I really dislike LOK because they killed the charm that ATLA built

[u/Sarlo10]

Bending in legend of Korra is just like boxing, air fire water and earth bending all look the same. Bending just feels so mundane and not rooted in martial arts. Remember Katara and Aang learning specifically the movements of the water scroll? The movements mattered as to how the water was manipulated. In Korra you just make a fist and any which element comes out. No longer do the bending styles feel distinct.

I also dislike LOK because now most people can bend the special types of bending, lightning bending first only was done by the royal family (who were extremely skilled) and now it seems every guy could do it, they just do it to generate electricity for a power plant. Same goes for metal bending, it used to be only the avatar and the best earth bender alive and now it doesn’t feel special anymore.

They also added new types of bending like lava bending which makes no sense because it feels more like fire bending and it feels like it’s only for the avatar since he can bend fire and earth.

Also I think they made some characters just too over powered just so they can be the antagonists.

The spirit aspect was also way too much in LOK, and I hate that there is no connection to the previous avatars anymore which was also such a cool part about ATLA.

Also the modern age just kills the charm that pre industrial ATLA had.

I would love if they just made a prequel, they could go back a few hundred years and make such a great show but no it has to be about spirits and only having korra as a previous avatar

Edit: almost forgot one of the first scenes, a todler bending 3 elements. I just doesn’t sit right. It took aang 1 year to learn the elements and that was under immense pressure and Korra just learns it just after learning to walk.

Bloodbending without the full moon also doesn’t sit right

And if we’re going there: ATLA was such a coherent story and character deleopment, one baddie for the whole show. Korra is jus a new antagonist every season which can feel lackluster (espescially the whole light vs dark thing).

Also all those people suddenly being able to bend air? Really? Just feels like lazy writing.

Korras gang also doesn’t come close to having the charm of the og gang. The romance aspect was also underwhelming and took away from the plot imo.

ATLA was bending focused while in LOK technology overshadows bending a bit

Korra also pales in comparison to Aang because she’s hotheaded, stubborn, and often makes the same mistakes, which can be frustrating to watch. Aang, on the other hand, is just very likeable

[u/YesWomansLand1]

The blood bending stuff I'll allow because it's cool.

[u/nudegobby → u/YesWomansLand1]

Blood bending is cool AND it was introduced in ATLA it's reasonable to believe that people can make advancements on advanced forms of bending. If stories of hama were told then more people would try to blood bend and perhaps perfect that technique. Iroh talks about looking to other forms of bending to learn lightning bending, and combustion bending uses less movement than fire bending normally does maybe it's not crazy to think yakones was a natural at water bending and met a combustion bender and thought "huh how he do that." Literally having amon and tarlok being of yakones lineage explaining no not everyone could blood bend but a powerful bender could even psychically bloodbend it's not out of the realm of possibilities. It approaches disbelief which is why the council didn't believe sokka until seeing it. Until Galileo we thought the sun revolved around the earth and until Einstein we thought no way we could split an atom. New things don't discredit the old just changes the way we look at them.

[u/YesWomansLand1 → u/nudegobby]

Yeah, it makes sense, but tha this t necessarily good. It would've been nice if they kept some things the same. Like, maybe only the royal family can lightning bend, but there's like one exception, and then later on in the show we find out he has a connection to the royal family in his lineage which explains it. Not everything should become advanced, because it just makes everything sort of boring in a way. There should be at least a few hard limits on what can advance and to where it can go, rather than just "oh, now everyone can lightning bend!" Because frankly, no, not everyone can lightning bend. The sheer level of peace of mind required to achieve it already locks out most, and on top of that you need to be a very powerful firebender, which also locks out another chunk of people.

[u/UseIessldi0t4444 → u/YesWomansLand1]

Blood carries oxygen -> Air benders can blood bend too.
Animals are made of earth and return to earth after death -> Earth benders can body bend.
Fire benders can bend electricity; Brain sends electric signals to move muscle -> Fire benders can muscle bend.
All benders are, in one way or another, also body benders.

Source: I used my imagination to make this male-bovine stool up.

Bonus:
Human Blood Components (g/cm³⁾ (according to Wikipedia)
Water 0.81-0.86
Round 0.835
Oxygen - arterial: 2.4-3.2 × 10^-4
Round 2.8 × 10^-4
Oxygen - venous 1.6-2.3 × 10^-4
Round 1.95 × 10^-4
Assuming arterial and venous are equal volume, average 2.375 × 10^-4
0.835 / (2.375 × 10^-4) = 3,515.7894736842

Therefore, an airbender has to be about 3,516 times as powerful as the weakest blood bender to bend blood by oxygen instead of water.

Calculation is also another male-bovine stool I made up. Also does not take into account other possibilities like oxygen being ripped off of blood cells. (Now I'm imaging what that could be like. Maybe numbness, cell deaths, and later organ damage. Maybe something like removing oxygen from blood cells to the brain causing a stroke. Or air embolism which results similarly.)

[u/YesWomansLand1 → u/UseIessldi0t4444]

No.

[u/UseIessldi0t4444 → u/YesWomansLand1]

I agree. What I wrote was dumb. Especially in the context of the post.

[u/nudegobby → u/UseIessldi0t4444]

Look I don't like it but maybe they could. Bending is just an extension of manipulating one's energy in order to manipulate the world around you. Just because it's not shown doesn't mean it's impossible. It took toph being removed from earth to invent a new form of earth bending. It took hama being removed from water to invent new water bending. The lady without arms in the red lotus psychically waterbends arms out of necessity. Push an Airbender or a fire bender to their absolute limits leave them on death's door and maybe we'll get something new out of it.