TheKingofSprings posted:

uhh

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this please?

StrifeHira posted:

OK so, I dunno, as a lesbian maybe I'm a bit biased but I don't think the ending scene was really worth getting one's panties in a knot. Korra and Asami go off to the spirit world together with vague implication that their friendship might become something more romantic. It's probably as overtly gay as censorship will allow for something on Nickelodeon, but it's not like it's that distasteful as friendship or otherwise. It's also not like they showered the scene with lilies and clam shells and tacos. Come on folks.

Akumos posted:

Torquemadras posted:

This. I wrote it earlier - it's a nice nod to the fans and what the characters have become, but not that overblown. I could gush about the mecha fight and the 1v1 and the battle in the engineering room forever. I guess I'll never understand how scenes like that, while a nice outro, can dominate an entire thread when there's giant elemental kungfu in a town built out of explosive bricks.

It's us, we are the tumblr

Torquemadras posted:

This. I wrote it earlier - it's a nice nod to the fans and what the characters have become, but not that overblown. I could gush about the mecha fight and the 1v1 and the battle in the engineering room forever. I guess I'll never understand how scenes like that, while a nice outro, can dominate an entire thread when there's giant elemental kungfu in a town built out of explosive bricks.

It's us, we are the tumblr

Eej posted:

I liked the part where they cribbed shots from anime like the roof skimming from Attack on Titan

Eej posted:

I liked the part where they cribbed shots from anime like the roof skimming from Attack on Titan and the mecha staple of shooting a beam across the sky and lighting the background up in explosions. It's a kid's show though cause those little explosions should've been all hummingbirds.

Metal bending fights are still the best though but I'm kind of mad that they've only used the Azula method of flying via fire jets like what, twice in the entier series?

Eej posted:

Metal bending fights are still the best though but I'm kind of mad that they've only used the Azula method of flying via fire jets like what, twice in the entier series?

Torquemadras posted:

I like that deeply satisfying sound of massive sheets of metal being violently twisted. Flying metal knives are nasty and all, but seeing steel get crumpled like paper just screams raw power! Great fun.

Also, I remember at least three instances of fire jet boots in Legend of Korra... I think they use it for wallrunning or something in S1, Korra herself does it as enraged avatar in the S3 finale, and Mako does it when boarding the Colossus.

By the way, I'm calling Kuvira's mech Colossus now because it sounds awesome and it's in the episode title. You can't stop me.

Eej posted:

Don't forget every time Su uses metal as both armor and a weapon but yeah, Mako being the primary firebender of the story is really lame considering he doesn't come anywhere close to the power of any of the ones from ATLA so he just kinda doesn't contribute much.

Zedd posted:

I thought all "relations" in TLA where goofy dorky kid ones.

Torquemadras posted:

And anyway, who are we comparing him to? Iroh and Ozai? Zuko was never that terribly impressive either - most of his crazy stunts actually involve just blades. I'm kind of glad the ultra-powerful benders of ATLA are mostly gone, aside from Toph's giant earthquake thing.

Eej posted:

Lucy Heartfilia posted:

"Zhu-Li, do the thing!"
"I'm afraid there are no more things to do..."

That was pretty funny.

Stallion Cabana posted:

Over the course of the series Bo Lin went from a massive joke about his lack of skill as an Earthbender to literally dropping a building on someone and probably becoming the most powerful Earth bender alive, if not one of the strongest non-avatar benders ever.

Namarrgon posted:

If I remember correctly you see the Beifong sisters in the background helping out.

My only peeve with the story (same for TLA) is that all the central characters become so ridiculously powerful. I mean I get why; it's a kid show and you need to have a reason to keep them around and not just have the Avatar solve everything so they have to somewhat scale with the baddies. I just don't like it.

dj_clawson posted:

Who falls in love forever when you're 12?

Stallion Cabana posted:

Over the course of the series Bo Lin went from a massive joke about his lack of skill as an Earthbender to literally dropping a building on someone and probably becoming the most powerful Earth bender alive, if not one of the strongest non-avatar benders ever.

Torquemadras posted:

I like that deeply satisfying sound of massive sheets of metal being violently twisted. Flying metal knives are nasty and all, but seeing steel get crumpled like paper just screams raw power! Great fun.

Also, I remember at least three instances of fire jet boots in Legend of Korra... I think they use it for wallrunning or something in S1, Korra herself does it as enraged avatar in the S3 finale, and Mako does it when boarding the Colossus.

By the way, I'm calling Kuvira's mech Colossus now because it sounds awesome and it's in the episode title. You can't stop me.

