can do it

We don’t see much of Adult Aang in Korra at all and I never got the impression he was “overly serious” or “cold” from the short scenes we do see from him, he definitely has matured and is more serious but everytime we see him he still acts kind and compassionate to Korra and Tenzin and I like it. Also Adult Aang is still shown to be goofy sometimes like that picture we see in book 4. If you’re talking about his characterisation of being a bad father maybe I understand a little more. I think it makes sense why Aang would spend so much time with Tenzin and why he would of been so excited when Tenzin could air bend because for most of his life he was the only air bender which just of been terrible for him so if he was tough on Tenzin and made him learn a lot I think that’s understandable and in character. But him neglecting his other kids doesn’t seem completely right. I feel like Aang still would of included them and make time for them so that was one thing I disliked about Adult Aang

@@geox8485 I would have liked his favoritism to have been lowered in severity so it would be more realistic to a loving father while still providing drama.

@@Barakon Yeah it would of been fine is Tenzin was still the favourite but in Korra, Bumi and Kya make it sound as if they had no good memories with Aang and they make it seem like they rarely saw him

BUT THERE IS NO IROH!

@@spooderman6312 True

when togh one of the weaker characters is infinitely better then most of the characters in kora and kora herself is hilarious

One word: Varrick

Tenzin is the only reason to watch tbh

As if zuko actually made an effort to be a good father figure. It makes sense that he would personally know what would be the worse way to handle the situation in a family. It’s not like his father was the worst father in existence

Aang/Katara/Tenzin's family is pretty great. Aang may have given Tenzin an unfair amount of attention, but it is justified as Tenzin was the only naturally-born airbender in over a hundred years. Tenzin is raising a fine family other than the hiccup where Ikki ran away for a day. I can't say the same thing about Sokka (who may or may not be Suyin's father) or Toph's family for that matter.

@@somuchtocook9159 never thought I'd ever see an Ozai apologist

@@EyesWillRule aang is a bad father which makes him and kataras family bad, Tenzins isnt, he is a good dad But aang and Katara doesnt have a stable family

@@UnicorniousEyes I think you need to pay more attention to the arguement an 'Ozay apologist' makes. His arguement follows like this: Ozay is a terrible father > Zuko knows that > Zuko does everything to not to be like Ozay; this is the arguement that he makes. Now, where is he apologizing for Ozay's actions? I could be blind, of course.

Especially since we only see young preteen children and elderly monks in the temples, you’d figure the most vital to their survival would be out and about in the Earth Kingdom and go into hiding but that doesn’t get explored even in the original.

The wiki said there were also new Airbenders in the Water Tribes so there’s thar

bryke simply did not lay the foundations properly for the re-emergence of air benders. it was just convenient that random people suddenly can air bend. it's simply bad writing.

But that’s just a theory . . .

Honestly, I feel like bending should be more a cultural/spiritual thing than a genetic thing. Those most in tune with the elements are able to bend them. Kotara actually acts a mini avatar within the water element. She’s a bit of a prodigy like Ang. She units the two sides of water bending (healing and fighting) she embodies both the stormy seas and life giving spring. Zuko does the same thing. Fire lord is all destruction. He looks down on the warmth and support fire can also give. Zuko embodies the brashness and aggressiveness of fire. But he also learns the lessons of restraint that turns the destructive forest fire into a welcoming hearth. Zuko fails at fire bending because his example is out of balance. When he learns from Iroh, he’s able to best capable fighters. He’s the complete element of fire. I don’t have good examples for tof but I’m sure they’re there. It’s Taoism ying/yang with the avatar being the thing that connects everything.

I just finished this today watching it for the first time and thought the same thing. I didn't catch relationship vibes at all... More like girls trip to me 😂

@@zeric_ I guess the nickelodeon censors did their job right.

Because that’s how they were written before being shoved into a poorly written gay ship for the sake of a gay ship. If you wanna do a gay shop cool. But for the love of gog please write it well.

@@infinityheart_tm9270 True. But all my friends who were watching it at the same time as me got it.

​@@infinityheart_tm9270 fr i was getting besties vibes

korra personally offends me bc my 2 favorite people to work on/be in AtLA, Aaron Ehasz and Jack de Sena didn't come back for it

@@a-ramenartist9734 Thank god I'm not the only one

@@a-ramenartist9734 I'd like to at least hope against all hope that Netflix is smart enough to ask Aaron Ehasz to come back for the live action ATLA they're doing (they're still doing it, right?) now that Bryan and Mike jumped ship. He's doing Dragon Prince for Netflix so it can't be that hard.

