Avatar: Legend of Korra episode 3

[psocoptera]

I don't know, meh. I'd be willing to tolerate a certain amount of not-so-great on a variety of fronts *if* I was being delivered *something* to really love. With ATLA, there was just so much cool stuff about the exploration of the whole idea of bending, that you could do *this* with bending, you could do *that* with bending. There were also amazing bending battles and the different ways they could be choreographed. And then I really liked and cared about the characters, and there were all the funny animal hybrids, and Toph getting great lines, and a really gripping overarching plot arc.

With Korra, this season especially, there just isn't anything making me excited about this show. I like Korra, but I don't find her interactions with her parents all that interesting and her relationship with Mako is just painful. Tenzin's interactions with his siblings make me cringe in the way that He-Man does, now, this thing where people who look like grownups are acting like children for a child audience. I am interested in where they're going with the plot arc. But I just need a little more fun along the way, more jazzy music, more Asami screentime, *something*. I guess an exploration of Aang's failures as a parent is interesting, but it's not really *enjoyable*, I am watching this show to be made happy, not to be made sad.

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i have also been seriously underwhelmed by this season. there've been some fun moments, and there's a lot of potentially interesting stuff that's been introduced, but so far the actual stories that it's been used in have all been less-than-great. here's hoping they do better later on?

also, could they give us a little more background on what the baseline political order with the water tribe(s) is? there are serious mixed messages as to whether these were independent political entities beforehand, and it would be good to know where things stood so we had some context in which to interpret the stuff that's going on now.