Korra's 2nd Season is Awful A video Essay 

Ok this is a good vid but the past avatars being destroyed ENRAGED me and still enrages me to this day

I still cringe at the fact that they portrait Korra as an abusive girlfriend and it just gets brushed aside, nobody even bat an eye or corrects her in the show about how she treats Mako... Wtf

The new team avatar is bunch of coworkers that really only like each other because they have to be there together and never communicate outside of work.

The fact that Aang fell victim to the ‘Original protagonist becomes a bad parent’ trope really just rubbed me the wrong way. It is by far one of my most hated tropes in fiction because 90% of the time, you can tell the writers just did it for cheap drama or ‘it makes the character more realistic’ bullshit, even if it’s out of character. Everything you said about that topic basically summed up everything I felt about. The fact that they tried to make viewers believe Aang, one of the sweetest and loving characters in the original series was neglectful towards his kids is just baffling to me

Thank you for calling out the nonsense on Aangs parenting. He’s not perfect, but I can’t imagine him being anything else than a deeply loving dad (albeit a busy one sometimes). Even if he did accidentally play favorites due to sheer excitement Katara would’ve smacked him upside the head so hard his arrows would spin

Korra season 2 just really seems like a fanfiction

After season 1 Kora should not have got her bending back after it was taken. a spiritual journey helping her become a true avatar is what season 2 should have been about

So the biggest waste of time in LOK was Mako. He's a poor city boy whose parents was killed by a criminal and did presusmably " illegal jobs" for the bender mafia for money to support himself and his brother. Then he becomes a cop... they had a good setup for him to have character development arc, possibly abusing his power on criminals, Varrick finds out blackmails him or tip off Bei Fong to so he can be involved in the plot without the love triangle.

i just hated the whole god and evil. spirits were malicious in various ways, not outright evil. even the most evil one we saw in ATLA (Ko) aided the avatar. but no, here they are reduced to "boo you bad guy, yay, you good guy". Shows seem to descend into this more and more these days *cough* GoT later seasons and Witcher netflix *cough*

The biggest problem with Korra is that it's not the same team. It has the same creators managing the show, but it doesn't have the same head writer. Aaron Ehasz was the head writer and one of the producers of ATLA. His writing made the Avatar special without him LOK suffered.

I hated how Book II basically reduced the conflict down to good versus evil, light versus dark cliché. I would rather if they shown Raava and Vaatu being opposing forces that compliment one-another. They could have made Vaatu more flattering as a force. If Raava is peace and order, Vaatu is war and chaos, but war and chaos aren't entirely terrible. Peace is stable, unchanging. Raava is about giving up the fight and settling. Vaatu should be rebellion and passion, unsatisfied with how things currently are. Vaatu should really be the embodiment of change, the drive to improve and aim for ideals. And that's not bad at all. Change is always happening. That's what time is. It's just a struggle between how much we want to expend energy for change and how much we want to stop and settle.

"Wan was a rowdy kid" Wan kills 2 people because they wanted food. And he feels no remorse over this.

the kites should've been both destructive when separated; if they really wanted to go with the yin-yang balance thing. If the Avater needs to be in possession of a spirit like them, make it that they need both. Hell; make Unalok trying to separate them be the big evil plan if you have to do that shtick.

the problem with korra is simple; they wanted to do more "real" conflicts that weren't just "good vs evil", except they didn't know how to do that. most the seasons started off good, with an interesting plot, then just devolve as things went on. season 1: what they wanted - struggle between classes with no real "fault" between the two sides. what they did - bad guy terrorizing people, because he didn't like his dad season 2: what they wanted - struggle between progress and tradition. spirituality vs materialism. what they did - kaiju battles, dark avatars, and "spirits are cool right?" season 3: what they wanted - struggle between centralized power and decentralized freedom. what they did - fly boi says "anarchy cool lol" season 4: what they wanted - struggle between using force to maintain traditional order vs allowing geopolitical world to evolve. what they did - tyrant lady tries to take over with robots.

In the original show, Aang LOVED nothing more than talking about his culture other than Katara, so I find it suspect he wouldn't do everything possible to spread that same joy to his kids, even if they weren't airbenders. I think the show, like the Star Wars sequels, would have benefitted from not being set directly after the originals. Skip "Korra" and go to the next Avatar bender. Your airbender is then Aang's grandkids grown up, not his kids. Then you skip having to do flashbacks of defined characters and your easter eggs can be thrown away one liners.

