Korra vs Kuvira
Mako vs soldier A
Bolin vs soldier B
Lin vs soldier C
Something seems off compared to book 3.
But the underwhelming fights (to the exception of Korra's) aside, it was pretty good…not amazing :sad: but pretty good.
Korra vs Kuvira
Mako vs soldier A
Bolin vs soldier B
Lin vs soldier C
Something seems off compared to book 3.
But the underwhelming fights (to the exception of Korra's) aside, it was pretty good…not amazing :sad: but pretty good.
I'd have to give it to the series. That finale was actually pretty great.
Korra vs Kuvira
Mako vs soldier A
Bolin vs soldier B
Lin vs soldier CSomething seems off compared to book 3.
But the underwhelming fights (to the exception of Korra's) aside, it was pretty good…not amazing :sad: but pretty good.
Did you miss the giant mech fight? With the lavabending and lightning on the core and all the airbending and metalbending on the canon arm and the grappling and such?
Yeah, it would have been better if they weren't just mooks, but with only 12 episodes dedicated to them, you couldn't build an Azula or… Ehm... A fleet of airships, for everyone to take out.
Heard about the ship. Interesting, though I haven't watched since season 2, so I don't quite understand where it came from.
Starting season 3, probably in the first 2-3 chapters where they go and have a girls night out in republic city.
Did you miss the giant mech fight? With the lavabending and lightning on the core and all the airbending and metalbending on the canon arm and the grappling and such?
Oh I guess those were pretty good too. But I was expecting more martial art related bending.
It wasn't bad but I think book 3 was way better.
Still the episode where Varrik and Bolin escaped the train is one of my favorite.
She's interesting because, up until now, she wasn't obviously blatantly outright evil. She had a legitimate point and was doing a good thing in a bad way.
One she unveiled the giant spirit canon mecha of death, well, yeah, she's steered right into crazy territory.
Sadly, the same can be said of Amon and Zaheer. Being confined to one short season each means they are introduced and you think "Okay, they do have a slight point", then halfway in the season, they polevault into outright evil territory suddenly so soon because the season is almost over and they want to root for Korra to take them down. All of them, well, minus Unalaq, felt like such a waste.
Korra vs Kuvira
Mako vs soldier A
Bolin vs soldier B
Lin vs soldier CSomething seems off compared to book 3.
But the underwhelming fights (to the exception of Korra's) aside, it was pretty good…not amazing :sad: but pretty good.
Well considering that we had four great villains in Season 3 built up compared to just Kuvira in this one is where it's off for you.
Don't really post in this thread but that was a great finale. Didn't Korra said Asami was the most beautiful she seen or something like that back in book 3 maybe that was the start. My bad if I'm wrong about this also my favorite little scene was this everybody's ready to kick ass at that point.
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I'm going to get all emotional and probably cry. Its over. End of a masterpiece, and i have to say it was an absolute joy to watch Legend of Korra from start to finish.
! Varrick and Zhu Li, the proposal was great, made lol. That was lovely.
! And aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Oh my God. Korra x Asami. They actually did it. I can't believe it. It was a lovely last scene with the 2 of em walkin into the Spirit portal, holding hands. awwwwwwww :cwy:
All in all a great end to a wonderful series. I'm going to re-watch the Last Air Bender + Legend of Korra next month probably. I well and truely hate January's, its like the Monday of the year, and I'll need something good to get me through it.
I know they're working on other stuff but i hope some day down the line in a few years they do another series with a new Avatar.
also, what happened to tenzins 4th kid?
You see him being chased by Pema during the wedding after party, right before they pan to Mako and Wu talking.
You see him being chased by Pema during the wedding after party, right before they pan to Make and Wu talking.
Most people probably thought it was Meelo.
My only disappointment is that the season didn't last long enough to develop MakoXWu.
My only disappointment is that the season didn't last long enough to develop MakoXWu.
Just imagine the fanfic titles: "Wooing Wu."
My only disappointment is that the season didn't last long enough to develop MakoXWu.
