Looking back on it, was it really so bad? Yes.

>>92661630
I do agree

>>92661630
We got some decent porn out of it though.

>>92661630
I binged it all a couple weeks ago.
No, it's not 'that' bad, especially the latter 2 seasons. If I hadn't watched AtLA prior I might've even thought it was better.
But it definitely leaves a lot to be desired and is pretty disappointing overall. Altho the Korra hate on /co/ is vastly over-rated.

>>92661692
>If I hadn't watched AtLA prior I might've even thought it was better.

This. I watched the first season of LOK. I didn't hate the show or anything like that, but I never cared enough to finish viewing the later seasons. ATLA was really good at worldbuilding. With Korra (at least the season that I watched), I got bored with big city setting pretty quickly although I understand that in later seasons, Korra and her friends visited other parts of the world. With ATLA, each style of bending had a unique look and philosophy behind it. Some characters (like Toph or Iroh) developed their own styles and philosophies. With Korra, most of the characters had the same generic MMA fighting style and it wasn't as much fun to watch.

>>92661630
>Aang is an air bending prodigy for mastering airbending by the age of 12, youngest in the monk's recorded history
>unable to learn how to do the other bending until he is trained
>had to be taught the motions by katara
>firebending is notoriously dangerous
>earthbending is his opposite so it's notoriously difficult for him, had to be guided by the spirit's to Toph because even Boomi wasn't the right teacher
>the whole process of the avatar learning the bending is so he can understand the culture and traditions and religion of the people who practice said bending
>all of the culture and traditions and religion and bending is connected and shapes the way they and the avatar view the world and it isn't until he learns them all and understand the views of each that he can act as peacekeeper and bring balance and order to the world

Meanwhile in Korra
>Korra learns earthbending without being instructed
>learns her opposite because her "personality" overrides the avatar cycle
>does this all as a five year old before she can even read
>doesn't use air because she lacks a spiritual connection
>this is never expanded upon
>the show has the audacity to have Korra yell, "I'M THE AVATAR, YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT."

This show was a train wreck frlm the beginning.

Also why does a lack of spiritual connection prevent her from airbending? Is air now more spiritual than the others?

It was good excluding the second season.

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every season had just enough to want me to know what would happen, but then each time it does something pants on head retarded.
I guess the real fool around here is me

>>92661929
With ALTA, there was a whole team of experienced writers involved to help reign in Mike and Bryan when they started to go off track. With LOK, they had a lot more control. It's sort of like what happened with George Lucas with the first Star Wars movie where he had people telling him "hey George, this makes more sense for the character" or "hey George, this would work better for the story" versus the prequels where he got to do whatever he wanted and we ended up with Jar Jar Binks and 1950's space diners.

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What was the point of this thing

>>92661958
>love triangle from season 1
>Aang coming down as a deus ex machina at the end
>season 1 was good

>>92661630
Much like Samurai Jack season 5, the idiotic fandom correctly hates it but for insipid reasons.

>>92662049
Yeah it's pretty well known that Korra was just Bryke going full prequels George Lucus

>>92661929
>>the show has the audacity to have Korra yell, "I'M THE AVATAR, YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT."


y i k e s

>republic city
>isn't a republic
What did they mean by this?

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>fartbending
KINO!!!

>>92661630
yes. It's even worse when you have the whole picture at once.

>>92662066
It doesn't have to make sense. It just has to look cool and innovative.

>>92662066
>can't bend the metal because its platinum
>they fuck it up when they are inside by bending all the non-platinum metal gears

wait so does platinum act as some like anti-bending shield?

>>92662339
the mecha looked like utter shit

>>92662379
>can't bend platinum because its so pure that there isn't enough earth inside the metal
>but they can bend mercury
the metal bending was just them pulling shit out their ass constantly. Just like the whole "oh these are special blood benders who don't need the full moon"

>>92662430
it was fucking retarded too. Just like the normal mechs all you need to do is earthbend the ground out from beneath them and they'll sink

Also yes, Korra gets worse the more time passes

>>92661630
>Aang travels the world as a 12 year old kid with other kids during a massive world war and people out hunting him
>it's too dangerous for Korra to go out with an escort during peacetime so they keep her cooped up with the white Lotus in one location to keep her safe
Keeping her cooped up hidden from the world is the exact opposite of what Aang would have wanted

>>92662531
Wasn't this Aang idea or something? God, this show was awful at understanding the old characters.

>>92661929
>>the show has the audacity to have Korra yell, "I'M THE AVATAR, YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT."
This was supposed to contrast her with Aang, who had a lot of trouble gaining the confidence he needed to be the Avatar and save the world. Korra has the confidence from the very beginning but lacks the perspective or sense of altruism and that's what she needs to struggle to develop.

Neat idea. Shame the execution was shit.

>>92662576
The whole phrase is cringy as fuck. This show had terrible dialogue

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>>92662510
>all the shit Tenzin had to put up
>her screaming at him in front of his kids
>her deliberately disobeying him
>Korra runs away at the end of season 3 letting the world fall into chaos
>friends and family write to her and she pushes them away
>hides her location and only responds to Asami
>at the end Korra says to her, "You were the only one who reached out to me, who was there for me."

She got really, REALLY fucking stupid the longer the show went on.

>>92661915
Honestly you should've skipped the first 2 seasons of LOK and just watched the last 2, they form one complete arc and tell, whatever Korra's about a lot better than Amon's wild ride. It took me a while to get around to it but the shitty 1st season doesn't do the show justice at all. They still squander a fuckload of good potential (Kuvira especially, and even old-lady Toph) however, but it was enough to get me watching to the end.

I'd still put it lower than Avatar, but it's kind of an unfair comparison because each LOK season is like a separate series and Avatar is treated as one entity.

