How would you have fixed Korra?

>>94155422
Gut out all the fucking relationship drama and have Korra be alone except for Tenzin and family.

Triple Korra's breast size. Much more revealing outfit.

>>94155422

Give her a boyfriend

>>94155480
First post pretty good post.
I'd remove the probending and therefore remove the brothers. Make her encounter different people throughout the city from all walks of life but none of them join up as a "Team Avatar." And for OP criticism, I wouldn't have the North invade because why would you want to invade your sister tribe that has governed itself by itself over the idea of just having airbending?

>>94155483
>Much more revealing outfit.
Also this.

You need to focus the whole of season 1, if not the entire series, on Korra and Asami's friendship. I don't give a fuck whether or not you make them into rugmunchers; the inherent contrast between their backgrounds and personalities is the crux around which the plot should evolve.

Many anons more dedicated than I have done elaborate write-ups on the subject, but the bottom line is that they need to be the tightest of bros.

>>94155422
Have the conflict with the equalists span the entire fucking series.
One of the reasons TLA worked so well is you knew what he had to do from the very beginning, and that conflict drove the plot throughout every adventure. It was always about defeating the Fire Lord and restoring balance, not some shitty villian of the week garbage.

Make Korea have to actually learn to bend instead of bending since she was a toddler

Either have her not be a total cunt to everyone or have there be consequences for being a cunt

>>94155422
ended it after season 1

>>94155897

This, the equalist shit had enough justification behind it to become an actual thing, not just a terrorist movement that only lasted for like, a month.

>>94155422

If they'd just finished it in one or two seasons as well as cut back on all the relationship drama that was happening early on it would have been so much better.

Change Unalaq's Dark Avatar plan to instead combine both the dark and light spirit within Korra to achieve balance in his eyes
The giant spirit end fight will then be between a dark and a light Korra
That's it

>>94155807
They shouldn't be together to begin with. There isn't even really a crux to evolve the plot around with these two, which comes down to Asami barely being a character in many ways. Better to just hook korra up with someone who's a character or don't hook her up at all and instead focus on a compelling story of Korra learning to be the avatar in a more peaceful time.

>get 3 to 4 seasons purchased ahead of time
>everyone is red lotus. Amon, unalaq, Henry Rollins, sparky boomboom girl, water tentacle rape girl, lava dude, and Metal Fuhrer.
>tie every villain's arc together.
>no bending/spirit vine powered G1 Megatron mecha. have the spirit cannon slung under a massive airship.
>show more korrasami build up starting in season 2

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>>94156521
Yeah the Kauji and Mech influences were kind of jarring. I know the show is based on Asian culture, but that was way too grand.

>>94155422
Ditch pro bending almost entirely for starters.
Just have in the background as Mako and Bolin's job.

It's crazy to me how much time was wasted on it in the first season given it was planned to be just that one season.

>>94156185
But then we would have season 3, the second (or third depending on your tastes) best season of the franchise.

>>94155897
Also give the equalists more motivation. We see in the first episodes that benders are in the highest positions, nonbenders are terrorized by bending mafias, etc, but as soon as Amon is revealed to be a bender they suddenly all stop giving a shit about the cause.

Intertwine pro-bending and Korra's airbending lessons as was the case in S01E02.

>>94158357
To be fair a non-bender also became the Republic's head of state.

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Give this dude a redemption arc. Have him join the police force or the United Republic army. Seasons two, three and four is just a bunch of benders fucking shit up. Have him and some other equalists actually protect people from benders who abuse their powers.

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• Spread the jokes around such that Bolin doesn't have to act like a dumbass all the time.
• Spend 30 seconds explaining why Korra can turn into a kaiju in Season 2.
• Give Asami a personality instead of a token nonbender rich porcelain doll.
• Have Korra and Asami actually go on a date before the finale.
• Have Kuvira actually try to negotiate for her bf.

>>94158357
See: >>94158392
The Equalists won a significant reform that put the power away from a transnational bending oligarchy to a democratically elected government chosen by and serving the people of the republic.

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-Have Korra lose her bending and keep it lost into S2, with her slowly becoming more spiritual to overcome it

-If they absolutely NEEDS to be a Dark Avatar, make his bending different than Korra's: redder fire, poison water, etc.

-Give the RL more limelight and have them stay a threat into S4. Them being defeated so relatively easily begs the question of why anyone didn't do that before

-Ditch that dumbass, stupid mech in S4 and give us some good ol' fashioned metal warfare

-Ditch Korrasami OR have Mako move away. After seeing that page in the recent comic it's clear the writers have no idea about how human interactions work. Sorry Bryke. And if Korrasami HAS to happen, give us some more substantial build up to it

>>94158561
>redemption arc
Fuck that gay shit
Let villains be villains

>>94158354
I would ok with that if it means the show could just end for good with season 1. It's better than it getting used for political pandering.

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Sokka and some random air acolyte used to be on the council, so the current members all being benders is a coincidence, not oppression.

>>94155422
I would make her a D cup at least.

>>94158625
I was actually really interested when Korra had just her airbending, since I figured that mean any possible sequels could focus on her regaining the other ones - and then I realized that the premise for that is probably a little too similar to the original series.

Of course, they completely asspulled an ending that gave her back everything in literally the last minute or two of the season, so that's that.

