I just want to say I am a fan of the original shows of Avatar the Last Air Bender and The Legend of Korra and I am absolutely pissed off about the way this series and IP have been treated by the execs at Nickelodeon and Paramount. This series is by far the most amazing and profound IPs to ever come from this production company and they treat it like it belongs in the dustbin of failed nickelodeon ips. I have been watching ATLA and TLoK from the beginning recently and the depth of storytelling and animation that exists in these shows can only be found along side the heights of Eastern anime. Why is it that TLok wasn't even broadcast on TV all the way though to it's last season? Why wasn't Aang: The Last Air Bender given a guaranteed theatrical release? Paramount and Nickelodeon are absolutely trashing their own golden IP due to marketing bullshit. Please will anybody say they understand how good these shows are? How they are better than 99% of the garbage produced by these companies?
god yes, the way they handled korra especially was criminal. moving it online mid-series like it was some failed experiment when the animation quality was literally movie-tier
i remember being so confused when season 4 just... disappeared from tv and you had to hunt it down on their website. meanwhile they're pumping out endless spongebob spinoffs that nobody asked for
the storytelling depth in both series is insane - like korra dealing with ptsd and political complexity while still being accessible to kids? that's masterclass writing. but execs probably saw "animated = kids show = c**** filler content" and completely missed what they had
it's wild how these shows have this massive dedicated fanbase years later but the network acts like they're embarrassed by them. meanwhile disney is making bank off their animated properties because they actually respect the medium
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SnailOpera900022 hr ago
+1
It really felt like watching a studio accidentally throw away an Oscar contender. Korra’s “moved online” era deserved a Blu-ray with commentary just to publicly shame those exec decisions.
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NoLeadership228122 hr ago
+11
It’s insane that the last Avatar project(Korra)is in 2014, I don’t like when studio start milking a franchise, but this is the case where a franchise is so undervalued with so much potential, there’s so many stories that deserve to be told, I recently rewatched both ATLA and Korra, the way they developed the evolution of the society in a new generation over years and the world building is exciting, but the studios just treat it like c***…
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ragnarlothbruv21 hr ago
+5
Are we excluding films and live-action? The new Avatar animated film is releasing later this year, and of course the live-action Netflix series is ongoing.
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Raider_Scum19 hr ago
+5
I mean, the movie is out.
It's decent, not groundbreaking. It would have bombed in theaters, to be honest.
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NoLeadership228120 hr ago
+1
Yea this year the animated movie is coming, but with the recent leak fiasco, my fear is just how even more careless the studio is treating it, and with the Netflix live action, I appreciate it did bring the Avatar discussion back to general public but still pretty apathetic about the result, there are some great changes that I think really enhanced from the original source material, but overall I still feel like it’s more suitable in animation form
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5-oclock-Charlie22 hr ago
+4
At least there's the movie this year + the fighting game which looks promising
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idki19 hr ago
+3
I dunno, not every company has the production capacities of the MCU or Star Wars. It was unusual enough to get a kids show sequel series to a kids show, and Korra turned out to be a success enough that it went from a 12 episode miniseries to four full blown seasons, and the production staff correctly gauged how much more mature their original audiences had become. There's been consistent comics, books, and games, and even seasons of a live action adaptation, but quality is never guaranteed and since they aren't animated shows/movies I imagine they don't 'count' as much. Nickelodeon opened a studio specifically for Avatar media in 2021 and their first project they announced is the animated movie coming out this year (I have a hunch it's really good) and there's another animated series about the Avatar after Korra premiering next year.
I don't know about the reasoning behind the decision to move the show online back then. I had already lost interest in the series. But everything they've been doing over the past twenty years, while not being enough for super fans, isn't an unreasonable amount of media for one franchise.
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SeDaCho20 hr ago
+5
There is no level of disrespect that studios won’t stoop to for an animated series.
Just ask Infinity Train.
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LowCalligrapher314 hr ago
+2
Also Gargoyles, Young Justice, among others.
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myrdraal200120 hr ago
+4
Blame the homophobes for what happened to Korra. I thought that they were developing a new show titled, as of now, Avatar: Seven Havens.
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Raider_Scum19 hr ago
+7
Agreed.
When i first started watching Korra, I mentioned it to a co-worker. They said it was an alright show, but then it "Got all LGBT".
Now I'm a gay man (co-worker didn't know at the time), so I was kind of looking forward to seeing representation.
My f****** face when I watched the entire show, and the "Going all LGBT" part is the literal last 5 seconds of the series finale - f****** holding hands - in a manner so subtle, it would go over kids' heads.
And that was enough to sour a man's entire attitude about the show.
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jerog114 hr ago
+1
ragebait on the internet is what soured him. he probably saw some youtube takedown
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LowCalligrapher314 hr ago
Crazy homophobia. That person needs to grow up and watch a series that REALLY gets feisty, Torchwood!
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KeremyJyles21 hr ago
+2
Like it or not, it's a business and these decisions are made with a focus on money first, not quality. Korra was taken off tv because not enough people gave a shit. Avatar movie got no theatrical release because not enough people would go. It's really as simple as that.
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IronVader50118 hr ago
+1
Sometimes it feels Nickelodeon hated all of their animated shows that aren't spongebob.
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Jackbuddy7822 hr ago
Why does like every post get downvoted on thos sublistnook lol
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xMadwood22 hr ago
+3
I imagine people are sick of hearing about it. Yes, it’s excellent tv, not transcendent the way op seems to think but it’s very very good. But if it were getting the eyeballs it needed to it wouldn’t be getting jerked around like this.
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yuriAza18 hr ago
+1
but it is one of the best shows ever made tho
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CrackLawliet18 hr ago
+1
As someone who was in the target audience when the show aired, it’s definitely fatigue. Avatar adults feel like the new Disney adults. I enjoy the shows for what they were worth, but people treat them like the best show of all time. God forbid you like Korra more than last Airbender.
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zippazappadoo22 hr ago
-1
Making this post I expected it to be downvoted. I don't know if it's bots. I don't know if it's people with actual criticisms. All I know is this is an amazing series that deserves more than it's gotten from the powers that be. It's one of the best written and produced western animations ever yet the company that created it treats it like shit and I don't understand why.
Edit: what's even worse is seeing comments I've upvoted not even getting applied in order to reduce opinions agreeing with me from appearing at the top of the discussion. In case anyone needed evidence of corporate manipulation on this sublistnook. Here it is.
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