The Legend of Korra - Book 2: Spirits

I'm worried about Nick's plan on just releasing all these episodes in 1 hour blocks though... It sort of screams they want to get it off the air asap without actually cancelling it?

Honestly, I blame the majority of the season. It was all pretty bland and uninteresting until the Wan storyline. It probably got awful ratings when it started. If not to get it off the air asap, then just to get the interesting stuff shown before people lost interest. I don't think they can really cancel at this point anyway, didn't they officially order the other two seasons already?

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That ending was...messy. And I don't think I liked how it turned out, either.

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Is Korra still the last avatar? It felt like they quickly wrapped it up to cut the show completely but there is going to be a Season 3, no? Also wtp did Jinora do lol that was the most vague scene ever.

I'm pretty sure reconnecting to Ravah basically restarted the Avatar State. She's basically Wan again, no past lives to draw experiences or power from.

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Well, that was trippy. Mind, I guess I should've expected it (you know, with the random Lion Turtle in the finale of Aang's story.

A random appearance of an unmentioned species wasn't nearly like this. Especially since in Aang's story they tended to introduce random animal combos that you'd never thought of before on a regular basis. The only trippy part of TLA's ending was the Spirit Bending to give Aang a way to end the war without killing Ozai, because it was a kid's show and we can't kill in a kid's show.

 My response to the finale

Firstly, I'm surprised Bolin remembered how to Earthbend. Seriously, what did he do this season outside of the finale? Absolutely nothing. His plot was a complete and utter waste of time. All it did in the very end was give them a single boat, that they barely even used. All of the Varrac, Bolin, Mako, and Asami plotlines wasted EPISODES of time. It was all worthless. It was barely amusing in very small doses, but overall it was awful comic relief as well.

That aside....Honestly, I'm not sure I liked the direction they went with this season's main plotline. There was far too many ridiculous and "out-of-character" situations for the show itself. Just the whole giant dark spirit Vaatu vs giant Korra spirit was a tad ridiculous. Plus, the whole thing with Ravah being sucked out of Korra was ridiculous as well. It completely failed at suspension of disbelief, at least for me. The only thing that can combine Ravah/Vaatu and a human is the magnificent power of the Harmonic Convergence combined with the spirit portals. Yet, for no reason at all, Vaatu was able to rip Ravah out of Korra. I literally said, "What?" multiple times while watching these last four episodes. It was never explained at all. It just happened, and we were supposed to buy it after they went through incredible lengths to explain that Ravah and the Avatar were bonded together forever and ever and there was no way to break that bond.

Also, what was the Jinora thing about? Why didn't they go over that at all? They could have ripped out half the Nuptuk storyline and given us an entire episode that explained that sh'it. I understand that there's two more seasons that they have to make, but this ending alone (spirit world and human world combined), without all the other ridiculousness, would have sufficed for an unlimited amount of future material. They've created so many questions for no reason at all. Most of these things will probably never be answered.

Above all of this dislike and annoyance at what they did at the end, I actually like the end result. I feel like having the Spirit World combined with the Human World again opens so many possibilities for what they could do. There's so much new material to explore. I just don't like how they got there at all. Most of it made no sense, at least to me. Maybe I have to re-watch all of it or something, because right now I really feel like I missed a lot, but I can't tell if it was intentional or not.