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lilORANG
03/10/24 12:30:28 PM
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I just finished ATLA and it was good. I've heard everything about Korra from it being better than TLA to it being total trash that ruins the lore or whatever. I mostly don't care about the plot of a kid show, as long as the animation and action scenes are good. Will I enjoy it?

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Ratchetrockon
03/10/24 12:31:54 PM
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I prefer it over atla tbh

I don't care about lore related stuff tho

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BearlyWilling
03/10/24 12:32:01 PM
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This, but if you have a problem with woke things, youll hate it.

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Dungeater
03/10/24 12:32:09 PM
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first season is pretty good but ends weakly, and the inter-character dynamics are kinda lame

second season is almost unwatchably bad

third season is one of the best seasons of a cartoon ever. it's on par with book 2 of TLA

fourth season sucks but not as bad as s2

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Unknown5uspect
03/10/24 12:32:41 PM
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Yes, and it doesn't "ruin the lore" either.

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Gobstoppers12
03/10/24 12:33:26 PM
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Yes it is. It might take a bit of adjusting to, because the setting is pretty different even though it's exactly the same universe and it isn't that far in the future of the timeline. Overall, I think its highest points are as high or higher than TLA, but its lowest points are a bit more common than the low points in TLA.

It balances out to an awesome show overall. The first season is strong (give or take some wasted time on a pointless love triangle), the second season is...okay, with some highlights. Then seasons 3 and 4 are pretty well connected and pretty damn great in my opinion.

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MaxEffingBemis
03/10/24 12:36:03 PM
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I heard its too much teen drama

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Kami_no_Kami
03/10/24 12:37:08 PM
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Dungeater posted...
first season is pretty good but ends weakly, and the inter-character dynamics are kinda lame

second season is almost unwatchably bad

third season is one of the best seasons of a cartoon ever. it's on par with book 2 of TLA

fourth season sucks but not as bad as s2
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odriB
03/10/24 12:37:45 PM
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I personally thought it was terrible but watched it forever ago now so dont remember everything.

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Compsognathus
03/10/24 12:41:21 PM
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It's overall good but it lacks the cohesiveness and consistency of TLA.

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Irony
03/10/24 12:41:58 PM
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PMarth2002
03/10/24 12:43:16 PM
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Its an 8/10 compared to ATLA's 9.5/10.

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BlueFalcon
03/10/24 12:48:32 PM
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Its very good and you should watch it. It has some amazing villains.

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Thanatos_the_Great
03/10/24 12:50:54 PM
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It's not as good as ATLA but still very good.

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ReiRei89
03/10/24 1:11:10 PM
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Season 3 and 4 are fantastic with great villains.

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lilORANG
03/10/24 1:12:00 PM
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Interesting the split I'm season on season 4

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FL81
03/10/24 1:12:02 PM
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It's better if you watch it with the idea that Korra is the villain of the series

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Venixon
03/10/24 1:13:54 PM
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I didn't like it, but you might enjoy it. I suggest watching the first couple of episodes and deciding from there.

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Venixon
03/10/24 1:14:14 PM
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FL81 posted...
It's better if you watch it with the idea that Korra is the villain of the series


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MacadamianNut3
03/10/24 1:15:26 PM
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Ratchetrockon posted...
I prefer it over atla tbh


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Dat_Cracka_Jax
03/10/24 1:17:52 PM
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I'm in the middle of season 3, what lore does it destroy? (If it hasn't happened yet then don't spoil it plz)

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Dungeater
03/10/24 1:20:22 PM
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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...
I'm in the middle of season 3, what lore does it destroy? (If it hasn't happened yet then don't spoil it plz)
people consider season 2 the lore destroying part

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K181
03/10/24 1:21:33 PM
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Yes. I personally prefer it over the original, but both are great.

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Gobstoppers12
03/10/24 1:28:50 PM
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K181 posted...
Yes. I personally prefer it over the original, but both are great.
I like Korra better as a protagonist than Aang, myself. Maybe it's a hot take, but I always found Aang to be the least enjoyable part of his own series.

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lderivedx
03/10/24 1:42:30 PM
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It's fine. I think Korra is a better protagonist than Aang, but the writers' attempt to address political topics while knowing nothing about politics is a bit annoying. For example, the antagonist intending to represent fascism is treated the most sympathetically, despite having slave labor camps and (hinting at? I can't remember if it was hinted or explicit) executing dissidents. Also the lack of imagination regarding how society would progress (people have magic abilities but society and technology progresses in the manner that early 1900s liberal democracies did) was a bit disappointing.

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Turbam
03/10/24 1:44:50 PM
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It's ok

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hereforemnant
03/10/24 1:55:03 PM
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FL81 posted...
It's better if you watch it with the idea that Korra is the villain of the series
This. She's incredibly annoying. Dung had the best summarization of the seasons, overall it's just not worth watching because no one watches Season 2 of Westworld because Season 1 was amazing, you just skip S2. No one talks about season 7 & 8 & slightly 6 of GoT because for most people it ended after season 5.

