Baron Bifford posted:

I wonder just what life in the Earth Kingdom was like that the people would revolt the moment their queen died and that wall was knocked down. Usually the death of a monarch does not cause this; the heir to the throne takes over and life goes on. As with the Equalist movement, there's a lot of important backstory that the show leaves unexplained.

Pau posted:

I hope Toph shows up in season 4 and teaches Korra how to use bending to cope with disabilities.

Spergatory posted:

Now I kind of want to see her fighting from a wheelchair. If there's any show that could pull it off, it's this one. Besides, you know Korra would do it if she had to. She'll fight you chained up, she'll fight you poisoned and dying, she'll fight you from a wheelchair. Korra don't give a gently caress.

DrSunshine posted:

Korra should get metal limbs or some kind of exoskeleton just like Combustion Man and become an awesome bending cyborg.

achillesforever6 posted:

Especially since mercury poisoning causes muscle atrophy anyway

AshB posted:

Every day I find another reason I'm glad no one in this thread is allowed anywhere near the storyboard team.

Scrree posted:

But Zaheer was right that monarchy is bullshit, and an Avatar that reinforces the status quo is ultimately an agent of reaction and inequality.

There is almost no way the state of the Earth Kingdom isn't improved after the immediate chaos of the Earth Queen's death descent into darkness stops because how can it get worse then an unaccountable police state serving the whims of an entrenched and vicious nobility.

Spergatory posted:

Korra don't give a gently caress.

Adder Moray posted:

To the point of whether Zaheer was right or wrong:

Ignoring the fact that the natural state of humans in Avatar is living on the backs of lion turtles with varying degrees of social hierarchy, the natural state of all social mammals is one in which there is a social structure and a hierarchy.

Torquemadras posted:

Whelp, watched the finale. I'm SO glad this turned out as well as it did! I liked how the final battle mirrored Aang's fight against Ozai, only instead of being loving boring (YES I SAID IT), it looked visceral as hell. Korra in Avatar state is fearsome. This season had so many incredibly fun and elaborate action scenes, it's hard to pick a favorite (my favorite is still Bolin saving the president in S2, though!). While there are still some strange spots (Bolin's and Bumi's humor sometimes falls flat, the dialogue feels overly generic and stilted at times, some cameos felt unnecessary...), this is pretty much peak Avatar. Awesome.

JazzFlight posted:

I didn't see this mentioned in the last few pages, but anyone think that metal-bending soldier that saved Korra's dad has to be a main character next season?

It was just a bit odd to introduce a new named person right at the end of the season unless it was some contest-winning fan who got to create a character.

Genocyber posted:

Thanks to whoever posted the puma man video for giving me this idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRURSbACPog

Baron Bifford posted:

Like most terrorists, Zaheer has a warped vision of how the world works. He wants to revert the world back to an idyllic state that never existed.

Genocyber posted:

Thanks to whoever posted the puma man video for giving me this idea

Genocyber posted:

Thanks to whoever posted the puma man video for giving me this idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRURSbACPog

Genocyber posted:

She was voiced by Zelda Williams, so she got extra screentime.

Genocyber posted:

Thanks to whoever posted the puma man video for giving me this idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRURSbACPog

Wildeyes posted:

Oh god, amazing.

If someone will take the animation of Zaheer flying like a moron and add a rotating "green screen" of mountains behind him, set to that music, I will change my review of the finale to an A+

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

Zaheer's flight was mostly done awesome, what are you talking about?

Jackard posted:

That was a line from the puma man video, goddamn

Torquemadras posted:

Whelp, watched the finale. I'm SO glad this turned out as well as it did! I liked how the final battle mirrored Aang's fight against Ozai, only instead of being loving boring (YES I SAID IT), it looked visceral as hell. Korra in Avatar state is fearsome. This season had so many incredibly fun and elaborate action scenes, it's hard to pick a favorite (my favorite is still Bolin saving the president in S2, though!). While there are still some strange spots (Bolin's and Bumi's humor sometimes falls flat, the dialogue feels overly generic and stilted at times, some cameos felt unnecessary...), this is pretty much peak Avatar. Awesome.

