Yoo Jae-myung, animation director of The Legend of Korra, discusses Nickelodeons initial hesitancy to accept Mike and Bryans proposal of the show… and Korra.
“The sequel focuses on the incarnation of the new Avatar, Korra, as she tries to save a city called the Republic City.”
“So, Korra is a young girl , not a boy. Heroes and protagonists are usually men.”
“That actually became a problem.
Nickelodeon was reluctant to produce this animated series at first because the protagonist was a girl.
I guess you could say that Americans are more conservative than Koreans.
The production was suspended just because the protagonist was a girl.
To compare this situation to a movie production, it’s as if the lead actor has already been cast, but the production agency decides to stop the filming because they don’t approve of the actor.”
Fun fact: I did a research paper for an upper division course detailing how gender and gender roles affect movies and TV shows, and I used Bryan’s thoughts as evidence.
When I received feedback for the presentation on the topic, several classmates commented saying they didn’t even know Korra’s gender would have possibly stopped production.
And that pattern of skepticism from the studio end never went away either, which played into a lot of the production problems the series had, which in turn impacted the quality of the product (see: Book 2’s rushed scripting and the use of two studios with vastly different art qualities).
Those things, of course, impact the response to the show. And this creates a loop, where studio people can comfortably look at a property that they helped kneecap, show that it didn’t ‘perform to expectations,’ and blame whatever factor they like–in this case, Sexism, but queerness and race issues can play in too–as the reason for it.
Which is all another reason why Legend of Korra is my favorite damned show, because it’s kind of a miracle it even got made at all.
I have definite problems with Korra (season two was a disaster on every level, plain and simple) but yeah, every time we hear about the production it becomes clearer that making it about Korra was like pulling teeth.
It’s not just a problem at Nickelodeon, either. Lots of networks can be sexist like that. Need I bring up the time Cartoon Network cancelled its whole action block just because too many girls were watching it? At least Nick was smart enough to let Korra finish its story, regardless of how much they messed with it.
honestly monty python and the holy grail is just a dnd session w/ really uncooperative players and a dm who worked really hard on a campaign but gave up halfway through
FINE the POLICE arrive and ARREST EVERYBODY go home.
No no no. It’s the exact opposite. All the players, the Knights of the Round Table, especially Arthur, they all want to complete their quest and are serious about it. The uncooperative ones are the NPCs, the DM controlled characters. John Clease alone berates and belittles characters who just want to pass through. Or what about the Knights who say Ni? The Black Knight? Help help I’m being oppressed guy? They’re all DM controlled.
This is actually the story of DM getting revenge on a group of players who are probably a bunch of murder hobos normally and let them have a taste of what it’s like to be in a game that’s nonsense.
“Okay. So we finally get to fight someone?”
“No. The police arrive and arrest you all. End of campaign.”
When you’re told to evacuate because the Galactic Empire just took over your city, you only have time to grab the essentials.
God, this guy is one of my favorite ridiculous EU characters along with Elan Sleazebaggano.
He was basically just a random extra with an ice cream maker, but they gave him an entire in-depth backstory about how he was a member of the Rebellion and that ice cream maker contained a lot of vital data and basically he single-handedly saved the Rebellion that day.
He has an action figure, of course, as does his ice cream maker computer datacore.
Fuck.
the star wars eu is a wild fucking ride
“After the Rebels’ victory, Hood decided to take it easy.” with a daily supply of fresh ice cream i guess
Epic legends.
Every Star Wars Celebration has the Run of the Willrow Hoods. Dozens of fans cosplay as Willrow and run through the con with their ice cream makers.
^ Please tell me there’s video footage of this. Do people wait for the stampede and see if they can press one of the On switches without getting gored?
We still have NO IDEA who played Willrow Hood. Legendary.
a bit late but … on september 13th, 2007 in japan pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of time & darkness were released! my favorite entry in the pmd series and one of the games that cemented my love in more plot centered games.
Growing food instead of laws is good, but can we PLEASE stop with the condescending bullshit that implies that people who choose to grow lawns must only being doing it for shallow ‘sheepish’ reasons?
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