>>94156329
>The giant spirit end fight will then be between a dark and a light Korra
dark Korra sounds like a boring villain, also that would only improve season 2

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>>94155422
Really just a coherent, well-planned, overarching plot across all the seasons would be enough for me.
Imagine it: Intentional setups that pay off in a later season, with enough room left over for slice-of-life episodes that let us explore and understand the fantastical world of the avatar-verse.

>>94159144
Sounds pretty good, but they did have setups to work with, like the retun of spirits at the end of book 2. They just chose not to use it for some reason.

>>94158811
but that's just s1 korra

>>94155897
>>94156288
All the enemies of Korra had enough content for an entire series.

>Red Lotus vs. White Lotus
>Equalist
>Spirit King Vaatu
>Kuvira and the Earth Nation

>>94155422
Would've made it strictly about Amon and the city and the different factions for multiple seasons

>>94155897
So stupid how they just disappeared.

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>>94155422
Season 1-3 focused on the Equalist
>Asami is a spy and dies
>No Bolin-Mako-Korra love triangle and cuck scene
>Amon is an energy bender and gets their non-bending state in the world even after their defeat.

Seasons 4-6 focused on Red Lotus and the White Lotus
>Origin of the Red Lotus and White Lotus
>Invasion by the Spirits who want to return to the world because of their belief people are becoming out of touch with nature itself. Which the Red Lotus takes as a sign the current balance isn't working.

Seasons 7-8 focused on Kuvira and the rise of the Earth Nation
>Kuvira still loses, but no mecha and has reasonable points.
>Earth Nation still sticks around, but calms the fuck down after their lost.
>Bolin stays on Kuvira's side so a Mako vs. Bolin fight can happen.

>>94159313
The canon tie-in game have the Equalist still around, but smaller because "Muh President", "Muh Amon was a Bender".

The last regiment teams up with an Earthbending Spirit who hates Korra. Because she is the Avatar.

>>94155422
Not bad, but your last two points are basically just TLA with extra steps. It was a good story the first time, if they did it like that /co/ would just complain that they were shilling the same story.

>>94159283
>Equalists
Maybe
>Red Lotus
5 seasons of Korra and friends fighting the same 5 people
>Spirit King Vaatu
5 seasons of Korra fighting one guy wouldn't work either unless he went full Kuvira and turned the Northern tribe into his personal army with mecha weapons and shit
>Kuvira and the Earth Nation
Maybe

>>94159492
>5 seasons of Korra and friends fighting the same 5 people.
What the hell are you talking about? Zaheer was small faction of the Red Lotus. There was other members out there. They never even shown who the leader of the Red Lotus was or who the founder was.

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Make Kuvira run for president of Avatar-world.

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One of the biggest problems I had with Korra was power creep. A show that understands this concept was Korra's predecessor Last Airbender. Usually the problem with this is the show does not know when to stop raising power levels or etc because they never set a limit allowing the scale of their battles to reach hilariously astronomical levels. ie DBZ or literally any long running shonen. That is not Korra's problem however, TLK acted as if it had no understanding of the concept, this may have been due to things behind the scenes. Look at the order of antagonists: activist, Literal embodiment of pure evil, anarchist crime squad, and a dictator.

I'd change the order of seasons and change some elements of the plot to support that change.
Season 1, Season 3, Season 4, Season 2

>>94159584
>A show that understands this concept was Korra's predecessor Last Airbender
TLA absolutely does not understand power creep. Just look at 99% of the teenagers in the series.

>>94155422
you cut it down to the 8 episode miniseries it was originally supposed to be and give control to the person bryan and michael stole the script outline from in the first place

>>94155422
Make her a barefoot futa

>>94159584
I hated this too, no one ever earned or trained to get their new strength, they just got stronger because they were Korra's friends and had to beat the bad guys

Give book 1 more episodes to explore Amon's motivation

Other than the Wan episodes book 2 needs to be reworked from the ground up. No losing past lives because that reeked of forced drama.

Keep book 3 mostly the same

Book 4 should have been about the Red Lotus again because the end of book 3 seemed to be setting up all out war with them. But if they insist on keeping Kuvira then cut some of the fat and use that time to set up her insecurities and paranoia

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>>94159897

>>94155422
>The Mako x Korra thing never happens, instead, Korra and Bolin have a cute relationship that isn't too intrusive to the plot.
>Amon is actually an "incomplete person", he was to be the next Avatar when Aang was basically killed by Azula, but when he was revived with the spring water by Katara, it interrupted the process that occurs when the Avatar spirit crosses into its next life. Amon does believe in equality, but also feels the need for revenge for the universe leaving him in a state of incompleteness.
>In the end, Korra is able to put Amon's soul at ease and they merge souls, allowing Korra use of the bending removal technique, which she opts to only use in extreme cases.
>Season 2 is somewhat like its original self, with Unalaq attempting to gain power by reviving an ancient spirit (not Vaatu).
>Vaatu and Rava still exist, but aren't given personality, instead being ever-warring embodiments of good and evil.
>Wan, who spent years of his life understanding the ways of humans and spirits, merged with the two spirits to create a harmonious entity, the Avatar. Thus, no more "The avatar is Jesus" crap.
>Unalaq merges with the spirit, and gives Korra a run for her money, causing the Avatar chain of spirits to be broken up, scattering them across both worlds.
>Season 3 sees Korra having to deal with the anarchists (who are empowered by former Avatar spirits that have grown unruly over the centuries from the disdain felt for some of their later incarnations), while also tracking down the other previous lives and rejoining with them. In the end, Korra is able to appease the previous lives and forms a greater bond with all of them, granting her Avatar state more power than any other Avatar has possessed before.
>Season 4 is a completely different affair, with Korra helping humanity and spirit improve their bonds, before leaving for the spirit world to help improve it.

