Caved and watched the leaked pilot.
omg
omg omg omg
Some really thoughtful and passionate people are making this show. They created a beautiful world in The Last Airbender, and what's really exciting about Korra is that they're not messing with it: it looks like pure advancement. It's Aang's world in the future, with cars and skyscrapers, freaking
metal-bending police.
We have so much more to see.
We haven't even met Mako and Bolin.
I'm dying. I'm going to die.
My only fear is that it might still have some of the storytelling problems TLA did. TLA was admittingly a little tropish, the characters acquired skills and friends very linearly. Korra has the three elements down, so it's going to be less of a preset journey, but it's looking like a superhero show. And that makes me nervous. But, it's also making socio-political commentary; I'm not really nervous. It's going to be mature and it's going to ask deeper questions people wouldn't expect from a kid's show. Kinda Xmen-y, which is good.
Also the soundtrack is sex. "Jazz if it where invented in China" -
****ing genius.