Pretty animation, lots of inexplicable things happen so that korra wins, I've totally given up on the series at this point.
The Legend of Korra: Book Two Spirits |OT| Korra Ain't Number Wan
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Pretty animation, lots of inexplicable things happen so that korra wins, I've totally given up on the series at this point.
TangerineCloud
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All I'll say is that I was questioning whether I should even bother with Books 3 and 4 by the end.
Very entertaining with some fantastic animation/battles
still a few niggles but a strong finish for the season after a poor start
Really entertaining. Fantastic animation. The writing is pretty questionable though.
The ending was terrible and had little to no connection to the rest of the show.
What was the point of the Civil War and underground crime subplots if the ending involved such little effort or involvement from most of the main cast? They could have waited for Vatuu to be freed so Korra could medidate inside the tree and become a magical blue giant of light; it would have been much easier for everyone, including the audience. Pay-off? What is that?
Acrylic7
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Korra runs up and french kisses Mako after breaking up and shit
She just makes everything so much worse than what it previously was. Not just worst, but she has this rare ability to warp it into the worst possible scenario.
Wow at that kiss man.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Yeah I just finished ATLA just right before Korra 2 and even watched Korra 1 right afterwards. The quality really, REALLY dipped as soon as you watch Korra.
ATLA's strengths are its characters. The characters aren't archetypical - they actually have depth and don't follow the standard "roleplay" rule. Compare Bolin to Sokka: Sokka might be funny, but at the same time he is also smart and inventive, and is actually a competent fighter. His positive moments aren't actually limited to his shining moments unlike Bolin. If Sokka was a Korra character he'd be all joke with only shining during his moments.
Compare it to Korra, where the characters are honestly easily assigned to a specific role. Their characters are made into the role rather than simply making them characters on their own.
ATLA's strengths are its characters. The characters aren't archetypical - they actually have depth and don't follow the standard "roleplay" rule. Compare Bolin to Sokka: Sokka might be funny, but at the same time he is also smart and inventive, and is actually a competent fighter. His positive moments aren't actually limited to his shining moments unlike Bolin. If Sokka was a Korra character he'd be all joke with only shining during his moments.
Compare it to Korra, where the characters are honestly easily assigned to a specific role. Their characters are made into the role rather than simply making them characters on their own.
Passive Assassin
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Korra S2 1-4
eh. going in knowing that the beginning story was going to be bad made it a lot of enjoyable for the action scenes. dem family feels. lol wat. korra turned into a thug.
Ep 5-6
... Really?
eh. going in knowing that the beginning story was going to be bad made it a lot of enjoyable for the action scenes. dem family feels. lol wat. korra turned into a thug.
Ep 5-6
... Really?
It gets better but the next two episodes 7-8 are easily the best episodes of the season hope you enjoy them
Pretty bad, just good luck trying to figure out how all of this makes sense at the end.
There must have been a period before the separation of mankind through the lion turtles when humans went to the spirit world.
I enjoyed it a lot, with the exception of one questionable plot point near the end.
Ratings for Korra went down a tad bit only 1.865 million down from 2.22 million for the last episode
Just wonder how the ratings for the finale will be affected this Friday by the decision from Nick to release the Finale a week early
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...tball-tanked-the-legend-of-korra-more/216267/
Just wonder how the ratings for the finale will be affected this Friday by the decision from Nick to release the Finale a week early
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...tball-tanked-the-legend-of-korra-more/216267/
I'd say it's dead. Between people legitimately watching it online and all the pirated copies floating about, they pretty much killed any reason for anyone to want to watch the finale on air.
I'd like to be proven wrong, however. If the ratings hold despite the early release, that would certainly be interesting.
The ratings will probably go down. They still got ad money from online release which was likely their plan anyway.
I liked the finale, loved some parts, and I'm looking forward to Book 3 and 4. I'm not going to quibble with others here, since this time (unlike the rest of Book 2 and the Book 1 ending) the majority of opinions from the fandom seem to be positive.
For all those saying that this "ruined" the Avatar Series for them, I guess that everyone's entitled to their opinion about what the Avatar Series is for them and why it should be ruined because of what happens at the end or during Book 2.
It wasn't perfect, oh god no. I too think they could have avoided certain aspects of it, but I'm happy with the type of Avatar World we ended with.
For all those saying that this "ruined" the Avatar Series for them, I guess that everyone's entitled to their opinion about what the Avatar Series is for them and why it should be ruined because of what happens at the end or during Book 2.
It wasn't perfect, oh god no. I too think they could have avoided certain aspects of it, but I'm happy with the type of Avatar World we ended with.
Passive Assassin
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Ep 7-8
Was getting some Mark of the Ninja vibes in the beginning. Halfway through ep 7. Season 2 redeemed.
Yep. Great two episodes.
holy shit. GLORIOUS ANIMATION.
Was getting some Mark of the Ninja vibes in the beginning. Halfway through ep 7. Season 2 redeemed.
Yep. Great two episodes.
holy shit. GLORIOUS ANIMATION.
