Sigh ... binge the entire season today, or more Dark Souls?
Decisions ...
Decisions ...
Legend of Korra
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Binge watch, binge watch, binge watch!
Den of Whimsey (Bryan Konietzko's blog) view on the Korra ending.
Word of Lion Turtle, no-one complaining now. Loved that bit about caving into fans, classic.
Dimartino has a post as well on the ending
Dude, spoilers.
And yes, it's been confirmed by both creators, making them Western Animation's first bisexual main character couple.
http://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/post/105916338157/korrasami-is-canon-you-can-celebrate-it-embrace
http://mikedimartinostory.com/2014/12/22/korrasami-confirmed/
http://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/post/105916338157/korrasami-is-canon-you-can-celebrate-it-embrace
http://mikedimartinostory.com/2014/12/22/korrasami-confirmed/
Unless you count PB and Marceline from Adventure Time, though not sure if Olivia Olson counts as "Word of Glob".
Anyways, it was an OK season. If I'd rank them
3-1-4-2
My highlights of this season :
- That episode where they actually, for the FIRST TIME IN THE ENTIRE SERIES, just were like, hanging out without storyline progressing. It was a called Rememberance or something? The WASSAP 4 EVIL guys had me LOL in RL. The whole romance commentary was brilliant!!!!
- Toff. Played it on point. What a breath of fresh air. Avatar and a trainer... without 10 lackies and comedians around.
- Asami, looked even hotter than usual. The storyline with her dad? Well done.
- Prince We was cool. Liked the progression.
- Kuvira was the only actual real villain that made sense. 1st season guy was lame with a stupid story, 2nd season was RIDICULOUSLY STUPID, 3rd season was pretty solid.
Lowlights :
- I liked the old final fights where Team Avatar fought another team. Some solo action... but 30 minutes fighting a Mechwarrior? ICH.
- Korra. Once again, her character is just so flawed and spends LITERALLY 90% of the season getting her ass KICKED OVER AND OVER, when she's about to be decent... LET'S TALK. UGHHHHHH
- I felt the animations/graphics took a huge hit, put it side by side to the old series and it just doesn't stand up. Sure the moves look cool but ugh...
- That ending... ich!! Random end and basically tells everyone.... close girl friends will at some point lez out. I felt it was a serious cop out.... credits about to roll... and.... Korrasasami? THE END.
3-1-4-2
My highlights of this season :
- That episode where they actually, for the FIRST TIME IN THE ENTIRE SERIES, just were like, hanging out without storyline progressing. It was a called Rememberance or something? The WASSAP 4 EVIL guys had me LOL in RL. The whole romance commentary was brilliant!!!!
- Toff. Played it on point. What a breath of fresh air. Avatar and a trainer... without 10 lackies and comedians around.
- Asami, looked even hotter than usual. The storyline with her dad? Well done.
- Prince We was cool. Liked the progression.
- Kuvira was the only actual real villain that made sense. 1st season guy was lame with a stupid story, 2nd season was RIDICULOUSLY STUPID, 3rd season was pretty solid.
Lowlights :
- I liked the old final fights where Team Avatar fought another team. Some solo action... but 30 minutes fighting a Mechwarrior? ICH.
- Korra. Once again, her character is just so flawed and spends LITERALLY 90% of the season getting her ass KICKED OVER AND OVER, when she's about to be decent... LET'S TALK. UGHHHHHH
- I felt the animations/graphics took a huge hit, put it side by side to the old series and it just doesn't stand up. Sure the moves look cool but ugh...
- That ending... ich!! Random end and basically tells everyone.... close girl friends will at some point lez out. I felt it was a serious cop out.... credits about to roll... and.... Korrasasami? THE END.
I felt this was 1 season too many but hey... that;s life.
I hope they are moving on to a new protagonist... hopefully one that doesn't have all this tech shit. I miss the old school fighting.
I disagree with the talking bit. Korra's entire problem is that the solution to ALL of her problems (whether it be enemies or exs) was to break shit. She never really tried to FIX anything, which was basically all Aang did during his series and he was much more successful.
And now for the sad realization for the day:
I just found it online - I agree we don't know Air Bison's lifespan, but since Tenzin didn't have Appa, we'd have to believe that one of these three is correct:So, really, it's more likely that Appa had to help bury Ang!
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- Appa helped bury Aang and later died...
- Appa's still alive and out somewhere roaming free after burying Aang.
- what the picture indicates.
Do we know if the Avatar would cycle to the next right away after the last Avatar died or if there is a few years without one?
It's actually implied that Aang lost a few years when he froze himself in that iceberg... that he'd otherwise have lived much longer than he did, simply by virtue of being an avatar. So the only reason he didn't outlive all of his friends is because he spent basically a hundred years straight in the Avatar State.
Wouldn't have been a bad fight if either side could at all damage one another. but yeah as it is terrible terrible episode. One that the finale more than made up for.
About to be decent? She spent the entire episode defeating Kuvira every way possible. Strategically and physically. Kuvira at the point where Korra says let's talk is no longer a threat. Kuvira has sacraficed everything she had to sacrifice played every card she had. Continuing the fight at that point would have been an execution not a battle.