Fire Nation commits genocide against the airbenders and attack their temples Spirits: I sleep Korra’s Dad Destroys one forest Spirits: I’M GONNA STOMP YOU DOWN!!!

You have an hour of reasoning and I'm just over here like There was a huge lack of Lin Beifong and that makes it bad

Watching season 2 makes me feel like Mike and Bryan literally wanted to destroy the canon. Like Kaiju Vaatu tossing aang's statue was the embodiment of their own hate for their Magnum Opus

In The Last Airbender, the two creators wanted to have a love triangle between Aang, Katara, and Toph. Aaron Ehasz stepped in, and changed it. In Korra, the creators wanted the same thing. This time, Aaron Ehasz wasn’t there to stop them because he wasn’t the head writer. That’s why Korra was so different, the creators were the head writers. Michael and Bryan may have made Avatar, but they aren’t writers. Aaron Ehasz was what made Avatar’s writing so good. Korra is what the creators wanted The Last Airbender to be like. Edit: I have no memory of commenting this, I don’t even know if it’s true lmao sorry

"Wan is an unruly teenager who does some bad things but never goes too far." Also Wan: Kills several hunters for the crime of trying to provide for their families rather than show then which foods are safe or simply chasing them away. Presumably there IS a safe source of food considering Wan is still alive and not starving years later..

This season was basically Mike and Bryan picking at the Avatar universe for dramatic cliche battles between good and evil, etc. It ruined the previously very compelling Spirit World and instead made it another dimension with PORTALS and stuff. There’s just no moderation in this season. It’s all action and cheap drama on things that had little to no character development last season (like Korra’s dad.) No storytelling, no development, most importantly no mysterious or mystic elements, unlike the original, which is what made its universe so compelling in the first place. Mike and Bryan didn’t care about the universe. They just wanted an EPIK BATOL for entertainment! No depth whatsoever!

Bad things in season 2 Korra 1: love triangle appears, and is MUCH more potent 2: The first avatar story was meh 3: DaRk AvAtAr 4: All the good side characters just kinda exist 5: giant kaiju battle.... ok? But why though? 6: the spirit kites never shoulda existed 7: the spirit world was underwhelming 8: I keep forgetting the main bad guys name. He’s that forgettable. 9: Korra’s IQ went down a couple of notches for her to get tricked THIS easy Ok now the good points 1: Verrick! :D That is all.

Oh dear lord the designs of the spirits are one of the infuriating things about LoK! When I was a child, apart from the bending, I was always excited to see the spirits. What are their powers? Will they attack the Gaang, help them, or be neutral? is this their land or temple? Do they know the people of this village? What is their history? It was interesting! Whenever a spirit appeared, the tone of the scene chenged and everything would feel trascendental and, forgive the redundancy, spiritual. In TLoK it does feel like pokemons and yet-to-be-taimed alien pets, beings that don't have any goals, nor personalities, and get manipulated by gods. It's boring and sad, disrespect to the lore.

If it were me I would have changed the ending of the professor in the library. I would have left an air of mystery by having Wong Shi Tong call a fox servant by that name. Never answer the question. But theoretically it would instead imply that by staying the library for all eternity and being lured by the knowledge, he we was forced into servitude and lost his humanity. Or maybe have the guy hung up and displayed like an insect. Wong Shi Tong wouldn't just leave corpses around in his precious library.

