But ultimately, as happy as I am with almost the entire episode, I can't shake my disappointment in the tacked-on happy ending that was unnecessary and completely ruined the tone of the episode.
ia, the last 5 minutes sucked everything else was great though, but at least it is not Mass Effect 3 bad when it comes to endings
this pretty much sums up what I wish happened at the end.
I really really wonder what season two's going to be about now..continuation of non benders vs. pro benders? Korra no longer has a problem with spirituality I guess because she's Godmodded now..which is disappointing, but I guess I have to live with it.
idk. I'm going to go back to Battlestar Galactica and pretend nothing ever happened
It was rushed but I don't see this as the lion turtle. Aang is not a lion turtle: Avatars have been helping Avatars since the middle of season one of, well Avatar. So Aang helping her out makes sense. All Korra needed was to connect to her spiritual side, which she has been progressively doing all season. It just wasn't always focused on. I think we needed more time seeing her train in the forms to see her progress better. But she started out not being flexible and became light-footed thanks to probending (without which she wouldn't have survived the fight with Tarrlok). She learned all the forms by episode 8, managed to have the full vision in the following episode, and then connected to air in the last. The only flaws are that we didn't see enough of the training, and personally we should have seen her attempt to make the spirit journey herself instead of just having Aang appear without her doing anything to reach him
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I hadn't thought of Korra attempting suicide until the AV Club reviewer mentioned it. Maybe this is due to me being overly morbid, but I honestly thought she was attempting suicide. Remember in her mind, she's just lost the one thing that defines her, her bending. Without it, she doesn't consider herself worthy of anything. It would have been interesting to explore that avenue...
I remember thinking, "Is she going to throw herself off the clip? But...can't she swim?" so I didn't really consider the suicide thing either. It does make the ending more palatable though.
Yeah. There's no excuse, really. They had less episodes to work with and therefore less material to look at as a whole and consider what works and what doesn't. They knew they had 12 episodes to work with and should have made it a lot tighter and more evenly paced. If there had have been 20+ episodes it wouldn't have felt so rushed but with the limited run you really feel when the pacing is off.
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ia, the last 5 minutes sucked everything else was great though, but at least it is not Mass Effect 3 bad when it comes to endings
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Saying its better than the end of ME3 isn't saying much though.
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season 2 ahoy!
(I was very sad that bolin and tarrlok were nowhere to be seen earlier today)
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She's lost a lot in all of this and she didn't get anything in return. I mean altruism is cool and shit but damn, give a sister a break.
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I really really wonder what season two's going to be about now..continuation of non benders vs. pro benders? Korra no longer has a problem with spirituality I guess because she's Godmodded now..which is disappointing, but I guess I have to live with it.
idk. I'm going to go back to Battlestar Galactica and pretend nothing ever happened
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Maybe this is due to me being overly morbid, but I honestly thought she was attempting suicide. Remember in her mind, she's just lost the one thing that defines her, her bending. Without it, she doesn't consider herself worthy of anything. It would have been interesting to explore that avenue...
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