@@katakalamari and thankfully dragon prince is pretty good

To be fair... Sokka had proper closure in ATLA and sometimes, mystery is pretty good. Plus, they needed an organic way to include Sokka... which was hard... it's better to not do something and do it badly and ruin it...

Man nick is so trash dude. They keep spongebob on life support for years but shows like Korra and fairly odd parents get treated like garbage. Ugh.

And they still do to this day smh: Glitch Techs almost didn't see the light of day, all these "Spongebob universe" shows in development, it's so worrisome...

It gets even worse. They show it at like 1 in the morning to retain the rights to it

Cough Rise of the tmnt Cough

That's to be expected when your show is hemorraging viewership no matter what strategy you employ to stop the bleeding.

Agreed. Mako should've been an active member of the Triads who grew a conscience and cut ties with them, maybe for his brother's sake, but he can never quite outrun his past.

just like most of the characters in this show, mako was wasted. he was basically a stand-in for zuko in terms of team avatar and bolin was an attempt to do sokka all over again. they were half-baked characters, and the entire dynamic of team korra is cringe-y and forced teen romance. there is hardly any meaningful connection between korra / mako, korra / bolin, and korra / asami. compare that to team aang, even toph has a better relationship with zuko, and their friendship is the LEAST developed.

Mako and Bolin both should've been the Zuko equivalent for this show, give us semi regular flashbacks to their past, tying their history with the criminal underground into the plot as it comes naturally, that Amon lacky with the dual lightning sticks could've been a guy they knew way back when.

IKR

Nah Varrick was always awesome even when he made AWFUL decisions. Still one of the best characters throughout the show.

Varrick was literally a terrorist who helped fund the fascist Kuvira and only defected when he realized it was inadvantageous to himself and his business interests, in an event the show even made him acknowledge as uncharacteristic of himself to make the joke that he'd finally developed a conscience. Sorry to say, but it might reflect more about you that your opinion around him switched so much than it says about his character development, and even if he did become more moral, how many capitalists can you think of who funded fascist coups against their governments and magically came to the realization "Oh no, I'm with the bad guys, aren't I!?" That never happened in history. This is a cartoon, and Varrick would totally never do this if not for plot convenience, as he himself almost explicitly acknowledges line for line.

@@Serelor Chill out it's a kid's show not a moral dilemma....

Exactly the same experience here, that man is a great example of effective character writing to be sure!

He probably wasn't comfortable with the Anime Faces at the time.

I think he meant that in the sense that it was pandering to children which always comes off as cringy even to kids.

"When I became a man I gave up childish things, including the fear of enjoying childish things"

Probably that age when the very though of watching something with a target demographic even slightly below your age is unbearable.

Well when I was a kid I wanted watch things that treated me like an adult so I can understand where he is coming from

That was basically said the few days Korra and Asami got together.

TBF bad writing and characters made it so. Some of it isn't even his fault

@@neloverg3774 True, in the comic after the show, he basically gets ccuked. All the while Korra is double the bitch than she is in the show.

Halfway to being mako...... yay

I never thought I Would hear this but it cracked me up

I hate that Korra was out specifically online with season 2 onwards

Yeah

The "We are bonded forever" orchestral Avatar theme with Wan... chills every time

Amon/Unalaq-Water Zaheer-Air Kuvira-Earth Damn, you're right.

P’li bends fire

@@internetdinosaur7678 She's more of a secondary villain since the season focuses much more on Zaheer.

@@munkee_man also she has a big forehead

Also, Korra was the one to learn Air bending when she already knew the other 3 beforehand unlike Aang

that's breathtaking tbh

P'li's death BLEW my mind

Too soon lol

And Ghazan's was ground-breaking

Personally, Ming hua's death was was the most Shocking

Ha. Legend of Korra is not phenomenal. It's decent. It has great moments, but most TV shows have great moments. LoK is an average TV show that gets shit on too much because it was the sequel to one of, if not the best TV show of all time.

⁠@@en4833 This. This is what perfectly describes Legend of Korra. An at least watchable (3/4) standalone series that was abysmally overshadowed by taking place in a timeline with a phenomenal predecessor series and its preestablished world.

