Legend of Korra: A Fantastic Finale With a Perfect Ending
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Best ending in the entire series. Oh, and Korra and Asami falling for each other? Hell, I wasn't surprised by the Varrick/Zhu Li pairing, so I saw Korrasami happening from miles away. Or maybe that was wishful thinking.
I find it funny how people are making this about sexuality and sexual preference. I'm willing to bet money that if you put them in the same room with a dozen of "Objectively sexiest people" of each gender, they'd still fall for each other instead. It's not about whether they "like guys" or "like girls". It's about that they love each other for who they are as a person, not for what gender they are.
I find it funny how people are making this about sexuality and sexual preference. I'm willing to bet money that if you put them in the same room with a dozen of "Objectively sexiest people" of each gender, they'd still fall for each other instead. It's not about whether they "like guys" or "like girls". It's about that they love each other for who they are as a person, not for what gender they are.
Ok, lets do this:KazeAizen said:
1.Just because ATLA had dumb decisions it doesn't make it ok for Korra to have worse ones.
Yes. ATLA's spirit bending and magic rock was dumb. It was. They should have set spirit bending up far in advance and not had the rock at all. The fact that it DID does not some how make Korra's bizarre choices any more acceptable. The only difference is that ATLA was a very strong series with a handful of stupid choices, while Korra was a middling series with many more stupid choices, including a few that basically ruined the lore of the series, decisions which I could violently rant about for days because they were so stupid and detrimental. And no, this relationship wasn't one of them. In terms of terrible, the Korra/asami shit is meh, but it is still bad because everyone is praising a detriment as a positive.
2. Pandering
The problem is that they introduced Toph, hyped her up, and then had her do basically nothing. The poison was a red herring, her advice was questionable (And Korra ended up ignoring it) and her actions in combat were basically negligible, save for what amounted to throwing a smoke bomb so everyone could run away. Not to mention the fact that her character hadn't really evolved in the 70 odd years since the show ended, and her problems with her daughters were resolved in like 30 seconds with one apology and a hug.
The point is that she was there because fans wanted her to be there, not because she had any major part to play. There were many, much better ways to handle her if you wanted to bring her back, and tons of stuff to do without her. But she has to show up and act like toph because fan service.
3.Korra and Asami's Development and chemistry.
Ok, first, Asami is a non-character. Tell me, what are her hobbies? Her Likes and dislikes? What does she do when she's not using her inexplicable kung-fu or being dragged out to bow down to one of the other characters or be used as a plot device? Why, exactly, were her and Mako dating? Why did she want to get back with him? (Why would anyone want to get with the boring cyborg non-human that is mako?) Asami exists to do one of three things
Invent things because the plot needs a gadget.
Be a plot device, usually via suffering
Be the third in a love triangle (IT HAPPENS TWICE!), or support another character, usually for no reason.
We don't really know anything about the lady, which is really weird considering she's apparently the romantic lead.
And yes, Korra and Asami DO get development. They do pal around. I'm gonna laugh at that chemistry comment because Korra has all the chemistry of a noble gas; she's boring and monotone, unless she's screaming or freaking out or jobbing it up to extend the series.
Regardless, thats not the point. The point is that their relationship wasn't developed enough to earn the ending. Aang and Katara's relationship took fucking three seasons to get to a goddamn kiss. Three seasons of Aang saying he loved the girl. Korra and asami have a few flirty moments over the course of like 8 in universe YEARS and then suddenly they're soul mates and lovers eloping to the land of shitty generic spirits. Hell, even the "Hints" people are banging on about are silly. She returned one letter, she complimented her hair, and she said they were friends. Woop woop, guess thats true love. Oh, she offered to use her massive fortune to help Korra get better and then actually did nothing? Neat. Korra should have gone with katara; least she actually did something.
The thing is this: You don't develop a relationship with hints. Thats not development. A handful of instances of flirting spread out over a huge period of time isn't the sort of thing you make a convincing relationship out of; and it's definitely not the sort of thing you make the ending romance and scene out of.
Seriously, how do you think this is acceptable or good? Have you never read a book? Do you not know what relationships are actually like? I'm not trying to insult you but I don't see how you can accept this shit as acceptable characterization and plot development unless you basically have nothing worthwhile to compare it to. Even the tripe that is Game of Thrones is better then this.
4.Mech
My problem with the suit is that it's a 20 story tall bipedial mech that was conjured out of nowhere with out anyone IN THE ENTIRE WORLD noticing it. A Mech made of Platinum, which should be worth something like the GNP of the entire world, with a main weapon they only just finished making less then two weeks ago yet have a completely functional firing system for. A mech that, despite the horrible balance issues inherent in a biped design, isn't beaten by just being shoved over.
A MECH WITH A FUCKING GLASS COCKPIT. A glass cock pit that they, rather then simply breaking into with any one of their DOZENS OF PEOPLE THAT CAN FUCKING FLY, INCLUDING THE AVATAR, force yet another scene of asami suffering by pointlessly killing her father in order to open up a hole in the armor.
So yes, the drill was dumb, but at least it felt like a big, slow, lumbering, single use automota, not a fucking pacific rim jaeger pulled out of goddang nowhere.
Also korra's stubborn refusal to back down destroyed the entire city and killed unknown thousands, while destroying the livelihood and possessions of the rest of them.
Oh well, at least it didn't end with korra ruining a visual metaphor from the last series and using it's corpse to fight satan. Oh god fuck season two.
Gotta agree with you here. I only recently powered through the four seasons a little while ago. I liked Season one a lot despite the flaws, two I liked as well, but three and four to me were just not good to me. As I think about the series over time, I dislike it more and more, much which you described.Piecewise said:
While there were decisions that caused the series to be more jumbled than it should've, each season itself had problems. One had a interesting premise and setting, but there was to much stuff going on at once to make each point actually stand out. While I didn't mind the ending of the season (mainly how Amon was defeated and getting the powers back), overall it wasn't satisfying.
Two had an interesting set up, but the villain was bland, which I think if Verik was the central villain, with Korra doing Avatar stuff with a war on the loom by an unknown force, it would've been much better.
Three was dreadful now that I think of it. 4 villains that are huge threats, which three of them get taken out with ease. So much time was focused on the airbender stuff and the Beifongs, that the villains had no development. Motivation was vague and the whole revolution thing didn't go anywhere in the season. The best I can give for the whole group is that the leader was into philosophy. Only good thing was with Lyn and Su, and that wasn't that well done.
Four was worse, as the villain was supposed to be a great uniter, but we see nothing in how she had the ability to do something like that. Korra's stuff with getting through her PTSD was not done well, with Toph giving vague hints and her magically getting better, but not till later. All character stuff was bland and not well done, especially Bolin and his GF, as she seemed to be a bit petty about the whole thing, and while I liked Bolin enough, he is dumb as rocks.
I wanted to like Korra, but when the first two seasons with all its flaws are better then the second two seasons, that's a problem. I might try watching both series again at some point, but it might be hard to get through Korra again.
