Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160225225013/@comment-26018514-20160307184215

Flamegeyser wrote:

Maybe it was a "bit late" (although halfway through isn't TOO bad...) but consider it compared to Makorra, which was supposed to be endgame until the series got renewed (AKA one season, talk about rushed). Makorra could practically be the poster child of awful, forced romances, and I didn't believe it for a second. Also, why do you think that Korrasami has no future? That's a sorta dumb assessment, the spirit world is supposed to be roamed freely, and Tenzin and co. went through it fine. It's a VACATION dammit, it's supposed to be romantic, not tragic.

Also, and I know it's your opinion, but how come you liked the first half of Book so much? I mean I didn't DISLIKE It, but it seems to undo all of the character development that Korra got in Book 1, and made her seem like a bitch, and Unalaq was such an obvious villain. Most everyone I've ever met agreed that the season got better after Beginnings, and the finale was also great (which it had to be, considering the other two seasons hadn't been picked up yet).

Considering the ship literally came out of left field halfway through, despite both being in the series together from what, the first 3 episodes? yes, that is actually horrible pacing.

Season 2 had an amazing hook, and I did not say I liked the first half of the season, I said the beginning of the volume, both Korra and Mako(and Asami tbh) were made out to be bitches at various points throughout the series(I can honestly say I hated Korra as a character in much of LoK, preferring Aang's family much of the time), so I'm not sure why that has anything to do with the first 2-3 episodes of V2 specifically.

I was disappointed by V2's ending because it ended things too tidily and essentially dismissed the fact that the eventual series finale also dismissed... the dark avatar exists now, and is now essentially on an equal playing field as the avatar of the light, unless she jeopardizes that by doing something like dying in the avatar state or in the spirit world(which was never, not once made essentially "safer" for this jaunt KorrAsami had at the end of the series, past the point of exhaustion and without indication it would be "short") at which point the Avatar of the dark is all that remains, with access to Unalaq who knows about everything Korra doesn't, the next gen is still essentially hosed.

As I said, that is not the final interpretation of the ship, they likely won't even come close to dying, but the fact it was left possible is terrible, worst that they seemed almost depressed to the point of suicidal behavior.