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Legend of Korra, Season 2, Episode 10-

This moment was awesome! And that moment was awesome! Now if only the stuff between and leading up to it made ANY SENSE AT ALL.

I want their writing staff fired. There are these occasional, profoundly beautiful moments, that are just *wasted*. And I'm sick to death of Korra being helpless despite being the most badass chick since Toph, Mai, Katara, and Ty Lee. I'm *sick* of it. That one sequence would have been so cute and had so much meaning, but nothing she does is ever competent and she never gets out of problems on her own recognizance and soseeing her as a little baby girl lashing out and flailing until she's set straight by Irohis just icing on the damn cake. There's flawed and then there's rolling the idiot ball, Sisyiphean style, before you. I don't mind watching her fight and fail and learn again- but I really want that last part in there. She doesn't learn, change or grow. None of her choices matter.

And this nonsense with Vaatu and Unulaq has got to stop. Where is his motivation, what is he going for, and Wan Shi Tong really is the epitome of the intellectual idiot. What the fuck. I am so done. And why would you waste Professor Zei? Spirits should be a bit alien and frightening, but this just makes them seem so- small.

I mean *really*.

There are definitely going to be overhaul AUs. I can't let this stand.

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I like the idea of Mako, I just wish he were carried out better. I wish they'd explored some of the stuff they actually brought up in his and Bolin's background. I could totally see him as a guy who's had to get briar-tough to survive, all to protect the loved one he's got left- but it comes off as complete douchebaggery and what's worse is he's never called on it. In the old series people got *called* on their bullshit, and had to deal with it. This one? Not so much.

And making the major spirits so petty, it's just... urgh. Grr! Argh!

I tend to look beyond the character, how they should've been, would've been if the writing was better and that Mako interests me greatly. I mean, he screwed up in the first season with Asami, but if he had been called on it, the situation would have been far less worse for me than it ended at being.

I mean, in my canon he didn't have time or interest or - well - energy for girls before he started to do pro-bending matches, and after that he really didn't know what to do when two girls showed him explicitly that they were interested in him.

*nod* That's part of my issue with it too. I can totally believe he fumbled the relationships- and I wish they'd left it at that, because there's so much more interesting stuff going on.

Yes! As much as I like them, seriously, I would want to know about other stuff more...