Finally got around to watching The Legend of Korra

2 episodes in and I'm quite honestly loving it.

 

I loved the first two episodes but then it took a turn for the worse in my opinion. The bending gets scaled back a lot and the martial arts aspect has been homogenized down to 'pauwnch, kack, dudge, agw heh shooved mae.' No more cool looking technique or interesting application. Just boring beating on each other with tiny scaled attacks. I hope I'm not the only one who saw this. The villains are the only ones who have shown the slightest bit of badassery, everyone else needs to step it up because they're too slow.

Story is meh. Characters are meh. Humor is meh. I expected so much more based on the first two episodes.

 

Have you watched the latest episode? Because the show is starting to get good. I thought the same as you at first, but now I want to find out what happens next.




Oh, and **** you. (I agree about the fighting, though. Saw it too. In fact, I think everyone did. All those fancy moves don't seem to be involved all that much anymore, but we'll see)

 

AND THEN TARRLOK.

Just remember the beginnings of TLA. Did they really let fly with the crazy stuff in the first eight episodes? I mean, in one of Zuko's earliest appearances, he gets boomeranged in the back of the head. Not very dignified. The bending is gritty and efficient because that's what it has to be, and even so, *points up.* It's happening. Just not in the same way or at the same pace. It's not the same show. Give it time, maybe what it turns out to be will be even better than the original.

Also are you saying you don't like Bolin

because them's fightin' words

 

Getting ready to watch episode 3. Moment of truth, I guess.

 

This is coming from someone who didn't watch the original series but...I've been watching Korra. And I really like it.

Tahno needs to be a member of Team Korra.
Just saying.

 

Alright, I know I'm gonna draw a lot of hate or at least disagreement here but I'm gonna explain myself fully so I don't have to make multiple posts.

It is not funny. The jokes lack the same personality that the first series had. And quite frankly, that shows poor character development. I don't feel like quoting this series and I don't care about the characters as they are far from fleshed out. Mako for instance is boring. MY PARENTS ARE DEAD! TAKE CARE OF BROTHER! is all he is. Also, Korra is mentally handicapped, moreso than Aang and less charmingly so. She lacks charisma or even likeability. Most of the characters are like beige curtains and fade into the background. Even Bolin, the best done hero characterwise so far just doesn't truly affect plot any more than a standard NPC shopkeeper. So the characters are basically not fleshed out yet or are doomed to be flat and I feel like by this point they damn well should be fleshed out and flatness is always ill advised.

Plot. It is actually probably just taking its sweet time to do anything relevant and start moving. First series did this shit too. I'll give it some time.

Fighting. It's awful. Like I love how people try to defend it by calling it gritty or efficient. No, it's just weak. Before, children were doing bending more impressive than some of the stuff we see in the probending ring. Yeah, NPC children could bend more rock than a guy who spends all his time practicing it. That's gotta sting. You also notice how firebending shoots a tiny weakass ribbon, instead of a huge level 16 wizard blast? Yeah, I noticed that too. I'm not even gonna get into how much I hate that they homogenized the motions. But I will say exactly how boring probending is. There is no creativity to 90% of the combat. It's all LIFT, SHOOT. The stuff that was considered cheating was interesting, cool and showed thought, skill and teamwork. But it's illegal, they sucked all the fun out of it with rules. Then there's the fact that they cheapened lightning and bloodbending. It makes no sense that something that has strenuous mental requirements and years of intense training can be picked up by any normal joe who wants to work at a power plant. It's stupid and is inconsistent with the rules. Bloodbending with no moon would have been great, if they had made it look like he deserved it. He wasn't all that strong a bender up until that point. Even young Katara was stronger at normal bending of water if we go by volume and control than him so why is it that a skill that takes more straight up power(the moon doesn't affect skill level) is his to control and not hers? Iunderstand that I'm nitpicking here, but it doesn't make sense to me. And when I see inconsistency it eats away at me until I ***** and moan about it for a few paragraphs.

That's pretty much it.

 

tl:dr

I sense much hate from this post, young one

 

...Ok. Tried to be nice and I got exemplified. Thanks KH-V.

 

Yes but then also Pabu is adorable.

 

Pabu pretty much crosses out all the negative things about Korra and makes things better.

 

Momo was better.

 

Naga > Appa

 

Jiku, it sounds to me like you don't want to like LoK.

 

Finished episode 3, still enjoying it.

 

You shouldn't have to want to like something. When you want to like something, you're projecting onto the series and you end up forgiving faults and playing up good points regardless of whether either deserves it. So no. I don't want to like it. I didn't want to like the first series either.

 

I agree with this post, I didn't want to like the first series but I did and I didn't want to like LoK, but I was bored this morning and decided to watch and I enjoy it. It's too early for me to really say whether it has the potential to even live up to the original, but it isn't a terrible show.

 

I think it can live up to or surpass the original. It's too early to say one way or the other though.

@everyoneelse: I do enjoy the show. Liking something has nothing to do with quality. That's what taste is.

 

Well.....if you say so.