This second episode of the new season was pretty good I'll admit, its just that nearly every episode since the start of season 3 has had mountains of lazy crap writing. Honestly, I'm kinda bummed this episode had as many actual funny jokes and cool fight scenes as it did. I was just about to stop watching entirely saving myself all that time, but now I'm inclined to give one more episode. Its a damn shame Korra has been as bad as it has, especially considering how close it was to rivaling the last airbender at the height of its second season. The kids show writing has just become more and more prominent since then, leading to stupid characters saying stupid lines and having stupid reactions. If it wasn't for the gorgeously animated fight scenes I couldn't stomach it at all. Even then, there are some fight scenes that just had no effort in the scene blocking put in. I refer specifically to, most recently, that retarded fight Opal and Kai had on their bison that had Opal just staring at Kai as this entire life threatening fight happens because she needs to... steer the bison? The red lotus breaking out of prison was pretty bad too I thought. The big fight has started, firelord zuko is engaged in combat, one red lotus member leaves the fight to burrow down into a huge ice cave, fight some lesser guards, free her friend, then burrow up. In that huge amount of time, the fight on the surface hasn't progressed even a second. Zuko's dragon was just absent the entire time she was underground apparently.
Its that kind of lazy scene crafting that has me so disappointed in Korra, throw on top the uninspired simplistic writing and you're left with a show not worth your time. So that's why its a damn shame this newest episode was pretty good. The action animation is so gorgeous I can put up decent 18 or so minutes in between, its just that I can't even rely on a decent 18 minutes most of the time. Had this episode been as much of a struggle to get through as some of the others I could have just written the entire thing off, which given the past season is likely the safer bet.
Really liked this one. It shows that even after the physical therapy Korra is still pretty traumatised mentally from what happened. This goes well with how mental state has effected benders before. Mind and body have to be in good shape or you can't be at your best. Likely one of the "Balance" themes of this book.
