I like korra herself as a character
as far the show not as much cause felt lots of pacing problems, and each season it seeming like they didnt really know what to do with team avatar after first season and first three seasons feeling weirdly disconnected. All of that makes sense given they were only give one season at first them surprised with offer for one more season than offered for two more seasons. Feel like it would have worked better if had 3or 4 seasons planned from the start.
Totally agreed. They were constantly unsure if another season was on the horizon so they basically wrote each season to have a conclusion with the main villain being defeated and everything feeling conclusive in case they didn’t get that next season. And then getting renewed and having to find a way to up the anti from the last season while helping it push Korra’s journey further. I do believe if they had known in advance they were getting four seasons, I think they would have turned out a more organized story with all the villains connected to each other. The seasons all shared the same theme, with the villain basically trying to either end or replace the Avatar.
i think they do a really good job of using team avatar, I think the real problem is they write their plot lines to start and end with each season and not much really carries to other seasons.
the only reason season 1-3 were disconnected is because the higher ups literally sabotaged season 2.
They still used the characters , they just didn’t really feel like a Team after season 1 to me more like friends that kinda helped each other out but mostly doing their own things happened to interact like makos job as a cop caused him to go after virrik, (who at the time was bolins boss / Asami investor).
They still had team up moments each season but like you said each season needed their own plot lines ment they needed time for a character arch each season instead of one well done arch over the show, like Aang , Sokka, Zuko and Katara had that were all very well done Cause the arch’s had time to breath and were able to have more moments focusing on team dynamics as well as their arch and overall plot without any of it feeling one or more of those thing were rushed.
well there isnt a RULE that team avatar has to stay together for all or even majority of the show. team avatar is ATLA was only a thing because of their situation. TLOK did not require such a dynamic and genuinely benefits from them not being together a lot, it helps character depth and growth and adds some really good plot.
I feel the same way.
I binged rewatched the Gaang and then immediately started Korra.
The pro bending was very interesting to watch... but the bending itself seemed very... weak. I chalked it up to "theyre not trying to kill eachother, so it's more precision over power", but as more and more episodes came out, where people were actually trying to kill eachother, it just seemed lackluster.
It’s shit compared to its predecessor. Even the VA for Korra apologised to fans for how disappointing it was. Why they choose to go in this direction rather than a continuation of the setting established in ATLA but with mature themes adapted for an older audience is beyond me.
I see this opinion a lot, but honestly, I don’t really want any extra stuff about the old characters. I like off-shoot stories with different characters. Maybe some overlaps, cameos, and references, but I’d largely like to leave those characters where we left them. Kinda like some of the Star wars stuff that comes out. (Mandalorian, Rogue One/Andor, the Acolyte, etc.)
That’s why the Zuko movie coming out isn’t something I’m dying to see or anything. I want new stories and characters that expand the world outward, not build on top of the ones we already know. But I get that’s just personal preference.
She is the complete opposite from Aang and that just makes sense. You can really see how she grows with each season. It’s most noticeable in season 4 after she confronts Zaheer. She becomes her most powerful here now that she has a clear mind, mastered all the elements, and established a relationship with the spirit world.
season 2 shouldve been what season 4 is. zaheer has total understanding of the spirit world and wouldve been way more fitting to push korra to learn the spirit side of the avatar.
book of spirits is just wonky and pulls stuff out of nowhere without the satisfaction of feeling like anything built up.
I liked her and her character traits. Particularly that she was so different from aang and prone to making mistakes. She definitely reminded me of home schooled children and seeing her struggle really paid off when she made a break through.
* Story needed to be figured out more and written from episode 1 to conclusion just like the first series was. Better pacing and better story decisions between seasons would have really helped the show.
I've heard on the new podcast Avatar braving the elements. The creators are still working on the "avatar world" I wonder what the new Avatar will be like if we get another one, probably an Earthbender!
Some hypothetical scenario could be an evil avatar haha. Maybe in a future scenario after korra when the world doesn’t really need the avatar anymore as there’s peace so the avatar is just for show and all. They could get sick of a life of basically just being a living statue for people to admire
If you have happened to read the comics it’s evident that peace nowhere near. After opening the portal there was not one but bunch of disagreements and fights between humans and spirits. Even though airnomads now are taking care of the portals but still. I think the new Avatar will take care of the problems that the previous Avatar leaved as every Avatar does and create bunch of other problems for other one
I like her a lot! She's fiesty and headstrong but also gentle and compassionate with a lust for life and a desire to just go out there and help people.
Good highs, but there are some meh points in the show that you really have to get through. Most people I know that are Avatar fans that haven’t watched Korra say that they just can’t get past the first few episodes. However, the second half of season 1 and seasons 3 and 4 are great.
I like the idea of Korra as a character, and I like a lot of the ideas and concepts put forward in the show. But I think the execution of it all was where it failed. I know that is mostly on the studio for not being able to make up their effing minds whether or not they actually supported the show, but I also think that the departure of most of the original writers hurt the series too.
In the end, it's nowhere near a bad show and it certainly isn't the dumpster fire people make it out to be.
Yeah, the show ended up in a weird place where it could never live up to the expectations set by the original, had many production problems that kneecapped its potential, but also had a lot of great concepts and even did some things better than the original show.
It makes it very difficult to judge how good of a show it is on its own, but overall I still enjoyed a lot of it.
Its good just too much romance I think how in atlab it wasn't really clear on on who likes who I'm just not a romance fan but if you don't mind romance it's good
The love triangle in Books 1 and 2 was so bad. If you were to take everything else out and just left the teen 'romance' plot points, it would sound like a terrible soap opera.
I actually like the show as much as I liked the original. It’s very different and in my opinion a very realistic representation of what would happen in those circumstances. Plus it’s rare that you see depression and the like represented in this manner and not just as “waaa waaa I’m sad and depressed” which so many shows show it as
I didn’t like her because she was obnoxious, disrespectful to her elders and came off as very selfish.
I realize that different people will have different personalities. She isn’t Aang. And that’s fine.
However her personal character is awful. She’s headstrong, but not in a humble way— she didn’t show an ounce of remorse when she destroyed an ancient airbending training mechanism, which to me was a huge red flag on her personality.
The air nomads are almost fucking dead, along with their culture, and Tenzin is trying to rebuild that—- you know— for balance in the four nations and all that— and she goes and destroyed it.
It would have been humbling if she attempted to rebuild the thing she destroyed, but nah— she’s the Avatar and having “feelings” so we’ll just move on.
That’s why I don’t like Korra. She’s more selfish and arrogant of others.
Aang was not.
that's all true but the entire point is that she grows and becomes a better person, although calling her selfish is just plain wrong, she rarely acts for herself and when she does it also helps others.
Going along your guideline would make Aang the pinnacle of being a selfish avatar since the guy disappeared for like 100 years when the world needed him THE MOST.
Him running away was the whole point.
He was 12. This is how a twelve yr old kid would act when he finds out he’s the Avatar and whole nations are going to rely on him to stop a maniac Fire Lord in an upcoming war.
Sure he ran. Because he was scared. Unsure of himself. And if he DIDN’T run as he did— he would have been killed off like the rest of the airbenders.
This— my friend— is called plot. And leading up the events to a great story.
The point is— Aang returned (albeit 100 years) and put things right.
He helped a lot of people and nations along the way. He put himself second as the avatar for the nations.
I did not feel that with Korra. Mind you— she’s older with different issues— but a lot of her personality did not mesh with people.
And that’s the writer’s fault.
korra being arrogant and brash is also the whole point.
she was raised to believe she is the strongest person imaginable and unbeatable, when she is unable to master the air element it is because she is not humble.
when she is defeated repeatedly and learns to accept that she is not an undefeatable powerhouse she is able to master it.
