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That the entire Korra series was written by horny corporate virtue signalers with no actual moral values rather than the same team that made ATLA.
The entire world is just yucky and forcibly westernized for absolutely no good goddamn reason. The characters we get introduced to are shallow, narcissistic, and basic beyond belief. Instead of wanting to learn more about the world like I did with ATLA, I'd be right in the fuckin swamp next to Toph.
There was no fan service that I remember and bi people exist.
The Varrick was one of the more fun side characters out of both series. His old timey cockiness and immorality was really interesting.
Korra started off cocky and pampered, then got her ass handed to her time and time again, slipped into depression and came back.
The equalist movement was awesome and raised good points.
Zaheer was a cooler villain than most Aang villains.
Korra had its flaws but I thought it was enjoyable and rewatchable.
I had more problems with making horny teenager drama a focus of the early story than any sort of fan service. Also showing an emotionally abusive relationship as cute or funny is gross no matter how you cut it.
Further, I don't think I can ever beat the dead horse of unnecessary westernization too much. Virtually ALL the conflict in the series is about the world struggling to westernize. Politics, social structure, technology, the whole fuckin cultural spectrum and it's all psuedovictorian eurocentric TRASH. I loved all the subtle (and not so subtle) nods to all sorts of asiatic cultures and they threw it all away for cheap, overdone turn of the century cosplay.
That's fair. I really enjoyed the steampunk plus bending vibe, but I can accept it's not for everyone.
Hated the giant robot ending, but honestly I wasn't the biggest fan of the dragonball z ending of AtLA either.
The animation was good at least. The only part of the story that I enjoyed was the villain of the first season, but it didn't hook me enough to watch the whole season...