The creators already addressed why Aang died so young .He burnt out his life force while maintaining the Avatar State while in the iceberg .He looked so young when he came to Korra because spirits can choose their appearance whic is supported by Aang's trip into the spirit world in B3 and he was wearing his monk clothes and not his disguise and why Kyoshi looked young while she died in her 100s .The Republic City game says that Zuko is still alive and wandering the Four Nations as a peace ambassador and Lin's father will be revealed in a future "book" according to leaked information .The others presumebly died of old age as their was no indicator that they died from the attack so that's pure speculation .I think you are focusing too much on the past team as this is Korra's adventure and we already have 3 "Books" and 2 comic series to fill in the missing information and frankly this obsession with Lin's father doesn't make since since we last saw Toph when she was 12/13 and she had Lin when she was in her 30s and's that's plenty of time to meet someone outside of the main cast to fall in love with .Just my two cents about it .
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Almost as good......
TBH I did not go into this series with high hopes. I didn't want to see a new avatar, I wanted Aang and the Gaang back. But Korra was a well thought out character and the plot had more urgency behind it.
The good: The animation is amazing. I would out it in the league of a Miyazaki film.
Korra herself is a delight. I was honestly surprised that I liked her so much. The first time we see her smash through a wall, telling everyone to "deal with it!" it was as if she knew fans like me would fault her for not being Aang. She depicted a strong women well and realistically, something fiction could use more of.
Amon was an extremely menacing opponent with a more relatable motive than Orzai. The fact that he didn't have to wait for a comet or a full moon to do his worst damage made him a foe worthy of the Avatar.
The bad: The main weakness of this series is it's length. Many have criticized this season for it's lack character development (especially the supporting cast), it's "too neat" ending, and lack of the old Gaang. All of this has to do with whole season being only 6 hours long.
Bolin, Mako and Asumi never really had too much depth to them to begin with which made any development and/or romance seem shallow.
So reviewers have also complained that it was resolved too well. In the finale, several plot points were resolved in the span of 1 hour. While I have no problems with neat and tight storytelling, I have to agree that it did feel rushed. Just too much resolution in a short span that it became distracting, there was no moment to take it all in.
One issue that never was satisfactorily addressed for me was the fate of the old Gaang. There were scant hints here and there but nothing to really sink my teeth into. We know that Aang died (obviously) but how? In the finale it when he appears in front of Korra he looked like he did when he was forty (but based on calculations of Korra's and Tenzin's age Aang would have been in his 60's). Why did he die so young? Toph died young, but who did she have Lin with? Did Sokka die in the same attack? What happened to Zuko?
Hopes for book 2: Since book 2 is also only 13 episodes long I think the plot needs to be more focused and mention more about the old Gaang. i give it an eight of ten.