Mike and Bryan were worried that fans wouldn’t react emotionally when Korra lost her connection to her past lives, since she never used her connection to her past lives that much in the first place. The co-creators were happy to learn that fans did get emotional. They were also happy to learn that many fans hated them for it.
I think that's because the fans remembered that the avatar state is just her channeling all her past lives at once. Without the past lives, there is no such thing as the Avatar State and Korra is severely dis-empowered, which has a lot of relevance on whats going on.
From the wording of what they said though, it seems they think she just lost the ability to talk to her past selves. I hope I'm wrong on this, because they can't have seriously gotten that fundamental an aspect of their own series wrong.
Mike admits that some parts of the finale didn’t make sense from a physical perspective, but they made sense from a spiritual perspective – which is all the more confusing.
Lets face it, it didn't make sense on any level.
Bryan admits that the final battle between Korra and UnaVatu was not supposed to make sense. It’s supposed to be symbolic and fun on an emotional level. The battle is symbolic in that it’s a reference to the light battle between Aang and Ozai and the duel between Zuko and Azula.
Uh...what?
The spirituality of Aang's and Ozai's fight was the struggle between, literally, war and peace and the resolve for either. Aang was getting his ass kicked as long as he was not fully resolved to one way or the other. He didn't want to kill Ozai, but thought he had to. Ozai's resolve was solid, completely believing in his full and absolute power and ownership of the world he lives in. When Aang's avatar state got activated, and the surge of his past lives went through him, all the avatars became resolute in ending the matter once and for all....all except Avatar Aang, who could not abide by a decision to take a human life. He went out of the avatar state, and took a stance on a more peaceful route, which allowed him, unaided by the other Avatars to over power Ozai with his own will.
With Zuko and Azula, the symbolism was one of love. Zuko's insecurity, his despair, his entire motivation came from the idea that his father did not love him, and Azula's was that her mother did not love her. But from beginning to end, their roles reversed. Where Zuko learned to appreciate his Uncle's compassion and the forgiveness of the Toph, Sokka, Aang, and Katara, he realized he might never have his father's love, but he did have the love of his new family. Azula started off with the certainty that she had her father, her two mentors, Ty Lee, and Mai, and her servants. She says she didn't believe they cared for her, but this is a lie she told herself. She believed her father loved her. He didn't. That Mai and Ty Lee wouldn't betray her for anything. They did. Her paranoia of loss was so rampant that she pushed away her mentors and the Dai Li lest they abandon her too. When Zuko and Azula fought, she lost because she was alone, while Zuko had both the teachings of his Uncle and the Avatar (via the Sun Warriors) as well as the back up of his friends like Katara, who hated him more than any other member of the Gaang. Even though Azula defeated him physically, she still lost because he had people who loved him and she didn't.
How in the hell does Korra vs UnaVatu relate to ANY of that?
Bryan explains that he has no idea what Jinora did during the Book 2 finale; he left it up to fans to create theories of their own. Bryan’s theory is that Jinora harnessed energy she found in the Spirit World and used it to re-energize or trigger the last sliver of Raava, which allowed her to reveal herself.
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Mike and Bryan tried to make the break up between Mako and Korra as obvious as possible, suggesting that the relationship is officially over. Their exact words were: “Definitive, but very clear break up. Put a button on this one. Put a nail in it.” Mike, Bryan and the writers involved in the commentary truly did their best to stress that Makorra is over.
THEN WHY ARE THEY STILL HANGING OUT?!