The Legend of Korra Ends
Dec. 19th, 2014 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6It's a shame to be ending right when it was mostly hitting it's stride.
LOK was a bit of a mixed bag... it wasn't as good as ATLA... there were times where it COULD have been far better, if they'd done a few things differently, or had a few more episodes so they could better handle their pacing. Still, on the whole, it turned out pretty good, and by the end I think they largely learned from their mistakes.
The last two episodes were fairly enjoyable, if a bit predictable for the most part. (some spoilers)I'd have liked a bit more time establishing why Kuvira went ultra dictator so that the resolution (which I quite liked, conceptually... execution, it didn't quite live up to it) didn't come so much out of nowhere... she seemed too one-dimensionally evil, and I'd love to have some of the nuance that the last conversation hinted at to actually make it onto the show. That's more a 'whole season' problem than a final-two-episodes problem. Also, Meelo's attack on the windows was smart, but after that first time they forgot about the fact that the windows were clearly a weak spot. Platinum might not be easily breachable, but you could get a flood of water through the windows (for that matter, you could hav waterbended the water they used to wash them away to keep her blind).
But that's largely nitpicking.
What we really need to talk about is that ending, as in the last scene. I can't believe they did it. And yet, I wish they had gone that one step further.
I mean, that pretty much just made Korra/Asami relationship canon, right? At least as much as (sadly) can be done from a US kid's cartoon show today, it seems. It ended with them walking off into the Spiritset, clasped hands and looking longingly at each other. And they had lots of little hints leading up to it: Asami being the only one Korra wrote to during the three year gap, Korra blushing when Asami complimenting her hair, and of course, in the last episode, Korra's excited "yes, let's just go on a vacation, just the two of us!" the moment Asami even hinted as a possibility... if they were opposite sex friends, you'd pretty well assume that all of that was a relationship thing, with the one who had the crush jumping at the first chance to get some alone time.
As the finale's coda played out and we got the last few one-on-one scenes with various characters, I was sure at first that they were going to bring Korra and Mako back together, but no... it was just a "we're always going to be friends and I'd follow you into battle" not "I secretly still love you." And then that last scene I was pretty much just.... "Oh my god... are they actually going to do it? Really?" (in a excited-but-not-quite-believing it way)... and then it ended the way it did, getting closer than I ever thought they would to a mainstream kids cartoon gay relationship involving a lead character.
And yet, I wish they'd gone that one step further and made it official, and ended it with a kiss. I mean, it's the last episode, what are the haters going to do, get the show cancelled over it? A prime opportunity squandered.
Still, I have to give them some credit for going as far as they did.
LOK was a bit of a mixed bag... it wasn't as good as ATLA... there were times where it COULD have been far better, if they'd done a few things differently, or had a few more episodes so they could better handle their pacing. Still, on the whole, it turned out pretty good, and by the end I think they largely learned from their mistakes.
The last two episodes were fairly enjoyable, if a bit predictable for the most part. (some spoilers)I'd have liked a bit more time establishing why Kuvira went ultra dictator so that the resolution (which I quite liked, conceptually... execution, it didn't quite live up to it) didn't come so much out of nowhere... she seemed too one-dimensionally evil, and I'd love to have some of the nuance that the last conversation hinted at to actually make it onto the show. That's more a 'whole season' problem than a final-two-episodes problem. Also, Meelo's attack on the windows was smart, but after that first time they forgot about the fact that the windows were clearly a weak spot. Platinum might not be easily breachable, but you could get a flood of water through the windows (for that matter, you could hav waterbended the water they used to wash them away to keep her blind).
But that's largely nitpicking.
What we really need to talk about is that ending, as in the last scene. I can't believe they did it. And yet, I wish they had gone that one step further.
I mean, that pretty much just made Korra/Asami relationship canon, right? At least as much as (sadly) can be done from a US kid's cartoon show today, it seems. It ended with them walking off into the Spiritset, clasped hands and looking longingly at each other. And they had lots of little hints leading up to it: Asami being the only one Korra wrote to during the three year gap, Korra blushing when Asami complimenting her hair, and of course, in the last episode, Korra's excited "yes, let's just go on a vacation, just the two of us!" the moment Asami even hinted as a possibility... if they were opposite sex friends, you'd pretty well assume that all of that was a relationship thing, with the one who had the crush jumping at the first chance to get some alone time.
As the finale's coda played out and we got the last few one-on-one scenes with various characters, I was sure at first that they were going to bring Korra and Mako back together, but no... it was just a "we're always going to be friends and I'd follow you into battle" not "I secretly still love you." And then that last scene I was pretty much just.... "Oh my god... are they actually going to do it? Really?" (in a excited-but-not-quite-believing it way)... and then it ended the way it did, getting closer than I ever thought they would to a mainstream kids cartoon gay relationship involving a lead character.
And yet, I wish they'd gone that one step further and made it official, and ended it with a kiss. I mean, it's the last episode, what are the haters going to do, get the show cancelled over it? A prime opportunity squandered.
Still, I have to give them some credit for going as far as they did.
