The episodes leading up to the finale were spectacular. Tarlock's bloodblending and Chief Beifong's sacrifice really got the show into its stride for me.
But the finale was kinda a let down for me, surprised when I was looking around and found so many people that were left amazed. Couple reasons:
-Why did General Iroh just leave all of his men after the bombing raid? Not much of a finale compared to the invasion of the Northern Water tribe or Day of Black Sun invasion.
-I felt like most of the fighting was not up to par. I'm looking at that weird final airbending fight with Amon in the end where she just wills through his bloodbending, and the scrapped beach invasion wasn't at all that epic. But badass firebend wall-run and General Iroh made up for some of that.
-I liked how the whole Yacone family were the enemies through out the show and where tied together, Kinda made the show have more focus for me, like how Aang had only one problem. Though their actual story wasn't as inspired and how it was pushed out felt forced
-I still don't get how bloodbending and energybending are doing the same thing. I figured the bloodbending was doing something in the brain or physical while engerybending was more spiritual. They explained how Amon doing his shit by using bloodbending. Nothing fantastic about that, but energy bending is!
-I was hoping they go a more mature or interesting route with the romance, but the Mako and Korra thing is just so much suck. Asami deserves so much better than that.
-this a really small one, but I thought the Aang bringing back the bending was kinda a cop out and if Korra was left with just Airbending it would have left so many possibilities for the next season.
-I didn't really follow the Amon psychology trip and it kinda really deflated the whole mystery.
--Next Season, I always thought the Equalist revolution was a much less epic story than Aang's, but now that its resolved I definitely feel like the series suffered from not having an epic over arching tale. Amon proved to just be a crackpot, mystery solved. No continued story is even implied!
I did think the suicide was pretty intense. And since Maco and Korra are together I guess they have no where to go except down, which should be good. Or maybe they actually put some relation building into that romance.
Hopefully next season they really got a good story put together. I got chills when I saw the painting of the Original Team Avatar with Tenzen's narrating about their amazing exploits. I can't really picture the same with this generation and they kinda rapped it up so maybe they'll go in a better direction next time.
Though for the what I do like about the Legend of Korra, ATLA is definitely one of my favorite shows, and the Legend of Korra can ride on those coattails for a long time.
spectrenihlus said:
Also the only part that seemed rather weak to me was when Naga rescued Iroh, Asami, and Bolin from the prison. I felt that was kind of deus ex machiny.
I was trying to figure out why they got caught at all. Why invent technology I don't think we even have today just to have them be broken out three seconds later cheaply. I think recall a ten second talk Asami had with her father, but nothing substantial. I guess that joke about the "Why are there fence posts?" was kinda funny. Though I just realized they had to be walking shoulder to shoulder for what happened to have happen.
