Legend of Korra Finale

[t0ra_chan]

I had quite a bit to say about this, but I figured I should rather put this in my own journal.

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[t0ra_chan]

Well... I did enjoy the show well enough, but I still agree with pretty much everything you say here. It's like, they had all these great ideas and cool characters, but they just didn't manage to put them together into anything that felt like a coherent story arc. Some shows you see, everything is a mess and ideas gets thrown around all willy-nilly, and you keep facepalming and rolling your eyes at how stupid it all is, but you just keep watching anyway, because it's such a lot of cheesy, silly fun. This is the opposite. You can see how some very smart people practically sweated blood to make this happen, working out every angle, dotting every I and crossing every T, but somehow it just - wouldn't - click.

This is probably why I'm so disappointed in this show. You would think that after 3 seasons of Avatar they should know how to do this, but apparently they don't. I also get the feeling that think that the show is much smarter and deeper than it actually is.

Yeah, that just... got fumbled, somehow. I never really understood how much we were supposed to agree with Amon. Do the Equalists have a valid complaint, and benders really do throw their weight around too much? Do the Equalists just have a victimisation complex and benders and non-benders would get along just fine if they weren't around to stir up trouble? What we see in the show seems to support the first version, but all the characters seem to believe in the second one, and that never actually gets challenged or addressed. So... is the second one the one we're supposed to believe, then? Or what?

I think the biggest problem is that Korra barely interacts with non-benders. The only good and more prominent non-benders are Asami and Pema and neither ever truly complain or mention that maybe benders do take their talent for granted. Apart from that one scene where one woman tells Korra that she is their Avatar too Korra doesn't seem to give a shit about non-benders.