Avatar: Legend of Korra

[takai]

[EnoughSaid]

Originally Posted by EnoughSaid

I'm a very big fan of the series and what M&B did with LTA was short of spectacular, but I don't have the same feeling with Legend of Korra.

There were 5 things that made me absolutely FURIOUS with how the show ended.

1) How could they do that to Amon? Like what the hell? Amon was my favorite thing about the show, and he was the first real villain that was basically untouchable. He was SCARY. Like seriously. I got chills when he came on the screen. He was able to resist bloodbending as well, and that made you go, "WHAT THE F***?!" The backstory to Tarrlok and Noatok was beautiful, and was easily the best thing about the finale, but I was really upset with how Amon turned out. Also, a little airbending made him weaker? And what was up with Korra suddenly learning to airbend like a PRO? Was it because her dear beloved Mako was getting his ass kicked? Didn't like that either.

2) All of the romance was shoved in our faces. Like for real. Korra and Mako had no development and what about Asami? They didn't even officially break up yet, and the way Mako and Korra suddenly became a thing was completely messed up. Kataara and Aang had 3 seasons worth of build up, so many touching moments and a lot of things that made them who they turned out to be. So we'll see where this goes.

3) Korra turned out to be the most talented avatar of all time in what, 10 to 15 seconds? She lost all her bending, learned airbending, got her bending back, got the ability to GIVE people their bending back, and then she got her prince charming in Mako. That's the biggest problem I had. It was way toooo rushed.

4) There was no EPIC battle. In TLA, all 3 of the finales had amazing battles. You had the Aang badass Avatar State, the Ba Sing Se underground battle, and Ozai vs. Aang and then Azula vs. Zuko. What was here? Like 3 minutes of Korra learning air bending and Amon blood bending? REALLY disappointed.

5) Finally, they have no storylines to go forward with. Like what the hell? Everything with Korra is basically done, as she's found her spiritual side, learning airbending, and then got Mako. Lin gained her bending back as well, which filled up that plot hole. AGGGGGHHGHGHGH, it's just that I'm so damn frustrated it's not even funny.

So I guess I'll have to wait for almost a whole year to find out what's going to happen next. I actually read somewhere that M&B are hoping they get asked to do a third season of this. So hopefully that happens.

What are some future storylines and plot themes you guys are hoping for?

I want to see more Bumi, and maybe see Korra actually struggle with something as everything came way to easy for her.

Wanted to re-quote my post to say that I didn't HATE the Finale. It's just that it was overshadowed by these several factors I disliked.

[Prodigy]

There are three things I enjoyed in this series over the original.

The lack of 'filler' episodes was really nice. In the original series there seemed to be a lot of episodes that didn't really add much in terms of characterization and just seemed to sidetrack from the plot and waste the viewers' time. This was for the most part absent from TLOK and I greatly appreciated that the creators weren't just wasting time just to extend the series.

The music was a lot better in this series possibly due to the lack of aforementioned filler episodes where everything was light and happy go lucky because more than half of the episodes each season did not follow the main plot. In TLOK the plot stayed focused and as such the storyline was much more intense and gripping which in turn led to better music (read: not corny like michael bay movies) as a whole.

Lasly, while the animation in the first series was pretty decent, the action choreography for this series was on another level as the bending was more stylistically and aesthetically pleasing to the eyes without a worry for it having to be more realistic fighting (because let's face it this series is anything but realistic).

Overall I think I would give this season a 9/10 but I wonder where they will go for a second season after having seemingly concluded the plot for the first season.

[Nick Young]

Hmm, so a Zuko clone comes in out of nowhere and saves everyone in the end.

Liked the little airbender children and Bolin was kind of like Sokka, but otherwise wish this series was longer so it had more time for character development, I could tell in some episodes that they had ideas that should have been built up for 2-3 episodes but the writers had to cram it in, probably because they werent given 26 episodes a season like The last airbender., hopefully next series is better

Asami got screwed over, she was really nice+hotter than Korra