Is Legend of Korra the reason Zig Forums treats Avatar so harshly...

Is Legend of Korra the reason Zig Forums treats Avatar so harshly? Did the shittiness of LOK cause us all to go back to ATLA, wondering how such a great show could have been made by the same two guys who made Korra? And did that, in turn, cause us to examine ATLA more critically, and realize that it wasn't quite as perfect as we thought it was when we were growing up?

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Korra is treated so harshly because people directly compare it to Last Air Bender and LAB is just a master piece of it's time.
Korra is still really good. It does some weird shit at times and tries to sneak in political agenda crap, but it's still better than the majority of the shit Zig Forums worships.
When your predecessors is a 10/10, being a 8/10 or even a 9/10 isn't enough to avoid judgement.

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pretty much this but also because the end of the season was always fucking shit except for s3

Pretty much what this person said ATLA was lightning in a bottle, and when a continuation of the story was announced a lot of people expected it to be AT LEAST as good as ATLA, which is where I feel like most people make their first mistake since you can’t recapture the same ATLA feeling in a completely new show that takes place many decades later with new characters

korra is more of a 6/10, still enjoyable to watch but not something i'd go back to again without years having gone by.

The only thing harsh around here is my hunger for meat
I'M STARVING!

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S3 is definitely the strongest season.
Everything about Amon was done perfectly.
I don't want to say that the other 3 season's endings were bad. I just feel the show really suffered from the restrictions Nickelodeon had placed on Korra's contract, and Season 3 was the only one that didn't feel rushed.

Korra has some of the worst characters and writing I've ever seen in an action show. This series is completely carried by art/animation and the name of a much better series.

I think it depends on the season.

have a (you) and go back to where you don't need to have constructive criticism.

We can forgive it now that we saw where it ended. Nearly everyone is asking or looking up for Korra on Netflix.

>Everything about Amon was done perfectly.
nah, man
nah

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All of the criticisms have been discussed to death for years here. The show shat the bed so hard during its original run on Nick it was pulled off the air mid-season. It's not a good show, just a pretty one.

>All of the criticisms have been discussed to death for years here.
not really, most of the criticism discussed here is bad, stupid, shallow, or in bad faith

>bad, stupid, shallow, or in bad faith
So, just like the show lmao

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The only ways in which Korra is at all above the average Zig Forums show are production values. If that's your jam, yeah, sure Korra's a 9/10. If you give even the slightest shit about character arcs, or character chemistry, or lore, or themes, Korra is an exercise in frustration. It shits the bed in every way possible. It has three mediocre seasons and one good one.

Just because you want to fuck the main character, doesn't make the show good.

Amon was nearly perfect. Biggest dropped ball in 2010s western animation that I can remember.

The characters had terrible development across the four seasons, the pacing of the entire series is poor, the setting itself is boring and underutilized also the comedy is awful.

>discussed here
You've compared what is said here to other places? Can you please share these other places that have talked about the show not bad, not stupid, not shallow, or in good faith?

Everyone is missing OP's main question. OP wants to know if the reason Zig Forums shits on ATLA so much, or at least criticizes ATLA more than it did in the old days, is because Korra made us go back and reassess whether ATLA was as good as we thought it was.

Looking back on Avatar now, I can definitely see more flaws in it than I saw when I was a kid. But I still think it's the greatest animated series of the 2000s, and one of the greatest ever made. It's got so much heart and soul, and such good characters, that while it does have its flaws they don't kill it for me.

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>lore
fucking this so much, how much shit did they retcon and rewrite just for "Muh expanded universe" bullshit?

I remember the whole cave episode being about Oma and Shu being the original earthbenders and learning it from badgermoles, then all of a sudden in Korra, "lolnop lion turtles"

>how much shit did they retcon and rewrite just for "Muh expanded universe" bullshit?
Top of my head:
>Origin of the Avatar
>the Spirit portals
>Origin of bending
>Raava being there all along
>Mastery of the Avatar State requiring zero spirituality or 'letting go' like Aang had to

Fucking "Flight" and the White Lotus becoming a NGO that's basically an Avatar-indoctrination group are amongst the stupid decisions that don't directly retcon but are dumb fucking moves.

Literally it's because of contrarianism, it's one of those shows that is super popular for good reason so nerds love pointing out any tiny "flaw" as their own gotcha moment to try and prove it's not as good as people say it is

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Well yeah, everyone's watching TLA again without the goggles of youth and that's why it's getting bonus criticism. That's obvious. OP made a thinly veiled Korra thread.

TLA isn't suddenly bad because I realized the romances are kinda badly written. The core of the show is strong enough to weather a few missed marks.

post the most autistic criticism you can come up with
>Zuko's hair grows too fast for going from spring to summer

Zuko stole that ostrich horse and never made up for it, not even in a comic.

I'm watching Legend of Korra right now and while I wouldn't be as harsh and some people it really is worse than its predecessor in just about every way, including the romances which was ATLA's worst written aspect.

I'm starting season 2 which is apparently the worse one. I'm already not a huge fan.

I think if I was the age Nickelodeon chose to be the target audience I'd think it was a god tier show, but watching now especially after ATLA makes it real mediocre in comparison.

One main thing that comes to mind is how ATLA gave us three seasons for one main villain, each with like 20 episodes. That's compared to LOK which afaik has a different sort of villain every 12-15 episode season.