Avatar: Legend of Korra new season
Sep. 17th, 2013 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraI was torn about whether I would watch this after some of my frustrations with the previous season, but, enh, here I am, for now at least.
Cautious optimism? It could be interesting? This is not actually a review, though, this is just where I ramble about stuff the episode made me think about.
To me the most interesting thing going on in LoK right now is the stuff about sibling relationships.
1) The only moment of the episode that really touched me, emotionally, was Katara telling everyone to spend time with their siblings while they can. ::sniff::
2) Amon and Tarrlok: a tragedy of brothers. Tonraq and Unalaq: also going that way.
(It would be awesome if Unalaq broke expectations and turned out *not* to be evil but I don't really think LoK is that show, alas.) Is part of the secret of Tenzin, Bumi, and Kya's comparative success that there were three of them? The inherent opposition of the sibling dyad creates a win-lose that is ultimately lose-lose while the shifting alliances of a triad allow no one child to lose, and thus every child to win. By this theory we should have a major falling-out between Mako and Bolin unless they can successfully incorporate Asami as part of their sibling group. Jinora and Ikki may quarrel but we don't have to worry about them because there's Meelo. Desna and Eska on the other hand are trying a different strategy, fusing themselves into a single identity to try to avert dyad doom.
3) The Avatar is necessary because the Avatar creates a third point in the dyad of human world and spirit world.
Cautious optimism? It could be interesting? This is not actually a review, though, this is just where I ramble about stuff the episode made me think about.
To me the most interesting thing going on in LoK right now is the stuff about sibling relationships.
1) The only moment of the episode that really touched me, emotionally, was Katara telling everyone to spend time with their siblings while they can. ::sniff::
2) Amon and Tarrlok: a tragedy of brothers. Tonraq and Unalaq: also going that way.
(It would be awesome if Unalaq broke expectations and turned out *not* to be evil but I don't really think LoK is that show, alas.) Is part of the secret of Tenzin, Bumi, and Kya's comparative success that there were three of them? The inherent opposition of the sibling dyad creates a win-lose that is ultimately lose-lose while the shifting alliances of a triad allow no one child to lose, and thus every child to win. By this theory we should have a major falling-out between Mako and Bolin unless they can successfully incorporate Asami as part of their sibling group. Jinora and Ikki may quarrel but we don't have to worry about them because there's Meelo. Desna and Eska on the other hand are trying a different strategy, fusing themselves into a single identity to try to avert dyad doom.
3) The Avatar is necessary because the Avatar creates a third point in the dyad of human world and spirit world.
