Is korra supposed to like this ?

Hi. I recently started watching the legend of korra (I know, pretty late) and I’ve loved it so far. I finished the first book in a day and I can’t wait to finish the rest although I have an idea of what is gonna happen because the series has been out for so long. I noticed that Avatar Korra has been,,, more annoying than I remember. The first book was all about her being too much unlike aang who was a pacifist. I realize that towards the end of her arc with amon, she has significantly became less hard-headed. But I’m wondering now that I started the second book where did all that character development go? I mean, I find it very weird that she suddenly flipped on her dad and trusted unalaq over her dad and tenzin, especially. Just because unalaq gave her a bit of praise. I realize she might be feeling conflicted due to her family keeping secrets from her, but why on earth would she go against tenzin, the same mentor that gave her life lessons in book one about patience and being a good avatar. The same one who comforted her when Amon took her bending. That must have been the scare of a life - time , since I feel like she values her control of the elements and strength. Is this supposed to be part of her character development? Where she gets bitten by the snake enough time to finally learn her lesson? I guess I know that unalaq is gonna turn out to be the bad guy blah blah blah. I wanted to give my opinion on this matter although I think this might have been discussed long ago. I apologize for any mistakes and I would love to see different input on how you guys perceive korra’s personality in the first books.

I love The Legend of Korra's take on spiritual themes that are borderline religious in nature. The theme of Korra perfectly resonates with Buddhist teachings- equality, balance [middle way in Buddhist terms], peace, kindness, unity, and freedom.

Even Korra's background is similar to the young life of the Buddha before going on a quest to help people along the way. Korra even calls herself the Avatar [especially her relationship with Wan], which is similar to how Buddha can reincarnate in many lifetimes/ a belief that the Buddha is the Avatar of Lord Vishnu.

Naga is a reference to Buddha's dear multi-headed cobra guardian that protected him from the elements. Tenzen is based on the guru that helped Lord Buddha to how to seek balance to help people. Korra's brashness seems in contrast to Buddhism but her fav element fire lends to Buddhist teachings, the element of fire represents happiness and joy in life- happiness is what Buddha strives for.

Korra finding Air Nation reminds Buddha of being the founder of Buddhism especially how Air Nation is similar to Buddhist monks.

Her destructive Avatar State is similar to fierce deities to protect the innocence that she dearly loves.

there are many Buddhist connections in Legend of Korra, if me everything that I missed as their's so many that LoK is a Buddhist story.

And don’t say Kuvira, she wasn’t a very major character when she was introduced.

We saw the powerful feats he achieved at the age of 12 with only a few months of toying around with the elements.

His natural talent and his strong connection to his spiritual side gave him a big advantage especially when it came to his Avatar State abilities.

Imagine if he formally trained with the white lotus for roughly the same amount of time (13 to 15 years), he would have been an unstoppable force.

I believe a fully trained 17 to 19 year old Aang could tackle Korra's villains. I'd imagine he would only face a bit of challenge with Kuvira since he never picked up metal bending and metal is a huge part of Kuvira's offense.

He would also struggle a little with Amon since blood bending is just op but going into the Avatar State instantly counters bloodbending.

On the other hand, he might find a bit of common ground with Zaheer since they're both airbenders, and he would definitely see eye to eye with Unalaq who wanted to restore the human connection with the spirits.

What do you think?

John Locke is known as the “father of liberalism”, he’s associated with limited government, liberal democracy, and limits on authoritarian rule. As well as the belief that it tyranny governments have a duty to be overthrown

In-world examples

(The White Lotus, The United Republic post S1, Aangs philosophy, the equalists, and Zaheer ideology)

Thomas Hobbs is known for his theory of “The Social Contract”, additionally his 1651 book “Leviathan” that advocates for a strong, central government and ruler, such as an absolute monarchy, that values order, central power, and authoritarian government over individual rights and liberties, arguing that human nature is inclined towards conflict and savagery

In-world examples

(Avatar Kyoshi, Kuvira, the Fire Nation during the 100 year war, the earth monarchy, the northern water tribe monarchy, The Concept of the Avatar as a whole)

In my opinion, Avatar is at its core, a conflict between these two beliefs, and interestingly enough, these ideologies are held by both protagonists and antagonists in the franchise to a certain degree.

Thoughts?

Hey! Just a quick question as I can't seem to find the answer myself anywhere: what's the background track called for the "previously on"-sections of the videos, and where the hell do I find it? I wanted to record my own "previously on"-recaps for my Avatar-based Pen and Paper Sessions and thought it would have a nice touch to it (including the radiovoice in post-production, etc.) I don't know how that track's called, and if it is even available... (only found a soundtrack for book 1 and didn't listen through all of them yet). Any help would be highly appreciated, thanks in advance!

In Book 2, Jinora befriends some spirits and is the only one who can see them. When Kya notices she is playing with something invisible, she asks what she's up to but Jinora avoids the question as if she didn't want her to know. Why is she being secretive?

Slight rapey implications notwithstanding because it was primarily used by villains, any element or sub-element can be used for cruel and brutal purposes. Like Zaheer using his airbending to suffocate the earth queen. When Katara first used bloodbending, all she did was use it to restrain Hama long enough for the authorities to come and take her away. That was it. Nothing really all that sick and twisted going on there. Is something like that really that much different from trapping someone in a sheet of ice or earth so that they can’t do anything? The ice thing in particular, you’re putting someone in a prison that should be freezing cold.

I don’t know, I think an interesting in-universe debate could be had about this.

The order is completely random btw lol

I feel this episode very sad since I watched for the first time in 2014. Korra had much suffering moments, with that coward Zaheer trying to do everything to kill her, especially for the Venom moment, he destroyed her life, for years, but the time he saw her real power using the Avatar State, he runs away.

So I finally got ahold of the books and loving every second reading but wish we could have seen it on the TV

Jinora is made into a damsel way too often when I think they should've used those times to show off her airbending combat skills.

In "Original Airbenders" it's suggested that Tenzin learned a lesson that Jinora was ready for her tattoos, but what part of that episode taught him that?

I need to settle a debate. I know why I liked it more, why do you?