Constructive Criticism for Mike and Bryan

[nochenne]

Hi everyone! Quick programming note: the speculation post is coming tomorrow, probably in the early afternoon EST/evening here in Europe, and will be a regular Wednesday thing hereafter, unless the community decides otherwise. Hopefully we'll get some clips before next Wednesday so there will be new stuff to speculate about!

Comments

[evilsherbear]

Positives: Amon feels like a real threat! I was afraid that this series wouldn't be able to deliver on the villain front, and I can tell there's going to be some big revelations with his character. Korra has matured a lot since the series started, and I'm loving the characters, I just wish we got more time with them. Which leads me to the negatives

[nochenne]

Yes, I completely agree about Amon. He's much more threatening than Ozai ever was, and is basically on par with Azula in terms of antagonistic effectiveness, imo. I can't wait to find out what those big revelations about his character are.

The lack of airbending has bothered me, too, but now that everyone has relocated to the island, I'm hoping we'll really get to focus on it. It seems like the perfect time for Korra to make a breakthrough, because it just doesn't make sense to call this Book "Air," and not have her learn airbending by the end of it, and I think she needs time to develop her technique after successfully making a few gusts.

[evilsherbear]

NGL, Steve Blum's voice acting on Amon has really sold me on his character. I love that man's voice.

I love airbending, so after the first two episodes seeing the series take a sharp turn away from it saddened me. Ia, they now have the time to focus on airbending, or they could go the shipping episode route and have it be wacky sitcom "Can they all learn to live together?" story on airbender island. There's 5 episodes left in the season; I can't see them spending more than 2 episodes going into Korra really focusing on airbending, as they have to wrap up the flashbacks AND the equalist storyline AND whatever Tarrlock is up to, as well as making the Krew feel like friends. That's so much to wrap up in such a short time! I'm hoping they can pull it all off.

[wicked_g]

Totally agree in the lack of buildup in relationships-I can buy Mako and Asami, but Korra and Bolin and Mako seem like they're still acquaintances and it's confusing to see them interact so closely at times.

Yeah, and when Mako defended keeping the pro bending finals on, he made it seem like the arena is the only safe place non-benders and benders get together in the city-what else is happening that we're not seeing? All the non-benders we've been meeting (i.e. not Amon and his followers) have been accommodating, so what are we missing? ALSO also, the main non-benders we know are privileged and in high positions in society (Asami, Hyroshi, Pema, Cabbage Corp Man)-they're hardly a good representation for this group of people who feel downtrodden and want equality.

[evilsherbear]

Mako and the pro-bending thing! I was so confused at that! Was he just being rhetorical, like when people say that sort of thing about the Olympics? (It's the one place where everyone can just come together and bond over sports, no politics) Or that it LITERALLY is the only place that benders and non-benders can hang out without getting into fights? There's too much telling, and not enough showing.

I remember someone on the comm brought up how they had wanted Asami to just be a regular young woman (not super rich), and I agree with their reasoning. We don't get what life is like for the average non-bender, other than that shopkeeper at the start of the series, and a little bit from Pema.

[wicked_g]

Exactly! When he said that I was like 'whoa, what?' When did this happen? Or yeah, is it just a matter of waxing poetic and talking about how no matter what people bond over sports? Because I get that he needed it to not be cancelled-it's part of his livelihood, but it really sounded like the city was hanging by a thread.

Yeah but even Pema isn't a great representation-she's married to a bender who's on the council, and who knows how many times she even leaves the island to go into town? She's living in a little utopia where because she is an equal partner and mother to a bunch of benders, she's in charge most of the time. And frankly, all we've heard from Pema is how she'd like to have a baby where she doesn't have to worry about it floating off or letting out a massive fart or burp in her face. It'd be good to know some more background on her, tbh.

[senna]

I'm kind of hoping some airbending will happen in the next episode. Mostly because they haven't been on ATI long enough for the show to show Korra practicing or trying to airbend.

[horizongold]

i agree on all points.