Legend of Korra 3.09 and 3.10

[lizbee]

It's not through any lack of love that I didn't do a LoK post last week -- just that I was in immense pain on Saturday, and pretty much watched the episode, went to the movies to see Guardians of the Galaxy, stopped in at a friend's birthday drinks, then went to bed at 5.30 in the afternoon. And the rest of my weekend was spent catching up on everything I didn't do on Saturday.

(I was awake for a period on Saturday evening, during which I ate dinner and drew this, which went on to get more notes than anything I've ever drawn. Painkillers, man.)

Anyway, I threw some semi-coherent thoughts at nonelvis last weekend, and here they are:

- I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY MANAGED TO MAKE UNALAQ EVEN WORSE! Do we think he visited P'Li in the secret ice prison? I'M BETTING YES.

- But seriously, Zaheer, did you not notice that one of the dudes in your anarchist revolutionary collective was one of the government leaders you guys were aiming to destroy?

- The ongoing lesson of LoK: when a guy who already has power joins your revolution, you are ideologically fucked.

- I kind of wish I shipped Korra/Asami, because that ending is just an entire kinkmeme waiting to happen. Oh well, I will always have Korra catching Lin as she passes out.

- LIN. ZUKO. FIELD TRIP. DRAGON. I might just write it myself, as soon as I finish the Lin/Aiwei I started yesterday.

(Note: I have NOT finished the Lin/Aiwei fic. It's like, not even a thousand words. But Aiwei is really hard to write.)

Anyway, unlike many people (it turns out), I never had a problem with Unalaq as a villain, except that he is so far the only villain of LoK who doesn't have much of an ideology beyond "yay spirits". So I'm fairly pleased that now it turns out he was a would-be anarchist who screwed over his comrades and wound up entirely corrupted by power.

Also, Zaheer is inappropriately sexy, and it's distracting. This is like Fire Lord Ozai levels of attractive. Like Tarrlok with his hair down attractive. It has got to stop.





I TOTALLY DID NOT SEE THAT COMING. The assassination of the Earth Queen, I mean. I can't believe they showed that on ... well, they didn't show it on television, did they? I wonder if all the on-screen murders are part of the reason LoK was moved to digital?

Fandom has long speculated about how Monk Gyatso managed to kill so many Fire Nation soldiers, and the general theory did involve "bend the air out of their lungs". So now we get to see it, and it's amazing and also horrifying.

I totally saw it coming that Lin would team up with Zuko to find Korra. FIELD TRIP. Only I didn't anticipate Tonraq. (I have this mostly-crack theory that Zuko is Lin's father? Well, I say "crack" only to cover myself because there is no evidence whatsoever; I actually totally believe it. Anyway, father-daughter world-saving trips: I'm here for that. And Asami, who frankly needs a new surrogate dad anyway.)

Other things: I really miss Opal and Su. I didn't expect them to become such a big part of the show for me, but there it is. It's strange that with LoK I'm all about the Beifong Matriarchy Hour, where Toph was a character I liked in AtLA, but not necessarily a favourite, except when she's kissing Azula.

It's strange, though, we're close to the end of the season, and we still don't know where or how it's going to end. Like, I think by this point in book 2 we knew it was building up to a fight between Korra and Unalaq and Raava and Vaatu, but here, we still don't know precisely what the Red Lotus's plans for Korra are. Except that she's obviously no longer of an age where they can brainwash her. This isn't a criticism, except that I'm desperately curious, and also the Red Lotus are great and I want to hang out with them more. (I am 100% in favour of making friends with the bad guys, sorry, Mako.)

Comments

[nonelvis]

A tiny part of me is questioning whether the Earth Queen is really dead, since we never see her die (only come so close to it that it's the obvious conclusion) and neither Zaheer's nor any other broadcast outright says she's dead; the Red Lotus could instead just be holding her captive. But then the rest of me goes, holy shit, would Bryke really take that scene as far as they had if they didn't want us to believe the Earth Queen was dead, and besides, Zaheer isn't the kind of guy who goes for half-measures.

[sianmink]

I want to know which two out of three Bolin got right about Ghazan! Did his mustache grow in at age 10? I'd about believe it.