Strong disagree, I thought Book 1 was incredible. The animation, the art, the noir, fights, Korra’s whole “human husky” attitude, Amon, everything! Even the intro. The first two episodes of ATLA are so much slower.
Season 2 was very mixed, with some great episodes though. And not just Wan, I loved the alice-in-wonderland-esque Spirit World.
And to be even more oppositional, I loved 3, but it was too short. And Book 4 has some mixed bits too, lol.
The moral of this story?
Biomagnification.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagnification
The sword is backup. This guy knows science can go wrong.
Neither have I, except for Infinity more recently.
I’m somewhat into the lore, but not a ton, and it does look like the show is such a tonal break. It looks like space opera, while Halo 1-3 had this feel of touring a quiet, grim war with Cortana as your sassy narrator.
Now, I am all in for shameless space opera, so maybe I should try it with an open mind.
Season 2 has slow episodes. For instance, 2-5 are not great, IMO.
But there’s more fundamental “it’s not totally the show’s fault” criticism too, like the awful video quality/artifacts (even on the blu-rays), and the general maturity level and jokes. And TBH Zuko/Iroh kinda carried the show for me until Toph shows up, I didn’t feel connected to the early gang like I instantly did to Zuko and Korra.
I asked because I can see why fans would be displeased, given the tone/style of the MC in those games. TBH it kept me from giving the Halo series a shot.
The Thing.
Critically panned when it came out, and my favorite horror movie of all time. Of course critics feel differently now, but far after its following grew.
The biggest injustice to me is that no one dares criticize the original ATLA.
I’ve seen a few good critical essays and videos, honestly less contrived than a lot of Korra/NATLA criticism, and they get snuffed into oblivion.
It feels like the Star Wars fandom. Maybe even more extreme.
In hindsight its kind of understatement.
Watch the netflix version!
And Korra!
Also. The Earth King has invited you to Lake Laogai.
Out of curiosity, did you play Halo 1, 2, or 3?
Stop, you had me at the first paragraph.
Netflix’s Avatar the Last Airbender.
Not a movie, but it’s moving. Zuko/Iroh stole the show just like Book 1 of the animation, Lu Ten’s funeral legit made me cry. Yet it gets tons of hate!
I’m a huge Avatar fan, but few fandoms put the original on the pedestal as much as ours, and it’s only gotten worse with time. I feel like Korra got the same treatment, as I’m a massive Korra fan and I don’t understand how so much of the fandom treats it like garbage.
The original trilogy is over-rated.
There, I said it.
Being so on the nose, to me, is part of the joke.
So obvious its blinding, and unrealistic. Just like reality lol.
Can confirm. Divers freak out, though I don’t understand why.
But the orca is fake. 100% never been eaten by one.
I’m worried about whoever comes after Trump less than Trump.
Trump is interested in himself, and only himself. But someone may take better advantage of the hole he has punched, and he’s proven that American’s really don’t care about scandal and straight up failures and crimes.
That’s more practical than just reforming the election system, apparently. Ugh.
Oldschool Republicans may have a point here too, perhaps less federal power is better.
I’m not sure how you’d solve the problem of big corpos becoming cheap content farms while avoiding harming the people who use these tools to make something rich and beautiful, but I have to believe there’s a way to thread that needle.
Easy, local AI.
Keep generative AI locally runnable instead of corporate hosted. Make it free, open and accessible. This gives the little guys the cost advantage, and takes away the scaling advantages of mega publishers. Lemmy users should be familiar with this concept.
Whenever I hear people rail against AI, I tell them they are handing the world to Sam Altman and his dystopia, who do not care about stealing content, equality, or them. I get a lot of hate for it. But they need to be fighting the corporate vs open AI battle instead.
She’s a keeper.
Especially if she says this kinda unprompted.
They’re not. Our information pipe is just totally broken, people literally have no idea Trump is like this.
I don’t know what your country is like, but phone apps have basically eaten a lot of my family, and others I know. Sure there are some bible thumpers and such, but mostly it’s just… complete ignorance. An information diet of pure Facebook, tiktok, discord or whatever.
But my mom is still very sane and sharp, and by sheer coincidence, she has no idea how to use Facebook or any social media.