>>96995692>>96996179Oh boy. I gotta copypaste this one. But first.
Basically Korra detached itself from ATLA completely because Bryke were too afraid of living in it's shadow. Everything was dropped or changed to have a new, feminist show about some dyke for tumblr.
However probably the biggest offender were Beginnings which completely and utterly destroyed the whole Avatar setting. And this can't be fixed until a NEW sequel is made and Korra is considered non-canon. Everything about this arc destroyed EVERYTHING about the lore.
Now to the copypasta:
1) From a storytelling consistency perspective. This origin story is in direct contradiction with the legends presented in ATLA: the people learning how to bend from animals, the myths, the fact that animals can bend elements, the absence of any records about this era (I mean, we are shown that this ancient civilization could write, so why there were no written records about any of this?), the depiction of the spirits, the various Avatars never mentioning Raava etc..
2) From a philosophical perspective. The mythology of ATLA was heavily based on eastern philosophy (the idea of balance, the avatar as the power of equilibrium etc) while in this prequel there is a strong dychotomy between good and evil, with the underlying idea that evil (Vaatu) must be contained, repressed and confined by the power of goodness (Raava). This tipe of approach is based on the western christian philosophy (God vs Satan, rightousness vs sin) and is in direct contradiction with the eastern concepts of balance . Don't get me wrong, I am not against the use of the christian approach in storytelling, the problem here is the cohexistence of two philosophies that are in open contradiction with each other. The mythology of the Avatar itself is now a complete mess, because they tried to fuse two approaches that are incompatible.
We started from a buddist monk, and know we have a Jesus with a vagina and a bad ripoff of the original sin myth.
cont.
