Korra literally learned nothing at all throughout the series.

>>88123486
She learned how to eat pussy.

She did but you didn't

>>88123486
She learned how to make my dick hard.

She learned that all she needs to do is punch things.

the r34 was the only good thing to come out of this show

>literally learned nothing
>literally
She learned how to airbend.

>>88123486
She learned how to be a bit more spiritual and less hard-headed. Maybe it wasn't enough of a change for your taste, which is totally fine, but it wasn't nothing.

>>88123816
Too bad it's all les shit now.

>>88123857
exactly.
and she did it exactly like she did firebending. just forward blasts! just like an airbending master.

>>88125132
That was like the entire point of her character, my dude.

>>88123861
In four seasons?

Slow learner.

>>88123816
Agreed.

The internet needed more fit brown girls, and that it got.

>>88123857
She didn't learn, though, she was given the ability. It wasn't taught to her through training or experience, she was just suddenly able to do it because someone fucked with her head.

>>88125331
No, she trained all season and it just clicked after Amon blocked the rest of her bending and she had nothing else. He obviously didn't put airbending in her head.

>>88123642
/thread

>>88123486
No Avatar really learned anything.
It's their curse.

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>>88125391

It was a deus ex, because firstly: Since Amon bloodbent her bending away that should've included airbending too. Secondly, her reaction to just punching wind was "I can airbend?" There was no build, there was no sense of triumph for earning something she was working for. It was an accident that happened to ALSO be able to beat Amon when not even Tenzin, a master airbender, could fucking do it.

>>88123486
fuck off retard

She learned lesbianism

>>88123486
It was a pretty shit show
but look at all this brown girl porn

She learned how to fist the air, and also girls

>>88125552

Given that that was originally supposed to be like THE official end of Korra's story when it came out, her airbending was a symbolic sort of thing - she struggles, she overcomes, the end. There's really not enough time to get into too much detail when you're looking at like, 12 episodes. That kind of plot handwaving is forgivable when it comes to shorter stories because the plot is supposed to parallel the character growth.

BUT that's where LOK failed first season, and the type of "growth" you seem to be misunderstanding from OP.

Why was Korra blocked when it came to airbending? Because she was a very physical, literal bender. She was struggling with developing her spiritual side, which is what airbending relies on. We never REALLY saw her overcome this. Most of the story we saw was her and Mako. If they had tied in her block with her difficulty clarifying her emotions/being vulnerable (or something), then the story would've made some kind of sense, cause it would've come to a conclusion - She can airbend because she accepted her weaknesses WHICH broke her block.

I personally can't see how Amon blocking her ability to bend at all (making her MORE reliable on her physical strength) could unblock her dependency on physical strength.

BUT AGAIN this was supposed to be a short miniseries and I think there was more growth in the later seasons when they had time to stretch their legs properly.

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>>88123642
fpbp

>>88127312
They had Aang break through his struggle in earthbending in an afternoon. They sure as hell could have had Korra do that in 11 episodes.

It comes out to their priorities and they were focused on making a some type of "slasher" story ending where the teens overcome the killer. But they forgot to do it spirituality like have Korra discredit Amon on multiple levels in front of the people and show her helping other people other than the guy whose dick she wants/wanted.

>>88127421
Hey you know what would've been a great Scene? Amon's gearing up to de-Bend Korra and a bunch of people in town (including that one guy that was always harassing her for being a bender), beg him to stop, because Korra stood up to the law when they were all being rounded up for breaking Tarrlock's curfew. Amon's rhetoric of hate and fear not being able to stand up to Korra's acts of compassion.

>>88127312
>I personally can't see how Amon blocking her ability to bend at all (making her MORE reliable on her physical strength) could unblock her dependency on physical strength.
It wasn't so much her dependency on physical strength as it was to the other three forms of bending, which came easily to her, even as a child.

Its sort of like how supposedly when you lose one of your senses, your other ones "get better" or more likely, you just learn to pay better attention to them.

>>88125391
>No, she trained all season

She "trained" for like one episode, in which she blatantly ignored the spiritual side of airbending that Tenzin was trying to teach her. The rest of the season was dedicated to a contrived love triangle.

>>88128139
She started training as soon as she got to Air Temple Island. It's just that one episode focused on it.

>>88128287
As someone else here said, the real problem is that she did not overcome her spiritual deficiency, which is what the series initially presented as the block to her airbending.

