Heās probably gonna be like the Fire Nation and round up all the benders and then capture all the possible bender babies out there. Itās doable, but thereās always going to be benders that escape theyāre grasp.
The last episode was wack.
[details=Spoiler]Everything is given to Korra. She never had to work for anything like Aang did. I thought she was going to lose her bending, link up to the spirit world at her lowest point, get guidance from Aang, then train to re-learn all the elements. Everything being given to her, including the Avatar State and the ability to give bending back is just very disappointing to me. Even airbending was given to her on a silver platter. Cāmon, yo.
Tarlock homicide-suicide was fucking gdlk, though :tup:[/details]
I think 2 reviews are a must when discussing this season finale to get a fair and balanced perspective on it.
As a mini-series(as originally intended)this was a great season finale that covered all bases and delivered on all fronts. It had a strong premise, followed through with its concept and delivered perfectly with amazing execution and a extremely satisfying resolve.
As a season finale it was a slight fail IMO. Now I went on for a few paragraphs about how I never fully accepted the characterizations and certain plot details at least compared to TLA, but even ignoring some complaints I had I really just felt a bitā¦betrayed by this finale. I think the tone of the show was a lot more mature and adult then I expected so I suppose everything closing up with a very"super happy"ending theme caught me off guard. I think the season should have ended off with people assuming korra had killed amon when she pushed him out of the window which could have lead to a beautiful situation in the 2nd season. It could have developed a civil war between the benders and non-benders and also tackle korra having to re-learn the elements and connect with the spirit world. The benders could maybe go into hiding and the show could develop into some situation similar to the x-menās"days of the future past"saga. This isnt to say the season finale was terrible but it just could have been handled a lot better in respects to leading into season 2, not to mention I wanted to see some consequences of certain actions(like bending stealing)play out a little longer, and the romantic conflict and korraās connection to the spiritual world need to build longer to have a greater effectā¦I also personally liked some of the fan theories about amon more then what ultimately played out.
When its all said and done it wasnt terrible season finale by any stretch of the imagination but not what I expected considering the hype leading into it. I think season 2 could run the risk of feeling aimless and a bit like filler, and unless something is presented to equal the"amazing"that was amon and his entire plot I feel the series could potentially run the risk of overstaying its welcome. I did enjoy myself dont get me wrong but there was far to much closure and not even suspense for anything to followā¦the show should have just been a true sequel to TLA.
Korra already trained off screen for her bending plus she knew how to bend 3 elements as a little kid. Wouldnāt be original to show her train her bending because that shits been done already in TLA. There are other hardships that an avatar can face rather than train all day.
Wellā¦she is a woman after all;)
Yea, why you guys so hung up another another training ark? I personally have no interest in watching another training arc in much of anything, much less in the Airbender series which was 3 seasons of training.
Trainingās played out. They did good in Korra by basically Rocky Montoging that shit and getting onto something new.
From the moment I saw Amon taking peopleās bendings away, I knew the only solution wassimple, Korra learning how to energybend from Aang. Now that I think about it, she should have REALLLY REALLLY put all her effort into meditating and trying to communicate with Aang, instead she went attacking everyone like a brute. She really is the complete opposite of Aang.
I like that thereās no more training bull shit fro Korra. Weāre done with that with TLA.
Iād rather have a new season dedicated to Korra being the Avatar. We havenāt exactly seen a full-fledged avatar in action, a whole season dedicated to this will be so god-like.
She might have a Avatar Roku-Sozin dynamic(Sozin turned evil, but Avatar roku wonāt stop him because they were best friends) with someone from her crew, most likely Mako.
About Naga bitchslapping the lieutenant into mook-ville, I made a video where you can hear the announcer from Riley Freemanās dream in the episode āBallinā as Naga slaps him.
āGetchoā bitch ass out the way nigga!ā
But the video quality was messed (kept rolling back) and it never made it to youtube :C. might redo it sometime though
(Fuck. I still have to fix the typos in that last huge as post. Ugh. Too lazy to do that right now.)
Wow, you guys are being a lot more cheery than I thought you would be; RockBogart especially seems to be having quite a bit of fun with the āIron Irohā stuff. A lot less people disagreeing with how that went down that I expected, even with my knowledge that VS is currently busy.
As such, I, The Damned, shall be your Devilās Advocate this evening. Joy.
I will say that I am, unfortunately, honestly disappointed with how the finale ended, with āendedā being the keyword here.
Donāt get me wrong, the series as a whole was still quite good overall and Episode 11 was excellent; Amonās background and especially his fate were surprisingly sad and dark without being conspicuously āwoe is he!ā or āthis makes me want to forgive everything!āāIām still surprised that Nick allowed them to show that explosion on screen. Hell, Episode 12 was greatā¦until the last three or four minutes.
As some people like Hawkingbird have already pointed out, things wrapped up way too tidily and way too quickly. I guess I can understand that if they werenāt sure they would get a second season, but even then, itās extremely jarring for all of the good guys to be all āhappy happy joy joy!ā and finding ātrue wuv!āā¦less than five minutes right after the scene where Tarrlok commits a murder-suicide as he apparently ends his and his brotherās depressing-ass lives on-screen.
On top of that, at the risk of sounding like a āshipperā (shut up, Rock) again, it also just completely fucked over Asami even more, who has done absolutely nothing wrong. She basically asked for Mako be straight with her for the past four or five episodes as to whether he even just liked Korra and had actually kissed her, to which he constantly dodged the question, and he then gets rewarded for not doing that at all. Hell, I wonder if he even broke up with Asami before he confessed to Korra that he loved her and then decided to make out with her after she got her powers back not ten minutes later.
