Why do people hate Legend Of Korra so much?

[autisticgeordie]

I mean, I know that on YouTube it's almost a requirement to be a critic about everything, because YouTube is a place that rewards pointless negativity like CinemaSins that just criticise for the sake of criticising; like, people seem to enjoy being negative on YouTube and it seems that just shitting on something is the best way to get yourself some attention. 

But, damn, I had no idea that people hated Legend Of Korra so much, I get it, everyone is a critic on YouTube and they've got to be overly negative about every little thing, but I don't really get why the Legend Of Korra got so much hate, honestly, I thought that it was better than The Last Airbender, especially during Season 1 of Korra. 

[Cyno]

They do? Most of the hate I've seen is for the show is solely reserved for the second season (which is fair, because the second season was bad and easily the worst one of the show). Rest of the show seems well-regarded from what I've seen. The Korra/Asami pairing also got a lot of praise, even if people incapable of reading subtext complained about it coming out of nowhere.

[autisticgeordie]

Feb 3, 2020 14:18:33 GMT -5 Cyno said:

They do? Most of the hate I've seen is for the show is solely reserved for the second season. Rest of the show seems well-regarded from what I've seen. The Korra/Asami pairing also got a lot of praise, even if people incapable of reading subtext complained about it coming out of nowhere.

I mean, I once saw a video with a time-stamp of 1 hour and 35 minutes about how it's garbage; I imagine that it has it's fair amount of detractors.

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Feb 3, 2020 14:19:46 GMT -5 autisticgeordie said:

Feb 3, 2020 14:18:33 GMT -5 Cyno said:

They do? Most of the hate I've seen is for the show is solely reserved for the second season. Rest of the show seems well-regarded from what I've seen. The Korra/Asami pairing also got a lot of praise, even if people incapable of reading subtext complained about it coming out of nowhere.

I mean, I once saw a video with a time-stamp of 1 hour and 35 minutes about how it's garbage; I imagine that it has it's fair amount of detractors.

That's a common review format on youtube, to be fair. See that creators other video on Stephen Universe or HBomberguys video on Fallout 4.

My biggest gripe with legend of korra is how goddang powerful Korra is right away.

[chrom]

I stopped watching middle of S2.

They blew it with Amon

[Simon]

Season 1 was insanely popular at the time it aired, and a lot of people forget that. However, there is a lot of sentiment that the ending is a total dud, with a complete deus ex machina required to solve Korra's problems for her. The probending stuff also just seems...weird, on a rewatch. It's like an in-series pitch for a videogame that just didn't go anywhere.

Season 2, besides having a terrible villain who was a huge step down after Amon and his mystique, Beverly Hills: 90210-level relationship drama, and a shockingly lazy "amnesia" twist, also shifted the Avatar cosmology toward a more Western "Force of Good vs Force of Evil" dichotomy that many fans disliked and found at odds with ATLA's more Eastern philosophies. Quite a few fans also never forgave the show for making the suggestion that Aang was a neglectful parent to Bumi and Kya. It's rare to see Season 2 spoken of in the fandom without contempt.

Which is a shame, because Seasons 3-4 are much, MUCH better, with S3 in particular having some of the best villains and the best fights in either series.

The show's problems are definitely symptomatic of the showrunners just not knowing how many seasons/how much time they were going to get to tell the story, so they didn't get to plot a 4-season saga in advance. Unsurprisingly, once they got confirmed for two seasons (S3 and S4), they produced a much better story.

[hassanchop]

My problem is the writing. The characters weren't that memorable, and weren't fleshed out enough, I don't remember anything unique of Mako or his brother. And I'm not a fan of the pro-bending segments they just felt like filler, the stories also felt too short. It's not like the worse, it's just a letdown. Well here's another view which is not an hour, but not sure if you can stand the person's voice:



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[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

“People” as a whole don’t. It’s essentially one season that gets heavily criticized. Me, I love the whole show, flaws and all.

