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>>115130 You know, usually I would disregard people like you as retards relying on outdated memes to dissuade any sort of discussion that isn't unanimous praise.
I kind of hated episodes 3 and 4 of this season and back then people like you told me to just get out and I didn't listen. Episode 5 revitalized me, it was an episode I actually liked and it carried me to this episode.
I actually had some high hopes for the premiere, things were being set up to be pretty awesome although I still had some reservations because Season 1 of Korra still stung. Frankly, it wasn't really the first season of Korra that I hated, it was mostly the last two episodes that just failed to resolve anything in a satisfying way. There was so much good build-up going on in the rest of the first season. I actually enjoyed the infamous Spirit of Competition episode. I was even part of a /co/ raid on the Nick video database at 5 in the morning. They had already uploaded "The Voice in the Night" online and finding it was just a matter of putting in the right 8-digit number at the end of the url. We got the episode only a few hours early, but goddamn it was worth it.
When word of Korra was first announced, I was excited. I saw Korra's character design and thought "what a badass". Legend of Korra was exactly the sort of pick-up the fandom and I needed after the horror that was M. Night Shymalan.
I remember protesting the film outside theaters, handing out racebending.com fliers and getting into arguments with strangers. Going to conventions and finding the amount of people who actually liked the idea of a white Aang made me fucking sick, although I always tried to keep the facade of politeness.
I remember watching this Avatar Movie Interview with M.… 5 years ago and two years before the movie actually came out and being really excited. Shymalan really seemed to get it and he really seemed like a fan at the time. At the time he seemed like the perfect guy to be adapting my favorite television series into a live action movie.
I mean I had my complaints with the end of season 3, conveniently placed rocks and energy-bending-out-of-nowhere primarily, but I still loved Avatar. It was such a grand and fantastic ending, it was worth the wait between season 2 and 3 which was like a neverending hell. Nick was still a fucking awful network that seemed to be trying it's goddamn hardest to fuck with Avatar. The schedule changes, delays and that fucking year long gap between seasons.
Writing and reading fanfiction sustained me. Oh god the shitty fanfiction I wrote, my shame. It was a bad habit I kept coming back to. I had a great idea, a great spin on the original, but it would only take a week after I put it online before I realized it was utter shit.
I never thought I would end up this devoted to the show. When I first watched the show when it really first started airing, I dismissed it off-handedly. This shit was just ripping off anime and Naruto was the hot shit.
It took me a year and half later when Season 2 was just about to finish to get back in the series and when I finally did sit down to watch the show I ate it up. I was in love with all the characters, but I really loved Zuko and Azula the most. While Sokka and Katara didn't quite have the perfect sibling relationship, it was Zuko and Azula that really matched my own fucked up relationship and to see it on screen was mind-blowing.
The reason I've stuck around for so long is because I love Avatar. I've written and spoken thousands of words about it, defending it, criticizing it, making fanfiction of it and whatever else. Avatar helped me meet new friends and bond with old ones. Avatar gave me the courage to talk to my brother about our shitstain of a father.
For all the ups and downs, the episodes I hated, the shitty movie adaptations, the fandumb that occurs and whatever else. I've stuck with Avatar because I love it, it's given me so much. Bryan and Mike don't owe me anything, it's the other way around.
So if you've actually read this whole thing (holy shit really?) and listened to me monologue like I'm on livejournal, I just want to tell you you're right. I should just gtfo. I hate the Legend of Korra and as much as I've devoted myself to Avatar and as much as I love it, it's time I moved on.
Seriously, who still uses cat memes?
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