review megapost, part 2

[freetosay]

These are the recaps and reviews associated with the second quarter of this season's The Legend of Korra, enjoy!

forewarning: i will not add the reviews from The Movie Pool this time. they didn't review the episodes weekly and I'm currently searching for the site who did. leave a comment if you found one. thanks.

Comments

[rhapsodyinpink]

Wanna go back and forth for weekly reviews? I volunteered to do them too and rachaelwsz said okay :)

[freetosay]

what do you mean by go "back and forth"? i am not used to these lingos.

[rhapsodyinpink]

^ What she said :)

[rhapsodyinpink]

ahahaha mte

[rhapsodyinpink]

I really love Emily's AV Club reviews!

His demand that the city shut down the stadium echoed another flamboyant, melodramatic quasi-villain, the Phantom Of The Opera, to the point where I expected him to shriek “A disaster beyond your imagination will occur!”

Haha she should be a member of _lok, didn't a bunch of members here have the same idea?

It seemed like Tarrlok was deliberately setting her up to fail with that “you’ll take personal responsibility for the safety of the spectators?” thing, though, and he’s definitely not going to let that slide. I’d guess that the council is going to appoint someone to replace her next episode. (By the way, does Tarrlok have scandalous photos of the three elderly council members or what? What a bunch of pushovers.) Tarrlok’s still being animated and voiced in ways that suggest he is not to be trusted, but it’s unclear whether he was maneuvering to grab more executive power via getting control of the police force or whether there's something bigger going on.He is totally up to something, and

[freetosay]

i really wanted to bold the Phantom of the Opera part. i just thought anyone here didn't watch/know it.. turns out you do. yay!!

[crystalzelda]

AV Club, your review was perfect, and then you had to ruin it with that goddamn homewrecker line. ppl need to STEP DA FUQ OFF MY GIRL PEMA

Las night's post actually made me write a Pemzin fic lmao, so I am le protective of her rn. I need to go back to the posts and swipe a Pema icon.

[linbeifong]

So where are we at the halfway point of the first season? I’ve been kind of baffled by comments complaining that the characters of Korra aren’t as well-developed as the ones in the original series, so I decided to revisit the first half-dozen episodes of A:TLA. (Hey, remember Haru?) Most of my favorite episodes of the original are in the second and third seasons, and I hadn’t really revisited the first aside from “The Blue Spirit” and “The Siege Of The North.” So when I went back, it was almost jarring how juvenile those early episodes feel in comparison to later ones, and to Korra. The characters are eerily reminiscent of their caricatures in the Ember Island Players: Sokka is hungry, Katara is naïve, Aang is an incurable prankster who does that goofy laugh a lot (like, a lot), Zuko shouts at his uncle and has a doofus ponytail.

[evilsherbear]

ia. I remember Sokka trying to fill his father's shoes of trying to protect the village and rally the children. It was funny, then heartbreakingly sad when you thought about it. They're kids dealing with a lot of serious personal issues. I'm just just not feeling any of that with Korra. I don't know what motivates her, how she feels about being the avatar, etc. I like that she's fierce and good at fighting, but I'm not getting how she feels she places in Republic City other than "I'm the goddamn avatar!"

[microlm]

Well, to be honest, I'm not Korra knows what she is other than the Avatar either.

[evilsherbear]

I'm getting that sense too. I'm hoping this will lead to character development later on down the line, but as the episodes go on her personality is starting to wear on me.