@@wildfire9280I mean i think it makes sense though to despise a series that isn’t just a continuation of a phenomenal one, but one that also really messes up the lore of it. I wouldn’t mind korra as much if it didn’t just take a dump all over its predecessor.

at best, tlok is mid. at worst, it betrays atla. the spirit world was completely retconned. the original benders have been retconned as well (it atla, it's the sky bisons, dragons, badger moles and the moon and ocean). they even managed to destroy the characterization of the owl in the library. suddenly, he's a moron who has very human-like motives and behavior. while the red lotus faction was actually done right, OMG, that evil kite completely destroyed the essence of the avatar cycle itself. i guess bryke just conveniently stopped drawing inspiration from hinduism, taoism, and classical east asian philosophy when it came to the very heart of the avatar cycle. it became this boring, one-dimensional good vs. evil trope embodied by the corniest depiction i've ever seen -- a friggin kite. team korra is the most forced group dynamic you can find in popular fantasy media. the attempt to copypasta the magic of team aang is just silly. honestly, the show should not have done anything new with the spirit world. the red lotus should have been the main baddie of the entire show, with the equalists as a warm-up to that. the whole spirit portal nonsense just destroyed the very delicately balanced lore of atla.

​@@maggyfrogI'm still watching through it, but I just finishes season 2 and I didn't like it. I could actually get behind the first season, it was pretty good (ended a bit abruptly but still good) and then after season 2 it's like "oh yeah, Kora is now basically the first avatar and all the other ones don't count because the connection was severed." That to a character that all the good guys love (Bo Lin apologies to her after she kissed Mako in season 1 which seemed out of place) and who gets things resolved pretty quickly I can see why people called her a Mary Sue. But that doesn't ruin the show. It's no masterpiece or even anything to wright home about, but it's fine. The only way to enjoy it is to have never watched the original though.

He was legit worried sick that entire episode Bolin was missing and he opened up emotionally about how Bolin was his only family left, and he hardly opens up ever so nah I disagree with this, he expressed different emotions sure but he still cared that Bolin was kidnapped. he acted the same with Prince Wu too.

​@@CleverToad yeah, did he just forget about Mako worrying about Bolin and opening up to Korra? That's literally one of the huge plot points of that episode

​@@nevaeh9125thank goodness tbh. It's been a bit second since I watched this and listening to him I was like "wth makko that's ur brother u idiot" so I'm hella glad he actually did care

@@clearly_a_racconthough the lack of action sucks there is most likely some background deals in search of him as a assumption

Omg yes

That moment when a NPC from the previous series has a actual role in the story. Perfect.

Okay, agree, but honorable mention to when Korra goes and finds Tenzin on vacation and proceeds to fill him in on everything that has been happening in specific detail for his only reaction to be " I knew this would happen" lol

Cabbage Guy has some connections he's not leading onto. Always runnning into mcs in last airbender, was one of the main sources from that ember island play, fast forward cabbage corp Yeah....he n his legacy has to be white lotus or something

MY MULTIMILLION DOLLAR COMPANY!

Metal gets placed around p’lis head while she tries to combustionbending

Out of context

It was so satisfying the see the earth queen's death

I swear the edited out a few seconds of each death to make it less explicitly violent in the Netflix release, which sucks

That's a interesting pfp u got there

Btw the Zuko's scar in the wrong side it's just edited

basically shows that waterbenders are op

*"iT's nOt iN tHE wRoNG sIDe!"*

That's because Atla had 60 episodes building up to defeating one big villain while Korra had only 12 episodes each season to introduce and resolve a new conflict and villain. If they had the time to have filler episodes and develop every characters they surely would have done that

@@manuba_ nah appa’s just built different

@@manuba_ nah appa is just better then every character that existed in korra

@@thebleachbartender1312 You know.. I can't disagree with this.

@@manuba_ You right tho. Nickelodeon really fucked over Korra, only giving them one season at a time instead of a full series like ATLA. So the team working on Korra couldn't really plan it out properly as a long storyline. Fuck Nickelodeon, i think for the amount of BS that happened during it;'s run, Korra turned out to be a very solid show.

Ha

My friend said he didn’t like the legend of korra because the main character is a girl

@ Swag Monke I called him sexist and he agreed

@@anti-symptoms6985 what

@@anti-symptoms6985 How old was he? That sounds like something 4 year old me would say because of fear of cooties and because I didn't want to seem "girly." Most people outgrow that phase by the time they turn 7.

Its recon honestly

I know this is old comment but i like to imagine that lion turtles gave people powers to control elements but different animals showed people how to master elements. Like for example we see first avatar doing the dragon dance that zuko and aang do in season 3 of last airbender. Just a little headcanon of mine and not confirmed.