I still remember my initial reaction to the "corrupted" spirit in LoK. This is gonna be a long comment, but bear with me. Tenzin actually asks the spirit why it's so angry. This - and I thought it was meaningful - is pretty much what Aang did with Hei Bai. The spirit is angry, so it gets all weird and geometric. The way to deal with that is to calm it down. It worked in "Avatar" - spirits represent nature and the world. We need nature, but nature is not nice. It makes sense that a protector of the forest goes ballistic when its forest is burnt. "Avatar" gets the simple, but effective message across. When Tenzin can't calm a spirit down and Unalaq performs a weird light show to pacify it, I thought "oh wow! That's brilliant! Unalaq is brainwashing the spirit or sapping its energy or something! Instead of respecting nature and the spirit wishes properly, he's manipulating them somehow. He's a bad guy, but Korra is buying it, because he's an authority figure and she's still learning. Aw man, she's gonna be SO PISSED that he's brainwashing spirits!" That made sense to me. It'd be consistent with the original show, and create believable conflict - Unalaq knows a lot about spirits, but he takes shortcuts. It'd work with his personality, it could work with the whole "corruption" angle, except it'd turn out HE was a corrupting influence. But no, apparently if spirits are angry, they're just cranky and need a time-out. Spirit of Aang probably feels pretty stupid. Instead of talking to Hei Bai, he just needed to perform a special magic water dance! Respect spirits and try to figure out what they want before they smash everything in their path? That's for chumps! Hell, Tenzin seems to think the Aang approach is the correct one, so the show isn't just ignoring the established rules, it's bringing them up, and THEN discarding them! (besides, the original show indicated that going berserk was a spirit "thing" in general. The Owl Spirit that protected the library also turned into a weird thing when angered. TLoK could've expanded on that in some way, instead it just created a magical trick to pacify sapient beings. WELL THAT'S GREAT.)

Without Aaron and Elizabeth Ehasz, we got a twighlightified fanfic of ATLA aka Legend of Korra. It looks like Avatar, sounds like Avatar, kinda feels like Avatar, but it just ends up falling short. Legend of Korra completely ignored many of the things that the fanbase loved about ATLA. The character development and how they interact with each other, you felt that they had tangible relationships in ATLA. In LOK, it was them telling us that they were "friends" but you could see right through it.

I think the biggest problem with Korra is its hard shift from Eastern Buddhism to Western Christianity. Avatar felt like a true representation of Buddhism, harmony and polytheism. It was nebulous about spirituality because in that culture, spirituality isn't a bunch of rights and wrongs, but varying perspectives. In Korra, everything is just literalized and narrow. Instead of the spirit world being an internal journey of fables and nature, it's just another dimension with weird plants and aliens. Instead of balance, there's now just general God and Satan figures, with ultimate good and ultimate evil. Korra feels like a Westernized version of Avatar, which ends up oversimplifying the original's nuance.

I just don’t understand how (or more importantly why) a series that was originally fantasy turned into 1920’s steampunk became GIANT ROBOTS WITH LASERS? You can defend the advancement of their tech from avatar to korra but please explain to me how we go from 1920’s tech to giant laser bots. Please.

Terrible writing advice: Did someone say love triangle?

I can never forgive the fact they made Korra loser her connection, I think that is some of the worst bs possible. people who are like iT shOws hOw poWeRfUl kOrrA iS oN hEr oWn, wiThOuT tHe aVatAr sPirT and I’m just like ... :/ that’s kinda the whole point of the avatar/ the avatar state. The avatar is a chosen person to bring balance, already making them the most powerful bender and then the avatar state is to help them in situations of dire need, obviously the avatar state can be used for lesser emergencies but LOK completely throws that very personal and vulnerablity of the avatar out the window in season two, whether that be because of korras arrogance or just sloppy writing. And the way they ~almost~ never act like that loss is a big deal/try to find more answers/fix it is super disappointing and even out of character for characters like Tenzin. The avatar spirt/state was so deeply neglected in LOK after being so perfectly crafted in ATLA that makes season 2 so unbearably awful and cringey.

The writers missed a big opportunity in season one when they said Amon took Korra's bending. They could've had Korra go on a full series journey to regain her powers by reconnecting with the elements. Having her grow and mature, learn humility and learn to appreciate the spiritual side of bending after losing her powers. And they could've had the original team Avatar train her.

Also isn’t this when Iroh enters the spirit world and NEVER TELLS ZUKO ZUKO HAD TO FIND OUT THROUGH KORRS LIKE WHAT

I absolutely hate the new designs of sprits, the avatar ones were mostly just animals just a little more mysterious but now they’re unnatural colours, glowy, semi translucent and looked like they are made of jelly or plastic

season 1: love the asthetic and vibes, good introduction, love probending, good villain, definitely above average season 2: vibe aint it, boring season, EXTREMELY stupid end fight, avatar past lives all destroyed season 3: pretty good, good villains season 4: alright until the end, then just a clusterfuck of nonsense