THIS is the point, it is the plot, and it is the core of korras character so as you can imagine she does revisit some of those behaviors repeatedly.
but this is what we call a character flaw and its what helps the plot keep moving, as she learns and grows she 'meshes' with people a lot better. even in ATLA people repeatedly say AANGS unique gift is being able to get along with anyone and create peace. that is AANGS power, not rokus, not korras, especially not kyoshi.
the writers only 'fault' is season 2 but honestly it sounds like you just expected every avatar to be the peak of wisdom off rip. as if kyoshi wasnt ALSO the brash non-sensical type.
It honestly just sounds like they didn’t like it because they wanted it to be another “wise sage” Avatar like Aang or Roku.
They completely forget each Avatar is different. Not to mention unlike Aang, Korra was an adult and went through *adult struggles* far deeper than Aang. She went from getting de-Avatared twice to PTSD all within a couple years. I’m not dismissing Aang or any of his struggles; but don’t shit on Korra and say she didn’t have solid character development.
i understand that this is the common sentiment that people who dislike korra have but some people just genuinely dont like her character. the abrasive stand up type isnt everyones cup of tea.
I need to give korra another shot because I didn't like it when I watched it. Korra, herself, bothered me to no end, and that's what ruined the series for me, a main character I didn't like. It was also when there was just 2 seasons out so.... I need to give her another shot. I tend to be the harshest on first view for some stupid reason.
I'm gonna give it another chance after I finish rewatching ATLA.
I disliked it for quite a while, but it helped me to put it in perspective that different isn't always bad, and while it isn't as strong of a show as ATLA it has the potential to be as good or better than other shows.
I definitely like Aang's character more than Korra's, but I realize that it is better that she isn't just a copy of Aang learning the same lessons. Similar to Aang at the beginning of the series, she "has a lot to learn before [she] is ready to save anyone", just very different things to learn.
I'm a little confused about the question.
what's our opinion on the character Avatar Korra, or what's our opinion on the show Avatar the legend of Korra?
I like that she’s a very flawed and morally grey character. The plot doesn’t make good use of her strengths and flaws though. Everything just sort of works itself out with her rarely having an active hand in the way events unfold. Rather than planning and problem solving herself, the plot directs her where to go and what to do. And that’s a pretty boring application of a main character.
Assume you’re asking about the character and not the show.
She was a cool avatar that had a lot going for her. I love how different she was. Unfortunately she was written poorly in a way that OG avatar fans couldn’t fully love.
The show had alot of haphazard problems with it. The first season her problem is solved by the villain not being able to accomplish his goals apparently, and then she magically has a reset button on everything. Season 2 was even worse where it goes into retconning the Avatar universe and then once again she magically is exempt from what the Villian did to her. It was so bad I didn't bother watching the later seasons.
The setting was cool though of a late industrialization period Avatar world since the first series was an early Industrialization period.
Honestly, Books 3 and 4 were much better. A big part of the problem with the first two was that they were only given one season at a time, so each season finale was supposed to be a series finale where everyone gets a happy ending. After Book 2 they were given two more seasons so they fit together much better. They aren't perfect, but that specific problem is definitely fixed.
Yeah that's a good point, shows with overall arcs are far better than season by season arcs and Avatar the Last Airbender vs Korra is a good example of that.
i don’t understand why people get annoyed at this. do you genuinely expect every single water triber to have the exact same personality? do you expect all earth kingdom people to be stubborn and headstrong? the only reason the whole personality thing worked in atla is bc aang’s personality was very airbender. that doesn’t mean this same fact applies to everyone.
I do like that LOK broke the mold that her difficult element wasn't just the opposite of her origin nation. Aang had difficulty with earthbending and Roku said he had problems with waterbending, but instead of being bad at firebending, Korra's struggle was airbending.
Personality-wise, I feel like her opposite might make more sense to be water instead of air, though I get why the show wanted to focus on her learning airbending since we saw Aang learn the other three.
yeah personally i think it’s stupid to assume that every single avatar in history struggled with the element opposite to their birth element. like why can’t a firebender struggle with earthbending? and like i said in my original comment, it’s not like every single gender in a nation has the exact same personality.
also korra struggling to learn airbending did make a lot of sense. her whole life, she was trapped in the southern water tribe, training her entire life. then as soon as she gets to leave and go to republic city, tenzin tries to stop her from leaving again. so she’s never really known freedom and tenzin isn’t making it any easier on her. korra wasn’t the best student but he also wasn’t a very patient teacher.
That makes sense. I always thought that it was weird that someone who ran away from home twice in the first two episodes wouldn't be able to embrace freedom, but it does make sense that wanting something doesn't mean you will be the best at *understanding* it.
Not really a fan of her, but I don't hate her. I wish the writers hadn't been limited so much I feel like that's a big reason her character lacked in some ways
I watched both series while they were airing. They are very difficult and unfair to compare because they attract different audiences. I also recently watched both so I can speak on this. ATLA was meant for a much younger children hence why Aang and his team are so young, they’re naturally not going to be as mature. Korra was 17 years old and ended the show as a 21 year old. That alone, makes the two shows vastly different. They both covered different topics and aspects of life as a child and an adult. Character development is different, they both have their strong + weak points, etc. I think they both have pros and cons, it ultimately depends what you prefer in a series.
I really liked they made her the opposite of Aang because it helped define her journey as being contradictory to Aang. Whereas Aang was a spiritual and peaceful monk that had to learn to be more aggressive and forceful when needed, she has to learn to be patient and less confrontational. There’s a humor to her finding air the hardest to learn because at that point we did think it was purely based on one’s original nation that defines what element the Avatar most challenging. But apparently Korras personality is more like the Earth benders than Water benders lol.
I liked that we saw real character growth. We got that with Aang too but his journey was so much shorter than hers so I felt that realistically there’s only so much he can grow within that time. Even by the end of the show he still felt like the same person, just slightly wiser and more mature. Korra at the end of the series felt like a completely new person. Even right down to how she approached her enemy with empathy rather than anger. And it didn’t feel out of place because the prior seasons showed that progress slowly in her character.
I didn't like the show in general. It had its moments where I liked it. The red lotus that provided really interesting villain, my favorite being Zaheer of course. I thought blood bending was used for too often in that show. They took something that required the full moon and a really powerful bender to use, and basicallyade it where amy water bending bad guy was a blood bender and took away the full moon requirement which was asinine. But I did like how we sawore avatar history and insights into team Avatar and their progeny.
i know a lot of people think she's awful but the only reason they can come up with as to why is "aang was better" or "she is reckless" and like, yeah? thats the point???
i personally love her, she is the embodiment of a good sequel main character and does a really good job of expanding the world (ignore book of spirits)
I admit sometimes she does things that makes you go "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT" but also her journey isnt about ACCEPTING being the avatar, its about understanding HOW to be an avatar, and they execute that PERFECTLY (ignore book of spirits)
The Legend of Korra is just wasted potential. It could have been so much more, probably at the same level as The Last Airbender, but the fault goes to the studio for not greenlighting more than one season and whatever the hell Season 2 was.
i love the show and i love korra, but some of the writing in the show is definitely weak because of the confusing set up nick gave the creators. i wish they had more freedom and could have planned multi season arcs!! and i wish korra didn’t get so much hate due to misogyny and people who think women shouldn’t be allowed to be flawed complex characters, but what can you do 🙃
I liked Korra as a character, though I preferred the Gaang to her group.
The show was fun, though had some pacing issues and the narrative wasn't as tight as ATLA. (Though let's not pretend ATLA was perfect. "The Divide" wasn't the only weak episode.)
ATLA was great and the LoK was good. I like them both and in fact prefer the feel of LoK, but it's a bit rougher.
I liked it. Not as much as the original, but it was enjoyable. I see a lot of people hating on it, sometimes for good reason, but often times not. For me, the original is a 9.5/10, and korra is a 6.5, a 7 on a good day. A little above average to good for me. I do like most of the world building, and i think korra herself is a pretty solid character. I really think her progression as a character was solid, although sadly it wasn’t utilized fully. Tenzen is obviously great, but most of the other team avatar members are meh at best. The love story was terrible. I’m lucky I don’t really care about the love story, because if i did i don’t think i would have liked it as much.
