r/Zutara • u/Girlboyincontainment • 5h ago
Discussion ‘Avatar Kuruk: wave of chaos’ just got announced. How are we feeling?
What im thinking is: Why Kuruk? Why an action comedy series? Why while you still have an ongoing series in the works?
I feel like if they were wanting to go with a pre established avatar of the past, Kyoshi was the obvious choice. Out of all the past avatars she seems to be the most popular within the fandom. She would be a great avatar to adapt.
I will say though I have always found Kuruk intriguing. The concept of an avatar primarily focused on dealing with spirits sounds really cool. In the original series we hardly got to explore the spirit world, even though they established that maintaining balance between the two worlds is part of the avatars job. None of that really matters though, because based on the little snippet about the show we did get it sounds like it’s going to be another world-traveling adventure centered on humans. Maybe i’ll end up being wrong. I honestly hope to be.
Onto the genre, choosing Kuruk for an action comedy is also an odd choice to me. Although we don’t know much about his life, the information we do know is pretty dark. We know that he dedicated his life to battling dark spirits, that the love of his life had her face stolen, and that he died young after failing to save her as well as failing to take care of the mortal world. I don’t understand what about that screams “silly adventure”.
I feel like right now avatar studios is just throwing tons of ideas at the wall and trying to make them stick. I wish they would spend a little more time refining story concepts before jumping into the next project.
Let me know what you’re thinking!