Beyond Selidor

No, you are not the only one who thinks these things about Korra. I've been that fan for the past three weeks now, because it boggles my mind how unlike Avatar this show is. And like you, issue isn't that the show isn't good (or has the potential to be good, I should say), but that it just doesn't have the components of what Avatar did.

I've made many entries about how kind of disappointed I am in this new series because of how rich and detailed Avatar was in comparison to this. There's too much romance (which, quite frankly, I'm beyond tired of), too much pro-bending matches, too little character development (I especially feel like Bolin is under-used a lot), too little world-building, and too little of Korra learning how to airbend, for goodness sake. After all, isn't that the whole reason Korra came to Republic City in the first place, to learn to airbend and continue wioth her Avatar training? We saw so much of it in Avatar and I, for one, thought it was cool and I especially loved that Aang interacted with other Avatars before him. Oh, and while Republic City was fascinating at first, I've become really bored with the place. That's probably why I loved Avatar so much: every season, we were off to a new area of the world and were experiencing the different cultures of the world, and it never got old. There was always something new to surprise us or awe us; Korra is very lacking there.

And as to themes and real-world analogies, I'm hard pressed to find any at all. In one of the entries I made, I compared the Equalist movement to the Communist fervor that took hold during the 1930's in America's big cities and such; this controversial movement that left people very divided and no room to be neutral. But that's about it really, and I don't find anything truly thought-provoking about the show, and it's frustrating, because that's what I really loved about Avatar.

LOL, sorry for the essay, but I've become passionately critical of this show that I had such high hopes for, and if there's one I thing I hate, it's getting my hopes up for something that, in the end, disappoints me.