Fixing Legend of Korra 

I would say I would do most of the things that you changed, I would keep Soto alive and still have Asami being equalist too but a misguided one. Mostly things would play out the same except there would be a small scene of Lin Bafong Repairing her office and for a brief moment Metalbends a metal pen Indicating that Amon's bloodbending may not be permanent giving some hope to the people who lost their bending. Season 2 would probably be somewhat of the same but Warren Veddick would also be an antagonist along with Unalog. Unalog still wanting to open the Spirit world but not working with Vaatu but being used by him, convincing Korra that with his spiritual knowledge he could help her regain her her blocked bending. Veddick being a non Bender tries to take advantage of Republic cities non bending supremacy and convincing Asami to partner up with him In order to fight Unalog and gain profit. This would force team avatar to work together again In order to stop a war between the North and the South. The team would for the most part be divided. Korra still living on air temple island not being allowed in Republic city, Mako still joining the police force Still wanting to find the guy that killed his mother and bring him to Justice, Asami using her company to help rebuild Republic city the nonbenders still looking to her as a leader which leads to her being kind of a politician than just a company head, and Bolin trying to figure out what to do with his life now that all 3 of his friends and him are not together. He would go with Korra to the Winter Solstice this festival and still meeting Eska and actually put some real development into that relationship, because I feel both Bolin's Romances were too rushed. That's all I got for now. What do you think?Also do you think you'll make a part 2?

Sooo much better than what we got. I love that there is actual lasting consequence and open-endedness. Beifong not getting her bending back hits the most for me as it makes her sacrificial scene actually mean something and not empty like the show did as they easily just gifted it back to her. This just adds layers of complexity for all the characters (like imagine Beifong trying to teach Korra metal bending in the future even though she can no longer bend) I like that Korra doesn't get her bending completely back leaving motivation to see a continued arch of a story. The series was a total mess and got worse each season even though there were extremely interesting ideas and concepts like a villain airbender. I'm super interested to see where you take the other seasons with this narrative

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The entire rewrite is soo freakin’ awesome - it’s fixing almost all of the core issues and criticisms while elevating the story to the next level. However, I do think Asami is changed too much plus getting rid of her father entirely and the romance subplot as well even though they can be used to add in another element to the story that also elevates Bolin’s character too. Let me explain: I don’t want to sound too political but there is a deep lack of meaningful non-straight relationships and personally being gay and coming to terms with it has been a long journey for me. Just a few scenes of them cuddling together, living their moments of blissful joy would make the viewers feel that it is normal and Okay to do so. Also I have always felt like a few of the writers wanted that from the get go but Nick didn’t allow for it. By replacing the Mako, Bolin & Korra triangle romance subplot with Korra and Asami that confide in each other and Korra finds more about herself and love - which also makes the change about Asami cut even deeper. As a bonus Bolin hitting on Korra and finding out she’s gay is kinda hilarious (and sad) which further makes his moments with her in your rewrite feel even more emotional as even though he wanted to be involved romantically, he still maintains a badass friendship with Korra and wants that because he genuinely thinks Korra is an amazing person. I know this change might reflect him as the “friend zoned” friend archetype of character that settles even though that does not fit his character but I’m willing to make that change. Another change is to keep Asami’s father, and have her take Asami’s original role as a non-bender who supports the benders because most of his clientele are benders and it adds a layer to the reveal of Asami herself: that her father is the suspected Equalist supporter - which would fix the minor issue about how are the Equalists getting their cutting edge gear & tech without throwing suspicion on Asami herself. Also another minor change but a significant one, at least in my eyes, is having Asami’s rabbit tattoo not be a thing rather that in her fight against Korra on top of the pro-bending stadium have Korra cut her twice in the right arm, one alongside Asami’s muscular bicep and the other one on her forearm plus a minor burn on the forearm as well. Why? Well since I have already pitched my vote for the Korrasami relationship it would kinda make having a rabbit tattoo moot when they have a super intimate relationship (duh), not to mention it also adds to the fact that Korra is getting used to using her wits more often rather than relying on strength alone - in the reveal scene from the rewrite; Korra catches Asami when she notices that she has bandaged her arm after their short kiss and hug (or holding hands, the PG 13 version if you think kisses are too spicy for a younger audience) and notices that she also has another cut in the forearm, right where the right hand of Amon had, and the burn. She puts two and two together and forces Asami to reveal the truth. You know instead of just seeing a tattoo while unique, that can be a super rare coincidence that - well maybe is popular in the equalist circles. Besides that! Having Asami fight in the final confrontation alongside Amon, while he pins down Bolin & Korra while Asami handles the brooding guy, Mako, followed by the scene in the rewrite but instead of Korra surprising Amon with Airbending first - Asami wins her inner conflict and betrays Amon by shocking him, freeing Korra who then uses Airbending to surprise him even further, followed by the line in the rewrite and Korra/Asami double teaming against him. He still manages to subdue both of them - that’s when Korra gets through her inner struggle to resist Amon and win the fight against him. It makes her choice more significant in the moment and goes well with the love and friendship theme Avatar has. And that is not the last of it - one final change would be to have Korra instead be the one to choose not to stay in the council. She decides that she is not ready to accept that responsibility and Asami agrees with her, adding in that Asami herself would give the speech and steer the Equalists towards non-violence. This change would also give her father a smol arc of him seeing and accepting his daughter’s decision and to get a seat instead of Korra on the council to bridge the gap between the benders & non-benders. The final episode would end with Korra and Asami on a high place overlooking the city, where they both try to rekindle their relationship. There is a loss of trust that Korra is still super mad about but when Asami holds Korra’s hand in hers, it makes Korra open up a bit to become vulnerable again. To give a second chance, to come to terms with both their betrayals and how much they hurt each other while trying to do the right thing. It is in this moment when Korra also connects with the avatar state again - having the vision of Aang. Asami is worried about Korra after seeing that she spaced out with bright white eyes. Korra reassures her that everything is okay and that Aang came to her in a vision, and that she might be able to fulfil her duties as an Avatar and possibly get her powers back. So they both alongside Mako & Bolin, journey across all the nations as the previous Avatars and their friends had. I know this is kinda a copium edit but I really love both my gals so much and having Korra be the one to choose aligns with the Air bending philosophy of free will. She has been trained by others, told that she is the avatar and she has duties by other people - but now she chooses this for herself. It also fits in nicely with Tenzin realising the same thing while training her as mentioned in the rewrite. To be able to embrace that side of her and to grow, it makes Korra feel even more grounded. Pun intended. (Since you know, no powers n all.) Thank you Tim for showing so much love and care to LoK, a show despite being so flawed and glaringly so - is soo near and dear to my heart.

