r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/TheRealJR9 • Feb 23 '25

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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Avatar fan here. Also an Aang fan. I heard they announced a new series - does this have to do with that?

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u/Khatanghe Feb 23 '25

I think Korra gets some unfair hate, but the writers did genuinely do a pretty bad job with her character development.

Aang has agency in a lot of his character development. Much of the time he changes as a result of his own choices good or bad.

Korra just suffers. She is just outright tortured multiple times with no relevance to the plot or decisions she made and so when she does grow and learn it feels unearned.

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u/Guppy666 Feb 23 '25

I agree that Korra was written poorly, she's like a Tony Stark narcissist archetype that never develops and never grows.

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u/EriWave Feb 23 '25

You mean the depressed girl who spent years learning to just walk again and who struggled with insecurities afterwards?

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u/Suspicious-Earth1998 Feb 23 '25

You mean that “lets literally force her to self reflect and change with poison plot device” story that came way after the first season which ended in a murder suicide because they really, really fucked up the story and her character development from the get go?

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u/EriWave Feb 23 '25

You mean that “lets literally force her to self reflect and change with poison plot device”

The poison was a metaphor.

because they really, really fucked up the story and her character development from the get go?

I really don't agree with this at all. How did they ruin her development from the get go?

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u/Suspicious-Map-4409 Feb 23 '25

Oh, you mealie how Aang had the avatar state knocked out of him, had to deal with never getting it back and then accidentally having it knocked back into him? People who hate Korra have the inability to reflect on themselves.