There, she trains under airbending master Tenzin, joins a pro-bending team alongside a pair of brothers, and works to maintain balance amid growing tensions between benders and non-benders. Across the show's four seasons, she becomes a fully realized Avatar, maintaining balance amid political strife. The series made waves in for its relatively unprecedented queer ending , which saw female protagonists Korra and Asami walking together into a portal of glowing, golden light.
World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App. Ng also pointed out that many elements of the show, especially today, draw comparisons to the Hong Kong resistance movement. Even more damning for Ng is the bottom line: Korra fails to resonate with her and her other friends of Asian diaspora the way it does for Western viewers. Maybe if there were more Asian people in positions of power on the show, there would be more authenticity.
Lee Siu-Leung; Lee is credited on Korra as a translator only. Airbender had the full support of Nickelodeon for a pre-planned three-season story that allowed it to develop organically. Its fate was always uncertain from season to season, and that precarious state saw competing narratives emerge — one version where the creators failed to replicate what made Airbender great, and one where Nickelodeon never fully embraced Korra and ultimately buried it along with all its potential.
The likelihood is that both factors are partly true. Though they did eventually draft two former Airbender writers, Josh Hamilton and Tim Hedrick, as well as Airbender writing assistant Katie Matilla, the show got off to an uneven start. Its first two seasons focused a lot of attention on messy love quadrangles that many fans hated. Korra had to fight both a reluctant Nickelodeon and an angry, divided fanbase for its entire, messy run.
Instead, the last half of season three and all of a truncated season four were only released online. Varney, however, told Vox she felt the creators had been true to their artistic vision. Mike and Bryan and the team they assembled, including profoundly gifted people like [co-executive producer] Joaquim Dos Santos, are incredibly thorough, precise, and have very strong ideas about their world and their story arcs.
From my perspective, they stayed their course. She also said that from her perspective, she saw only support from Nickelodeon. But she understood how the network shifts looked to fans. All of this confusing history just makes the show all the more primed for a timely cultural reappraisal. But if many fans both new and old are looking forward to the Netflix release, plenty more are gearing up to re-wage old battles. When Airbender arrived on Netflix in May, it was an instant hit.
But if many fans were overjoyed by the news, many others were disgruntled. Additionally, many fans have been rehashing the old comparisons between Aang and Korra, often with the requisite sexism and homophobia embedded in the arguments against Korra.
Irene also said she hoped viewers would give the show time to develop. Varney told me her hope is that more people get to experience Korra in a new context. Will you become our 20,th supporter? The reason is both lovely and surprising: Readers told us that they contribute both because they value explanation and because they value that other people can access it, too.
We have always believed that explanatory journalism is vital for a functioning democracy. Your financial contribution will not constitute a donation, but it will help keep Vox free for all. When Nickelodeon pulled Legend of Korra from the air without warning in the middle of season 3, and released season 4 entirely online, it became clear that the show had no future on the network.
Although Nickelodeon never officially canceled Legend of Korra , it systemically undermined the success of the show. Even before pulling Legend of Korra off the air, Nickelodeon was continuously changing the date and time that the show aired, and did almost no promotion for it. The explicit content of the series meant that Nickelodeon was hesitant to air Legend of Korra on a channel geared towards children, but pushing it online without warning meant that devoted fans had difficulty finding new episodes.
Already dealing with a ratings drop from waiting 18 months to release season 2, Legend of Korra never recovered after its move. Even despite Nickelodeon's sabotage, Legend of Korra season 5 may not have happened anyway, as DiMartino and Konietzko were ready to work outside of their creative partnership.
As a result of the show's soft cancellation or due to its low ratings, Legend of Korra season 5 never moved forward - but the story did continue after the show ended in a three-part graphic novel, Legend of Korra: Turf Wars. The graphic novel was written by DiMartino and is considered a canonical continuation of the series. Legend of Korra was criticized for the lack of an overarching plot but spent most of its run under the threat of cancellation due to the rapidly dropping ratings and explicit content.
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