[Legend of Korra Finale Spoilers] Implied with a sledgehammer!

[gandhi the peacemake]

I compare it to the Dumbledore situation because Korassami is technically canon in that same way that Dumbledore is technically gay.

Dumbledore being gay seems to get an 'uh... okay, I guess' reaction from the Harry Potter populace overall, whereas here there's a clear divide (maybe 40-60 either way, maybe 50-50, maybe more lopsided than that) between those who saw the clues and those who didn't. Or, if you'd rather, those who interpreted whatever scenes as potentially romantic and those who didn't.

So to say that the two situations are comparable other than that the creators came out after the fact to lend their voice to the discussion would be disingenuous. Gay Dumbledore is "technically canon" (if you want to use that phrase to denote canon established after the fact by Word of God) whereas Korrasami is, I suppose, "debatably canon" (to denote canon arguably established during the fact) that has the added benefit of being technically canon.

What amuses me is how so many people are now praising Korra as opening doors for same-sex couples in kids' cartoons when Clarence actually did it first by having two legitimate same-sex couples- one lesbian couple even being the parents of the one of the main characters.

So are you saying that since it's been done before, there's no reason to do it again?

If not, are you then saying that since it's been done before, there should be no celebration and/or praise given when someone does it again?

Of course that's not what you're saying. What you're saying, I would imagine, is that you're frustrated that all this praise is being heaped on Korra without acknowledging those that came before it. It's an appreciation of history thing. An education thing. I can certainly appreciate that. At the same time, I'm still going to praise Korra for doing it.

That's what struck me the most, and why I consider this show a success despite all of its many, many, MANY flaws: Despite all the clues and all the signs, there was still that reasonable measure of doubt that they wouldn't see the payoff they so richly deserved due to reasons out of their control, and they overcame these reasons.

 

[Ishigami]

I had to binge watch LoK in order to see what the commotion was all about.
The series didn?t really click with me in season 1 back in the day despite me enjoying the heck out of TLA and I didn?t pick up on the following seasons.
Anyway I got to say that the series improved in the following seasons and I enjoyed it a lot over all in the end.

As for the issue at hand: Yea okay, that happened.
See I?m well aware of the imagery and I?m not denying the implications it?s just that overall I think it?s not that great of a development in hindsight.
From my PoV Korra and Asami never did anything that close friends wouldn?t have done for each other or to roll it up from the other side: They haven?t done anything exclusively reserved for couples aside from the last scene.
People brought up the letters, hand holding, hugging, blushing etc. leading up to the last scene but those things can all be explained thru normal friendship or behavior for women in the context of these scenes.
What stroke me the most is the scenes after the explosion of the colossous. You see Mako has scene where he gets to visually express his worry for Korras life, Asami does not when she is at this point mutually the most important person to Korra. She is in the frames, like most without any agency whatsoever quite frankly.
Once Korra is back she just places her hands on her shoulder, smiles cautiously and later joins the group hug. May I remind you she just lost her father and later says she wouldn?t have known what she would have done if Korra had died as well? ? I would have expected an outburst of relief and joy there. More in line with what Bolin does, twice mind you. If your argument is that this would be out of character for Asami then I would say: All the better.
Again I am not saying it is not what seems to be, in fact it is, but these scenes demonstrate how poorly or really subtle it is actually communicated to the viewer.
So yea if people feel a bit blind sighted by the very last scene I can understand that.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Korrasami might be cannon, but it's gay dumbledore type cannon. It was never depicted competently and relies almost entirely on two contextually debatable scenes covered in confirmation bias.

http://erraticallyinformed.tumblr.com/post/105943509837


Have a link because I'm texting and can't copy reliably.

So...when was the last time you looked deep into the eyes of your good friend why holding their hands in front of you?

My guess is never because thats almost always a romantic gesture.

 

[Accel]

They held hands in a particular way that has been exclusively reserved for couples while staring into each other's eyes. Add that to the two seasons of buildup and Korra and Asami's relationship at the end is most certainly not ambiguous.

I've already addressed this. There's clearly more than one way to interpret the "buildup."

Dumbledore apparently got a few lines that could maybe allude to it and the author saying so, which is quite different and a pathetic comparison to make.

I'm not doing a side-by-side comparison between the two, but my original point is that the idea remains the same.

"PS by the way guys, they're totally gay for each other!"

Bryke actually confirmed it, because people were running around pretending that it was "ambiguous" and "out of the blue" for no other reason than it was two women.

It's ambiguous because it's ambiguous. If ATLA had ended just before Katara and Aang kissed and instead went out on the note of them looking at each other and blushing, I would have said that that relationship was ambiguous too.

So you complain about them not treating everyone like idiots and beating you over the head with it (at least, more so than they already did), right before you acknowledge exactly why they couldn't.

Not complaining, merely making a point. I'm calling it what it is but I don't necessarily hold it against the creators because I simply don't know what happened behind the scenes (hence the phrase, "to be fair").

As has been said, were any of those characters the protagonist and one of the other main characters? Because there's a difference between the hero being in a same sex relationship and this one character over there that you see sometimes being in a same sex relationship.

Not the main characters, but still an open lesbian couple on-screen, which is still more than what we get in Korra.