I would love a Sarcastic summary of infinity train it's a great show

I'll confess: I came to Korra late. I enjoyed Avatar and Korra had finished. I avoided spoilers so I knew there were multiple seasons. I was finishing up season 1, saw that season 2 was named "spirits" and grew excited! Why the villain has robbed her of her power! This would make her vulnerable. This is going to be awesome as she goes on a quest in the next season to like, relearn the roots of the Avatar, that there's more than just the physical abilities, there's a spiritual element to it. We'll even have echoes back to S1 as she gets to experience what it's like being less powerful. We'll get to see a part of the world that was barely touched upon in the first series! This is going to be so awes-- Wait. What is Aang doing there? That to me, is Korra in a nutshell. They have golden opportunities with excellent, organic set ups for numerous potential stories, and then will proceed to kill all of them and try to frankenstein the corpse.

Season 2 is like if you were to let your cousin, little sibling, or nephew your account to play on and come back a couple hours later to see the damage they have cause from their actions.

Mako and bolin from the legend of korra aren't that interesting but every time those two are put together there are so many sweet and funny moments which is interesting. Mako and bolins relationship is well written but them by themselves isn't interesting

Just saw it....fan fiction at it's finest. Just bad. What a complete dissappointment. Korra as a character was written so bad. Tenzin got butchered to a stooge. And the whole spirit world concept got completely destroyed, did the creators even paid attention to everything that ATLA did with the spirits? That 1st avatar story went complete anime (bad one). Dear lord what the hell were they thinking besides cheap pop by making Aang a bad father, just unbelievable.also thr bolin abusive relationship wasnt funny.

it's not the same team if Aaron and Elizabeth Ehasz are not there

The 2nd season was SOOOOOO bad, like why they went the route they did made no sense! It turned into a shitty love triangle, a crazy spirit obsessed uncle trying to kill his niece, and ended with the Avatar Cycle destroyed....LIKE WHY?!

Korra had adult themes/ideas and feels like it was written by a child. ATLA had child friendly ideas but was written in quite a mature and adult way. ATLAs antagonists are nuanced, with Zuko being given a redemption arc and Azula being shown to be emotionally abused and also a victim of the firelord. We get a mature nuanced look at the fire nation and colonisation, and we're shown that not every individual is evil, but that they are still complicit in the crimes of their government? Korra? Let's invent bending communists who think everyone should be equal and take away bending, but also have them be led by a bender and forget about any genuine societal issues or commentary. Let's have our anarchist talk about how much he loves anarchy and and kill one dictator, but have him just fighting the avatar and air nomads for the rest of the season instead of like, doing anarchism.

Why does korra never listens to Tenzin, he was always right at the end.And his words were good fr bUt KoRrA wAs So SmArT sHe CuT oF aLl HeR pAsT aVaTaRs 🤠🤡🤠🤡🤠🤡 (The avatar sons who was the closest to him)

When korra released I tried my best to care about it as the heir apparent to my favorite nickelodeon show of all time. I stopped after season 1 because i found Korra to be flawed beyond repair, a pointless love triangle, and somehow a villain to be more relatable than the protagonist. Oh and that the powercreep of the bending system was so bad that it relegated lightning bending as a factory job and energy bending to be basically moot as bloodbending can basically do the same thing without the risk of losing your own bending in the process. And to hear that season 1 was supposed to be a standalone that then was expanded into 4 seasons only makes the flaws of season 1 more glaring.

Season 2 is the season that made me stop watching Korra. Then followed by my friends telling me I was wrong for dropping it because “a bad season doesn’t make a bad show”. I was then told that Bumi, my favorite character of Aang’s children, was turned into an air bender by the writers. I was not going back to the show. I wanted Bumi to have his own purpose of being the No bender son of the avatar who is just as good, if not greater, than his siblings. I also hated the changes that none of my friends seemed to understand. The retcons to the canon of the Avatar universe was genuinely terrible, and I hated it. If anyone’s curious, my friends just told me that the team didn’t know they were getting more seasons, hence why the show is written that way. I didn’t care. That’s no excuse for those changes or those horrible executions.

Nickelodeon: *destroys Korra* Why would anyone do this?