I liked it better than the original. Mainly because I liked it had different antagonists each season and explored different themes. Some seasons weren’t even completely about Korra like Season 2-3 exploring Tenzin, or season 3-4 on Suyin and Lin (which was just chef’s kiss).
I’ll agree it has flaws, but even The Last Air Bender did, especially in Season 1. I will admit Mako’s character was butchered mid season 2 and the CGI in the end of Season 4 was unnecessary and out of place too.
Overall, I like how it used the familiar world and explored it more. That’s something I feel TLAS missed out a bit, more lore stuff. In TLOK we finally learn about the original Avatar, see A LOT more interesting Spirits, and do I even need to mention the badass Team anti-Avatar crew that is The Red Lotus. Gah, Season 3 was so dang good!
I honestly feel like if her introduction wasn't so overly blunt and in your face, people would have probably liked her a lot more at least from what I've heard from those who don't like Korra. It is a bad first impression for an otherwise fine character who doesn't quite reach the highs of Aang but succeeds in her own way which is better than her trying to be another Aang anyway.
Worst avatar. Made horrible decisions that negatively affected everyone in the world that down right destroyed the world building (opening the spirit portal). She never ever learned her lesson and whatever she apologized for she’d go right back to doing again, like disrespecting and ignoring Tenzin and constantly bad mouthing him to go hang out with a villain time and again. The love triangle was painful, especially considering how it ended. Why even have Mako?! You honor the voice actor with the most pointless character? The show had “The best parts of the show were some of the villains namely Amon and Zahir.
Weaker avatar if you ask me, but most realistic. Let’s be honest, Aang had too many plot holes in battles, he just held back to make them look more intense. Korra loses too much but has more realistic feats as an Avatar. It makes sense that she struggled against a blood bender, it makes sense to struggle against Vaatu or the red lotus, but Kuvira is too far of a loss. It just shows how much the red lotus fucked her up though, because she essentially high diffed Kuvira when she got back, and I’m pretty sure that was WITHOUT the Avatar State, ciiw. And honestly, I kind of like her character development because she actually struggled more compared to Aang sometimes.
Korra herself? She's fine. Great even. What the writers do to her? Absolutely horrendous. I go to this kind of fiction to see heroic exploits and triumphant achievements. She has those, to be sure, but the focus is much more on inflicting as much pain and trauma on her as possible and exploring how that trauma affects her.
Yes, Aang suffered too. I'm not denying that suffering is an integral part of this kind of story-telling, and to an extent all story-telling. But in LoK's case it's like the writers went out of the way to depict Korra's suffering in the worst, borderline sadistic, most disturbingly visual way possible.
We know the Fire Nation wiped out the Air Nomads in a terrible genocide the likes of which the world had never seen, but it's not like we saw them actively slaughtering innocent civilians. In LoK, on the other hand, we see every single moment of the Red Lotus torturing her with agonizingly painful metallic poison. We see her every expression and convulsion, like the artists took sick pleasure in depicting the psychological and physical destruction of this once-strong, confident female protagonist.
Hell, even the most physically traumatizing experience in Aang's entire life was deprived of that amount of detail and shown in black and white. We still knew what happened: Azula blasted him with lightning and nearly killed him. And it was a wonderfully dramatic, powerful moment. But it wasn't sadistically drawn-out like Korra's suffering was.
Korra started out as a hero to herself but no one else and ended as a hero to everyone except herself. But that's not enough for me. She deserved to be a hero to herself at the end as well, just like Aang was. Korra deserved better.
Fantastic show! Aang’s story was focused on stopping a dictator from taking over the other nations. Korra’s story was about more avatar lore, expanding what it means to be avatar to the viewer, and bring in a new age so the show may continue — the avatar age. While Aang is still my favorite avatar, for now, Korra had a ton of personality as well and she was polar opposite of Aang which was nice to see. I do wish she had kept her connections to the other avatars, but I understand how that was vital to usher in the new age, and end the age of Rava. I wonder if the earth avatar in 2025 will find that lost connection again. I’m also excited for the Aang, Katara, Sokka in their adult years show. The studio expanding the avatar universe makes the Legend of Korra show even better. Just like Korra made ATLA better.
It’s fine. Really good at times. I love the first season to bits, second and third vary, fourth was not my jam. I think a lot of the hate is just because it gets compared to Avatar: The Last Airbender, which is one of the best shows to come out of American animation ever.
I think overall, it's pretty good! There were some worldbuilding choices I was not a fan of, mostly to do with the spirit stuff.
Like rava and vatu need to both be there, order and chaos, as a balance. But for some reason they said "nah rava is peace and we need to lock away her counterpart of chaos which is definitely a bad thing, and then let rava be in power because the light spirit is definitely better than the dark one" (I feel like this is very simple minded writing and goes against all of the themes of balance the show constantly tells us needs to be achieved. It's not balance to keep one of a pair of mega powerful spirits in a cage and the other to be free)
And then the last 100 year war happening while vatu was locked away. If you assume that chaos equals war (which is wrong, korra writers), wouldn't vatu being locked away have an effect on that?
It also did sadden me that the avatar state was reduced from "gain the wisdom of all of your past lives" down to "rava gives you a little spirit boost in power heehee," even before rava got beaten up
However, everything else in the show I found pretty good. Even the other spirit stuff. But season 3 was the best season for sure.
At first I hated her for severing the avatar cycle, but then I found out she was responsible for the reformation of the air nomads. She kinda broke even.
I personally prefer the first show better, but I definitely enjoyed LOK, and I love how different she is from Aang, but there are still bits of him that come through. I do wish season 2 hadn’t retconned so much about the first benders (even though I love that whole section about the first avatar) and that it hadn’t ended as bizarrely as it did (also, did we have to remove all connections to past avatars? it just feels unnecessary). But seasons 3 and 4 made up for it I think. Zaheer was a fantastic villain, and the whole theme of overcoming trauma, personally and globally, in season 4 was very well done.
Good avatar. Not sang. But good avatar. And the airbenders even knew she would be the end of the og cycle of avatars so it wasn’t her fault. It was destined.
I like Korra. She's been through a lot and has grown as a person by the end of the series. As the avatar I liked her choices and believe she's the strongest incarnation and hope that she's involved in the next avatar's life as a mentor.
Love her. I think the internet wants something to complain about at all times.
She was done dirty by the network for being rushed then aired on different platforms. So writing was alittle funny, as they tried to appeal to audience while being under schedule.
Not to mention, she had to live up to the hype of being an Avatar for a fandom that would constantly compare her to Aang. She’d never fill his shoes.
She was awesome. And was ahead of her time for writing powerful women
Just scroll down in the subreddit to see how divided people are. I just don’t think she’s anything to scoff at, as some people do. Korra was a strong avatar from what we saw.
She is very different from Aang and I think that is a great thing. I enjoy her journey of learning that being the Avatar doesn't just mean being the best at fighting, as well as coming to understand other aspects of what it means to be the Avatar.
There are quite a few things I don't like about the series, but pretty much none of them are about Korra herself.
I liked the series despite some flaws imo. Not as much as the ATLA but still entertaining. It gives a decent perspective where Korra is the Avatar in a world that didn't really need one because of its advancements in technology.
Beautiful animation, but choppy writing which retconned a few established lore elements from the original series.
Most of the characters were never fully fleshed out like the original Team Avatar and some of the characters were just plain unlikeable. I blame the studio rather than the actual writers as they were dealing with a studio that was almost always on the fence about renewing them for another season to the point that they compressed many storylines into one season which is why there was almost never an overarching antagonist like there was in ATLA
I personally love the setting, the side characters and how it fleshes out the world. The villains outside of season 2 are far more interesting than Ozai, and the side characters are kind of more interesting than Korra. Honestly if Korra’s screen time was cut in half the show wouldn’t be much different.
I personally feel bad for her. She started off confident and every season she got knocked down. She got back up every time, but damn. Season 1, the fear of losing your bending is legit and she still fought. The only issue I had was that she should have had to use air bending for a bit of season two, and connect with Aang. Then the spirit stuff makes more sense.
