Netflix’s new Avatar the last airbender makes no sense

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The thing is, Avatar the last Airbender and the legend of Korra didn’t need ANY « wokenization »; it was pretty ahead of its time when it comes to strong female characters.

Follows some precedence from Asian cinema where strong female characters capable of martial arts acting medieval times have been inserted usually in the form of a peasant or servant girl, concubine or princess (usually one of those).

In the Netflix series "Marco Polo" the strongest female lead was a Chinese concubine of a Mongol warlord who was also the most feared assassin in all of China. This was later tried again in casting for the current Shogun series where a servant girl was tasked with assassination of John Blackthorne had skills to take out 10 fully trained samurai.