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Legend of Korra Book 4: Balance |OT| A Feast of Crows

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I've been rocking the hell out of this lately. Nobody at HBCU know it's Korra, but at the mixed one a few did.
 
Bold One said:
so is the season over? I am still on ep 4 and you guys are talking like its over
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Nah still got five episodes to go. It's just a tad slow due to the clip show episode not really giving us much to talk about. Plus this is actually pretty good for Korragaf as it tends to get quite lewd in the downtime between episodes.

Admiral Woofington said:
Tale as old as time
True as it can be
Boss and assistant
Then somebody bends
Unexpectedlyyyyyyyyyyyy~

Just a little change
Small, to say the least
Both a little scared
Then she does the thing
Varric and Zhu Liiiiiiiii~
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Hamlet said:
Nah still got five episodes to go. It's just a tad slow due to the clip show episode not really giving us much to talk about. Plus this is actually pretty good for Korragaf as it tends to get quite lewd in the downtime between episodes.
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And here I thought the series' most evident problem was the lack of time to flesh out their characters like ATLA had with the 20+ ep season model, but apparently these guys have plenty to be doing clip shows.

'Lewd'? bleh, bloddy shippers....
 
Bold One said:
And here I thought the series' most evident problem was the lack of time to flesh out their characters like ATLA had with the 20+ ep season model, but apparently these guys have plenty to be doing clip shows.

'Lewd'? bleh, bloddy shippers....
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Actually their funding got cut and a clip show was their only solution outside firing crew.
 
Bold One said:
And here I thought the series' most evident problem was the lack of time to flesh out their characters like ATLA had with the 20+ ep season model, but apparently these guys have plenty to be doing clip shows.

'Lewd'? bleh, bloddy shippers....
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Well actually Nick pretty much forced them to do a clip show. So it was either fire a bunch of workers early or do a clip show. Still no denying that it has been pretty slow plot wise recently even if the episodes themselves are still pretty good but it should hopefully amp up on it's way to the series finale.

We got the news from the higher-ups that our Book 4 budget was getting slashed, almost to the tune of an entire episode’s budget. We had two options: 1) let go a significant number of crew members several weeks early, or 2) make a clips episode. We never considered the first option. We weren’t going to do that to our crew, and even if we were callous enough to do so, we never would have been able to finish the season without them.
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Bryan Konietzko
 
A-V-B said:
Actually their funding got cut and a clip show was their only solution outside firing crew.
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Hamlet said:
Well actually Nick pretty much forced them to do a clip show. So it was either fire a bunch of workers early or do a clip show. Still no denying that it has been pretty slow plot wise recently even if the episodes themselves are still pretty good but it should hopefully amp up on it's way to the series finale.


Bryan Konietzko
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OK, that sucks, especially in your final season...

Dick move, Nick
 
I'm not caught up so I haven't been reading the thread, but last night my wife tells me it's coming back to tv.

http://www.nerdist.com/2014/11/the-legend-of-korra-will-return-to-tv-for-final-episodes/

According to an announcement made by the Legend of Korra Facebook page, the series will be returning to television for its final season on the Nickelodeon-owned cable network, Nicktoons, this Friday at 9pm. In addition, new episodes will reportedly remain premiering on Nick.com throughout December.
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cereal_killerxx said:
AND THEN SUDDENLY KORRA WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING AND WAS A LESBIAN. Makes sense.
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Korra realized that beside every great avatar was a good woman. Roku had that one forgettable shorty, Aang had Katara, Kuruk became even more useless after he lost his girl.

True love finds a way.
 
Veelk said:
I really like this piece of fan art in particular because it shows something the writers could potentially get at that they just haven't gotten at before. The fact that the protagonist is pretty much the most powerful being on the face of the planet.

I mean, we all know Korra's AS has been dwarfed in power in comparison to the shit that Kyoshi, Roku and Aang pulled. These people shaped the world. Like, literally, Kyoshi moved a fucking landmass at will, Roku fought back a volcano, and Aang had the sea level rise about 20 feet with a wave of his hand. Korra, even though her avatar state is less impressive, has still been portrayed as extremely powerful in the face of it.

So you can try to imagine the villain's perspective for a moment. The original series kinda got away with it because Zuko knew he was on a snipe hunt and had no realistic chance of capturing the avatar, if he ever found him. He, and the rest of the villains, once they saw Aang was still untrained and unable to access the avatar state at will, felt much better about their chances. But even Ozai, the most powerful firebender in the world at the absolute height of his power, was a plaything in Aang's hands those eyes started glowing. Otherwise, it's pretty easy to look down at a 10 year old kid and not think he's a threat to you.

But Korra is a bit of a different story. Amon, as complete as his power over the human body is, I suppose would have good reason to think he can take on the avatar, as the avatar is literally the only person on the planet who could have stopped his father. God, bloodbending is OP. Anyway, I can see why Amon would think that if anyone can take on the most powerful human on the planet, it'd be him (and really, he's still right. We never were given a good reason why Korra broke out of that hold he had her in...). But Unalaq never thinks like "Oh shit. Oh my god. The fucking avatar is coming and she's gonna rek my shit." Neither do Desna and Esna, as far as I remember. They do not bat an eye at taking on their superpowered cousin. Zaheer has the stoic thing going for him and he and his crew are badass, but none of them even show a moment of nervousness as they begin their assault on a fully mastered avatar. Even when Zaheer is fighting Korra in the AS, he doesn't really show the kind of fear even Ozai showed. Again, stoic, but given they let that crack during the sock in mouth moment, a hint of his fear wouldn't have killed the writers to include.

