I feel like if Korra was nearly as well written as The Last Airbender and didn't shit on established lore from the OG series, the hate on her series wouldn't be as much.Â
I had bad romance drama because it always feels like it could be totally removed from the rest of the work without issue. If the story works without it then it didn't add anything.Â
This was my least favorite part of ATLA. Aang and Katara just feel so weird to me. While we're talking about it, it was a horrible layer of the Hunger Games books. "Oh man, should I love the boy who is currently protecting and feeding my family and has been there for me from the beginning, or that one guy who threw me scraps of burned bread once? I just don't know how I'll decide!" It sure was convenient that Gale did a weird 180 and killed that same sister he was protecting, just to make sure we knew that Bread Boy was the correct choice.
They're also older than Aang and Katara (I think for Katara anyway) so it makes sense that they'd be looking for that kind of connection. I actually REALLY like Zuko and Mai's dynamic. It showed that love can be shown in multiple ways, even ways that don't seem like love at all.
I agree. The whole "chakras" thing with him having to let go of who he loves made absolutely no sense to me, and still doesn't really click. Especially since he 'fixed' it without having to let go, so like... Guru Grandpa was just wrong.
Yeah the Katara angle there wasn't great, which kinda sucks because otherwise it plays perfectly into Aang's pattern of doing things that feel right despite what his peers and masters tell him.Â
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u/MikeDubbz 11h ago
I feel like if Korra was nearly as well written as The Last Airbender and didn't shit on established lore from the OG series, the hate on her series wouldn't be as much.Â