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>>94155422
>How would you have fixed Korra?
Sniper's hide overlooking the airbending island. If in a building; than recessed into the room a good few feet, screen netting to reduce muzzle flash and rifle signature. Most likely a bolt action .308 to minimize chances of being tracked down whilst maximizing accuracy. probably a HPBT round since the ballistic co-efficient is better.

sometimes that only thing to do with a rabid dog is to put her down

>>94155497
make it Bolin.

>>94160985
>Spend better part of an episode showing the two getting along like Oreos and milk
>lol, nope! She wants the brother who she barely hung around as much and does something that would have destroyed her relationship with both if it had happened in real life

>>94160852
Thread.

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>>94155422
Korra much more sexually aggressive, She starts the show with her 2 fuck bois DPing her

>>94161033
The date episode was filler, but her burping contest with Bolin was so cozy

>>94161927
That's what I call progressive development...

>>94162561
Can't really be filler when it's stuff made for the story. Filler usually denotes something that wasn't originally part of the story, and yet they had to cram in that horrible romances with Mako

>>94161927
Is there a full if this, anon?

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>>94161927
Say what you will about Korra, but the show resulted in some high quality porn

>>94155422
>remove the lesbian ending
fixed

>>94161033
Bolin was perfect. PERFECT!

>>94159561
cue the Based Bolin post

>>94155422
Korra was clearly designed to be "the opposite of Aang" (not just in looks, but in personality, outlook; the works,) but then put into the same sort of show that Aang was in. This wasn't the best idea: Aang had a built-in conflict based on who and where he was: a pacifist in a fighting show. He didn't fit in, so we had a story.

Korra, on the other hand, LOOOVES fighting, but she's still in a fighting show! There's no core struggle as natural as there was for Aang, so anything used to fill that gap is going to feel ugly, compromising one of the premises of the show or the character.
For example, you could make things harder by letting Korra actually be terrible at fighting and anything else she's supposed to be good at, (which means she ends up looking good for nothing.)
Or you could make things harder by introducing a conflict that - surprise! - SHOULDN'T be fought out of, like some sort of complicated political or social crisis. (Except the demands of the genre require a great big climactic magic kung-fu fight at the end, anyway, so all attempts at nuance and multidimensionality are going to be thrown out the window in favor of mustache-twirling for the opponent in the big bending spectacular.)

So really, the deepest problem I see is that Korra's show was designed by taking one of the most important parts of the well-working AtLA and turning it around, without doing enough to make sure the result fit together. Either Korra shouldn't have been raring to fight as much as she was, or they should have fully committed to the "nonviolent-solutions" thing.

(But the latter's kind of a waste of the setting! We don't peer into the Four Nations to see people NOT bending; come on!)

>>94161033

Gotta pander to them fujos

>>94163584
That's why I kept him with her in >>94160821, the two just seem much more interesting together than the shit we got. Not to mention Bolin being Sokka 2.0 got old after the second season.

>>94155897
this and be about non benders inventing guns to push back benders and the world realizing that with technological progress bending will become more inadequate

>>94163642
>We don't peer into hte Four Nations to see people NOT bending
Tell that to the huge amount of people here who wanted Amon to negate the setting.
But yeah ultimately the stories don't work, and it doesn't help that the writers didn't plan ahead or set down ideas that made sense.

>>94163818
speaking of Sokka, would the elephant in the room finally be addressed? the elephant being him being Suyin's father and Toph's husband?

>>94155422
Create a central villain to connect all the chapters of LOK.

ATLA had Sozin as the central villains. Sure, each season had it's villains of the week/season, almost all from the Fire Nation. But it was Sozin that always loomed over the entire show as the main menace that ultimately had to be confronted and beaten.

LoK just bounced from villain to villain each season/chapter. There were plenty of Darth Vaders, but not an evil Emperor calling the shots.

This Main villain needs to be the opposite of Korra; a Machiavellian schemer who ultimately uses Korra's stubbornness and "Punch First, Ask questions later" style of doing things against her. This and the actions of each season's "Darth Vader" ultimately lead to a Sozin's Comet-scale event that threatens the world.

Having been roughed up throughout the 4 chapters (including her near-crippling at the end of season 3), Korra and her friends have to muster the courage and energy to not only stop this already-in-motion event from coming to fruition, but to also finally bring this main villain and his few remaining minions to justice.

In the end, the Air Nation returns, order is ultimately restored, and the story ends satisfactory for Korra and her friends.

>>94163642
>a pacifist in a fighting show. He didn't fit in, so we had a story.
>you could make things harder by letting Korra actually be terrible at fighting
There's your problem right there. Aang, despite being a pacifist, is a great fighter and solves most of his problems through fighting.

