Review: The Legend of Korra Episode 1: "Welcome to Republic City" Part 1

ayries:

beeftony:

I don’t do this reviewing thing as often as I should, mostly because I hardly ever find the time anymore to type out massive text posts, which is what happens every time I review something. Seriously, I could never be a reviewer for a website or anything because I have no idea how to set deadlines.

I’ve been following The Legend of Korra since it was announced at SDCC almost two years ago. I got into the original series about a year after it ended so I kind of missed seeing the whole fandom sprout up and grow into the enormous community that transcends age, sex, color and religion and brings people together over their love of a cartoon. What I’ve witnessed has been nothing short of extraordinary, and the fandom is already one of the largest on the internet despite the show not having officially premeired yet.

Nickelodeon has been doing a really great job promoting this show, by the way. They kind of jerked around the original because studio execs tend to do that with properties that they don’t understand, but now it’s clear to them that Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko not only know how to create an extremely marketable property, but an extremely good one as well. It’s the perfect example to point to whenever you want to demonstrate that artistic integrity and multi-demographic appeal are not mutually exclusive concepts.

If you have somehow made it this far without being tainted by spoilers, don’t click on the link below. I’m splitting these reviews up into multiple parts, because there is no way I’m reviewing forty minutes of content in a single post.

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This whole thing is cool, but mostly:

“If her character type isn’t clear at this point, allow me to relate a story: a man is raised in an isolated compound until one day he goes out into the world and sees injustice, then seeks to rectify it by achieving spiritual enlightenment. Congratulations, you now know the story of the Buddha.”

HOW… DID I NOT NOTICE THAT?! I was wondering how the Buddha allegory that Aang embodied transferred over to Korra. NOW I KNOW.