Those episodes they told you that you have to get through are actually the better episodes. At least I think they are. People think every show needs to be this overly dramatized serious show. And they don't need to be. The early episodes were about some boy with strange powers and his alien-like guardians just having normal slice of life stuff going on with random encounters.
One of the episodes was about him wanting to make breakfast for his guardian family and the whole thing spiraled out of control until the breakfast he made turned into like a mindless hulk abomination because of his powers. I forget the specifics. I feel like this was the show's strong suit, but they really wanted to push for that dark edge that kids thought their show needed. Like how everyone kept hyping Korra for how dark it was and how it was going to pulverize Avatar/Aaang and as we can see now that so many years have passed the show flopped hard.
