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So, The Last Airbender is good. Korra is also good, in a lot of ways. Animation? Brilliant. Choreography? Yes. Anything beyond a surface deep reading of its representation as politics? Well....

Its so weird, how did they go from AtLA, to this show where every good guy is either a cop or a CEO or literal royalty and every single villain is some caricature of a leftist? In the last season, theres a king whos demonstrably dumb, vain, and in no way should be in charge but hes just still played as the good guy and anyone who doesn't want him to be king is evil???

The Avatar, protector of the people, seeker of balance, coming in just to restore the status quo leaders every single time. Its the definition of liberal politics. Just made this thread to bitch, but lets all complain about how many times the heroes in these stories blindly return everything to how it was because "any change = bad"

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[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

The thing with Kuvira have several parts:

  • They protrayed an obvious Hitler like "oh just some good intended person that got power crazy"
  • The reasons why Kuvira got to power were a good critique, but she went full Hitler.
  • They give a redemption arc to fucking Hitler.
  • THE FUCKING GIANT ROBOT

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[ Nice thing Korra had to talk to Zaheer to learn how to beat Kuvira, almost like liberals don't know how to fight fascist but only enable them].