>>77072033Oh, I'm a huge fan of RLM, don't get me wrong on that.
My point, was just that at its core, the issues are the same. The only thing different here, are the specific symptoms, and frankly, I don't think Korra is worth deconstructing on that level, because the problems are a lot more transparent. At least with Star Wars, it was a bit difficult to pinpoint where the problems came from. Here, every problem's just right in your face.
>>77072134There was an interesting point to the Empire being a better government than the Republic, if you consider that Jar Jar became a senator.
That doesn't excuse the fact that neither the Emperor nor Anakin's briefly mentioned argument that the Jedi and the Republic are a cancer, is ever really explored.
The problem, is that if people bring it up as an excuse, even for as much as "yeah, it totally failed at it, but it deserves to be picked apart and given attention because at least it tried", then literally all a show will ever have to do from now on, is pick Thomas Moore's Utopia off the shelf, pick out a random feature of the setting, like say... Gold being worthless and used as a bedpan, "for no pleasure of experiencing beauty is a true pleasure, for true pleasures come from the nature of the human body" and make a character who is against say, art in general, and wants to force people into focusing on industry "to build a better world".
The character can then be butchered to no end on all narrative levels, but people will pay attention to it, because "how cool is it that he had one thing kind of sort of going on but not really!".
Add Plato's quotes on Atlantis
Which really was just the proto-Utopia story to be honest. or a quote from Captain Nemo/Some Other Verne/H.G. Wells character, and bam. You have an infinite series of characters "worth talking about despite not being worth talking about."