​@@jozi_oziuhmm, we are told that the moon, badgermoles, dragons and sky bisons are the first benders of their respective elements. So does this mean that the writers are lying to us in ATLA? Nah, I do not buy this lion turtle giving power to the first human benders. Also, the lion turtle who gave Aang energy bending said that the era before the avatar, they are bending NOT the elements, but the energy within themselves. But in TLOK, before Wan became the avatar, lion turtles were already bestowing bending powers to people. Bryke literally destroyed the entire bending system that was well established during ATLA.

@@jozi_ozilol you don’t have to imagine it that is 100% what was implied in the Wan episode but people don’t get that for some reason. If I remember correctly it was said in the wan episode that he was the first person to use fire bending as an extension of his body which he learned from the dragons. The lion turtles giving people their powers does not negate the idea that people learned how to bend form dragons, sky bisons, etc.

​@adre7806 It still a recon

Ngl, that is pretty good.

Reminds me of Randal from the clerk's cartoon

I'm so sick of that meme (If you can even call a meme). For the final time for anyone still willing to make this comment, Mako didn't drive Korra and Asami into each others arms. He had failed relationships with both of them and both of them then deepened their relationship with each other independently, resulting in a spirit world first date. That's what happened.

@@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168 That reply you made is fine, I or anyone won’t disagree with your claim or view, but also remember it is a matter of perspective my friend. Everyone has it.

@@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168 Do you know what a meme is at all?

*Most of the characters

No

@@kotorandcorvid4968 Nah it’s true but fanboys like you can’t accept it

@@Flome810 What is wrong about the characters?

@@kotorandcorvid4968 Besides everything, I can’t think of anything else

@@fart321 I never said he was alive in the actual story, though I should have probably mentioned it. I’m just saying that in my own personal preference I would have liked it if he was alive in the actual story.

they had katara toph zuko and aang, they don't need every single character again

@@za6604 yeah true, it probably wouldn’t have been the best decision from a critical storytelling standpoint but since sokka was my favorite character I just would’ve liked to see him

@@Door227 I find it very weird that we don't even get closure to their relationship. We see Sokka on the council on that one flashback, but Suki is treated as if she didn't exist at all, I don't think they even mention her once. Did they have children? Did they not? Is Suki alive? Did they break up before they became adults?? We get no closure whatsoever

@@Zenala considering how much they hyped the red lotus, one would think they would show them kill one of the now older members of the gaang (maybe sokka and/or suki) who died trying to protect baby korra. but i guess they thought "that would be too risky" (and cause the fandom to hate them forever) so they didn't consider do that

Why? He's just a badly written character, that's all. I honestly feel sorry for him. Bryke first promoted him as OH SO GREAT Zuko 2 character, then f*cked him up, then made fun of him. Pathetic.

It’s fun to see snow suffer ffxiii.

@@smart.but.stupid he wasn’t bad in season 1 but after the writers were like let’s make him suffer

@@the-dramatic-nerd in season 2 he was a cheating idiot for some reason and in later seasons he was a laughing stock. Also Bryke blamed him for their own lack of writing skills.

Yes

Without context, that sounds like you’re referring to a crossover episode with Wolfenstein.

It was pretty crazy, but also surprisingly good as a final season even compared to the power creep levels of Vatuu the over dramatic evil rug spirit

I wasn’t either, but when it popped up, I was into it enough to roll with it

"I didn't expect the third reich to show up"

Wouldn't it be more of Stalin because of y'know gulags and communism?

yeah that's what I don't like either. in the eastern philosophy is like what you said. but the vaatu and raava concept makes the eastern philosophy "abrahamic" if you know what I mean. it's diverging from the root

Not really tho ozai was straight up evil and that is all

korra was good

Still good though

Nick did not interfere with Korra's story, the most they did was cutting the teams budget which only impacted the visuals, everything wrong with Korra is entirely the fault of the writers, not Nick.

i thought it was awesome but still not as good as avatar the last airbender

It was terrible. The story ideas were very promising and good, but executed terribly. All the villains could have been well rounded with clear goals, motivations, and much deeper than Ozai, but they screwed all of them up.

Bryke: Uh, can you give us a better deadline? Nickelodeon: Ok! You now have ten. Bryke: t-ten what? Nickelodeon: nine. eight. se

the more you exagerate it, the better!

and it was still a fucking masterpiece 😔✊🏻

Btw you guys lost your time slot and you are an online only series now

@@sophiewells7318 😂😂😂

yeah so edgy korra is for adults and not for kids cos stuff made for kids are shit unlike tla korra if mature and you can see that in the love pentgon

@@khattab5351 what?

