Avatar: The Legend of Korra Season 3
Jul. 15th, 2015 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroThe aftereffects of Harmonic Convergence and Korra’s decisions during it are felt all over the world, a new threat emerges, and more backstory is provided. Should I really talk about this until after I watch Season 4? Ah, whatever.
They really want to make this series about radically changing the world, don’t they? Spirits intermingle with humans; new airbenders; changing politics. And the fallout of Korra not having access to her Avatar past lives anymore; not that she used it very heavily during season 2.
Notice that no one says the Earth Queen was “killed”, despite us seeing the breath being sucked out of her. She was “overthrown” or the like. It’s more of, “Wait did Jet just die? You know, it was really unclear.” (I’m pretty sure she’s dead.)
Mako’s lightning strike to take down water-arms lady was what I had been expecting him to do for half the season. Took him damn long enough to remember that was a viable option. (He clearly knew how to lightning-bend; he does it in the first season.)
The general increase in bender’s abilities versus the first series just continues here: Lava-bending is introduced alongside massive metalbending; another combustion-bender appears; plus an airbender learns to properly fly. I was wondering what they’d come up with for “advanced” disciplines of airbending, especially since this season introduced a second advanced discipline of earthbending.
There’s an interesting contrast of Zaheer and Bumi, characters who were apparently noteworthy as non-benders and then gain airbending. Bumi’s airbending actually makes him less effective—he’s clearly not used to being a bender and isn’t expecting to be able to fight on that level, and his best showing against the Red Lotus is when he forgets the bending and physically grapples the guy. Zaheer, on the other hand, had apparently been training his whole life to suddenly become an airbender (or something), and had the philosophy and techniques down sufficiently to fight Tenzin (the only living master of the craft, trained from birth by the Avatar himself) to a draw after only a few months.
And there are some fantastically funny bits when they have time for them.
Overall: Of course I’m going to watch Season 4. I think the show has actually gotten stronger; the first two seasons had a bunch of issues and it gets much closer to the “feel” that made AtLA work in this one.
They really want to make this series about radically changing the world, don’t they? Spirits intermingle with humans; new airbenders; changing politics. And the fallout of Korra not having access to her Avatar past lives anymore; not that she used it very heavily during season 2.
Notice that no one says the Earth Queen was “killed”, despite us seeing the breath being sucked out of her. She was “overthrown” or the like. It’s more of, “Wait did Jet just die? You know, it was really unclear.” (I’m pretty sure she’s dead.)
Mako’s lightning strike to take down water-arms lady was what I had been expecting him to do for half the season. Took him damn long enough to remember that was a viable option. (He clearly knew how to lightning-bend; he does it in the first season.)
The general increase in bender’s abilities versus the first series just continues here: Lava-bending is introduced alongside massive metalbending; another combustion-bender appears; plus an airbender learns to properly fly. I was wondering what they’d come up with for “advanced” disciplines of airbending, especially since this season introduced a second advanced discipline of earthbending.
There’s an interesting contrast of Zaheer and Bumi, characters who were apparently noteworthy as non-benders and then gain airbending. Bumi’s airbending actually makes him less effective—he’s clearly not used to being a bender and isn’t expecting to be able to fight on that level, and his best showing against the Red Lotus is when he forgets the bending and physically grapples the guy. Zaheer, on the other hand, had apparently been training his whole life to suddenly become an airbender (or something), and had the philosophy and techniques down sufficiently to fight Tenzin (the only living master of the craft, trained from birth by the Avatar himself) to a draw after only a few months.
And there are some fantastically funny bits when they have time for them.
Overall: Of course I’m going to watch Season 4. I think the show has actually gotten stronger; the first two seasons had a bunch of issues and it gets much closer to the “feel” that made AtLA work in this one.
