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Watched through for the first time last month, and while people like to pick on The Great Divide or The Fortune-Teller or The Headband as the worst episodes, my vote there is actually for The Northern Air Temple, because its message about how "actually desecration of genocided indigenous people's sacred sites is okay because  " is loving abhorrent, holy poo poo.
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CainFortea posted:Amon was a grifter. He didn't want to stop benders, he wanted to be the only bender. FWIW, the writers finally came out and said he really believed everything he said, even if technically you are still correct. I'd like to recommend the Politicsbending youtube videos after you're done with Korra, OP.
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Sep 10, 2020 23:04
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The problem with Korra villains are that two of them shouldn't have been villains at all but were because what they represent terrified the neoliberal writers, the imperial fascist was the only one to be humanized and Had A Point About The Barbarians At The Gates (two thing you should never, ever do with fascists in fiction), and the season 2 guy was such a poorly written mess no two people can even agree what he was supposed to represent. Enviromentalism? Spirtualism? Decolonization? Water Tribe Ozai? Who the gently caress knows!
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Dec 5, 2020 12:27
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It's a mess because bending is used as a metaphor for power and privilege like the high end augments in DX:Human Revolution, but it's also supposed to be tied to spirituality which is out the window with Korra with like Lightning and Metal benders all over the place in industrialized society. Korra herself spends most of the series examining why randomly giving nigh-god-like nuke powers to someone with the personality of Toph but the maturity of Aang in world of infinitely grey morality and competing ideologies is A Bad Thing.
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