I hate what they did to Aang and his kids. I can buy Aang accidentally and subconsciously favoring Tenzin slightly. Nobody’s perfect and Aang has a lot of trauma he doesn’t have time to process, not to mention childcare ideals 100 years out-of-date. But I draw the line at Aang being blatantly neglectful and Katara not kicking his butt for it

I remember mildly disliking season two way back when I first watched it, but back then it was simply because I preferred the darker 1920s noir aesthetic of the first season and didn't like the sudden swallow dive into pure anime fantasy complete with knockoff Ghibli spirits, kaiju battles, and the flying mint bunny from Hetalia. That and it had way less scenes of Lin Beifong, who was my favourite character throughout the show 🤣 Years later after watching numerous breakdowns of S2, I REALLY dislike it, especially after seeing people point out problems with it that 17-year-old me didn't notice, and now I just feel like we were cheated out of a genuinely interesting season about Korra realising that the Avatar can't solve everything in favour of a Dark-Avatar-Kaiju-Battle 😮‍💨

I doubt spirits like lady tienhai, general old iron, the mother of faces or Koh would be controlled by vaatu and become evil JUST BECAUSE

The way I manage to cope with Korea and season two is that I just think of it more like a fan fiction, kinda like the cursed child in Harry Potter, its technically Canon, but like is it really

To be fair to Korra, they didn't know they were gonna get three more seasons. They thought they were just gonna be a mini series with book one, but then Nickelodeon ordered more seasons. had the creators been given the four seasons from the very start, they probably would've come up with something more cohesive and less disjointed.

This season REALLY bummed me out. I wholeheartedly think that LOK could have been just as good as ATLA, but season 2 demonstrates that every time it feels like every time they have the beginnings of a good idea or interesting plot/characters, they find a way to resolve it into irrelevance just so they can pump in the love triangle and shitty megaboss death lazers. Also, THANK YOU for bringing up how often Asami just gets fucked over by the writers!!!! She is one of my favorite characters because like the equalists, Suki, Mai, and Ty Lee, I think it's really fun to watch nonbenders be able to compete with benders in fights! But they reduce her down to be a literal plot device when convenient and write her out of scenes when theres nothing else she can do for anyone else. I rewatched LOK when it was on Netflix and the amount of times she would literally just appear in the middle of a scene so that she can do something for the others is astounding. We'll only see Korra, Mako, and Bolin talking and then all of a sudden they'll switch "camera angles" and Asami will be there to tell them she can drive or involve her business in some way.

tenzin is one of the best things in the show I loved seeing him just be. Wish he had more screen time sigh

The show badly needed a proper direction, aka hiring a head writer like Aaron Ehasz. It's clear the creators aren't that strong as writers, season 2 proved this.

I always thought that the reason ATLA was so near perfect was because they had a brilliant team of writers to help the 2 creators guide their ideas, tell them what makes sense, what doesn't, whats dumb, what's awesome, people who knew how to create a world with unique lore that was believable and cohesive. When watching LOK, you can just tell that was not the case. Any chance of LOK being up to par with ATLA disappeared when I saw that it wasn't the same writing team.

When i saw these cute spirits for the first time in TLOK when i was young child, i thought they were food for the monstrous spirits and that they are maybe the real threat I had a dark mind back then

Remember Shaolin Showdown? The show literally had a McGuffin that turned good characters evil and evil characters good, but even that show handled the villains with some personality and nuance

It is a shame that Season 2 is so rough. I still love Korra, and it means more to me than ATLA, but I fully acknowledge the issues of the 2nd season.

Little known fact: the other guy is standing up in the intro, you'd just never know it.

The new spirit designs are freaking ugly - not to mention, I thought the Avatar was a symbol rather than a person - which is why the First Avatar shit bugs me. If there is a first of something, then everyone who comes after them will inevitably have insecurity about being "better." The balance of the universe should not have a "better." attached to it!

Bolin's whole movie star story was so obviously ripped off from Pratchett's Moving Pictures, with Varrick as CMOT Dibbler, the actress named Ginger, magic dog and then of course there's a kaiju fight at the end. Except Moving Pictures is bloody hilarious.

"I don't like apples" SC: *EAT THE APPLE* *eats apple* Lmaoo I live for these intros

Do you have a video where you dive a little more deeply into Korra's character and why you like her? For me, I kind of hated her in season 1 & 2, whereas season 3 & 4 I guess you can say my opinion of her improved from hate to I don't like or dislike her now. I could sorta see where they were going for a reverse Aang arc, but I'm not entirely convinced it was very well done or earned.

