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Sep. 30th, 2013 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magnetic_poleIgnoring the ceaseless talk of shutdowns and furloughs in favor of a little internet escapism...
Anyone else watching Korra? I can't get over how thin and black-and-white this show seems, especially after the complex world building and grey antagonists of Avatar. It's funny, the series almost seems to be inverted, with the scenes starring Tenzin and his family--the lighthearted comic relief--touching a very real emotional chord with me, while the scenes with Korra--ostensibly where the Serious Action is going on--fall flat. Are there two different teams writing these two story lines? Has it not occurred to the creators of the show that Eska's threats of violence aren't funny, and Korra's interrogation techniques are unacceptable? The joy of Avatar has always been that the moral universe of the show was larger and more complicated than the universes of individual characters or subplots. Korra seems to go for a cheap laugh too often.
Anyone else watching Korra? I can't get over how thin and black-and-white this show seems, especially after the complex world building and grey antagonists of Avatar. It's funny, the series almost seems to be inverted, with the scenes starring Tenzin and his family--the lighthearted comic relief--touching a very real emotional chord with me, while the scenes with Korra--ostensibly where the Serious Action is going on--fall flat. Are there two different teams writing these two story lines? Has it not occurred to the creators of the show that Eska's threats of violence aren't funny, and Korra's interrogation techniques are unacceptable? The joy of Avatar has always been that the moral universe of the show was larger and more complicated than the universes of individual characters or subplots. Korra seems to go for a cheap laugh too often.