>It's just that one episode focused on it.

For a 12 episode series, this should've been the sole priority. There were way too many sub plots, and it showed with how rushed it felt.

>>88128287
And that episode didn't even focus on the spiritual aspect of airbending that we've been told about since AtLA.
Her spiral movements didn't help her in the other matches that happened as "dodging" isn't an art reserved strictly for airbending. Otherwise we should be seeing Korra styling on everyone in probending as she'd dodge circles around the dodgeball elements being thrown at her and have the natural Avatar force to one-shot the others as no one else would be studying airbending and have the ability to grasp it along with their other element.

Then again Tenzin sucked at the spiritual aspect so much that his daughter had to eventually become Jesus and do his job.

>>88123486
She learned she likes munching rug

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I kept watching LoK for the fight scenes alone.

>>88123642
Well your not wrong

>>88128599
It sort of is wrong since the question is about the run of the series and the romance with Asami only truly started at the very end of it. She probably learned during the spirit world vacation. Hopefully the comics will elucidate this.

>>88128438
>For a 12 episode series, this should've been the sole priority. There were way too many sub plots, and it showed with how rushed it felt.
Bryke had never done a story of that length before, although that doesn't seem like much of an excuse as you'd think they'd rough-out what they needed in the episodes and realize that things were squashed and needed trimming.

Unlike a lot of people I thought pro-bending was fine as it was great world-building for the unique culture of the city but it just stops dead and never gets brought up again even though Bolin and that other guy were supposedly hanging all their hopes on winning.

>>88128749

Unlike a lot of people I thought pro-bending was fine as it was great world-building for the unique culture of the city but it just stops dead and never gets brought up again even though Bolin and that other guy were supposedly hanging all their hopes on winning.

Yeah, pro-bending itself is OK, but the stakes were non-existent, which made it very hard to invest in any of it.

>>88127312
I would agree with this but as far as i know before production was finished they knew it would get a second season.

The show wasn't terrible but there's a lot about it I would've changed

this thread is pathetic

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>>88123642
And that's all, folks.

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You can die from eating too much pussy.
Ask Michael Douglas.

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>>88123642
First reply, Best reply

>>88125132
To be fair she got a lot of shit for that from other characters.

>People still defend Korra
Quit thinkin with your dicks

>Jinora's fucking haircut after getting her ink

Holy shit what were they thinking

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First minute lesbians > last minute lesbians

>>88131755
lesbians in general > not lesbians

>>88123486
She learned metalbending.

For a board that claims to hate this show, people here talk about it a lot...

At any rate I think that Korra was a good but flawed series. The writers did seem to make things harder for Korra than they did for Aang though.

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>>88123486
she cant even read, watch the series again if you dont bellive me

>>88131943
People love to hate on it. This whole [s]thread[/s] [s]board[/s] site is just one big circlejerk.

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>>88131861

She learnt that she looks better with short hair.

>>88123642
actually not even that, she is going to learn that, but by now we don't know if she actually manages to do that

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>>88132059
This

>>88123486
>every future avatar is fucked because they have korra as their guide
>life and death is now meaningless because of the opened spirit gates

>>88131861
I wonder if that feels good. Tantric sex in the open air, amongst nature? Well. I'll never know so I better not think about it.

>>88132220
>>life and death is now meaningless because of the opened spirit gates
the fuck?

>>88132310
That's the finale of the series
>I HAVE BEATEN THE FINAL BOSS
>I WILL NOW OPEN THIS PORTAL SO SPIRITS AND HUMANS CAN LIVE AGAIN
>WAIT SHIT,NOW THE DEAD CAN JUST TRAVERSE BACK THE HUMAN LAND
>OH WELL I GET TO EAT PUSS THO,IT'S THE NEXT AVATAR'S PROBLEM NOW NOT MINE

She did learn enough so that at the end of book 4 she sought aid from Zaheer and tried to reason with Kuvira instead of trying to crush them as she admitted the old Korra would try

>>88132332
The spirit world is not for dead people you nincompoop, the people there are those who either got transported there through spirit magic like Zhao, or people like Iroh who traveled and stayed there themselves

Dead people reincarnate, they don't go to the spirit world

>>88132356
Only applied to avatars

>>88132384
Nothing in the show that implies so, in fact the show has never stated what happens at death, but for the setting reincarnation makes more sense than heaven or nothing, and the spirit world is not heaven, if it was we would see a lot more people than just Iroh and the people banished to the fog of lost souls

Korra hate isn't interesting anymore. Not because it's old, but because you guys are starting to forget main points in the series and the arguments fall apart.

