LAST EDITED ON Nov-24-13 AT 02:13 PM (EST)
 
>>... which bodes poorly, since Book 1 doesn't actually do that very
>>well.
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>>Oh dear.
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>My words were not configured explicitly as those of praise, no.

OK. Caught up now, more or less, and I feel a bit like I've been in a fight, but I'll give them this much: As mid-act endings go, that was pretty satisfying. Weirdly arbitrary, cosmologically questionable, and a bit hurried - they seem to be much better at maneuvering Korra into impossibly desperate situations than they are at getting her out of them without the machinery showing - but satisfying.

The problem remains, though, that... well, OK, let's use Pacific Rim as an example. (Anybody out there hasn't seen it, this is gonna mean nothing, but that's your own fault, where were you. :) Imagine a twelve-hour version of Pacific Rim where, before the hugely satisfying and downright fuck-yeah! Gipsy Danger vs. Leatherback fight, there are, like... forty Gipsy Danger vs. Knifehead fights. The kind where there are some nice visuals and good moments, but the ending is always the hero lying face-down on a frozen beach. That's The Legend of Korra so far. Forty frozen-beach moments for one CONEX double punch to evil's head. The Knifehead-to-Leatherback ratio is just way too friggin' high for my liking. It wears me down.

So yeah. Afraid my analysis of a bit ago is going to have to stand. I love Korra herself on many levels, and her world is very interesting, but her canonical adventures appeal to me much more in the abstract than the concrete, to date. So far, I can mostly work with it for UF purposes - I've managed with far, far worse. It does make for the occasional long damn day in the office, though, particularly as I have colleagues whose mileages vary. There's nothing wrong with that! I do not morally censure differing views of fictional productions. But it does make life more challenging sometimes. :)

--G.
and hey - that denouement did get one thing totally right! actually two. I was really afraid they were going to leave that scar on her face.
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