Korra is supposed to be good at fighting and bad at diplomacy, but she ends up jobbing all the time so it's like she's not even good at anything.

>>94164562
Sozin wasn't the main villain for ATLA, that was Ozai.

>>94155422
>Have Korra lose all of her bending except Airbending just as she did in the show.

No, fuck you. She should have lost ALL her bending and then had to relearn everything.

>The first avatar's story is still included

Fuck you twice, sir. All that horseshit with Wan and Rava and the other kite monster was retarded.

>>94155772
>Remove the interesting interpretation that bending could be applied to non deadly uses like sports. Even though the show is based on the early 1900s when blood thirsty sports like boxing and rugby were huge.

>Remove the tense sports scenes with the best edge of your seat moments.

>Remove the brothers. The best characters and one the best comic reliefs in the show. A essential part of the first Avatar show.

Your version sounds as exciting as stale white bread.

Have her legitimately be a contrast to Aang. Season 1 and 2 should have been the entire series. I know people like S3 but it's basically a non-story to her arc. S1 and S2 had the most interesting plots conceptually. S1 was her learning airbending and S2 was her learning to be more in tune with her spiritual side. These shouldn't have been so easy to master.

Asami meets and befriends Korra before she finds out she's the Avatar. At least an episode of them faffing about on the outskirts of Republic City. Possibly drag racing.

>>94165363
>She hits her with the scooter
>"hey, let's have lunch!"

How about we just nuke Asami's stupid fucking character wholesale?

>>94165167
Airbending had a sport that Aang shows Sokka and Katara. And Earth Rumble is from AtLA and is non deadly. The sports scenes were meaningless as no one learned anything from the game for the finale and their final opponents cheated and won. Also money was no longer an issue since Mako had Asami, could just stay with Tenzin, or get a job in the power plant that for some reason he couldn't do before (or the police job.) And the brothers were terrible characters that didn't show us Republic City, only the sport side which doesn't factor into anything for the new seasons that they ended up getting.

The way that Ba Sing Se was explored, the way the Fire Nation was explored, all contributed to character. And comedy was something all the characters in AtLA could be a part of while in LoK it was someone's whole thing. Sokka wasn't just the funny man, he was the straight man to the insane things occurring around him and adopted a funny man facet to his character. Bolin has nothing to him except that stock role which he fails at to Varrick.

>>94156339
yeah korra should have hooked up with lin

Season 1
Equalist uprising
>Korra mastering elements better
>Equalist take over Republic City
>Start a revolution on a global scale to cleanse the world of bending
>Korra and Co on the move as they travel through the surrounding of RC
Love and shit
>Mako x Asami

Season 2
Total War
>All 3 nation's declare war on Republic City
>Equalist infiltrate governments
>Focus on Fire Nation
>Fire Nation creates "fire bomb" (a nuke)
>Equalist play there hand enough to gain control of the weapon.
>Asami becomes evil and inevertantly helps bomb the Earth kingdom
>Earth Kingdom in shambles, declare war on Fire Nation

Season 3
Total War
>Focus on Earth Kingdom
>Kuvira Uprising

Season 4
>Focus on water tribe
>Water tribe splits

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>>94155422
Swap the season order and make a few tweaks - 2 > 3 > 4 > 1

First season now focuses on events in Korra's home, the Southern Water Tribe. She's completed her Fire, Water, and Earthbending training and while waiting for Tenzin to arrive and begin her Airbending training, she is finally permitted to leave the White Lotus compound and decides to attend the Solstice Festival. While there she runs into Asami, who's there on business for her father's company. They quickly bond and Asami invites Korra to her first pro-bending match, which pits the SWT team against the visiting Fire Ferrets. Asami and Korra meet Mako and Bolin after the match, and spend some time together before the Dark Spirit attacks the festival. Tenzin arrives and tries to stop the spirit, and after he fails Unalaq appears and turns it. Korra's decision to go with Unalaq for spirit training makes more sense now - he's family and she's only just met Tenzin and her new friends. Rest of the season follows uncovering the mystery of the first Avatar, the conflict with the spirits, and Unalaq's plan.

Second season is Red Lotus, requires few changes. Korra goes to Republic City for the first time, meets Lin, Tarrlok, Hiroshi and lays the foundations for their respective arcs. Rest of the story unfolds more or less as it did originally. Same with the Kuvira season.

Amon is where the reorder really pays off: You've now had three seasons too build up all the conflicts that lead to Equalist movement and Amon's rise to power. We've gotten to spend time with characters like Tarrlok and Hiroshi and seen them fight alongside Korra and her friends, making their reveals as a bloodbender and an equalist actually mean something to the characters and to us. We've seen Korra's friendships with Asami, Mako, and Bolin develop over three seasons, making the tensions between them matter a little more and especially making Asami's decision to betray her father in order to protect her friends have more weight to it.

>>94159612
>TLA absolutely does not understand power creep.
I would say it does better than the vast majority of shows. Aang and Katara earn their stripes through hard work over multiple seasons, Toph starts out as a prodigy and the only real progress she makes is metal bending and while Sokka is kind of an asspull he still never gets close to the level of the others. Their adversaries also improve as the seasons progress and the show goes to lengths to make sure that the gaang isn't just kamehameha-ing their way to victory and are generally outmatched.