Getting away from that for a bit, Iāll say that I could have stood having the relationship problems solved before the series finale ended if the powers issue wasnāt solved at exact the same time. I didnāt want to see more training montages to get her powers back for the most part, but I did want to see it being issue for a whileālike an episode or twoārather than just having her ātear-bendā it away.
(That said, speaking of training montages, now that Amon is possibly dead, it would be nice to see more of Tenzin formally training her next season given how little of her Airbending training we actually saw. She probably still sucks it and the Avatar state/being spiritual even with the big fear of Amon out of the way, so itās not like thereās any excuse not to.)
I guess I just expected something moreā¦mature given how ambiguous all of the Avatar: The Last Airbender season finales were. Hell, the second season finale was down right dark, probably the darkest season finale of a cartoon āfor kidsā ever on something that wasnāt an abrupt ākill 'em allā series cancellation, so the writers had already shown they had the āballsā and the skill to handle that.
Oh well. I canāt change how this season ended.
At least Lin is back. I look forward to seeing her wreck shit next season.
Other More Minor Grievances
[details=Spoiler]Of course, being my long-winded self, I have more issues with the episode than that, though thatās the ābigā issue. These are the smaller ones and only just the ones off the top of my head:
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I find it odd that no one mentioned Yakone had escaped prior to Tarrlokās story, which is part of the reason I thought he might be lying for a bit. I mean, sure, Yakone was rendered powerless by Aang, but given what a big deal he still was to people, you think someone would have mentioned they didnāt know what the hell happened to him.
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Related to that, and this is extremely minor, if Tarrlok and Amon (Noatuk? Not sure how his real name is supposed to be spelled) were born after Yakoneās bloodbending was taken away, then who exactly was that Water Tribe boy in the court room that wasnāt getting bloodbent when everyone else was? I guess it could have been Sokkaās son or something, but it still seemsā¦odd, especially given what a tremendous piece of excrement Yakone was shown be with the clear implication that was he perfectly willing to hurt children when he himself had no powers.
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Related to that in a more āendgameā sense, as someone else pointed out, how exactly was Amon going to ensure that no more Airbenders or even benders in general were going to be born if he and his brothers still had bending powers after the Avatar himself took his fatherās powers away?
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Given that Amon was ultimately blood-bending to depower people, that basically shafts firebending again as the weakest with āenergy-bendingā still being something they apparently canāt do or, at least, something that Amon wasnāt using. I kinda would have liked for Fire to get thrown a bone beyond being able to fly around since pretty much all the other elements can do that as well and Air can do it better; all it seems to have is arguably a better secondary than Earth.
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Similarly, waterbending comes off as overpowering again, especially since we still saw no clear solution or even weakness to blood-bending other than āhope the person is distracted and that you can fight through the pain long enough to get off a lucky shotā. Hell, this episode it got even stronger since between it being able to take away peopleās powers and it being reaffirmed that a really strong bloodbender doesnāt even need line of sight to grab you. I really would have preferred that he was just a non-bender using the illusion chakra the swami pointed out in A:TLA or was related to some spiritual entity like Koh the Face Stealer as specs also brought up rather than buffing the strongest ability set even more; bloodbending is basically like UMvC3 Zero at this point: you canāt touch that shit.
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As cool as it was for General Iroh to fly and shit, he seemed kindaā¦ineffectual for half of the season finale. I mean, I understand that he was ambushed and unaware of the technology being used again him. It just seemed really dumb for him to let Korra run off so readily, even with faith in the Avatar, and for he, Bolin & Asami to all zapped by the invisible electric fence at the same time; that latter part is more Asamiās fault since she felt that was something was off but continued to walk forward, but still. I donāt know. I guess I just expected āmoreā between his namesakeās actions and his only real contribution being that he was rectifying his own fuck-ups since he didnāt seem to anticipate Amonās forces could intercept messages despite the aforementioned ambush.[/details]
Assuming there is going to be a second season, I have to wonder: If Bumi is like this and Tenzin is the āserious but secretly goofy oneā, then is their sister completely humorless or something else entirely? It would be nice to have another waterbending and/or female bad guy even if her mother would probably beat her down single-handedly.
THATāS WHAT I KEPT SAYING.
well since Hiroshi Sato is now in jail**ā¦ **Cabbage Corp will take over the world :eek:
Cabbage man for season 2 main villian you read here first folks!
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next seasonā¦weāre gonna dbz all the arcs. energy and psychic bending. mystical monsters and search for the source of all bending.
(Okay, so it was SRK fucking up.)
DBZing Avatar? Gods, I hope not.
DBZ sucked for the most part.
I actually think Avatar could go DBZ without dumbing itself down.
Meh the buu saga was the only 1 Iād say sort of ruined things, but anyways I wouldnāt mind the OP DBZ power levels. At least for the avatar or villains powerful enough to fight the a avatarā¦Iām personally tired of so called"god like characters"when in reality their probably like low tier jobbers in something like DBZ ha.
I think true firebender flight is only possible during Sozinās comet, I think he was just firebending for short bursts.
DB > DBZ
Im not gonna watch the second season myself. The way this season ended was fucking terrible and jumped the hell out some shark. I dont even know how they would even do another season without retcons or just making a brand new story. Watching the airbender series was good enough. Going past that is unnecessary.
Korra was a disappointment for me.
As fucked up as it is that Asami got the shaft (hurr) the way she did, that shit happens in real life. Next to Amon, she had the saddest story of the bunch and she didnāt get the typical positive outcome that would normally come out of these situations. The writers kept it g. I actually didnāt mind the relationship angle, even though I thought Mako was an ass.
I hope Amon comes back to fight another day.