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Jace is a bastard. As much as I love him and think he'd make a fine king, his descendants will always have to deal with Blackfyre style rebellions.
That's a valid point but I think that if he was a good king, which I also think he would, rebellions against him wouldn't be much of a thing since the lord's where "happy" with his reign. But if his son's wouldn't be as good as him, then we would probably have a another civil war for the throne
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low-budget-korra · 4 days
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Rhae Royce might disagree about Daemon being a great husband.
Can't argue with this one
At least he was a good husband to Rhaenyra
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low-budget-korra · 6 days
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Honestly I can't understand why people who call themselves Targaryen fans and still root for the Greens. Like fr?
"but Rhaenyra sons are bastards" So? Y'all didn't buy Jon Snow be validated as a Targaryen? All of Rhaenyra sons are treated as Velaryon and they are more Targaryen than all of the Greens combined.
The Greens are Hightowers. Otto is a greedy asshole who sells his own daughter, Alicent grew envious of Rhaenyra because she lives a life she wanted(different from Alicent).Incel Cole is forever mad because Rhaenyra didn't want to run away with him, the things he did are far more dishonorable to his job than having sex with her. Aegon is a rapist trash, a coward and just the worst person to be a king. Aemond is another coward who thinks he is the best just because an old ass Vhagar lets him be her rider, can't wait for Daemon to get rid of him.
Meanwhile we have Rhaenyra as the rightful heir. Daemon as a great husband, doing everything for his queen. Jace is the fairytale hornoble prince, securing alliances that won the war for Rhaenyra and sacrifices himself to protect his younger siblings. Corlys is the brains, who also helped the blacks to win the war. Rhaenys and Baela are fierce and honorable warriors. Cregan Stark...u guys will see.
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low-budget-korra · 1 month
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Comments on Netflix's Avatar The Last Airbender
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First of all I'm gonna start by saying it is one of the best adaptations I've seen so far. And that's the key word, adaptation. I've seen a lot of fans and others complain about some things that honestly, doesn't make sense because some things only work in a cartoon(just as much as some things only work in a book or a video game)
And before I start to talk about some topics that I judge important, I also wanna say that the production is fantastic, from the costumes to the CGI. It all looks amazing. (A part from Yue's wig)
1. The Script
It's not easy to pick 20+ episodes and make it fit in only 8 but damn they did a hell of a good job, especially when judging what was important to show and what they could let it go. Some fans commented that since there's no fillers, the Gaang and others miss some development but I think that for the universe of the live action what we got here it worked.
I can express how much I like to see Ozai and Azula's relationship and how it is now clear that he uses the siblings against each other, manipulating them to get what he wants. But I will admit I miss the fear Azula had, since it's implied in the show and some extras that she does fear Ozai, and fears becoming like Zuko.
I hope the 41. Is just fine after the battle in the north. See all of them bowing to Zuko after discovering that Zuko was the one that saved their asses and was heavily punished by that...it was beautiful. I loved the writers did that, give names and faces to Zuko's crew and a beautiful yet sad arc when Ozai banished his son and the men who he saved.
I also loved that they put weight into things that was treated as a joke, like Katara talking about her mother. She was a little kid who saw her mom get murdered in front of her and the live action made sure to let us know that it is not okay to make jokes about something so traumatic. All of the deaths here have tons of weight in it, it's not some random person, is someone we met, someone we liked, someone who helped. The costs of the war, something the cartoon manages to show us but know in live action, with real people, the massage gets stronger.
And they didn't forget Iroh's past like the fandom does, which is great. That actor, the earthbending soldier really let it all out, that's how you use the few screentime you have.
Sokka's isn't sexist and y'all were making a storm outta a cup of water, is not like Sokka sexist didn't go away after like the 4 or 5 episode in the original show. I think the live action was able to bring more depth to him in comparison to the first season of the cartoon. We see how he feels about his father's, the absence of him and his duty as warrior who kinda doesn't want to be a warrior.
I need a Gyatso in my life, I didn't know I needed to see more of him until the live action gave us more of him. Kyoshi was the Thor coming to Wakanda from this season, WHY THE FUCK BRYKE DONT WANNA GIVE US A KYOSHI SERIES? She is absolutely a jewel of a character. Roku and Kuruk, damn poor Kuruk man, so much pain in his words but again that's what it means to be the Avatar, it's not fun and games. Zhao saying to Aang what Korra villains said to Korra😭 that the world doesn't need the Avatar anymore, it hurt.
