Not really. Mai was awful.
The Legend of Korra: Book 4
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The first 2 minutes of the first episode is available for viewing...
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Korra's still recovering after three years? That really makes me sad and concerned.
Mako and Asami both look more mature and buttoned-down. I hope that's just a formal look for Asami. I don't want her to lose those luscious flowing locks. With Korra getting a haircut, somebody should keep their flowing locks.
A bit odd that it's taken three years for a new Earth King to be crowned, but I guess he was a minor and the kingdom's been in the hands of a regent, or something.
I see Republic City has learned to accept the new status quo even without Korra. I wonder how much of that is due to Jinora's influence. And hey, there's the beggar from the first season!
Mako and Asami both look more mature and buttoned-down. I hope that's just a formal look for Asami. I don't want her to lose those luscious flowing locks. With Korra getting a haircut, somebody should keep their flowing locks.
A bit odd that it's taken three years for a new Earth King to be crowned, but I guess he was a minor and the kingdom's been in the hands of a regent, or something.
I see Republic City has learned to accept the new status quo even without Korra. I wonder how much of that is due to Jinora's influence. And hey, there's the beggar from the first season!
One wonders how bending it into her made the mercury poisoning possibly stronger...
This concerned me as well. That is a LONG recovery period. Maybe she's been in rehab.
That's what I figure, too.
http://spinoff.comicbookresources.c...season-3-moving-online-and-the-final-chapter/
Interview with show creator about Season 3/4 (no spoilers inside).
Interview with show creator about Season 3/4 (no spoilers inside).
Book 4 premieres today!!!!
4X1 "After All These Years" 2/4
this premiere did not impress me, mainly for the lack of the primary characters. I wasn't exactly dying to see an episode starring Kai and Opal. The almost complete lack of Korra and Tenzin doesn't help. And if Kuvira is the Final Big Bad, I think I'm going to be disappointed. Vaatu was the ultimate evil, and Amon and Zaheer both had intriguing mysteries about them. But this is just a power hungry police woman. I really hope there's more to it than that.
this premiere did not impress me, mainly for the lack of the primary characters. I wasn't exactly dying to see an episode starring Kai and Opal. The almost complete lack of Korra and Tenzin doesn't help. And if Kuvira is the Final Big Bad, I think I'm going to be disappointed. Vaatu was the ultimate evil, and Amon and Zaheer both had intriguing mysteries about them. But this is just a power hungry police woman. I really hope there's more to it than that.
I actually liked this premiere. It's nice to have the show back after all these weeks.
• I was wondering what was up with Kuvira and now we have at least a good chunk of the story. She's hasn't gone bad per se, she's just trying to reunite the Earth Kingdom. That said, she seems to have gotten carried away with overzealousness, thereby pushing her a bit to the dark side. Now the Earth Kindom is becoming the new Fire Nation as a result. Aang wasn't there to stop the Fire Lord but Korra is here to stop Kuvira. Will she? Can she? Is there more to the story?
• I didn't mind that Korra wasn't there. We got some half decent development with the rest of the characters, something that was lacking in Book 3.
• Kuvira taking down those bandits was pretty impressive and we have a new metal bending skill... Magnetism. This plays into what I've been thinking lately. If all four elements were carried to their fullest potential, you could probably have mastery over nature in ways we couldn't imagine right now. Would bending be useful in a technologically advanced society? Absolutely. Technology wouldn't even compare.
• I was wondering what was up with Kuvira and now we have at least a good chunk of the story. She's hasn't gone bad per se, she's just trying to reunite the Earth Kingdom. That said, she seems to have gotten carried away with overzealousness, thereby pushing her a bit to the dark side. Now the Earth Kindom is becoming the new Fire Nation as a result. Aang wasn't there to stop the Fire Lord but Korra is here to stop Kuvira. Will she? Can she? Is there more to the story?
• I didn't mind that Korra wasn't there. We got some half decent development with the rest of the characters, something that was lacking in Book 3.
• Kuvira taking down those bandits was pretty impressive and we have a new metal bending skill... Magnetism. This plays into what I've been thinking lately. If all four elements were carried to their fullest potential, you could probably have mastery over nature in ways we couldn't imagine right now. Would bending be useful in a technologically advanced society? Absolutely. Technology wouldn't even compare.
