Korra 4.6

[psocoptera]

Oh GOD that was painful to watch. I mean, episode six, it obviously wasn't going to end well, but waaaaah, I wanna see my Korra kicking butt and taking *names*, not getting her ass handed to her. I really want to get to watch Kuvira fight someone else so that I can enjoy her excellence a little more, I mean, I would love to see her completely dominate Zaheer or something, she really is so completely badass. Maybe another comet could unexpectedly show up and she would have to team up with Korra to save the planet and it would turn out Korra, Asami, and Kuvira were like Azula's triumverate reincarnated or something, I don't know.

Meanwhile, *total* missed opportunity to have Bolin and Varrick skating away from under the train on a rock sled Speed-style, am I right? "We'll have to base it on sex then." There had better be fanart at least.

Comments

[fiddledragon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm still not quite sure what to make of this episode. I like that she isn't automatically better after last season's climax, but I can't tell if this is moving in a more-satisfying-healing-experience direction or in a dragging-things-out-annoyingly direction.

I was *so* confused at first, and thinking it was going in some completely different direction, though, because I'd thought Korra's glowy-eyed hallucination was Kuvira and she was going to turn out to be Korra's secret twin sister and the Avatar-nature got split between them or something.

[sildra.livejournal.com]

I'll admit I thought that for a split second, too. Not the secret twin sister part, but that Kuvira had become a secret second Avatar when all those airbenders got their bending, maybe.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

I'm glad there's still a lot of time in the season for them to go somewhere with this because the more I think about it the more I'm not sure what they're doing here. Does it really make sense that Kuvira is *that much better* than Korra? And if she is, why is that the story they want to tell? Making Kuvira a one-on-one combat master, better than Korra, sort of feels like making Napoleon a champion duellist. Kuvira totally makes sense to me as a soldier who realized she had major talents in the areas of strategy, leadership, organization, etc, and the ambition to go with them, but that shouldn't necessarily mean she can also singlehandedly beat an Avatar on pure bending.