@@khattab5351 God who hurt you? Everyone in the fandom knows Atla is a mature show with heavy topics and it's not childish at all. But LoK just had the opportunity to show some more violent stuff and they did it. And that's great isn't it? We went from "Did Jet just die?" To seeing a woman be suffocated to death (ok it doesn't sound that nice saying it like that but the queen was a monster lol)

@@solaireofastora9178 i am shitposting obviously

@@khattab5351 I’m not saying it’s bad. I love both shows respectively. I just thought the difference was kinda funny.

I think that’s because that’s not really the problem. It’s the DELIVERY that doesn’t make sense.

He was going relatively spoiler-free, so he probably ommited it on purpose.

@@BonaparteBardithion relatively is the word right there, pretty sure he spoiled most of the show.

This is so irrelavent to the story that its not even worth mentioning.

it wasnt said because that isnt a problem with the overall story

I hated season 2 so much I couldn't even enjoy season 3. I intellectually knew it was good but my brain gave me zero dopamine for it.

Season 2 is pretty terrible but I really enjoyed season 3. It’s worth watching if you have any passing interest.

@@noaha6185 The second season was bad and boring, but the story of the first avatar in history and the origin of the bending was very cool.

Season 1 was my favorite season

@@illumi9044 Everything is good. Except Amon revealed

😂 Exactly

You just made me realise it 💀

Ahhh yes Imma going to bask in this

Calm? IM COMPLETLY CALM!!!

But yes he gets it from his mother for sure. She tried to fucking kill the man who killed her mother, and was willing to blood bend to get to him. Thankfully she has a strong moral compass to always keep her steady and from going to far. But when Katara is pissed, really pissed and unleashing, it's like she enters the Avatar state but only with water

Verrick, Tenzin, Eska, Korra are the best characters for me

@@galkastelic8906 how could u forget Bumi

Okay, but have you considered the following: Lin

@@MetFanMac oh man, Lin and Sue are dope as well... And I guess Zhou Lee? I guess I just love everyone in TLOK xD

I dont know why but i prefer zaheer

Ridiculous? He had two serious romances, one girl who had a crush on him, one girl who might have had a crush on him, and the Haiku scene. The two serious ones were very well thought out and meaningful, Ty Lee was mostly played for jokes, Toph only had like three scenes where she showed she might like Sokka, and the Haiku scene was maybe 5 minutes of one episode. None of them were ridiculous.

I have to agree on that one. Every teen flirted with everyone and started a relationship on first sight, that often ended just as fast. Bolin for instance tried to hit on Korra, then Eska, then Ginger and then Opal, and all pretty much as soon as he met them. Mako swapped from Asami to Korra then back to Asami then (involuntarily) back to Korra before breaking up for good. Jinora immediately fell in love with Kai and they became a couple as well (she's 11 in season 3). Even Meelo (at age 9) wanted to impress "his love of his life" after bumping into a girl he's never seen before. And of course you need to have Korra ending up with Asami, because it's 2023 and you gotta have representation and stuff. Most romantic relationships could've been cut out completely (or kept at friendships/romantic interests) and nothing would've changed at all, and at times the show would've even improved (especially the awkward love triangle involving Mako). The last Airbender on the other hand was different. Sure, Aang fell in love immediately upon seeing Katara, who also got flustered by him frequently, yet while Aangs romantic interest in her was addressed often, the show waited right until the ending for the romantic conclusion and just kept it at "close friends with romantic interest" for the time being. Sokka on the other hand had two relationships going on and the first started just as rushed as all the other ones in TLOK, but it ended in a tragic way instead of a breakup. His second one was actually more in depth, as he got to know the character beforehand and we see him still scarred and scared of losing his loved ones when she confesses to him, to the point of denying the first kiss. It really added some mayor character development to the otherwise comical relief character. Zuko got together with his childhood friend, which was actually important, because it both portrayed that even after getting everything he wanted he felt horrible about his life and by betraying the fire nation he'd have to abandon her as well, but she also ends up betraying Azula because her love to Zuko is stronger than her loyalty to Azula. Apart from that true show doesn't focus on romantic relationships (let's not forget that this is a nickelodeon show with kids as a target group) and the few ones in the show are actually used properly for character building. The characters complexity goes far beyond just the romantic feelings for each other.