My only disappointment is that nothing changed because the fire nation never attacked
Just imagine the fanfic titles: "Wooing Wu."
I was thinking more along the lines of "The Prince's Bodyguard" or perhaps "Wu's Makover"
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My only disappointment is that nothing changed because the fire nation never attacked
Haha. Is that you or as PIC you found online?
My only disappointment is that the season didn't last long enough to develop MakoXWu.
Wouldnt work, wu is like bolin but dumber.
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I've thinking on how this twist would have worked with aang, failing to see him and sokka as an item, but with zuko? It was crazy enough to work
Lovely, lovely finale; been waiting on Varrick & Zhu Li doing the thing, and Meelo actually did something I am so proud to have been witness to. Not to sound obnoxious, but there's still something I want to complain about anyway. Why didn't they let Kuvira's final words to Korra be more meaningful? All I heard was "You don't understand anything, wah wah wah." At least justify why she had to keep up that insane assault with something like "If I had stopped halfway, everything I've struggled for up to now would have been pointless." Then, I may have sympathized with her more.
I don't know, Kuvira admitting the Avatar has power she can't even hope to approach feels like a sound defeat to me.
Dear writers: Thank you for not killing Tenzin. Season 3 was already too much, I wouldn't have been able to handle that.
Seeing Baatar Jr. changing side so easily, I kind of understand Bellamy's behavior now. I still don't approve it, but I understand.
Seeing Baatar Jr. changing side so easily, I kind of understand Bellamy's behavior now. I still don't approve it, but I understand.
When the woman you love tries to kill you along with everyone else, then its pretty much an easy choice.
Varrick's proposal made me giggle.
Mixed feelings about Korrasami. Despite all this season did to right it, Asami still seems like she's barely a character.
But anyway, a finale full of wonderful moments. This season really capitalised on a load of characters old and new, and it was nice to see all of that cashed in now. Not a huge fan of MegaMech and the Big Booms, but there was some nice action in this finale. Not on S3's level, but very nice nonetheless. Loved Bolin's little magma wheel, lightning actually being treated like it's a special thing, and Kuvira's generic soldiers being serious enough threats to need the full attention of Lin, Mako and Bolin. Aaand, best of all was the nice denouement at the end. A pretty and funny little wedding with everyone dressed up and some nice quiet words of closure. Good indeed.
The only disappointment that comes to mind for this season is, no Korra's dad :( Zuko's successor even popped her head in to do nothing at all. And General Iroh was floating around. But no Korra's dad. This makes me inexplicably sad. (Well, he was great for the action sequences last season, and he was saved by Kuvira at the end, so I was looking forward to him being somehow significant. I mean, he did appear, but … >_>)
And Kuvira remains, I think, someone who had the right sort of motivations in the beginning, but went about things in a way that most would find disagreeable. And then took it way too far. That was neatly summarised in her dialogue with Korra in the spirit world, so that was nice to see.
Oh, and what I've learned about physics from Korra: platinum needs to be melted because it's totally too hard to cut with like ... steel; ice is less brittle than reinforced concrete; electricity leads to high hoop stresses in sleeves (which then burst).
I only watched the first half of season one or so. my friend continued watching it, and disliked the ending, particularly because there were loose ends they didn't tie up, and yet they decided to make the very last scene of the show be Korra and Asami holding hands.
He didn't like it, mostly because he felt Asami didn't appear much at all, and that given how the story was set up (and how it went), it wouldn't make much sense for the last scene to be that of a couple if nothing else was tied up, let alone a couple that didn't have that much of a thing.
For reference, we both agreed that Naruto and Sasuke being a couple at the end would've made more sense.
Uhm… what wasn't wrapped up? They covered everything pretty much.
Aside from what happened to Sokka, but that wasn't the responsibility of this show.
Uhm… what wasn't wrapped up? They covered everything pretty much.
Aside from what happened to Sokka, but that wasn't the responsibility of this show.
They never told what happened to the rest of the Equalists and Red lotus is the one that inmmediately comes to mind with me. Bolin's closure was like "My woman is fine, yes" (lol) and it feels weird because he is in the top 3 of people that most changed from the beginning. it's weird like that. I liked the finale but i also felt it lacked closure even if i can't describe what neeeded closure.