Guys I'm gonna say it, there's no way in hell for anyone to ship Kataang here. I'm saying this because some shippers complain that the secret tunnel part was different but c'mon, look at Kiawentiio and look at Gordon, it would be so s awkward and weird and just wrong. I know they don't have a big age difference, is only like 3 years but when they filmed Gordon looked so much younger than her, maybe in the next seasons the difference won't be that big.
The pace is good, once you start you don't wanna stop.
2. The Acting
Everyone is really good at capturing the essence of it's characters and somewhat making them their own. The highlights for me were Dallas and Ian, Its like they came straight from the show. Ken Leung's Zhao was also amazing as he was way more threatening here than he was in the show.
Kiawentiio was the Katara we were looking for, she is kind yet strong, brave and caring. And Gordon was Aang, sure, he has to learn a few things since he slipped a few times in his acting but nothing that could ruin the experience, that kid is good and just needs some experience.
Elizabeth Yu was Azula. It was different but yet the same character, is like learning something new of her and I like how cleared she show emotions with her eyes. Maria Zhang had great chemistry with Ian and I can't wait to see more of Suki. Arden Cho and Yvonne Chapman as June and Avatar Kyoshi look like they came out straight from the cartoon. Daniel Dae Kim...man is Ozai, so cold, so sharp, so scary, already way better than the cartoon version. I wanna see more of Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Iroh since the character he really starts to shine in book 2.
3. The live action doesn't have the spirit of the OG?
Yes, it does have. The thing is now that we are seeing real people, things get dark one way or another but I don't think it ruined the spirit of the show. Aang is still a kid, Sokka still making sarcastic jokes, Zuko still annoying as hell, Katara still hopeful and strong... There's everything there really.
The thing is stuff like genocide, murder, war, death and suffering are, for some people, better to watch as pixels in a cartoon than real people.
I think it's a great adaptation and I would recommend it to every fan.
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low-budget-korra · 1 month
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Don't worry I will comment on the live action tv show (reality: no one is waiting for my view on it lmao)
Anyway have you guys ever thought about the fact that both Aang and Korra were thrown in a new world where they have to learn and struggle to comprehend? Like Aang was in an iceberg for 100y and Korra basically spent her whole life until she was 17, locked in a training center with no contact with the outside world (as far as we know).
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I feel that Marvel just pick the actors who are popular rn cuz there's no way they look at Joseph Quinn and thought that he would be the best choice to play Johnny Storm. He doesn't have the looks , or the swagger, or the bad boy aura. He is also not that great as an actor, he will be so outmatched by Pedro and Vanessa...
Here is 3 actors who I think would be far better as Johnny:
Patrick Schwarzenegger
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Dacre Montgomery
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Those 3 have it all : The looks, the swagger, the bad boy aura, they're not too old and they are really good actors. Especially Dacre.
Nothing against Joseph Quinn, I just think he as Johnny Storm was such a miscast
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low-budget-korra · 2 months
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it's been a while since a movie trailer actually got me hyped for a movie. Can't wait to see The First Omen and I hope this turns out to be a good movie.
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low-budget-korra · 3 months
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Bella did a wonderful job portraying Ellie, my problem with her casting is because I think they didn't think about part 2 when they made this casting choice. Bella looks younger than them really is, which is great for part 1 but when it comes to part 2…I know they will use make-up to try to age them up but still,the fact that them is still teenager looking made them make some cast decisions that I just can't buy.
Choosing someone small and thin to play Abby is a crime to her character. When we met her, she was intimidating because of her looks and she is muscular because that's how she dealt with her father's death. She prepared herself for years to be able to beat the man who killed her father.
 Also, her character design is amazing as it really stands out in comparison to everyone else. It is unique and it's functional, since it's there to serve character dept and construction and not just to “look cool” 
And they butched all of this. It would be 100% better if they had casted Kaitlyn to play a original character that is inspired by Abby but not really Abby.