Some observations:
- I liked how Bolin did lavabending! Ghazan actually created lava, but Bolin never did - he only diverted and hardened whatever magma was sent his way, and in an actual battle, Ghazan still overwhelmed him. Felt quite appropriate actually, that Bolin still wouldn't have everything figured out at that point. Who knows if he even CAN create lava the way Ghazan could. (Also, too bad the fire rock shuriken didn't appear again!)
- I believed until the very end that Suyin would turn out to be a villain, right until she actually removed the mercury. Hell, I'm still not convinced.
- Asami's and Korra's bromance was surprisingly pleasant, actually. Asami didn't have a lot to do this season, but she was really well-written, in my opinion! Maybe she'll be relevant to the story too next season.
- I would've LOVED seeing Tenzin go up against flying Zaheer. Oh well, this was fine too.
- He was really great in S2 already, but seeing Tonraq in action again was entertaining. Some people said it before: he's got such a brutal in-your-face style of waterbending! I'm constantly reminded of that one scene in S2 where he's charging Unalaq, smashing ice everywhere, and there's this sheer look of TERROR on Unalaq's face - we had something just like that with Zaheer, it's great. My headcanon says it was Tonraq who gave Zaheer his scars.
- This might just be me, but this finale was REALLY nasty in parts. The poison torture, the point-blank head explosion, the way Korra got constantly smacked against the rocks... Hell, I could totally relate to PTSD-ridden Korra after that. Really an incredible ending. That single loving tear, man.

Now I'm curious how they're planning to top this in S4; but if this season is any indication, they seemed to have learned their lesson from S1/2. Looking forward to it!

Sephyr posted:

-Touching on the topic above, I sort of miss having a single villain/quest that span all seasons. In Legend of Aang, we got to get to know the antagonists, what they were doing to the world, and how it all got started, which made the narrative build nicely toward the conclusion. Having just 13 episodes for the whole "Here's the new guy, here's what he's doing, here's what he -really- wants, and now he's done!" steals a bit of the fun. and it causes time constraints that mean that secondary characters will be left out almost entirely. Hell, LoA had an entire episode devoted to the team's mount going through all sorts of hell.

i hate meatloaf posted:

I like how much the big airbending techniques contrasted. Zaheer's interpretation of Airbending philosophy got all his friends imprisoned and later killed, and he achieved his ultimate technique by letting go of his girlfriend after he got her killed. Jinora rallied together all the airbenders to combine their power, saved her friend, and beat Zaheer. Zaheer also works as a kind of dark mirror to Tenzin; his spiritual mastery of Airbending is what Tenzin always felt he should have but could never achieve because of his duty to his family and rebuilding his culture. Jinora succeeding where her father couldn't isn't a failure on Tenzin's part at all; it's his greatest success. He's sacrificed his own spiritual enlightenment so that his daughter and future airbenders can achieve theirs. Tenzin really is the best.

Serella posted:

Right, and I love this because it's exactly the kind of thing Yangchen was telling Aang during the ATLA finale. That because of his responsibility as Avatar, he could never set aside his attachment to the world and achieve enlightenment as others had done. Tenzin inherited the responsibility from his father, albeit for the reborn Air Nation rather than the whole world, and the same limitation on how far he could take his spirituality. Jinora represents the first generation that can rededicate themselves to that spiritual quest if they choose to, though their new self-imposed responsibilities to the world and the hodge-podge heritage of the new airbenders means it will probably be a long time before the Air Nation will return to a pre-Sozin's Comet level of spirituality, if they ever do.

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

This made me realize that in 30 years Korra's gonna have to deal with Sozin's Comet. I don't mean we'd get to see that, that's obviously not going to be a part of Book 4, but it is fun to imagine.

Zedd posted:

Sephyr posted:

-Anyone else feeling that Legend of Korra may be dipping a bit too much into the Joss Whedon school of female protagonists? Namely, dragging them through hell until they are broken husks held together by their friends and mission? I understand there's going to be conflict and dire straits and being taken hostage, but I'd like to see Korra's more aggressive, in-your-face personality refined instead of erased.

Zedd posted:

She'll be fine.