>>92662066
The CGI got so bad later on, holy shit. I was laughing my ass off at this and all the mini-Mech suit scenes.

>>92661630
No, it was even worse

>>92662576
The problem is that you can make that contrast without shitting on the world building and breaking the established rules. Show her training and loving it. So her talent by how quickly she picks up the bending, show her practicing over years. Show the dedication.

This, constantly committing herself to her training and being dedicated and determined to learn and grow and improve, is how you build CHARACTER. The choices which become your habits and build who you are.

Instead they showed that she was just born with it. That's really lazy and bad writing.

>>92662558
It was done after the Red Lotus incident.

Folks need to pay attention.

all im saying is amon was cool af till the mask came off

>>92662435
That's different.
Mercy in different elemental states is just a rock. You can find Volcanic Mercury and Mercy as metal, liquid and basically rock.

Platinum is an artificial metal that doesn't exist in nature and has to be industrially synthesized. It doesn't come in any natural form other than Platinum.

>>92662669
That's the thing, the stupid five year old toddler scene wasn't required at all. It goes for less than a minute then they do a timeskip. Why not just fucking show the training? It's not only irrelevant but it makes her character worse.

>>92662669
They do that later on, but season 1 of LOK should have ended like how Season 3 did; With her body and spirit broken, abilities neutered and having to claw her way back up. But rather than having her recover her confidence in the span of 3 episodes, they should've taken 3 seasons.

Yes. I tried to watch it a month ago, got through the first half of the first season and was so incredibly bored I quit.

You guys are nitpicking certain story elements, or plot elements, but for me I can't even get that far. I am just not entertained by the visuals or action scenes and I don't care what happens to any of the characters, so I have zero reason to continue watching it. Oh no I hope they win the bending tournament oh no.

>>92662673
What season was that mentioned?

>>92662683
Kuvira was better
>tfw you realize she literally got defeated by the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP

>>92662710
It is not irrelevant, without it we would never assume that she is supposed to be super talented. It is still terrible writing though

>>92662735
I was actually looking forward to that. I was hoping we'd get character development at the end of season 1. But nope, they fucking dues ex machinaed that shit

And then for season 3 they had the opposite of a deus ex machina. Instead of magically giving her something back, they prevented her from making ANY PROGRESS as an individual because of the mercury inside her. And then when it was removed she was back to normal.

Just... FUCK

>>92662739
The blandness of Mako and Bolin, and really horrid unneeded love triangles and obnoxious shipping episodes really drag the show down some crazy notches.

The visuals and animation later gets to be some of the best parts, but the writing often veers on fanfic territory.

>>92662763

god, best girl kuvira is best girl

fucking SHAME

>>92662763
Her surrendering just because she talked to Korra and Bryke trying to tell us they were foils was so stupid.

Also why the fuck did Kuvera invade with just her mechs instead of the rest of the army after they had surrendered the city?

>>92662811
She also did nothing wrong. That was all earth kingdom territory
>>92662789
I hate Mako and Bolin so much. Them as brothers started out good but then they separated them and it just went out the window. Bolin alone is just a fucking buffoon and the Mako is a boring police officer.

>>92662782
Yeah, I really don't get what Korra was supposed to have learned at all. One could argue that Aang had to learn to confront his problems ahead and balance his pacifism with his duty, but by extension Korra's arc makes her pretty much impossible to wrestle with.

Mainly because Bryke has no idea about storytelling or what's appropriate. If you introduce a hot-head prodigy character the obvious arc for her should be something like 'Learning restraint' or 'How to solve problems non-violently and resort to peace instead of matching anger with anger', but Korra doesn't honestly learn anything. The thematics are all over the place, and the only reason the villains are villains in some cases is they're going against the status quo and Korra is the default, making her kind of a regressive heroine at that. She doesn't grow herself nor do her actions grow the moral or in-story events really in positive ways (That aren't just forced mysteriously after the arc ends). That makes her kinda awful in a lot of accumulated respects.

>>92662823
That scene was just, ridiculous. Kuvira gives up her lifelong dream just because she was a sad orphan and Korra listened to her? She just needed a hug from a good mommy to give her milk and cookies and sympathize? I cannot even wrap my head around it.

>>92661630
I saw some of it again recently.

I'm surprised at how decent I found a lot of the first season. If you just shaved down the romance stuff a bit I would not have had such a huge problem with it.

S2 is objectively garbage and S3-4 are pretty trash. They had some cool characters and concepts, but by that point so much damage had been done to all the core characters that it felt like both S3 and S4 were doing nothing but scrabbling to find any way they could of fixing them. Everything felt incredibly forced.

Why was Bolin able to learn Lava Bending again? We only ever saw an Avatar do that up to that point.

>>92662868
Ironically enough she's at her lowest when her status as the avatar is in question. Like, her personality and her character, everything that makes her "Korra" is connected to the avatar. Without her she is nothing/.

You see this in season 1 when she afraid of losing her bending. And in season 3 when she's unable to be strong enough to be the avatar.

Her sense of self is nonexistent without the title of avatar. That's how bad her character was designed

>>92662705
>platinum is artificial
?????

S1 was actually promising

>>92662933
That kinda makes it worse because at season 4 when she rebounds, the only lesson she learns is "I AM the avatar", and never really grows beyond that. Her entire character is about the notion of how she has to adhere to being the Avatar and I think the entire show suffers from a lot of weird narrative moral dissonance.

>>92662943
Platinum as a refined metal is. Which is different than Platinum as an element.
Recall in the original avatar they couldn't bend the Iron warships, that's because Iron as a smelted metal is different in composition than Iron the element.