A "will they, won't they?" element should remain. It's almost like a mystery, it draws viewers a lot easier.

I 100% agree with you on this I feel like the love triangle would have been fine if they focused on the characters first and actually showed them becoming friends then they could've done stuff with relationships.

That and Korra betrays her relationship but without consequences it makes her less likeable. Ang would never have done something like that. Having the Hero be morally questionable only works if they have consequences, otherwise they are just an arsehole. Was my biggest turn off of Korra, the lack of consequences everywhere. No damage is permanent and growth is superficial unlike Last Airbender.

Not going into full on traditional romances made sense when they were yknow, 12. But they wanted to do an older more matured show, and given their increased age I would have also been okay if they gave like... hints of a potential triangle to make us go "oh no not that shit" but then just resolved it by having her not ignore how great of a date it was with Bolin and building it from there. They also did the setup beforehand with her personality type being earth, with her hardest element to master being air. I would have enjoyed a dynamic of him rescuing Ginger in the movers but getting into an arc where he's the damsel in distress out in the world. Would have been nice for a strong female protag having a supportive no nonsense drama stable relationship through the whole show. subplot arcs about healthily building it maybe.

My big problem is the dishonesty. The avatar doesn't need to be perfect but if they aren't honest and betray the people closest to them, at any age, it shows they aren't a good person, and if there is no consequence why am I backing the Hero, especially when the Villian is fighting for Equality? The Hero a dishonest betrayer and the Villain a champion of the people? You could make it work, but Korra just didnt.

Tbh I don’t like them as people either after the travesty that was Book 1.

What do you mean doesn't care? You literally just acknowledged how it affected her life.

@@vetarlittorf1807 I mean no one questions it or even points out that her case is unusual, when its the first thing the monks discuss about Aang. They mention the consequences, but never discuss the cause. And the cause could be as simple as "yeah it's pretty rare but some Avatars just do this".

@@alessandro348 They don't need to. The point is that we're SHOWN the consequences.

Tbh it never made any sense to me and I thought it was an unnecessary addition without a viable explanation. Her pride and attitude only made it worse and I found it hard to empathize with her till Amon almost took her bending on Avatar Aang Island

@@vetarlittorf1807 Yes they do, I'm not sure what point you think you're making. "Hey why was Aang told he was the Avatar at 11 when that's supposed to happen at 16?" "No reason, the point is that he was told, scaring him into running away" The point is that a massive invasion was threatening to wipe out his people and they wanted to use him as a living weapon. It's important, necessary context. Korra's equivalent is "she just started bending really early", which is fine, but no one even stops and goes "yeah kinda weird, typically we tell them way later". It's very underdeveloped. We're never SHOWN the Red Lotus attack, and basically have to extrapolate off Korra being a lonely bubble child with no South Pole friends or grasp of money.

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​@@starrysoupwell his webs disolve after some time. Im not sure what he can do with Rhino charging trough or with half the villains having some super power to destroy things.

She wouldn't do that tho cuz she's a dumbass

I was disappointed that she got her bending back so fast, she didnt really get humbled and learn to solve issues without brute force through bending

​@@julie-18 hell it doesn't even nescasarily have to be for that long, even just a handful of full episodes to deal with it would do wonderfully

​@@Sarah12471 I think, that's when the problems with Nick only greenlighting one season kicked in. It sucks and it could've still been handled better, but they probably didn't want the potentially only season of Korra to end on such a downer.

@@LlartyVoz yea sucks

No trickity trick.

Damn. Good observation. Also a little ironic when I think that the reason Toph metalbends for the first time is because her situation requires her to find an alternative way - a way she is specifically suited to because her blindness forces her to think past surfaces, even though she’d rather not.

@@muddlewait8844 I respectfully disagree with you Toph was still trying to push through using brute force but her style of brute force isn't as straight forward as others that combined with her having no other option which was the small push she needed to do this.

@@muddlewait8844 She is also stubborn enough to not accept "metal cannot be bent", so then she tries and eventually succeeds, which is prime earthbender philosophy.

True.

@@Isabellies94 Agreed. Although I myself enjoyed how different probending was to traditional, i still found it quite disjointed storywise, and this would blend the two worlds together perfectly while elevating Korra’s arc with it.

You can only do so much in a single season. But you could seed ideas of it in season one and then really delve into in an alternate version of season 2 which is already more spirit heavy.

How can people still make the pro bending = MMA comparison and then proceed in saying that the traditional elements of bending are completely missing? The first clip in his video where pro bending is shown, has several typically traditional movements in it where the movements even are used properly translated from their original Kung Fu inspirations to bending. Just because they show shorter and faster punches people tend to falsely only associate with modern combat sports, that does not make them less traditional. Hung Gar alone has a vast variety of different types of punches with varying distances, higher or lower stances, more or less energy put behind them etc. and meanwhile people have only a few in their mind when thinking of supposedly traditional earthbending in the shows.

@@Thareldis While the comparison isn't solid, it still stands in universe. The characters move and fight differently. Bending has changed. And that was true in ATLA too as we there's easy to miss moments in characters by their bending; Zuko does a move that resembles water bending. Katara does one the resembles earth bending. We see these characters that are constantly around other benders and learning about them develop movements we don't see in other benders. And since Republic city is a mixing pot, then it makes sense that bending continues to change in this way with people pulling from other bending philosophies or developing new ones entirely. So narratively, they could have explored that difference in modern progress vs tradition. That being said, I don't know if that would have made the show better. You try to stuff in too much stuff and then everything suffers from lack of screen time. It is an interesting idea, but would it have been more interesting than giving more time to Korra being a nonbender or showing the tension between benders and nonbenders or in fleshing out the main characters? Probably not.

I'm not sure pro-bending can be considered an analogy for MMA? Bending has always had a combat focus in this series, unlike traditional martial arts, hence why combat oriented martial arts outperform them at every turn. Bending has changed, but not to that degree. Pro-bending seems to me like urban bending, the forms and techniques you'd use in enclosed spaces, or where you can't have collateral damage. Choosing either traditional bending or pro-bending seems foolish, then. The two styles have their own strengths and weaknesses, and should be used in the proper environmental contexts.

What's funny is korra is more spoiled than asami

While Korra and Asami do have somewhat similar backgrounds as daughters of powerful men in high positions , the context is different. Korra was the daughter of the Water Tribe Chief but her environment was still the icy northern lands of the Water Tribe. As a Bender, Waterbender, and the Avatar, she would've been expected to use her abilities and skill to help with the Water Tribe's survival, maintenance, and protection from a young age. She was no princess chilling in an igloo while the other people in her Water Tribe worked outside in the cold. Meanwhile, Asami is the daughter of a wealthy industrialist and so she never had to do hard physical or Bending labor. All her needs and wants could be met by her servants and the city. Not to say that Asami doesn't do her own thing and all but she's not working in a factory or anything like that. I think it's that difference in context of their similar backgrounds and that perception that led to Korr initially disliking Asami and figuring her to be this prissy princess. Similar backgrounds but different contexts and environments.

