I thought the animation was a little weak: that first scene with Asami and Mako, for instance.
But I didn't think the writing was too bad, although if Kuvira is being set up as the big bad for S4, they should have introduced her earlier than they did. (Although to be fair, the Big Bads for the other seasons were only introduced in their seasons too; it's just that the Final Season should be bigger and have more lead-up to it.)
All that said, I liked how fast they set up a complicated political situation with a lot of believable conflicts between the characters. And Wu reminded me of a Sokka gone terribly, terribly wrong.
As for Korra, well, it rather looks like the writers have been watching some Buffy. I loved that twist.
Watched the movie Akira last night. What a trippy film!
Someone on another site brought up an interesting point regarding Korra. The show seems to be about Korra figuring out who she is beyond The Avatar (since she grew up knowing and it forms the core of how she sees herself.) Each of the villains have taken aspects of that away from her.
Amon took away her bending (though she got it back.)
Unalaq tried to take away Raava and succeeded in taking away her connection to her past lives.
The Red Lotus nearly took her life and did take her strength. They also indirectly took away her role as the world's protector (since the Airbenders took over that role while she recovered.)
Now we find her on her own, separated from her friends and denying she is Avatar Korra. Who is she when you take everything away?
Very Buffy Season 2/Season 3, indeed.
The title of Book Four is "Balance".
Well, that was an interesting episode, although I don't know why we needed the recap 2/3 of the way through.
Also, TOPH! Yay!
I was glad to see Korra originally didn't set out to lie to her parents about what she was doing.
Hallucinatory Korra was freaky, especially in that fight in the swamp.
Happy to see Toph, though I wouldn't have expected her to be living in a cave under a swamp.
Given that we first "met" her in a swamp, I thought it was fitting. And she sounded just like old-ass Toph would sound, whereas Katara didn't sound as distinctive in her speech patterns. Then again, Toph is pretty...Toph.
Oh, side note, I loved the picture of an excited Aang air-bending those sushi roll thingies the vendor had.
Oh, side note, I loved the picture of an excited Aang air-bending those sushi roll thingies the vendor had.
Right! All we've seen of adult Aang on Korra before was frickin' grim. I expected him to grow up; I didn't expect him to lose his sense of fun.