>>88132044
Not really sure why people who don't like this show are so obsessed with it.

Why not just focus on the first show that they do actually like?

Korra was fine, it just wasn't the classic the first show was.

I was actually considering making a thread to actually discuss the show, but haters keep making threads just to badmouth it...

>>88132020
>watch the series again

>>88132744
>Not really sure why people who don't like this show are so obsessed with it.
Because they liked ATLAB and are infuriated this shit probably ruined the franchise forever because it is trendier?

>>88132044
No you retard,people hated it because of all the wasted potential and they get a free pass because LOOK LESBIANS!

>>88132832
Wasn't the lesbians only at the end of the show though? Why did people like it before that?

>>88132816
Trendier? How so?

>>88132832
I agree that Korra was a huge disappointment, but you can't deny the circlejerk mindset against it here.

>>88132847
>Trendier? How so?
I mean... you know, it's more trendy than ATLAB.
You know, fashionable. Current.

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>>88123486

She learned how to trigger the avatar state.
She learned to airbend.
She learned to metalbend.
She learned how to meditate into the spirit world.
She learned how to drive a car.

And the list goes on.

>>88133277
>She learned how to trigger the avatar state.

She did nothing to trigger it. The power was given to her by Aang

>She learned to airbend.

Without ever overcoming her spiritual deficiency supposedly required to airbend.

>She learned to metalbend.

Pfft. Everyone could metalbend in LoK. The power was cheapened immensely.

>She learned how to meditate into the spirit world.

Shouldn't have been able to do that either considering she dedicated ZERO time to spiritual growth.

>She learned how to drive a car.

Oh wait, you were just shitposting, nvm my bad.

>>88133124
This. I also think Korra was an unnecessary entry that dropped the ball on most aspects other than its technicalities (Animation, Art Design, Music etc.), but the hate does get a bit tiring admittedly. It's kinda like SEED Destiny in that aspect y'know, though admittedly it is still better executed than that series in some things (mostly the aforementioned technical shit but w/e).

>>88133320
Wow, you are pathetic.

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>>88133320

>gets BTFO
>blames shitposting

>>88133245
Fashionable? Because it takes place in an early twentieth century type setting, with things that were trendy almost a hundred years ago?

You can't mean the way the characters talk, because if anything I thought the first series was trendier in that regard.

>>88123486
I feel like she learned a lot in season 1 but when you take the series as a whole...yeah she didn't learn shit

>>88133401
The show, anon. The show itself is trendier. Not the clothes the characters wear or the setting.

Am I being trolled?

>>88133363
We're debating cartoons on the internet, everyone here is pathetic. Is there anything inaccurate with what I said though?

>>88133429
>Am I being trolled?

I was actually wondering if you were trolling.

The show is trendier you say, but you don't say why or how it was trendier. Are you saying it was more popular? Because the lower ratings than the first series suggest otherwise.

>>88133472
Unless you're eight years old. Then instead of being pathetic for being here it would just be inappropriate.

>>88133481
Do you know what a fucking trend is, you moron?
Protip: it's not a fucking rating.

It's like talking to a fucking child at this point.

>>88133515
Obviously you don't, asshole. Have fun trolling.

>>88133515
Anon, you are right. There are children in this thread.

>>88123486
That's not exactly true.

But people often say how amazing Korra's character arc is and what an awesome well rounded character she is in general and I can't really agree.

What is her "amazing character arc"?
That she became more responsible and mature? And it took 4 seasons? meh

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>>88123642
>tfw she is also a Failure at that
>asami leaves her for some random alpha fuckboi

>>88133399
>Opalposter
get out.

>>88127312
ATLA wasn't supposed to have 3 seasons, but they planned for 3 seasons.

That's how it works, you plan ahead.

>>88133935
Go back to /u/ where you belong.

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>>88134557
Make me.

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>>88135361
You can take that Failure with you. No one likes her.

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>>88135401
Well, maybe if you didn't insist on talking about her all the time...

>>88133935
>>88135361
>>88135440
Korra looks better with a dick in her mouth.

if you think she ;earned nothing then you did not pay attention to the show or are probably really stupid.