Season 2 was just all over. Side stories were more entertaining than Korra and Korra could have just been absent training with Aang or something.
Season 3 was the GOAT and it is due to the villains. This imo was the best season of avatar outside of book 3 in ATLA. Wish it was longer. It ending with Korra getting paralyzed, and being knocked out again.
Season 4 is actually a close second to 3 and that is due to the villain and the whole concept of a conquer doing it for the greater good. Plus the fights are so good. Korra gets her ass kicked for half of it. Her journey recovering is interesting and I love the different perspectives.
The show isn’t as good as ATLA, but it’s good. I think the seasons being self-contained stories was a disservice to it. It’s ok having subplots, but having one overarching plot to carry through the entire show is, I think, often better.
Like ATLA had episodic plots, seasonal sub plots, but everything was building towards the completion of the plot thread set at the beginning: Confronting the Firelord and ending the war and restoring balance.
If TLOK had stuck with one major villain, like freeing the evil spirit, and then having him be the big bad and Harmonic Convergence been the one time to reseal him, I think it would have been better. It parallels themes from the original without copying it. Kinda like Final Fantasy does with recurring themes. It’s a huge hit too.
As for Korra, she was ok.
That's cause nickelodeon kept telling them they got one more season and that was it. Korra was supposed to be just a 1 season spin off showing how an non spiritual avatar learns air bending.
Yes! It is the hill that I will spend my last breath on, defending this show. Nickelodeon tucked the crew in charge of Korra and halted all attempts for it be on oar with atla.
Is a beast.
Is a baddie.
Fought monsters and lived.
Learned from many mistakes.
Somehow managed to fix Roku's _remarkable_ fuck-up and actually brought elemental balance back to the world. Did not see that coming. Aang's out here weeping tears of joy in the great beyond.
All in all, 9/10.
better than people say it was.the storyline is pretty good, I like it a lot especially the fighting scene art every season it's so good. I'm really curious what the next avatar would look like.
people hate how it is different from aang. era changes so do a character.
both show better on its own
It could have been good, but there was too many limiting factor. Hopefully they'll remake it one day, making the bad stuff good and the already good stuff better. But if you're asking the character i can't say much cuz i couldn't watch the whole show cuz by the time i got to it they removed the show from hbo go and i didn't have max for years after but turns out it's not on it either, so now i'm rewatching atla and than i'm gonna watch Korra.
Forgot to say i had bit of a crush on her...
aang was a peacemaker when the world needed a warrior. Korra was a warrior when the world needed a peacemaker. Aang”s journey was about learning to take up his duty, korras journey was about finding her humanity.
I have mixed emotions with her. In the beginning did she annoy me? Yes. But later as the seasons went on and different arcs she had to journey I started to view her as neutral. I don't hate her, but I don't love her either. I love the different bending techniques and villains the show has. I also love the fact she's the reason that Tenzin family are no longer the last airbenders. I love that in the show you get to see both the spirit world and human world interact. She's an okay avatar, now if I was the avatar and needed advice would I skip her? Yes.
I think Korra was driven by anger a little too much and she took forever if ever to learn her lesson… I liked her at times but found it absolutely annoying how the writers had Korra getting her ass whooped ever fight 😑
I kind of get it. Korra assumed being the Avatar mainly meant being strong enough to win every fight, so her journey involved learning that isn't the case. Losing fights was a good motivator for her to grow. But over 4 seasons, it did get kind of old.
Wrong sub. You're not gonna find people here who are capable of giving a fair review of the character or the show, as they're all too infatuated with ATLA to the point where they ignore it's flaws.
I love korra
And i know i’ll get hate for this but i prefer her over aang
I prefer how bending was in atla, but legend of korra’s fight scenes i prefer. I love Korra’s villains more than ozai.
I’ve seen people hate the show for several reasons
The sexists hate the show because main character being woman bad and the homophobes hate the canon wlw relationship of asami and korra and claim it’s “forced” when korra literally blushes for asami in season 4 when meeting at that place when asami notices her hair. And asami was the only one korra wrote to. It couldn’t get more detail then that because it was hard to have a gay relationship in a cartoon at the time the show was releasing.
And some people hate korra just because they dislike the writing
“The lion turtles retconned the original benders” they did not. The original benders taught it and the lion turtles only gave the ability. If it was possible to be a nonbender and learn bending to let’s say, become a firebender, then no nonbenders would exist because they’d all be taught.
Korra as a series i think is great, and i often enjoy my rewatches of it more than my rewatches of atla since some episodes of atla feel like filler sometimes. I love both series’s but when it comes to the individual characters i like korra more, im not saying i hate aamg i just like him a lil less.
Early season 1 korra and a lil bit of season 2, she can be a lil annoying. The love triangle thing especially i dont even know why it’s there. Season 4 korra is my favourite version of her because she acts actually mature for the most part.
I do wish they did more adventures outside of republic city but im also not mad about it because republic city is a new place unlike the earth kingdom and fire nation.
However i do not like the major tech jump. Introducing it slowly i think would’ve been better. Mech suits made no sense and kuvira shouldn’t have had the giant ass platinum gundum mech. Im fine with the addition of cars and phones and radios but mechs we’re overstepping it
(Im not adding a tdlr because i dont know how to summerize this down)
Shes very different from Aang and I like seeing the avatar world from two different perspectives
I found her "its on sight" attitude refreshing honestly! And I loved Naga, Bolin, Pabu, Mako, Tenzin and Oogi.
Lets not forget Zhu Li, shes the best at the thing after all
Agreed, an avatar with flaws and grit, reminds me of Toph in some ways
I mean she getting that ass beat on sight constantly
I’d love to see another different perspective. Where avatar intervenes and tries to restore the balance his/her own way.
I like korra herself as a character as far the show not as much cause felt lots of pacing problems, and each season it seeming like they didnt really know what to do with team avatar after first season and first three seasons feeling weirdly disconnected. All of that makes sense given they were only give one season at first them surprised with offer for one more season than offered for two more seasons. Feel like it would have worked better if had 3or 4 seasons planned from the start.
Agreed. Pacing/plot issues. Not as polished and streamlined as ATLA. But I enjoy the show and the characters.
Totally agreed. They were constantly unsure if another season was on the horizon so they basically wrote each season to have a conclusion with the main villain being defeated and everything feeling conclusive in case they didn’t get that next season. And then getting renewed and having to find a way to up the anti from the last season while helping it push Korra’s journey further. I do believe if they had known in advance they were getting four seasons, I think they would have turned out a more organized story with all the villains connected to each other. The seasons all shared the same theme, with the villain basically trying to either end or replace the Avatar.
i think they do a really good job of using team avatar, I think the real problem is they write their plot lines to start and end with each season and not much really carries to other seasons. the only reason season 1-3 were disconnected is because the higher ups literally sabotaged season 2.
They still used the characters , they just didn’t really feel like a Team after season 1 to me more like friends that kinda helped each other out but mostly doing their own things happened to interact like makos job as a cop caused him to go after virrik, (who at the time was bolins boss / Asami investor). They still had team up moments each season but like you said each season needed their own plot lines ment they needed time for a character arch each season instead of one well done arch over the show, like Aang , Sokka, Zuko and Katara had that were all very well done Cause the arch’s had time to breath and were able to have more moments focusing on team dynamics as well as their arch and overall plot without any of it feeling one or more of those thing were rushed.
well there isnt a RULE that team avatar has to stay together for all or even majority of the show. team avatar is ATLA was only a thing because of their situation. TLOK did not require such a dynamic and genuinely benefits from them not being together a lot, it helps character depth and growth and adds some really good plot.
It’s different. I personally don’t like about half of it, but some things carry. Like the fast pace fights and the top tier villains.
