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extrapenguin) wrote2017-10-22 09:00 pm
extrapenguin) wrote2017-10-22 09:00 pm
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Avatar: Legend of Korra, s2
I binged season 2 as well! (Seasons 3 and 4 will probably be one-ep-an-evening rewards for actually doing something useful.)
The plot was more standard stereotypical good vs evil. I liked the worldbuilding of the whole Avatar's origins thing and also the spirit realm. The whole business acquisitions and Ferric (sp?) B-plot was annoying, but I recognize that it sort of had to be there. Mako's noir cop subplot was not enjoyable. Again, I did not like Bolin or his subplot, and I did not at all like the romance. Mako came across as a two-timing asshole, as love triangle centerpoints are wont to.
The theme of family was a better fit to the writers' strengths than love subplots. I liked Tenzin and Bumi and Kaya sort of ... connecting with each other (though wow was Aang a bad parent). Iroh makes an appearance! (In fact, both Irohs made appearances! I am pleased with both.) Not enough Lin Bei Fong bending displays of awesome competence.
The resolution was better/more apt, and the whole Korra losing her links to Avatars past was a goodish fit for the whole "the world is changing" metaphor introduced by modernizing the world between ATLA and LOK. I liked the "find the light in the darkness" thingy. The ending was more ... poetic than necessarily sensical, but it did work at least somewhat.
The plot was more standard stereotypical good vs evil. I liked the worldbuilding of the whole Avatar's origins thing and also the spirit realm. The whole business acquisitions and Ferric (sp?) B-plot was annoying, but I recognize that it sort of had to be there. Mako's noir cop subplot was not enjoyable. Again, I did not like Bolin or his subplot, and I did not at all like the romance. Mako came across as a two-timing asshole, as love triangle centerpoints are wont to.
The theme of family was a better fit to the writers' strengths than love subplots. I liked Tenzin and Bumi and Kaya sort of ... connecting with each other (though wow was Aang a bad parent). Iroh makes an appearance! (In fact, both Irohs made appearances! I am pleased with both.) Not enough Lin Bei Fong bending displays of awesome competence.
The resolution was better/more apt, and the whole Korra losing her links to Avatars past was a goodish fit for the whole "the world is changing" metaphor introduced by modernizing the world between ATLA and LOK. I liked the "find the light in the darkness" thingy. The ending was more ... poetic than necessarily sensical, but it did work at least somewhat.