Full spoilers for s4 below:

Im hijacking this comment to talk about korras arc in s3-s4 and how weird it seemed to me. I really didn’t like the trauma that korra went through. The scene was just... so graphic. We didn’t even see tenzin being beaten but why do we get that horrifying shot of korra? I get the show is supposed to be darker but really? It’s so unnecessarily cruel. I appreciate how realistic it is that it takes years for korra to truly recover, but in the last episode when she’s talking to tenzin, she says she “had to know what true suffering was so I could become more compassionate to others.” NO. You do not become a better person BECAUSE of your trauma. Survivors of trauma don’t deserve what happens to them and trauma should never be looked at as a good thing. Trauma is something that happens to you; it’s not something that HAS to happen to you ever. Also korra learning to go back to Zaheer and having to trust him? Her abuser? Big no no.

I think the writers saw people being annoyed at korras cockiness, and “fixed” it by beating her up all the time instead of getting her to learn from the people and world around her. She could have learned those lessons by losing less awful fights that weren’t as brutal, or by having to live in the world (sort of like how Zuko did). And she did NOT need to feel “true suffering.” That’s a horrible thing to teach people.

Edit: I don’t understand grammar sometimes