Also 20:03

That joke made me Die out of laughter and run out of breath

That part was pretty chilling, but Zaheer flying was pretty stupid

not funny, did'nt laugh.

same lmaooo

I had to take a double back after hearing that.

I feel like because they were trying to be mature they have to have more lowbrow humor

He's the only minus in the show I saw lol

Yeah, having low brow humor like that in a show that’s suppose to be more mature is very distracting. There’s tons of moments like this during scenes that are suppose to be intense and serious. Like when the equalists launch a blatant terrorist attack on the arena, and the commentator tells everyone that he’s wetting his pants. You’d think that a show that is talked up as being more mature than avatar would want to distance itself from this kind of humor. Or at least not place it during times that aren’t very appropriate.

@@austinjohnsen4430 to be fair their were jokes in some avatar battles for example zuko and aang's first fight "I've been looking for you for years only to see you're just a child." Aang. "And you're just a teenager" but the show isn't really. That serious and the jokes aren't that immature. Korea wants to be mature and funny and that doesn't work most of the time

Its a dumb ending story wise but an amazing scene. "At your lowest point you are open to the greatest change" is legit the best wisdom to come out of the entire series. I honestly like it more than anything iroh ever said in terms of the value of the insight.

Yeh, Zaheer was being curb stomped like a little bitch, then Zaheer got his friends to beat him up as well

he probably blocked it out of his memory

imagine that.. it took three people to take him down

Best fight in the series

Was def waiting for him to talk about that Lol

Varrick was probably the only character in the show who was genuinely funny.

Do the thing!

i loved him so much but kinda hate myself for hating a war criminal

*where

You mean the profiteer who never got punished or criticized despite being a major villain for a season? And then ended up being accepted by the main cast without question? And literally grew a conscience out of the blue when there was suddenly another major opportunity for war profiteering? Are we talking about the same character???

They're just talking pokemons and typical "good and evil"☹️

"Bye God, a steel chair!"

I laughed too hard at this

*Jim Ross has entered the chat*

Good, Korra and asami have 0 chemistry the only chemistry they have is the fact that mako dated both of them, Nickelodeon was just tryna rush Korras love story because they didn't want Korra to be single that's literally the whole point of the ship

@@Ejaz100 ikr where were the times they literally had any heart to hearts or actual moments that felt like chemistry it felt kinda forced to me and was a huge letdown lgbtqia representation wise good thing we have the owl house now and lumity has chemistry and moments where that chemistry shines

You could also say that about Earth

Kuivara gets fucking redeemed in the comics and in this essay I will talk about how this shows how modern neoliberalism is willing to accept fascism over the end of systems which make people unequal (whether that be good ole' capitalism or in this case bending).

@@TheRunningLeopard Kuvira getting redeemed was horrible and unearned

@@DudeCrazy198 Exactly. Kuivara is an interesting character and I do like her, I don't feel a need to redeem her because she doesn't deserve it, at all. But then I don't understand the recent obsession with redeeming villains, so maybe I'm missing something?

It just is especially bad in her case considering all that she's done. She's not just some antihero who just killed two bad people or some shit. She was a fascist conquerer

Most relatable character in all of Avatar tbh.

"I'm starving! I want meat"

Best Comment Ever!

Bolin is Sokka with more himbo energy but less charm.

#offbrandsokka 😆

U deserve it king

omg i love you

“YOU DID THE THING!!!”

You made this account just to say this

@@alumlovescake is.... is... is that a *PROBLEM?*

He was a pity character

Tbh I do not like how he was handled. I would've loved to have seen him actually be a character ( i think my interest in him stems from the fact I have a MASSIVE crush on Zuko ). It really would've been nice to see what he could do and contribute to the story

I forgot that character existed and was being a dumb confused idiot for a whole minute and a half trying to understand why y'all didnt like uncle iroh

His voice doesnt fit him-

Just like the whole show its fan service

Yes

Varrick and Bolin carrying the show on their backs with their goofyness.

the scenes with varrick and zhu li in the platypus-bear are literally the best scenes in the entire series. i don't think i have ever laughed so hard in my life tbh

ZHU LI DO THE THING! *bear farts money* "That Platypus-bear is pooping money!!!" favorite moment in the whole series.

@@margarethmichelina5146 just Varrick

bruh...he went there lol

I was almost expecting a " JUST LIKE ZAHEER DID TO K-" and it cuts to the next segment of the video.

The deaths in season three were breathtaking, shocking, groundbreaking and mindblowing

Wait a god damn minute.. SCHAF’S A SOY BOY?