Shipping people are weird :P… to be honest I think the nice thing about the ending on that part is that it leaves it a bit ambiguous so it satisfies all the people vying for that pairing while on the other it could just be 2 very close friends(and considering what they all went through during those 4 season I don't think it's weird, I mean heck girls being that close was pretty much normal during my teenage years). So yeah not sure how I feel about people not liking that pairing perceiving it as canon when I don't think it really is, everyone can decide on their own interpretation of that scene.
Have to say they go better at handling the pacing of those seasons as they went on. I hope this isn't the end of avatar and that it comes back at some point I just like that world.
They never told what happened to the rest of the Equalists and Red lotus is the one that inmmediately comes to mind with me.
As an organization they fell apart without a figurehead to lead them (Even though racism doesn't stamp out that easy.) Some of the bigger asshole benders learned humility after having their powers taken away. And there were enough other big problems and upheavals (inclduing the integration of spirits) to make them worry about other things.
And the Red lotus was pretty much just the four guys, and the one who survived came to regret what he'd done due to the aftermath. If it was a bigger group than that, it never factored into the show. (similarly, even the payoff on the white lotus ended up seemingly only being like 6 guys, conveniently every old person we ever met across the world, even if we know its bigger than that)
Yes, the geopolitics should be more nuanced and last for decades, if not centuries, but that's a little outside the scope of the narrative. Heck, the previous series ended with "and so the 100 year war ended and everyone was totally fine with that." Wasn't until the comics and the follow up series we saw some of the actual ramifications and follow up to the fact that, 100 years of war don't end so easily.
If anything "Well, I guess we and spirits have to get along now. Everything's changed!" went to "Hey, there's vines here, fix it!" to "its three years later and we totally love the vines now!" was completely glossed over despite being the most obvious and visually interesting change the series had to offer.
Bolin's closure was like "My woman is fine, yes" (lol) and it feels weird because he is in the top 3 of people that most changed from the beginning. it's weird like that. I liked the finale but i also felt it lacked closure even if i can't describe what neeeded closure.
His closure was throughout the season though? He sided with the wrong person then came around. His resolution was mostly just a couple episodes earlier.
Resolution and closure aren't the same things. Mako final moments weren't a resolution but a closure. I'm referring to some kind of send-off and i mention the equalists because they said they would return right? The Red lotus was also mentioned as being a bigger organization. The narrative may center only on the characters they present but the scope of it strives to include a rest of the world that is mentioned and has interaction with but it's never explored. That could be faulty from a construction point of view.
But eh, i'm nitpicking. I don't really care that much so take my commentaries not that seriously.
Well, part of worldbuilding IS saying "everything is bigger than what we're seeing with just this handful of characters, and the story goes on after this narrative ends". Every single little thing ever mentioned shouldn't be wrapped up with a bow cause the world doesn't work like that.
Once you get into secondary characters and tertiary organizations, there's no end to the checklist. But they came to a reasonable end with all the main characters and managed to do callbacks on enough I don't feel like they really missed anything where the main narrative was concerned. Yes, there should have been more Tenzin and his siblings and General Iroh and a mention of Sokka and a final moment for Katara and Toph and Zuko and more spirits and we should have had more of the original two spirits and find out if there's now a dark avatar being reincarnated and should have been a way to see Aang and the other avatar's history and what about Avatar Jafar and Ko the face stealer and… at what point do you draw the line?
Narrative hit its goals, and gave time to wrap up the cast. Like the solid last 10 minutes were just closure. Compared to Last Airbender's 1 minute quickie wrap up, or Korra's awful first season ending? Its a marked improvement and they did well.
Besides. There's comics and artbooks and interviews in the years to come to follow up on the more supplemental stuff.
The first comic will be Korra and Asami's honeymoon adventure.
it woulda been neat to see what happened in aftermath of the avatar line being cut.
