Astral Dog
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Maybe its for the best, book 2 felt like it was the last season and, well...
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Legend of Korra Book 4: Balance |OT| A Feast of Crows
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Astral Dog
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Im guessing Korra can stop Kuvira and the cannon, but only with help from the spirits.
Fuck Korra, we have flying mecha's soon.
Admiral Woofington
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yeah the fact that Bolin didn't lavabend next to the cannon is silly. He could take out so many of the vehicles with lava bending and the writers seem like they know this. Similar to how lightning bending could kill many people easily
Who cares! He's out the doghouse, and that's all that matters to him because its TWUE WUV. Although if he destroyed the cannon, he'd probably gotten more than just a peck on the cheek.
what was that part about Kuvira wanting the spirits to join the fight anyway? I don't think that has ever been brought up before, and she can't spiritbend anyway. The spirits are just making up lame excuses
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So Wu isn't getting real redemption. He's just another buffoon and a good amount of screen time was wasted on him. He could be cut and nothing of value would be lost.
Kuvira is getting no substantial depth, and actually became nothing more than a Nazi caricature that spouts off Galactic Empire lines.
Asami will go down as the worst utilized character of all time. I mean, wow.
Kai is getting Judy Winslowed. Why again did he steal Jinora's entire lane and get dozens of minutes in screen time during Season 3?
Korra's arc is like watching a backflip fail in slow motion. It feels like it's barely been the Legend of Korra these last two seasons, and mostly all of the supporting characters are still under developed anyways.
The fight choreography is sick tho!
Kuvira is getting no substantial depth, and actually became nothing more than a Nazi caricature that spouts off Galactic Empire lines.
Asami will go down as the worst utilized character of all time. I mean, wow.
Kai is getting Judy Winslowed. Why again did he steal Jinora's entire lane and get dozens of minutes in screen time during Season 3?
Korra's arc is like watching a backflip fail in slow motion. It feels like it's barely been the Legend of Korra these last two seasons, and mostly all of the supporting characters are still under developed anyways.
The fight choreography is sick tho!
Admiral Woofington
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I forget who Kai is, besides the guy who stole Jinorah's thunder
vas_a_morir
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I remember the Queen saying that Republic City was carved out of Earth Kingdom territory, so, kinda like when Germany used lost ethnic territory as a premise to invade prosperous foreign lands, I think that's Kuvira's ploy.
I'm hoping that Prince Wu would get backed into a corner or mad or something and he would be the most insanely skilled/gifted earthbender. But I'm afraid the writers don't have the chops to pull off something that funny.
I'm hoping that Prince Wu would get backed into a corner or mad or something and he would be the most insanely skilled/gifted earthbender. But I'm afraid the writers don't have the chops to pull off something that funny.
I kind of lol'd at how Korra still fails at dialogue, though in her defense the spirits were kind of idiots this time around.
It's kind of funny. During the first and second season, that was when we needed a diplomatic Korra. Here, Kuvira is completely established as a 'bad guy'. Not even just by her actions and personality, but by everyone who knows her. And while she is talented, she is just an ordinary bender.
Finally, Korra has someone she is just supposed to punch into submission, and she off having her existential episode of all things.
It's kind of funny. During the first and second season, that was when we needed a diplomatic Korra. Here, Kuvira is completely established as a 'bad guy'. Not even just by her actions and personality, but by everyone who knows her. And while she is talented, she is just an ordinary bender.
Finally, Korra has someone she is just supposed to punch into submission, and she off having her existential episode of all things.
Supermanisdead
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Wow, look Kuvira is still one-dimensional trash! Don't worry Kuvira-GAF, next episode she will surely reveal her riveting and heart-wrenching origin story. She's not just a moustache-twirling hamfisted dictator villain in a poorly written kid's show. No, not at all!
Admiral Woofington
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honestly the kuvira fanbase must be trolling at this point.
Not the same. What germany did with Austria and the Sudetenland was annex them without actually attacking them. Both actually didn't have a real problem with that. When the Reich actually declared war on poland it was on the pretense that poland attacked them first. They didn't name past territory as official reason for war.
TacticalFox88
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Too many characters? No, that's not even close to the issue at all. It's just that they aren't used properly or what screen time they get isn't used meaningfully.
Because even when the focus IS on a few characters (like the last few episodes and certain episodes in Books 2 and 3), it's still pretty lopsided and handled sloppy.
Ok, you can get rid of 3 pointless characters.
1.Kai - Isn't relevant at all this season, he exists just for Jinorah and she isn't really a major character to begin with.
2.Desna/Eska - Bolin didn't need a wacky love interest, and her inclusion hasn't added anything meaningful to the show.
3.Actually, every airbender thats not airbender kids. - Robbed me of my Team Zaheer episode, so fuck'em.
1.Kai - Isn't relevant at all this season, he exists just for Jinorah and she isn't really a major character to begin with.
2.Desna/Eska - Bolin didn't need a wacky love interest, and her inclusion hasn't added anything meaningful to the show.
