I watched the first two seasons... And I'll give my impressions (
Last watched this like 6 months ago)
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The pacing is wrong: The seasons (
first and second) should have been longer, at least 1-2 episodes. Perhaps most annoying is the end of season 1 when she loses all her elements but somehow suddenly can use air which she never could before. Goes back to the south pole and can't cope with not having the other elements, and adult Aang just shows up and gives her her powers back... No... all wrong.
Although at the age of 6 Korra declaring she's the avatar was kinda humorous...
Relationships: Having a boyfriend/girlfriend would be fine, but the love triangle almost has nothing to do with the story. There's almost no growth of character before characters hook up, or switch sides, or whatever. Course the best (
funny) relationship set shown was the emo water bender (
twins) and what's his name with the ferret...
No Explanation: Nothing is explained. You're suddenly thrown into a steampunk/technical world with no history explained, although that might work for Korra who was confined to the south pole, there really should have been more. Much like Harry Potter series which explicitly doesn't tell you stuff till the end. This also goes into season 3 which i stopped watching 2-3 episodes in because i lost interest.
Returned characters: There's a few returning characters from the original series. Namely Aang, Zuko, Iroh, and Wan Shi Tong. Iroh perhaps is the most confusing, as although he's explained it doesn't make sense and he's only there to guide Korra and friends while in the spirit world.
Ending of Season 2: Once Korra lost her spirit companion, she should have immediately been killed to prevent any chance of opposition. You don't pass go, don't collect $200. The End.
OR, the north/south pole were closed and it's another 10,000 years before the next convergence.
Scripted events usually don't make as much sense in one way as they would another. Which is really stupid. Several times in various series there's cases where an obvious opening/ending should have happened that didn't, for no real explained reason.
Pro Bending: Some confusing game involving 3 elements (
because air isn't available). Kinda reminds me of Blitz Ball from FF-X, a game
NO ONE CARES ABOUT. Yet somehow is highly popular, and somewhere between football and dodge-ball. Curious that Korra's listening so intently to the game on the radio for an hour or so, yet when she joins she has no clue what she's doing and they don't even give her a 5 minute run-down of the rules to avoid obvious mistakes. And what she really gets from the game? In desperate times she walks/moves like an air-bender...
Bending: Benders are generally looked down upon as they are 1/10th the population, but especially in the city (
season 1) they are recruited into gangs using their abilities to get protection money out of the rest of the city, while the earth/iron benders are the police. Geez...
Season 3's Badguys: I only saw a couple episodes, but unless they were caught/imprisoned after Aang's demise, they should have all had their elements removed and then been held at different prisons where they could live life generally normally... If they are bad enough they should be killed outright unless there's a good reason not to. Random possible plots just don't make sense to me.
Korra: Korra as a whole is a hot-blooded teenager, totally innocent. Although she masters her three elements she has no clue what she's doing in a real fight. This appears time and time again as she's arrested, beaten in battles... etc. Yeah she has hormones that makes her lovey-dovey but you'd think she'd have gotten a boyfriend before this point, unless her being the Avatar would have prevented that at the south pole. The fact she wasn't allowed to explore and learn incognito for a few years before the series starts is confusing. Otherwise she's just too energetic and generally shallow, a young wanna-be do-gooder like Superman, without the experience, or backing of the nations.
The game: Haven't touched it. I was almost excited about it, but
watching review from TB and other sources says it's highly repetitive on enemies; Although you can use the elements you can't mix\&match for good uses, and the camera hates you... So...
Conclusion: If i were younger and more naive i'd enjoy the series much more, but a large portion of the series makes no sense. Why
The Legend of Korra when obviously she needs to do something so outstanding to be remembered compared to other Avatars. Yeah merging the spirit/physical world would be memorable... And losing all memories of all previous Incarnations/Avatars is a big blow.
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Since i lost interest on Season 3, i probably won't watch Season 4. Unlike the series, it strikes the wrong cord, wrong pacing, wrong humor, doesn't explain important bits as they come and instead leave you blind until after the fact, and is generally less enjoyable.
