Legend of Korra Thoughts

Having finale seen the finale and had a chance to chew over some things-

Legend of Korra: lots and lots of bits of awesome, kludged together and hobbled by some really bad writing.  Some of the flaws in the original that I could easily gloss over in my head are magnified and inflamed in the current series- plenty of events happen that I could accept and enjoy if there were long enough and enough justification shown on-screen, but which end up feeling just ridiculous and out of place the way they're strung together as is.

Verdict:  Love Legend of Korra in theory, displeased by large parts of its execution as unworthy of itself, and behavior on part of and perpetrated on characters as unworthy of them.  Yay paradox/cognitive dissonance- I watch this show for my own enjoyment, and I will cheerfully use it as suggested guidelines on which to hang my headcanon, but I can see a lot of fixit-fic and rewrite/extended edition writing in the future.  Not necessarily my future, but I'll keep an eye out for good ones from other writers.

I wonder what they'll do for an encore?