YES XD

Ikr hahah they are just stupid

The drill was made by the fire nation, the most technologically advanced nation. They built that thing in secret for *months* and chances are it was their only drill like it. One big weapon that took forever to build is pretty different from full on *cars* and *electricity*

@@barbaraw1245 cars? do you not think the tanks and the battleships in Atla would have not influenced technically *170 years* later they have progressed in technology about the same speed we did, the first car was Made in 1886 Korras time was reflecting the 1920-30. Also people can literally make electricity from their fingers.

@@Alexm0321 just because Korra was based off the 1920's doesn't mean that's literally what it is. My issue isn't the fact that they have cars, it's the fact that their cars look exactly like ours did in that time period. In ATLA, trains were powered by earthbenders. I'd be more okay with the technology if more of the original world bending was incorporated. I like the idea of fire benders powering cities. It incorporates bending with modern technology. But it still feels weird to see lightbulbs in use in this world. I'm aware my opinion is all over the place and I'm fairly biased. I dont hate the technology it just feels so weird and it kinda takes away the realism that ATLA had Also wasnt it 70 years, not 170?

@@barbaraw1245 you do make some good points with the earth bending trains but still they had steam powered battleships when fire lord sozin was alive so it was around 170 years

exactly! They should have stayed with an episodic format like ATLA was, with each season being built up as 20 episodes that have an overarching goal but also episodes that divert from the main plot to provide world-building and quality character and relationship development. The way LOK's binge-series- style approach doesn't work, everything is rushed and there's not enough time to really flesh out the characters other than Korra herself.

The problem with Korra is that there are too many characters.

@@adeptdamage3669 especially with the time allotted for each season and episode. Like you can tell they wanted to make these all good characters, but they didn’t have the time to make them work well together. They work okay as individuals, but team avatar doesn’t feel like a team, just kinda some people that occasionally work together when the plot permits.

@Dakota M-A that's the the problem, a series format is having a smaller number of episodes each season, if they had 20 episodes each season instead if only 11, it would have worked so much better

9 J

Yeah no shit

*god how did I miss that?*

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that! It's just far too many people get pissy when something they like gets judged. Not exclusive to Korra fans, even as a Star Wars fan I gotta admit there's a decent chunk of the fan base that just absolutely suck.

Nothing we do is perfect. And this show was daring. They did not go the safe way but tried to really deliver. The result is a fantastic show with some issues.

Same here. While Avatar is better, I rewatch this way more 😅. I love it that much

My biggest problem with the show is it’s a sequel to AtLA but is nowhere near as good

@@Ace-ql5ct yep

The difficult thing is telling people they can't skip it.

I don't hate season 2, but I agree its the worst of the series. I feel like they had a good amount of ideas and concepts to work with but the execution was really sloppy. Though for the most part, I blame much of it on Nickelodeon not planning Korra properly.

TBH the only thing I liked from Korra Season 2 was Avatar Wan and that was it! Everything felt meh continuing onward....

@@haruhirogrimgar6047 because Avatar Wan episodes are amazing tbh

Honestly, I don't mind the season. I agree with most of its flaws The Crab Person mentioned, but they either don't bother me nor do they lessen its strengths.

I mean, even if it's bad it still has dank memes.

Yes yes. He is my inspiration. I’ve started telling my sister to ‘do the thing’

@@PancakeTheKat That doesn't really matter. "Do the thing can be quoted by anyone. Its a quote/reference to Varrick.

The memes are the only thing that kept me watching this failed abortion of a show lol

@@windowguylol yeah the show had some major flaws. However The animation and humor was pretty good at times. But those weren't good enough too make the show even half decent.

I definitely agree with some of your points, but I think you are being a little unfair with others: It’s true they never captured the original chemistry of the OG Gang, but everyone in this gang are all adults who have lives outside of helping each other, so it makes sense why they seemed more disconnected (the three year time skip didn’t help either) I didn’t mind the industry and technology aspect. I think they definitely could have made a plot about the world changing so rapidly, but I don’t think it took anything away. Technology and Magic/Fantasy/Spirtualism don’t have to take away from each other. Heck, in my opinion it makes Zuko’s dragon look even cooler. The whole idea of non-benders viewpoint doesn’t really bother me. I don’t think it’s fair to criticize the show considering they had a whole season dedicated to non-benders. Plus, Varrik, Zhu Lee, Raiko, and Asami were all non-benders who played important roles. Korra definitely does change. Season 4 Korra is way more responsible and level headed then Season 1 Korra. But I agree that: They never really traveled or explored the world, which is a shame, because the world building is part of what made the show so cool. Sokka and much of the OG cast was either ignored or given minimal roles. The Love Triangle(s) did nothing but take away from the plot. The focus was taken away from Korra to often, which made it harder for her to grow in a way the audience could connect to.