>>88133515
>>88133554
Samefag.

>>88135440
No! the intention is to talk about how Bad she is. We don't intend to talk about all that faggotry. THAT part, you can take to /u/.

Should have just reciprocated Bolin's feelings.

>>88136423
>so butthurt the only way to compensate is to pretend his enemies are the same person

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>>88136475
Well, not happening.

>>88136691
>compensate
Ha. Is that a joke or you don't know what that word means either? You're not my enemy kid, you're just some little troll who needs a dictionary.

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>>88123642

>>88123486
stupid series that followed what the fans truly wanted to stay a float .

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>>88136840
At least post quality /u/

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>>88136959
>what the fans truly wanted

Yup. Head shaving fetish.

will ATLA manchildren ever get over the fact that LoK was objectively the better show, despite the drop in quality during the end of s1 and season 2?

>>88137122
>thinking S03 and S04 was quality

>>88132020
Neither can the incoming US president elect, what's your point?
Jinora taught Korra how to read in the comics. It was part of their spiritual training seminar together...

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>>88136982
1. That art is and always has been vomit inducing
2. Canon couples only.

>>88132020
She is a water nigger, what did you expect?

>>88127312
>when they had time to stretch their legs properly.

And not just their legs, if those DeStijl images are to be believed.

>>88137122
you're probably trolling but it kinda boggles my mind people here would think LoK is anything but a very average show.

>>88137345
>wanting a pure waifu material to be contaminated by a sand nigro

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>>88137392
Oh anon, you missed /pol/ by a quarter mile.

>>88137573
Anon, he is a stereotype; black, no father, and a thief. Might as well be called Jamal.

>>88138507
Aren't you getting your racism mixed up here. Kai is supposed to be an Allah Ackbar not a Dindu.

>>88141149
Tecnically, there is no real niggers in Avatar, like there are no real blondes or red heads (the only one had her hair painted red)

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>>88137573

Damn, that's cute.

>>88133277
>Getting stuff granted to you or suddenly gaining the ability to do something without any effort is how women function in the real world tho anon.

>>88132020
What scene? Because she was reading the paper in the second episode of the first season.

I think you mean Toph, that was shown in ATLA though.

>>88132333
She sought closure from Zaheer but found something else from her encounter where even he admitted he didn't think things through and was taken back by Korra's resolve.

And she was already trying to reason with the antagonists since Unalaq. It's just that since it is an action/adventure show it can never happen without a fight or two.

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>>88137258
If Trump couldn't read how would he be able to shitpost on twitter?
Checkmate, hillfags!

>>88143996
>she was reading the paper
she couldn't, actually. And then let Mako figure it out.

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>>88132196
I liked her long hair more

>>88147707
You know what ELSE I liked? When Korra actually had big tits. They nerfed her chest size after Book 2.

>>88147797
I liked that too. And when she wasn't a token lesbian.

>>88123486
But you're fucking wrong.

>>88147540
It was a map of a city she didn't live in. Also >>88147620

>>88147797
They had to move the budget elsewhere for other characters to take the spotlight.

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>>88147707
Precondition: Hair's gotta be down

>>88148011
>>88148085
Just makes it even better, though ponytails isn't bad either.

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>>88148085

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>>88147620
>looking at the figures in the newspaper
>reading

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>>88148613
>>88148949

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>>88123642
ya cheeky cunt

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>female protagonist
>solves nothing and learns nothing

Seems realistic to me

>>88123486
Yep, she is an all around terrible character and shitty hero that would always just pull victory out of nowhere based on nothing, the only thing worthwhile that came out of the show was the porn.
That's it.

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I remember how hyped /co/ was for Korra but it quickly went to shit with pro bending/romance drama and just generally poorly written content.

>>88150155
Jesus Christ, pro-bending. Why did we waste so much time on such a pointless sequence of events? It's the podracing of Korra.

>>88150199
>Why did we waste so much time on such a pointless sequence of events?
To introduce and characterize the brothers who would technically be dropped after the probending stadium is closed but since they chose them to be "Team Avatar" there is no escape.
They couldn't have interesting characters and put their budget to good use so they went with the easiest and laziest thing.

>>88150155

Remember how most people thought it was good except for a few salty individuals who still can't stop complaining to this day?

>>88150155

I endured Pro bending and shitty romance because Amon was so cool and I wanted to see where it all went.

