AVATAR LEGEND OF KORRA SEASON 2 EPISODE 1 SERIES
The explicit content of the series meant that Nickelodeon was hesitant to air Legend of Korra on a channel geared towards children, but pushing it online without warning meant that devoted fans had difficulty finding new episodes. Even before pulling Legend of Korra off the air, Nickelodeon was continuously changing the date and time that the show aired, and did almost no promotion for it. When Nickelodeon pulled Legend of Korra from the air without warning in the middle of season 3, and released season 4 entirely online, it became clear that the show had no future on the network.Īlthough Nickelodeon never officially canceled Legend of Korra, it systemically undermined the success of the show. Nickelodeon eventually gave the show a total of 52 episodes and four seasons, but as the ratings for Legend of Korra rapidly declined, season 5 never happened. While Avatar: The Last Airbender was promised a three-season run (with potential for a fourth, which was ultimately scrapped), Legend of Korra was never guaranteed anything past the original one-season order. Legend of Korra had a troubled relationship with Nickelodeon from the start. Related: Why Legend of Korra is BETTER Than Avatar: The Last Airbender Since Legend of Korra has been added to Netflix, the debate over the show has fired back up. Many fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender hated the show's tonal shift, and many fans of Legend of Korra blamed Nickelodeon's refusal to promote the show for its demise. Legend of Korra was significantly different from its predecessor. While Avatar: The Last Airbender was aimed at children, Legend of Korra was designed for an older audience, and it dealt with more mature themes such as terrorism, fascism, and sexual orientation.
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Following a significant drop in ratings and both creators looking to move onto different projects, Legend of Korra ended with season 4, which was released online in its entirety. Legend of Korra focused on the new Avatar, a teenage girl named Korra, and significantly built out the mythology of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Prior to the premiere of season 2, co-creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko announced at San Diego Comic-Con that Nickelodeon had ordered 26 more episodes, to be divided into seasons 3 and 4. I wasn’t entertained because I felt like I’d seen it all before.Legend of Korra was a sequel series to Nickelodeon's wildly popular Avatar: The Last Airbender, and it ran for four seasons before it was quietly canceled ahead of season 5. brother Korra’s preference for brute force over thoughtfulness and spirituality, these are all things that have been done over and over again. But the conflicts we’re seeing here: religious fanaticism versus secularism brother vs. Even Korra managed to go places and have conversations that were virtually unheard of in the medium. What made Avatar: the Last Airbender so great (and what worked best in Korra‘s first season) is that it took risks and was completely different from anything we’d ever seen. I think, ultimately, that’s why the episode fell a little flat for me: it felt tried and true.
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‘Religious’ (if it can be called that) fanaticism is hardly a new narrative, and it fits right into the ‘has a point, but going about it completely wrong’ paradigm that this show favours. But because I am cynical and still a bit bummed by how the Amon/Equalists thing played out last season, I spent the entire episode thinking, “Yeah, he’s right, but? There has to be a ‘but,’ that somehow makes him the bad guy even though he has a point.” So when, in the end, the Northern Tribe’s army started marching off their boats, I wasn’t surprised. The sheer number of violent attacks in this episode are proof of that. The conflict itself is interesting: much as the Equalists had a point, so does Korra’s uncle: it’s quite demonstrably factual that the Southern Tribe’s rejection of spirituality has upset the spirits. Maybe they will have learned from last season’s mistakes and do better this time. The same thing feels true about the arc between Korra’s father and uncle, although admittedly I am jumping the gun by already being apprehensive about how the writers will handle this conflict.