Disclaimer: Last week’s episode was pretty awesome in many respects. I love the living hell out of this series for so many reasons. But I’m also the type of person who also picks apart the things she loves, because I’m critical and I like to love the things I do not just in squeemode but in analytical-how-could-this-be-better mode. So here we go. My big, huge, stupid beef with “Out of the Past.” Ragemode activated.
boxlunches:
By making Mako the only person in the whole episode going OMG KORRA KORRA WHERE IS KORRA YOU YOU KNOW WHERE THEY’RE KEEPING HER WHERE IS SHE HEY CHIEF DID YOU SENSE KORRA KORRA OMG GIVE HER SOME SPACE KORRA OMG I WAS SO WORRIED while everyone else is stone-faced and even cracking jokes and talking about relationship woes,
YOU MAKE IT SO EVERYONE ELSE’S RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT WITH KORRA AND GENERAL CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT ARE COMPLETELY UNDERMINED AND TOSSED OUT THE DAMN WINDOW.
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New Korra (6-9-12 - Episode 9)
Just saw the new Legend of Korra.
Oh my god.
It was getting entirely too hard to care about the young adult characters when the middle-aged characters were all being so much more interesting and seriously LIN BEIFONG IS JUST THE BEST. But then Korra just totally bested her entire previous series’ self this episode, being cool and calm and inventive and smart and this is definitely my favorite episode of the series so far. I liked that they resolved things quickly and satisfyingly without it feeling a little too horrendously convenient as it sometimes does.
I didn’t even find the romance subplot parts annoying, and I think I will continue to tolerate them as long as Asami is upset with Mako for kissing/wanting Korra while dating her and not upset with Korra for “stealing her man” or whatever.
ETA: Although reading some of the other reactions now another poster brought up some good points about the problems with the love story aspect of this episode: “Bolin and Asami were somehow not allowed to be as concerned about Korra’s safety because they’re not her love interests. I really didn’t like the implications of that, that Mako’s concern for Korra comes only out of his attraction to her, that is unfair to Mako AND to Bolin and Asami […] Whenever Aang was in trouble you didn’t have say, Sokka and Toph and Zuko in the back saying, ‘Gee, why is Katara so concerned?’ They cared JUST AS MUCH because Aang is THE AVATAR AND THEIR FRIEND.”