Thought exercise. If Korra had ended up with Makko would the show be telling everybody that women should settle for their first crush and need to have a man no matter what? If Korra had ended up alone would the show be telling everybody that heroes or strong women don't get the romances, don't get anybody to love? I honestly believe that no neither of those endings would have any kind of aesop statement about the world as a whole and neither does the Korrasami ending.
As for you believing it to be random I actually thought the exact opposite. I mean the two of them had grown close as friends but multiple times throughout the season I found myself going "Huh that seems strangely intimate." Their reunion, the flashback to them parting, Asami letting it slip that the two of them had remained in contact even as she kept in contact with no one else. In the end it made little sense for them just being good friends but a ton of sense for them being interested in each other.
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No, they didn't, but it's been said that benders live quite a bit longer than normal people. Sokka probably died years ago.
Here's another one - did they ever show Sokka with Suki (I think I spelled her name right)? What about Zuko - did they ever show him with a family?
We know Toph had kids, Katara and Aang had kids, but nothing that I recall about Sokka as a family man or Zuko - yes they showed Zuko as an old man...
We know Toph had kids, Katara and Aang had kids, but nothing that I recall about Sokka as a family man or Zuko - yes they showed Zuko as an old man...
The Avatar comics from The Promise on make a few things clear:
- Zuko and Mai broke up
- Sokka and Suki broke up
- Suki is basically Zuko's bodyguard.
- Suki and Zuko get AWFULLY close in some scenes
- Azula is on the run after The Search, so she's unlikely to have come back
- The current Firelord is related to Zuko. Considering how the line is passed, it's likely she is Zuko's daughter.
So it's likely the current Firelord is Zuko's daughter, meaning he hooked up with someone. Probably Suki.
As for Sokka... it's not really gone into. We know he lead the Republic City council for years but that's about it.
- Zuko and Mai broke up
- Sokka and Suki broke up
- Suki is basically Zuko's bodyguard.
- Suki and Zuko get AWFULLY close in some scenes
- Azula is on the run after The Search, so she's unlikely to have come back
- The current Firelord is related to Zuko. Considering how the line is passed, it's likely she is Zuko's daughter.
So it's likely the current Firelord is Zuko's daughter, meaning he hooked up with someone. Probably Suki.
As for Sokka... it's not really gone into. We know he lead the Republic City council for years but that's about it.
Well that explains it - I haven't read the comics so I didn't know.
You'll want to pick up the trades for The Promise (which covers the founding of Republic City) and The Search (which ties up the lose end of Zuko's mother). I don't know if they have any more big ones like those, but I know a few of the other small comics cover small things in the series, such as the what The Earth King and Bosco did during Book 3.
YEAH, Beifong represent!
I know I'm late, but we just finished up the season 4 DVD. Great season.
Korra is an unfortunately unimaginative bender most of the time--we see much more creative solutions from almost any other bender than "throw element at person like it's energy from DBZ"--but she got better around the end. I enjoyed her character development this season especially. Her meet-up in the Republic City prison was excellent.
The last two episodes were really engaging. Kuvira had just become so obsessed with what she felt she should do that she never considered if that wasn't the case. It was funny going through this thread and seeing Ashburner call the last conversation there.
As for the very end ...
That's not really too important. It was a great season overall.
Korra is an unfortunately unimaginative bender most of the time--we see much more creative solutions from almost any other bender than "throw element at person like it's energy from DBZ"--but she got better around the end. I enjoyed her character development this season especially. Her meet-up in the Republic City prison was excellent.
The last two episodes were really engaging. Kuvira had just become so obsessed with what she felt she should do that she never considered if that wasn't the case. It was funny going through this thread and seeing Ashburner call the last conversation there.
As for the very end ...
Now, I couldn't entirely avoid spoilers. Fortunately everything plot-related was unknown to me, but I knew about Korrasami. Knowing about it ahead of time and watching this season, it felt kind of tacked on. I got stronger vibes of that last season when they spent so much of it working together and the end when Asami wanted to take care of Korra. Here it just felt like "oh yeah, we forgot to mention this earlier". Would've liked to see more build-up to it throughout the season. Korra and Asami spend very little time together this season. Season 4 is very plot-oriented, so it's not like it was a big deal, but still. I'm not saying it wasn't hinted at; I know, I know, the letters. But I mean their interactions weren't like that of a couple; that description could be better applied to season 3.
That's not really too important. It was a great season overall.
That's because they weren't a "couple" until the end of the last season. Up until that point they had been building it up, but it wasn't like they were together or anything. They were both too distracted by what was going on for that to be possible, ESPECIALLY after everyone got split up and Asami started talking to her dad. But once the fighting ended, Korra could finally make a move.
Really, that was the overarching theme of the last season: Korra's inability to be honest and introspective with herself is basically what caused most of her problems. Once she got past it, she could just... you know... TALK to Asami about it.
Really, that was the overarching theme of the last season: Korra's inability to be honest and introspective with herself is basically what caused most of her problems. Once she got past it, she could just... you know... TALK to Asami about it.
Oh and since no one mentioned it here yet: We're getting more Legend of Korra stuff via comics, kind of like how The Promise and The Search settled most of the issues with Last Airbender.
That would make the ending seem more like Korra was asking Asami on a date as opposed to them getting together and it didn't seem like that's what they were going for. I like them together, especially considering season 3, but they just spend so little time together in season 4 that it felt off to me. The season's half done before they even reunite.