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    1. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 20 Jun 2020

      It’s not even that I dislike these aesthetics or influences, but it feels off for Korra and where the world setting was going. They don’t work for me as shorthand. There’s a lot of jazz-ish music on the soundtrack, for example, and I keep wondering that stands for in the setting.

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    2. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 20 Jun 2020

      It’s disorienting because in Avatar, I often felt like I could trust my instincts when I see the aesthetic/visual shorthand. When Zuko cut his hair or when Sokka put on makeup before war and things like that? They aren’t just aesthetics, they meant things.

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    3. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 20 Jun 2020

      And those things aren’t explained. They didn’t have to stop the narrative to exposit the symbolic value of hair cutting or war paint. It’s just understood as significant and I understood based on having understanding of the real world cultures they’re drawing on.

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    4. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 20 Jun 2020

      I will add that this doesn’t always work out for me, because I assumed the monks and nuns were celibate and that the air nomads referred to a separate population that, I dunno, were nomadic and didn’t live in non-moving temples. But anyway.

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    5. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 20 Jun 2020

      Point is that I don’t understand why the primary influence for the New Republic city hall is the German Reichstag? Or why they seem to have a Eiffel Tower knockoff (is this a reference to the Tokyo tower that’s in the background of many anime)?pic.twitter.com/y2j0FRPNy2

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    6. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 20 Jun 2020

      This is Plaza Hotel in New York. But called Four Elements which resembles Four Seasons, a Canadian hotel chain. And Air Temple Island is inexplicably Alcatraz. I don’t know either.pic.twitter.com/jwLGr3ucBg

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    7. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 20 Jun 2020

      There are influences from early 20thC Shanghai fashion, lots of standing collars and cravats. But like, may I remind you that those things in the real world didn’t organically grow from Chinese culture. There was this whole Thing with encountering and being influenced by the West

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    8. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 20 Jun 2020

      So it feels... strange? Suits evolved out of frock coats and European royal court dress. They structure of them is very specific and I’m seeing it everywhere in Korra. I don’t know how you go from basically robes to that.

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    9. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 20 Jun 2020

      I mean, the cheongsam comes from a horse-riding culture, that’s why you have a high slit up the side of the robe, it’s again, quite specific and I don’t believe we had any analogue to the Manchus in Avatar?

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    10. Jeannette Ng 吳志麗‏ @jeannette_ng 20 Jun 2020

      And normally using aesthetics as shorthand for “now the industrial revolution is happening” or whatever doesn’t really bother me. I don’t demand every fantasy comic or tv show explain the evolution and influence of every object but I find it hard to suspend my disbelief here.

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      Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin‏ @AdmiralHip 20 Jun 2020
      Replying to @jeannette_ng

      I really enjoy Korra, but I always had a problem with the weird aesthetics and what I felt was a move away from the martial arts focus with the bending in Avatar.

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