writing too many words about korra

the addition of tarrlok being a grody prejudiced dickback is mitigating some of the issues i have had with korra, given that they are at least establishing a figure that clearly represents the impetus for the equalist movement’s existence in the first place beyond “amon is a dick”

if they actually introduce some sort of moderate equalist figure, or at least explicitly acknowledge the divide between the ideology of the equalist movement and the extremism in amon’s methods, instead of wholly conflating the two without nuance as they have been up to this point, that will go a long way

the way the black and white depictions of these early episodes mirror korra’s own naivete will seem retrospectively clever provided they DO address it at some point. tarrlok pointing out korra’s own kind of might-is-right issues is at least giving me hope that they are aware of this and will further expound on the intricacies of the conflict in tandem with the continued dissolution of korra’s myopically limited worldview

this whole premise is hella ambitious for a children’s show though, like, is the network even going to ALLOW them to address the issue with the degree of depth it basically requires to not be really… bad??? the handling has been so simplistic this far, mostly through omission so it’s not like they don’t have plenty of room to expand, but i can’t confidently tell whether they’re going somewhere with that or if the scope will be unavoidably limited by their target audience

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  1. manisoke reblogged this from ipgd and added:
    Thank you. I kinda gave up hopping this show will get better when they pulled out the giant platinum robots…. Y’never...
  2. stupiderjupiter reblogged this from ipgd and added:
    This pretty accurately describes my own I really want this story to be the best it can be feelings.
  3. tatpurusha said: But Amon already had a motive— benders make powerful criminals and non-benders are helpless in the face of even the sloppiest bender, as was established earlier. Making Tarrlok so obviously “evil” seems like a misstep to me.
  4. heysawbones said: a second season or not, so a lot of things that should’ve been spread out and elaborated on got crammed in really early on. It grates.
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