This casting choice tells me 3 things
1. They didn't believed the show would be a hit cuz they didn't prepared for a season 2
2. They realized that even tho Bella delivered, they fucked up them casting choice so know they have no other choice other than adapt things to better fit them and pray for it to work
3.They simply don't know their won't characters. Or just don't care.
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People on Twitter are thinking and theorizing that Shannon Berry had the role or at the very least was the first choice but her support on Palestine made them pull a spyglass and kick her out of the project for that. Half of the cast and the creator of The Last of Us are either zionist or just simply racists towards muslims so tbh this idea doesn't seem so off and if this is the case I hope season 2 flop hard.
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low-budget-korra · 3 months
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Comments on Saltburn
- Couldn't have chosen a better film to start 2024. Saltburn is beautiful, hunting and weird. And those types of movies that it's been to go in blind
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-I wasn't following the marketing campaign but people on the internet were treating this movie as a gay love story so I don't know if the movie was actually marketed that way or if it was the audience wish's but let me tell you that this is no love story.
-Felix is quite a nice guy, one of the biggest plot twists for me was Jacob Elordi playing a genuinely nice guy lmao. It is implied that Oliver wasn't the first poor dude Felix brought over Saltburn but I didn't see this is something bad or evil, Felix grew up in a highly privileged environment and yet he ain't a complete jerk but I rather believe that he just wanted to know people who in his eyes were free of wherever knots he think he had, people who are "normal" and have "real" struggles.
He really bonded with Oliver, even with his friends not sharing this friendly sentiment towards the outsider and was deeply hurt by Oliver's web of lies. His death or more likely the way it happened was a shocker to me but it made sense he was no longer friends with Oliver, he became an enemy and an obstacle to his truly desires.
-Farleigh was the only one able to see through Oliver bullshit, and that's why Oliver makes him get kicked out of the house. In the beginning you kind of hate him cuz you think he's being a jerk to Oliver just cuz he is poor. I think he may represent this type of rich people, the ones who can't stand poor people trying to be one of them. I wonder if he off himself too.
-Pamela and Venetia I would need another watch to understand their characters but in a first watch I interpreted as Pamela being their "clown", entertaining them and being replaced by Oliver, who just couldn't live with the idea of not being in Saltburn with the aristocrats and thinking that even if she was bullied, it's better to live there then live with the common folk.
Venetia I think is just the type of woman that just can't get out of her mother's shadows as she tries to be different, to be cool but fails. By the end she also is able to see through Oliver bullshit and I think that's why she died.
-Elspeth is amazing. She was so elegant, so classy...it was so sad that she never was really allowed to express the pain of losing her kids. The only time we see that was when she screamed in pain after founding Felix.
She wanted to keep Oliver around cuz Felix loved him and it was a way of keeping her son there.
-Lets talk about the Devil. I don't think he planned to do all of the murder, he planned to be with the 1% but not to murder them. It only happened after Felix found out the truth.
Oliver was obsessed with Felix, and the moment he drank his cum , he started to act more and more confident. It was like he was becoming more and more like them after that and sucking Venetia, literally a vampire, sucking them dry.
Like he said himself, he loved Felix , he wasn't in love with him. It's like when Cady Heron wanted to sabotage Regina George but still wanted Regina to like her and be with her. This love and hate duality.
I think the grave scene is when he realizes what his done. He lost his obsession, he could never consume Felix again but he damn hell tried. The sex scenes with Oliver are never about love, but it's about power.
He thought it was over until Elspeth invited him to continue to stay with them. He tried to match Venetia to reinforce his place there but she realizes what he really was and because of that he had to deal with her too.
His dreams of being in Saltburn were over until he saw Sir.James died. Now it's time to suck the life out of a broken and lonely Elspeth. And I was really scared when Oliver started to mount her like that, I was so afraid that he would assault her defenseless body I almost turned off the movie. That was the scariest and heaviest scene to me tbh
Now it's all his. It's better be alone and be the one of the 1% than being with the common folk.
Plus Duncan disliked him because he also saw who he really was from the very first time. And like all the staff, he left
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low-budget-korra · 3 months
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This is the perfect day to say the biggest FUCK YOU for those fuckers who talk shit about Korrasami, people from inside the lgbt community
I guess it is easier to talk shit about Korrasami while they are enjoying all the goods that were made possible mostly because of how big of a deal Korrasami was in 2014. And I'm not talking shit about the other pioneers, is that just like Xena years ago, Korrasami was the one to do it first and help other to not only follow it's steps but also go for more.