...It wasn't worth it. Oh god, /co/, it wasn't worth it!

>>88150625
No, I remember how very few thought it was good and everybody else understood how terribly written and time wasting pro bending and romance was.
Everybody wanted it to focus on the social tension, Amon and Korra doing detective work but instead we got pro bending, drama, Amon jobbing so he could lose to Korra and then that absolute bullshit asspull where she gets her powers back for nothing when she could have been humbled and improved as a person but nope.
It was not good, and it was not just /co/ that hated it and others thought it was great, the ratings kept going down and down after every episode, so everybody was in agreement that it was absolutely disappointing.
You are just trying to rewrite history for some reason.

>>88151043
>It was not good, and it was not just /co/ that hated it and others thought it was great, the ratings kept going down and down after every episode, so everybody was in agreement that it was absolutely disappointing.
>You are just trying to rewrite history for some reason.

You're the one trying to rewrite reality, Legend of Korra didn't lose ratings because the show was poor quality, it decreased in viewer ratings because that's an industry standard, Legend of Korra also has the prestige of going four season and not dropping below a million, Gravity Falls did it in its second season, Star Wars Rebels did it in their first, Young Justice in its second. TV ratings have overall been in decline as people move over to internet streaming, and most shows will have a gradual decline.

Only exception I can remember was Adventure Time that started around a million and around third season had regularly 3 million viewers in ratings, but this last season they dipped down to below 1 million for the first time

Review wise, be it user review or critic review it remains one of the top rated shows in its genre, and the complete series Blue Ray out competes every competition equivalent on Amazon

Was the show as good as Avatar? Most think no, but most also think it was a good show

>>88151604
>Legend of Korra also has the prestige of going four season and not dropping below a million
The bulk of the third season and season four didn't even air on tv.

>>88151604
Who are these "most people"? Because as far as i can tell most viewers didn't vote for anything, review it or even bothered to come back and watch the show after Book 1.

>>88131943
>For a board that claims to hate this show, people here talk about it a lot...
This isn't unique to /co/. /a/ hates harems, but the board usually has threads involving harems at least once a week, /tv/ posts flicks despite not it being "kino", and /v/ often features mainstream games, despite claiming it to be casual garbage.

>>88150155
They had so much time to feature a non-bender Equalist's perspective, but Bryke let it slip all away for a fictional magical sport that literally lost its relevance to the show in the season it was introduced. So much wasted potential for filler that lead nowhere.

>>88151736
4th season didn't, and that was Nickelodeon's decision, and their statement was that they did it because the show was not in line for their vision for the channel. Also you're acting as if only bad shows get screwed over by executive meddling, if so, why are people still screaming for Cartoon Network to bring back Young Justice? Why was there a 6 month gap between episode 11 and 12 of the last season of Avatar, and then they dropped the rest of the season out in the span of five days? They even did that for Legend of Korra, season 2 they changed the air date for every episode, there were 5 cold weeks where there were no episode at all, and then the two last episodes get uploaded to the internet while only the next to last episode airs that day

What you can see though are things like user reviews on IMDB and sales statistics, for example the complete series Blue Ray for Legend of Korra is the second most popular TV series Blue Ray in its category, only beaten by 2 season of Star Wars Rebels

>>88132220
>>every future avatar is fucked because they have korra as their guide

It would be funny if the next Avatar is some super analytical super studious book nerd who sees Korra as a stupid brute.

>>88151964
68000 votes on IMDB

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1695360/ratings?ref_=tt_ov_rt

Almost half of them vote the show to be 10/10

And you're basing quality on how many people watch the show live at 8 on a friday evening? I know I didn't, I pirated that shit. But I do know Legend of Korra far surpasses the competition, even for newer releases where you would expect bigger demand, when it comes to sales of physical dvd and blue ray copies

>>88152240
Even compared to the 1,5 million views of Book 3, 68000 votes is almost nothing.

And no i'm not basing the quality in numbers of viewers, but usually those who try to defend LoKs writing do by saying "most people loved it" or something to the effect.

I would say it is low quality writing because it is inconsistent with itself and most problems are solved by deus ex machina, and that they try to retread the same plot line twice without success. They also manage to not really develop the main character in 4 seasons, not to mention the very large cast of secondary characters. And manage to make almost everyone do things purely to move along a plot line that may or may not make sense from what they've shown to be the case.

