Review post: 1x10

[freetosay]

These are all the recaps and reviews associated with the episode 10 of The Legend of Korra. Enjoy!

note: words in italics are my personal additions. some of the reviews haven't been up yet. remember that the finale is next week!

Comments

[sandstorm]

"Dante Basco is here to save the day!" - lol, he seems to do that a lot.

Jeremy Zuckerman, who also did the score for the original series, is very smart about knowing when to whisper when a lot of composers would shout.

Yes. I don't think we need a rousing score when Lin's bending is taken away - we don't even need it when she sabotages the airships - it gives a tone of finality, of destiny, and it's wonderful.

[juel1979]

On the streams, I totally LOSE the score it seems, probably due to the mixing on the TV. I really need to pay closer attention to it when I rewatch everything on Friday this week (yes, I've made plans).

[izbetterthanu]

love review posts, thanks OP!

[hunnyblood]

She’s no Lin Beifong, but Pema is still pretty amazing.

:/ ugh.

Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino have developed an incredible number of characters over these past 10 episodes, and I genuinely care about almost all of them. The show is full of little touches, like the look on Pema’s face when she walks out of the kitchen, or the way Lin Beifong closes her eyes before her bending is taken makes these characters feel like actual, flesh and blood human beings.

ia with this, but only for the seconday characters, haha. I feel like in many ways Tenzin, Lin, Pema, etc. are more well-developed than the teens because they get little individual moments like the reviewer's describing. Not to turn this into another rant on how the love triangle is fucking up the teen's development, but all of Mako's little moments are ~wistful stares and Asami's are like... jealous glances and shit. And Bolin isn't really relevant to the love triangle at all anymore so his feelings are completely ignored, oop.

[anime_babble]

Cosigned.

[ladygawain]

Thank. You.

The only development we have of her is that she pops kids like it's literally her job--which, I guess if you're repopulating the world with airbenders it sort of is. Her position in the narrative frankly makes me uncomfortable because I have issues with aggressive motherhood tropes, and women that fulfill them and stand for little else but. to. literally. birth. children. and. be. mothers. that's it.

[tobiahawk]

Spider-rats... just the name is the ultimate nightmare fuel. *shudder*

[teacup_werewolf]

I am actually hoping that Rohan is nonbender tbh

[generalstolas]

I took Katara's comment as one of those compliments people give to pregnant women all the time. Several of my pregnant friends had have random strangers just go up to them, touch their belly, feel the baby kick, and make the, "ohh they're going to be a strong one when they're born" comment.

[nochenne]

Yeah, that was how I took it as well. I'm pretty sure they won't know if Rohan is a bender or not for some time.