>>92662933
>Ironically enough she's at her lowest when her status as the avatar is in question. Like, her personality and her character, everything that makes her "Korra" is connected to the avatar. Without her she is nothing/.
>You see this in season 1 when she afraid of losing her bending. And in season 3 when she's unable to be strong enough to be the avatar.

I don't think this is necessarily bad. Those are actually pretty interesting flaws. They sorta even make sense for some kid who was raised in relative isolation, with the objective of making them entirely live up to this position that had been thrust upon them by fate.

The problem is that, like everything in the show, it's just not handled well, and there's no real payoff for any of it.

>>92661630
It's not AS bad as /co/ makes it out to be, but watching it is certainly one facepalm after one.

>>92662905
What's extra stupid is that they were so close. I completely understand her surrendering because she avatar can clearly kick her ass because she's back to normal. Kuvira saw her power and realized she changed (not with her character of course the mercury was just removed) and she can't defeat her. It makes sense for to surrender. And she walks back out and all the others are there. She is outnumbered. It still makes sense.

But then they make her fucking soldiers show up! There is no way Kuvira who was worked for years and sacrificing everything, even the man she loved, to get where she is just tells them to stand down. And all the bullshit about doing this for her nation because she was an orphan? That is so fucking out of character for the person they made into a fucking dictator its insane.
>>92662943
ignore him he's an idiot. Earthbenders bend earth, not metal, not iron, not platinum.
>>92663030
You're an idiot earthbenders can't bend metal. They bend earth and only earth. They only bend metal by bending the earth that was left in as impurities. Whether the metal is an element or not is stupid. You know why? Because this same principle applies to bronze

FUCKING BRONZE

YOU KNOW WHAT BRONZE IS? IT'S COPPER AND TIN, AKA TWO ELEMENTS COMBINED

The logic in this show is so stupid its like they did no homework like they used to, they just make up shit as they go. There was no reason to use PLATINUM when bronze does the exact same thing and it's FUCKING EVERYWHERE

WE USED IT FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS

Korra's biggest problem is that each season was written as being separate from each other just in case the series was not renewed. Each season was self-contained with a neatly wrapped-up plot that never really progressed, and when it was renewed the next season tried to be bigger and better.

Some crossover was present but they never really explored these beyond the three-act cycle of the seasons.

ATLA was great because each season acted like an act as part of a bigger, cohesive story.

>>92663030
In the origin avatar Toph bent the shit out of those blimps.

She bent the metal cage wherein she was being held captive. She bent steel. She bent smelted iron. She bent all kinds of metals.

>>92663072
The problem with it is, it's not really grown past as a 'flaw' and in fact not treated as one either-
Rather than her over-reliance on her Avatar identity being treated as the problem, it's actually her inability to perform that identity correctly which subtly sends a much grosser message. She only overcomes it and is rewarded when she accepts the Avatar is what she has to be and is 'good' at it again. The moral is really icky that way.

Like imagine if Aang had an obligation to kill the firelord, but rather than the flaw being 'He grapples with it morally' rather it's "He doesn't know if he can be an efficient killer- But the show will come through to show you he CAN kill afterall just like the world demands of him, for the better!"

>>92663157
which made sense for the time period, the metal we used was terrible back then

>>92663109
>Whether the metal is an element or not is stupid
Not necessarily, it works off the purity of the element purity. It's the same reason for a Waterbender it's much easier to bend plain water than it is stomach acid or more filtered liquids.
>They only bend metal by bending the earth that was left in as impurities.
Which goes down in a more refined metal like Iron or Platinum. They just hadn't reached the stage where a metalbender could bend Platinum yet. A bronze or Iron mech would've been exploited by that time.

>>92661929
>Also why does a lack of spiritual connection prevent her from airbending? Is air now more spiritual than the others?
This part at least was present in the original. The Air Nomads were all Airbenders because of their high levels of spirituality.

>>92663172
Not really, Steel isn't that far off from Platinum.
It actually is more sturdy and refined in some cases, making it logically easier to bend Platinum than Steel in some cases.

Or would if the show made any sense.

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>>92661630
At least the fight scenes were good
Better than Samurai Jack S5

>>92663311
Kurvira's fighting style too. We never got something like someone using custom-metal projectiles like the dai li again.

>>92663303
Using platinum the way they did is still stupid considering it's supposed to be the prohibition era.

>>92663276
Not any less than the water benders.

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>>92662435
>Can bend Mercury
I thought the whole concept of metal bending was bending the impurities in the metal, if you were bending a liquid metal wouldn't all of impurities just seperate out?

>>92663257
They acted like it was a quality inherent only to platinum though. They could have used steel or bronze

>>92663720
exactly

also the amount of mercury that was left in korra should have killed her after that much time. Instead she didn't even see any of the symptoms of mercury

my sis dropped it after s1 finale asspull.


just let it die.

>>92663922
God I will never forget that thread. It was fucking amazing. /co/ was laughing at the Korra fags so hard.

Only rivaled by season 2. Between the retconning, the fucking spirit tapeworm, Won, using amnesia to restart the love triangle, and all of the bullshit in the finale, it was a golden age of shitposting

>>92662339
So what was the point of it?

>>92664007
same reason they made the avatar world progress multiple milleniums technology wise in less than a few decades

because Bryke thought it would be "cool" and logic and previous worldbuilding be damned

Korra's massive breasts.

>>92664046
What do you mean? Fire Nation had industrial technology in the first series. Coal-burning, iron-hulled steamships. Tanks. Giant fuck-off excavators.

>>92662066
It could have been an awesome fight between Big Blue Korra and that mech

>>92662620
I gotta be honest, season 1 was way better than season 4 imo. Season 4 just feels so jumbled it's hard to follow properly and the villain is never really a threat to Korra. Korras plotline is also really poorly handled and most characters seem to regress once they meet up again.