>>88152386
Forgot to mention that most of the praise LoKs writing gets is nothing more tha virtue signalling with little to no substance at all like political ideology being "discussed" which doesn't actually take place in the show itself.

>>88152386
>Even compared to the 1,5 million views of Book 3, 68000 votes is almost nothing.

You say while polls are usually done where a sample of 1000 people are supposed to represent the views of a country. How statistics work is that if the majority of people surveyed are positive then it stands to reason that the overall reception is positive.

> I would say it is low quality writing because it is inconsistent with itself and most problems are solved by deus ex machina

Even Avatar did that, and it's still the highest rated cartoon, just behind Rick & Morty. And I do agree the first and second season did just suddenly introduce things in the last act to save the day, but season 3 and 4 didn't.

> they try to retread the same plot line twice without success

Main character was stubborn, and a lot of trust built up in season 1 evaporated in season 2 after a few revelations, but was amended halfway through the season.

> They also manage to not really develop the main character in 4 seasons

Except they do, Korra even states herself that the old her would never seek help from someone like Zaheer, or show mercy to Kuvira. Korra had to learn to be an Avatar without the guidance of her previous lives, and then how to show restraint and mercy over her foes

> not to mention the very large cast of secondary characters. And manage to make almost everyone do things purely to move along a plot line that may or may not make sense from what they've shown to be the case.

That's usually why you have secondary characters, yes. I mean I fully get that some characters one would probably like to see more of, I feel General Iroh and Zuko could probably have had more air time considering their importance as people of authority, but you usually can't balance the entire cast of a tv series. At least Legend of Korra entertained they still existed, instead of many other shows who will simply ignore that there was ever a person with that name and role

>>88152699
You can't really compare a poll on imdb to one made by a company specialised in making polls. For instance i would imagine the majority of people don't own an imdb account, so how can you say that rating is representative of the viewerbase?

>And I do agree the first and second season did just suddenly introduce things in the last act to save the day, but season 3 and 4 didn't.
Season 4 solves Korras entire issue by having her go to the spirit world with Zaheer without adressing her issue at all. Even her self image with the chain disappears and is never resovled aswell as the severe jump in technology that is inconsistent with the rest of the show. Book 3 i will give you, but it hardly counts since it's nothing more than building up tension for book 4.

>Main character was stubborn, and a lot of trust built up in season 1 evaporated in season 2 after a few revelations,
That doesn't excuse poor writing. They shouldn't have restartet Korra in book 2, they should have continued from book 1 instead.

>Except they do,
She says that true, but shes wrong considering she did seek out Zaheer in book 3, and She spared Zaheer and wanted to spare Unalaq. So in fact she didn't learn that even though they pretend she did.
I might even give you that she changes throughout the show, but i wouldn't consider it development because it doesn't follow from what she could have learned, and instead depends on what she needs to do so the plot can progress. This is why she is a total bitch in book 2 for instance, and why she is much more diplomatic towards the queen in book 3.

>That's usually why you have secondary characters
I'm talking about Mako, Asami and Bolin who are all barely developed (Asami isn't really). But they also kept making more characters without dropping most of them down the line, leading to a bloated cast of characters with no development.

>>88152966
>You can't really compare a poll on imdb to one made by a company specialised in making polls. For instance i would imagine the majority of people don't own an imdb account, so how can you say that rating is representative of the viewerbase?

Because IMDB usually correlates very well with how mainstream audiences view a tv show, the highest rated shows currently being BBC's Planet Earth, Band of Brothers, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and The Wire. Most of these shows being on the top of the list of favorite tv shows among normies. In cartoons the highest rated ones are Rick & Morty, Avatar, One Punch Man, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood and Batman: The Animated series, again correlating pretty well with what people consider the best.

> Season 4 solves Korras entire issue by having her go to the spirit world with Zaheer without adressing her issue at all

It was about resolving Korra's internal fear, first step of that was meeting with Zaheer at all, a man she feared after what he had done to her. After that came allowing herself to be vulnerable and trust him. Also I don't think it happens late enough to really be considered a deus ex machina, something new we didn't know about the world, sure, but that's how all plot elements work, as long as what you introduce doesn't conflict with what we knew earlier (lion turtles teaching fire bending *cough*) then it's fine. That's how stories usually works.

> Even her self image with the chain disappears and is never resovled aswell

It's psychological, it's a manifestation of her inner turmoil and fear. Accepting the guidance from a man she had nightmares about as she closed her eyes was a way for her to overcome that obstacle.

