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TopicIs Legend of Korra good?
the_real_Naruto
03/10/24 4:05:39 PM
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Sephiroth_C_Ryu posted...
Depends on what kind of things bother you. And no, this is not a matter of "woke" or not, unless a female protagonist existing messes with you that badly.

Some of the characters and interactions, from the parts I saw, are not great. And then yes, there is the lore stuff, as well as that it just FEELS like it is trying to "advance" things too much.

I mean, technically, the rate of advancement is not all that unrealistic as the real world had some pretty rapid within-half-a-century changes and it had just come out of a war that ended with fire-powered steam tanks and airships and stuff like that which can easily have jump-started the civilian sector. But the way that bending advanced so much is a bit hit or miss. And the general feel of the two settings is somewhat jarringly different.

Imagine if, say, Lord of the Rings had a sequel trilogy, but that its a steampunk setting about the dwarves and elves waging war against each other with airships with cannons. I mean, it could be pretty cool, but would it really be "Lord of the Rings" at that point, or something different that just forces its way into LotR's future timeline for the sake of being able to use the name, and make callbacks to the original storylines here and there?

I'm not saying that splitting up a setting into chunks of time that are significantly different cannot work. See Jojo's Bizzare Adventure, where every "season" is the story of that generation's Jojo, and which for the first couple, the way the powers work changes each time until Stands appear. Jojo does make this generational timeskip a series characteristic fairly early on, and the world setting itself isn't necessarily a huge draw though since it is using Earth at various points in the past century-and-a-half or so of history.


I would compare it to Attack on Titan with the advancement of technology. The Fire Nation was far more advanced than any other nation but they weren't working with any of the others but now that they were all working cohesively, you had all this new tech to work with and new minds that could work it. Instead of working on war machines, you could work on the advancement of humankind.

In Attack on Titan they were alone behind a wall with very little tech and then they realize that the rest of the world had advanced tech just like the Fire Nation to the rest of the world.

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