It certaintly wasn't a bad episode, but it was underwhelming. This is the first time I've felt this way about an episode since the Mako/Bolin episode in mid Season Two. Everything in between was pure gold!
It wasn't magnetism. It was just her controlling the metal bands like any other metal-bender.
It wasn't magnetism. It was just her controlling the metal bands like any other metal-bender.
It did look like the metal bands were drawn to each other magnetically. It looked like something different than the usual telekinetic manipulation metal.
I could see metalbenders being able to magnetize metal, analogously to how a waterbender can instantly freeze water. It's just a matter of altering the molecular structure -- in the case of making ice, organizing the molecules into a crystal lattice, and in the case of magnetizing metal, aligning the molecules' magnetic moments in the same direction.
Hey, remember last season when Varrick invented a magnet suit? And now Varrick is working with Kuvira. Maybe she studied his work and devised magnetization as a new metalbending move.
Anyway, Kuvira's battle tactics were awesome. She overcame those bandits with remarkable ease, and without excess violence, efficiently blinding and hobbling them so that she didn't need to beat or kill anyone. Which suggests she really wants to be benevolent -- but she's definitely convinced that her benevolence requires everyone else's obedience, that reuniting the Earth Kingdom under her leadership is necessary for the greater good of everyone in it. There's some nice ambiguity there. Although I'd say it's highly likely that the bandit who stole the food from Opal and Kai was working for Kuvira, given how his acts played right into her agenda. I was surprised we didn't get a tag scene revealing that.
So basically the EK has a choice between a well-intentioned authoritarian extremist and a dissolute, shallow boy king. Either one of which would be pretty much like going back to the way things used to be (cf. Long Feng and Earth King Kuei), and both of which would perpetuate old problems. Will Prince Wu grow into a better leader under Mako's guidance? Will Kuvira reform and become a better leader? Is there a third option, like democracy? Will Mako and Bolin end up running the EK?
Meanwhile, now we see why Korra cut her hair -- to go incognito. She's kinda back where she began, competing in sports arenas, only she's let her skills deteriorate, it seems. Or maybe she's losing on purpose so as not to call attention to herself. Anyway, it's so in character for her to make a living as a fighter. And it's a logical outgrowth of where she was in the last season's finale. I could tell that she felt she wasn't needed or useful anymore.
I guess that clip we saw earlier of long-haired Korra sailing for the south to recuperate will be in a flashback. Hopefully Chapter 2 will fill in the events of the past 3 years.
I was just struck by the irony: This is the largest in-story time gap between consecutive seasons of a single Avatarverse series, and yet it's the shortest gap between the release of two consecutive seasons. (The gap between Books 1 & 2 was six months, while only two weeks elapsed between Books 2 & 3.)
I really like the new Air Nomad outfits. That's very clever the way the wing membranes snap onto the collar and belt. I'm not convinced they could really be furled or unfurled quite as quickly as shown, though, since snaps can take some fiddling to get into place.
By the way, I never realized until now that President Raiko is voiced by Spencer Garrett, aka Simon Tarses from ST:TNG's "The Drumhead." He always sounded like Richard Epcar to me, so I just assumed that was who it was.
Hey, remember last season when Varrick invented a magnet suit? And now Varrick is working with Kuvira. Maybe she studied his work and devised magnetization as a new metalbending move.
Anyway, Kuvira's battle tactics were awesome. She overcame those bandits with remarkable ease, and without excess violence, efficiently blinding and hobbling them so that she didn't need to beat or kill anyone. Which suggests she really wants to be benevolent -- but she's definitely convinced that her benevolence requires everyone else's obedience, that reuniting the Earth Kingdom under her leadership is necessary for the greater good of everyone in it. There's some nice ambiguity there. Although I'd say it's highly likely that the bandit who stole the food from Opal and Kai was working for Kuvira, given how his acts played right into her agenda. I was surprised we didn't get a tag scene revealing that.
