I’ve been doing a lot of reading into various spiritual concepts and practices from around the world and typically light/order/yang is masculine and dark/chaos/yin is usually feminine. Is there another concept that’s being referenced or is this just a minor but interesting artistic decision?

I was a little disappointed that they played Raava as “good”; I’ve always preferred media like Babylon 5 where it turns out the vorlons are fucking with humanity too, but I can see why they might not put all that in a kids show.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I was a little disappointed that they played Raava as “good”

    Yeah, I dunno how they went in that direction. Yin/Yang was even hinted at in Book 1 (not to mention the original series).

    The creators outright said B2 was their most troubled production in the commentary, but maybe they had plot constraints for the intended audience that they just had to follow, aka “good vs evil” rather than something more ambiguous. Personally, I think Unalaq should have been a “moderate” breakaway of the Red Lotus that (in the end) teaches Korra balance, and how it was wrong to just imprison Vaatu for 10,000 years, and Korra ends up binding with both in her soul.

    That would’ve been a really cool struggle in B3/B4 as well. And an excuse to “neuter” the Avatar State.

    As for male/female, I feel like its:

    https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WomenAreWiser

    But maybe there’s a more accurate trope.