>>92661630
It had it's good moments, especially in season 1 and season 3. I still think it should have stayed a one season miniseries like originally planned. As the show went on it was obvious the writers were hacks. And then there was the whole pandering to a vocal minority for the ending and doubling down on it and calling people homophobic if they had criticisms.

The only consistently good thing about Korra was it's music.

The only thing good to come from Legend of Korra was the porn.

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The first season has the most disappointing villain I think I've ever encountered. Such great build-up and and mythos (an everyday man who has deeply trained his body/mind and fights for a noble cause: equality among benders/nonbenders) and ruined him by making him an actual waterbending petty crook.

>>92664988
steam technology and ironclads are centuries before automobiles and radio and electricity and skyscrapers and planes and giant platinum robots

>>92661683

And a good majority of it is lesbian porn.

>>92665802
his motives make no fucking sense. I miss when everyone thought he was a spirit sent to take away bending from humans with chi bending because we had modernized so much and abused their power

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how petty are you fucking retards to have the same threads over and over

>Korra sees how the Spirits tormented, killed, mutated, and assault humans on sight during Wans time.
>To the point humans have to live on the Lion turtles for or risk death.
>Lol im going to open the portal.

She's the worst Avatar ever.

>>92665225
I still have no fucking idea what happened in the season 2 finale
>>92665605
They payed homage to the first season by ruining the villain

>>92665834
>steam technology and ironclads are centuries before...
More like decades or one century.

I think the fudge is acceptable. They use magic to push their technology after all. See lightning benders powering an electrical grid.

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>>92665879
wow shit that happened thousands of years ago

>>92665879
And this was before the mercury brain damage
>>92665903
if you know anything about lightning and electrical/mechanical engineering then that scene made no fucking sense

>>92665879
the best part is how the vines are invading everything and Korra just wants everyone to live with it

as if its not going to get worse and the world isn't going to end up fucked up just like it was in Won's time

>>92665903
The only technology was steam and iron. And that was fire nation only. The other nations were still in the bronze age and maybe the iron age.

>>92665903
>See lightning benders powering an electrical grid.
That was so stupid. In TLA the only people we ever saw lightning bend was the Firelord and Azula. And it was always about gathering the energy and launching it out. Light actual lightning.
But in Korra we just have average Joes charging power stations by pouring it in continuously

>>92661630
Korra got worst for me after rewatching. I wish we got a spin off of young Iroh instead. That shit would have been awesome.
>>92665868
I like having other people to share my hate with.

>>92666143
did you forget how lightning was mad and who made it

>>92666147
I never realized how much of a stupid dick Korra was. She's just oblivious to anyone.

I mean fuck remember the anti bending guy? He's going on a rant about bending being a menace and the source of evil and he just walks right into his trap going "What are you talking about? Bending is the best thing in the world!" in front of the non benders and then admitting she wanted to attack him

>>92666175
I didn't think they explained the origin of lightning bending or where it first came from?

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>>92666147
yea and you are tho only guys that hate it

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>>92666253
are you fucking stupid you dont know who made lightning bending

>>92666287
I don't give a fuck how popular my opinions are faggot

>>92666328
wow nice anger

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>>92666362
>wow you're angry
>he says posting on 4chan

>>92666253
They didn't. Redirection is Iroh's invention but the generation has unknown origins. According to the wikia Iroh said
"There is energy all around us. The energy is both yin and yang; positive energy and negative energy. Only a select few firebenders can separate these energies. This creates an imbalance. The energy wants to restore balance and in a moment the positive and negative energy come crashing back together. You provide release and guidance, creating lightning."
At the very least we know only a select few can do it.
>>92666227
They made Korra too aggressive. I mean why is she antagonizing protesters for a movement she knew nothing about?
>>92666287
Thats just not true.

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>>92666423
>getting angry at anything on 4chan

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>>92666457
>Thats just not true
you going to post those retarded videos of that one guy that hates the show

>>92666457
>At the very least we know only a select few can do it.
that's the problem, it's now prevalent enough to the point that it's a job people do

I mean how did they teach so many people? Did Aang convince everyone to share their secrets?

But nope suddenly a fuckton more people know how to do it instead of the firelord and his daughter. And no explanation as to why. Kind of like the blood bending not needing the moon

>>92666500
Why are you such a worthless piece of trash?

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Iroh made lighting bending you fucking idiots

>>92661630
At least I can fondly look back on all the porn

>>92666545
Iroh made the shooting lightning back technique. He didn't invent lightning bending.

>>92666500
>even mentioning that faggot
fuck off with your bait

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>>92666537
>>92666597

why do you think everybody hates the show they dont the only place that dose is here and from what i see from the threads you dont even know the lore of the original you only go off your head canon you idiots are fucking sad

>>92666545
he made the redirection technique moron

>>92666609
What is your end goal with these posts? This is actually some of the most worthless shit I've ever seen posted on this site.

>>92666609
I can't even begin to convey how little of a fuck I give about what you think

>>92666609
why are you posting this?

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>>92666609
>guys! guys I don't like you! guys I think you are stupid!

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>>92666689
>>92666654
>>92666649
>>92666714

ok im sorry you can go back to your circle jerk of bad facts and blaming korra for everything

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>>92666730
so you are going to fuck off? Cool cya

>>92666500
nah I can only find a bunch of people who liked/loved it other than ER.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hmCxEtNNVU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJWjun-b8BI
btw what is it with all the teenage girls that like this show?
>>92666545
He invented redirection by studying the water tribe

>>92666811
most people I know that loved this show also loved shit like Sherlock and Supernatural.

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>>92661630
God... She's so pretty...

That design is so.. Perfect..