To me, it made sense for her not to like Asami in the beginning. Korra has shown many times not to be a girly girl, not to care much about her looks and to have more masculine energy. Even though Asami has the same qualities as Korra, I believe all Korra saw, in the beginning, was a beautiful rich girl with flawless hair and makeup who knows how to win a guy's heart, so she just assumed Asami's personality based on her looks and background(and her jealousy of course). At least that's how I interpreted it, of course, it can be viewed in many different ways.

Her father was not chief, Unalaq was chief for both tribes, he only represented him, but was an exiled member of the northern tribe, there was no chief in the southern tribe...Korra was raised stuck inside that fortification, away from the world but she did not had the luxuxy Asami had growing up, she was also very naive and tomboyish, while Asami was feminine, polished, a little vain and grew up having everything a rich person has...

I hate the fact that the past lives were destroyed. The writers made an essintal part of avatar just gone in favor of a “new generation” what they failed to realize is that the past lives never had a influence on the new generation meaning the new generation can happen and it’s up to the current avatar to decide whether he wanted to use the past avatars or not. It’s like a weapon of books that the avatar can use and obtain knowledge from and it didn’t need to get destroyed for proving a point of moving on. The writers failed this part of avatar.

What? She literally losses and gets her ass beat way too much in the show, wayyyy too much.

probably because she is always up against final boss level villains every books. Complaining that she gets her beaten way too much is like complaining minecraft players getting wrekt in dark soul.

​@purplelionpoliticsandhisto5025 Well yeah and it feels contrived how she keeps coming out on top.

@@purplelionpoliticsandhisto5025I think what he meant was that she always seems to find strength to find these god level threats again and again when it would feel much more realistic if it had been more contained on one single villain and not a pantheon of them. It makes Kora feel inhuman to be able to power through all that. A single villain would make Kora feel more more tangible as a person to look up to.

And they should have saved Satan Kite for last

We are shown how that affected her. It deprived her of all sense of spirituality, frustrated her to no end which made her short-tempered and aggressive and made her overly attached to her status as the Avatar.

@@vetarlittorf1807 We did see the ‘after’ but not really the ‘how’ before it. Yes, she became violent due to this, but _how_ exactly? That’s probably what OP wants from the story. Edit: by this, I mean we can have more concrete examples instead of leaving it all for interpretation, because not everyone can catch on to the implications. And seeing as Korra is portrayed to already be quite the temperamental before even being trained by these people, people might just chalk it up to it being who she is rather than who she became after being isolated.

@@vetarlittorf1807 Not to mention the fact that she didn’t even know how to approach a relationship hence Mako

Boy this is so true I feel like a person who's grown isolated and brainwashed all of their life into believing that they are the chosen one and they deserve a full training academy all to them and a bodyguard corp worthy of presidents and an education and all their needs attended would cause a bit of a disconnect between the individual and reality. That would be interested an avatar who can't relate to basically anyone but the richest of rich people because of that over privileged upbringing. Not even Aang had that

@@thecod2345 that person is always around to argue against any korra criticism with no nuance tbh. they live to "no, actually" everything someone has to say about korra. even if the criticism is valid

i've said this a million times OnG

Especially since Korra comes after Aang, and might equate Equalists to the old Fire Nation when in reality they are just normal people with genuine concerns.

I don't know what you mean by Aang not being perfect for his time period. He was a pacifist yes but have you seen the show? He wasn't afraid of hurting people or getting shit done he just didn't like killing, which is a big difference. The world honestly almost couldn't have had a better avatar than Aang. He was kind, resourceful, a bending prodigy, courageous, generous, and most importantly wouldn't bend his ideals for the situation. Sure without Deus ex Lion turtle he would've been in a pinch, but honestly not killing Ozai proved to be best solution. It avoids making Ozai a pariah, proves a good example for others who might try and throw the balance of the world, and shows the world that violence isn't always the answer. Which after a hundred years of war the world really needed

Or the world could be in relative peace, and the whole show could have been about winning the pro-bending championship

That is true

you people need to realise that TLOK is not a sequel to A:TLA. it's it's own freestanding story with it's own Avatar. You wanna see how the world was after A:TLA? read a comic

@@user-mf5kn8bn9hIt is a sequel to ATLA. Not a direct follow-up but it’s not some spin-off. It’s a shared world and Korra demonstrated very poor world building and interconnectivity between the shows, which is nonsensical given the impact TLA’s characters had on the world.

@@user-mf5kn8bn9hLegend of Korra IS a sequel tho??

I think the problem with "how rarely minorities are mentioned in them" is that they're rarely those generals and leaders of note. Which is incredibly common in empires as well where one ethnic group leads the society. The hard truth is that they're rarely ever at the level of making such large changes. Frederick Douglas is such a relevant figure in the anti-slavery movement because he was one of those rare black leaders. Though you didn't see congress have a significant black population at all during that period. And that's a relatively high level of society who still don't often get mentioned since they're simply not that relevant to the conflict as an individual and only relevant as "congress" or "the radical Republicans" Not to mention how most states historically are largely ethnically singular, thus minorities not even being present.

I like the minimal use of atla characters early on. It needed to be made clear that korra is her own unique avatar and while yes she can rely on aang as a mentor as he did with Roku. And it’s not like the show just ignores how important aang and the people around him were as there are statues of them everywhere. Not just aang but we see statues of toph and zuko showing yeah these people at clearly being shown as the founders and legacy of republic city . So it’s already subtly implied that just like the founding fathers in America aang and the rest of team avatar have been mythologized over the years, but I like it never gets directly brought up and its only ever just hinted at.

See this wouldn't be a problem if the entire equalist movement was removed in favour of a story more focused around pro-bending

I agree because Amon was easily one of her best villains and they didn't do that arc justice to show how much of a threat he is

@@theoutsiderjess4869 For me, one of the biggest problems was the twist that they decided to make Amon a bloodbender and decided that exposing him as a bloodbender would be enough to end the equalist movement. Amon should not have been a bloodbender; it undermines almost everything about his character. I would've kept him as a non-bender. If the show really needed him to be Tarrlok's brother, I would've written it that Tarrlok was the prodigy their father wanted, while Amon, being a non-bender, was seen by Yakone as useless and discarded. He was left to fend for himself until he was found by a family that was part of the non-bending underclass, they then gave him the name Amon, and he saw the plight of non-benders in their society. Eventually, while seeking to learn how the Avatar took away his birth-father's bending, he met an ancient spirit with a grudge against the Avatar, and this spirit taught him energybending. Learning that there was a time before the avatar and a time before people bent the elements was the last straw that pushed him to resolve to destroy bending society.

