1/19/2024 0 Comments Legend of korra![]() ![]() JM: The thrill of Korra eventually getting gay is very important to me, even if I did spend a lot of the show wishing it got gayer faster. Which, I mean, a car! Once the initial shock wore off, it was the innovations and the way they built on the incredible world of the original that made me obsess. I love the Batman comparison - that’s totally what it feels like every time Asami gets behind the wheel of a car. The show gives you so much that it’s easy to get lost in a moment. Korra’s greatest similarity with TLA, to me, is in the details. In Book One, as Korra travels from the training facility in the South Pole she called home to bustling Republic City, I felt similarly, venturing out from the familiar safety of Aang’s story and suddenly expected to contend with the problems of an unfamiliar place. ![]() But I was totally unprepared for the way Korra differs from the heart of TLA - that is, a ragtag group of best friends fighting toward a common good. After having so much fun rewatching The Last Airbender (for the third time) in quarantine, watching Korra seemed like the obvious next step. ![]() Zoë Haylock: I came into Korra knowing two things: I loved The Last Airbender and that Korra eventually got gay. What was your first impression of watching the show? A change of pace from the epic end of the first series, to say the least. It reminded me a lot of something influenced by detective serials or even Batman cartoons, with Korra, the newest reincarnation of the Avatar, going around trying to solve one big noir-ish mystery. Jackson McHenry: We should start with the first book, since Korra was originally going to be just a miniseries, but if you’re going into the show from The Last Airbender, you’ll probably notice just how different Korra’s tone and animation style feels from the jump. ( Note: Light spoilers for the series lie ahead, including references to its finale.) So, what can you expect from Korra if you just binged Avatar for the first time this summer? What are the two shows’ comparative strengths and weaknesses? And is Zhu Li an icon? (Obviously, yes.) We got two of Vulture’s Avatar heads together to do the thing, by which we mean discuss. The series ran for four “books” from 2012 to 2014, and yes, while it’s already on CBS All Access (shoutout to all five devoted Good Fight fans), we’re very excited for it to get a bigger platform on Netflix starting tomorrow. Avatar’s creators, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, went back into their original universe several decades later with Korra, which moves things into a 1920-ish version of New York, with a set of adult main characters who are older than the original Avatar gang. After the runaway success that Avatar: The Last Airbender had on Netflix this summer, the streaming service announced that the Nickelodeon animated series’s sequel series, The Legend of Korra, would be coming to the platform on August 14. Yep, all that backstory about his family being killed by a firebender and that scar? His claim that spirits gave him the power to bend because the Avatar had failed the world? All fake.To adopt the voice of the old-timey radio announcer who does the “previously on” segments for The Legend of Korra, there’s big news in Republic City. With this power he took the alias of Amon and became leader of the Equalists. However, Noatak was very much alive and learned he could use bloodbending to take other benders abilities away from them. After killing his father in order to protect his brother Tarrlok (another suspect for Amon’s identity), Noatak fled and was presumed dead. Yakone wished to pass this technique along to Noatak in order to get revenge on Aang for taking away his bending. MASSIVE spoilers for The Legend of Korra season one are ahead so proceed at your own risk.Īmon was in fact a water-bender named Noatak who was trained by his father, Yakone, to be a bloodbender. Possible suspects included Koh the Face Stealer, Jet, and even Aang! However, the true person hiding under the mask was much more complicated and not whom anyone suspected. Who was the real identity of Amon, the leader of the Equalists? At the time of the show’s airing there were tons of theories thrown around about who was under the mask. The Legend of Korra‘s first season had a big mystery attached to it. ![]() The following contains spoilers for AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER and THE LEGEND OF KORRA. ![]()
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