Avatar: Seven Havens' Apocalyptic Premise Has Korra Fans Worried Their Hero Is Going to Get Slandered
Avatar: Seven Havens' Apocalyptic Premise Has Korra Fans Worried Their Hero Is Going to Get Slandered
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Avatar: Seven Havens' Apocalyptic Premise Has Korra Fans Worried Their Hero Is Going to Get Slandered
Seven Havens' plot tease has already set The Legend of Korra defenders back a decade again.
LoK fans who actually participate in any of the modern fandom are so jaded. It's like Star Wars, where the original gets put on a higher and higher pedestal (by the fandom) as the years drag by, and every tiny thing about the sequels fry under microscopes and nostalgia.
And /r/thelastairbender is so... I dunno the word, but I haven't checked it in months. It's like everyone has a short attention span and keeps asking the same things without a single search. No interest in deep lore or speculation, lots of misinformation parroted, and repetitive, almost reverent fawning over ATLA. It wasn't like this during the LoK premiere.
Tumblr and other art feeds are still nice though. Meanwhile, I'm over here shamelessly writing out a Seven Havens fic on Ao3. At peace.
Everything changed when season 2 aired. And it was the worst season of avatar for sure, but 1 was good, and 3 and 4 were amazing. But by the time 3 started there was a hatedom. There were anti korra youtubers and everything. I've been in the fandom since korra started and a friend got me to binge atla to join him watching it. I remember being called a crack shipper on reddit in season 1 for my pro korrasami stance.
The worst part of the anti korra people is their lack of media literacy. Its fine if you prefer the tone of atla or prefer aang's struggle of morality vs duty, but a lot of the critiques of Korra aren't that. They're calling her a Mary Sue despite her being in line with every avatar in specialness and power level. I remember critiques that she never really struggled which was patently untrue or that she was immature which was her growth arc.
Ultimately I trust bryke. Korra is one of my favorite characters. She felt like a reincarnation of aang struggling in his shadow. And it's clear the creators of the show liked her too. I suspect the end we will see is what we keep being shown by this setting's content: each avatar is an imperfect but ultimately good human who stepped up and is now in an impossible position but continues to do their best.
So yeah I'm excited and I want nothing to do with the fandom. I assume they'll hate this avatar before long too.
Interesting.
My experience doesn't go that far back. Other than a few random ATLA episodes as a kid, I first watched Avatar (IIRC) just about after Book 4 aired, and the order was LoK -> ATLA -> LoK again. The Reddit fandom seemed pretty positive back then, though.
And yeah, misconceptions about lore are always really annoying, especially when people are really certain/aggressive but don't accept references.
I'm excited, but afraid Bryke will try to "appease" the fandom, which is impossible. I hope they don't.
If avatar was the war, korra explains why it was fought. Yoj fight for every single person, you carry each with you. It's crucial to learn empathy and become one with what isn't you. Only then can you grow, only then you can inspire.
I have had my replies to old there "reposted" by me to a new post of the same question as the original. Started getting new replies too, it only seemed to have dupes of the first layer of replies (direct to post replies). I think Reddit is regurgitating posts there to generate conversation.