The Legend of Korra sucks.

     Readers, I come to you today a broken and disappointed man. Let me begin by saying this post isn't going to make a whole lot of sense unless you're a fairly knowledgeable fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. Also, if you haven't watched the show yet and were planning on it, don't read this because I can guarantee that there will be spoilers. That said, I'll go ahead and get to the bad news.
     Recently, I decided to watch The Legend of Korra. This seemed only natural since I'm such a big fan of The Last Airbender, arguably the best show that has ever been on Nickelodeon. Well, I just got done watching the season 1 finale and I'm disappointed. Disappointed and angry. I didn't go into Korra expecting an exact copy of Airbender and that's by no means what I got. What I did get was a sad and sorry excuse for a show that doesn't deserve the legacy of its predecessor. I have a number of specific complaints here. First, Korra is a really crappy character. She's flat, one-sided, unexciting, and a really sorry excuse for an Avatar. I mean, how can the writer's think that a character with less personality than the Cabbage Merchant (Fans will understand why that's capitalized) can in any way be the main character and namesake of an entire Avatar series, a series renowned for its plethora of interesting and dynamic character. Secondly, the magic is dead. Bending isn't the mystical art that it was in The Last Airbender. For instance, lightning generation, a form of firebending once only mastered by a handful of the world's most powerful firebenders, (namely Ozai, Azula, and my personal favorite character from the series, Iroh) is now so common that Republic City runs their power plant by using common everyday firebenders to generate lightning. Firebending is an ancient art taught to humans by MOTHERFUCKING DRAGONS. You do not use ancient arts taught to humans by mystical creatures to run a damned power plant. Also, bloodbending was discovered by one extremely powerful waterbender, Hama, and then taught to one and only one other extremely powerful waterbender, Katara, both of whom needed the full moon to give them the power to do it. In The Legend of Korra, there's are no fewer than 3 bloodbenders, none of whom need the full moon whatsoever or have any relation at all to Hama or Katara, the only people in the world who know how to do it. This wouldn't have bothered me if the writers had bothered to explain how or why Yakone, Tarrlok, and Amon/Naotak were able to bloodbend at all without the help of the full moon, but did they? No. We're just left to assume that they can do it and we should just ignore the plot and watch the damned show. Furthermore, to go along with the most difficult techniques of bending being used by everyday benders, there are no especially great benders in the world. The closest thing we have is Tenzin and he doesn't demonstrate that he is anymore powerful an airbender than his prepubescent children. Whatever happened to great works of bending, like Iroh using the power of Sozin's Comet to make a fireball so massive that it blasts a giant hole in the walls of Ba Sing Se or all of Aang's many instances of his titanic bending prowess. In The Last Airbender, bending was something awesome and magical. In Korra, it's a side topic to Amon's bull and Korra, Mako, and Asami's big stupid love triangle that adds no substance at all to the plot. In Airbender, we got to see Aang's amazing journey from confused 12 year old airbender to full-realized Avatar. In Korra, Korra already knows everything but airbending right from the word go, even demonstrating he ability to use all three other bending disciplines AS A TODDLER. In Airbender, we got to see the entire world of Avatar. Every nation was visited and we got to see just how amazing that world is. We got to see everywhere, from the stunning Western Air Temple, a city that hangs inverted from the underside of a cliff, to the sprawling, nation-sized city of Ba Sing Se. In Korra, there are two places that we see: The South Pole at the very beginning and the very end and Republic City and all it's stupid, awkward technology everywhere else. 
     I would be lying if I said that's all I have to say about the Legend of Korra but I'm tired of writing and since I'm the author, you can get over it. What I can say is that I'm disappointed in The Legend of Korra. It's a bad, poorly made sequel to one of the best shows on television. You might remind me that this is only the first season and it could very well get better and I sincerely hope it does, because more Avatar is always a good thing, so long as it doesn't suck. Please God, don't let season 2 suck...