Book 2: Korra defeats the biggest bad of baddest baddies with a Care Bear Stare

they should have seen that Unalaq was evil from his eyebrows only the evil ones are the ones with big eyebrows

Hey he mentioned 50s Algeria did not expect him to mention France’s last attempt to control Africa

I remember when the finale for season 2 aired, the only thing I saw people saying about it was "Holy crap! Did you see Admiral Zhao!? Lol What're you doing outside of A:TLA season 1!?"

I remember being young when I watched the final fight and thinking to myself “why the hell is she a giant now?”

Wan's story is awesome and evocative right up until he runs into the two spirits. Then the whole show takes a nose dive. It's the idea that undercuts all of the other interesting ideas. A story about just a civil war is interesting, and has difficult things to say. A story about the devil is lazy.

Season 1: I liked it, Amon was a cool villain but I didn’t like the love triangle Season 2: aweful Season 3: I like it so far though I’m only on episode 5 Season 4: haven’t watched it yet

Good things about season 2: - Avatar Wan - The civil war storyline (for me it was sorta interesting to see them fight with waterbenders on both sides) - Varrik and his war profiteering storyline - The scene of Wan imprisoning Vaatu - The scene of Raava telling Korra to fight Vaatu Bad Things: - RETCONNING THE SPIRITS! WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND? WHY? I... just can't - Raava & Vaatu should be more about balance vs disorder. The show acts like Raava is the personification of good, when it could've explored how both were essential to maintaining balance - Retconning the spirit world. Stuff like "your emotions control it now" and introducing the tree of time which was solely a plot device - The ending fight, I mean cmon, giant spirit people? Really? - The words dark avatar -The love triangle -Unalaq is supposed to be some spiritual master but he doesn't know that Vaatu doesn't just want to reunite the spirit and human worlds, he wants to do random evil stuff too

One of the more memorable scenes to me in this season was Korra threatening a judge. On no evidence that he was actually corrupt. She's lucky he actually ended up being corrupt, or she'd be in some deep shit. There isn't a lot to like in this show. Any grey area or nuance the villain has, in any of the seasons, is eventually tossed aside by the end, so we can still have the good guy vs bad guy. Rather than just two people with different but justifiable views being in conflict with each other. Yeah, I know Avatar did this with Ozai obviously being a psychopath, but he was never protrayed as maybe having a good point at first, then shifting to "No, he's just evil".

Korra season 2 is pretty mediocre for me with Ravaa and Vatuu being too black and white but the plot with Tenzin and Kya and Bumi was my favorite part and was pretty eye opening that OMG Aang changed over many decades IKR so hard to get

Bro tlok is a book made by sokka in spare time don’t take it serious

I don't mind Tenzin getting the focus he gets. It's sorta like how Zuko got a lot of focus despite not being part of the main 4 characters.

Something I felt was stupid was that things like metal bending and bending lightning are pretty common now. I mean the reason most can't bend lightning is because they need inner peace along with being able to take a lot of time to master it and metal bending pretty much needs you to inspect the material in sense which is why Toph can do it. So I could understand Toph's child learning metal bending but not a massive police force.

Ya know, before Korra was made, I heard of a theory about a "dark avatar" and it seemed cool. But the dark avatar we got wasn't what I thought when I heard about a dark avatar.

I believe the dark Avatar thing could have worked if they made the villain more nuanced and didn't want to be the dark Avatar

I hate it when people say" well the avatar wasn't a masterpiece either but no one talks about that". People actually do talk about its flaws but people seem to over look that. We don't need to sit here and go through all the flaws of one show just to criticze the sequal. And wether or not the avatar or Korra are both good or bad shows is an opinion so don't go around claiming its a fact.

I love how sarcastic this guy is

Wan's story would've been awesome as its own unique stand-alone myth---and the animation style in those episodes was just breathtaking---but it frankly drags down the quality and ruins of the mystery of the Avatarverse.

If they really wanted the Avatar to be fused with a spirit, why not both Raava and Vaatu? it embodies balance perfectly!

