This is old (obviously). Spirits has come and gone.

So far I don't think it is anywhere close to the original series, I expect Book 2 to be better than Book 1, but still not as good as the original series. If I had to rate each season from both series out of 10 I would give Book 1 of LoK a 6/10 at best. For Book 1 of ATLA I would give a 7.5/10, Book 2 a 9.5/10 and Book 3 a 9/10. I'd say that Book 1 of LoK had beautiful animation, great character designs and art style, intense action scenes, but it was let down by the rushed plot and poorly written characters. [quote]EDIT: Those of you saying book 1 air was close to TLAB but not as good as it, season 1 was made when they only had one season in mind, rushing the season/book, later nick agreed with the directers to have more season (4) so now they can actually have a plot which goes across all the seasons.[/quote] I don't really believe that is a valid reason for the poor writing of Book 1, the writers should have taken the fact that they had a certain time frame to work with, and write a story that fit the time allowed. Instead they tried to compress 20 episodes worth of content into 12 episodes. I think if they cut the love triangle bullshit and the pro-bending sub-plot, they would have more screen time to focus on the main conflict which could have resulted in a better written season. Also if this was going to be the only season as it was originally, I would actually say that makes the bad things even worse because there would be no chance to save the series, because at least with more seasons in the future, they have a chance to fix things and improve.

TLOK Doesn't have Toph. No where near as good for just that reason.

I'm always shocked by how many people think it's fair to compare the first season of Korra, 10 episodes of what they thought might be their only season of the show, to the entirety of ATLA. Since I'm not going to reply to everyone individually, here's a few people in this very topic who seem to be making that mistake but they're obviously free to defend themselves and I encourage them to do so if they see this: Wars0ngGlutch WinyPit RealMattMilan And some others who had shorter posts and I'm less sure of what they were trying to say. If you compare the first 10 episodes of Korra to the first 10 of TLA with [b]no exterior considerations[/b], it's really not close at all: Korra is better. But that doesn't say anything about the two against each other, because the first 10 of TLA were setting up what was always expected to be a full-length, planned out story about several particular characters. The exterior considerations matter a hell of a lot. Thus I don't think it's a very fair comparison at this point in time. I will say this, though: Season 1 of Korra impressed me a lot. I think it has the potential to exceed TLA handily, and I loved TLA to death. (This hardly needs saying but there's a brigade of TLA fans out there that will never accept Korra as a superior sequel no matter how good the show gets for the next few seasons. It's like how if the Hobbit trilogy was the greatest film trilogy in history there would still be a number of fans who would say LOTR was way better.)

I think it's going to end up better than the first series. I loved the original, but I always thought Season 1 was weak. Season 1 of Korra is top-notch though. If it can maintain or exceed this quality as the seasons go on, it'll be amazing.

So far, no. But that is mostly because its still in its first season, which was rushed, squishing in all the stupid love square and 'fitting in' moments uncomfortably among the bending controversy and Amon. But, now that three more books are announced, the series has more time and space to develop its characters and world, and set up an inter-series arc, akin to the A:TLA. Plus, we're finally getting some freaky spirit shit that looks cool as hell!

I think it's better so far.

Of course it isn't. It's still better than 96% of shows that nickelodeon has ever aired, but TLA basically raised the bar for animated television series.'

Nick needs to learn to think-out what the hell they want to promote. Same for cartoon network... I mean you have flashback shows like TMNT, Avatar, power rangers and Spongebob, yet you saturate it with teen disney show clones, like cat and sam, victorious and all those teen sitcoms...

This show is nowhere near the last airbender. [b]Nowhere near.[/b]

H to the E to the double L no.

I thought TLAB was much better in almost every way. That said, they had four full seasons, whilst Korra only had half of one. Hopefully Book 2 will be better. Could do with less lovey stuff, though.