@@bigj1905 I think when OP mentioned the non-bender view point, he meant during season one where the whole premise was that there was discrimination against non-benders, but we never get to see any discrimination. The best we get is some gang members harassing street owners and pro bending, which isn't enough to get the point across.

About the more advanced technology... Technology advances pretty damn fast in the real world. And with people who can bend the elements to their will, technology would advance even faster.

@@captaincozmo8529 It makes a ton of sense from a world building perspective, but it's an aesthetic issue, if that makes sense. It just feels weird, even if it's totally reasonable to progress that way, it doesn't quite FEEL right. Logically it makes sense, but when i watched the series it kept pulling me out of it. It felt like a trade off a very interesting world for one that shifted to something a bit more boring and mundane, making it more like a typical western superhero movie, if that makes sense. I 100% get why people like the show, but it sadly fell flat for me in a lot of spots.

Yep

@Tamarix yes - quite

Majora's Mask on the Statue of Liberty.

Okay but it's honestly hilarious

jack black should do this as promo

Okay, can someone actually do that, please? I'm sure the president would forgive that kind of debauchery, it's been a rough year and people could really use a laugh.

@@archduke0000 The word cringe is cringe

She was actually supposed to betray Korra and the gang in season one but Brike had other ideas for her.

Dude Asami just got combo'd for like 90% of the show, like the second something good happened to her she just got destroyed

how'd she lose her mother again lmao i forgot

@@timtam3730 howwouldshebetraythem

At least she gets big titty non-goth GF at the end.

She was also the one soldier that just kept showing up or hanging around the entire season. You could tell by the beauty mark. She was the main one dancing when we meet Su, she always comes in to let Su know about something, etc. So there is setup for her actually being Su’s right hand but it’s still somehow a big deal when she gives her name at the end of the season as foreshadowing

@@TheOriginalPoon It would have been fine IF they ended the series with her as the focus of a neutral scene (her getting a promotion/hanging out with Korra or Opal) AND didn't give a giant ominous evil tone. Like seriously I remember that scene watching it with my brother in the room (who didn't really know anything about LOK or ATLA). I just laughed and even my brother was like she's a bad guy right?

i didnt like how she was a fascist who did ethnic cleansing but was redeemed way more than anyone else

@@jobeiden She wasn't.

@@Spherrum In the comics it was declared that she never did any ethnics clensing and that the two guys who stated she did were just liars.

*yes*

What’s funny is that if Korra had stayed a miniseries with just season one that would have been Bumi’s only onscreen appearance. How sad would that be?

@@austinjohnsen4430 I think they knew about more than one season at that point but it was rushed tbh

@@Abhi-xy2hm They knew that they would get another season after book 1 started airing.

It's so over rated

True that fight is underated

That fight is like 25% of why I like season 2

I would like but it is at 666 likes

@@mr_me3835 And now it's at 939, and I won't disturb the doggo!

@@SCP-vo6js correction, 1k

The pinochle of roasting, no one will ever top this. Congratulations 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

You can say that Mako had so much chemicals that turned his GFs gay.

this actually happened to this one guy i knew! his first gf came out as a lesbian and broke up with him, then he dated this one girl for a week, and she broke up with him to be with me (who he also had a crush on earlier) and finally he dated one girl who is currently dating the first gf. its really funny

@@Raccon_Detective. *Congruetsluations

@@javaplum8364 Not actually that funny...more sad tbh.

Yeah but at least they didn't focus on it in the original series like they did in Korra. It makes sense because the characters are in their twenties instead of 12-16 but it probably would have been best to not focus so much on romance. I think they should have paced it out like in the original, while it wasn't the greatest it did work and didn't make me want to drive my head into a wall.

Nickelodeon just hated the Korra team. And it didn’t help that making a sequel is hard and the writers are not as great as the one who did Alta

I think what would've ironed out a lot of it is just, if the creators were given a set amount of seasons to work with in the beginning, instead of ending each season not knowing if they'd be continue it or not. Crippled their ability to build and pace romance, enemies, etc. right

For me the worst part of this show is the writers. They are terrible.

@@Superiorer Two writers of Avatar the Last Airbender wrote The Legend of Korra