I’ve been doing a lot of reading into various spiritual concepts and practices from around the world and typically light/order/yang is masculine and dark/chaos/yin is usually feminine. Is there another concept that’s being referenced or is this just a minor but interesting artistic decision?
I was a little disappointed that they played Raava as “good”; I’ve always preferred media like Babylon 5 where it turns out the vorlons are fucking with humanity too, but I can see why they might not put all that in a kids show.
These two double handedly killed the lore of the Avatar. Went from mysticism to religion
Yep. Spirit world went from an alien mysterious and dangerous place to another good v evil battle. I appreciated the attempt at an origin story that had been lost to time. And the world building was nice and well done. But the essential story and its premises were underwhelming.
I don’t really get this, as it doesn’t invalidate anything else in the spirit world. All those other ancient spirits are still there, and the Avatar is still the Avatar.
Being light/dark is a big screw up, but TBH I think it’s an interesting plot point for the future. Perhaps the next Avatar realizes Korra was “wrong” like Wan was, and that there has to be a balance between Yin/Yang, Vaatu/Raava.
It removes the mystery. Itd be like explaining the force as coming from some god dude on a far off planet. Korea failed at show dont tell.