Narrative hit its goals, and gave time to wrap up the cast. Like the solid last 10 minutes were just closure. Compared to Last Airbender's 1 minute quickie wrap up, or Korra's awful first season ending? Its a marked improvement and they did well.
We don't mention Satan in this house, son.
it woulda been neat to see what happened in aftermath of the avatar line being cut.
When Korra dies (assuming she doesn't do it in the avatar state) the cycle begins anew, and the next person down the line will be able to talk to her.
Though as their world gets more and more technological…
Avatar: The Legend of Rick (XXI century).
Season I: Net Equality. Rick has to stop Big Companies from stealing personal info from its users. He goes to jail after he earthbends a stone into a CEO's dick.
I do agree that there's a lot of stuff that I felt wasn't concluded very well. Red Lotus, equalists, Asami not really having as much dev time as I liked, the whole thing about platinum being some sort of super metal in general.
But in the end, I think those things are relatively inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. Well, besides the Asami thing but that's more of a whole season sorta thing rather than tying up loose ends sorta thing. But they're not huge bombshells like "WHERE IS MY MOTHER"
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But they're not huge bombshells like "WHERE IS MY MOTHER"
I had managed to block that out finally.
Since the comics gave us a (shitty) answer, I haven't dwelled on that major lingering point in years. That the show in bold capslock blatantly said "yes, we didn't get to this, sorry" and that the creators then teased for another several years at cons and even the first episode of Korra.
Zuko's mom died on the way back to her planet.
Going off of my previous posts…I am very, very HAPPY!
Shocked, yes, but oh so happy! I can't believe they went through with it!
Ending was awesome, I was feeling like they weren't going to have enough time to wrap things up based on the way 11 ended but they did a very good job.
That ending left me sad that it was over and no new episodes would ever be made again, but also left me with a smile on my face too with the ending. It is very rare for an ending to a show to do that to me, and i've seen a crap load of endings.
Well.. KorraxAsami pretty much came out of nowhere.
But I liked the finale. I just wish there was one last scene with Korra and her previous lives.
Well.. KorraxAsami pretty much came out of nowhere.
But I liked the finale. I just wish there was one last scene with Korra and her previous lives.
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If you say so.
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Also, throughout the show all the couples have had a moment where they faced each other and held hands, though the only one that didn't end with a kiss was Korra and Asami (which I understand why but I, like may others, wished the creators had done it).
After seeing some edits by fans having Korra and Asami smacking lips together, I'm actually really glad they did it the way they did.
I know Korra and Asami had a lot of moments this season, but I personally never got a romantic or even crush sorta vibe from any of them.
I don't think many of you did either, as I've been keeping up with this thread for over a year now.
The problem is that Asami never really got good actual legit character development moments anywhere close to the rest of the crew, but I think, as with many moments in the original series, there are a lot of moments where the characters got into a really good groove together that you could say, "yeah, these two have some chemistry" or is building towards it. I think actually thinking it over, a lot of Asami moments were focused on her interactions with Korra, too, so that may have been intentional.
Personally, I'm not too big on shipping, but if there was a pair that wasn't like set in stone like Bopal, I'd say Korrasami would be the one I shipped but never thought they'd actually go through with it.
Asami went like this:
Season 1: Mako's gf/ex
Season 2&3: mako's ex, career woman
Season 4: Close friend of Korra.
There was no hint of them being other than friends from season 1-3, nor did either of them show any interest in each other, or any deepening relationship for that matter, for 3 seasons.
But that's how it is in shows and stories, the love interest only shows up at the very end, and Korra isn't as how about romance at all, so yeah.
I knew my girlfriend for 7 years and never thought of her "that way" until one day we suddenly did.
It happens in more than just stories.
And Korra and Asami had a ton of time together to bond… just Asami herself didn't have a great character arc. And I know I talked about it among my friends, half joking, but didn't mention it in here much cause well, the show was never gonna go that way, right?
I don't think many of you did either, as I've been keeping up with this thread for over a year now.
I kept quiet about it here, because like AT and Bubbline… People are sort of dicks about non-hetero pairing in cartoons. I'd rather just talk with my friends about it.