I recently discovered ATLA and have watched the complete series over the last weeks. It's been said before, but coming from the last series, what truly hurts TLOK is its short format. Introducing a new generation and a (vastly) new world is too ambitious a task with so few episodes.
There are other issues, of course; miniseries can have compelling characters. Most of them are quite one-dimensional here. Bolin is just dumb, when Sokka was goofy and smart. Mako is just a straight shooter, when Sokka was dealing with a compelling internal struggle.
Transitioning to a mature setting while losing the series's (relative, as it's still a cartoon) complexity is so mindbogglingly absurd.
There are other issues, of course; miniseries can have compelling characters. Most of them are quite one-dimensional here. Bolin is just dumb, when Sokka was goofy and smart. Mako is just a straight shooter, when Sokka was dealing with a compelling internal struggle.
Transitioning to a mature setting while losing the series's (relative, as it's still a cartoon) complexity is so mindbogglingly absurd.
halfway through book 2 of ATLA on my rewatch now, I think what hurts LoK the most are the main characters. I don't dislike Korra nearly as much as most everyone else (she's fine in the more dramatic scenes), but Mako, Bolin and Asami just aren't very interesting characters. The original team avatar was just far more entertaining. The side characters (Tenzin family, Lin, Varrik) are mostly pretty great though
BigBadGiantHand
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5 days later....and I'm still really sad.....and angry......but mostly sad......
If I'm ever able to cobble my psyche back together, I might post a more lengthy explanation of my disappoint, but right now it's just too painful.
*crawls back into hole to cry and pray to
that Book 3 will be better*
If I'm ever able to cobble my psyche back together, I might post a more lengthy explanation of my disappoint, but right now it's just too painful.
*crawls back into hole to cry and pray to
the great blue Korra in the sky
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Honestly it feels like Korra was more of a "show that has a target audience to pander" rather than simply being a show that tells a story which was ATLA (and granted, it has moments for the fans, but those were generally ignorable, and hey, that beach episode is stupid!).
Kid Korra is awesome (immaturity is much easier to stomach when you're six and have a potbelly). I wished she stayed a kid the entire time in the Spirit World until the final fight.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013...a-book-three-will-be-titled-change/?xid=LOKFB
So we have "Change" coming. It makes sense, and I think they'll actually have some strong continuity between s2 and s3.
So we have "Change" coming. It makes sense, and I think they'll actually have some strong continuity between s2 and s3.
N7Commander95
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Loved every minute of it! absolutely brilliant. Thank you based studio mir for the audio/visual awesomeness!
I'd like to see continued plot elements in Book 3 and explanations for the weirdness in the Book 2 finale, but there is literally no reason to think they will do that based on past experience.
Also, while I kind of liked the elemental naming scheme for Books, I feel like these titles are getting kind of silly. "Spirits" was okay, but "Change" is just ... bland. It's better than "Energy", though. :lol
Weren't you one of the fans that actually liked most of season 2? What made you turn against it?
Well, season one was supposed to be the whole Korra experience. I can see how S1 -> S2 transition would be awkward for them to tie in. But there isn't the same excuse for S2 -> S3. Also they flat out say that they will be connected.
They've also said that the plots and villains of each season will be self-contained and that the connections will be mostly limited to overall character arcs (which would require meaningful development to really count as an arc). I'd be quite happy if that ended up not being the case, though.
Opinionatedfish
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So, the third book is called "Change?"
I will throw something if the fourth book is called "Hope."
Well, I hope that we see the advance of technology even further and it becomes
I will throw something if the fourth book is called "Hope."
Well, I hope that we see the advance of technology even further and it becomes
"Mako & Bolin: Spirit Detectives," in which Mako, Bolin, and Asami investigate Spirit Crimes with the help of the Avatar. They always figure out the case as soon as they give the Avatar "Korra Snacks."
Schadenfreude
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As in "Please don't Change the channel."
TacticalFox88
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Would've risked Amon wearing out his welcome. He was perfectly fine in S1, it's just that the writers spent WAY too much time on dumb shit rather than building up the Equalist movement how it affects people.
Fair enough. Well maybe a Vaatu arc, I don't know.
Amon could've been good with traditional trilogy plot arc, victory first season, defeat in second (bending taken away from korra), and triumph in the last.
Maybe it would just be too similar to ATLA, I don't know.
D
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Hopefully they focus more on character development this time around. OR ELSE.
EDIT: I do hope that means that each battle will be more meaningful, ATLA's bending battles were amazing compared to Korra's.
EDIT: I do hope that means that each battle will be more meaningful, ATLA's bending battles were amazing compared to Korra's.
She falls in love with a spirit who ends up leaving her for Bumi
Seriously why do the writers hate her that much
Book 3: Change [is all that Asami has left in her bank account]
TacticalFox88
Banned
I find it depressingly sad that Asami, on paper, seems to be another typical Canon Sue that everyone would probably despise, but in fact, in execution it's, LITERALLY the exact opposite.
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