So yeah.
That was a final episode. I guess it makes the most sense to do bullet points.
* Kuvira plot was 100% pointless. As a conflict, it was just really silly. She's stomping around the city, with no real goal in sight. The conflict itself just kind of found aimless and had no tension or weight to it. Also Kuvira's end plot was really rushed and awful. She basically went from being a raging psychopath that just wanted power, to someone with mother issues. It didn't really ring true, and didn't jive with the "I always get what I want" Kuvira. She is officially worse than Amon, no doubt.
* Overall plot for the end, just felt like...nothing. Really, there was no build up. Even on Korra's side of things, I never really got like, a powerful emotional plot. Her whole "I had to suffer to know compassion"...again felt tacked on. I didn't really see that plot develop all season to have it make sense here.
* The fights themselves were kind of lackluster. We didn't get any stellar choreography like Tenzin vs Zaheer, or Book 3's finale. Some of the set pieces were cool, but the actual fighting itself wasn't anything special. Again, it's because the entire conflict really had no tension or purpose. So the entire thing just felt without purpose. Even the fight between Kuvira and Korra just felt like two regular benders going at each other.
* No mythology plot here. Korra didn't get any connection to her past lives. There was like no call back to the overall mythology. They just created a new spirit portal, which okay. Is kind of cool. But uh...sort of feels pointless? (Like in terms of the story).
* Korrasami is canon? I guess? Trey made a good point that, Bryke had their hands tied, in terms of the stigma and pushback of gay romances in Kids shows. And if the intention was for Korra and Asami to be romantic, they pretty much danced around it as much as possible. The ending felt very much like close friends, until the part where they hold hands and look at eachother's eyes. I feel mixed on this. On the one hand, I understand they couldn't do more. But it also kind of made the whole thing, feel kind of like a cop out? Like...that they had to completely dance around it. Like in the actual end, they couldn't even just have them have that romantic plot.
* I think the overall use of side characters (just in terms of action) was kind of cool.
* The part where the Spirit Portal opens, and the music swells, was trying to be like Aang and Ozai moment. But it completely lacked any emotional importance, so it kind of felt tacked on.
* Varrick and Zuh Li's marriage was
DO THE THING.
SO YEAH...I didn't hate the Finale like Book 2. It just felt very vanilla, and not important. Was a really strange way to end this show. It basically had nothing to say about the series as a whole. The season really felt rushed and clumsy, and didn't feel like it had anything to say either. I'm not sure why we had this season at all. But I think the aimless and no plot ending pretty much summed up why the season shouldn't have existed.
Would prob give this a 6/10.
Wasn't awful. Was fun to watch. But really lacking any plot or anything important. Character pay off was especially lacking. But the worst offender, was just the plot and the overall ending having a non plot.
