My Critique of Legend of Korra

**SPOILERS**

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*Trigger Warning* mention of sexual assault, patriarchy, anti-Black racism, cops, Hinduphobia, ableism

I just finished watching all four seasons of Legend of Korra. Being a huge fan of Avatar the Last Airbender, I have a lot of things to say and I’ll go through them systematically.

Things that hit me hard

1. In season 4, when Kuvira’s soldiers started sawing down the Banyan tree vines, I almost had a heart attack. My body felt the violence.

Screenshot: Top left is Kuvira’s airships surrounding the ancient banyan to cut down it’s vines and all it’s spirit energy, bottom left is the Bishnois Hindus hugging the trees to protect them from being cut down, right is the Chipko movement also hugging trees to protect them from being cut down

1. (continued) The reason why I felt it so deeply was because the original treehuggers were Hindus who gave their lives to defend the trees. As a Hindu, it hurts to even think of trees being cut down. If you want to learn more about Hindu resistance to deforestation, look up the Bishnois and the later Chipko movement which was inspired by the Bishnois.
2. The storyline of season 3 in particular was the story of my people, Hindus. The entire series of Avatar The Last Airbender was very Hindu in its philosophy and storytelling, as well as the title itself, but in season 3 of Legend of Korra, we saw an intense real time replay of major parts of…