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What piece of media thoroughly disappointed you? (crazypeople.online)
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It could be an album, movie, tv show, whatever.

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[–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Overall I liked Korra. It has two big moments though that rubbed me the wrong way.

spoilerThe part where they broke the Avatar cycle was a awful direction to take the show. Also making platinum the most plentiful resource was a brain dead villian arc.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    I was extremely excited in the beginning because the setting felt very well-constructed. Bending having contributed to rapid technological progress made a lot of sense to me, and I really like that there wasn't excessive exposition regarding the state of the world.

    So much of what they did from that point just felt so corny.

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    • When Amon took her bending only for the Avatar ancestors to pull up and return it like five minutes later
    • Raava and Vaatu being just one-dimensionally "good" and "evil"
    • The fucking kaiju fight
    • Introducing the dictator lady, Kuvira—can't remember how to spell her name—like three episodes before the next arc, telegraphing that she was the next villain focus so hard
    • Kuvira then doing the trite "you saved me, but why" and just completely folding on her entire mission

    • It was just so disappointing for me. I don't know if they got creatively restricted, or if something happened with the original writers or what. I don't regret watching it, but I just wish they had taken or had been able to take more risks.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I agree, overall the story was bad. I really enjoyed the characters and slice of life aspects of the show. I felt some of those points you bring up were big weaknesses to the overall experience. It felt like the team was targeting a younger group than before. (Or I just got older haha)

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago*

    I can corroborate your last point because I watched both of these series relatively recently, and I also have little to no nostalgia associated with the subject.

    I actually used to despise when ATLA came on. At that age, I could never commit to following plot-heavy shows, because I didn't really watch TV a ton (I thought I watched a lot, but I'm learning now as I talk to peers that it was not lol), and the show felt like it was on forever, eating up time on Nick. I finished it up around this time last year and ATLA is now among my favorite shows ever. I continued with TLOK shortly after, and yeah, those were my feelings.

    So from my experience, I'm not gonna say it's the whole "growing out of it" thing. TLOK just is a less interesting story, the way I see it.

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