Korra. First impressions
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avreliaI finally finished Avatar. The Legend of Korra.
1) The hardest thing was to prepare myself that it’s its own thing, not just a continuation of The Last Airbender, and not get disappointed. So I was mostly spoiled a lot.
2) I loved a lot, and I disliked some, and I regretted some choices made by the creators.
3) Overall – I love it.
4) The characters were pretty awesome, though I wouldn’t mind more more Asami being silly and more Bolin being not silly. To balance things a bit.
5) Mako is fine. I didn’t even mind the hated love triangle, not because it was any good, but because it was believably awful and shown as such. I mean, two amazing girls fell at the same time onto this guy without any social graces, of course he behaved like an idiot. He got better, and he definitely grew into his own. Not sure I ship him with anyone, though.
6) And the girls moved on in the best possible way – by becoming best friends and then realizing that they are more than just friends.
7) I love Korra very, very much.
8) My favorite character turned out to be Lin Beifong. She is 50 (at he beginning), she is awesome, she pushed all the right buttons, and she has and amazing character arc throughout the series. To making, restoring and strengthening connections with family and friends. In season 1 she loses her job and her bending and it doesn’t stop her for a moment. She reestablishes her friendship with Tenzin and his family, she picks Avatar team kids as charges that eventually also become part of her made family, then she patches things up with her sister and finally finds her mother and gets some peace and understanding.
I don’t really ship her with anyone. Well, maybe with joy – from work well done, world saved, accepting that she is a part of big crazy family.
9) Aang and Katara’s family is wonderful. I loved the sibling relationships between Bumi, Kya and Tenzin very much. Yes, they all have different issues with their parents, some resentments and regrets, but who doesn’t, at their age? Aang and Katara were not perfect parents, but nothing suggests they were bad.
10) Beifongs are crazy and awesome and everything that we could expect. Toph has pretty believable character progression.
11) I understand the reasons why we had almost nothing from the Fire Nation characters – the plot didn’t require them at all. But still, I am sorry we didn’t get more information. And General Iroh II – I kind of wish we got less of him, because while he was there, he seemed absolutely useless to the plot and wasn’t that interesting of character. Pretty, brave, kind of dumb. Reminding myself that he is closer to my age was difficult, because nothing in his behavior helped to remind of it.
12) I do want to know more about Suki, but I want to know more about most of the characters, old and new. Even the ones at the front have many more stories to tell.
1) The hardest thing was to prepare myself that it’s its own thing, not just a continuation of The Last Airbender, and not get disappointed. So I was mostly spoiled a lot.
2) I loved a lot, and I disliked some, and I regretted some choices made by the creators.
3) Overall – I love it.
4) The characters were pretty awesome, though I wouldn’t mind more more Asami being silly and more Bolin being not silly. To balance things a bit.
5) Mako is fine. I didn’t even mind the hated love triangle, not because it was any good, but because it was believably awful and shown as such. I mean, two amazing girls fell at the same time onto this guy without any social graces, of course he behaved like an idiot. He got better, and he definitely grew into his own. Not sure I ship him with anyone, though.
6) And the girls moved on in the best possible way – by becoming best friends and then realizing that they are more than just friends.
7) I love Korra very, very much.
8) My favorite character turned out to be Lin Beifong. She is 50 (at he beginning), she is awesome, she pushed all the right buttons, and she has and amazing character arc throughout the series. To making, restoring and strengthening connections with family and friends. In season 1 she loses her job and her bending and it doesn’t stop her for a moment. She reestablishes her friendship with Tenzin and his family, she picks Avatar team kids as charges that eventually also become part of her made family, then she patches things up with her sister and finally finds her mother and gets some peace and understanding.
I don’t really ship her with anyone. Well, maybe with joy – from work well done, world saved, accepting that she is a part of big crazy family.
9) Aang and Katara’s family is wonderful. I loved the sibling relationships between Bumi, Kya and Tenzin very much. Yes, they all have different issues with their parents, some resentments and regrets, but who doesn’t, at their age? Aang and Katara were not perfect parents, but nothing suggests they were bad.
10) Beifongs are crazy and awesome and everything that we could expect. Toph has pretty believable character progression.
11) I understand the reasons why we had almost nothing from the Fire Nation characters – the plot didn’t require them at all. But still, I am sorry we didn’t get more information. And General Iroh II – I kind of wish we got less of him, because while he was there, he seemed absolutely useless to the plot and wasn’t that interesting of character. Pretty, brave, kind of dumb. Reminding myself that he is closer to my age was difficult, because nothing in his behavior helped to remind of it.
12) I do want to know more about Suki, but I want to know more about most of the characters, old and new. Even the ones at the front have many more stories to tell.
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Date: 2019-04-12 11:59 pm (UTC)Overall I liked it, although it never managed to capture my heart the way Avatar did.
The first season disappointed me, because I thought that examining the experience of inequality in a society where a very significant minority of the population have superpowers (which are somewhat heritable but not entirely -- we certainly see benders with non-bender parents, and vice versa) would be really interesting. But when it turned out that Amon was misleading everyone about his identity and motivations, that whole thing got dropped. (Although Asami using technology to keep up with the benders did continue the theme in a way.)
I found it really interesting to see how the world had progressed in 70 years; I found the world-building complex and believable. (Industrial revolution plus magic! Fascinating.) I loved meeting the middle-aged adult offspring of my beloved Avatar characters.
I guess I never quite fell in love with any of the leads the way I did with the entire original Avatar gang. I can't put my finger on why; Bolin has a personality designed to annoy me, but the rest of them are fine. Korra and Asami, in particular, embody all sorts of things that have made me fall in love with characters in the past, and yet I find that I love them more in theory than in practice.
My favorite character turned out to be Lin Beifong.
Oh my gosh yes, everything you said about her!
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Date: 2019-04-14 02:44 am (UTC)There is actually a new ATLA comic that sets up a bender/nonbender conflict - with only first part out, it's promising, but we'll see.
in the second one there is so much random stuff, some of it brilliant, some just meh? to have a short civil war with no ramification whatsoever? ok then.
I loved the beginning of the 20th century esthetics and technology very much, and it was cool how bending techniques progressed in 70 years. .