If you have any doubts, go watch the reactions from 2014, it cures depression really show us how big of a deal Korrasami was/it's, people were witnessing history being made.
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low-budget-korra · 3 months
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Happy Korrasami Day
Happy Korrasami day y'all. Nine years ago history was made and lives were changed.
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low-budget-korra · 4 months
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Who is gonna be Abby in Tlou season 2?
It's a rhetorical question cuz they probably already chose the actress who will be Abby but I will talk about it anyway.
Who played TLOU2 knows how different Abby's character design is, she really stands up in comparison to other characters. Be a big lady is also important to her character's construction, and an important characteristic just as much as Ellie being a lesbian or Mel being pregnant, is who she is and how she presents herself to the world. And also lifting weights is her therapy, how she deals with the loss of her father.
Kaitlyn Dever is an excellent actress and my Dreamcast as Ellie since the rumors of a movie adaptation back in 2013/2014. She is just amazing in every role she is, no matter if it is drama or comedy, she will deliver. But she is too tiny. "But she can get bulky" I know but she is still only 5ft2 and it's difficult to look physically imponent and intimidating being that short. And lastly but not least, it would be weird to have an Abby that is more similar to game Ellie as the actress that plays Ellie.
Shannon Berry is 5ft7 and being a big lady if she worked out for the role she would look amazing especially because she already is similar to Abby. However since Bella is only 5ft1 and still looks younger than she really is, it would be weird to have this tall, muscular woman beating up this other woman who is tiny and still looks like a teenager.
I understand why they go for a short actress to play Abby but man it sucks so bad.
And since Bella is being cancelled because she liked a post from Noah Schnapp about the Palestine genocide I now feel free to say that I thought her acting was really overrated without being cancelled lmao. Don't get me wrong, she did good work but is really not like that and I also don't think she will look half as intimidating as part2 Ellie is, because she is tiny and still looks like a teenager
And I'm hoping to be proving wrong but I doubt
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low-budget-korra · 4 months
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Comments on Special Ops Lioness
- This is such a good show. Like, everything is just on point but for me what it makes it different from other spy shows is the cast. Everyone are so good in their roles, even the smallest characters pass some type of honest and authenticity with them.
- Cruz is such a fine protagonist, btw, I think the protagonist varies from her to Joe. They own the show.
She's a strong promising woman whose life was turned upside down and after finding a way to rebuild herself,she grabbed the opportunity with everything she has. That woman is resilient af.
I absolutely loved the fact that they hinted that she was sexually assaulted in the past, with no unnecessary and traumatic flashbacks of the event and no overexploitation of the fact. It's like , yes it happened but this isn't the main plot, this is just another one thing about this character. I have no problem when shows and movies focus on sexual assault (when it is done right) but it's fine to have one that don't minimize the character to just being the victim, and Cruz def ain't a victim
Her going from being a total badass as a Marine to vulnerability with Aaliyah, is a joy to watch.
-Aaliyah...omg that woman is a goddess.
There's no way she is that naive. Cruz got close to her so easily. Sure, there's a scene with her friends talking which implies she is used to pick girls like Cruz and bring them home and all but c'mon.
Also, she is probably the woman that saw the tattoo on the spy who died in the beginning of the first episode. Her way of speaking, of flirting and her first time with Cruz got me thinking that it's not the first time she does this.
The thing is I think she falls for Cruz the same way Cruz falls for her. Since they both started to get really vulnerable towards each other.
Personally I think Aaliyah was wanting to have fun with Cruz before a marriage she didn't want but things got too real for her and she also kinda saw, hopefully, a way out of her situation.
I saw some theories saying she was The Boss, the terrorist the Lioness was hunting but I disagree.
- I love Joe and her duality, like, she simply can't lose another one and that's why she is so rash with Cruz. The parts that involved her family were surprisingly nice, not the best ones but not boring.
I was really mad that her older daughter, and btw that's how you know you're getting old, when you just can't stand teenage bullshit anymore. And the fact that she had an accident that brought her actual consequences? Damn, I like that.
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low-budget-korra · 4 months
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Or you are truly like the Targaryens or are Team Green, you can't be both.