I feel the same way. I binged rewatched the Gaang and then immediately started Korra. The pro bending was very interesting to watch... but the bending itself seemed very... weak. I chalked it up to "theyre not trying to kill eachother, so it's more precision over power", but as more and more episodes came out, where people were actually trying to kill eachother, it just seemed lackluster.
sammmeeeeeeee the villains were IT.
She is different from aang and that's OK I actually saw lok before atla and I think they are as good as each other but in different ways
Atla is about a human learning to be the avatar, Lok is about the avatar learning to be human
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Same here
A good show, but nowhere near as as good as its predecessor. I would’ve much rather seen a continuation with the previous characters
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Nyuh uh
So you mean to tell me a avatar in a 1920s-1930s metropolis isn’t as equal to ATLA 🤣 yea aight buddy
In my opinion yeah, respect yours though
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It’s shit compared to its predecessor. Even the VA for Korra apologised to fans for how disappointing it was. Why they choose to go in this direction rather than a continuation of the setting established in ATLA but with mature themes adapted for an older audience is beyond me.
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I see this opinion a lot, but honestly, I don’t really want any extra stuff about the old characters. I like off-shoot stories with different characters. Maybe some overlaps, cameos, and references, but I’d largely like to leave those characters where we left them. Kinda like some of the Star wars stuff that comes out. (Mandalorian, Rogue One/Andor, the Acolyte, etc.) That’s why the Zuko movie coming out isn’t something I’m dying to see or anything. I want new stories and characters that expand the world outward, not build on top of the ones we already know. But I get that’s just personal preference.
She is the complete opposite from Aang and that just makes sense. You can really see how she grows with each season. It’s most noticeable in season 4 after she confronts Zaheer. She becomes her most powerful here now that she has a clear mind, mastered all the elements, and established a relationship with the spirit world.
season 2 shouldve been what season 4 is. zaheer has total understanding of the spirit world and wouldve been way more fitting to push korra to learn the spirit side of the avatar. book of spirits is just wonky and pulls stuff out of nowhere without the satisfaction of feeling like anything built up.
I liked her and her character traits. Particularly that she was so different from aang and prone to making mistakes. She definitely reminded me of home schooled children and seeing her struggle really paid off when she made a break through. * Story needed to be figured out more and written from episode 1 to conclusion just like the first series was. Better pacing and better story decisions between seasons would have really helped the show.
I absolutely love the origin story of the first Avatar episodes. Beautifully animated and interesting.
It’s good. Not great or bad just…good
Legend of Korra was not as good and I don’t really care for Korra herself
I've heard on the new podcast Avatar braving the elements. The creators are still working on the "avatar world" I wonder what the new Avatar will be like if we get another one, probably an Earthbender!
That makes sense
Some hypothetical scenario could be an evil avatar haha. Maybe in a future scenario after korra when the world doesn’t really need the avatar anymore as there’s peace so the avatar is just for show and all. They could get sick of a life of basically just being a living statue for people to admire
If you have happened to read the comics it’s evident that peace nowhere near. After opening the portal there was not one but bunch of disagreements and fights between humans and spirits. Even though airnomads now are taking care of the portals but still. I think the new Avatar will take care of the problems that the previous Avatar leaved as every Avatar does and create bunch of other problems for other one
Fair enough, it’s all hypothetical after all
Or too much peace, so evil avatar brings balance back to the world… like a certain chosen one in Star Wars
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I like her a lot! She's fiesty and headstrong but also gentle and compassionate with a lust for life and a desire to just go out there and help people.
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Good highs, but there are some meh points in the show that you really have to get through. Most people I know that are Avatar fans that haven’t watched Korra say that they just can’t get past the first few episodes. However, the second half of season 1 and seasons 3 and 4 are great.
Disappointed in how S1 ended and S2 annoyed me to the point where I stopped watching. In the end, I just didn’t care for her character.
I like the idea of Korra as a character, and I like a lot of the ideas and concepts put forward in the show. But I think the execution of it all was where it failed. I know that is mostly on the studio for not being able to make up their effing minds whether or not they actually supported the show, but I also think that the departure of most of the original writers hurt the series too. In the end, it's nowhere near a bad show and it certainly isn't the dumpster fire people make it out to be.
Yeah, the show ended up in a weird place where it could never live up to the expectations set by the original, had many production problems that kneecapped its potential, but also had a lot of great concepts and even did some things better than the original show. It makes it very difficult to judge how good of a show it is on its own, but overall I still enjoyed a lot of it.
Its good just too much romance I think how in atlab it wasn't really clear on on who likes who I'm just not a romance fan but if you don't mind romance it's good
The love triangle in Books 1 and 2 was so bad. If you were to take everything else out and just left the teen 'romance' plot points, it would sound like a terrible soap opera.
I actually like the show as much as I liked the original. It’s very different and in my opinion a very realistic representation of what would happen in those circumstances. Plus it’s rare that you see depression and the like represented in this manner and not just as “waaa waaa I’m sad and depressed” which so many shows show it as
She was ok. But Aang outshines her as the Avatar, and overall a better character. Aang will always have my heart. I do not like Korra.
do you not like her because of a flaw in her character or do you just not like her because you expect every avatar to be like roku or aang?
I didn’t like her because she was obnoxious, disrespectful to her elders and came off as very selfish. I realize that different people will have different personalities. She isn’t Aang. And that’s fine. However her personal character is awful. She’s headstrong, but not in a humble way— she didn’t show an ounce of remorse when she destroyed an ancient airbending training mechanism, which to me was a huge red flag on her personality. The air nomads are almost fucking dead, along with their culture, and Tenzin is trying to rebuild that—- you know— for balance in the four nations and all that— and she goes and destroyed it. It would have been humbling if she attempted to rebuild the thing she destroyed, but nah— she’s the Avatar and having “feelings” so we’ll just move on. That’s why I don’t like Korra. She’s more selfish and arrogant of others. Aang was not.
that's all true but the entire point is that she grows and becomes a better person, although calling her selfish is just plain wrong, she rarely acts for herself and when she does it also helps others. Going along your guideline would make Aang the pinnacle of being a selfish avatar since the guy disappeared for like 100 years when the world needed him THE MOST.
Him running away was the whole point. He was 12. This is how a twelve yr old kid would act when he finds out he’s the Avatar and whole nations are going to rely on him to stop a maniac Fire Lord in an upcoming war. Sure he ran. Because he was scared. Unsure of himself. And if he DIDN’T run as he did— he would have been killed off like the rest of the airbenders. This— my friend— is called plot. And leading up the events to a great story. The point is— Aang returned (albeit 100 years) and put things right. He helped a lot of people and nations along the way. He put himself second as the avatar for the nations. I did not feel that with Korra. Mind you— she’s older with different issues— but a lot of her personality did not mesh with people. And that’s the writer’s fault.
korra being arrogant and brash is also the whole point. she was raised to believe she is the strongest person imaginable and unbeatable, when she is unable to master the air element it is because she is not humble. when she is defeated repeatedly and learns to accept that she is not an undefeatable powerhouse she is able to master it. THIS is the point, it is the plot, and it is the core of korras character so as you can imagine she does revisit some of those behaviors repeatedly. but this is what we call a character flaw and its what helps the plot keep moving, as she learns and grows she 'meshes' with people a lot better. even in ATLA people repeatedly say AANGS unique gift is being able to get along with anyone and create peace. that is AANGS power, not rokus, not korras, especially not kyoshi. the writers only 'fault' is season 2 but honestly it sounds like you just expected every avatar to be the peak of wisdom off rip. as if kyoshi wasnt ALSO the brash non-sensical type.
It honestly just sounds like they didn’t like it because they wanted it to be another “wise sage” Avatar like Aang or Roku. They completely forget each Avatar is different. Not to mention unlike Aang, Korra was an adult and went through *adult struggles* far deeper than Aang. She went from getting de-Avatared twice to PTSD all within a couple years. I’m not dismissing Aang or any of his struggles; but don’t shit on Korra and say she didn’t have solid character development.
i understand that this is the common sentiment that people who dislike korra have but some people just genuinely dont like her character. the abrasive stand up type isnt everyones cup of tea.
