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I actually like the slightly older tone of Korra, mostly. The big issues I have with the series are:
Jumping to modernity the way they did made everything feel whitewashed, even though republic city has a strong SEA aesthetic.
Further extension of everyone sounding white (ATLA did this with its main characters which had some unfortunate implications)
I don't have a feel for the characters. By Book Two of ATLA I knew who Sokka, Katara, and Aang were. I only have that sense for Korra (and maybe Tenzin?).
THEY DID SUKI DIRTY
On the bright side, though, Lin Beifong is a fucking treasure.
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I actually like the slightly older tone of Korra, mostly. The big issues I have with the series are:
Jumping to modernity the way they did made everything feel whitewashed, even though republic city has a strong SEA aesthetic.
Further extension of everyone sounding white (ATLA did this with its main characters which had some unfortunate implications)
I think a lot of this is just -- it's a show in English. Even if you use voice actors who are people of color, they're probably still native English speakers. Putting on an accent would arguably be worse.
I don't have a feel for the characters. By Book Two of ATLA I knew who Sokka, Katara, and Aang were. I only have that sense for Korra (and maybe Tenzin?).
Airbender seasons were also longer, by 8 episodes. Yes, we got an additional season of Korra, but that doesn't change what you're mentioning.
THEY DID SUKI DIRTY
On the bright side, though, Lin Beifong is a fucking treasure.
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I actually like the slightly older tone of Korra, mostly. The big issues I have with the series are:
Jumping to modernity the way they did made everything feel whitewashed, even though republic city has a strong SEA aesthetic.
Further extension of everyone sounding white (ATLA did this with its main characters which had some unfortunate implications)
I think a lot of this is just -- it's a show in English. Even if you use voice actors who are people of color, they're probably still native English speakers. Putting on an accent would arguably be worse.
The way I get around this is just the reminder of hey this is a fantasy setting and this is it.... translated into English!
I prefer it this way than when shows give you 'generic faux-British accent to make it feel FANTASY'tl;dr I view it as a dub.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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I actually like the slightly older tone of Korra, mostly. The big issues I have with the series are:
Jumping to modernity the way they did made everything feel whitewashed, even though republic city has a strong SEA aesthetic.
Further extension of everyone sounding white (ATLA did this with its main characters which had some unfortunate implications)
I think a lot of this is just -- it's a show in English. Even if you use voice actors who are people of color, they're probably still native English speakers. Putting on an accent would arguably be worse.
The way I get around this is just the reminder of hey this is a fantasy setting and this is it.... translated into English!
I prefer it this way than when shows give you 'generic faux-British accent to make it feel FANTASY'tl;dr I view it as a dub.
I mean... yeah?
None of them are speaking English. They're probably not speaking any human language, period.
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@Rinel I mean. In ATLA the young people weren't the ones that had the accents. It was mostly older characters, or those who were very insulated in their own nations/areas. In Korra, errbody lives together.
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Not to get into spoilers too much since you're still in S2, but Korra's journey is just TV worth watching. She falls down hard later on and gets back up very slowly, and it is very real and relatable. All the feels.
Also Verrick is just great. Always.
The one thing I didn't particularly enjoy was how much focus there was on the descendants of the original Team Avatar; kinda felt Star Warsy in a way, like you have this whole world and that there are only like three families worth knowing is a little offputting to me, if that makes sense?
But the characters themselves are fun and I feel like you'll def have come to know them just as well by the end.
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I was starting to age out of Nickelodeon when Avatar came around. What bits I saw, I liked, but I have never seen the whole thing, and I haven't seen a single episode of Korra.
The one thing I didn't particularly enjoy was how much focus there was on the descendants of the original Team Avatar; kinda felt Star Warsy in a way, like you have this whole world and that there are only like three families worth knowing is a little offputting to me, if that makes sense?
I can, however, completely get behind this. Like some American author wrote an unofficial James Potter series about Harry Potter's son, which just makes me scratch my head, and Naruto's creator is doing a series on Naruto's son, Boruto. How about some new stories about different people in the same setting? The setting is good, so let's explore more of it rather than the same ten square feet. Honestly, I want the children to be like the supposed real king of England according to that one "documentary" - some random bloke who never did anything of note, living a quiet life in Australia.
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@Roz I'm about 7 episodes in now and I already agree.
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The one thing I didn't particularly enjoy was how much focus there was on the descendants of the original Team Avatar
Well, team Korra isn't connected. I'm ok with the people who saved the world instilling decent values in their kids, but I do wish it were someone other than Tenzin in the spotlight.
Like Lin. I like Lin. Have I mentioned that I like Lin?
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If you haven't seen it yet, Hannah Gadbsy's Nanette on Netflix is a powerful, heart-breaking event to watch.
She's an Australian comic, but there's nothing comedic about it, and I don't know how to feel about it except to want to watch it again and again.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede The one that follows is excellent too. But different yes.
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@Ganymede The one that follows is excellent too. But different yes.
I was fortunate enough to see Douglas, the follow up to Nanette, live when she was touring with it about a year ago.
Both are absolutely brilliant and wonderful, albeit in very different ways. I strongly recommend being in a very particular frame of mind if you watch Nanette, though, because.... well, calling it "powerful" is very cliche. But it is powerful, and you're going to have a whole mess of feels, and it's honestly going to break comedy for you for awhile after.
I legit could not watch any stand-up for about two months afterwards, because every time I did, I would just sit there deconstructing the joke and trying to decide whether or not I wanted to engage with their sort of storytelling, whether I found it humane or not. I actually still haven't ever finished Donald Glover's Netflix special because of how strong my aversion was trying to watch it about two weeks after seeing Nanette.
And the thing is, that's not a complaint. It's a testament to how affecting I found her show.
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And the thing is, that's not a complaint. It's a testament to how affecting I found her show.
Right, yeah.
I've been told I'm a pretty funny person, but much of my humor is self-deprecating. And that's at the heart of the special. It kind of hurts.
I'll get over it, because our stories are different, but thinking about how humor and stories and feelings pull together -- the entire layout was breathtakingly simple and painful all at once.
Wow.
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Idk how good I would call this, but
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I read yesterday that Comedy Central is bringing back Bevis and Butt-Head too. If I'm being honest, however, I don't see how either can exist in the modern world.
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@ZombieGenesis said in Good TV:
I read yesterday that Comedy Central is bringing back Bevis and Butt-Head too. If I'm being honest, however, I don't see how either can exist in the modern world.
I mean, I didn't find Beavis and Butthead funny when I was eleven, I doubt I'm gonna find it funny now.
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@ZombieGenesis said in Good TV:
I read yesterday that Comedy Central is bringing back Bevis and Butt-Head too. If I'm being honest, however, I don't see how either can exist in the modern world.
This was already done, and it was called The Big Bang Theory.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ZombieGenesis said in Good TV:
If I'm being honest, however, I don't see how either can exist in the modern world.
Definitely don't think people would respond well to Gandhi teaching George Washington Carver to say "say what," but I think the core is pretty easily kept.
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@ZombieGenesis said in Good TV:
I read yesterday that Comedy Central is bringing back Bevis and Butt-Head too. If I'm being honest, however, I don't see how either can exist in the modern world.
This was already done, and it was called The Big Bang Theory.
Huh. Huh uh .. huh huh huh.
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Umbrella Academy. 7/31.