[Bobeddy]

Feb 3, 2020 14:19:46 GMT -5 autisticgeordie said:

Feb 3, 2020 14:18:33 GMT -5 Cyno said:

They do? Most of the hate I've seen is for the show is solely reserved for the second season. Rest of the show seems well-regarded from what I've seen. The Korra/Asami pairing also got a lot of praise, even if people incapable of reading subtext complained about it coming out of nowhere.

I mean, I once saw a video with a time-stamp of 1 hour and 35 minutes about how it's garbage; I imagine that it has it's fair amount of detractors.

Honestly, any show with a modicum of success is going to have an hour plus video of someone explaining why it's bad and why the people who like it are just sheep or aren't as smart. Now in fairness, there are plenty of essayists who have many well reasoned arguments but I find most fall into the former rather than the latter.

For what it's worth, I really liked Korra and everyone I've spoken to in person and most online seemed to think the same.

[BorneAgain]

The middle section of Korra often feels like a plot cul-de-sac in regards to certain developments, and its a telling sign when even the tediousness of Bolin's storyline with the movers is infinitely more preferable to the love triangle nonsense happening with the other leads.

[Deleted]

I think hate's a strong word but I certainly don't love it, though do kind of lean more like than dislike. Season 2 I hated enough that it killed my interest for a long time with it, but eventually I came back around to it and by now my opinion pretty much stands at...

Season 1 - Deeply flawed, the more you think about it the less it works, but there is still a lot to like about it, mostly as it pertains to Amon.

Season 2 - It's shit but it gets better in the second half, though the finale is just the writers throwing their hands up and giving up. Unalaq is an awful villain and while Varrick is certainly way better the Mako / Asami / Bolin plot ultimately does virtually nothing besides pad out time, because the end result of it is basically they start the season with a boat and with Mako and Asami as exes and then they end the season with a boat and them as exes.

Season 3 - Genuinely good but it still has its stupid parts, like pretty much everything to do with the grandma. Zaheer's really such an excellent villain that it does a lot to elevate it though, and Korra's probably her most fully functional as a character while by this point they've taken steps to undo a lot of the problems with the rest of the cast.

Season 4 - A big step down from season 3 but it's serviceable. The finale is just a boring slog to get through though, and a lot of the characters slip in their likability. Think the biggest issue with it is probably Kuvira's second-in-command who is pretty much the most MWAHAHAHA character in the series besides Unalaq only to get a face turn for no apparent reason, but it has a lot of other issues. Still, it's functional. Also while I like the idea of Varrick / Zhu Li and Korra / Asami as couples I feel like both make the jump from, "They're close," to, "They're in love," way too quickly to take it all that seriously.

[Sponsored by Groose Wipes]

Season 1 would have been FLAWLESS if not for the rushed ending. It really felt like a "oh crap we only have 2 more episodes to wrap all this up" issue. I think most if not all of the hate for season 1 comes from the disappointing ending.

I think the plan was to just be a one off season and be done. It might explain why season 2 is pretty awful and feels like there's tons of filler in it. Season 3 and 4 does get better, at that point they found their groove again but not as much as the first season.

I think most people hate Korra because the only they thing have to compare it too is A:TLA, and it's no A:TLA.

[Mozenrath]

I don't hate it one bit or anything, I just liked season 1 most.

It doesn't hurt that, for all the people we found out stuff about, Sokka shows up in like one or two flashbacks, but Suki isn't referenced in any way whatsoever that I can recall, and that sucks.

[Zone Was Wrong]

Feb 3, 2020 15:06:59 GMT -5 Clash, Never a Meter Maid said:

“People” as a whole don’t. It’s essentially one season that gets heavily criticized. Me, I love the whole show, flaws and all.

