I hope so too, but I kind of doubt it.
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Album Rating: 3.5
The realization that there's only 4-5 hours left of the series feels really unsatisfying to me right now. Avatar felt so much more epic and complete. I'm realizing that each of the Korra seasons all dealt with completely different storylines without any real overarching goal or theme to the series as a whole. There's no looming threat or villain like save the world from the fire nation or anything, they're just hanging around waiting for something to happen plus all this random spirit world stuff for some reason that seems contradictory to how it worked in Avatar
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Not to mention, anyone else notice how every villain in Korra always had some political agenda.
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"Not to mention, anyone else notice how every villain in Korra always had some political agenda."
Well it does mirror the society of the early 1900s, right? Korra's world is a bit too modern for simple world domination, I guess.
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Album Rating: 3.5
"Seeing as though Korra has cars, movies, and radios, in another 70-90 years the next Avatar could very well have the Internet"
that's why i really don't want them to head down this route. i just can't imagine this being good, honestly. a lot of charm of the original series (and even korra to an extent) is how it's a completely different world than ours
and unavaatu was more or less simple world domination... that probably a big factor of the season 2 backlash though
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Album Rating: 3.5
Maybe they won't have internet or TV, I mean those're really specific and more entertainment focused which I can't really see working in a fantasy show, so a bizarre parallel of our modern world could be really cool if they do a great job worldbuilding and paying attention to detail.
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Album Rating: 3.5
yeah i guess you're right
i suppose i'd have to trust the writers' judgment. they've earned it
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Album Rating: 3.5
man the music from this show is incredible
it's hard to believe "before" is on the soundtrack of what is nominally a kid's show
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There's no looming threat or villain like save the world from the fire nation or anything, they're just hanging around waiting for something to happen
I personally enjoy the amount of ground they're able to cover in the Avatar universe by having self-contained storylines in each book instead of focusing on and building around one ultimate goal but I gotta agree that it doesn't feel like Korra has really built up to its Book 4, and the way Avatar built up its whole series towards Book 3 was part of what made it so damn epic.
Having said that, they got a whole 'nother season to pick it up, and if there's one thing I love about Korra, it's how the show can pick the fuck up when it really wants to (second half of Book 2 is a good example). The way we left Korra this season feels like we could see her character change before the series is over and that could be a good place to end. We'll see...
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Album Rating: 3.5
Actually I disagree that they haven't built anything up by Book 4.
The writers have used Korra having 4 different story arcs really well. Each season has slowly deconstructed Korra's role as the Avatar bit by bit. The psychological damage is shown in the finale where the Red Lotus warps into Amon, Unalaq, and Vaatu. And beyond that, someone like Raiko hasn't treated her with respect, citizens of RC dislike her, etc. She hasn't really "won" any battles on her own, and she's lost contact with her past lives. And now it seems she isn't even needed to keep balance since the Air Nation will take over that role.
I feel like they've slowly been building this psychological damage arc by arc and we see it boil over in the finale of Season 3. It's actually very analogous to Season 2's finale of A:TLA, only Avatar saw the protagonist lose primarily on a plot level whereas Korra sees the protagonist lose on a psychological level.
And just like the plot of Avatar could have been resolved in 12 episodes (at the Day of Black Sun, had Azula not known about it), the primary character arc of Korra (and its associated thematic arc) will be resolved in a 12 episode season.
Having four storylines works fantastically because there isn't a central villain the hero can aspire to fight against that ultimately keeps their psyche healthy (e.g. Aang would always feel like he had a purpose so long as Ozai existed, so he could never be as broken as Korra). Plus, it allows for clashing ideologies (e.g. equalist movement vs. anarchist movement) to work in unity for the one thing that they have in common (the Avatar isn't needed anymore).
Basically Korra has really built up to Book 4, but you have to view it from a character/thematic viewpoint instead of a plot one. I really can respect the writers for this approach.
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From literally everything you've said, I've re-adjusted my stance on the series to "the ending alone is going to justify how well Korra built up to its conclusion". For as long as I've been watching Korra I haven't ever really been happy with (my personal perception) of the series' pacing UNTIL the season finale and then I re-evaluate my entire attitude towards the season.
For example, with Book 3, I was expecting the entire Red Lotus to come forward and be dealt with within the span of those 13 episodes as well as dealing with all that Ba Sing Se/Earth Kingdom stuff in the same way that A:TLA covered so much ground in a single book, but just closing up the Zaheer story was really all that should have been expected from 13 episodes and I didn't realise that until I watched the last episode.
Looks like it's gonna be the same way with the overall series.
Each season has slowly deconstructed Korra's role as the Avatar bit by bit.
All that "the Avatar isn't needed anymore" sentiment could be a good plot point to close out the series, maybe...do you reckon?
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Album Rating: 3.5
I've re-adjusted my stance on the series to "the ending alone is going to justify how well Korra built up to its conclusion"
Absolutely. I could talk for hours on how well the A:TLA closed so many character and thematic arcs. And of course it was just fucking awesome to watch in general. The ending really does make or break a lot of arcs/shows in general.
For me it seems very obviously deliberate that they're aiming for a series that's tied together in the way it re-defines the Avatar's role in a changing technology (which is to say that yes, I believe Season 4 will reconstruct an identity for Korra as the Avatar), just from the Korra hallucinating scene.
That said, if the finale somehow messes up this premise (or doesn't address it at all) then absolutely I'd agree that Korra as a show would fall rather flat.
All that "the Avatar isn't needed anymore" sentiment could be a good plot point to close out the series, maybe...do you reckon?
I definitely think/hope/expect that on a thematic level, the Korra finale addresses that sentiment and answers the question of "What is the Avatar's role?" and I would expect a rather optimistic answer (though I'm not sure exactly what).
What I'm mainly wondering is how they plan on addressing Vaatu growing inside the Avatar/Raava. I'm hoping the creators manage to tie that into the conclusion somehow, even though I know a lot of people are hoping they move as far away from Season 2 as possible.
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Yea they're all separate stories but the characters mind sets and attitude carry over into the next season every time. Sadly, I'm sure well see a damaged, depressed korra in season 4
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Album Rating: 3.5
Hopefully the fact that it's not broadcasting on a kids channel and only on their website will allow then to go all out even more than they have been
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Can't wait.
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Album Rating: 3.5
nah the creators confirmed they didn't move it online for content reasons.
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It's because Nickelodeon needs more time for Spongebob reruns
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Album Rating: 3.5
lol sadly true
tho iirc korra s3 is airing on nicktoons now. korra's viewership is gonna be way higher online anyways. not sure about net revenue for nick since monetizing the online experience is pretty hard, but since they already paid for season 3 and 4, they might as well maximize revenue and get w/e money from korra online and then maximize revenue on TV with spongebob reruns
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Book 4: Balance is coming out in January
Not that bad of a wait imo
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