@@matthewmuir8884 this is an awesome idea! And it could easily be told via flashback the way his current backstory was. The scene would have to be a bit longer to convey the information, but it doesn't have to be super detailed. For example, it would only take one or two shots to establish his father's favouritism by showing an expression of resentment as his brother is taught bloodbending in the background. Edit: I just rewatched the scene and it's a lot longer than I remembered and is also narrated, so you wouldn't even have to extend it. Did put it in fast forward so I could come back and edit this lol.

@@jessicabrauman Thanks. Yeah; the one problem I can see would be that the flashback in the show is given by Tarrlok, so he would have to somehow know about the bits of Amon's backstory that take place after Amon left.

Wut? Every single Villain had a symphatetic, if flawed motive. Is not Korras writing team the same as the team that wrote Zukos arc anyways?

Yeah that's a dumbass take right there. ALL of Korra's villains are WAY more sympathetic and complex than all of ATLA villains with the exception for Zuko.

What? The villains of Korra were the strongest part about that show.

Even better than a sympathetic villain, there could have been a rival on a powerful opposing team of pro-benders that the fire ferrets would have to overcome in order to win the pro-bending championship

@@Matkatamiba They were strawmen of ideaologies the writers didn't understand.

Honestly with the Bolin stuff; in this rewrite; he almost feels like a surrogate older brother for Korra, there to help her along her journey...

@@tophatsurgeon7469 Oh good point, and I think you're right. I do like that aspect of it.

ONE love triangle can be tolerable, at the start with the two brothers and Korra. But then it happened again, and again, and again.... bruh the last minute shipping of Korra and Asami literally came out of nowhere as there was literally no romantic build up or the slightest hint that these people weren't 100% straight. All we see is them having a girl's day out and writing letters when Korra is sick and away without the slightest hint that it was beyond platonic.

@@thecod2345 nah, amon arc wouldnt have sense with your logic.

Very well said. I have seen The Legend of Korra get a lot of hate more than it deserves, and some that is a little justified. Nonetheless I have seen a lot of people on RU-vid hate on Legend of Korra. While I am not the biggest fan of these type of videos involving rewrites on shows but this was pretty good and well handled without feeling too "fan-fiction-y".

Agreed, nerve chilling

Does he need to begin a good video with low-key-cringey claims? No, Korra was not Good. Just like the Life-Action-Movie, hour-long Essays are made about it being laughably bad.

@@slevinchannel7589 there are hour long essays about anything being laughably bad, those essays itself are nearly always laughably bad themselves. I do not agree with what he said at the begining but to saying Korra is awful is bullshit, it's a 6/10

@@coca_0146 nah korras awful people are treating it like the star wars prequels by getting tunnel-visioned with clips and contrarian essays on the interesting ideas that dont get justice

@@slevinchannel7589 if you’re referring to “the legend of Korra is garbage and here’s why” and other essays like that, they do an insanely bad job at reviewing the show and there are plenty of counter video essays that show how invalid a lot of their criticism is. The show isn’t perfect but it has a lot of value, you should respect people’s opinion if they tell you they enjoyed the show even if you didn’t.

i, agree. i would've like it more if the writers would write about the brothers' little flashback just like the original avatar; where some characters would have flashbacks and we get to understand with them.

I don't like the concept of either vaatu or Dark Avatar.

I think the Dark Avatar concept would have been a great final season, but they kind ruined it

I think "Dark avatar" better keep for another avatar, an avatar that just too determine with order and start to suppress another, avatar series and spirit should be grey instead of good vs bad like nowadays, like the original story, spirit and avatar isn't just bad or good

In my opinion, it would be interesting if the Dark Avatar was a member of the Red Lotus (I know that Unalaq was one, but he left it for his own ambitions). The theme of anarchism suits Dark Avatar very well, as Vaatu is the spirit of chaos.

That's interesting. I liked that season the most. And I loved the idea of a dark avatar

Bolin is the Sokka of the group. the heart and soul.

@@dagan2000 He’s not that guy pal 😂😂

@@dco7710 in this re-write he is though

This was my best part he fixed. I love Bolin. The potential he had.

@@dagan2000 except sokka is also the brains of team avatar's entire operation, a tactical genius, boomerang bender extraordinaire, meat connoisseur, cactus juice enjoyer, and the most chad fucking southern water triber to walk the earth.

Not even close

@@joecooper8527 It's pretty close. It's a good start, but it only addresses some elements of the story.

That would imply some actually relevant and informed political takes from the writers hahaha

@@lostvarius We've got authoritarian bad, anarchy bad, revolution bad, and uh status quo kinda not the best?

Nah. If you make them 100% correct they cease to be villains. They all had a point. But it's VERY important for the sake of conflict that they were radicalized and they took things too far. Arcane is widely considered the best piece of animation of 2021. Are you gonna argue that the opposing characters are just 100% correct? Whether you consider the real villain to be Silco or the Piltover council, or both, they're still both radicalized people who fight for something they genuinely believe in. Same could be said for Amon, Tarlokk, Zaheer, Kuvira, to an extend even Unalaq.

I don’t see how Korra discovering air bending the way she did is strong. She discovered it only though necessity but that isn’t how airbending works. It should’ve had something to do with letting go or going with the flow

​@@umwhathat's one classical way to learn Airbending. I always liked that there were different forms of the same bending, but for obvious reasons we never really see more than traditional Airbending. Korra's Airbending for the rest of the series would always feel almost like firebending: fierce and precise, used in an aggressive form to push back, rather than as an evasive measure. I always thought it would have been interesting to delve more into that "style of Airbending" somehow. Maybe through old air temple scrolls?

@@raze2012_ I see what your trying to get at - but the show didnt even do that. Like yeah, what if there was a dissident Airbending style called 'Storm style' or 'Tempest style' that is an expression of chaos, that the Air Monks tried to suppress, and Korra rediscovers it. Maybe the storm style would actually allow Airbenders to brew lightning, and so it was deemed too dangerous. But no , theres no secret airbending style , Korra just tried really hard and deus ex airbending kicked in for the plot.

@@raze2012_ but we never see that brought up again ever in the series? the whole point of the entire season was that she couldn't airbend because the way airbenders are is so counter to her upbringing. humble, free, and always changing things up to find that trickity trick to win, vs korra, who was brought up full of herself, with no freedom at all, and solving every problem with a punch. the show even has a beautiful scene where she learns to move like the leaf in probending, showing that it's *not* that traditional airbending is wrong, it's korra, AND that korra can learn. and then that just gets dropped, and she learns to... airbend with a punch. there's no connection in that scene to how airbending works at all, the same way bolin lavabends. he's at his lowest point, and suddenly it just works for no reason. compare that with toph's metalbending, where we understand immediately exactly why metalbending exists, and why toph is able to do it. they did it with the be the leaf scene- they could've done it with korra actually unlocking airbending too.

i second that!

