Legend of Korra Book 4: Balance |OT| A Feast of Crows
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googleplex
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Again this isn't true at all and just dismissing the complaints at how that last scene was handle to "scared of the gays" Is both insulting and lazy on you're part.
Admiral Woofington
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lol god dammit. If this is what I'm going to be reduced to for disliking the writing then this is my cue out. It was fun while the show lasted guys. I'll go to the community thread once this has passed by, don't wanna be called a homophobe for having a critical opinion. Have fun, Merry Christmas and happy new years.
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i would fwiw
I hate the trope that the main character has to end with someone, it's fucking awful. trivializes relationships and demeans the hero's partner to the 'prize' the hero gets for winning the situation. people's lives do not revolve 100% around romance and it is perfectly acceptable to be with someone who does something impressive and still not want to be in relationship with them. i fucking LOVED the fact that toph didn't end up with sokka just because they were two spare characters that needed pairing and by shipping logic they therefore must make babies. no, instead toph grows up, becomes an adult, finds out who she is, and has relationships with other people, like a fucking normal person
Kind of like claiming "it is fact that the creators never for one second thought of it as a romance and only put it in at the very last second for PANDERING!", huh?
jediyoshi
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Speaking of lazy dismissals.
I'm not saying it should always happen, but when the lead is a man, it almost always happens (unless he's Asian, see Romeo Must Die) so it wouldn't be surprising at all.
Maybe we'll get a next gen port!
I'm totally okay with settling for DMC4 and Vergil da god though
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i'd still complain because ti would still be a shittily written romance. a less surpising shittily written romance, but still shittily written none the less.
WrenchNinja
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why was this season called balance
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because in the finale kuvira's robot loses her balance and thus kuvira begins to lose the fight
symbolic innit
CreeperBlocks
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Korra needed the balance to become Bi
They were trying to balance their budget and characters
People aren't claiming it was a badly written romance, they're claiming it wasn't a written romance, period. That's the issue. You can have your problems with quality of the romance but people are denying its existence.
Ill go with you, gotta love how all the people criticizing characters and writting are now eating this up, no questions asked.
To me, they're best friends, not because I'm a bigot, but because the series failed to develop anything more than that.
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i mean
i don't think the developers intended korrasami to be a thing until maybe, at best, the start of s4. even if they did intend for it to exist earlier, they communicated it incredibly poorly to the viewer. even in s4, it was communicated pretty badly and I can genuinely not blame someone for failing to detect whether it existed prior to the ending.
Given season 3 made a clear and conscious effort to bring the two characters closer together, seemingly at random, I think you can assume they had this endgame in mind for at least two seasons.
Kai Dracon
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Legend of Korra [OT2] I'm sorry Korra, you can't bend that way.
I remember watching this when it had sub 10 000 views. Ah, memories~
Mako and Bolin at the end always get me.
Have you even read the Korra OTs from throughout this show's run? Most people wanted the finale to ignore relationships altogether. But there was a ton of criticism of various het relationships throughout the show.
googleplex
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That's Reed Richards level stretching.
Why?
They were written to start getting closer in season 3, culminating in a romance at the end of season 4. It is hardly any sort of stretch to consider them getting closer in season 3 to be the start of the relationship's developmental.
Build up? What was the build up of their relationship over 4 seasons?
Taught Korra how to drive
Korra stole Mako from Asami
Korra wrote one letter to Asami during her absence
Korra blushed when finally meeting up for lunch
Rest of season 4 happens
Sorry about your dad dying because I'm a shit Avatar
Let's go the spirit world together.
Everything about Legend of Korra was pandering to its audience, not just this, and that's why I have a problem with the show overall.
CreeperBlocks
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Oh jeez.. Maybe we should make a community thread.
Cloud Strife
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Avatar The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra Discussion|OT|Ship, Set Sail for Canon Island
I just PM'd Azula to talk about this. We could get a makeshift community thread up and running, or get a Book 4 OT2 on a roll. Seems a bit strange to make a Korra Book 4 OT2 when the season has finished, though.
