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I just hate how the spirit world in Korra is just an Alice in Wonderland adventure with no rules. The world felt lived in and vast in ATLA - in LOK it just feels unimaginative.
Darby
2020-09-17 18:12:19 +0000 UTCi mean lets not act like the creators didnt ripoff things in ATLA too. footloose with aang, dai li and orwell's 1984 etc. its just inspired artfully and i can appreciate the media and its references.
NitrousOxide19
2020-09-17 04:26:27 +0000 UTCAdmittedly I agree with you about the hunting scene. I think it's one of the weaker elements of this episode. It is sort of a weird line in the sand to draw when humans are so hopelessly outmatched in the wilderness and they need to eat... About it being a ripoff... I think the allusions are so clear that it comes off to me more like a tribute than a copy. I also think there are enough original elements that as a whole it's artful.
Alex G
2020-09-17 03:57:51 +0000 UTCI think getting two humans killed and one permanently fucked up over a non-vegetarian meal objectively makes "Wan bad." And when the spirits in ATLA look completely different from the ones in Korra, and the ones in Korra just happen to look exactly like the spirits from Spirited Away and other Ghibli films, that change is clearly a ripoff done to look cool. Art can take inspiration and not straight up copy character designs from other work, thats what this does.
benj
2020-09-17 00:38:48 +0000 UTCI mean to be fair, most art takes inspiration from, and often "copies" other art. Most ideas anymore are not new, they are just a mix of things we've already seen before in a combination that's new. Additionally, what you're saying Wan did is only really screwed up if you're valuing humans over animals and spirits, where part of the goal of this episode was to demonstrate that all parties matter, not just the humans. Not to mention, the show never claimed Wan was perfect, everyone has good and bad tendencies in them. I guess I just have a problem with jumping right to hate when things are more complicated than "it's just a ripoff" or "Wan bad." Not everything is so cut and dry in my opinion.
Aidan Pullen
2020-09-16 20:42:25 +0000 UTCLet me get this straight, Wan got two innocent humans killed and one permanently fucked up for...wanting to eat a deer because they were hungry? What an awul person. Also, all the spirits that help Wan at the oasis is just a straight up Ghibli ripoff. They straight up copied Miyazaki. I don't know if you've seen any of the ghibli movies, but the character design you said was cool is actually just plagiarizing from the creators.
benj
2020-09-16 16:00:45 +0000 UTCYou did a good job on editing this it makes it seem like you talked way more than in the extended version :D
Brimmy
2020-09-16 09:09:30 +0000 UTC