Here is my issue with this season- The civil war has potential but leads to nowhere or push it to the backdrop after the beginnings too many B-plots Asami does nothing, Bolin is still off Missing the point of Raava and Vaatu as yin-yang. They supposed to be together and balanced not defeat the dark on just assumption of evil. Book 3 has a better yin yang symbol because red lotis want freedom even spreading chaos without leaders. Love triangle screws up the dynamic of team avatar, they did it better in book 3 because the love triangle is thrown out of the window. Mako is too pessamistic I forgot about unalaaq because that how forgetful is he, he supposed to be a fundamentalist villain that wants to conquer in the name of the spirits instead of power-hungry. Don't get me started with Dark Avatar Korra is too cocky and trigger-happy compared season one Korra until after beginnings without any development (season 3-4 have it) Kuviara feels like the true dark avatar than what we got because it presents the dark version of korra Love triangles are handled better in Steven universe- Greg vs Perl over Rose, Steven Universe handled anime tropes better- even the kaiju/ Ultraman reference are handled better

Each Avatar that was disintegrated my heart broke

2:52 It was awful how Korra was bothering Mako at work. I mean sure complain anywhere else but why go to your boyfriend's workplace, the police station, to berate him while he's working.

I remember when Korra was airing, and as soon as I watched the season 2 finale as a young teen, I dropped the show entirely. I had previously watched ATLA and loved it up until the very end. I was born in China and adopted by an American family, and when I saw a show with tremendous eastern influence I connected with it immediately. Seeing Korra, where basically every aspect is mishandled at least slightly, and with such high expectations for the Avatar team from their previous work, I was so disappointed.

It's always warm my heart to see people point all the flaws in that stupid show. I thought I was the only one highly disappointed with LOK.

The problem is that this season had SO MUCH POTENTIAL. They executed it SO POORLY. It was like they used wattpad as a reference instead of actually going back to the Og source material and making something wonderful out of this. Exploring the spirit world. Actually portraying yin and Yang ads complimentary instead of being antagonistic against one another. I was thinking Korra would play it as though they made a mistake in locking up Vatuu because without them there is no balance and rebellion against the overbearing ‘peace’. I just like to pretend s2 doesn’t exist at this point😓

I wished we got a kyoshi or yangchen series instead of the legend of Korra.

So you’re saying season 2 is The Great Divide.

Korra was written to be a big jerk. The show gives her a pass by almost everyone because of Avatar status I still can't understand why Asami would want to be in a romantic relationship with that crazy person who *bleeped* her life six ways to Sunday and waked all over others. Season 1 and 4 made a big deal about daddy betraying Asami's trust and it was personal. She doesn't hold any hint of ire against Mako and Korra, who just used her for her resources.

I remember never being able to fully get into korrasami cuz I remembered Korra’s abusive behaviour towards Mako in this season and just being really worried for Asami. That poor girl has her work cut out for her. Also I’m deadass convinced they removed the past avatars because they really thought critics would stop comparing Korra to Aang, Kyoshi etc if she was now the only avatar. It felt like they were trying to force the audience to like her by making her the default.

i literally laughed out loud when Korra said Unalaq wants to "destroy the whole world" like come on now

Omg. At the part where he doesn’t want to continue reviewing and the dude says “how bad could it be?” A commercial popped up “treat your rear end well with ... medical wipes!”

It may be evidence that I am a basic Biotch, but my favorite execution of the dark mirror trope is and possibly always will be, Saren vs. Shepard. Varik is the best villain in LoK, and he's even better, because he wins.

Can we just cut the crap with Korra being a “beautiful mess” please? At least you can look in awe and appreciate a beautiful mess, there’s no way i can appreciate this show. Mako’s boring, Bolin’s funny but pointless most of the time, Asami has no character, Korra is annoying and is undeserving of her power, half of the villains are cartoony, the designs range from pretty good to terrible, sudden laser beams jump the shark, minor characters are forgettable, love triangles were truly monotonous, korrasami was way underdeveloped, characters that are more interesting than the main characters don’t appear as much, and so many other things, that was just off the top of my head. Amazing animation and style doesn’t make something beautiful, it makes it pretty. There’s a difference.

I almost skipped through the part at the beginning because I thought it was a sponsored ad for apples lol. Then I looked more carefully and realized that the blue smudge was an arrow.