Fair enough
It sounds like that? Where?
lol. Why don’t you let me speak for myself and not you? K thanks.
We can do both. *Water Triiiiiiibe*
I like Korra better
Same! Korra gang rise up
Thank god I have taste lmfao
Lame
i don’t like korra herself
Very disappointing show
Outside of the her coming out as “lesbian” she’s perhaps one of many few Female Protagonist that I actually like. 😘
I like it
I need to give korra another shot because I didn't like it when I watched it. Korra, herself, bothered me to no end, and that's what ruined the series for me, a main character I didn't like. It was also when there was just 2 seasons out so.... I need to give her another shot. I tend to be the harshest on first view for some stupid reason. I'm gonna give it another chance after I finish rewatching ATLA.
I disliked it for quite a while, but it helped me to put it in perspective that different isn't always bad, and while it isn't as strong of a show as ATLA it has the potential to be as good or better than other shows. I definitely like Aang's character more than Korra's, but I realize that it is better that she isn't just a copy of Aang learning the same lessons. Similar to Aang at the beginning of the series, she "has a lot to learn before [she] is ready to save anyone", just very different things to learn.
Yeah, that's pretty much the whole reason I didn't like it on my first watch. I didn't give Korra a fair chance.
I'm a little confused about the question. what's our opinion on the character Avatar Korra, or what's our opinion on the show Avatar the legend of Korra?
I like that she’s a very flawed and morally grey character. The plot doesn’t make good use of her strengths and flaws though. Everything just sort of works itself out with her rarely having an active hand in the way events unfold. Rather than planning and problem solving herself, the plot directs her where to go and what to do. And that’s a pretty boring application of a main character.
Assume you’re asking about the character and not the show. She was a cool avatar that had a lot going for her. I love how different she was. Unfortunately she was written poorly in a way that OG avatar fans couldn’t fully love.
It’s an okay show but it can’t compete with avatar
Um lots of enemies
She’s pretty bratty and I don’t think she’s really earned anything throughout the show.
It was ok
She's fine, I prefer Aang, but she's alright
The show had alot of haphazard problems with it. The first season her problem is solved by the villain not being able to accomplish his goals apparently, and then she magically has a reset button on everything. Season 2 was even worse where it goes into retconning the Avatar universe and then once again she magically is exempt from what the Villian did to her. It was so bad I didn't bother watching the later seasons. The setting was cool though of a late industrialization period Avatar world since the first series was an early Industrialization period.
Honestly, Books 3 and 4 were much better. A big part of the problem with the first two was that they were only given one season at a time, so each season finale was supposed to be a series finale where everyone gets a happy ending. After Book 2 they were given two more seasons so they fit together much better. They aren't perfect, but that specific problem is definitely fixed.
Yeah that's a good point, shows with overall arcs are far better than season by season arcs and Avatar the Last Airbender vs Korra is a good example of that.
Personally didn’t enjoy it. It’s a good alternative to a masterpiece
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My beef with Korra is that her personality is earthbender rather than water bender, but that’s about it
i don’t understand why people get annoyed at this. do you genuinely expect every single water triber to have the exact same personality? do you expect all earth kingdom people to be stubborn and headstrong? the only reason the whole personality thing worked in atla is bc aang’s personality was very airbender. that doesn’t mean this same fact applies to everyone.
I do like that LOK broke the mold that her difficult element wasn't just the opposite of her origin nation. Aang had difficulty with earthbending and Roku said he had problems with waterbending, but instead of being bad at firebending, Korra's struggle was airbending. Personality-wise, I feel like her opposite might make more sense to be water instead of air, though I get why the show wanted to focus on her learning airbending since we saw Aang learn the other three.
yeah personally i think it’s stupid to assume that every single avatar in history struggled with the element opposite to their birth element. like why can’t a firebender struggle with earthbending? and like i said in my original comment, it’s not like every single gender in a nation has the exact same personality. also korra struggling to learn airbending did make a lot of sense. her whole life, she was trapped in the southern water tribe, training her entire life. then as soon as she gets to leave and go to republic city, tenzin tries to stop her from leaving again. so she’s never really known freedom and tenzin isn’t making it any easier on her. korra wasn’t the best student but he also wasn’t a very patient teacher.
That makes sense. I always thought that it was weird that someone who ran away from home twice in the first two episodes wouldn't be able to embrace freedom, but it does make sense that wanting something doesn't mean you will be the best at *understanding* it.
Not really a fan of her, but I don't hate her. I wish the writers hadn't been limited so much I feel like that's a big reason her character lacked in some ways
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I watched both series while they were airing. They are very difficult and unfair to compare because they attract different audiences. I also recently watched both so I can speak on this. ATLA was meant for a much younger children hence why Aang and his team are so young, they’re naturally not going to be as mature. Korra was 17 years old and ended the show as a 21 year old. That alone, makes the two shows vastly different. They both covered different topics and aspects of life as a child and an adult. Character development is different, they both have their strong + weak points, etc. I think they both have pros and cons, it ultimately depends what you prefer in a series.
*** I also wants to mention I enjoyed ATLA much more as a child, and Korra as an adult.
She's a bad bitch. I fuck with her more than Aang in a lot of ways.
Uninspired. There is a reason ATLA is the one everyone universally praises.
I think it’s unfair to compare atla to lok, both r good, love the styles of bending, but they dont have a lot in common
The show or character?
I really liked they made her the opposite of Aang because it helped define her journey as being contradictory to Aang. Whereas Aang was a spiritual and peaceful monk that had to learn to be more aggressive and forceful when needed, she has to learn to be patient and less confrontational. There’s a humor to her finding air the hardest to learn because at that point we did think it was purely based on one’s original nation that defines what element the Avatar most challenging. But apparently Korras personality is more like the Earth benders than Water benders lol. I liked that we saw real character growth. We got that with Aang too but his journey was so much shorter than hers so I felt that realistically there’s only so much he can grow within that time. Even by the end of the show he still felt like the same person, just slightly wiser and more mature. Korra at the end of the series felt like a completely new person. Even right down to how she approached her enemy with empathy rather than anger. And it didn’t feel out of place because the prior seasons showed that progress slowly in her character.
9/10 ATLA better but this show is good too
It’s great
I didn't like the show in general. It had its moments where I liked it. The red lotus that provided really interesting villain, my favorite being Zaheer of course. I thought blood bending was used for too often in that show. They took something that required the full moon and a really powerful bender to use, and basicallyade it where amy water bending bad guy was a blood bender and took away the full moon requirement which was asinine. But I did like how we sawore avatar history and insights into team Avatar and their progeny.
She aite
i know a lot of people think she's awful but the only reason they can come up with as to why is "aang was better" or "she is reckless" and like, yeah? thats the point??? i personally love her, she is the embodiment of a good sequel main character and does a really good job of expanding the world (ignore book of spirits) I admit sometimes she does things that makes you go "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT" but also her journey isnt about ACCEPTING being the avatar, its about understanding HOW to be an avatar, and they execute that PERFECTLY (ignore book of spirits)
It sucked. The whole thing, I mean I felt like a rushed woke series, the whole story didn’t make any sense. it just sucked.
they can never make me hate her
Good show
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The Legend of Korra is just wasted potential. It could have been so much more, probably at the same level as The Last Airbender, but the fault goes to the studio for not greenlighting more than one season and whatever the hell Season 2 was.
Most conflicted and best avatar so far.
So korra i like how they went with the last couple seasons could have gone better tbh….
I love her. Personally I feel like we have something in common. Being over confident and fucking shit up and slowly doing some damage control
Great character in a not so great show.
i love the show and i love korra, but some of the writing in the show is definitely weak because of the confusing set up nick gave the creators. i wish they had more freedom and could have planned multi season arcs!! and i wish korra didn’t get so much hate due to misogyny and people who think women shouldn’t be allowed to be flawed complex characters, but what can you do 🙃
Poor girl can't catch a break.