Here, here

I also want this.

Seconded!

Maybe not season three, as that was the closest to perfect, but definitely seasons 2 and 4. I enjoyed then but there's a lot more room for improvement that would make for an interesting video.

I think the reason the show stayed in Republic City as much as it did is mostly budget. the crew has talked about ATLA being the travel show it was was expensive and harder to plan because they were constantly making new locations and characters.

It would have been really nice if Korra had spent more time outside Republic City in the show to check on how the rest of the world had changed since the Hundred Years War. I always found it very annoying that we saw so little of the rest of the world. We don't even see anything from the Fire Nation or how they have changed. So I definitely like this rewrite where Korra has to leave and go on a journey to reawaken her abilities and understand a world that is learning to function without the Avatar.

I love this comment. I've been trying to figure out why I didn't like LOK as much as ATLA. I knew because of the budget, the story seemed rush. But I didn't realize till now that the lack of travel and exploration really impacted the way the show was portrayed as well. Hopefully the next Avatar series can meet these certain aspects that made ATLA top tier

Personally I couldn't get enough of the aesthetic of Republic City, but with so much potential in this world, I agree.

Which Volume 3 did actually do atleast, take the show outside of Republic city

Is your story posted anywhere yet?

@@angelharper2176 No, it's sort of an on-again-off-again project

I love the second paragraph, and even though it doesn't focus on ATLA or TLoK, Pop Culture Detective has a great video called 'The Hidden Politics of Marvel Movies: Defenders of The Status Quo' that focuses on the same issue. I feel that in most fantasy settings there's no line between stability and consant conservatism and your approach would go a long way to remedy that.

oh i LOVE this !! if you ever decide to post the rewrite anywhere, i’d love to read it. it sounds incredible, at least on a thematic level

But how does it end? Does korra stage a coup against tarlok? What happens to amon afterwards? He did commit crimes, so does he get jailed? What about the blood bending issue? I really like your take on the plot, but the resolution needs working on. But tbf, the show s resolution with the dual unliving of the brothers was garbage.

Agreed. In the post-ATLA comics, there’s some political turmoil with benders and non-benders turning against each other, and Sokka is like “hey, the non-benders aren’t wrong here.” Having him back to weigh in on this would’ve been perfect. But also, LOK doesn’t have him except in flashbacks, and I will die mad about that.

@@catdragon2584 there theory (I am not sure if it’s theory or confirmed) that he died while defending korra from red lotus and I think it could have been interesting if mistreatment of non bender that was existing prior to his death really became problem after he died, it could also be fun if he had the idea for democracy in universe to solve the problem of the United republic but it was one step to far for the high class of republic city and no matter how much he tried he couldn’t pass it

I feel like if they were to bring him back, it would have to be in a big role. Sokka's THE guy to turn to about non-bending/bending inequality since he had a major story in the comics relating to that; if he was alive in Korra in a minor role, I'd be asking the question of 'why isn't he taking charge of this'? Sokka helped save the world and built republic city, he would've been not only trusted but a role model to non-benders everywhere. So, Sokka being dead in this timeline is the best outcome since this is a new generation with new leads- too much involvement from the old characters would cheapen that- and his role would have to be big otherwise there would be a plot hole But yeah I would've enjoyed some more flashbacks with him involved, or more mention of him being a hero to non-benders

@@catdragon2584 I don’t even know why they tried to force a whole “non benders are oppressed” conflict at all. It makes no sense

It would've made sense for her to travel and run into the turtle god like aang did and to end up getting some sort of bending back as some sort of reward for inadvertantly doing something it hadn't told her to do explicitly. But at the same time they already introduced the turtle god thing in the backstory so maybe they would've been too on the nose? I feel like it would've been cool if they brought that in story-wise later, AFTER she ran into the turtle maybe. Idk?

That would just make the series a retread of Aang

@@pn2294not necessarily. There’s always more to learn about the elements and it seemed clear that, despite knowing how to bend 3 of them, she didn’t seem to truly understand or respect them. They were just tools for fighting to her. It especially would’ve been a different journey and experience due to how different Korra is from Aang, the setting, and the characters. I would’ve loved to see her gain new appreciation and perspective of the elements as well as her spiritual journey with more of a relationship and bond with Aang.

you completely missed the point of the show

Reminds me of a quote really "It is not the the Masters that seek students, but it is those who seek the Masters" Not the actual quote mind you, but that's the gist of it

He did even though he was a hypocrite as well

That was an interesting line, though I think Amon would've been better if he wasn't lying; if he really was a non-bender that learned energy bending from an ancient spirit.

This is an unpopular opinion but I liked that he was a bender. I feel like that made his opinion and drive for the revolution even greater. Despite being a powerful bender himself, he still works towards abolishing bending. Him manipulating waterbending shows how versatile bending really is if you just get creative with it, and how brilliant Amon is to be able to create an intricate process to block a person’s bending. His plan wasn’t well thought-out, which I blame the writing more than anything, but it was a way to achieve his means without any bloodshed. And his use of bending was only ever for the purpose of the revolution, nothing more and nothing less, so personally I didn’t hate him for using bending to get rid of bending. If his plan were to just get rid of all bending so he could be the only bender, that would be shallow and icky. But if it were to abolish bending, and then block his own after the use was finished, then I think that is far more noble of him and more aligned with his character from what we’ve seen. And this is a completely personal opinion, but I’m not a fan of the whole “learned energy bending from an ancient spirit” thing, because to me that works far better as an equalist propaganda piece and feels kinda cliche, and I just think it is cooler to use bloodbending and maneuver it in a way that also fits in with the whole chi blocking aspect (which is the equalists’ go-to method of fighting)

@@vectorenigma7098 So... Amon's doing eugenics? Just hastened.

@@turkepic3637 I don’t think he is. Removing bending won’t make the child unable to inherit the trait. Amon of all people should know this as he is the child of a man who’d gotten his bending taken away. Like I said, faulty writing. Amon’s plan would’ve never worked as it was impossible (as far as we know) to stop giving birth to benders Edit: typo

Considering her visual as well as narrative design, the archetype of the well-intentioned-villain turned heroine really does feel like the part she was always meant to play. (Shameless advertisement for the incredible "Parts to Play" fanfiction over at AO3, which implements this character change in as canonic a way as possible.)

