Yeah, they do live about half a world away from each other, and with Korra finishing her training at the pole Katara has only just gotten free time to come and visit, of course the five year old doesn't recognise her, she probably hasn't been back the last few years, but the older kids do because of course she visited occasionally
In our world it is also a day of flying, but if you ask someone whose family lives halfway round the world how often they see each other it's probably not that often
Yea but, they’re airbenders, they fly everywhere already. Its also pretty easy to argue at the very least that the planet is much smaller, in atla the gang was flying all over the place, in korra flying basically anywhere takes less than a day, and even by boat republic city to the south pole is only like, a nights boat ride.
Would you like to spend 12+hours on a bison with 4 children under the age of 12? There is a reason the show was mostly set when they landed somewhere. The time flying was probably very boring.
Also unlike long car rides, the stakes of a restless child not being able to sit still goes from “mildly annoying” to “potentially falling out of the sky”
To be fair, airbenders are also all about not having strong family ties. Like, all airbenders are, in essence, orphans. They leave their children at temples to be raised communally and then go on their way
So as a baseline, of course they wouldn’t see much need to go see Katara
Of course, on the other hand, although technically these kids were raised not just communally, but by the entire air nomad culture that existed at that point, they were also a very normal, close-knit family just like any other. Buuut on the third hand, that does also indicate a drift away from standard air nomad practices- like nomadism. Indeed, we see that they don’t actually appear to be nomads at this point. They even dropped that from their name in favor of “nation,” didn’t they?
Yeah, but all the things that happen except the occasional fight (which while entertaining for a viewer is unlikely to be desirable for those involved) happen when they stop somewhere.
If you wanna watch the world from above for hours, sit and watch the Netflix screensaver
Pema is pregnant all the time. constant travel sucks even when you aren't pregnant... but thentrabel times are so wonky that it cuts both ways, it seemed like getting anywhere took forever fighting kuvira, and everyone was basically using contemporary travel methods that don't need to eat or sleep, then. The truth is everyone moved like in star wars, at the speed of plot. And plot required separated families.
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u/Flameball202 Mar 18 '25
Yeah, they do live about half a world away from each other, and with Korra finishing her training at the pole Katara has only just gotten free time to come and visit, of course the five year old doesn't recognise her, she probably hasn't been back the last few years, but the older kids do because of course she visited occasionally