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Makeveli_lives posted...

Not everything needs to advance the plot. And again this is just setting up the world people live in and it's a logical progression, now that there's peace what would become of bending in society? You've got criminals sure but you've also got cops, you've got teachers, you've got movies with fake bending, and now you've got athletes. Think of it like guns instead of bending and it's the same thing. Bending doesn't need to intrinsically be tied to some greater purchase of saving people, there are different applications to just as there are for guns. In the original that couldn't be the case because for 3 seasons the fire nation was threat to everybody so that's all it was tied to. Korra expanded on that in a reasonable way.

I dont have a problem with pro-bending being a thing. It is good world-building. I dont even have an issue with it being a part of the plot. Im just not really interested in it and dont think it shouldve been as much of a focus, especially in the first season.

I was intensely interested in the separatists, in Tenzins family and in Korras training and not at all in pro-bending. It always seemed like something the creators shoehorned it in there to give Korra a reason to form a relationship with Mako and Bolin.

I distinctly remember Nickelodeon ads at the time being like Hows Korra gonna beat the other team!? and myself just being frustrated because, firstly, I dont care, secondly, because it meant spending more time with Mako and Bolin, and most importantly, because it meant the real plot would be advanced very little, if at all, that week (and in general, given that seasons were only 12 episodes).