Well... OK, sure, what the hell, I can do one more. Bryan, Mike, can I see you at Camera 3 for a second?

... Wow, you guys. Just... wow.

OK, let me just start by saying that you guys are fantastic worldbuilders and - when you are on your game - character designers almost without peer. I really mean that. Which makes it all the more painful to observe that that's all you should be allowed to do. You kind of remind me of Joe Quesada. Heard of him? Amazing comic book artist. Drew some of my favorite comics of all time - DC's revival miniseries of The Ray from the '90s, for instance. Incredible stuff. Never should have been permitted to write, let alone edit, one comic book, far less be in charge of an entire universe, but that's what happened, and today we have, well, we have 21st-century Marvel Comics. You see where I'm going with this?

You had one shot left with me going into this weekend, and while on some level I cannot help but be very impressed with the extravagance with which you blew it, the fact remains that you did. Spectacularly. In a fashion that kind of reminds me of Arthur Zimmermann. You guys went to art school, so you probably have never heard of him - he was Imperial Germany's foreign minister during World War I. In 1917 he sent a coded telegram to Mexico asking them to join a secret alliance with Germany and invade the United States if the US decided to enter the war in Europe. The British intercepted the telegram and passed it on to the US government. American public sentiment at the time was such that many people believed it was a British forgery intended to trick the US into the war...

... but Zimmermann shot that down himself by flatly admitting that it was real, not once but several times. In so doing, he turned all that pro-German feeling in the USA against his country in an instant and all but guaranteeing American entry into the war - particularly after Mexico, terrified that the US was going to launch a pre-emptive strike, nearly trampled itself rushing out refusals to get involved.

That's about how bad you guys screwed up your last chance to keep me on side. I'm really kind of in awe. On the one hand, you somehow managed to resolve that dipshit plotline without carrying it across the season break, so props for that, but how you did it left a terrible (one might almost say metallic) taste in my mouth - and then that's the ending you went for? For fuck's sake, that's just wanton cruelty. All this time I've been holding out the slimmer and slimmer hope that there would at least be some kind of payoff at the end this time, but no. No, the "payoff" turns out to be the worst thing you've done to Korra yet.

So that's it. I'm done with you. Hell, I've half a mind to go and change that "created by" credit, which I've been very assiduous about including on all the stories of mine that use characters of yours, to "rescued from". At this point you've turned your show into a Dark Revenge Parody of itself. Normal creators invent a strong, engaging, wonderful character like Korra and then watch in horror or avert their eyes while a particularly perverse stripe of the fandom comes up with new and ever more creative way to torture, humiliate, and degrade her. You guys, on the other hand, have apparently decided to just go for that yourselves. It revolts me and I am finished with it.

I hung on for as long as I did because of the aforementioned faint hope, and because bailing would've felt like abandoning a friend to an abusive relationship, but the former has now died and the latter, well... I'm dealing with the latter in a different way now, and your "services" will no longer be required.

That's all; you may go. Good day to you, gentlemen. I wish you success in your future endeavors, although I hope that success takes place outside my cultural sphere.

I said good day!

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