Reviews WesternAnimation / The Legend Of Korra

Therein lies the problem for the majority of your complaints. Such as:

Which happens during the following seasons. Whereas other criticisms such as the one below:

...are subjective. So there isn't much anyone can say other than they agree, or disagree. Personally, I'd say Korra outshines Zuko in the awesomeness department, even during Book 1 and especially during Books 3 and 4 (won't spoil).

Uh, I only reviewed Book 1 because The Legend of Korra was initially intended to be a stand-alone miniseries before the series was expanded to four seasons and fifty-two episodes.

@lukaSylvie: I'm aware, which is why it doesn't make sense to claim there isn't any character development based solely on Book 1.

But, even in that context, there's still development. In the first Book alone, Korra struggles with Tenzin's airbending lessons, but eventually learned to adapt them to the Probending arena (hence, the reason Tenzin cheered). And we saw the beginnings of Korra learning to tap into the spiritual aspect of her nature as the Avatar.

I know there’s still development, but there’s no further development either. Even though Korra learned to airbend, unlike her great predecessor, she didn’t learn to use her powers the right way or to take responsibility as the Avatar. At the very least, I didn’t feel her mental growth.

I'm not sure what you mean by the "right way", but she does indeed learn to take responsibility as the Avatar. That was the reason she traveled to Republic City, because she couldn't fulfil her duty as the Avatar while being locked away from the rest of the world. Which is the reason she was frustrated that Tenzin kept putting her off (episode 1).

Once she became fully aware of the threat that the Equalists presented, Korra dropped Probending altogether in order to join the City's police force to crack down on them. By the end of the season, she publicly exposed Amon as a hypocrite and was last seen restoring bending to each of Amon's victims - starting with Lin.

I guess now that what I wanted to say probably was there’s rushed and superficial development, not plausible, sincere and moving development that Zuko once did. Also, I couldn’t feel The Power Of Friendship (that I have felt from Avatar The Last Airbender, Big Hero 6, Fullmetal Alchemist and Kill La Kill) from The Legend Of Korra.

I guess it’s because when they should use screentime in exploring the potential, the creators wasted sreentime in writing the Pro-Bending and notorious Romantic Plot Tumor.

You're comparing three seasons worth of development for Zuko, to only a single season for Korra. I'd consider that "rushed". If we judged both of them after their respective first seasons, Korra still had more than Zuko.

• Book 1 for ATLA ended with Zuko no different than when he started out: he was still trying to capture Aang in order return home with his honor restored.
• Book 1 for LOK saw Korra eventually learn airbending, after struggling with it and she finally connected with her past lives for the first time. Which, in turn, lead to her first manifestation of the Avatar state. And the season ended with Korra taking her first real step toward fulfilling her destiny.

So how was her development not plausible, or sincere? Zuko needed three seasons to come to terms with himself. Likewise, Korra needed four. Judging her after only one hardly seems fair.

Thank you for pointing out. I’m sorry I used the wrong example to argue against you. I’ll explain how Aang and Sokka mature plausibly, sincerely and movingly even in the first Book alone. Aang learned to face the present and to take responsibility as the Avatar, and Sokka leaned to repsect someone regardless of gender.

I’ve been unsatisfied with the fact that such a thing does not exist in The Legend Of Korra.

In regards to Zuko, I would say that he does undergo a considerable amount of development in Book One. Not in that he undergoes any huge changes - that\'s the next two seasons - but we learn a good deal about his past and his relationship with Iroh that allow us to understand and even empathize with him, \"The Storm\" being a great example of this, if not the best. I think that counts as Character Development, in a sense.

Uh, I only reviewed Book 1 because The Legend of Korra was initially intended to be a stand-alone miniseries before the series was expanded to four seasons and fifty-two episodes.

And you don\'t think that might be why they didn\'t go in for deeper explorations of racism, equality, powers, Cycle of Revenge, He Who Fights Monsters, and family? Because they only had a single season to work with originally, and no idea they were going to have more until the final stages of production?

@Wryte It's the showrunners' fault to not spend time in exploring the themes. They should have written this season longer.

@lukaSylvie: How were they supposed to do that when they were initially told they'd only be allowed 12 episodes? Bryke made the best of what they were given at the time.

@Miinu I\'m sorry I forgot who is responsible. To me Nickelodeon had crossed the Moral Event Horizon by giving the series only 12 episodes while the series had potential for the showrunners to explore.

That's what the other three seasons were for. Each has its own conflict and arc villain, but there's a nice tie-in near the end. I won't spoil, except to say It Makes Sense in Context when the series is taken as a whole.