Seriously, the greens are Hightowers. Alicent sons are nothing but pretentious white hair Hightowers that some people Stan because they think they are attractive.
Aegon II is a rapist, Aemond is a murder who can't even command his own dragon (not only he is a Wallmark version of Daemon, the show also made him look stupid and incompetent.) and will commit war crimes against the common folk. Alicent is a bitter middle aged woman who hates Rhaenyra because she had the life she wanted. Otto is a vicious snake who only thought about himself, bro sold his daughter for power. Criston is a incel who didn't got over Rhaenyra not wanting to run away with him. The only ones that are innocent are Helaena and her kids
On the other hand, Rhaenyra is the RIGHTFUL queen who tried her best to avoid the war and whose only crime was to love a man outside her marriage. Daemon most evil act was a response to the violent and coward murder of prince Lucerys. Lucerys, poor thing, stabbed Aemond just to save his brother since Aemond was about to smash his head with a rock. Jacaerys was going to be such a noble and good king, we can see by the way he joined allies who fought for him even after his and his mother death, he also died to protect his younger brother. Rhaenys fought bravely against two dragons and died like a G, she alone with her dragon was able to seriously injure Aegon II and his dragon, her only mistake (in the show) was not murdering the greens when she got the chance. Baela and Rhaena fought bravely for their family.
Also, it means a lot when the honorable and noble Starks fight for your cause and the Lannisters fight against it (and I love the Lannisters in Game of Thrones more than the Starks)
Anyway, I don't mind people who like the Greens just stop being hypocritical and pretending they are saints, they are not
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low-budget-korra · 4 months
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I love that you spoke your thoughts on Jordan and Marie, much of the fandom is made up of people who joined the show just for their romance rather than for the show itself. For those of us here for the show, the over hyping of their relationship also irks us too, it even spills over into The Boys tags where its just not necessary. I agree with you it's not true representation, we even saw Jordan in female form having a heto relationship with a male. We heard of male Jordan exclusively dating another girl and the only real screen time they go, Jordan was as a male. I just hope their stans don't sent you hate or clog your comments with hate, they are over possessive and have ganged up on people before, but go you for voicing what some of us have saw too.
Yep. Thank you
I was young once and celebrated a lot by the little we got but the way people are overhyping? That's why we still get queerbaited. And it sucks cuz we do have a good ass representation in The Boys with Queen Maeve.
Also, I knew Jordan and Marie would be a couple but I spent half of the season wondering when it would happen and it kinda happened outta nowhere too
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Comments about GenV
I was pretty busy so it took me a while to watch it and man what a good show.
- I never thought I would be sad about the death of a character named Golden Boy but here we are. He genuinely was a nice guy, I was expecting some homelander wannabe.
- No like, it's fucked up that your parents would give you the V and don't talk about it, so when you hit puberty your powers appears and because of that some people may die, including your parents.
- Can we agree that Emma is the best character? She and Sam were so cute together, of course Sam had to screw things up. I mean I get it but damn he was radicalized after ONE LECTURE? And hurt Emma like that? C'mon. Fuck him.
Oh I love that my queen realizes she can use her power without having to vomit
-I like all the analogies. Emma being the ED, Marie being the self warm, Jordan being the gender "confused"(def not the right word but that's kind of how people see them)... and all done in a way that doesn't feel like a TEDtalk. It's actually incorporated to the plot and that's genius.
-I saw spoilers that Cate would be bad but c'mon she ain't all evil, she literally is just a manipulated young woman who has been through a lot. It also doesn't help that she has major mommy issues. Anyway, by the end she just became Magneto with all the "let's kill the humans" mentality
-That was a good show, against showing us the dangers of an extremist ideology. Shetty wanting to get revenge was understandable but damn, wanting to murder all the supers because of what homelander did?! No
-Victoria will certainly use the virus to shield herself and her daughter against Homelander, as she should. And our heroes will probably meet The Boys , and work together.
-Cate is really powerful yes but Marie took a blast from fuckin Homelander! She is gonna be big.
-I saw y'all go crazy over Jordan and Marie, sorry I didn't see what you guys saw. They're cute but it sucks that 90% of their romantic scenes happen only when Jordan is a boy. Maybe I'm old and bitter but this is the type of shit I expected in like 2014, not now.
