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More Korra Thoughts.
Jun. 11th, 2012 06:16 pm...Huh. That was an interesting episode (watched it late because I was out larping all weekend- I have glorious blisters).
Some of the more logical theory-tossing has turned out to be exactly right, and I kind of like that. At last, something makes sense and has continuity. Amon continues to be badass and scary and now *really* intriguing, and I'm more looking forward to what happens after this again.
The Asami/shipping/Mako and Korra thing continues to spiral into irritating mediocrity without interest or tension, until such times as they eventually confront one another. I want to like Asami, I think she's got the potential to be cool in her own right and a solid corner of a love-triangle- but we don't see a whole lot of her beyond very sweet girlfriend behavior, a little bit of physical badassery, and some very understated hurt. I can't get into her head, really get a sense of who she is. She's almost generically good, and even when utterly betrayed she's very very quiet. I don't dislike her because she's getting in the way of my ship- I dislike the way she's being skimmed over.
I really, really want to see Tahno have an arc. He's got to be one of the most interesting assholes ever to flaunt across a screen, and now that he's been kicked off his throne and utterly wrecked- I really want to see what he'll do next. He's this series' Zuko, arrogant and brash and probably hiding a whole lot of hurt and hate under it, even before he got everything taken away from him. Asami seems like she ought to be the one set up to take this arc, but she's got nothing like the snark of this guy. Mako is too focused on survival to make a decent boyfriend to anyone, Bolin is sweet but still a bit immature even as he loves whole-heartedly, and Korra is a bull in a china-shop when it comes to her friends' feelings and goals. But Tahno would stand up to her, resist her, zing her, pull her in and push her away- and if he threw her over for a sugar-mama, at the very least he would be loud, proud and vicious about it, and hurting himself as much as her at the same time.
I'm kind of curious about when they'll look into the issue of poverty that seems to be driving a lot of stuff in the background. Who feels helpless and angry? Who gets pulled into professional sports, turned into young gods, then chewed up and spit out? Who's easily divided based on how much better someone else has it who doesn't deserve to? Where do alternate systems of rule come into being that go around the law? Korra realized that the city was out of whack in the first episode, on meeting a bum who lived in a bush.
Just pushing stuff around in my head. I'm sure it'll all seem different once I've seen the whole series, rather than the in-the-moment as we go.
Some of the more logical theory-tossing has turned out to be exactly right, and I kind of like that. At last, something makes sense and has continuity. Amon continues to be badass and scary and now *really* intriguing, and I'm more looking forward to what happens after this again.
The Asami/shipping/Mako and Korra thing continues to spiral into irritating mediocrity without interest or tension, until such times as they eventually confront one another. I want to like Asami, I think she's got the potential to be cool in her own right and a solid corner of a love-triangle- but we don't see a whole lot of her beyond very sweet girlfriend behavior, a little bit of physical badassery, and some very understated hurt. I can't get into her head, really get a sense of who she is. She's almost generically good, and even when utterly betrayed she's very very quiet. I don't dislike her because she's getting in the way of my ship- I dislike the way she's being skimmed over.
I really, really want to see Tahno have an arc. He's got to be one of the most interesting assholes ever to flaunt across a screen, and now that he's been kicked off his throne and utterly wrecked- I really want to see what he'll do next. He's this series' Zuko, arrogant and brash and probably hiding a whole lot of hurt and hate under it, even before he got everything taken away from him. Asami seems like she ought to be the one set up to take this arc, but she's got nothing like the snark of this guy. Mako is too focused on survival to make a decent boyfriend to anyone, Bolin is sweet but still a bit immature even as he loves whole-heartedly, and Korra is a bull in a china-shop when it comes to her friends' feelings and goals. But Tahno would stand up to her, resist her, zing her, pull her in and push her away- and if he threw her over for a sugar-mama, at the very least he would be loud, proud and vicious about it, and hurting himself as much as her at the same time.
I'm kind of curious about when they'll look into the issue of poverty that seems to be driving a lot of stuff in the background. Who feels helpless and angry? Who gets pulled into professional sports, turned into young gods, then chewed up and spit out? Who's easily divided based on how much better someone else has it who doesn't deserve to? Where do alternate systems of rule come into being that go around the law? Korra realized that the city was out of whack in the first episode, on meeting a bum who lived in a bush.
Just pushing stuff around in my head. I'm sure it'll all seem different once I've seen the whole series, rather than the in-the-moment as we go.