I dunno. We'll work something out before the thread hits the limit.
Avatar Universe Community |OT| Canons Won't Sink This Ship
"You're the avatar, Korra"
"I don't want to be the avatar Tenzin"
"You're gonna be the fucking avatar. You'll get a fucking bison, you'll fight bad guys, and you'll fucking like it"
Kai Dracon
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It does strike me that Mako, presented as the hunky action boy and prime romantic interest of the first season, ends up not being paired with anyone or given even a hint of a romantic future in the end.
Bolin and Opal are left indeterminate, it's clear they still care about each other, but not defined if it will go anywhere beyond friendship or not.
Varrick and Zhu-li actually fall into a bit of a trope; the wiseguy and his long-suffering girl friday, who of course harbors feelings for him which is the only reason she puts up with him. However, to me they ended up being the most well-written somehow. Perhaps because they had a clear arc, that played out cleanly. They were very good at doing the thing.
Bolin and Opal are left indeterminate, it's clear they still care about each other, but not defined if it will go anywhere beyond friendship or not.
Varrick and Zhu-li actually fall into a bit of a trope; the wiseguy and his long-suffering girl friday, who of course harbors feelings for him which is the only reason she puts up with him. However, to me they ended up being the most well-written somehow. Perhaps because they had a clear arc, that played out cleanly. They were very good at doing the thing.
Pretty good finale, the ending was sweet but unfortunately ambiguous enough to leave open arguments that will probably go on for a long time. i'm upset there are still unanswered questions. What was up with Zuko's mom? Where the heck/what happened to Azula? Did Momo become emperor?
Avatar Universe Community |OT| This Ship sailed across the Sea of Doubt, and landed safely in Canon Harbour.
They addressed all of those in the post-TLA comics.
MisterShine
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As someone who hasn't watched the fourth season at all, and knows pretty much nothing about it other than Korrasami, it will be interesting to view the season through that lens. I always liked Asami the best out of the Krew.
There was buildup. Whether it was high or low quality build is up to the individual to decide, but denying its existence is a little futile by now.
There are exactly two romantic relationships in the franchise (yes that's TLA and LOK) that were well crafted, and one of them still had issues.
Oh I never read those. Off to check for TPB.
googleplex
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The types of stories they are trying to tell doesn't lend its self to just short 13 episode seasons. Korra would have greatly benefited from having a similar run as The Last Air Bender.
On that, we can agree on. 13 episode seasons at 20 minutes each was insane.
He used it in that episode of the 1st season when he was welding stuff.
Can somebody post again the list somebody made with foreshadowing? Some people didn't read that at all or some of their arguments would not stand that way. Until somebody can find it again, please have this. Mostly pictures and no written argumentation, but they do speak very well for themselves.
Some people say that Asami barely had any screentime. True. But the few minutes she had mostly shared with Korra and her father. While Bolin, Mako and Varrick had way more screentime, they didn't have more screentime with Korra, which would be the important thing to look at for a relationship. Not the screentime somewhere without Korra.
I mean, the beauty of the ending is, that it can be viewed both ways. I don't have anything against people that don't want to have this relationship. What I can't understand though, is that people fail to see that you can easily see a romance blooming between to people.
Some people say that Asami barely had any screentime. True. But the few minutes she had mostly shared with Korra and her father. While Bolin, Mako and Varrick had way more screentime, they didn't have more screentime with Korra, which would be the important thing to look at for a relationship. Not the screentime somewhere without Korra.
I mean, the beauty of the ending is, that it can be viewed both ways. I don't have anything against people that don't want to have this relationship. What I can't understand though, is that people fail to see that you can easily see a romance blooming between to people.
seriously where was this? You talking about them hanging out in S3. the letter? the compliment? only if you are viewing things through shipper goggles.
^^seriously lol at the collection of screenshots. I guess Mako/Bolin are incestual or something. You cannot take scenes like that as evidence. This is just getting stupid at this point.
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