> severe jump in technology

Remember in book 2 of Avatar when the Fire Nation had a drill larger than anything we have produced even today? Or how about the fact that Korra's world have mechs at all? Which seems only natural after tanks that are gyroscopically balanced

>>88152966
> That doesn't excuse poor writing. They shouldn't have restartet Korra in book 2, they should have continued from book 1 instead.

To be honest Korra didn't change much in book 1, she eventually became friends and respected several people, even those she had negative first impressions with. And she eventually learned airbending and communicating with her more spiritual side. But she was still as brash as before, and it didn't help when she learned her father and Tenzin were the ones to keep her locked up for 17 years for her own protection

> She says that true, but shes wrong considering she did seek out Zaheer in book 3,

Not to seek help though, she wanted to face Zaheer to end him, not to get help. Also I'm not sure she would have spared Zaheer had she not been incapacitated by the poison. I think her words were "When I get out of here none of you will survive!"

> I'm talking about Mako, Asami and Bolin who are all barely developed (Asami isn't really).

I guess I just disagree with you there, I get that we didn't get to see them develop as much as the old gang, but then they did have double the air time back then. Personally I think they did have their own journeys. Mako got his detective skills out, Bolin became a movie star, and then fell in with Kuvira's camp. Asami had her relationship with her father she eventually resolved before losing him. I do agree though that the cast might have gotten a bit bloated after a while. Kai is one example I never got why they felt like introducing another airbender kid. Prince Wu also stole a large amount of air time, I get that he's needed to create sympathy towards Kuvira's utter distaste for the monarchy, and for someone to realize that the Earth Kingdom can't continue, but they did spend quite a bit of time with him, would have liked a few scenes with Zuko and his daughter Firelord instead. But such things doesn't make a show bad, the best of shows have faults such as that.

>>88123486
>Aang's character arc was accepting his place as the Avatar
>He made it very abundantly clear throughout the series that he just wanted to be a normal kid and didn't want any of the responsibilities that had been foisted on him, but in the end made peace with his destiny and did what he had to do
>Korra is his foil
>Korra's first line is literally, "I'm the Avatar, you gotta deal with it." Over the course of the series, she gets beaten down and loses her bending multiple times. She has to rely on her friends, not as crutches, but as partners who step in to free her to cover what they can't. She loses her connection to her past lives and severs much of the tradition of the Avatar to save a rapidly changing world, and to find a path that what came before could not guide her down. She ends the series by leaving everything behind, even going so far as to shirk traditional notions of what love can be.
>Korra's character arc was accepting that she was not just the Avatar, but an individual, and a flawed human being who yet deserved to be defined by who she was and not what she was.

Not that hard.

>>88153492
>even going so far as to shirk traditional notions of what love can be.

You know, i agree with you, but that line gets a bit over the top. Things like keeping the spirit portals open in spite of Avatar Wan's actions, and reasoning with Kuvira which most likely was why she surrendered when her men had the Avatar and her compatriots surrounded seems like more important things than a relationship that starts in the last minute

>>88153609
It started earlier, but I get your point. I pointed it out specifically because it was something completely unrelated to her duties as Avatar. The reason why it was the very last scene in the series is because it showed that she had grown enough to accept ALL of the aspects of her non-Avatar self.

>>88123642

Kyoshi brought that in Korra started with it.

>>88123857
And that was such bullshit that somehow ANGER unlocked her ability to airbend, when that's the complete fucking opposite of what airbending is about.

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>>88123642
Came here to post this

>>88153492
>Korra is his foil
>Korra's first line is literally, "I'm the Avatar, you gotta deal with it." Over the course of the series, she gets beaten down and loses her bending multiple times. She has to rely on her friends, not as crutches, but as partners who step in to free her to cover what they can't. She loses her connection to her past lives and severs much of the tradition of the Avatar to save a rapidly changing world, and to find a path that what came before could not guide her down. She ends the series by leaving everything behind, even going so far as to shirk traditional notions of what love can be.
>Korra's character arc was accepting that she was not just the Avatar, but an individual, and a flawed human being who yet deserved to be defined by who she was and not what she was.
Now, I would agree with you purely on the notion that we're talking about Korra's character as an idea rather than the actual execution the show went with.

she didn't learn enough.
4 seasons to become more mature?

