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.
I don’t really get this, as it doesn’t invalidate anything else in the spirit world. All those other ancient spirits are still there, and the Avatar is still the Avatar.
Being light/dark is a big screw up, but TBH I think it’s an interesting plot point for the future. Perhaps the next Avatar realizes Korra was “wrong” like Wan was, and that there has to be a balance between Yin/Yang, Vaatu/Raava.
It removes the mystery. Itd be like explaining the force as coming from some god dude on a far off planet. Korea failed at show dont tell.