For me the problems with season 2 are just amplified issues that exist throughout TLOK. It's a great show but it tried so hard to build upon what ATLA did while trying to distance itself from that story and it's characters. I can understand why that would be the case since this is supposed to be about a new Avatar and her setting. It wouldn't be fair to Korra to have her story overshadowed by more established and beloved characters, but in doing so they really cut off TLOK from it's source material. Those characters were instrumental in creating the world Korra inhabited, and to ignore their presence except when convenient really hurt the show. Think of how integral Roku was to Aang in both providing guidance and explaining how his failures lead to the situation Aang faced. TLOK actively avoided that relationship between Aang and Korra so she could be the focus of the story but in the process had to either ignore important plot points or farm them out to other characters as side plots that only served as gimmicks for information dumps. Season 2 is a prime example of this as we're immediately introduced to the issues between the Northern and Southern Water Tribes and the spirits. Well, what was Aang doing for the majority of his time as the Avatar that things became this unbalanced? Did he neglect those duties? Might that tie into his potential failings as a father? And could that could relate to Korra's issues with her parents and relationship with Mako? Could all of this have been given greater perspective through a spirit mentor session with Aang where he reflected upon his failings and the difficulties of repairing a world torn apart by 100 years of war in his absence? And how balancing those responsibilities placed stress on his personal relationships, including as a husband and father? And maybe by the time a young Tenzin exhibits airbending Aang was exhausted and jaded with his role as the Avatar? That he saw the opportunity to rebuild the Air Nomads through his son as a chance to finally indulge in his own selfish needs while still satisfying his role as bringing balance to the world? It wouldn't have solved Korra's problems but it would have given her insight and inspiration that this sort of professional and personal struggle isn't just because she's bad at being an Avatar but that being the Avatar is really difficult. That simple scene would have given a ton of more insight into Tenzin and his siblings. Aang might very well have been a bad father because the only thing that could still bring him hope was the idea that the Air Nomads would slowly return through his son. That resulting pressure on Tenzin would have shaped so much of his personality and choices. Maybe that's really why he and Lin didn't work out? He was so obsessed with pleasing his beloved father and his dream of resurrecting the Air Nomads that he felt guilty about listening to his heart at the risk of having a relationship with a woman who might very well produce earthbenders than airbenders? That would have cut down on the necessity of needing Tenzin to be so heavily centered in Season 2 in secondary plots to serve as information dumps. That time then could have been better spent on his character development and the character development of others. And while we're at it, the entire North vs South and spirit unrest plotlines conspicuously avoided two key water tribe individuals from ATLA: Katara and Sokka. Katara is still alive during the events of Season 2 and we know Sokka was alive as recently as when Korra was a young girl. What changed in that time period that the North attained dominion over the South? Why was the festival allowed to become commercialized and the spirits ignored? Was it something Katara or Sokka did? Or something they fought against but ultimately lost? That would have fleshed things out and given viewers a more firm grasp on the setting while tying in beloved characters from the first series. That's pretty much the issue with all of TLOK. It's largely divorced from it's source material because it's afraid the inevitable nostalgia and comparisons to the first series would overpower it. Instead they take long detours to explain developments in the world since the last series and inevitably venture into revisions that are neither organic to the series or helpful in advancing the development of the current set of characters. When they do bring back characters it's clear they're simply doing fan service since their roles could have been handled by others just as easily, or they serve to further complicate the plotlines by introducing a whole slew of new characters and issues. *coughBeiFongscough*

My main issue with the whole Raava/Vaatu thing is, how did Vaatu and Unalaq even think that they could get rid of/overtake Raava permanently? Like, they tried to BEAT Raava out of existence. And then they were surprised when Korra pulled Raava out of their (UnaVaatu's) fused body. Why were they surprised that she did that? Doesn't make any sense, given Raava's exposition to Wan. Am I supposed to believe that Raava just knows more about the nature of her relationship with Vaatu than Vaatu or Unalaq?

Iffy character writing and removing spirit agency by bending them aside, I found the civil war idea fun. It'd be interesting to see an Avatar have to deal with a conflict where both sides have a claim to being right. The problem is they didn't commit. They wanted to make Unalaq clearly evil and nullify the North's claim early, then tried to validate it a little at the end half heartedly. And the storyline ends up abandoned for the dumb First Avatar thing that basically reset the whole story and killed the few things they were doing well. I know some prefer the second half, but as someone who actually liked parts of the first half enough to want to see things resolved, the book left nothing of value by the end