And just to be clear, it's not a problem to shit them, but people are acting like this is a big wlw representation when it just isn't.
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I'm 100% sure that the creators didn't know what comphet was, I mean it was 2014. We are in 2023 and people still don't know or invalidate this experience.
Gosh I Thought I was the only one who had this Headcannons of Korra being a lesbian, good to know Im not alone
I headcannon Avatar Korra as a lesbian
Ik the fandom largely recognizes her as bi, and idt the creators knew about comphet so they probs didn't even know they could make her a lesbian after everything with Mako, but her romantic journey feels ridiculously similar to my experience as a lesbian who dealt with deeply rooted comphet (compulsory heterosexuality) and I want to explain why and how this character means to much to me in this respect
(Don't come for me; it's a f***ing headcannon and I acknowledge that it's not anything more than that)
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Background: Comphet
So comphet is ultimately borne from a lack of representation. When you're a little kid in a society that only allows heterosexual-passing love stories to exist (and queer rep is made through a hetero lens), you often don't even realize that you can feel same-sex love and attraction; that it's even an option. So when you do feel those feelings you chalk it up to something else.
It technically affects everyone, but it disproportionally affects lesbians (which is why many lesbians get up in arms about other groups of people using the term to describe non-lesbian experiences) because when this happens in a patriarchal society--one that centers men and men's stories--being a girl/woman who doesn't like men is astoundingly difficult to wrap your brain around because everything is pushing you at men.
It can be even harder to wrap your brain around than being asexual (note: i say can be), because at least with pure asexuality you aren't attracted to anyone, whereas lesbians not only don't feel the "right" feelings for men, they feel them towards other women. And as women themselves who (1) may never have truly wanted to receive those feelings from men but (2) have been raised to expect that sort of attention from only men, getting over that those feelings are okay to feel for women (that it's not inherently predatory as men's attraction to women is made out to be and can really feel like when you're not attracted to men at all) It's a clusterfuck basket of feelings to sort through. And this leads to a lot of tension as you struggle against your own self-expectations in multiple areas.
Why I See Korra As A Lesbian:
1. What we know about her upbringing.
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The Avatarverse is queerphobic. We learn about that in the comics when Korra tells her parents about her relationship with Asami, and from her later conversation with Kya. Same-sex relationships are taboo in the Avatar world, a topic of conversation best not shared, and best experienced on the DL so right away we have a representation issue. And
We learn pretty early in Korra's story that she's been isolated from peers her whole life. She's spent her whole life training at the compound and Naga is her only friend. This level of isolation means her only experiences of romantic relationships are going to be from witnessing her parents, coupled White Lotus members/guards/etc, and what she hears from mainstream stories--which again, as we learned from the comics, were likely not queer as queer relationships are taboo.
We don't see the same level of outright misogyny from Korra's era like we saw from Aang's era, but the centering of men was still there baked into the familial gender roles and expectations--meaning the centering of men in women's lives was probably-definitely also there.
All of those points together means that Korra's upbringing most likely gave her a heterosexual expectation for herself and lends itself to a situation where a young lesbian would definitely have some comphet to work through.
2. Her relationship with Mako.
Often, lesbians dealing with comphet will "choose" guys to have crushes on based on their perceived social value (often it's the mainstream safe option or "the underdog") and sometimes lesbians know they're choosing this guy, and sometimes it's more subconscious, often experienced getting oddly obsessive only to discover they're not into him once he reciprocates or the relationship is established ("getting a boyfriend has been achieved. societal validation unlocked. but wait, why don't I like the reality of having a boyfriend?").
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That "oh she likes him" music played for Korra after Mako pulled impressive stuff at the Pro Bending arena and was waving to the crowd. And like, yes, people can become more attractive based on their actions and achievements, but a lesbian under comphet would definitely see Mako prove himself to be an impressive guy (loved by an entire cheering audience) and go "I choose that one." I myself used to scan a room, pick the most conventionally attractive guy, and go "i want that one to like me" and then genuinely thought I liked him. This behavior is not about actual attraction, it's about a subconscious understanding of social dynamics and what you need to be valuable to a community--emphasis on the subconscious.
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She gets pretty obsessive about him, which makes total sense if he's her first crush and she's been isolated her whole life, but also lines up with the comphet lesbian.
