#sometimes instead of wishing things were canonically queer and properly explored

[bumblingbabooshka]

Picture Genderbent Janeway still having that 'I prefer captain but ma'am in acceptable in a crunch' moment with Harry in episode 1 and it's never addressed again. Thank you.

[tuiyla]

Legend of Korra?

send me a tv show/book/fandom and i’ll say the top 5 things i’d change about it

Oh boy, I do love this show but it did have some flaws.

5. Technology

I say this as an absolute Asami fan. When I first saw the very first trailer, with cars and wires and electricity, it felt so weird. Later on I got used to the fact that the Avatar world’s version of the Industrial Revolution happened and that these stuff can exist just 70 years after the end of the war. But with Book 4 and in retrospect I still think that they went a tad bit too far. If I have one problem with the idea that there could be two more shows with an earth and a fire Avatar, it’s that the technology in those shows would go beyond ours, and I don’t think I would be totally onboard with that.

4. Book 2

The book of Spirits wasn’t bad of course, but let’s be honest, out of all the LoK books this wasted the most of its potential. I feel sorry for what it had to endure and what it could have been instead, from animation through scheduling to pacing. One of my smallest complaints is that it was a book all about spirits and the Spirit World and yet we didn’t see Yue once.

3. Kya

I loved Kya’s character when she was first mentioned. My heart broke in a good way when I first heard that Katara named her daughter after her mother, because of course she did. I loved her by default, but I wanted more than that. I wanted the show to truly explore the character, which didn’t happen, not really, not as much as her brothers were explored. We had hints here and there to her life before, but not nearly enough for my Water Tribe needs. I understand how little time the creators had to do this properly, but I just wish we got more of Kya. Maybe in the comics we’ll get an in-universe confirmation that she’s queer? Now that would be something.

2. Korrasami

Don’t get me wrong, I love Korra and Asami and their relationship. I absolutely adore them and I was shouting “It’s canon!” when I first watched the finale. But we all know that Korrasami also could have been more, was it not for Nick and censorship. Sometimes I feel like even with the censorship they could have done a bit more, but maybe it’s just wishful thinking. I do love it as it is, but Korrasami definitely could have been more. But again, may the comics give us what we deserve.

1. Love triangle

No brainer. My main problem with Book 2 was how it spent precious time on bringing back that stupid, useless love triangle. I didn’t like it in Book 1 either, especially how it was handled in the end (here, have Makorra, Asami sod off). But suffering through it again in Book 2 was a special kind of evil, and I still firmly believe that it could have been avoided, no one needed that drama. No wonder it really was a breath of fresh air when Book 3 left it behind once and for all and began developing the relationship between Korra and Asami.