>>92666938
she's insanely unoriginal

there's a rule 63 thread for sokka up and he looks exactly like korra

>>92666525
>that's the problem, it's now prevalent enough to the point that it's a job people do
The way Mako talked about it it sounded like a job that pays really well, like it's a pretty rare commodity

>>92662662
the CGI in both shows has always been terrible, don't kid yourself.

Actually, I take that back. Outside of TLOK Book 1 and some of 2B, the CGI has always been terrible.

>>92667037
doesn't make sense considering they are always broke

Korra Season Opinion Rankings
1>3>2>4

>>92667182
anon, did you even watch the fucking show? Mako only got the job when they needed the money to be eligible for the Probending Finals. Mako said it made "decent money" and considering they needed 30,000 yuans to be eligible, working in the power plant must have made him quite a lot

Before that(when they were "always broke") they were living in the Probending Arena building in an attic, and most of the money they earned from being probenders usually went back into the pocket of the arena owner, so they rarely had too much money on their hands. And before THAT, they lived on the streets as part of the triads.

>>92663561

Not to mention that the amount of platinum used in the mechs is absurd, it's one of the more expensive metals on the market.

I feel that the problem with Korra is that it wandered away from childish themes into the area where it's no longer satisfactory to have simplistic, childish resolutions. But it's still a kids' show.

>>92667565
>a metal is rare and expensive IRL so that means it must be expensive and rare in a fictional fantasy world

>>92665879
To be fair the humans how have the means to defend themselves

>>92667678
>In ATLA fire nation can turn a tiny blimp without the mechanism to make it fly(though with the knowledge on how to make it fly) into a much larger and much more complex airship in less than a year
>no one complains

>TLOK introduces a rudementary form of Mechas in Season 1, shows them in use over the next seasons, and then in Season 4(4 years in-universe after they were introduced) shows a much more advanced mech that can walk, and later a much larger one
>/co/ is mad

>>92667635
And in many aspects it became more childish like with the stupid romance

>>92668523
Giant robot is still pretty bad
Also I'm waiting for someone to explain to me how the platinum blocks bending

Like I get it you can't bend platinum. But they get inside the mech and start ripping apart the non-plat metal that is inside.

Well why couldn't they have done that from the outside? Why did the plat prevent them from bending the other bendable metal inside? It was only an inch or two thick

>>92668683
>Also I'm waiting for someone to explain to me how the platinum blocks bending
>Like I get it you can't bend platinum. But they get inside the mech and start ripping apart the non-plat metal that is inside.
>Well why couldn't they have done that from the outside? Why did the plat prevent them from bending the other bendable metal inside? It was only an inch or two thick

They weren't high-enough on the mech to bend the non-platinum metals.

Lin tried bending the feet/ankle joints, which seem to be made of platinum.

Lin and Su are only able to really start fucking shit up once they and the others are inside the mech and in the upper parts of it, where the interior stuff is made of bendable metals.

>>92661630
Sadly the worst part of the show was the characters, with Korra being the worst. Exact opposite of TLA

>>92668926
>the most important part of the machine, the one that controlled the operation of the superweapon, wasn't made of platinum
What did they wrong out

>>92669327
they didn't think anyone would be able to get inside the machine to do damage to it. Remember, the mech was basically impenetrable until the hummingbird mech cut a hole in it with the plasma saw

>>92668523
Robotics is much harder than aerodynamics

>>92669977
It's technology we don't even have.

>>92662933
Honestly the idea of Korra learning to be a person outside just being the avatar was one plotline i was expecting to see. It's a real shame that never happened.

>>92661630
No, it was worse.

>>92667706
They never show so much as a speck of it before Korra and it seems to have been a secret weapon of sorts in season 1. If it was abundant enough to make a titan of, it should have been something that metal benders knew about before it was used against them.

>>92661630
yes
it was fucking awful

>>92668270
How? There was pretty much only 2 benders capable of spirit bending as far as we know and one of them is dead now.

>>92667191
It's rare to see someone rank 2 higher than 4, imo 4 is better than 2 but not a good season.

>>92667398
He never made the 30k though. He got the Sato sponsorship before he had the chance.

>>92667037
>The way Mako talked about it it sounded like a job that pays really well, like it's a pretty rare commodity
Did we watch the same show? Mako, an orphan right off the streets, thought it made decent money, but not enough that he actually considered it worth his while. He spoke of it as if it was something he could fall back on if he found nothing better.

>>92667635
It tried to do more mature themes and stories, but for some reason chose not to put in any effort or time. Any of the political aspects are just mentioned and then forgotten entirely never to be brought up again.

>>92668523
The first mechas share no semblance with the Kuvira mecha, and barely any with the smaller mech suits her army used. It's also a sense of scale where the originals were forklifts compared to high-rise building that is even more advanced and covered in plotinum.

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>>92668683

>>92662598
hey, you have to give them some credit, she does sound like a canon lesbian

>>92672700
That's pretty bad too, was probably Brykes idea aswell. The saving grace for the drill is that something like it actually exists and works, like everything else in Atla. Kuviras giant mecha doesn't exist and it wouldn't work if it did.

>>92663257
so a plastic bag could kill the avatar? cool

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>>92666938
Oh yeah, Korra herself is top tier. I kind of want to take her out of her shitty show and put her in a better one, or a video game.

Like, a guest party member in an RPG or something.

>>92665802
ok imagine this
>first season ends on amon retreating because of a coup within his own regimen
>we keep getting hints on amon's actions during the next seasons
>ultimately amon works alongside korra to defeat the fender-bender team on s3
>s4 is about korra finding balance within points of view and she decides to become a spirit world hermit for the good of the world, such as iro did, separating herself from raava and letting balance do its own thing
>and so ends the story of korra, the last avatar

>>92672355
>They never show so much as a speck of it before Korra and it seems to have been a secret weapon of sorts in season 1. If it was abundant enough to make a titan of, it should have been something that metal benders knew about before it was used against them.
They knew about it. The mech was made from the domes of Zaofu, which were made of platinum. And Zaofu is a Metalbender city.