I remember a lot of people in the beginning wanted asami to be an equalist (or have something in her story be more related to them other than just her dad being one) I know that's been one of my headcanons for a long while too

I felt the same way, the only thing missing is a much tighter overall focus on pro-bending

Apparently, Asami being an equalist was the original plan for her character, but either Mike or Bryan (can't remember which one) ultimately decided against it.

@@Isewein *frantic bookmarking said fic and binges it*

Ikr he feels like an actual person now

My biggest problem with Mako is that for the first two seasons, he's just reduced to being Asami or Korra's boyfriend and isn't allowed to be a real person. They try to fix this in later seasons but by that point it's too late.

@@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 if he died destroying Kuvira's robot, at keast he would've done one interesting thing

@@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 but yeah, he never gets much to do

@@santiagogarza8121 Nope and he gets most of the blame for the love triangle which I feel is unfair.

That's the major issue of season 2. We get spirit vines they got to learn to live with beginning of season 3, but then we leave republic city asap. And don't get me started how they uno reversed a genocide! No you do not get to do that! Not without exploring the reconstructed nature of the air nomad culture way more then they did! Season 2 feels like nothing happened of consequence, no connection to season 1 or 3, like Mike and Bryan just wanted to forget that season even existed beside more airbenders to play with. to be fair most of the fan base want to forget it too :\ Season 3 & 4 are the best seasons when taken together because they narratively feel like they have some flow and time to breath though its clear they didn't fully narratively planned and explored different ideas.

Agreed. It was this huge thing that seemed to stem from tensions way older than republic city, maybe even older than the war. And then it just, never came up again?? Even when rebuilding the city? It took a massive movement just losing its leader to almost completely fizzle out? The only thing that changed was the council, but there was no analysis of the ripple effects of the movement, no discussion of how it impacted daily life in small ways, not just bureaucracy. In later seasons it’s like it never happened. Which could be read as the suppression of dissent by the state, but that’s my interpretation and the show itself was reasonable pro-cop and pro-state. Like this was a REVOLUTION, one that threatened a lot of the underlying stability of republic city. Bending was used in industry so large groups of people losing their bending and police brutality and corrupt govmt are all massive things that impact the fabric of the society, not to mention the collective trauma of it. I feel like it’s reasonable to say that a huge conflict in one season shouldn’t be able to just be written out in regards to its influence on the rest of the show.

As the comment thread right above this one says, the whole reveal of Amon being a bender just is a disappointment. It really feels like the writers couldn't address the nuanced position of bender vs non-bender. it really should have exploded in S2. I get it, they only had one season initally but it makes that even more obvious with such disconnect between major plot points.

It's because they solved it by electing non bender president that represents their voices, which is something they always wanted.

I know right? Like, if you were going to abandon the whole concept anyway, you should have just trashed the idea at the start and focus the show more about pro-bending

Idk for some reason IP on avatar just seems underfunded and underappreciated by the exec class

Agree to disagree. It was atla that got the ball rolling.

@@maYTeus if it really were underfunded and underdeveloped there wouldn't be Avatar Studios at all

@@LuisSierra42 Shows how much avatar studios is worth when they aren't even hinting at anything in production and when they sell adaptations rights to Netflix they let the creators leave. They already sold avatar to a movie production that has to be wiped from history. I feel like avatar could be on par with Star Wars but the intent is nowhere close.

The characters were pretty weak in Korra.

Her training could have made her a compelling surprise reveal when korra finds out she's been living a double life, secretly training with another pro-bending team. Imagine the reveal in the grand final when tge fire ferrets come up against the opposing team and korra realises her love interest had been a part of a rival pro-bending team

@@pandemisis3017 Exactly, and her joining Team Avatar would feel more validated by her slowly unlearning her equalist roots and learning to trust benders. and as an extension, the world. It would actually give her a more fulfilling arc instead of her being just another side character.

@@pandemisis3017 Wait why would Asami be on a pro bending team?

@@ReblazeGaming im confused by this too

I wished they didn’t change this, and maybe give her a redemption arc to be on the team later like with Zuko. To be honest I find “canon” Asami to be boring.

I didn't really like Bolin until Book 4. But once we were there, he was pretty awesome and I loved him.

@@4ncientGu150 same, Bolin really came into is own as "not a cheaper Sokka knock off" in the 4th season.

Not to mention that her re-unlocking her elements may be instead used as a ‘reward’ of sorts for her because it can be implied that her mastery of airbending equates to her mastery of the spiritual self, allowing her to finally commune with her past selves. So yeah, not only does it ground her in many different ways, she also gets to work for her powers in order to gain them back. Much MUCH better payoff. Sadly the time restraints to pull this off the best it could be really does hamper this sorta story telling.

She was about to kill herself on that cliff, if she didn't get the other elements back, it would be a short show.

this was one of the many unfortunate consequences of planning the first season to be a stand alone mini series. A lot of lok's problems could have been addressed had they had an actual direction planned for the entire series

@@JaydenDimaio so have her not want to kill herself, if were exercising rewriting the story

right? it makes both of them deeper characters, and their relationship has a lot more depth (and spice, lots of spice if your girlfriend kicked you out of her city before you started dating)

True true! If the rest of the books are executed this well, they will end up in a much more developed and natural romantic relationship by the end of the series

Stewart Howell There was no planned relationship. Non-canon. Lesson is shippers can’t read social cues. Non-canon.

Especially if at some point Korra had to find a way to balance her relationship with Asami, and her commitment to the fire ferrets and burning passion for pro bending

@@scottysbottom5769 it is tho it’s literally in the comics

Tenzin advising the reincarnation of his father was always weird to me 😬

This makes me wonder if Aang and Katara raised their kids to be aware of the fact that their dad would die and reincarnate as someone else to avoid this exactly. Especially Tenzin, since he would be the only one in the world able to train the next Avatar in airbending

that is a cool aspect they could have taken into consideration, and it could also tie back into tenzins lack of spirituality somehow, maybe as he comes to terms with the fact that korra is her own person and not just his father reincarnated, it could help him connect with the spirit world, to help korra reconnect with the avatar cycle and aang, maybe. idk good idea lots of potential.

With all of this in mind, do you have plans to rewrite the rest of the series? With the changes made to this season, I could imagine that keeping the major story beats in book two would be very difficult. Books three and four would be a bit easier, though depending on how you'd write book two, it could quickly become impossible. The major throughline in all four books in The Legend of Korra is of her grappling with her identity and becoming more spiritually minded. After the changes to book one, with her having already going through that initial period of self-discovery and accepting that she needs to build herself back up, I can't really imagine the scene of losing her past lives being as compelling now (especially since the book two finale was already not that compelling to begin with). Perhaps seeing Avatar Wan could be the ultimate place to learning how to regain her bending abilities rather than that amnesia plot. Hm. Questions for later.

