I thought I remembered a lukewarm reception for the first season, but rotten tomatoes has each season at 100% (and yeah, I know how to treat rotten tomato scores).
Comparisons to Avatar welcome.
S1s main hurdle is getting used to the choppy framerate and past the initial few episodes. S2 and s3 were pretty good.
S4 though, ugh. It basically resets all the drive that was occurring and goes back to a real childlike few episodes. Couldn’t stomach it.
To compare to Avatar, imagine you just watched Aang and Toph kick ass at the earth kingdom and then they go back and chill in the southern water tribe, and everything feels like the first 2 episodes again.
Yikes, that’s similar to what @Azure said. When I get around to it I’ll be prepped for a momentum drop in S4 😁.
I’m almost through it. I’m enjoying it, but yeah some of the kid’s shows “we are our weakness again and have to re-learn some lessons” happens and it took over half the season to even feel like we had a big bad despite that being what they are chasing.
I don’t know if it is Avatar comparison is fair, but I have been enjoying watching it while playing a more casual game. To compare it to another show I liked Kipo narratively better, but I am still enjoying seeing the characters grow up and curious where it’s going to go.
This season is very heavy with characters dealing with racism and microagressions and while they handle it well a few times even I felt my heart was heavy because of how close the parallel is to how we interact in real life. I think they cover bigotry pretty well.
Nice, Kipo completely fell off my radar so I’ll check that out too. Thinking more about it, I never finished Korra back in the day so I may be doing a whole big thing with an ATLA and Korra rewatch, plus The Dragon Prince and Kipo to follow.
Kipo was AMAZING and I really enjoyed it, but I MAY be the target audience. We recently finished Avatar (I must admit it was so long I lost attention a few times, but it was technically on and I was there) and Korra about the first season. I personally liked Korra better in some ways (a bit more mature) but it REALLY suffers from her forgetting her powers sometimes which has me yellin’ at the screen. 😭
Yeah, something bugged me about it my first watch but I don’t completely remember what it was. I think it had something to do with feeling like it went too big too soon, like she fought some major demon thing halfway through the show that was conceptually like 10 times as disastrous as Aang’s fight with Ozai but had a quarter the stakes and tension. I might be misremembering.
Either way, I just finished Arcane and (even though it’s a completely different type of show), I’m super in the mood for more animated fantasy adventures.
Edit: referring to Korra above if that wasn’t clear 🙂
Been meaning to watch season 4.