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Legend of Korra was one of the most devastating attacks on the left in decades
AtLA: Let's tell a story from the perspective of the lower classes from all cultures & walks of life
LoK: A love letter to elitism & the technocracy
LoK: A love letter to elitism & the technocracy
AtLA: Let's make the world's most powerful earthbender a blind girl who betrays her class in order to selflessly save the world
LoK: She's a cop now.
LoK: She's a cop now.
Amon: Our social order is oppressive.
LoK: lmao hierarchies rule. capitalism rules. stfu
Zaheer: No, but like, there's a LOT of oppression & these governments need to be toppled
LoK: DiD i sTuTTeR????
LoK: lmao hierarchies rule. capitalism rules. stfu
Zaheer: No, but like, there's a LOT of oppression & these governments need to be toppled
LoK: DiD i sTuTTeR????
LoK: We should really kill the leftist villains off before they convince the audience that they're kinda right.
AtLA: Nature is sacred and must be protected.
LoK: Big laser machine goes booooooom
LoK: Big laser machine goes booooooom
AtLA: We're gonna make the whole show about how imperialism is evil.
LoK: The characters don't notice the fascists until literally the last minute because they have cool trains.
LoK: The characters don't notice the fascists until literally the last minute because they have cool trains.
AtLA had some SOLID class consciousness
& LoK UNIRONICALLY GLAMORIZES THE GILDED AGE.
Like...
Huh?????
& LoK UNIRONICALLY GLAMORIZES THE GILDED AGE.
Like...
Huh?????
Can we also talk about how fucking AMERICAN it was?!?!?! Hell, even the character designs were Westernized, not to mention the setting!
Y'all had the chance to imagine a whole future w/o colonialism but all you could come up with was Chicago but with more explosions
Y'all had the chance to imagine a whole future w/o colonialism but all you could come up with was Chicago but with more explosions