Funny enough; the original plan was to have Asami turn out to be an equalist, but either Mike or Bryan (can't remember which one) liked the character too much to write it.

It would have been better if Amon was some sort of corrupt official tampering with the pro-bending circuit, fixing matches and whatnot. Then Korra would have to find some way tp deal with him in order to have a fair shot at winning thw championship

thats just a consequence of the way it was planned/contracted, the first season was going to be the only season, and it kinda shows with the second season being much more inconsistent.

Same here! But at the same time that finale made me CRY lol

Yea. Amon had a lot of potential and the limited time ended up rushing his finale a bit.

samee

I couldn't disagree more. Legend of Korra is more compelling to me than ATLA, it just isn't as tight written as ATLA.

Disagree. More compelling but also more confusing

I just see Korra as wasted potential with an avatar who isn’t nearly as exciting to watch as Aang. She’s the failed successor and because of that fact, the series suffers for a very large audience

@@BoredOuttaMyMind I disagree, she is far more exciting and compelling than Aang and has a more meaningful arc. She isn’t a failure by any means

@@Unison23 We’ll agree to disagree, then

I always though it was funny how they decided to give that arc for her during S4, since season 1 seems to fir so much more with herself at that point and what is going on.

@@adv78 Eyy I also thought the same thing! I have a feeling they wanted to bring this arc earlier rather than in season 4 but unable to do so due to production issue/beef with nick

I just didn't like how she just kind "Got it" after she lost all her other options, I mean if it was after loosing her other bending and she was forced to train to become better with air-bending, forcing her learn the spiritual side of the art then I'd be okay with it but she doesn't she just gets it and never struggles with it again

@@jimvoozhenzhan8435 True. It's like with too many other things, "soon as she gets it, she gets it all the way"

Also one personal fix would be to cut even the later “love triangle” (Mako, Korra, Asamj) by setting up the idea that Asami (keeping her as an equalist) has a thing for Korra as a person and struggles with her role as the avatar because of how benders act and the undeserved worship for the avatar as the master of bending. Then you could have Asami be someone who helps Korra see that she is more than just the avatar and her nonbender traits are what make her someone Asami thinks could actually help. This not only would set the ground work for their relationship later on (at the expense of the annoying Mako drama) but also would make there be a shift where Korra puts in more hard work in the mental and spiritual aspects of her role as the avatar than in her bending. This will mark the start of the more spiritual shift in later arcs (if we have to keep those overall arcs the same).

@@XOISHTAR That's would have been an amazing concept for Asami amd Korra's relationship. I love it

I agree korea had so much potential but k pop ruined it

@@hannastewart1051 plus it opens up Mako for actual development as his own character rather than becoming the toxic boy they both like at first… you could focus on his progress as Bai Fong’s chosen heir for the police force, and likely create a bigger impact of season four’s main conflict. All while allowing them to build an actual relationship we get to see between Korra and Asami instead of just kinda dropping it in at the end after only lightly touching on them getting closer.

@@theninjabird9510 thank you!!! Autocorrect really like to keep changing names on me… I thought I had caught it the first go around.

What (as I understand it) was narratively intended (even if it wasn't narratively executed) was that all the young protagonists define themselves by a role that doesn't really fit or always work. Because he essentially raised Bolin while trying to shield him from the worst parts of their lives, Mako defines himself completely on protecting and providing for his brother who...doesn't really seem to need him anymore. Bolin couldn't really help much, but he could always make his big brother smile (or at least relax) by being happy. Only now that things are finally going well that doesn't seem to help anymore. Mako doesn't resent his little brother's independence, but now that it's arrived he's kinda lost.

This would particularly work, as the comics try to start the bender/non-bender tension soon after the 100-year war

I agree

yeah that's kinda some nonsense. Spirit Bending was established to be something only a few people could do, so giving Blood Bending a similar utility just ruins that idea. Why learn to Spirit Bend when all you gotta do is be a morally ambiguous Water Bender?

@@Stephetheon and extremely gifted, if you wanna do it more than once every month

@@Stephetheon Yeah and blood bending was shown to be evil enough for its own sake, it doesn't need an extra even more evil ability behind it, it just loses some of the original threat as a result of the power creep

Or they could have had blood bending only block bending temporarily or until a chi blocker hits the right spots to unblock it. Having it be "spirit bending, but bad and no large character struggle" is odd

All Korra villains get crazy nonsensical power buffs that make it impossible for her to defeat them directly for no particularly good reason. The show asks you to embrace that; I have trouble doing so, and that affects the quality of the show for me. The whole show - especially the camera - just revels in watching Korra get beat up, suffer, then get saved and win by contrivance rather than by any decision she made or insight she had. I just do not get how people can watch this and find it inspiring. It’s a beautiful show, it sounds great, full of all kinds neat ideas and aesthetic appeal. But it just revels in pain, waves away the cause at the end of each season, and leaves Korra even more broken.

It's a great set up for season 2, actually, with harmonic convergence and the origin of the avatar and bending as we know it. makes it feel less cheap imo.

And the Lieutenant had such a cool style without really having importance. This gives Asami more presence in the minds of viewers as a serious opponent while giving her a more memorable fighting style

It would also add even more drama and tension if the show was based primarily around pro-bending, so korra would have to face the possibility that she might have to leave the fire ferrets.

This is exactly what I had thought. The harmonic convergence would have been the perfect opportunity to give her powers back, when she had restarted the avatar cycle.

Honestly that sounds cool, Korra loses her bending and is stuck with only one or two elements then the next season is Korra getting the flashback of the first avatar. So they go on a journey to find the lion turtles in hopes of getting her bending back

I think Korra had a major issue with lack of real consequences, so I definitely agree

@@thalmoragent9344 They tried to add consequences in season 4 from 3, which was the PTSD, but it felt rushed and not finished. Not only she proved before that losing didnt bother her that much but she got beter faster and a bit out of no where.

Even though the rewrite is amazing, I still like the shows first season. There were a lot of flaws that this rewrite addressed, but I still liked it. I want to see him rewrite the TRULY shit season now. *Sadistic Grin*

ew

@@ineednochannelyoutube2651 that would be Game of Thrones S8 kek

@@GustavoIto What GoT season 8? The series ended at 6!

And of course, the video is titled “Fixing the Worst Season of LoK” xD

What's funny is that the show showed us the opposite. The richest guy in the city is a non bender all the criminals besides the equalists are benders, implying that most poor people are benders too.

