Korra: The Darkest Shadow
How do you follow up success?
How do you follow up runaway successes?
How do you follow up literally the greatest example of its genre of all time?
Avatar: The Last Airbender is, broadly speaking, the greatest piece of long-form western animated storytelling that exists. When you take into account its competitors, they’re usually storytelling forms that have different demands, but when viewed in terms of just itself – continuity-driven human drama stories told using animation – there just isn’t anything that touches it. I say that as someone who really dislikes some elements of Avatar and its coding, who thinks there’s waste in that otherwise dense series. I like Avatar less than I recognise its overall quality and its excellence as a story.
It sort of follows sadly then that Korra, a story I like better, is much worse made.