That line in her confession, too, "I really like you and I think we were meant for each other." Like, girl, what soulmate romance novels have you been reading between training sessions?? And this doesn't mean she couldn't have actually been attracted to Mako, but it does mean she really built him up in her head (and what she should expect from a chosen guy).
Then they get together, and you know how long that lasted for? Like, two episodes. This was where I started to think she never actually liked Mako. Immediately Korra starts picking fights with him and then quickly physically separates herself from him. And she does this to him almost every time they're in a scene together after they start dating. Meanwhile, Mako was just being a relatively supportive, attentive boyfriend so clearly her own feelings were the trigger. This wasn't a problem of personalities clashing, it really seemed like Korra didn't like the reality of being in a relationship with Mako.
In the end Mako takes it on that he's just not equipped to handle being the support-partner to the Avatar and Korra agrees that they're better off as friends, I even seem to remember her being the one to verbalize that they made better friends than gf/bf all after she worked so hard to convince him to be with her. And why I ask you? Possibly because as soon as she had the boyfriend, she realized she didn't actually want a boyfriend. Emphasis on the boy.
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She took like zero social cues from him: He says he's confused, she jumps in and kisses him. He's uncomfortable with her grabbing his arm, she tells him to play along (translation: "suck it up, this is happening"). And then there was that scene where she kissed him out of nowhere in the locker room. (And Korra picks up on social cues from everyone else, so it's not an autism thing or something.) This is actually behavior you'll see frequently from people who are more into the idea of a person than the actual person. Liking an actual person requires acknowledging their personhood (not just how great they are), and Korra does way less of that than she does of deciding how things with Mako can or should go all, the way up to their mutual decision to just be friends. And lesbians under comphet? Yeah, liking the idea of a guy is the closest they usually get to actually liking a guy.
I don't doubt that Korra doesn't care for Mako, later seasons definitely proved that time and time again, but: a lesbian under comphet could very easily mistake that care for different feelings and lead to a relationship like what Korra had with Mako.
3. Her Intro to Bolin
It's such a small thing, but that first moment she has with him in the gym, the way she bristles at his "implication" that they were "together" screams bby lesbian to me. Because I did this. Often times I was looking out for such implications. And I've been a bby lesbian so I would know (technically still am).
4. Apart from her intense and then very short-lived feelings for Mako, we never see her express interest in a guy again.
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And four seasons does not translate to a lifetime of examples, but several guys are shown to express interest in Korra over those four seasons (I'm including Prince Wu hitting on her in their first encounters) and meanwhile we only see Korra interested in two people: a guy and a gal. And one of them, I think, can be really well explained by comphet.
5. What Her Relationship with Asami Tells Us
The way Korra acted toward Asami when she had feelings for her was completely different from the way she expressed her feelings for Mako. And, like, yes, she's been through at least two seasons of trauma since she first thought she liked Mako so she's changed, and this was a show on Nickelodeon so they wanted the queer to be as subtle/nonexistent as possible, but still:
The way Korra acts while liking Asami is c o m p l e t e l y different from how she acted when she was in her Mako phase.
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Even after they get together in the comics, the way Korra expresses her interest in Asami is still completely different from her interest in Mako. Her interest in Mako was obsessive and forceful and after they got together it was very platonically comfortable in small moments before she consistently turned combative. Her interest in Asami was receptive and emotional, and then when they got together it was secure, protective, and fierce. And I'm not saying bisexuals can't experience this difference between two partners of different genders, but as a lesbian who dealt with comphet and then started dating the actual correct gender for her sexuality, her relationship with Mako screams of forcing something she thought she wanted. Especially when compared to her relationship with Asami.
In Conclusion
Arguments could be made for ace umbrella rep in Korra, and certainly the fandom's consensus is that she's bisexual rep, but I wanted to express a different possibility; one that never gets fully explored in media.
In the end: she's a cartoon character, so any aspect of her personhood is completely dependent on her creators (like what stan lee said about people who ask him which superhero would win in a fight, the answer is "whoever I want to win.") and while I super doubt the creators knew they could go this route to explain Korra (meaning it's probably not in the cards for actual cannon) I still hold this headcannon dear to me because I see so much of my own (misguided) romantic history reflected in it.
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Thanks for reading.
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