So basically the EK has a choice between a well-intentioned authoritarian extremist and a dissolute, shallow boy king. Either one of which would be pretty much like going back to the way things used to be (cf. Long Feng and Earth King Kuei), and both of which would perpetuate old problems. Will Prince Wu grow into a better leader under Mako's guidance? Will Kuvira reform and become a better leader? Is there a third option, like democracy? Will Mako and Bolin end up running the EK?
Meanwhile, now we see why Korra cut her hair -- to go incognito. She's kinda back where she began, competing in sports arenas, only she's let her skills deteriorate, it seems. Or maybe she's losing on purpose so as not to call attention to herself. Anyway, it's so in character for her to make a living as a fighter. And it's a logical outgrowth of where she was in the last season's finale. I could tell that she felt she wasn't needed or useful anymore.
I guess that clip we saw earlier of long-haired Korra sailing for the south to recuperate will be in a flashback. Hopefully Chapter 2 will fill in the events of the past 3 years.
I was just struck by the irony: This is the largest in-story time gap between consecutive seasons of a single Avatarverse series, and yet it's the shortest gap between the release of two consecutive seasons. (The gap between Books 1 & 2 was six months, while only two weeks elapsed between Books 2 & 3.)
I really like the new Air Nomad outfits. That's very clever the way the wing membranes snap onto the collar and belt. I'm not convinced they could really be furled or unfurled quite as quickly as shown, though, since snaps can take some fiddling to get into place.
By the way, I never realized until now that President Raiko is voiced by Spencer Garrett, aka Simon Tarses from ST:TNG's "The Drumhead." He always sounded like Richard Epcar to me, so I just assumed that was who it was.
You don't think getting both bandits and states to swear loyalty directly to her rather than to the Earth Kingdom is beyond shady?
On the contrary, it shows that she's hoping to build a union that includes everyone, and that she believes getting everyone on the same team, under her leadership, is an effective way to end the factional conflicts within the fragmented Earth Kingdom. Of course Kuvira doesn't intend the bandits to remain bandits; by recruiting them into her army, she intends to teach them discipline and obedience and turn them into a force for good (as she defines it).
It's already pretty clear what Kuvira's values are. She believes the Earth Kingdom must be reunited at all costs -- we can only imagine how much suffering and destruction has resulted from its fragmentation -- and she believes that military discipline and structure are the best way to regulate people, that an authoritarian structure is the best way to keep the peace. So she believes she's trying to do good for everyone, but she's accustomed to being the one in charge and thinks that people who won't do things her way are part of the problem. Pretty much your classic well-intentioned extremist. Much as Zaheer thought that anarchy was for the greater good, so Kuvira believes the reverse, that strict order is for the greater good. Indeed, maybe her authoritarianism is in reaction to Zaheer's anarchy.
And yes, true, she's getting them to swear allegiance to her rather than the monarchy, but just look at the monarchy. The last Earth Queen was corrupt and rapacious and brought her country to ruin, and her hereditary successor is a flighty, incompetent man-child. Why should she want the people to swear allegiance to a system that's proven itself a failure? She wants to help the people, and the monarchy has pretty clearly failed the people. Yes, it's pretty clear she intends to fill the power vacuum herself, but that's because she believes she's the best qualified person to see to the greater good of the Earth nation. I'm not saying I agree with her methods -- she's definitely riding the authoritarian thing too hard, and is too convinced of her own rightness -- but I think she believes she's doing the right thing and has simply taken it too far.
I was hoping for 5 seasons and one for each kingdom and the city, not no luck.
On one extreme we had anarchy brought about by Zaheer and on the other we have fascist rule with Kuvira. Democracy seems like the balance.
I wondered something... What if the Earth Kingdom became a fascist state and the next avatar was born there with an allegiance to that state? Would we have an "evil" avatar? Every now and then, some fans suggest the possibility of a not-so-good avatar in a future series and circumstances like this could bring that about.
I thought that we'd get one nation per season as well. I'd count the first book as the 'Air Nation', with Book 2 taking us to the Water Tribes and Book 3 the Earth Kingdom, leaving Book 4 with the Fire Nation. As I said earlier though, they'll bring the Fire Nation to us when we get to see Zuko's daughter, the Fire Lady.
By the way, we got a bit of an electric guitar riff when Meelo did his pose.
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