>>94163253
The best thing about the show.

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>>94165533
I'm actually going to defend Bolin here. Sokka was the man with a plan and often used his wit to save the gang (dismantling the drill being one of his finest moments). Bolin is not smart and thinks only with heart (his finest moment being when he saves the escaped prisoners from Kuvira' s border guards). Bolin finds himself in situations because he is dumb and resolves them through a need to protect those he loves. Bolin needs love to thrive and as seen in the pro bending match after his date with Korra he can be unstoppable as long as it is present in his life. Bolin is the optimistic foil to an otherwise angsty group of loner teens just as Sokka is the logical one in his overly optimistic and hope filled team Avatar.

>>94166373
Honestly him and Korra made a kino couple. Plus she would've easily supported him if he ever got discouraged or out right depressed. Yet all that was thrown under a train for LGBTEFGHIJKLMNOTHATPLOOKSLIKEAPENISBANTHELETTERP you get the idea

>>94155422
Season 1
>Amon actually did have some ties to the spirit world setting up book 2 instead of this blood bending prodigy crap
>Actually bring the characters together, kill the love triangle probably. Everyone was absolutely hatable by the end of the first half and they did nothing to redeem anyone.
>Actually bring down Amon's argument and philosophy, don't just beat him up and call it a day.
>Keep Amon kicking ass as a non bender, more highlights on his anti bender soldiers.
Season 2
>Don't even waste time pretend like anyone will believe her uncle isn't the bad guy
>Get to the trippy spirit world faster
>Don't say "dark avatar" and don't end on a fuckin spirit giant form thing that everyone is embarrassed to even mention again.
>Just end it any other way
>Keep Bolin redemption arc and Varrick

Season 3 I don't actually have much to hate here. It wasn't perfect and I don't like the kids, but it's functionally an entertaining watch and it ended pretty satisfyingly, at least as far as Avatar has been in the past.
Season 4
>Make a better time skip between seasons so this all doesn't seem so sudden
>Don't run out of money for the entire second half
>Don't have a dumb ass giant robot
>Keep the metal bending hitler idea.

>>94155422
Actual on-screen lesbian sex with Asami.

>>94166084
>Katara earn their stripes through hard work over multiple seasons
Katara can barely make a puddle in episode 1 and within what, 2 or 3 months is now good enough to train Aang.

>Toph starts out as a prodigy
It'd be one thing if she was a prodigy, but she pretty much starts off close to the top percentile.

There's also two non-bending rich girls who've never fought before taking out elite earthbending soldiers like it's nothing. I'd mention Azula but I don't want to summon he-who-must-not-be-named.

>>94166713
>There's also two non-bending rich girls who've never fought before taking out elite earthbending soldiers like it's nothing.
They're mooks and or grunts. They are meant to be bested by named characters.

>>94166713
>Katara can barely make a puddle in episode 1 and within what, 2 or 3 months is now good enough to train Aang.
As well as she could, yeah. They both kind of muddled along until the North Pole.

>It'd be one thing if she was a prodigy, but she pretty much starts off close to the top percentile.
No, she started off as a lost little girl who discovered her talent in a moment of necessity and then developed said talents for the better part of a decade before ever meeting the gaang. She didn't go from pushing piles of dirt to pushing in the Boulder's shit overnight.

>There's also two non-bending rich girls who've never fought before taking out elite earthbending soldiers like it's nothing.
Who says they've never fought before? Seriously, I want to know where it says this. Was Mai just carrying around knives on her thighs for the hell of it before throwing one for the first time?

>I'd mention Azula but I don't want to summon he-who-must-not-be-named
On top of being gifted she (and Zuko, for that matter) trained intensively as children. There's an entire flashback about this.

>>94155897
there was an anon who posted acouple months ago that the equalist conflict makes a lot more sense if it all happens AFTER seasons 2-4. Now the regular schmoes see how a bunch of benders are ruining the world

>>94166916
>and then developed said talents for the better part of a decade
Going "she's trained for YEARS" when the person is still a kid isn't very impressive. You can't train that intensely when you're barely old enough to walk and not shit your pants. You also have to take into account that her training was just her informally imitating badgermoles.

>inb4 the original benders

>Seriously, I want to know where it says this. Was Mai just carrying around knives on her thighs for the hell of it before throwing one for the first time?
Mai literally got good at throwing knives by throwing them at the wall of her bedroom when she was bored. No secret ninja training or anything.

>Azula and Zuko
Their skill level mostly makes sense. Azula is just full of plot armor and special snowflake-ness.

>>94155422
>no longer about shitty spirits
but who´s the antagonist then?

>>94161033
You bolinfags are so cringey.

>>94155422

I would have just ended it at season 3. Crippled, with the tear at the end. Bittersweet, because even though she is disabled, the future is ongoing with Jinora and others for the new generation.

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Why so many avatar threads all of a sudden? Not that I'm complaining, ATLA was still the best show in the past decade, but I wonder why the resurgence?

Why would Korra need to "re-learn" anything? She didn't lose her memories on how to bend, she had her chi channels or whatever shut.
You fuckers always come up with this terrible idea and it is never good. At worst Korra should have had to learn spirit bending to unfuck herself, but even Aang got that for free from a convenient plot-turtle, so why is it bad when she did?