>>88153492
Cut the love thing and i'd watch it.

>>88123486
>yfw korra and asami scissoring is canon

>>88157837
Nigger you stupid? Amon closed the chi pathways for the bending that Korra could do, but accidentally opened the air pathway.

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>>88123486
She learned that mercury sucks.

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>>88161711
>mfw

LoK was such crap compared to ATLA

Korra is now only good for arguing over, and lewds

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>>88161711
I don't think they are at the scissoring stage of their relationship in the comics yet. But soon.

>>88153609
>when her men had the Avatar and her compatriots surrounded
Men who the Avatar State could dispatch or even the Avatar's compatriots have shown they can overcome.

The whole thing was overblown, telling the audience that the antagonists could actually stand up to the good guys but what it comes down to is the plot holding the good guys back and making them do stupid things.

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>>88123642
put me in the screencap

>>88153492
>She has to rely on her friends, not as crutches, but as partners who step in to free her to cover what they can't.
Except that they were crutches since the show never let Korra do anything of value or worth.

>to save a rapidly changing world
A world that was only rapidly changing since she let the villains get so far in their goals for either world domination or "the natural order."

>but an individual, and a flawed human being
Meanwhile every other character is portrayed as correct, in the right, or having the moral high ground and is in fact better than her in every way despite all Korra's efforts.

Maybe this has merit on paper, but in execution it misses the goals. Also it makes for a terrible action adventure story.

>>88123486
>Korra literally learned nothing at all throughout the series.
Yes.

And that's why she's considered a "strong female character".

>>88159549
It's all there in the show, it's just that there's a lot of other distracting things going on.

>>88163747
>Except that they were crutches since the show never let Korra do anything of value or worth.
A crutch makes up for your shortcomings. She was covering for them, not the other way around.
>A world that was only rapidly changing since she let the villains get so far in their goals for either world domination or "the natural order."
Technological and social upheaval. What was she supposed to do, blow up everything that was too advanced?
>Meanwhile every other character is portrayed as correct, in the right, or having the moral high ground and is in fact better than her in every way despite all Korra's efforts.
I don't see that? Mako and Biking both make stupid mistakes constantly. Tenzin is uptight and can't meet her in the middle. Aang was not only a shit father he was a shit Avatar spirit. Lin was worse than Tenzin. Suyin was a benevolent despot who was... okay, everyone's reaction to the shit she did was admittedly written badly. Asami was constantly caught off guard in big ways that made getting the right thing done way tougher.

>>88164068
How did Korra cover for others for her mistakes and her own shortcomings?
They started with Korra being the opposite of Aang. Aang found himself in situations that he didn't cause. While Korra causes 98% of her problems and doesn't do anything to resolve them of her own direct effort.
Her friends end up being a crutch for her since she starts something and can't commit to seeing it through and fixing it, so they have to bail her out and then someone else fixes the problem (election that Korra has no help in guiding elects a non-bender president, council of elders we don't see elects Tonraq and the North suddenly doesn't feel like killing their sister tribe, airbenders Stockholm Syndrome has them stay with the people responsible for their situation, Earth Kingdom goes from oppressive monarchy to anarchy to dictatorship to eh we'll come back to it later.)

The Avatar guides the world and makes sure people play nice. Korra had no constructive input and for some reason people didn't want her there despite them clamoring for Avatar Aang for the past 70 years.

Mako is shown to be perfect aside from having trouble expressing himself with women who throw themselves at him. Bolin is constantly praised on this board. People say that Korra is terrible for not listening to Tenzin. Aang's out of character parenting is head scratching given that Katara is his wife so the fact that they both let things slip through the their arms doesn't make sense. People waifu Lin and say she's perfect.
I'll give you Suyin since that is correct.

>>88161714
>Amon closed the chi pathways for the bending that Korra could do, but accidentally opened the air pathway.
That's just the bullshit excuse of a hack writer.

HONESTLY? I think Amon should have taken all of her bending abilities in the season finale and been forced to flee or some shit. Korra would have been forced to accept the loss of her bending and with that acceptance of humility, she learns how to bend air and defeats Amon with that element alone. The 3 other seasons is her learning to wield the three other elements all over again, much like Aang did in another way.

But I'm not a writer and that's a shitty way to go about it too.

>>88165192
>and that's a shitty way to go about it too.
At least we can all agree on that much.