I got compared to the Dai Li on the internet because I said Avatar the Legend of Korra (ALOK) was not canon. Thank you but no. That's an oversimplification and an inaccurate analogy. The Dai Li tried to usurp their own leader, the earth king. They undermined whatever legitimacy their king might have had to rule and turned him into a puppet. They did this because they were trying to preserve their earth kingdom culture. It required being sneaky and violent, and using intimidation and coercion. Not even remotely close to what I'm doing or how I think.
Avatar is art, not a family or rulers or a county of people. Avatar the Last Airbender (ATLA) had as a head writer a man named Aaron Ehasz. Aaron did not conceive the show idea, the Avatar setting and characters and plot, but as the head writer, that series is his interpretation of those ideas and his labor. When you swap a major creative out of a major role, you get a different product. ALOK is a show written without Aaron, and so it a different piece of art. It would be as Rembrandt took an idea and painted a masterpiece, then some lesser artist came in after him and painted the sequel. You get that meme of the horse drawing that starts out really good and gets poorer and poorer. The lesser artists have ruined the art, and I reject their product.