>>92672519
I never said he made the 30k.

>>92672546
>Did we watch the same show?
You obviously didn't.

>Mako, an orphan right off the streets, thought it made decent money,
Yes, and considering what his previous work has been, he'd know if it made "decent money" especially in regards to the goal in mind.

We only see a few other benders in the factory with him, so we know it's not something a lot of people do. They're in high demand.

> but not enough that he actually considered it worth his while. He spoke of it as if it was something he could fall back on if he found nothing better.
No he didn't.

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>>92661929
Wasn't that line said when she was just a kid?

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>>92662929
>We only ever saw an Avatar do that up to that point
what did he mean by this?

>>92673049
>The mech was made from the domes of Zaofu, which were made of platinum.
Wait, how the fuck did they move the domes of metalbending city if they couldn't bend them?

>>92672626
>The first mechas share no semblance with the Kuvira mecha,
In that sense, the war balloons share no semblance with the Fire Nation airships.

>and barely any with the smaller mech suits her army used.
But they still shared some. Her mech suits were an updated version of the Sato ones. Varrick himself improved them.

> It's also a sense of scale where the originals were forklifts compared to high-rise building that is even more advanced and covered in plotinum.
And it's a sense of scale where the original was a small balloon made of fabric compared to the warship-sized airships that were even more advanced and made of metal

>>92666021
>And that was fire nation only. The other nations were still in the bronze age and maybe the iron age.
You think the Fire Nation is just going to hoard all their technology, especially considering how much the Avatar and the new Fire Lord are butt buddies?

>>92673131
>Wait, how the fuck did they move the domes of metalbending city if they couldn't bend them?
Mechanically.

>>92673049
>considering what his previous work has been, he'd know if it made "decent money"
"decent money" for a small-time criminal orphaned teen.

>No he didn't.
Yes he did.

>>92673274
>"decent money" for a small-time criminal orphaned teen.
who is in need of 30k yuans

Context matters.

>Yes he did.
No he didn't

>>92673156
Sure but the principle is the same for both the baloon and airships, that is not the case with the mechs.

Varrick built them from the ground up by the looks of it. His prototype is in book 3 for a short minute and it looks nothing like the season 1 mechas.

It functions on the same principle, Kuviras mech doesn't. It's not a vehicle turned into a mecha for one. It's also too big to function as a power armour. It's a completely new and extremely unrealistic construction very unlike other things we've seen in Avatar.

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So, when was it the last time you watched LoK? I don't mean to insult, but time takes a toll in people's memory; we might be getting pissed about plotholes or decisions that were justified in the story but we simply forgot. I mean, I've been in plenty of Samurai Jack threads and there were anons who had forgotten facts that had been explicitly stated in the first few episodes and even some of the most recent ones. Just something we should consider.

>>92673324
First of all, the idea that "professional bending" is a prohibitively expensive hobby that someone with a job that "pays really well" can't afford to partake in is downright ridiculous. Secondly, Mako does not speak of lightning bending as something that pays well. You can get by doing it, but it's nothing special.

>>92673488
Not that long ago actually, last december was my last rewatch, i distinctly recall thinking Book 2 was worse than i remembered.

>>92673536
It's been years since I watched it myself, to be honest. Back then I didn't really have a critical eye, at least, not to the extent I have it today, which isn't much. I'm not very exigent with my entertainment because I tend to like everything and overlook flaws or at least not care much about them. Maybe I should rewatch it to consolidate my opinion on it.

>>92673595
It's actually kinda interesting how rarely Nega-Korra is mentioned as a plothole in these threads. You'd think some dark version of Korra haunting her and then suddenly disappear for seemingly no reason would be a popular go to.

But other than that people seem to be pretty good at remembering the problems, and honestly for most of them there is no real explanation for why it turned out that way. An example would be Korras choice to leave open the spirit portals.

>>92673795
>An example would be Korras choice to leave open the spirit portals.
If I remember correctly, it was because Korra was wondering if keeping the spirits and the humans separated hadn't been a mistake and that allowing humanity to rekindle its relationship with them would benefit them both.
Then again, I still recall the spirits being huge assholes so why she thought to do that after she'd spent the season trying to stop Unalaq from doing just that was lost in me. I interpreted it as Korra feeling inadequate as an avatar and trying to leave a mark on the world like Aang had done just because she was tired of protecting the staus quo.

>>92665802
Seriously, what was his plan? Taking every bender's bending away? That would leave him working non stop on that. And unless he intended to castrate all benders or putting them in camps, the next generation would be born with bending anyway. They didn't seem to be carrying any list or account of the benders they were debending; how would they know who was carrying bending genes?

I thought kuvira was hot

>>92673922
She doesn't really go into it actually. It does however go against what she learned from her visions with Wan, and with what she learned from fighting them. Mostly that they're dangerous in the extreme and that people have no idea how to deal with them.

Her end of season 2 speech is just that the world has got to deal with her decision and that she will help working it out (even though Bryke dropped that plot point aswell).

>>92674019


you thought correct me boy

>>92661630
amon had potential and they wasted it which pisses me off more than anything.
>initially said to have a legitimate reason to hate bending
>non-benders who rallied around him also had legitimate reason to hate bending like being exploited by the bending triads while government officials(also benders) did very little to help
>they only took away bending and made weapons to defend themselves specifically from benders so they weren't horrible inhumane monsters or anything
>maybe she'll have to beat him on an idealogical level or something
nope he's actually an EVIL PSYCHIC BENDER and once they expose him as a bender all the other equalists immediately give up on all of it and go back to doing whatever they did before as if the triads didn't exist any more

Man fuck you guys and your stupid hateboner. LOK was a good show.