3.Actually, every airbender thats not airbender kids. - Robbed me of my Team Zaheer episode, so fuck'em.
TacticalFox88
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Kai had some good potential too. I was ready for him to be that wacky, but badass kid, that you either loved or hated.
I honestly could've easily seen him being the breakout character of the show.
But, nope.
*sigh*
I honestly could've easily seen him being the breakout character of the show.
But, nope.
*sigh*
JadedWriter
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Just like her motherfucking eye brows.
Kuvira is using spirits as a weapon with her spirit vine cannon. And if the point certain characters are making is "the spirit cannon is too powerful for anyone to use," combating it with an army of spirits is arguably similar: they have powerful (but not well-defined) magic-like stuff going on.
love your avatar.
You say all that sarcastically but that's pretty much what happened with Amon. We got his backstory last minute which essentailly changed everything about his character.
I could see Bataar jr. meekly limping back to Republic city, where he explains her tragic backstory that had him staying with her despite everything
A thought exercise I love doing is seeing what would happen if you told the exact same story, but switched the genders of one, some or all of the characters while keeping all of the important character traits.
It's fun hypothesizing what the reactions would be compared to the original plot.
It's fun hypothesizing what the reactions would be compared to the original plot.
Wow, I did not expect to see the Schwerer Gustav make an appearance. Awesome weapon.
Edit: Also, earth bending is awesome, don't care what people rank as "the most useful". Earth bending remains the king.
If not one of the most useless and impractical pieces of weaponry built during the war. Also is this supposed to drive a point home about Kuvira?
Edit: Also, earth bending is awesome, don't care what people rank as "the most useful". Earth bending remains the king.
JadedWriter
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Should've just made her like Dio. Go nuts on her villainy and keep her all the more entertaining for it. Attack Naga, kill Tonraq, nuke her village go nuts with it.
RatskyWatsky
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How are people liking S4 so far? If i remember correctly, people were meh on S1, hated S2, and loved S3?
mostly bored. All the promise coming off of season 3 wasn't well utilized.
Chezzymann
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I wonder if Korra will actually save the day this time instead of a side character bailing her out
Admiral Woofington
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S1- Started out with promise, introduced romantic drama, shitty ending, so over-all meh.
S2- What S2?
S3- Holy shit everything I had hoped this show would be
S4- ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
book 4 is so good, theres so much interesting st--
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oh
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expectations greatly lowered
Its a slower season, may have lingered too long on Korra's recovery. Some interesting character interactions, but its not as good as book 3 was.
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Xpike
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Cut Kai? I'm sure he hasn't been on an episode since the first of Book 4. He's been Asami'd
WrenchNinja
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Which brings up why did he exist to begin with? All of that screen time he had in season 3 could have gone to Jinora.
Admiral Woofington
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it's still worth a watch, just highly disappointing, pace slow as hell, and uninteresting villain. Individual episodes are ok, but as a whole season, and finale season at that, is highly disappointing.
So better than S2, worst than S3, probably around S1.
Great fight scenes this episode. But aside from that, not impressed. Pretty much no character development at all, outside of cranky pants Lin making peace with Toph. Which was weird because before this episode, I didn't realize that she hated Toph too. Guess she was nothing but a salt mine.
Still don't know Su's father and nothing but a generic name for Lin's. But whatever. They've dragged it out so much that I don't even care anymore.
And Prince Wu is an absolute waste. He showed some signs of development when he was reflecting on how he might just be a jerk who finally got what he deserved, but that seems to have been thrown out the window. Now he's just acting noble to get a date. Biggest screen hog waste since Kai last season.
...speaking of Kai, I guess he doesn't even exists anymore. Even more so than Asami. It sure was worth having hom take up the entire last season, huh?
I think I've reached the same point with this show that I reached with Naruto. Just in it for the fight scenes and ending. So much wasted potential has left me feeling completely indifferent with how things turn out.
Still don't know Su's father and nothing but a generic name for Lin's. But whatever. They've dragged it out so much that I don't even care anymore.
And Prince Wu is an absolute waste. He showed some signs of development when he was reflecting on how he might just be a jerk who finally got what he deserved, but that seems to have been thrown out the window. Now he's just acting noble to get a date. Biggest screen hog waste since Kai last season.
...speaking of Kai, I guess he doesn't even exists anymore. Even more so than Asami. It sure was worth having hom take up the entire last season, huh?
I think I've reached the same point with this show that I reached with Naruto. Just in it for the fight scenes and ending. So much wasted potential has left me feeling completely indifferent with how things turn out.
Miles Quaritch
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I'd still give it a shot. The latest season has been very disappointing, but I think seasons 1 through 3 are definitely worth watching and if you feel you need closure, give four a shot as well.
