A stunningly poor follow-up to the masterpiece that is "Avatar: The Last Airbender". While Korra has some fundamental consistency within a few of its seasons, it ultimately contains far too much teenage drama, poorly written characters (especially the villains), and lower quality animation as the series progresses (despite an uptick in quality for some strange reason in Season 3). It has less episodes than ATLA, but also does way less with the screentime. Serious moments are traded for far too many comic relief moments, and there must have been a dozen or so Deus Ex Machina moments to go along with this. I tried to enjoy this series more than I did, even restarting it after a long break, but it's just not that good. It really shows the weird anomaly where some artists are only able to create one masterpiece and can never create something great again - in this case, "The Legend of Korra" dropped the ball.
(+) Some good, even great moments in its 1st and 3rd seasons (=) Inconsistent animation quality (=) Not all episodes have a real purpose for existing (-) Many, many moments where characters act illogically or show no growth from previous encounters (-) Two extremely boring seasons (2nd and 4th) with massive amounts of narrative dysfunction, teenage love triangle nonsense, and Deus Ex Machina all over the place
Review by Tonydez415BlockedParent2022-11-09T02:15:10Z
A stunningly poor follow-up to the masterpiece that is "Avatar: The Last Airbender". While Korra has some fundamental consistency within a few of its seasons, it ultimately contains far too much teenage drama, poorly written characters (especially the villains), and lower quality animation as the series progresses (despite an uptick in quality for some strange reason in Season 3). It has less episodes than ATLA, but also does way less with the screentime. Serious moments are traded for far too many comic relief moments, and there must have been a dozen or so Deus Ex Machina moments to go along with this. I tried to enjoy this series more than I did, even restarting it after a long break, but it's just not that good. It really shows the weird anomaly where some artists are only able to create one masterpiece and can never create something great again - in this case, "The Legend of Korra" dropped the ball.
(+) Some good, even great moments in its 1st and 3rd seasons
(=) Inconsistent animation quality
(=) Not all episodes have a real purpose for existing
(-) Many, many moments where characters act illogically or show no growth from previous encounters
(-) Two extremely boring seasons (2nd and 4th) with massive amounts of narrative dysfunction, teenage love triangle nonsense, and Deus Ex Machina all over the place
Final Verdict: 6.42 (Above Average)