>>92673483
>Sure but the principle is the same for both the baloon and airships, that is not the case with the mechs.
It is though. There was just an additional pre-cursor.

Hiroshi first introduced the concept of a mecha with the ones introduced in Book 1 that were based on Forklifts. Those went into service for a while. Then, at some point in the 3 years between S3 and S4, Varrick modernized the mecha and built the new bipedal mecha suits, which entered use in Kuvira's army. At the end of Book 4, a large mecha suit was built.

>Varrick built them from the ground up by the looks of it.
He clearly would have taken inspiration from Hiroshi's mechatanks though. The head design is somewhat similar between them(not too much, but somewhat).

>His prototype is in book 3 for a short minute and it looks nothing like the season 1 mechas.
I don't think that was a prototype for the mechasuits, that was a magnetized suit of armor

>>92675414
No, fuck you.

A series that tried to pride it self on having neat cultural influences, completely fucks up yin/yang philosophy. Both sides are supposed to be vital, not just the one you like more.

>>92672760
fuck off retard and stop bitching

>>92673109
yap and they still cry about it

>>92661630
No.

>>92665910
How does that negate how the spirits terrorized the humans?

>>92675806
Seconded

People were hoping for LoK to be to TLA as DBZ was to Dragonball

Instead LoK did what Dragonball Super is doing now but at least Dragonball Super has the decency to be unpretentious and clearly sillier in tone.
People are annoyed by the canonfucking but they can shrug it off because at the end of the day it's an affectionate tribute to a beloved show.
Legend of Korra instead says 'no srsly guise' yet unironically shits itself repeatedly.

Korra might be one of the biggest wastes of potential in a main character ever.

yeah it was, had potential and wasted it

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Not the best show ever but I enjoyed it

>>92661630
I enjoyed it for what it was: a mediocre sequel to a mediocre cartoon.

>>92661630
>Looking back on it, was it really so bad?
Yes. They managed to go full retard for four season straight, then played the one card that would prevent anyone from critiquing the show at the end

>>92661683

I'd say Korra's porn is more than decent. Owler and k-y-h-u made some amazing porn. I'll be fapping to it long after I've forgotten what even happened in the show.

>>92678459
Did the struggles of a Superman better than recent films.

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>>92678719

I think I'm the only person that likes how flawed they made Korra.

>>92678788
That's what I like no bones about struggles and trying to keep being a hero.

>>92678788

I liked how flawed she was. I just wanted her to learn something. Every time it was time for her to show us what lessons she had learned the universe handed her the out. It cheapened her development.

>>92678788

the problem is how unaware they were of the flaws they were giving her.

>>92662771
> without it we would never assume that she is supposed to be super talented

Does that scene really convey to you that she is extremely talented?

I assume that if you never saw AtLA you wouldn't know that bending was a martial art and needed to be learnt so you would just assume it was something people could do you would think that scene was supposed to tell you that the avatar can bend all the elements

And if you have seen AtLA you would be confused as to why a child can bend all the elements even if they are the avatar

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>>92672760
>The saving grace for the drill is that something like it actually exists and works, like everything else in Atla

What did he mean by this?

I wish it actually stuck with the airbending teaching angle. Korra representing a much more worldly and hyperactive type of child like much of the demographic is. The whole deal with Airbending being how to teach a kid who can't sit still real discipline. She tries traditional learning like meditation and spirituality but she just can't sit still. But then we get to pro-bending and like in the show, Tenzen realizes that something like sports actually does channel her energy in a constructive way.
From there they just try blending the two, having Korra pro-bend while remembering the basics, and the skills she picks up while pro-bending she brings back to the island to try to apply to the normal teachings. Showing the full powered Korra as someone with all that energy and talent but focused through the discipline and patience of Airbending to really be unstoppable.

Instead we got "chakras apparently block only the elements you know, and firebending's close enough to airbending that Korra can just throw punches with locked firebending and air pops out. They tried a little to show her progress by meditating but in the end "I have a gut feeling i should run face first and fight Amon" pretty much overwrote any notion that she was actually learning the patience to wait for the right time to fight.

>>92679231

pretty sure we could build something like that.

>>92673117
Why Lava? Why couldn't they just leave that to the Avatar. Let it stay special like that.

Why couldn't this have been Sand Bending? Super advanced, almost to the point of being like Water Bending?

>>92679555
Lava isn't fire+earth. It's just molten rock.

If waterbenders can control ice and steam, logically earthbenders should be able to control lava.

>>92663276
>The Air Nomads were all Airbenders because of their high levels of spirituality.

this isn't true and never has been

>>92666310
who made lightning bending?

>>92662740
Book 3. Zaheer planned to kidnap korra and turn her towards his side. This is y he has master of all the elements on his side to teach her the elements.

>>92663109
>You're an idiot earthbenders can't bend metal. They bend earth and only earth

the most common minerals that compose you average patch of dirt are metals or alkali metals.

you literally can't have rocks without metals. if earthbending doens't bend them you have to be able to bend at the very least metalloids like silicon, else you can kiss your flying rocks goodbye.

then again, firebenders cast lighting which is a completely different thing from combustion.

in the end, the best explanation for all this is kung fu magic

>>92679966
It would have been nice honestly if they could actually bend metal like the guru said, metal just being a special kind of earth. But Toph clearly bends by bending impurities in metal, and they're very clear that no one can bend a truly pure metal at all. I guess the only thing the guru was right about was how to psychicly locate Appa.

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>>92666978
HEY!!!