Very interested in the thought process the writers had this season. Especially coming off of last season when they did a great job shifting focus from airbender search-red lotus escape-beifong sister feud-earth Queen troubles and death-capture of airbender to final fight
The pacing is so sloppy this time around
The pacing is so sloppy this time around
JadedWriter
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Lin in all honesty seems like a pretty neglected kid so her being a massive salt mine to Toph actually makes a lot of sense. I get the sense that she just wanted Toph's approval or praise for something that she achieved, but just never got it. Also looks like that Lin has asked about her dad as a kid, but Toph just never went into it. It probably infuriated her that Toph even bothered to answer Bolin's random question about while she ignored Lin's questioning about it while growing up.
got replaced by Wu, another useless character
Cloud Strife
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Most of my shit is sorted, will start posting more frequently now.
My thoughts:
-Kuvira is shaping up to be Unalaq levels of horrible. Like seriously, she had a logical (barely) reason for uniting the Earth Kingdom and now she just wants to attack? Why? Hopefully we get a reason to prevent her from descending to shit-tier next episode. Her bending skills are incredible though, no doubt.
-Beifongs were great this episode, and depending on your view I think one of LoK's great strengths (and weaknesses) is its wide array of characters. When it works, we can have an episode without any Korra action whatsoever and it's still enjoyable. The downside obviously being when there isn't ENOUGH TIME NICK to properly give all of these characters their needed attention. Kya?
-Toph was good, I enjoyed seeing her interact with Lin more so then her actually doing fighting or anything else. Kanto huh? Whodafuq. Anyway, I find it annoying that they set her up to be this amazing badass but then, lolnope let's let the kids handle it. I mean, Korra will obviously win in the end but logically everything could be aboided if Toph just stretched her arms a little. Same with the Katara retcon for Season 2, there was really no need to mention that at all.
-Bending in this episode was ON POINT. Epic shit. That one scene where...ah hell, it was all good.
-Zhu Li...so disappointing. I feel like they wasted time on this entire subplot if she was actually foolish enough to keep the bloody thing on her. I mean, you might argue that it was a last second tamper, but still. As soon as Toph said "she's lying", everyone and their respective cell count said "ORLY".
-Bolin is so fucking annoying. Like he's actually so dumb, and the negatives to his character outweigh the positives.
-Where is Kai? Again, point 2.
-Hopefully we get a scene of Varrick and Asami working together.
-WuOrra? KorrWu? Eh, who cares.
-Spirits will eventually realize the one path of cooperation is the universe inside of them. They will fuse with Korra so she can pierce the heavens.
-Oh, and fuck you Nick for ruining the potential of one of my favourite shows. Seriously.
My thoughts:
-Kuvira is shaping up to be Unalaq levels of horrible. Like seriously, she had a logical (barely) reason for uniting the Earth Kingdom and now she just wants to attack? Why? Hopefully we get a reason to prevent her from descending to shit-tier next episode. Her bending skills are incredible though, no doubt.
-Beifongs were great this episode, and depending on your view I think one of LoK's great strengths (and weaknesses) is its wide array of characters. When it works, we can have an episode without any Korra action whatsoever and it's still enjoyable. The downside obviously being when there isn't ENOUGH TIME NICK to properly give all of these characters their needed attention. Kya?
-Toph was good, I enjoyed seeing her interact with Lin more so then her actually doing fighting or anything else. Kanto huh? Whodafuq. Anyway, I find it annoying that they set her up to be this amazing badass but then, lolnope let's let the kids handle it. I mean, Korra will obviously win in the end but logically everything could be aboided if Toph just stretched her arms a little. Same with the Katara retcon for Season 2, there was really no need to mention that at all.
-Bending in this episode was ON POINT. Epic shit. That one scene where...ah hell, it was all good.
-Zhu Li...so disappointing. I feel like they wasted time on this entire subplot if she was actually foolish enough to keep the bloody thing on her. I mean, you might argue that it was a last second tamper, but still. As soon as Toph said "she's lying", everyone and their respective cell count said "ORLY".
-Bolin is so fucking annoying. Like he's actually so dumb, and the negatives to his character outweigh the positives.
-Where is Kai? Again, point 2.
-Hopefully we get a scene of Varrick and Asami working together.
-WuOrra? KorrWu? Eh, who cares.
-Spirits will eventually realize the one path of cooperation is the universe inside of them. They will fuse with Korra so she can pierce the heavens.
-Oh, and fuck you Nick for ruining the potential of one of my favourite shows. Seriously.
Cloud Strife
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The only thing she's going to own, is a nice comfortable jail cell composed of some fine lumber.
TacticalFox88
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You're starting to remind me of console warriors who say "Wait till X game! It'll save the Y console!"
I couldn't agree more with this. At least in the case of Amon, Korra needed to deal with it diplomatically and just rip right through Kuvira first chance she got. I'm sure she would have ripped through Zaheer earlier but we have to remember she never got a chance up until the very end.
also agree on point with everything cloud said. Honestly they should have just swapped B3 with B4 and change it a little so the rise of Kuvira would give Zaheer a more legitimate backstory and whatnot plus Kuvira could have the Airbender army plot.
B3 was so on fucking point. At least the final fight will be pretty.
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