KORRA FINALE
Dec. 19th, 2014 12:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraOH MY GOD OH MY GOD YOU GUYS SCREAMING AND CRYING. (Only, silently, so as to not wake the two-year-old next door. BUT IN MY HEAD.) SHE WENT OFF INTO THE FUCKING SUNSET WITH ASAMI OH MY GOD.
::deep breaths::
Okay. I loved it. Absolutely loved it. I loved that they tried all of the obvious solutions against the mech (blind it, trip it, lavabend under it) in the first five minutes, creating genuine suspense as to what else might go down. I loved Bolin and Lin and Su dropping a building on it, my god that was epic. I love that Korra finally remembered about water, the other element (although I wish they'd done even more with that). I loved that Asami's dad bit it promptly in the first half leaving the possibility of a major-character finale death open in the second half - oh man I was crying when Mako and Bolin say goodbye to each other and Mako goes into slowmo, I had not thought of Mako as an obvious candidate for the heroic sacrifice play and then it was suddenly so obvious, the big brother, the ex-lover, oh, man. I'm glad they didn't though since I think it would have made the focus too much all about Mako and not Korra.
I loved Korra, sitting and talking quietly with Kuvira at the end. That right there is why I love Avatar so so much, that it's not just the amazing spectacle, but also that, like, humanist ethical spirit. The war ends not when one side is obliterated but when two people are finally able to acknowledge each other. The control room fight was pretty amazing too, of course, and I thought the creation of a new spirit portal was a really nice solution to the whole gun-turning-into-The-Bomb problem they'd been building up to.
I liked Wu. I thought the thing with the badger moles was great - finally brings the Earth-royalty animal fixation back around to something positive - and I liked that in the end he was part of the change the Earth Kingdom needed instead of being run over by it or left behind by it. I liked Varrick and Zhu Li - I haven't been a fan of their relationship but I thought all of their lines were really funny ("that's exactly what I thought it would be like") and I liked that pairing them meant we got to have a wedding at the end without it being any of the main cast. (I was initially very hung up on the exact seating order of Mako, Asami, and Korra there in the audience and now I don't even remember and don't even care because HAND HOLDING GAZING INTO EACH OTHER'S EYES ON A PRIVATE VACATION OH MY GOD.) Pretty much the only thing I really didn't like was Korra and Tenzin's conversation at the end about how she had to go through disability to learn compassion, which, I don't know, on the one hand maybe their universe *does* work like that to teach spiritual lessons to Avatars, but I don't think it works like that in our universe and we're the ones watching the show. So. Pretty much hit it out of the park otherwise (even the costuming - Korra's outfit at the end was fabulous) and I'm kind of amazed that they pulled it off so well after those first couple seasons.
Wait, why aren't they taking Naga with them?? Shit, I need fanart fixing that.
::deep breaths::
Okay. I loved it. Absolutely loved it. I loved that they tried all of the obvious solutions against the mech (blind it, trip it, lavabend under it) in the first five minutes, creating genuine suspense as to what else might go down. I loved Bolin and Lin and Su dropping a building on it, my god that was epic. I love that Korra finally remembered about water, the other element (although I wish they'd done even more with that). I loved that Asami's dad bit it promptly in the first half leaving the possibility of a major-character finale death open in the second half - oh man I was crying when Mako and Bolin say goodbye to each other and Mako goes into slowmo, I had not thought of Mako as an obvious candidate for the heroic sacrifice play and then it was suddenly so obvious, the big brother, the ex-lover, oh, man. I'm glad they didn't though since I think it would have made the focus too much all about Mako and not Korra.
I loved Korra, sitting and talking quietly with Kuvira at the end. That right there is why I love Avatar so so much, that it's not just the amazing spectacle, but also that, like, humanist ethical spirit. The war ends not when one side is obliterated but when two people are finally able to acknowledge each other. The control room fight was pretty amazing too, of course, and I thought the creation of a new spirit portal was a really nice solution to the whole gun-turning-into-The-Bomb problem they'd been building up to.
I liked Wu. I thought the thing with the badger moles was great - finally brings the Earth-royalty animal fixation back around to something positive - and I liked that in the end he was part of the change the Earth Kingdom needed instead of being run over by it or left behind by it. I liked Varrick and Zhu Li - I haven't been a fan of their relationship but I thought all of their lines were really funny ("that's exactly what I thought it would be like") and I liked that pairing them meant we got to have a wedding at the end without it being any of the main cast. (I was initially very hung up on the exact seating order of Mako, Asami, and Korra there in the audience and now I don't even remember and don't even care because HAND HOLDING GAZING INTO EACH OTHER'S EYES ON A PRIVATE VACATION OH MY GOD.) Pretty much the only thing I really didn't like was Korra and Tenzin's conversation at the end about how she had to go through disability to learn compassion, which, I don't know, on the one hand maybe their universe *does* work like that to teach spiritual lessons to Avatars, but I don't think it works like that in our universe and we're the ones watching the show. So. Pretty much hit it out of the park otherwise (even the costuming - Korra's outfit at the end was fabulous) and I'm kind of amazed that they pulled it off so well after those first couple seasons.
Wait, why aren't they taking Naga with them?? Shit, I need fanart fixing that.
