

Under the tutelage of Aang’s son, Tenzin, Korra begins her airbending training while dealing with the dangers at large. However, Korra discovers that Republic City is plagued by crime as well as a growing anti-bending revolution that threatens to rip it apart. It is a virtual melting pot where benders and non-benders from all nations live and thrive. Her quest leads her to the epicenter of the modern “Avatar” world, Republic City – a metropolis that is fueled by steampunk technology. With three of the four elements under her belt (Earth, Water, and Fire), Korra seeks to master the final element, Air. Instead, I will just say this about The Legend of Korra - and Avatar: The Last Airbender before it - and it’s maybe the highest compliment I can give: It’s Game of Thrones for kids.Taking place 70 years after the events of “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” this story follows the adventures of the Avatar after Aang – a passionate, rebellious, and fearless teenage girl from the Southern Water Tribe named Korra. I could point out that the animation is gorgeous and the action scenes are among the best on TV.

I could remind you of how few female heroes appear in genre entertainment, let alone one who isn’t sexualized - and yet remains in complete control of her femininity - and is clearly the most powerful person in the world. I could say it’s telling the same kind of dense, serialized stories that children’s shows rarely attempt. Listen, I could tell you the various and sundry ways The Legend of Korra is a show worth checking out. Together, they’ve all got murder on their minds. Worse, not everyone should be special - especially not Zaheer (voiced by rocker Henry Rollins), a criminal who uses his newfound power to escape from a supermax prison and free his three like-minded compatriots. PHOTOS Broadcast TV’s New Shows for 2014-15 Seasonīut not everyone wants to be special. Simmons) and her friends hit the road to find them, recruit them and teach them so, together, they can rebuild the Air Nation that had been gone for so long.

So Korra, her mentor Tenzin (voiced by J.K. The one apparent upside of the Harmonic Convergence is that airbending - a skill that had been absent for decades before Avatar Aang was born and is still possessed by a rare few - has popped up in people all over the world.
