I don't doubt it. It got what, four-ish seasons for a reason, but I never got past the first. I was expecting an overarching villain for the entire thing, but lost interest once it looked like the villains were seasonal once Amon bit the bullet.
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Personally, I would see the season 3 villain Zahir was my favorite. Dude literally created a vacuum to kill someone.
Everything felt rushed or incomplete. I never blamed the creators, it was always Nick breathing down their necks. After Amon was killed off I knew it was downhill from there. TLK is a forgettable series, I forgot it happened until I saw this post.
Everything felt rushed or incomplete. I never blamed the creators, it was always Nick breathing down their necks. After Amon was killed off I knew it was downhill from there. TLK is a forgettable series, I forgot it happened until I saw this post.
TLK- I liked it. The pacing is often poor. Avatar had pretty excellent pacing right up to the end- then the entire ending was quite rushed. There are reasons for that. TLK tends to rush through plot developments but I forgive it- it’s 4 seasons of 2 discs each. They pack a lot of nuance and complexity into the show and were very ambitious- especially for a “kids show.” So had they meandered more- it would have been better I think- but a season would have been twice as long.
As to the “villain of the week”- it is hit and miss. I get what you mean- BUT, TLK was trying to tell a new story. We already saw the avatar having to learn all 4 elements. We saw the avatar spend his run amassing allies and an army to defeat the one central bad guy who once defeated wound set the world right.
So we have a very different avatar- her personality and perspective and abilities, a very different “modern” world with more nuanced problems- and there isn’t this “big evil” for her. Like modern generations in the real world- Kora doesn’t have Nazis or communists or some single bad guy she can punch and be a hero. Often of her bad guys in the series are tying to change the world to make it better. Many are in it for greed alone or as well. When she defeats one- there is another waiting. When she wraps up one problem, there are 40 more waiting.
If you stopped at book one- you missed that going forward- she is often vilified while she’s helping, and after she finishes an arc is also often left the “bad guy” to many because as the avatar she brings balance. Balance is rarely good to the immediate self interest if those who were benefiting from imbalance. So the people who “lose” things because of her balance, or the people who have to deal with change- they get upset with her.
We like what we like- it’s fine not to line the series, but I’d just hope people at least view it from that angle. It’s a different story, and it’s more rooted in an allegory for our own world. Ang is an idealist and his story is told largely in broad idealist terms, with his decisions being made mostly on his ideals. TLK attempts to be more pragmatic and rooted in the real- in the way people and problems tend to unfold, in the zeitgeist of modern times- and is the perspective of a young woman who isn’t very self aware or even in tune with her surroundings- learning about the world and people and herself.
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