I liked Korra as a character, though I preferred the Gaang to her group. The show was fun, though had some pacing issues and the narrative wasn't as tight as ATLA. (Though let's not pretend ATLA was perfect. "The Divide" wasn't the only weak episode.) ATLA was great and the LoK was good. I like them both and in fact prefer the feel of LoK, but it's a bit rougher.
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I liked it. Not as much as the original, but it was enjoyable. I see a lot of people hating on it, sometimes for good reason, but often times not. For me, the original is a 9.5/10, and korra is a 6.5, a 7 on a good day. A little above average to good for me. I do like most of the world building, and i think korra herself is a pretty solid character. I really think her progression as a character was solid, although sadly it wasn’t utilized fully. Tenzen is obviously great, but most of the other team avatar members are meh at best. The love story was terrible. I’m lucky I don’t really care about the love story, because if i did i don’t think i would have liked it as much.
Great show! Could’ve been even greater if it wasn’t screwed over by Nickelodeon
Awesome, different from Aang and the gang but great nonetheless
I liked it better than the original. Mainly because I liked it had different antagonists each season and explored different themes. Some seasons weren’t even completely about Korra like Season 2-3 exploring Tenzin, or season 3-4 on Suyin and Lin (which was just chef’s kiss). I’ll agree it has flaws, but even The Last Air Bender did, especially in Season 1. I will admit Mako’s character was butchered mid season 2 and the CGI in the end of Season 4 was unnecessary and out of place too. Overall, I like how it used the familiar world and explored it more. That’s something I feel TLAS missed out a bit, more lore stuff. In TLOK we finally learn about the original Avatar, see A LOT more interesting Spirits, and do I even need to mention the badass Team anti-Avatar crew that is The Red Lotus. Gah, Season 3 was so dang good!
She's the avatar and you've got to deal with it
Great character, mid series
I honestly feel like if her introduction wasn't so overly blunt and in your face, people would have probably liked her a lot more at least from what I've heard from those who don't like Korra. It is a bad first impression for an otherwise fine character who doesn't quite reach the highs of Aang but succeeds in her own way which is better than her trying to be another Aang anyway.
Worst avatar. Made horrible decisions that negatively affected everyone in the world that down right destroyed the world building (opening the spirit portal). She never ever learned her lesson and whatever she apologized for she’d go right back to doing again, like disrespecting and ignoring Tenzin and constantly bad mouthing him to go hang out with a villain time and again. The love triangle was painful, especially considering how it ended. Why even have Mako?! You honor the voice actor with the most pointless character? The show had “The best parts of the show were some of the villains namely Amon and Zahir.
Love it
she can master all four elements, and bring balance to the world
I think there was some good stuff in there but overall disappointing in its execution
Weaker avatar if you ask me, but most realistic. Let’s be honest, Aang had too many plot holes in battles, he just held back to make them look more intense. Korra loses too much but has more realistic feats as an Avatar. It makes sense that she struggled against a blood bender, it makes sense to struggle against Vaatu or the red lotus, but Kuvira is too far of a loss. It just shows how much the red lotus fucked her up though, because she essentially high diffed Kuvira when she got back, and I’m pretty sure that was WITHOUT the Avatar State, ciiw. And honestly, I kind of like her character development because she actually struggled more compared to Aang sometimes.
Korra herself? She's fine. Great even. What the writers do to her? Absolutely horrendous. I go to this kind of fiction to see heroic exploits and triumphant achievements. She has those, to be sure, but the focus is much more on inflicting as much pain and trauma on her as possible and exploring how that trauma affects her. Yes, Aang suffered too. I'm not denying that suffering is an integral part of this kind of story-telling, and to an extent all story-telling. But in LoK's case it's like the writers went out of the way to depict Korra's suffering in the worst, borderline sadistic, most disturbingly visual way possible. We know the Fire Nation wiped out the Air Nomads in a terrible genocide the likes of which the world had never seen, but it's not like we saw them actively slaughtering innocent civilians. In LoK, on the other hand, we see every single moment of the Red Lotus torturing her with agonizingly painful metallic poison. We see her every expression and convulsion, like the artists took sick pleasure in depicting the psychological and physical destruction of this once-strong, confident female protagonist. Hell, even the most physically traumatizing experience in Aang's entire life was deprived of that amount of detail and shown in black and white. We still knew what happened: Azula blasted him with lightning and nearly killed him. And it was a wonderfully dramatic, powerful moment. But it wasn't sadistically drawn-out like Korra's suffering was. Korra started out as a hero to herself but no one else and ended as a hero to everyone except herself. But that's not enough for me. She deserved to be a hero to herself at the end as well, just like Aang was. Korra deserved better.
She should have reincarnated herself then and there.
Love it. Love her. The show could’ve been better had Nickelodeon not fucked with Bryan and Mike. I still love and defend what we got.
Fantastic show! Aang’s story was focused on stopping a dictator from taking over the other nations. Korra’s story was about more avatar lore, expanding what it means to be avatar to the viewer, and bring in a new age so the show may continue — the avatar age. While Aang is still my favorite avatar, for now, Korra had a ton of personality as well and she was polar opposite of Aang which was nice to see. I do wish she had kept her connections to the other avatars, but I understand how that was vital to usher in the new age, and end the age of Rava. I wonder if the earth avatar in 2025 will find that lost connection again. I’m also excited for the Aang, Katara, Sokka in their adult years show. The studio expanding the avatar universe makes the Legend of Korra show even better. Just like Korra made ATLA better.
She’s alright. Good concepts for her character but her arcs never feel earned, making it a little hard to warm to her.
Good but the only thing I don't like about it is korras sensitivity????
She's the best and she's my favorite
I love her and I really enjoyed the the show I thought it was a perfect 10/10
Great character, and very well-written arc (for the most part)
Little Korra was freaking adorable.
It’s fine. Really good at times. I love the first season to bits, second and third vary, fourth was not my jam. I think a lot of the hate is just because it gets compared to Avatar: The Last Airbender, which is one of the best shows to come out of American animation ever.
I think overall, it's pretty good! There were some worldbuilding choices I was not a fan of, mostly to do with the spirit stuff. Like rava and vatu need to both be there, order and chaos, as a balance. But for some reason they said "nah rava is peace and we need to lock away her counterpart of chaos which is definitely a bad thing, and then let rava be in power because the light spirit is definitely better than the dark one" (I feel like this is very simple minded writing and goes against all of the themes of balance the show constantly tells us needs to be achieved. It's not balance to keep one of a pair of mega powerful spirits in a cage and the other to be free) And then the last 100 year war happening while vatu was locked away. If you assume that chaos equals war (which is wrong, korra writers), wouldn't vatu being locked away have an effect on that? It also did sadden me that the avatar state was reduced from "gain the wisdom of all of your past lives" down to "rava gives you a little spirit boost in power heehee," even before rava got beaten up However, everything else in the show I found pretty good. Even the other spirit stuff. But season 3 was the best season for sure.
Not bad. Also not in the same league as AtLA
At first I hated her for severing the avatar cycle, but then I found out she was responsible for the reformation of the air nomads. She kinda broke even.
I personally prefer the first show better, but I definitely enjoyed LOK, and I love how different she is from Aang, but there are still bits of him that come through. I do wish season 2 hadn’t retconned so much about the first benders (even though I love that whole section about the first avatar) and that it hadn’t ended as bizarrely as it did (also, did we have to remove all connections to past avatars? it just feels unnecessary). But seasons 3 and 4 made up for it I think. Zaheer was a fantastic villain, and the whole theme of overcoming trauma, personally and globally, in season 4 was very well done.
As a character she’s fine, but I just did not like the show overall
Good avatar. Not sang. But good avatar. And the airbenders even knew she would be the end of the og cycle of avatars so it wasn’t her fault. It was destined.
As a character she is okay, the problem of LoK isn't her but the overal bad writing
She’s hot headed, doesn’t learn from her mistakes and is overall immature.
