@la_espada: I agree, LOK had some really promising characters and other aspects but I think all of its strengths were lost in how unorganized the show was. They brought up really interesting ideas like you mentioned yet the show still felt like a simplified version of ATLA to me, so LOK definitely had potential but it failed to execute in my opinion.
No doubt. LoK started off as a very promising series, but it was all ruined in due time. For one thing, the pacing was too fast that there was no appropriate literary environment for proper character development to take place. Using a love triangle to create a source of drama and tension among the protagonists was really cliche. And towards the end, the series became an unorganized mess as you said. Some of the things were just all over the place. They had WWl aircrafts but plastic surgery of such precision that Yakone (or however you spell it) managed to change his face so perfectly? LOL. And even though I didn't like Aang, he was a much better character than Korra ever was, at least in the first season.
She had no character development. She arrives in Republic City, challenges Amon to a fight etc. and then gets played, and we learn that the experience made her fear Amon. But an episode later without any development from it, she's suddenly not afraid at all. She also never addressed the sociopolitical conflicts of benders discriminating non-benders. Aang on the other hand addressed almost every conflict central to the plot of ATLA. Really the only saving graces of LoK were for a time Tarrlok and Amon (who turned out to be a b*tch), and Asami who was the strongest character of the entire series. Not only was she hurt by Mako but she learned that her father was funding a terrorist and she later had to fight him because he was going to kill her, she had every reason to become a dark character but she didn't, and at least it showed her character's fortitude.
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