JadedWriter
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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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In what way? he was already evil, he blamed his brother, and was part of the red lotus.
Unalaq was the one that controlled Vaatu, not the other way around.
Atraveller
Banned
He's bad, he's a Red Lotus anarchist, but dominating the world with pure evil power sounded like Vaatu brainwashed him.
Admiral Woofington
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I'm sad that the Napoleon Dynamite airbender didn't get the power of flight.
JadedWriter
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Maybe he'll get the power to summon ligers.
Updated descriptions for the remaining episodes. Big Spoilers!!!
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Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
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Episode 11
Kuviras Gambit
Korra and Team Avatar try to stop Kuvira from moving against Republic City; Kuvira unveils a deadly new weapon.
Korra and Team Avatar try to stop Kuvira from moving against Republic City; Kuvira unveils a deadly new weapon.
Episode 12
Day of the Colossus
Team Avatar clashes with Kuvira on the streets of Republic City; Pema and Prince Wu help evacuate innocent citizens.
Team Avatar clashes with Kuvira on the streets of Republic City; Pema and Prince Wu help evacuate innocent citizens.
Episode 13
The Last Stand
When Korra comes face to face with Kuvira, the fate of the Earth Kingdom and the Avatar's life are at stake.
When Korra comes face to face with Kuvira, the fate of the Earth Kingdom and the Avatar's life are at stake.
Hmm secret new weapon huh.
Admiral Woofington
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Ugh. Fucking quote me on this based on Episode 12
Some peasant is going to thank Prince Wu and he'll be all "I understand everything now because one person thanked me and told me I'm a good man therefore I'll be a good leader
shira
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Looking at this picture of Korra reminds me so much of how different she was back then.... It's so weird. Almost a bit unsettling.... 2fierce4me
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JadedWriter
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Maybe Kuvira will unveil her own personal Star Destroyer.
JadedWriter
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I would love it and hate it at the same time. Next thing we know we'll find out that Korra is infused with life fibers and that Kuvira was a failed experiment.Korra, I am your sister!
Ok, I can already tell this is going to be predictable, so it's going to have to rely on it's execution by using its well developed characters and....pffffft I can't. The fact that the last episode already implies a smaller scale than previous books means that there's less reason to be involved. It just won't have the same oomph.
Astral Dog
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What could that weapon possibly be other than the spirit tank?
There is no foreshadowing of anything more, unless it was like a flying tank.
There is no foreshadowing of anything more, unless it was like a flying tank.
JadedWriter
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Avengers helicarrier running off of spirit vines.
I've been on the sort-of opposite side of that conversation. I'm not an either "best show ever!" or "worst show ever" type to post of Facebook, but there's this friend I have who's really intense about her disapproval of LoK, repeating things she learns on forums, I can tell. And I'm like, "chill..."
She watches it, but I ignore the subject around her now. Don't care that she's one of the few fans of the Avatar series among my friends. She's pretty intense around other subjects also. I still have plenty of friends of Facebook who like/love the show, but I don't want to bring her out in the comments :S
JadedWriter
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Yeah. As much as I complain I still like the show, it will be missed.
Yeah some people just can't handle criticism of their favorite show without going to war over it.
m_shortpants
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With regards to the last episodes
I predict Wu will let the Earth Kingdom have democracy and go around the world helping people or something. If they actually put him back in power, I don't know what they will do...
Icyflamez96
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I wish Wu actually had development.
Nope still only one episode this week.
Episode 11 this Friday and then episodes 12 & 13 are shown as a two part finale on 19th December next week.
Man this season feels like filler.
SilentMatthew
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Again, Wu is still totally gonna be King in the end. The only way I can get any satisfaction is that they somehow imply that he' and his ilk will suffer the same fate as the Bourbons. The closer to the fate of Louis XVI for Wu, the better. None of that silly exile business, straight up beheading up in this bish.
