The Legend of Korra, Season 1

The Legend of Korra, Season 1

Medium: TV
Created by: Michael Dante DiMartino & Brian Konietzko
Network: Nickelodeon
Dates Aired: April 14, 2012 - June 23, 2012
Consumption completed: June 29, 2012
Genre: Action/Animation
Rating: 9.0/10

In 12 episodes the creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender have greatly expanded on the world they built over the course of three seasons, bringing it 70 years into the future. Korra finds the formerly feudal world right in the middle of an industrial age that has produced motor vehicles and steam-powered airships. It's a lot to take in with such a quick introduction. It's even harder when we're immediately forced to sympathize with a load of characters we don't know yet, and who have only tenuous connections to the characters from the earlier series. 

I'm happy to report that the creators of Korra prove very adept at bringing us up to speed and fleshing out their new characters. DiMartino and Konietzko have had practice, surely, but I had no reason to expect that Korra would be much better than Avatar at the same point in it's series.

This also has to do with the strict serialization of the new series. There are no Villages-of-the-week here. No exploring the world. Korra (and the audience) are thrown into Republic City, and the series moves briskly from there.

As a huge fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender, I could not have asked for a more satisfying sequel series.