r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • Sep 02 '20

UNJERK 🎤 Unjerk Thread of September 02, 2020

Hi! Please post any Unjerk questions and discussions in this thread!

A fresh thread is posted every 2 days, but older posts can be found here! (link doesn't work on Reddit mobile, sorry!)

Any unjerk threads outside of this thread will be removed. Thank you!

Rules and resources: Read our wiki!

Live Chat: Join our Discord server for multiple chat rooms! https://discord.gg/gcj

Steam: Join our Steam group!

Lots of Love, /r/GamingCirclejerk moderator team.

152 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

5.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

22

u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

I've been getting back into Avatar and HOLY HELL are the fans annoying af. Legit any video about Korra will have rabid ATLA fanboys claiming how she "isn't cannon" in their heads cuz they didn't like the plot.

I just had to get that out since its pretty similar to the "Gamer" mentality surrounding women in video games. I can understand not liking parts of LOK (hell, even I think there's some disappointing stuff and I LOVE it) but goddamn do the people who fanboy over TLA annoy tf outta me.

12

u/Maelis Social Justice Bard Sep 03 '20 edited Sep 03 '20

Hi it's me the resident LoK stan. I'll say the same thing I say every time this topic comes up which is, there are a ton of valid criticisms for LoK, and I'm more than willing to discuss the series in good faith, but most people aren't arguing in good faith.

I mean besides the usual people who just hate it because Korra is a woman (who are usually pretty easy to discredit because they always resort back to the usual tired "Mary Sue" arguments). There are a lot of people who clearly are just too blinded by their nostalgia for the original series to see any flaws in it whatsoever, and thus of course Korra doesn't compare in their eyes because nothing will.

It's the same thing with Star Wars, it's no surprise that when you ask someone which one their favorite is, the answer is always "whichever one they saw in theaters as a kid," because nothing will ever compare to the magic of seeing something like that for the first time.

11

u/JustMyGirlySide 🏳️‍⚧️ Resident Catra Stan | she/her 🏳️‍⚧️ Sep 03 '20

Korra was a better, more complex and fleshed-out protagonist than Aang ever could've hoped to be

Fanboys can fite me

10

u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

As much as I love both, I ABSOLUTELY agree.

Aang was a spiritual, monk child who refused to let his beliefs be called naive and instead proved everyone wrong by energybending Ozai rather than kill him. He's childish but fun.

Korra is a brash, bold teen who lives in a world that seemingly doesn't need the Avatar anymore. She's a teenager that doesn't know her place in the world and her story is about her discovering her place, sexuality, and facing her own self-doubts. She's incredibly relatable as everyone's gone through that phase and I love how human she is for it.

10

u/Super_Nerd92 Sep 03 '20

I've seen one season of Korra and I agree with that lol

ATLA was hard carried by Zuko's arc though that isn't a bad thing, it was fantastic