Which only make their decisions with season 2, 3 and 4 all the more baffling. What the hell is their excuse? Season 2 had a dumpsterfire of an ending after they shoehorned the Wan stuff in. Season 3 was mostly OKish, but the way Korra just blanket-changed reality and brought the airbenders back on a whim was very frustrating. Season 4 also introduced a lot of things that really didn't work very well, and even had a clip show episode, a clear sign they were running low on budget, time and creativity.
Is Avatar actually better than Korra or is it just nostalgia + the stubborn refusal to accept that Avatar wasn't really...
Asher Wood
Jack Torres
Azula is basically a Villain Sue. Kuvira is a bit more balanced as a character but she suffers from being in a vastly shittier show and have less screentime.
Colton Reed
>Their one request was that each of the Books have its own contained arc, which was fine with Mike and me.
If so, they should have lobbied for at least 20 episodes per Book. 12/13/14 episodes maximum was really not enough for the amount of material/themes they were trying to cover. Or you know, not be retarded and just make all of it interconnected with Amon & the Equalists as the overarching villains (AKA the only villains worth a damn in the entire series right up until they fucked them in the finale of Book 1).
Blake Moore
Only if she promises Ty Lee a turn domming
Benjamin Rogers
I think the sad truth is they simply didnt have enough material/themes. You and I and everyone else might have their own ideas of what they could have done, but its clear from whats been said that what they gave us was exactly what they wanted to give us, which is a depressing indictment of their own lack of creativity/effort/energy for this sequel series.
Liam Sanchez
No, but it is still great.
Avatar was pretty fucking great, even the weak third season. Compared to Korra, which was not, or at least could have been "okay" (the first season anyway) if Avatar didn't exist. The issue is world consistency, among other things, such as poorer characters.
Eli Phillips
Both Avatar and Korra had pretty bad finales, but ATLA was a long journey with a lot of good episodes, while Korra was a series of tightly plotted and short seasons each of them, except for maybe 3, was ruined by a finale. Or, more like, they were never good, but instead worked towards finale that wasn't any good thus erasing their speculative value. ATLA finale won't erase good stuff with good pay-offs happening in previous seasons.
Nathaniel Jenkins
I always see people say ATLA's finale, specifically the energybending, was bad, but how else do you defeat Ozai without killing him? They had to invent something
Nolan Young
it's not so much that energybending itself is bad, it's just that it's a last minute asspull to ensure that aang doesn't have to change his values. if it was established as possible earlier, or the lion turtles were made more significant, it would have been a lot better. still wouldn't fix the issue of aang's avatar state lock being fixed by a random rock though.
Adam Bell
>how else do you defeat Ozai without killing him?
You don't. You have your hero learn to take his duty to the world seriously and stop fucking around. Especially considering how much plot arc was about learning this. The blam! Here's your deus ex machina, you get to keep your cultural attachment, you get a girl and who needs spiritual growth when you can open chakras with a rock?