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refmon
03/10/24 1:55:48 PM
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Season 2 is so incredibly bad but Season 3 is the best by far from both series

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Sephiroth_C_Ryu
03/10/24 1:56:41 PM
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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.


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Dabrikishaw15
03/10/24 2:02:36 PM
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Nowhere near as good as the original, thought given the show was originally just one season and then it kept getting renewed out of nowhere there wasn't a way to tell a story with the cohesion that made the first cartoon as good as it is.

Even then, season 1 is pretty mid due to the character dynamics being poor between the intended main cast and the villains being written around politics that are technically sound but are never really treated seriously.

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xlr_big-coop
03/10/24 2:29:07 PM
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I liked the action but the writing is amongst the most idiotic I've ever seen in a show. I'd never bother rewatching it, definitely do not recommend it.

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GuerillaGorilla
03/10/24 2:30:24 PM
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It's trash and ruins the lore.

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Guide
03/10/24 2:42:22 PM
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On its own, it's pretty dang good, but it comparsd unfavorably to the original. There's a lot of teen drama and filler meme characters. It''s one thing to have a running joke character, but then they're seriously involved and it's so constant. You don't see the cabbage guy every dang episode, because it would get annoying if you did, right? Enter The Twins.

There's never a reason to care about pro bending, which takes up so much of season 1, and never any actual coverage of the interesting plot point of the non-bender political movement, it's just fodder to justify the villain. I am super into how Kuvira has a bit of judo in her metalbending, but then that reminds me of how Korra's mental recovery character arc was "she's struggling to rebuild as a person-- oh oops you were actually still a bit poisoned, that's fixed now, nevermind the other part"

And it might be less narrative criticism and a personal point, but taking the mystery out of the spirit world was a horrible idea. They end up discussing and treating it like the subway.

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superman_2000
03/10/24 2:52:23 PM
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Dungeater posted...
first season is pretty good but ends weakly, and the inter-character dynamics are kinda lame

second season is almost unwatchably bad

third season is one of the best seasons of a cartoon ever. it's on par with book 2 of TLA

fourth season sucks but not as bad as s2

Maybe this is why I'm still stuck on season 2. Started watching it a few years ago and just lost interest early on.

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Prototypic
03/10/24 2:54:30 PM
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Legend of Korra is decent, on average, but is less consistently so than the original, and while the original tells a largely cohesive overarching story, LoK is more "Korra makes a random series of questionable decisions; chaos ensues". The animation in LoK is also better, if that's a consideration, and overall I'd say it's at least worth a watch through.

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VeesMcGees
03/10/24 2:56:45 PM
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Hot take: Love triangle in s1 is worse than the entirety of 2. S1 of Korra had higher highs, but s2 was more consistent.

Korra' third season was genuinely great. I never got through the fourth as I had issue's with Nick's website and then never made my way over to it once Korra was on a streaming service.
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rexcrk
03/10/24 2:57:21 PM
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Its so good, and I like it more than Avatar in some ways tbh. Show gets way too much unwarranted hate.

But then again, I didnt watch Avatar until a few months before Korra premiered, and Im sure that has something to do with why I see in such a positive light.


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NoxObscuras
03/10/24 2:57:54 PM
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Compsognathus posted...
It's overall good but it lacks the cohesiveness and consistency of TLA.
This. I blame that on Nickelodean and it's execs being wishy washy on supporting the show. IIRC, the last 2 seasons didn't even air on TV. We had to watch them on Nick's website.

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chris1001_the_sequel
03/10/24 3:03:43 PM
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NoxObscuras posted...
This. I blame that on Nickelodean and it's execs being wishy washy on supporting the show. IIRC, the last 2 seasons didn't even air on TV. We had to watch them on Nick's website.

It was originally only going to be a one season show, and if you watch season 1 on it's own with no knowledge that there are future seasons, it feels it. There are many problems with season 2, but one of the big ones is figuring out how to continue the show from what was an ending. Season 3 as has been mentioned is probably the best season of the franchise. Season 4 is the one that got dumped on Nick.com (at least in the US). Not as good as 3, but still very good.

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Prestoff
03/10/24 3:53:14 PM
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Season 3 was an amazing high for the series. Season 1 was good, Season 2 was whatever, and season 4 had potential but the antagonist turned into "female Hitler" and really dropped the ball when they introduced the Megazord thing.

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Guide
03/10/24 3:57:32 PM
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I thought Kuvira was so close to being a great villain, but they just kinda stopped developing her much at all aside from the beginning and the end. You gotta keep giving those types more human moments if you're going to give them a constant presence.

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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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Venixon
03/10/24 4:12:24 PM
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Tbh, I felt the bending was a serious downgrade from what had come before.

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Venixon
03/10/24 4:14:01 PM
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xlr_big-coop posted...
I liked the action but the writing is amongst the most idiotic I've ever seen in a show. I'd never bother rewatching it, definitely do not recommend it.
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Ivany2008
03/10/24 4:23:03 PM
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Yes. I personally don't like it as much as the original, but its a very solid show. If Last Airbender is a 10/10, I would give Korra an 8/10. There are some moments that dip down in quality, but its a fun watch.
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Delirious_Beard
03/10/24 4:53:23 PM
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nope

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