>>94167889
New comic that appears to be all about everyone accepting Korra and Asami being a couple came out recently, probably reignited the spark for some people.

I only watched the first season and had no interest in the others, I just glance through the threads in hopes of shitposting or porn.

>>94167867
I assume it's the new comic coming out that's causing it. I swear I see that "That guy was the worst!" image posted at least once a day around here, followed by a few hundred posts of everyone slinging shit at each other.

>>94167933
meant for
>>94167867
I'm too tired to try doing internet stuff.

>>94167933
>that appears to be all about everyone accepting Korra and Asami being a couple
I mean, I expected no different but I'm still disgusted.
I'm just glad that lesbian thing was just a last minute addition so it didn't have much time to poison the general run of the series, it had enough problems as it is.

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>>94167937

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>>94167943
>>94167937
Didn't see the comic. Guess that's explain it. Shame Korra left a shitstain on Avatar's legacy, but at least we got the OG

Make Rava and Vatu the same thing and go full Xenogears.

>>94167969
what the literal fuck am I looking at

>>94168467
Avatar in 2017.

>>94168489
jesus fucking christ I pre-ordered the whole korra comic series last week

>>94164562
Could use Xiao Bai(?) who i think was the founder of the red lotus. He named a place in the spirit world, maybe he taught Amon some spirit things which allowed the permanent removal of bending. Actually could make sense that Amon was created by him to remove the avatar moreso than bending as a whole but then Amon ran with it. The rest of the villains are allready stated members of the red lotus, and it sounds like you're replacing Kuvira anyway.

>>94167074
It's wuxia inspired kung fu show, them being the original benders actually matters alot more than you'd think. Same goes for the dragons teaching Zuko and Aang. These animals have a much higher understanding of the bending arts than any human because it's an extension of them, and learning their styles also means it becomes more powerful.

It's also fairly safe to assume that both Ty Lee and Mai went through some serious training at the academy along with Azula.

Remove every male character besides Varrick and make the show gay from the get go.

>>94168690
Should look into cancelling that one bud. Korra comics are likely only getting worse from now on as Bryke tries to cash in on the progressives.

>>94170039

lol imagine being this paranoid

>>94170046
I was right the first time, and the second. I knew it was going to focus on Korrasami and i knew it was going to be recieved positively by the characters and that it would still be a point of drama in the comics.

I'm sure they'll go further with it. Possibly make Mako the bad guy by not being on board with it, but he'll come around later and profess why he was wrong in the first place. Maybe it will turn out the main villain is a homophobe aswell.

>>94155422
There wasn't any way it could be fixed because the first season was made before they knew they were getting a second and they were only given 12 episodes so the season was designed to be an entirely contained story.

>>94170012
>These animals have a much higher understanding of the bending arts than any human because it's an extension of them, and learning their styles also means it becomes more powerful.
But that doesn't really hold water when you actually look at what happens.

Zuko and Aang got better with the dragons, but 99% of the other firebenders got along fine without them.

Badgermoles are used as beasts of burden, so there should be plenty of people who spend as much if not more time than Toph with them.

The moon is one of the original benders, so every waterbender should be a total badass by virtue of looking at the night sky

>It's also fairly safe to assume that both Ty Lee and Mai went through some serious training at the academy along with Azula.
It was just a rich girl prep school, not a prepubescent military academy.

>>94170046

What do you mean paranoid?
I'm not the guy you're responding to but the only thing I've seen from the panels of the Korra comic is:
1) everyone is lesbians talking about being lesbians.
2) Gay marrage being banned.

How are these things interesting or relevant? How is this not pandering?

It's not paranoia if it actually happened already.

>>94170168

The new comic is literally a relationship fluff comic, not sure what you're expecting or how it's pandering.

>>94170157
Looking at an animal doing a thing, and actually trying to learn from it are not the same. Same with the Moon, you can observe the push and pull of the Moon/Ocean but that's not trying to understand what is happening. Aang and Zuko was revealed something about Fire by the dragon lords, and Toph lived like Badgermoles, Blind and through earthbending.
Just like the Firenation stopped being interested in dragons for their teaching and instead making them into trophy animals, i would imagine that most earthbenders would consider themselves above animals like the badgermole.

Who knows what it was, all we hear about it is that it's a school for girls. And seeing as girls in Avatar aren't treated that differently i wouldn't think it strange if it was a military style academy.

>>94170191
There isn't even that much relationship fluff. It's more virtuesignalling about how tolerent Bryke are and how everyone who isn't are the bad guys. Like Sozin, why is he a homophobe all of a sudden. There is no reason to even bring him up again since he's long dead.

>>94158265

Is that some kind of ribbed t-shirt from K-Mart that she's wearing?

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Two Words: Franservice

>>94170197
>Who knows what it was, all we hear about it is that it's a school for girls
It's a school for rich noble girls. Young noble aren't going to do any hardcore military training. Azula had her own separate firebending teachers. When you take into account how Mai built her skill literally by throwing knives at the wall of her room, it's highly unlikely that the school was some ninja training academy like people make it out to be to justify the power level of Ty Lee and Mai.

>>94170212

>virtuesignaling

jesus fucking christ, you're embarrassing yourself

>>94158561
Implying nick wants to keep paying high profile lance

>>94170239
I hear that alot about Mai, but i don't recall the source.