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Xpike
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I don't get what lesson they're trying to push with the Wu thing, that it's better to have an incompetent king because he inherited the throne? The Earth Kingdom is better off not being a Kingdom and everyone can see.
m_shortpants
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I would hope they'd just have him come to realization he doesn't want to be king...but Bryke are testing my faith.
shira
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thanks
I think I'll wait for the 19th and just down all 3 in a row and hope for ze best.
Admiral Woofington
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*acts like a douche his whole life*
*gets put in new situation*
"Oh my god you guys, I gotta be like a good king."
The end.
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Xpike
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See but that's the thing, we haven't seen any growth in his character. Last episode he was still trying to hook up with Korra and being a comic relief.
Atraveller
Banned
I still can't believe the series is going to end like this.
If it's the final words of a peasant dying in Wu's arms, it just might work. o:
I don't think Wu is even a bad person per say. Just young and somewhat immature. I mean he hasn't actively tried to fuck anyone over. When compared to the Republic City President who only purpose in the story is complain and tell people no while trying to use the Earth Kingdom to further his own country Wu doesn't seem that bad.
Icyflamez96
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Yeah I never agreed with people labeling him as a douchebag
Yeah, but so what? The show has never been terribly bothered about endorsing authority figures who are bad in a variety of ways, so long as they basically have their hearts in the right place re: governing. Bumi was super-irritating to work with, and at one point his people felt like he'd totally abandoned them to the Fire Nation. Earth King what's-his-name was basically useless in every way, but it was a happy ending when the usurper Long Feng was overthrown. Yue's dad never took any criticism for leading a pretty sexist tribe, and he set up an unwanted arranged marriage for his daughter. Desna and Eska are now the chiefs of the Northern Water Tribe (or something like this) after mostly helping to try to bring about 1000 years of darkness. It was even a bad thing when Zaheer took out the tyrannical Earth Queen.
Zuko's maybe the one king we've seen who was probably all around decent.
Wu already said that his plan was basically just to let his advisers govern, and they're from people who the show clearly holds up as on top of things, like Tenzin.
SilentMatthew
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Hmm... it is curious how the monarchs/royalty in the Avatar-verse are usually depicted as good or "innocent". The Earth Queen being the exception due to being just a bad person that got her comeuppance and the preventable consequences presented as failure for Zaheer.
Whereas "modern" people, are depicted as evil, anatoganists, or incompetent. Amon with ideas of equality, Zaheer's trimmed down anarchy, President Raiko being a product of democratic process, and Kuvira's idea of modernized totalitarian state much aligned with post-Second industrial revolution Chinese Manisfo. Weird, eh?
Edit: Arguably Su, a utopian circa early-mid 19th century social experiments, was incompetent on how she dealt with Kuvira and the Earth Kingdom situation.
I didn't say they were doing it well. I put 'grow' in quotes for a reason.
I don't think she's an exception at all. The show was pretty clear that Zaheer is the worse option between the two, if anything. And the fact that Wu is even still being treated as the heir is a clear endorsement that she had the right to rule, even if she wasn't a good ruler.
SilentMatthew
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When I think about it... yeah... the royalist/conservative option being the better choice over the show's representation of modern ideas still holds true in that case. Avatar gotta keep dat status quo, gotta keep the plebs/proletariat/non-benders in their place.
Edit: Ya know, it'll be an interesting idea for an Avatar-verse show have the Avatar as the antagonist to well-meaning revolutionists. Pretty much a inverse of Legend of Korra.
m_shortpants
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Yeah, I've had that idea in the past too.
They could say Vaatu grew inside the avatar and they became a tyrant, like Injustice Superman.
Then the show revolves around a small team working against that Avatar. Would be a good way to do a show without having an inherently OP character as the protagonist.
The final two episodes will apparently run at least 3 minutes longer.
Admiral Woofington
Member
6 whole minutes?
Nice hoping for some extended fight scenes maybe. Here's hoping the last episode also gets an extended run time.
ResidentSleeper
Atraveller
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Game changer!
Plenty of time to reintroduce Makorra.
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