Torquemadras posted:

This. I wrote it earlier - it's a nice nod to the fans and what the characters have become, but not that overblown. I could gush about the mecha fight and the 1v1 and the battle in the engineering room forever. I guess I'll never understand how scenes like that, while a nice outro, can dominate an entire thread when there's giant elemental kungfu in a town built out of explosive bricks.

It's us, we are the tumblr

Old Kentucky Shark posted:

I will say this: I am absolutely amazed, in retrospect, that they managed to keep things tense and exciting throughout almost an hour of action scenes in which only one person died, and that one death was telegraphed all to hell, and yet it never felt cheap. Yeah, it's a kid's show, but they managed to keep a much better sense of scale and rising stakes than most modern action movies, without any of the bloodshed, just through good visual storytelling.

Compare it to Michael Bay movies where there are rivers of blood and dozens of robots fight and he makes it feel small and shoddy and meaningless.

BrianWilly posted:

I think the safest (read: safest, not the most admirable or ideal) outcome, and the outcome that is most likely to occur given the circumstances, is that Bryke will make someone like Desna queer. He fits a lot of the stereotypes, but not in an overwhelmingly negative way, and is enough of a tertiary character that it wouldn't step on any toes or draw too much ire from the folks liable to be angry about this sort of things. And even then, even given all that, I wouldn't posit it as being very likely at all since this is ultimately a Nickelodeon-produced series.

To stress: I'm not saying this is the greatest thing, but it's the likeliest thing as things stand.

The next wrung up from that -- as in, something that is concurrently a better outcome but even less likely to happen -- is for them to make either Bumi or Kya gay, and use that to explain why either one of them haven't married yet. They are support characters, but important enough to be very well-developed and likable. And since they're older adult characters, their sexualities also draw less ire from ire-prone folks than the younger characters do. Sad, and strange...but true. But since they're rather important characters who have played large roles in plots, I can still see the network being incredibly reluctant to go there.

The final wrung -- the one that would affect the most progress and importance but has almost no likeliness of occurring, from my perspective -- is, of course, for any one of the four young leads to be queer. But I don't think it will happen simply because of the potential fallback. And again, I'm not saying it's a good thing that it won't happen, just that this is the situation as it stands now.

Axel Serenity posted:

What a great show and fantastic final scene. What I think really makes it is that the Korra/Asami thing is a great way to kind of endnote everything, but it never once overtook the rest of the story or defined who the characters were.

Old Kentucky Shark posted:

I will say this: I am absolutely amazed, in retrospect, that they managed to keep things tense and exciting throughout almost an hour of action scenes in which only one person died, and that one death was telegraphed all to hell, and yet it never felt cheap. Yeah, it's a kid's show, but they managed to keep a much better sense of scale and rising stakes than most modern action movies, without any of the bloodshed, just through good visual storytelling.

Stallion Cabana posted:

Over the course of the series Bo Lin went from a massive joke about his lack of skill as an Earthbender to literally dropping a building on someone and probably becoming the most powerful Earth bender alive, if not one of the strongest non-avatar benders ever.

JT Jag posted:

Yeah over the course of the last two seasons Bolin has gotten buff as hell and it owns.

Rap Record Hoarder posted:

Bo Lin's development has probably been my favorite over the course of LoK.

BrianWilly posted:

.........Heh. This was something I posted back in the book 3 thread.

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Endings reveal a lot about the overarching ideas of a piece, and by finishing with Korra and Asami, the writers establish that The Legend Of Korra is a story about women first and foremost. It’s a series about how women relate to each other as friends, family, and rivals in romance and politics, an idea has became especially prominent in Book Three. Before that, there was much more emphasis on Korra’s connections with the men in her life: her father-daughter dynamic with Tenzin, her romantic entanglements with Bolin and Mako, her conflicts with Aman and Unalaq. Those relationships made Korra’s experience especially relatable to the adolescent females in the audience dealing with their own father drama and boy drama and the oppressive reality of living in a male-dominated society. But then the show stopped being about that.

The amount of time spent on Jinora, Asami, and the Beifong women in Book Three shifted the focus to the female cast, and Book Four pushed the men even further into the background by spotlighting a female villain and devoting more time than ever before on the inner workings of the title character. There are multiple times in this season when all the major players on screen are women, which is a remarkable thing in any action television series, animated or not. With so much emphasis on the female characters, it makes sense that The Legend Of Korra would end the series by looking at Korra’s relationship with another woman, and just the hint of a lesbian relationship is an extremely progressive step for an animated series geared to a younger audience.