Television Avatar: Legend of Korra

I can vouch for the Nick player hasn't somewhat inconsistent video quality, but it's not broken enough for me to avoid it. That would be the PS3 Crunchyroll app, which constantly becomes choppy and slow, even when trying to close it.

 

Spoiler: thoughts about THE FINAL BOOK

bobcut korra is so hot
ponytail asami is so hot
lady sozin kuvira is so hot

Anyway, really dug this trailer. There was a theory on Tumblr that Kuvira turned out this way because she had good intentions of wanting to restore balance to the Earth Kingdom following what the Red Lotus did in Ba Sing Se, and she comes into conflict with Suyin about it during the 3 year time skip. I could definitely see Suyin not really wanting to step up to the plate since she did state she thought queens were "outdated," and she does really seem to value Zaofu and the Metal Clan as being this autonomous entity and doing their own thing. Kuvira could easily grow more and more frustrated until she starts to amass power & backing from over the Earth Kingdom if she goes out to support people, remove Suyin from leadership of the Metal Clan, and start a campaign to bring prosperity to the rest of the Earth Kingdom in a very Sozinesque way.

And we know how a Sozin plan goes; 1 dash of world war, and 3 metric tons of the genocide of a nation, the bending population of another nation, and the near razing of another), so the stakes are pretty high in all regards. Granted in terms of scale Vaatu was the biggest threat ever, but this conflict has more of an emotional punch to it because we know how this story goes and know that if Kuvira is left unchecked, the world is gonna go back to it was during the 100 Years War and would produce another Ozai in time.

Plus, this is really Korra's chance to solve her series long identity crisis over who she is and what role she has to play within the world. For so long all the villains have been telling her she wasn't needed, that for three years the world has gotten on fine without her due to the Air Nation taking up her duties; maybe the world doesn't need the Avatar as we've grown to know it to move on, but it does need Korra to pull together everything she's learned and felt and redefine what it means to be the Avatar within this world and for herself. Korra needs to find balance within herself* in order to bring it to the world, and I'm sooooooooo interested in seeing the culmination of her journey.

*in the video it looks like she hits The Swamp from ATLA and is fighting the Forced Avatar State version of herself in a hallucination, so we will prob see a lot of development of her character in this season and it's gonna be so great

Other note worthy points:

• why is Bolin in the Metal Clan
  
• ZHU LI IS THAT THE RIGHT THING TO DO
• Asami fight *u*
• Mako looks ridiculous & I love it
• OPAL AND KORRA LOOK SO ALIKE GODDAMN
• AIRBABIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES <33333333333333333 ALL MY KIDS WITH LONGER HAIR AND OLDER AND GOING ON ADVENTURES TOGETHER. rohan should also be 3 now so maybe he can talk?????
• TOPH BEIFONG THE MEETING THAT WILL SHAKE A NATION

HAHA ZUKO'S DAUGHTER IS SUCH A NERD i love her
looks like she got the bad eyes from her daddy

 

Spoiler

OH MY GOD SHE HAS A STATUE AND THE PARK WHERE SHE FIRST MET THE HOBO GUY GOT NAMED AFTER HER OMGOMGOMG
the prince is ridiculous. maybe kuvira taking over won't be so bad after all /shot
TENZIN IS IN LONG JOHNS AND I LOVE IT LOVE THESE WINGSUITS

 

Nick has released the new episode about half an hour ago!

Spoiler: B4E1 After All These Years

That was sooooo good. I loved how it focused on the secondary characters and bringing us up to speed with everyone. Prince Wu is a riot and Mako freaking out about having to relocate was hilarious. Wu definitely continues the "terrible leader" trend of Ba Sing Se royalty so far, and it'd be interesting to see him grow out of it and mature in a way his sheltered Grandpa and his Great Aunt hadn't.

Republic City: AVATAR KORRA PARK & A STATUE FINALLY GETTING THE RESPECT SHE DESERVES FOR SAVING THAT CITY LIKE 12 TIMES.

Asami: Asami <33333 It's good to see she's stabilized her company more and is bringing it towards a brighter future. Varrick mentioned railroads before so there is a definite possibility for a business connection between her and Kuvira, and it'll be interesting to hear what Asami thinks of that when she figures out Kuvira is in Conquest Mode.

Bolin/Opal/Kai: Opal and Kai, the friendship I never knew I wanted to see. I just really liked the segment with that Earth Kingdom town. It showed off more of Opal's personality and her loyalty to her mother and people that need help. I hope they do something with her conflict with her brother re: Kuvira and the Metal Clan, and I have faith it'll probably be addressed at some point. I also REALLY liked that the drama between her and Bolin is actually organic and believable; she knows he's only in it to do the right thing, but she can see all too clearly about Kuvira what he can't. And it feels like Bolin's matured a lot, which is real nice to see.

Airbabies: "MEELO THE BOY IS NOW MEELO THE MAN" AMAZING. All of them looks so precious, especially lil chub master Rohan.