Either way, we know they're all fighters, they're all pretty good at it aswell. We know nothing about the school other than it being an academy for girls in the fire nation. It could easily be one of those disciplinary schools with military people leading.

>>94170283
right bucko.

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>>94170231

>>94170283
what else would you call it? They're signalling how virtuous they are through the comic, it's what it's called.

>>94158722
You know that extreme political shift actually fits right in with the times it tries to emulate. Think post-WW1. When communists, nationalists and what not went onto the streets and fought each other senseless.

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>>94170344

>>94155422
Hang on...is this is a Fixxxer?

>>94170351
Sure, but let's stick with era relevant politics and not 2017 politics.

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>>94155422
Simple

>>94170344
>>94170362
Someone needs to break in this tough piece of milk chocolate.

>>94170231
Nah, just one: Rape.

>>94155422
After Korra defies Tenzin the second time at the pro-bending arena he and Lin lock her up in prison for a few months, to teach her a lesson, appease the policemen she attacked and have her protected against the equalists. After that it follows the adults trying to hunt down Amon. Bolin still gets kidnapped and Lin and Mako team up to rescue him, with Mako getting offered a job at the police because of that. Amon overthrows the government and storms the prison (French Revolution parallels) where he stomps Korra and takes her bending, but she is saved by Mako, everyone but them gets locked up though. Korra now actually trains airbending and develops a real romance with Mako, while in the underground. A few months later she starts a second revolution, frees the good guys and defeats Amon in the rematch, with just airbending. (without any bloodbending or bullshit identity reveal) Through her meditation she managed to unlock her bending again, however she has to relearn it almost from scratch and vows to become a proper avatar this time.

Show what fucking happened to Sokka.

>>94166471
I don't have a problem she is a lesbian. I have a problem with the fact it was shoved in the last season, had no build up, and her "love interest" wasn't anything more than a close girl friend before they kissed. Handling a lesbian in a time when it was most likely taboo and unheard of, realistically could have been interesting.

She never delt with any confusion about not being attracted to boys, and wondering why. (Sure you could say she was bi but that is boring and would still have some baggage to sort through.)

I would of at least of loved a hint to show they didn't add it just for good boy points from Tumblr. Like if she had gone after Mako only after another girl said it was unnatural if a girl didn't like him. She was already the outsider trying to fit into city life.

Even with just emotion and no line changes:
She could have shown it as forcing herself to find him attractive. Then obviously of been more perky, happy, and blushed when Asami was around.

Give more "cool moment" scenes to Mako and Bolin. Make their characters have more depth than tissue paper the last couple of seasons.

I feel like they stopped focusing on their characters because they wanted a show with "strong women."
But the men were cast aside to make room.

As a woman, if you have to fucking lower men in a show to make the women look good, the women aren't strong. It is sexist to both parties. It implies the women can't be equal without aid, and it just does the exact thing bad writers have done to women for years.

>>94171970
What you say is true, but the problem is that Korra wasn't meant to fake liking Mako. They were meant to be soulmates in the first season and arguably in the second season. Korra being a lesbian/bisexual is a character trait change that happened at some point during book 4 or 3. And that would explain why Bryke never thought to include any hints as to Korra being attracted to women since it wasn't meant to be a thing.

>>94172098
>If you have to bring men down to make women look good, the women aren't strong.

This has been the case for every television show since the 80s. Why treat both men and women like capable people when you can just say one's inherently better than the other?

>>94172316
This wasn't the case for ATLA though.

>>94155897
I can see it working in conjunction with OP's proposal >>94155422

>Book 2 is about restoring Fire in Korra (both literally and symbolically)
>Equalists get in the way by trying to destroy any mentioning of, for example, Dragon Dance and other ancient techniques
Also, if Book 2 is about Fire and if we see Asami go through a change of heart, it'd just be a good drama of Asami growing past prejudice she acquired through injustice done to her mother by defending the culture of Fire Nation. Culture ain't at fault and all that jazz.

>>94172098
But they only gave the cool moments to the brothers and the men. Mako and his lightning, Bolin and his antics, Varrick and Kuvira's fiance's genius, Tenzin and his taking on Zaheer, Amon and his "nonbending," Hiroshi and his last minute modification save.

The men were always painted as being cool, and with how /co/ always gives most of them a free pass, they are not shunted aside.

>>94170685
He was spared a fate worse than death: being in this show for a prolonged period of time to the point where people know about him like Zuko, Katara, and Toph. Let him rest.

>>94170685
They would have ruined him.

>>94170685
He grew up, got married, had kids and did nothing else noteworthy until he died of old age.

>>94167074
> Azula is just full of plot armor and special snowflake-ness.

She busted her ass to get as good as she was. In fact she threw away her whole life to dedicate herself to being better. How can you say that is plot armor?

Season 3 cant exist without season 2 due to the air bender resurgence from harmonic convergence.

I'd say screw amon, screw kuvira. Make Spirits Span 2 seasons bringing more of that war and stuff from General Iron, Future industries, varrick on the fronts of the two water tribes.

The after defeating Vaatu, red lotus poses a threat for an all out war aka 100 year war style that takes 2 seasons to defeat Zaheer.

