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How did you feel about The Legend of Korra?
Overall I liked Korra. It has two big moments though that rubbed me the wrong way.
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The part where they broke the Avatar cycle was a awful direction to take the show. Also making platinum the most plentiful resource was a brain dead villian arc.I was extremely excited in the beginning because the setting felt very well-constructed. I thought that bending contributing to rapid technological progress made a lot of sense to me, and I really like that there wasn't excessive exposition regarding the state of the world.
So much of what they did from that point just felt so corny.
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It was just so disappointing for me. I don't know if they got creatively restricted, or if something happened with the original writers or what. I don't regret watching it, but I just wish they had taken or had been able to take more risks.
Yeah I agree, overall the story was bad. I really enjoyed the characters and slice of life aspects of the show. I felt some of those points you bring up were big weaknesses to the overall experience. It felt like the team was targeting a younger group than before. (Or I just got older haha)
I can corroborate your last point because I watched both of these series relatively recently, and I also have little to no nostalgia associated with the subject.
I actually used to despise when ATLA came on. At that age, I could never commit to following plot-heavy shows, because I didn't really watch TV a ton (I thought I watched a lot, but I'm learning now as I talk to peers that it was not lol), and the show felt like it was on forever, eating up time on Nick. I finished it up around this time last year and ATLA is now among my favorite shows ever. I continued with TLOK shortly after, and yeah, those were my feelings.
So from my experience, I'm not gonna say it's the whole "growing out of it" thing. TLOK just is a less interesting story, the way I see it.
I hated the above Avatar movie but I loved TLoK. She is such an awesome character and has tonnes of growth and development, along with the fantastic lgbt end of the series. It was definitely a little difficult in the first few episodes but a big part of that was the transition from a rural setting to a city setting decades later, so it went from the backwater technology level to the cutting edge near a century later.