The Legend of Korra

It's okay. The series gives me a strong impression that the creators don't really know how to make a good mini series.
 
Jaxel said:
I'm not liking it nearly as much as the original. The only characters I really care about, are the ones related to former characters. People like Bolyn, Mako and others seem rather flat right now and I could care less about them. The show doesn't seem to have the "brevity" that the original did. Rather than it feeling like the bad guy is changing the world, it instead feels like he's only changing a city.

That being said, Korra, Lin and Tenzin are godlike.
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I agree that Bolin and Mako are less developed but I could see that changing. And doesn't Amon always say first Republic City, then the world!
 
I'm currently catching up on Korra via Animeultima, and I have to say. Wow. Episode 6 was amazing. It had me at the edge of my seat the whole time. I was going nuts at the fight at the end! I'm about to watch episode 7 and hopefully more awesomeness will follow! I really hope they extend the series like they did with the original Avatar.
 
I'm really digging it. I'd dare say it's better than it's predecessor. All the gripes I have about it are stupid little annoyances(e.g. the epicness of metalbending and bloodbending mysteriously becoming more or less common or Amon having an entire armada of blimps out of fucking nowhere), everything seems as good or better than Avatar otherwise.

Korra's gang I'm thinking will be much more fleshed out in the next season(Nickolodeon ordered two seasons IIRC). Bolin and Asami intrigue me the most honestly. We haven't seen much to flesh out Bolin at all beyond more or less making him Sokka 2.0, so I'm expecting something good from him(and not just training with a sword forged fomr random asteroids or lulz). Asami just continues to surprise me at every turn. zZzOMFG, someone dealing with complex, hard-hitting emotional issues in an even semi-mature manner? I'm interested to see what she does next.

Tenzin I've been very pleasantly surprised with. They played him well, giving off the impression he was going to be a comic relief character and BAM! The old master...is an old master!

Mako...I'm expecting disappointment, honestly. He's named after the late actor, that's a bad sign to me that they didn't really develop the character enough pre-production. I have a very similar expectation of the character we were introduced to in episode ten...

Iroh Jr. The character Mako played in Avatar up until he died midway through the final season, which also clearly happens to be played by the same guy as Zuko. I'm probably overanalzying it, but Iroh Jr. has "fail" written all over him to me. Though how the writers handled the actor of such an important character dying at such an inconvenient time is indeed worthy of applause, I just can't help but shake the feeling that they've just set them up as tributes and will be as multidimensional as General Zhao or the cabbage guy from Avatar. I'd prefer being wrong though :P
 
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