>>94174541
Well if you really want to bring back airbenders i'm sure you can come up with a different asspull than Harmonic convergence/open portal. In fact just take the idea of the portal and remove the material portal parts. Just have it be areas of high concentration of spirit energy that gets released and brings back airbending.

>>94171970
Was she confirmed as a lesbian and not bi? If not, there you go, she bats for both teams.

>>94155422
since my only knowledge of avatar comes from S1 of korra here's what i would've done...

storywise
>book 1 would've been worldbuilding, introduction of the cast and korra learning airbending with foreshadowing of the equalists peppered throughout with the reveal of amon at the end.

>book 2 would've been the equalists storyline. amon would've just been a master chi blocker who started the equalists as a vigilante group to fight the gangs in republic city as a result of losing his family to gang violence. tarlok manipulates amon into turning it into a movement. the first half of the storyline is korra & the rest of team avatar working with tarlok to take down the equalists with tarlok gaining more & more control over the council as the story goes on. at the climax of the story when korra & friends finally have amon while tarlok finally has complete control. not wanting loose ends tarlok orders his men to turn on them and the second half is korra & friends with amon & his remaining equalists fighting tarlok's regime.

>>94167969
i'm more surprised that people haven't given korra or asami shit for being gay since i don't think homosexuality was tolerated in the 1920s either.

How come nobody has storytimed Turf War yet?

Also nobody would complain about Korra if she was a boy in a love triangle with two girls.

They would only complain at the end when it turned out he was gay.

>>94170039
Too late, just picked up my copy

>>94177230
Honestly this should be storytimed. The LGBT rapidfire from Kya would probably get a hilarious reaction

>>94177230
Doubt that, a bad love triangle is bad no matter who's in it.

>>94178037
>The LGBT rapidfire from Kya would probably get a hilarious reaction
What does this refer to? Just the Sozin and Kyoshi thing or is there more?

>>94177230
But we complain about Arrow and Flash all the time.

>>94179324
Kya is gay, Sozin hates the gays, Air Nomads loved the gays, Kyoshi was bi
Heavy three pages for lore

>>94179555
That's nothing new, those things were allready leaked and posted here.

>>94179555
They already said the plot wasn't going to be the main focus of the comics.

>>94179555
Damn, sure is progressive revisionism in here
>bad guys hate gay people, good guys like them
Wow funny how that happened huh

>>94155422
made her competent. Sure its unrealistic for a girl not to fall prey to her emotions constantly and fuck everything up but its a god damn cartoon.

>>94167416
>point out the fact that the interactions of two characters was better than the pairing the show went with
>lol, fucking xfags
Premo contribution, kiddo.

>>94170288
>I hear that alot about Mai, but i don't recall the source.
http://www.avatarspirit.net/interviews.php?id=19

We know where two out of three of them got their training, and it wasn't from the school. All evidence points towards it just being an upper class prep school, not a military academy that would justify Mai and Ty Lee's skills.

>>94170685
>>94172869
Served on the Republic City council, became Southern Water Tribe Chieftain, fought the Red Lotus with Tonraq, Zaheer, and Zuko, and then died sometime after that.

>>94173112
>has special snowflake blue fire for literally no reason
>Earth King just decides to see some random Kyoshi Warriors
>avoids Aang and crew by dumb luck
>Aang decides to float there and be hit by lighting instead of entering the Avatar state immediately or causing natural disasters that prevent you from doing anything like he does the other 99% of the time he enters the Avatar state
>somehow manages to prevent herself from falling to her death by shoving a hairclip into a cliffside
>manages to lightning bend while being off her rocker despite that being against the rules for lightning bending
>learns lightning redirection despite still being crazy, having no formal teacher, and it being completely in opposition to her rage-based firebending

>>94155772
>Make Korra alone
>literally drain the heart of The Last Airbender

We needed MORE of Team Avatar acting as a whole and not a bunch of weakass sidestories, not less.

>>94167867
At least a quarter of them are me, I'd never seen the show before and just bingewatched it a couple weeks ago.

>>94167867
>Why so many avatar threads all of a sudden?
Avatar threads have never really stopped

>>94180368
Sozin was totally gay for Roku

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my biggest concern is that disney will buy the avatar franchise and bring back BryKe to double down on the tumblr pandering

the next avatar would be a twink earthbender who uses his powers to make men rock hard

>>94164035
>Technology and automation render bending less releveant, but in the process they render normal people less relevant as well
>Labor unrest against Benders AND Equalists rises by the end of the series
Yes

>>94172438
I didn't mean they sucked through most of it. But they definitely started to do less and had less character as the show went on.

Look at the last season especially the mech fight scene.
Bolin's only contribution to the fight was using his lava bending once on it's foot.
Mako tried to sacrifice himself, but the situation could have been solved in a very obvious way without risking his life.

He was thrown a cool moment because he needed something after doing nothing the whole fight. But they really didn't even need him do it. I honestly can't remember what the alternative was that he could have done because I haven't seen the episode since it first aired.

>>94155422
I actually like Korra's character. Maybe I'm remembering it too fondly but I like it when a character tries to change and ultimately fails because I think it's pretty realistic.

>>94155422
>fanfiction

Anyway the only way to fix it is to erase anything after s1

>>94155422
Have her killed at the beginning of the show and let a new avatar take over.

She was a mistake.