And now Kuvira. She's badass, but still the least capable villain of them all. Amon had complete control of human bodies and the equalists thought they were being led by a spirit that gave them divine cause, Unalaq knew he was going to be empowered by a spirit equal to that of the avatar's, and Zaheer was a fanatic to the point that I could believe the sheer enormity of the task he's undertaken is something he's just accepted. I don't think those things entirely justify how completely undisturbed they and people who follow them are, but it gives some kind of basis for it. Kuvira, on the other hand, is just a really good earthbender with a unique style. Perhaps her unique power is that she has a whole army under her control, but given that she is willing to go and fight Korra 1 on 1, she kind of relinquishes that advantage. And it's not like the writers seem unaware of this. Once Korra got off her ass and went into AS, one gust of wind knocked her the fuck down.

It's just so weird how unafraid she acts. The only explanation I can think of is that they're making her a sociopath (which I suppose would fit what we've seen so far. Manipulative and a liar, power hungry, takes pleasure in domination, etc...), but other than that motivation wearing thin with its repetition in the series, I don't know if it'd fit given her past relationship with Su. They keep talking about how she was a stand up girl until much later on. I feel that Suyin would have said something if she had these elements in her from childhood. So I think (or atleast hope) this is going to end up in a more of a 'power corrupts' kind of framework for Kuvira.

But that doesn't explain the extreme lack of fear here. Which I think is a completely missed opportunity for her character. It would have been awesome to see her in her tent, mentally prepping herself to take on the most powerful person on the face of the earth. It'd show a genuinely admirable side of her. Whether she's Hitler or not, you'd have to admit that she has balls to go up to the motherfucking avatar and offer to throw down 1 on 1 to protect your army, knowing the kind of power she wields. Just on a human level, that shows a great level of bravery to be able to face an unstoppable force without a hax bending power, an evil spirit, or even the insanity of zealotry to hide behind. Fearlessness is amusing, but courage is genuinely impressive. And like this fan art shows, the aftermath of Kuvira recovering from Korra when she used even the smallest fraction of her AS abilities would do a lot in humanizing her, to see how determined she is.

I feel like more than any other villain, Kuvira is someone who could have fit in the TLA world more than any other villain thus far. Amon's complexity (or his 'potential' as everyone keeps talking about) lies with his political campaign rather than his character. TLA made some interesting political commentary, but mostly as a whole rather than in any one character like Amon. One of the reasons pre-reveal Amon worked to intrigue us as much as he did was because he represented that a different kind of world than what we had in TLA, but he wouldn't have fit in TLA itself for that reason. Zaheer was more in like with TLA villains, but his singlemindedness reminded me more of periphery characters like Zhao or Combustion man or Hama than any of the major characters. They had a big presence and said interesting things, but were not the arc focus at any point. Unalaq was like Melon Lord, pure evil but otherwise not noteworthy. But Kuvira, or her potential, lies more in being an ordinary person who has to face an impossible task. When I think of Kuvira, if she were better written, I think she could have been easily like Zuko, a human, sympathetic antagonist that Korra still has to go up against because she's being a jerk. But we're really missing those humanizing moments that Zuko had for it to work like that, unfortunately, so instead she's just Hitler.
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'She's the goddamn avatar for gods sake!' is a line that gets exclaimed quite a lot whenever we're watching Korra. It's amazingly frustrating seeing the sheer lack of awe / fear and disrespect nearly everyone has for Korra. On your knees you sons of bitches!
 
Romance can be fine in a series if it's Vanilla, two characters fall in love throughout the course of the story without a love triangle. Nothing bad, basic, but there isn't anything wrong with it persay.

A easy solution is just have the love interest outside of the main group so their inclusion doesn't hamper anything. Most shonens do this with random girl as love interest that doesn't do much while the group does something. It doesn't break the flow, and it works fine/
 
Lord Panda said:
'She's the goddamn avatar for gods sake!' is a line that gets exclaimed quite a lot whenever we're watching Korra. It's amazingly frustrating seeing the sheer lack of awe / fear and disrespect nearly everyone has for Korra. On your knees you sons of bitches!
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Korra's time as Avatar summed up in one line of dialogue - "The Avatar? We still have one of those?"
 
Lord Panda said:
'She's the goddamn avatar for gods sake!' is a line that gets exclaimed quite a lot whenever we're watching Korra. It's amazingly frustrating seeing the sheer lack of awe / fear and disrespect nearly everyone has for Korra. On your knees you sons of bitches!
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Out of show, I kind of lost a little respect for the Avatar concept too. As much as I enjoyed the Wan episodes, turning the Avatar into some dude who just became it by accident sort of killed the appeal. I liked the Avatar being a deity, or well a spirit, come down from on high who chose to incarnate as a human.
 
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