And that fourth book, titled “Balance,” really had Korra come into her own. Korra, on the other hand, had to grow much more, and her growth was more satisfying than Aang’s as an end result. But Aang was always likeable and a natural fit as Avatar. Korra knew everything but airbending at her start. Aang only knew airbending at the start of his training. Because honestly, Korra was, in my opinion, one of the least interesting characters in the first two seasons, but I really warmed up to her by the fourth season.īecause Korra was always meant to be the polar opposite of Aang. But even though The Legend of Korra only had 52 episodes, I really think having a fourth season helped to round out Korra’s character arc. Yes, there are only three seasons (or books) and only 61 episodes, but the show rarely wasted any time, and each episode gave enormous growth to the characters and to the mythology. That’s why I feel like The Legend of Korra had much higher stakes than The Last Airbender-when it played with the lore, it played for keeps.Īvatar feels complete as a series. Or what about when Korra lost her connection with all the past Avatars? The ramifications of that were (and are) huge, and I tense up just thinking about it.

But anytime he was present, there was always a looming doom to him that was never matched on Avatar. The first villain, Amon, was a great example of this since he could permanently take somebody’s bending abilities away from them-or so we thought. This was very different from The Legend of Korra, where the stakes were always sky high. But in the long run, you never really felt like things wouldn’t turn out alright for our heroes. That’s not to say that stuff didn’t get real on Avatar, as anytime Aang went into his Avatar state, I held my breath. True, Avatar was a much more personal show, and characters like Toph and Iroh had much better internal struggles than the characters in The Legend of Korra.But when you spend whole episodes concerning rescuing Appa, then you’re kind of on the low-end scale when it comes to stakes. The stakes never really got that high on the show. The Stakes Are Much Higher on The Legend of KorraĪs noted earlier, I love Avatar, but come on now.

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