Yeah if the antagonist has an actual valid point, making them all evil is cheap and lazy writing to justify beating them down and their progress to achieve their goal. It’s actually a very dangerous thing to portray since it’s assuming that it doesn’t matter how important a movement or it’s valid points are, if its leader(s) are baby eating cultists than we should just completely dismantle and shut down that movement

@@Frazier16 yeah that really needs to be flipped if they really want to show us this is an issue. Korra needs a moment where she actually talks to an equalist. You show the power plant with the lightning benders. Show an equalist tell korra he was laid off from that job because a fire bender could do his same job more efficiently for the same amount of money. have him explain how amon gave him purpose when him n his family were down on their luck. this could be a scene where they capture an equalist or she ends up talking to people in disguise at one of her rallies.

That's because there was no systemic oppression of non-benders, that was just all a lie created by Amon, the re-write seems to not understand this. Amon had no valid point nor did his movement independent of him. The show openly shows us with the main characters, Mako, Bolin, and Asami that Amon's movement is a lie. They're not just exceptions either there are plenty of other examples. Bender could not take over the jobs of non-benders because benders are by far the minority, also the advancing technology has done nothing but make life better and easier for non-benders

@@The1Ryu yeah but the show never said that. No where in the show is it said that amon was lying. Plus if he was lying why did so many non benders agree with him? If there was no problem then there would be no equalist

i also want to see a season 2 fix, itd be interesting to see how hed pull together that mess

Assuming we pick up from where he left off, it's primed for season 2. She'd naturally be back home and exploring the first avatar's origins as well as learning more about the spirits makes a lot of sense. She'll feel like an outsider in her own home both cuz avatar and only air bending surrounded by water benders. And katara pointing her towards the lion turtles for guidance and thus learning about the first avatar from them would be logical since she no doubt knows Aang learned about spirit bending from them.

He needs to!!@

Good points! The more I look at this show the more shit-tier world building stands out. The writers wanted to talk about politics without first understanding any level of society, philosophy, history, or even questioning the status quo.

I mean, just because it doesn't translate good into reality doesn't mean such discrimination based on pure chance wouldn't be possible or even unrealistic. You even have a real life example of just that. Inherited wealth? Well historically, who was able, due to pure luck of genetics, to inherit wealth? Of course discrimination of non benders wouldn't translate 100% into sex based discrimination but the fictional world of Korra doesn't work like real life. But I have no trouble imagining it. And just like everyone having a mother doesn't stop sexism, benders having non bending relatives would probably not stop it.

@@messymessr Saying it's "shit-tier" is way further than I would go. I genuinely love the show and feel the worldbuilding and writing is quite good for the most part. I'm just saying that there could have been better ways to tell a story about classism than using bending for the allegory. If they did want to use bending as part of a discrimination allegory, a story about ableism could have been interesting and might have fit the worldbuilding a bit better.

Agree. I think both series does a great job showcasing non-benders in positions of power across all the nations. The there is no correlation between bending and social class as simply having the ability to bend doesn't necessarily make you good at it or provide any monetary benefit.

Not to mention how gangs and organized crime usually arise out of disenfranchisement or hardship. Having benders be the ones with systemic power, and then forming gangs rather than just abusing their relative power within society just...doesn't make a lot of sense. Plus the destitute levels of poverty of the brothers at the start of the series shows that in the society being a bender does not directly equate to getting out of poverty which also undermines the idea of treating bending directly as a class in this way. Idk, it all gets a lot messy if you look at it for more than a moment. I think the problem is that they decided rather late in the process to treat bending vs non-bending as a class issue within the world, rather than either extrapolating what a stratified society would look like in a bending world or thinking about the consistency and implications of posing bending as an empowered class. Either way could have worked, but they didn't really do either, so it comes a part at the seams

That could be cool, especially if they stuck with her losing that connection in season 2, and then she regains her powers to fight vaatu

I think that would have received too much fan backlash for it to feasibly be done. I think that having a season dedicated to Korra regaining the ability to bend all four elements would have been good though. Maybe even one where she learned to energy bend on such a level that she could undo whatever Amon did with his bloodbending, it could have even involved her seeking out the last lion turtle to be given instruction in energy bending.

Yeah, but do you remember what he said in the beginning of the video? They thought that this was only season that would exist, so he write it with this in mind. This being the only season, he is kinda purposefully making it not fit the future arcs you mentioned

I was thinking something along the same lines! I've always been invested in Jinora. Like, when Tim mentions that both Jinora and Korra sneak out to the Pro Bending show, I loved that and wish it were expanded upon a little like this. I feel like they could have had an interesting earlier-show arc where she just wants to be a little more free, incidentally acting a little more like Aang, while Tenzin continues his strict ways with her and he could see a sort of parallel between his free-spirited daughter and teaching Korra. Katara could make a couple of comments on how much her granddaughter feels like Aang, yadda yadda

Very true. I really like Jinora too and considering the season was the book of air, it really lacked a bit more emphasis on the element as a whole. Considering how spiritual air bending culture is, there could’ve been a natural evolution into the next season’s spirit focus. Have her continue to learn her better at air bending, learn about the spirit world, connect with Aang and the other past avatars, meet Iroh too, and all on top of regaining her ability to bend the other elements with a new appreciation and understanding of them.

Ditto@@BuddyChy

Jinora, Ikki and Meelo had the combined personality of one person

@@tobitobi2493 How so?

Does he need to begin a good video with low-key-cringey claims? No, Korra was not Good. Just like the Life-Action-Movie, hour-long Essays are made about it being laughably bad.

@@slevinchannel7589 There are only a handful of videos bashing Korra and they don't offer much insight. If Korra is so bad, then why is it so well acclaimed by fans, casual viewers and critics alike? Tim loves the show for a good reason, because it's an objectively well made and well written show. There are some hiccups, yes, but the good outweighs the bad. Then again, I guess that doesn't matter to whiners like you.

@@karimion2157 Buddy, you bring-up basically non-arguments, a lot of them, but can you prove it's not a dumbster-fire that is objectively much worse than most Shows, let alone the thing it meant to Copy?

The reason why the writers had to have Amon's ideology fail is because it wouldn't play out like this RU-vidr thinks it would. Even in this rewrite many Equalists wanted benders to lose their powers and believing that 2 minute speech will change this is deluded. If the Equalists win they will depower or expel the benders, not just agree to live alongside them because a non-bender might get elected. Especially when they objected to benders because they were competing against people who could use literal magic, something that wasn't addressed in this rewrite. Also if the Equalists won but were happy to live with benders then they won't object to Amon. Especially they don't know he's a bender or he's still able to remove the bending of benders.

@@slevinchannel7589 Lol says the one who brought up nothing but a hollow baseless argument in the first place.

Korra was so frustrating, solely because they would have these neat concepts and you were like, "okay, cool, hows this gonna be resolved and oh. well. thats one way to do it. i guess" It was so close, and yet so far.