The Legend of Korra: Book 4
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Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow!!!!!!!!!!
Holy cow, Kuvira built a Megazord! Well, really more of an EVA, since the creators are fans of Neon Genesis Evangelion. But either way, I did not see that coming.
Honestly, though, it's hard to buy it as that much of a threat once you get past the initial shock. The problem with the human shape is that it's precariously balanced. All they have to do is get some ropes or cables tangled around its legs and wham, it's down.
I've been thinking this season was building toward Korra convincing Kuvira to see reason and talking her into giving up the fight. But Kuvira was willing to sacrifice the man she loved rather than give up a conquest. It hurt her to do so, but not enough to get her to stop. It's hard to see how anything could get her to change her mind now.
On the other hand, though, hooray for Zhu Li! For a moment I was uneasy when she expressed such devotion to the man who'd been so rotten to her, but fortunately this show's deep-rooted feminism came through and she totally read him the riot act. It doesn't seem he quite got it, though.
Wu stepped up too, and this time Korra wasn't around for him to impress. Maybe he does have some legitimate leadership ability after all. I still don't think it'd be a good idea to restore the monarchy, though.
Honestly, though, it's hard to buy it as that much of a threat once you get past the initial shock. The problem with the human shape is that it's precariously balanced. All they have to do is get some ropes or cables tangled around its legs and wham, it's down.
I've been thinking this season was building toward Korra convincing Kuvira to see reason and talking her into giving up the fight. But Kuvira was willing to sacrifice the man she loved rather than give up a conquest. It hurt her to do so, but not enough to get her to stop. It's hard to see how anything could get her to change her mind now.
On the other hand, though, hooray for Zhu Li! For a moment I was uneasy when she expressed such devotion to the man who'd been so rotten to her, but fortunately this show's deep-rooted feminism came through and she totally read him the riot act. It doesn't seem he quite got it, though.
Wu stepped up too, and this time Korra wasn't around for him to impress. Maybe he does have some legitimate leadership ability after all. I still don't think it'd be a good idea to restore the monarchy, though.
"Kuvira's Gambit": great ep but I was really disappointed we didn't get an army on army battle. We've never had that in the history of either show, really, unless you count Day of Black Sun or The Earth King but those were minor raids.
I was completely shocked when they revealed the Colossus... despite the fact that the next episode is called "Day of the Colossus"
I do think that's taking the technological advancement to a ridiculous degree for this era, but oh well. It'll be a great final battle. At least the spirit weapon isn't stuck on a track now!
Minor nit: Korra doesn't take Meelo along because it's a stealth mission. But she leaves the two kids she DOES take sitting on top of the airship. So why couldn't he have stayed up there as backup?
I was completely shocked when they revealed the Colossus... despite the fact that the next episode is called "Day of the Colossus"
I do think that's taking the technological advancement to a ridiculous degree for this era, but oh well. It'll be a great final battle. At least the spirit weapon isn't stuck on a track now!Minor nit: Korra doesn't take Meelo along because it's a stealth mission. But she leaves the two kids she DOES take sitting on top of the airship. So why couldn't he have stayed up there as backup?
I was completely shocked when they revealed the Colossus... despite the fact that the next episode is called "Day of the Colossus"
Keep in mind that it isn't just technology that's powering it, but metalbending. Kuvira is personally controlling it by metalbending it to mimic her movements.
I suspect they may end up having something akin to a constitutional democracy. Or if the the Earth Kingdom/Empire break-ups into a bunch of smaller nation states, perhaps a commonwealth of sovereign nations unified under the shared monarchy.
There's clearly some very deep rooted cultural affection for the *idea* of the monarchy and a centuries or even millennia old bureaucracy we know to be perfectly capable of running things under a figurehead King or Queen. All they need to do is codify that separation and install a democratically elected parliament.
I wonder how much platinum, if there is any, is present in the mecha giant? Kuvira operates it by metalbending, but surely there must be some platinum in its chassis in order to prevent United Republic metalbenders from simply knocking it over by metalbending its components askew. In said case, though, the Earth Empire must have some serious mining operations going on.
Ooh, nice catch. I remember a character wondering why the domes had been dismantled, but I didn't make the connection.
They can't be, or else the Zaofu-ians and Kuvira couldn't metalbend them. Presumably the Republic's metalbenders could attempt to bend the MegaMechaSuit, but Kuvira's own bending ability, and that of the others presumably supporting her efforts, would counter them.
I don't think Kuvira ever metal bended the Zoid itself. In every scene I have seen, Kuvira metal-bended levers in the Zoid's control room.
She bent levers to do things like turning on the intercom, but she actually controlled the mechasuit by making martial-arts moves that it then mimicked writ large. She did this while standing on a platform surrounded by what seemed to be some kind of sensors, like one of those Kinect XBox games, but that technology's way too advanced for the show's era, so it must be metalbending-based.
^I thought of that, but given the available level of technology, it seems simpler to assume that she's just metalbending it directly, although she might well have other benders following and amplifying her moves (except those sensors don't look like cameras, so how would they know what her moves are?).
I suppose it's possible that the instruments surrounding her are sensors that contain metal suspended in magnetic fields, so that when she bends the metal in the sensors, it generates a current that's transmitted to actuators in the mechasuit's joints.
Either that or they've invented instruments that can detect and transmit the chi energy of bending directly, which could be an outgrowth of the spirit-vine research. But that would be a huge gamechanger for the Avatar world in so many ways, far too big to be a throwaway idea in the last three episodes.
I suppose it's possible that the instruments surrounding her are sensors that contain metal suspended in magnetic fields, so that when she bends the metal in the sensors, it generates a current that's transmitted to actuators in the mechasuit's joints.
Either that or they've invented instruments that can detect and transmit the chi energy of bending directly, which could be an outgrowth of the spirit-vine research. But that would be a huge gamechanger for the Avatar world in so many ways, far too big to be a throwaway idea in the last three episodes.
Those weren't sensors, they were metal trackballs that she was manipulating to control the various joints. So in theory, only those controls needed to be "bendable", the rest of thing could be made mostly from platinum. I'd be surprised if it was totally "bend-proof" though (for lack of a less ridiculous term) and I'd wager the man function of the army at this point is to keep enemy metal benders away from the super weapon.
Plus there's the rest of her army that stands in the way between the EVA.. ahem.. Colossus
and the enemy so Republic forces are unlikely to get even close to it (in addition to it being heavily armed too).
Yeah, I got Evangelion vibes from that myself. I suppose Kuvira herself has some echoes of Gendo Ikari as well.
I've never seen Evangelion, though I've thought about checking it out.
Be prepared to watch entire episodes several times as it's a very complicated anime.
At first it's the usual "Giant Mecha bash each other's skull in" mashed together with familiy and personal problems but at one point the mythology hits and you feel you need to pop some pills to understand it all
I could (mostly) follow Serial Experiments Lain, so I can probably handle anything.