Rule 63 Sokka is actually hot; don't compare "her" to Korra.

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>Amon wasn't an energybender.
I will never not be mad.

>>92679601
Control yes it makes sense

Not who you were talking to but Bolin creating lava was bullshit. The amount of energy necessary to melt rock is avatar levels of power

>>92680825
Anon you do know that all Bolin literally did was accelerate the Earth to the point that it melted into Lava.

Literally Ghazan shows you how he creates Lava. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJhEbrP2gw8

I mean Earth Benders are capable of creating earthquakes and lift bolders with their powers. Lava Bending is using that same power to accelerate the Earth till it melts and then controlling the generated lava.

>>92680825
>>92679555

Aren't you going to response to: >>92680999

>>92680999
Bolin slams the ground and creates a massive field of lava and creates lava waves too

Also unlike mud bending where it's obviously just a technique, the show very clearly states that he is a "lava bender" like a blood bender or electricity or any of the other unique and rare subgroups

>>92681105
>Bolin slams the ground and creates a massive field of lava and creates lava waves too
Bolin has been fighting in a war for 4 years in the Earth Kingdom.

I mean him mastering lava bending during that time to the point he can just heat the earth beneath him in an instant to form Lava doesn't sound too far fetched.

Ghazan is able to create a large pool with little prep time as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YECBvh4pv38

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>>92680825
obligatory

>>92681091
I will, but make sure no one responds to me.

Earth is stubborn, and metal is too. That is of an earthbending mindset that Toph espouses and even Iroh talks about with regards to the Earth Kingdom. The Avatar immerses themselves in cultures allowing for that fluidity, as water is the element of change.

You can not elevate Bolin to Ghazan especially when Bolin isn't shown using it until he is with Varrick and suddenly he is able to do what Ghazan did without a teacher. And if you say that he was training off screen, then (when people argue against Korra training) why does that only work for Bolin and not the Avatar?

>>92681187
>Bolin has been fighting in a war for 4 years in the Earth Kingdom.
Did we see the fighting? We only see Kuvira styling on mooks. If "four years" is enough to have Bolin be on the level of Ghazan then the adults that the team were fighting should be stronger than the teenagers so people shouldn't be upset when the teenagers lose to the older figures.

>>92681381
>comparing LoK's handling of the elements to AtLA's handling of the elements.
That's a paddlin'.

>>92681490
LoK and ATLA both show waterbenders turning ice to water, and vice-versa.

>>92681490
>implying either series was consistent in their handling of the elements

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>Korra hate thread
>230 posts

Should I even bother scrolling through it or is it just the same circlejerk as always?

>>92661630
season 2 killed the whole thing. You can't recover after that mess.

>>92681468
Bolin is stubborn, but growing up in Republic City (Multi-cultured place) he became fluid in the way he has to live and survive.

>You can not elevate Bolin to Ghazan especially when Bolin isn't shown using it until he is with Varrick
Yes you can. Lava Bending is a very fatal style of Bending like lightning can't be used lightely. Since, Bolin was against Mechas that could end his life, he was forced to use it.

It doesn't help Bolin style of fighting is light on his feet like a boxer which probably helped him in his use of creating lava as he fought against Ghazan and started to learn how to properly use it or get fucked.

>. If "four years" is enough to have Bolin be on the level of Ghazan then the adults that the team were fighting should be stronger than the teenagers so people shouldn't be upset when the teenagers lose to the older figures.

You might want to restructure this sentence, but the Red Lotus with Ghazan and Zaheer were literally stronger than Korra's team.

If it wasn't for Mako being a lightning bender the water bender chick would've fucking killed him. Bolin also would've been fucked against Ghazan if he didn't pick up lavabending a day earlier and learn how to stop its movements/move it back at him (Bolin didn't even beat Ghazan, as he committed Suicide after getting out numbered). Combustion Girl died because a metal bender was there to wrap her face in metal so she blew her own head in.

Zaheer's group was stronger/better skilled than Korra's group. Korra's group just got lucky in defeating them. It also should be noted that Zaheer's group had to be brought down with half of the original team avatar (Zuko, Sokka, Katara) and few extra powerful people in order to stop them from kidnapping Korra when she was a kid.

>>92681697
>That edited Korra.
Would smash.

>>92681697
>Should I even bother scrolling through it or is it just the same circlejerk as always?
The OP should have tipped you off.

>>92678788
They gave her flaws enough for everyone so much so that the people around her come across as perfect thereby allowing them to act like their shit doesn't stink. No one has anything holding them back while Korra has even her own family and friends actively working against her.

>>92665879
The spirits attacked because the humans disrespect nature

>>92681764
Humanity is modernizing constantly though in Korra's world destroying nature to set up cities and large train rails that run through the entire nation.

Why bring back the Spirits in a modernizing world, because nature is going to be shitted on a lot.

>>92681818
>Why bring back the Spirits in a modernizing world
Because otherwise you have peace and people getting along and you need things to fight in a magical elemental kung fu show.

Rather than have things come about in an emergent way, they had Korra react to things and cause more situations that further conflict and stories (and destruction) could follow from for any future Avatars.

>>92681714
>and few extra powerful people
We are specifically told that Sokka, Zuko, Tonraq, and Tenzin fought them. That's four against four.

Korra's team had an Avatar actively with them, plus Mako and Bolin and Asami. But convoluted stupid shit on part of the writers fluctuating power levels had it so Korra could never participate and when she does towards the end it is pointless since nothing is positively attributed to her.

We see old man Zuko flail about uselessly. We see Tonraq lose every battle he's in. We see Tenzin be fickle until he suddenly isn't against Zaheer. So that means Sokka is how they won against Zaheer's team back then.

>>92681755
>not brown
Would trash.