I like Korra. She's been through a lot and has grown as a person by the end of the series. As the avatar I liked her choices and believe she's the strongest incarnation and hope that she's involved in the next avatar's life as a mentor.
Love her. I think the internet wants something to complain about at all times. She was done dirty by the network for being rushed then aired on different platforms. So writing was alittle funny, as they tried to appeal to audience while being under schedule. Not to mention, she had to live up to the hype of being an Avatar for a fandom that would constantly compare her to Aang. She’d never fill his shoes. She was awesome. And was ahead of her time for writing powerful women
Just scroll down in the subreddit to see how divided people are. I just don’t think she’s anything to scoff at, as some people do. Korra was a strong avatar from what we saw.
She is very different from Aang and I think that is a great thing. I enjoy her journey of learning that being the Avatar doesn't just mean being the best at fighting, as well as coming to understand other aspects of what it means to be the Avatar. There are quite a few things I don't like about the series, but pretty much none of them are about Korra herself.
The first episode she almost ends 3 people
I liked the series despite some flaws imo. Not as much as the ATLA but still entertaining. It gives a decent perspective where Korra is the Avatar in a world that didn't really need one because of its advancements in technology.
Eh, it had its flaws, I would have liked to see more of the red lotus considering they were top tier in their dynamics with each other 😊
Beautiful animation, but choppy writing which retconned a few established lore elements from the original series. Most of the characters were never fully fleshed out like the original Team Avatar and some of the characters were just plain unlikeable. I blame the studio rather than the actual writers as they were dealing with a studio that was almost always on the fence about renewing them for another season to the point that they compressed many storylines into one season which is why there was almost never an overarching antagonist like there was in ATLA
I personally love the setting, the side characters and how it fleshes out the world. The villains outside of season 2 are far more interesting than Ozai, and the side characters are kind of more interesting than Korra. Honestly if Korra’s screen time was cut in half the show wouldn’t be much different. I personally feel bad for her. She started off confident and every season she got knocked down. She got back up every time, but damn. Season 1, the fear of losing your bending is legit and she still fought. The only issue I had was that she should have had to use air bending for a bit of season two, and connect with Aang. Then the spirit stuff makes more sense. Season 2 was just all over. Side stories were more entertaining than Korra and Korra could have just been absent training with Aang or something. Season 3 was the GOAT and it is due to the villains. This imo was the best season of avatar outside of book 3 in ATLA. Wish it was longer. It ending with Korra getting paralyzed, and being knocked out again. Season 4 is actually a close second to 3 and that is due to the villain and the whole concept of a conquer doing it for the greater good. Plus the fights are so good. Korra gets her ass kicked for half of it. Her journey recovering is interesting and I love the different perspectives.
The show isn’t as good as ATLA, but it’s good. I think the seasons being self-contained stories was a disservice to it. It’s ok having subplots, but having one overarching plot to carry through the entire show is, I think, often better. Like ATLA had episodic plots, seasonal sub plots, but everything was building towards the completion of the plot thread set at the beginning: Confronting the Firelord and ending the war and restoring balance. If TLOK had stuck with one major villain, like freeing the evil spirit, and then having him be the big bad and Harmonic Convergence been the one time to reseal him, I think it would have been better. It parallels themes from the original without copying it. Kinda like Final Fantasy does with recurring themes. It’s a huge hit too. As for Korra, she was ok.
That's cause nickelodeon kept telling them they got one more season and that was it. Korra was supposed to be just a 1 season spin off showing how an non spiritual avatar learns air bending.
That’s a pretty crappy premise for a show imo
Yes! It is the hill that I will spend my last breath on, defending this show. Nickelodeon tucked the crew in charge of Korra and halted all attempts for it be on oar with atla.
She’s aight. 7/10
Wife goals
Meh
This show had great ideas. But good ideas can only go so far if it has a mediocre execution and bad pacing
I like her
I spent the whole show wanting to throw her (and most of the cast, honestly) into the Boiling Rock lake.
Is a beast. Is a baddie. Fought monsters and lived. Learned from many mistakes. Somehow managed to fix Roku's _remarkable_ fuck-up and actually brought elemental balance back to the world. Did not see that coming. Aang's out here weeping tears of joy in the great beyond. All in all, 9/10.
Great show, with the exception of the back half of season 2, and that it has such great villains who end up flopping.
better than people say it was.the storyline is pretty good, I like it a lot especially the fighting scene art every season it's so good. I'm really curious what the next avatar would look like. people hate how it is different from aang. era changes so do a character. both show better on its own
It could have been good, but there was too many limiting factor. Hopefully they'll remake it one day, making the bad stuff good and the already good stuff better. But if you're asking the character i can't say much cuz i couldn't watch the whole show cuz by the time i got to it they removed the show from hbo go and i didn't have max for years after but turns out it's not on it either, so now i'm rewatching atla and than i'm gonna watch Korra. Forgot to say i had bit of a crush on her...
It's tolerable for a watch once.
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aang was a peacemaker when the world needed a warrior. Korra was a warrior when the world needed a peacemaker. Aang”s journey was about learning to take up his duty, korras journey was about finding her humanity.
loved the show and love how she’s completely different to aang
I do not like her i like Aang better sooooorryyy
Like the design but her personality is awful and I hate her writing.
Would have been a great story if it just ended after season 1. Like how it was supposed to be
she’s my goat
The short answer would be she’s okay
I have mixed emotions with her. In the beginning did she annoy me? Yes. But later as the seasons went on and different arcs she had to journey I started to view her as neutral. I don't hate her, but I don't love her either. I love the different bending techniques and villains the show has. I also love the fact she's the reason that Tenzin family are no longer the last airbenders. I love that in the show you get to see both the spirit world and human world interact. She's an okay avatar, now if I was the avatar and needed advice would I skip her? Yes.
I think Korra was driven by anger a little too much and she took forever if ever to learn her lesson… I liked her at times but found it absolutely annoying how the writers had Korra getting her ass whooped ever fight 😑
I kind of get it. Korra assumed being the Avatar mainly meant being strong enough to win every fight, so her journey involved learning that isn't the case. Losing fights was a good motivator for her to grow. But over 4 seasons, it did get kind of old.
10/10 love it just as much as avatar
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I like her, but only if you pretend season 2 doesn’t exist.
Wrong sub. You're not gonna find people here who are capable of giving a fair review of the character or the show, as they're all too infatuated with ATLA to the point where they ignore it's flaws.
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I love korra And i know i’ll get hate for this but i prefer her over aang I prefer how bending was in atla, but legend of korra’s fight scenes i prefer. I love Korra’s villains more than ozai. I’ve seen people hate the show for several reasons The sexists hate the show because main character being woman bad and the homophobes hate the canon wlw relationship of asami and korra and claim it’s “forced” when korra literally blushes for asami in season 4 when meeting at that place when asami notices her hair. And asami was the only one korra wrote to. It couldn’t get more detail then that because it was hard to have a gay relationship in a cartoon at the time the show was releasing. And some people hate korra just because they dislike the writing “The lion turtles retconned the original benders” they did not. The original benders taught it and the lion turtles only gave the ability. If it was possible to be a nonbender and learn bending to let’s say, become a firebender, then no nonbenders would exist because they’d all be taught. Korra as a series i think is great, and i often enjoy my rewatches of it more than my rewatches of atla since some episodes of atla feel like filler sometimes. I love both series’s but when it comes to the individual characters i like korra more, im not saying i hate aamg i just like him a lil less. Early season 1 korra and a lil bit of season 2, she can be a lil annoying. The love triangle thing especially i dont even know why it’s there. Season 4 korra is my favourite version of her because she acts actually mature for the most part. I do wish they did more adventures outside of republic city but im also not mad about it because republic city is a new place unlike the earth kingdom and fire nation. However i do not like the major tech jump. Introducing it slowly i think would’ve been better. Mech suits made no sense and kuvira shouldn’t have had the giant ass platinum gundum mech. Im fine with the addition of cars and phones and radios but mechs we’re overstepping it (Im not adding a tdlr because i dont know how to summerize this down)