Harajukum [any]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months agoA real post I found in the wildhexbear.netimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up12arrow-down1imageA real post I found in the wildhexbear.netHarajukum [any]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWheaties [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoThat’s a hard sell when Legend of Korra has Republic City as the more obvious, yet superficial, analog to the United States.
minus-squarehalvar@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoJust because it’s a cool, developed city state with peace and neutrality it doesn’t mean it’s the USA. I would argue it means quite the opposite.
minus-squareSpookyGenderCommunist [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoI can’t source it right this second, but in an interview, the show runners said they based Korra’s setting on the 1920s US, simply because they thought it would look cool, which is… Horrid world building.
That’s a hard sell when Legend of Korra has Republic City as the more obvious, yet superficial, analog to the United States.
Just because it’s a cool, developed city state with peace and neutrality it doesn’t mean it’s the USA. I would argue it means quite the opposite.
I can’t source it right this second, but in an interview, the show runners said they based Korra’s setting on the 1920s US, simply because they thought it would look cool, which is… Horrid world building.