Same. If I am being honest, I kinda enjoyed it more than Avatar *dodges thrown objects*

I don't know, the art direction was terrific, I LOVED Korra and the rest of the cast. But most of all, I loved the setting so much, that quasi early 1900s feel was fascinating to me and I liked a lot of the questions they asked throughout. Season 2, yeah it was rough. But Season 3, and most of all its finale, was incredible. Season 4 kinda turned the whole world upside down and I couldn't get enough. Started to collect the after series trades after it ended. And that music playing in those closing moments was SO beautiful.

And I think a lot of people's problem with their relationship miss the fact that it's not that they're all the sudden in love but are starting their relationship as the show ends.

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Feb 3, 2020 17:13:16 GMT -5 Sponsored by Groose Wipes said:

Season 1 would have been FLAWLESS if not for the rushed ending. It really felt like a "oh crap we only have 2 more episodes to wrap all this up" issue. I think most if not all of the hate for season 1 comes from the disappointing ending.

Eh, season 1 has other issues. Probending takes up way too much time while never really actually mattering to the story at all or even having its rules clearly explained, Tarrlok is so actively trying to piss non-benders off that his actions only make any sense at all if he's Amon which he isn't, the bloodbending comes right out of nowhere and the only justification they can be bothered to give is Sokka's, "I dunno, just go with it,", the love triangle's a total mess and also takes up way too much time, for being the supposed focus of the season the airbending thing is really only a factor at the very beginning and very end, the heroes basically just lose one fight after another after another but none of it has any weight to it because they don't seem to be aware of it, Sato totally gets away with his crimes and then outs himself to the police for basically no apparent reason...

[Cyno]

Feb 3, 2020 17:18:57 GMT -5 Zone Was Wrong said:

Feb 3, 2020 15:06:59 GMT -5 Clash, Never a Meter Maid said:

“People” as a whole don’t. It’s essentially one season that gets heavily criticized. Me, I love the whole show, flaws and all.

Same. If I am being honest, I kinda enjoyed it more than Avatar *dodges thrown objects*

I don't know, the art direction was terrific, I LOVED Korra and the rest of the cast. But most of all, I loved the setting so much, that quasi early 1900s feel was fascinating to me and I liked a lot of the questions they asked throughout. Season 2, yeah it was rough. But Season 3, and most of all its finale, was incredible. Season 4 kinda turned the whole world upside down and I couldn't get enough. Started to collect the after series trades after it ended. And that music playing in those closing moments was SO beautiful.

And I think a lot of people's problem with their relationship miss the fact that it's not that they're all the sudden in love but are starting their relationship as the show ends.

I liked it more than TLA, too. Granted TLA was a little more consistent in quality but I think Korra's highs were better than TLA's highs. And TLA also didn't have Henry Rollins as a big bad.

[The Spelunker!]

I loved the first season and couldn’t get through the second.

[jimmyjackezekiel]

I don't hate Korra. Then again I never watched either Avatar series. I was no longer watching cartoons when that was a thing. I doubt I'd like either series though. Especially Avatar's cop-out of an ending.

[A Platypus Rave]

Mainly cause most people see it as a step down from Avatar the last airbender.

I think this mostly comes from it was pretty clear that they didn't have a story fully plotted out and were flying by the seat of their pants on a lot of things mainly since unlike Avatar they didn't know if they'd have the seasons to run with an epic over arching story like Last Airbender.

and they also had the incredibly difficult task of following up TLA which a lot of people have called one of the best animated shows of all time.

[Cyno]

Feb 4, 2020 0:03:02 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Mainly cause most people see it as a step down from Avatar the last airbender.

I think this mostly comes from it was pretty clear that they didn't have a story fully plotted out and were flying by the seat of their pants on a lot of things mainly since unlike Avatar they didn't know if they'd have the seasons to run with an epic over arching story like Last Airbender.

Didn't Nick abruptly cancel TLA on them, too? And yeah, I think they were going season by season on things. I wonder if they were essentially forced into working with Nickelodeon because of rights issues or if they thought Nick wouldn't screw them over on TLoK.