Avatar: The Legend Of Korra - Part 5

[Marvin]

I think the Toph vs Kuvira thing was meant to be ambiguous. They can't simply have them actually fight because fans of Toph would call B.S. if Kuvira wins and if Kuvira loses...well, that's the end of the show.

As for Varrick, I see it as his character having some sort of growth. Seeing how dangerously powerful that spirit-weapon has changed him.

I think the writers were faced with a problem here and they handled it on a somewhat contrived way. It's kinda their own fault for being in semi fan service mode. Of course they can't have the all powerful toph(or katara) really engage in this new show and end the conflict, but at the same time they are afraid to have the enemy's really step to them.

I personally think the latter approach would be keen for I feel if you had one of these 'bosses' say, beat toph or something, you would achieve a level of 'threat'. Hell have toph beaten and captured defending her tree and have her family motivated to save her, it almost writes itself given all the family drama they set out to convey. Instead of this fist shaking they relegated her too.
It just reads a somewhat of a cop out to have her declare that the world may end but 'you gotta leave it to the kids'. Ok but thousands of lives are being taken that very week.
The first series Avatar did something similar with Iroh not stepping to his bother but he didn't just go take a nap somewhere, it was explained well. Even Naruto had the previous hokages lay out the stakes in that final battle for what they were. I just find this Toph thing a tad clumsy is all. Not as clumsy as what was done in Dragonball but still.
That being said it's different with Zuko because he wasn't really shown to be as powerful as Toph(or even Katara) imo, and what they did have him do was fine.

Meh, looking forward to what comes next but I still feel this this book should have been swaped with the second.

 

[Loki882]

So Kuvira's got herself a freaking EVA now, wow!

 

[Lencho01]

That giant mech was a nice surprise.

 

[Maximus One]

Yea, I agree Unuvaatu should have closed out the series but they needed that as a catalyst to merge the worlds. The end battle alone with Unuvaatu felt like a series finale sort of epic, even if it wasn't that good.

 

[kickass]

The giant mech is very reminiscent of an old 50's B-Movie robot. Which I'm sure was the point lol.

 

[Maximus One]

I thought the same thing.

 

[Lencho01]

 

[Primal Slayer]

I wish they would just air 12/13 together and just put me out of my misery.

 

[BlackMagicWolf]

I'm pretty sure they are, on the website they noted that "Kuvira's Gambit" was the last episode before the series finale.

 

[kickass]

Episodes 12 and 13 will premier together. They've said so and that's how all of Korra's finales have aired. Each episode is also a couple minutes longer than the usual standard 22 minutes without commercials. The creators posted a photo that had a runtime of 24 minutes.

 

[Primal Slayer]

ok good, I just saw on FB where just listed episode 12 and said nothing about 13 so I thought we were just getting 1 episode.

 

[DA_Champion]

Truly the worst season of Korra.

 

[kickass]

No way, I've loved everything about it, except for episode 8. It's blended politics and heavy emotional burdens quite nicely. And Zelda Williams has been fantastic as the voice of Kuvira.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Truly the worst season of Korra.

Yyyyyyyeeeaaaahno.

 

[BlackMagicWolf]

It's not the best (that's one or three) but is it the worst? I don't think it is.

 

[Sithborg]

I think it is hurt a bit by the format. I question whether even a longer season would help. It seems that they really wanted to have a bit more of a reflective season. Which I would've been cool with. But, it's a cartoon, so you need a big bad to fight. And the two are not necessarily able to go together. There is no way they are going to top Season 3's fight, so I hope the Kuvira stuff is wrapped up in episode 12, with 13 being mainly saying good bye.

 

[kickass]

The 2 episode series finale is being aired Friday at midnight EST (Thursday 9PM for all you westcoasters).

http://dongbufeng.tumblr.com/post/105283138298/i-think-this-makes-it-official-the-series

 

[DarkShadow10]

And the UK time?

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Who cares about the UK

 

[BlackMagicWolf]

Interesting...I may have to wake up early to watch this instead of having to wait until nighttime!

 

[DarkShadow10]

Who cares about the UK

I care!!!

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Tea Junkie

 

[Lord]

Truly the worst season of Korra.

Nah, still better than the atrocity that was Book 2: Spirits.

Book 1 > Book 3 > Book 4 so far > Book 2

I always liked the idea for Republic city, but i feel like the show didn't need to go bigger than the previous series, the plot from Book 1 was good enough, it needed some 20-30 episodes and to be "the big challenge of Avatar Korra".

 

[DarkShadow10]

Tea Junkie

Tea AND Coffee Junkie!!!

 

[blksuperman2]

Spoiler

This is just a show that needs more then 13 episodes to do a storyline unlike a lot of shows that need less.

I wish we could get an episode before the finale that had Korra do something that make people respect her and fear her before entering the big finale. No one takes her seriously anymore and waiting till the last episode for that to change is to much.

Yeah, that's the one problem I have w/ this season. We know absolutely nothing about Kuvira. We know that she has feelings for Bataar Jr. but that's about it. 1 or 2 episodes could have shed more light on her transition from Uniter to Dictator and why Bataar Jr. follows her so blindly.

Spoiler

I think the writers were faced with a problem here and they handled it on a somewhat contrived way. It's kinda their own fault for being in semi fan service mode. Of course they can't have the all powerful toph(or katara) really engage in this new show and end the conflict, but at the same time they are afraid to have the enemy's really step to them.

I personally think the latter approach would be keen for I feel if you had one of these 'bosses' say, beat toph or something, you would achieve a level of 'threat'. Hell have toph beaten and captured defending her tree and have her family motivated to save her, it almost writes itself given all the family drama they set out to convey. Instead of this fist shaking they relegated her too.
It just reads a somewhat of a cop out to have her declare that the world may end but 'you gotta leave it to the kids'. Ok but thousands of lives are being taken that very week.
The first series Avatar did something similar with Iroh not stepping to his bother but he didn't just go take a nap somewhere, it was explained well. Even Naruto had the previous hokages lay out the stakes in that final battle for what they were. I just find this Toph thing a tad clumsy is all. Not as clumsy as what was done in Dragonball but still.
That being said it's different with Zuko because he wasn't really shown to be as powerful as Toph(or even Katara) imo, and what they did have him do was fine.

Meh, looking forward to what comes next but I still feel this this book should have been swaped with the second.

True. Which is why it bothers so many to see these characters still able but choose to stay out of the way. Would someone w/ these abilities not risk their waning years to save their grandkids?


As for "Kuvira's Gambit" this episode didn't do much for me. It was cool seeing Bumi & Tenzin teaming up. It's good to see them together. Kuvira w/ her super-weapon is alright I guess. I'm not really sure why Kuvira feels Zuko and Aang stole land for Republic City though. I thought they asked the Earth Kingdom for the land and it was meant to be a neutral place. This Friday will be bittersweet.