Kuvira: lol why is she marrying that scrub when I'm alive???? God DAMN, I was expecting her to be a little Satsuki-like but I swear to god I could almost hear the trumpets blazing when she beat down those bandits. As much as her motives probably are genuine, Kuvira definitely seems like she wants and is amassing power without any real resistance. Even Tenzin seemed not to question her when he, Raiko, and Lin were talking about her in the beginning. It seems like Opal and the Earth kingdom citizens are really the only ones who are picking up the conquest vibe of the "Great Uniter," and I guess that makes sense since they're directly affected by her actions moreso than Republic City.

I do wonder what the breaking up point between her and Suyin was following the Red Lotus stuff, though like I said before I'm thinking it was probably Suyin hesitating about moving to take the reigns to unite the Earth Kingdom and Kuvira saying "fuck this weakass shit" and goin' off to do her thing. How much of the Metal Clan is supporting her I wonder? Judging from what she's said, 90% of the Earth Kingdom is united beneath her army, so even if it is just a few of them, she's still got a pretty huge selection of potential soldiers waiting at her command.

Her bending against the bandits was badass and her "negotiations" (aka CONQUEST MARCH) was so good. She's so morally dubious and I love it. Love this female villain.

It was brought up in an interview Mike & Bryan had with IGN, but Kuvira is a little reminiscent of Korra in some ways. Both have this unyielding, fearless spirit and are these sort fo aggressive personalities. Sparks are definitely gonna fly when they come to a head, and I am so pumped for that fight.

Speaking of Korra...

Korra: I WAS EXPECTING THIS, I had a feeling when they entioned she was coming back that she wasn't gonna be there, but damn. Her haircut is looking more and more like it was to sever the past and back away from the role of the Avatar to find herself. She seems so downtrodden and lost my baby :(((( Her bending has no doubt been affected by her inner turmoil and very likely the time it took for her to recuperate, and allegedly from that IGN video the next episode is going to show her recovery (physically & somewhat mentally) in the time skip. I'm so excited by her journey to find herself aw maaaaaaaaaaan.

Book 4 is shaping up super well from this first episode, definitely hoping they keep up the momentum and don't falter.

 

Spoiler: After All These Years

Man that prince guy is an idiot, I love it.
Opal's so cute, but dat conflict between her and Bolin hurts to see ;.;
I like how Kuvira actually does sound rational, at least to me. She's a person who really could exist in our world, and that helps her character feel natural.
KORRA FIGHT CLUB YO

Spoiler: Korra Alone

I'm loving the Fight Club vibe here, and this episode for some reason really got me to remember how good the voice acting in this series is.
It's really neat how they're tackling PTSD as well, and in a way that does feel right, rather than forced.
She left Naga too :<
YEAH AANG STILL DID THE THING
Awww, Korra pulled a Zuko: cutting the hair and going solo
I really like the journey for Korra to find Raava again. Soul searching, literally.
Aha I called that the dog was a spirit
Toph = Yoda time

 

Completely forgot about Korra until about 20 minutes ago.

Spoiler: Book Four, Episode Two

I don't get the whole Korra versus Shadow Korra thing and where Shadow Korra even came from.

 

Spoiler

It's post-traumatic stress. My guess is that it's actually a dark spirit that feeds off Korra's negative self-image, and uses the image of her Avatar form during the battle with Zaheer to further stress Korra out

 

I smiled when I saw that! Great throwback.

 

Spoiler: Book 4 Chapter 3

Why is Toph so mean?

 

Spoiler

URGH I love and I hate Kuvira at the same time. She really does make good points while still being too extreme.
I also really liked that the conflict put Mako and Bolin against each other, yet Mako does see Bolin's point.
AND YEAH TOPH TEACH KORRA HER LESSON. NO SELF-PITY AVATARS.

Because you don't teach the Avatar a lesson she needs to learn by cuddling her, especially when she's the one who's letting her past affect her present. I for one welcome Toph kicking Korra's ass. Katara already tried helping the nice way.

 

I haven't posted thoughts on the episodes in a while (Korra Alone is probably the strongest episode of Korra ever imo, along with Beginnings & a few other ones).

What I did want to share is this podcast about the Avatar franchise. They've done episodes for the entire franchise so far, with some really interesting ones about different aspects of the Avatar universe. Some of the ones off the top of my head are religion/spirituality, nationalism, gender & sexuality, and so on. They update every Friday a few hours the episodes air, so would definitely recommend checking them out if you'd be interested (plus they ship Korrasami so they got things right /shot)

 

Spoiler

This^
Toph is not being any more mean than she is being Toph, thats who she is and that's how she taught Anng Earthbending, by kicking his ass (and almost crushing him to death multiple times)
Korra is holding herself back more than anyone or anything else.
Toph should have had son(s) he(they) would be so BA.

PS: since @Plums contributed i will too
this guy and his analogies are what you need in your life if you watch korra and/or shoennen anime.

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Spoiler

It's probably Rava, because she looks like Avatar State Korra. and korra's crappy self pitty/state of mind is why Rava is so agressive.

 

Spoiler: Book Four, Chapter Four

The avatar is back!

I still don't understand how Suyin didn't get all the poison out of Korra's body, though!