#no power in the verse can queue me
korra: sorry i killed your dad
twins: lol it’s fine
The CompleteWorldbendingseries.Avatar (The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra) as depicted by Windy-Asylum @ DA. (Pugletto @ Tumblr).
Information/Separate Threads:
- Ancient/World Avatars - The one that started it all.
- Air Nomads - The different Air Nations, as influenced by South America, Africa, and East Asia
- Earth Nation - The different states of the Earth Nation, as influenced by the North American Southwest, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
- Water Nation - Water peoples! As influenced by Hawaii, Mongolia, and Madagascar.
- Fire Nation - A look at the last and final part of the Worldbending series - the Fire Nation! As influenced by Mesoamerica, India, and Japan.
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Mike and I had a nice dinner with three of our friends from Studio Mir who are visiting LA, Young Ja on the left (producer), Jae Myung in the center (president), and Sarah on the right (translator). It was nice to toast the spectacular work Mir did on the last five episodes of Book 2 on the night of the finale. Mike and I met Jae Myung ten years ago in Seoul when he was a key animator working on the pilot of Avatar, and we have been working together almost the entire time since.
P.S. I forgot to mention, we have seen the first four episodes of Take 1 animation from Studio Mir on Book 3. AWESOME STUFF! They continue to blow us away. The premiere date hasn’t been pinned down, but we are on track to airing Book 3 with MUCH less of a wait than the unfortunate one there was before Book 2 aired. We are all incredibly excited for you all to see the new book. For now, I hope enjoyed the Book 2 finale!
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It’s surprising how many people are unable to cope with Korra’s severance from her past lives. “It wasn’t necessary.” “They didn’t have to do that.” Fun note: these are what “real stakes” are in a story. Yes, it’s traumatizing, yes, it’s horrible, yes, I would rather it not have happened, but you know what? It did.
Korra had to deal with a 10,000 year-old threat, a threat that came about because of the actions of the very first Avatar. This was an end-of-the-world situation; is it supposed to be brushed aside and forgotten? Is this going to be some minor footnote in the history books? Nope. This villain isn’t like Amon, who pops up, causes some damage, and gets put back down and everything goes back to normal. Everything’s different now; Korra said it herself: the world will never be the same.
This concept is nothing new to the series, either. The show broke Medieval Stasis by ushering Korra into a technological revolution. That was a bold move. And now they’ve made another bold move by bringing the worlds together and making it so that Korra can’t go back and have Aang help her, or even get Wan to help her. She is now the first New Avatar. She’s the Luke Skywalker: not the last of the Old Jedi, but the first of the New. That’s why this show is called The Legend of Korra.
Remember how Aang lost his entire race and they couldn’t bring the Air Nomads back? The same thing just happened here. It’s cruel, it’s horrifying, I’m still unable to look at gifsets of that scene, but you know what? It happened. And that’s the message here: damage has been done. Everything’s different, and you can’t go back to the way things were. But you can push on and adapt and adjust to the new world.
Furthermore, the inclusion of spirits means that we can no longer predict the technological direction of Korra’s world. They don’t have to jump to using computers in the next century. They can go wherever they want, and it will probably lead to a new direction. The world is no longer “real life with magical element-bending.” It’s completely different now. And Korra is completely different.
And when the 10,000 years are over, Vaatu may return, and maybe this time Raava will have to leave the Avatar and return to fighting him for the next 10,000 years. Maybe Avatar #100 will have to absorb Vaatu into himself and be a dual Avatar, wielding both light and dark. Perhaps Ragnarok will occur 5,000 years after Korra’s death, collapsing the Tree of Time and annihilating the entire universe. Who knows?
But Korra is forging her own legend now. And after the show that she put on, well, you know what? I’m ready. Bring it on. Aang can enter a nice, quiet retirement now…it’s time for Korra and her new generation to take over.
Okay I’m going to try and translate my feelings into something coherent.
It broke my heart to see the connection with the past Avatars severed. I think a part of me died inside when I saw Vaatu tear away Korra’s connection to my baby Aang. AANG.
But this is so important to Korra’s character development. In fact it had to happen.
Because all her life Korra defined herself as being the Avatar, and all she could see in herself was disappointment for not being able to live up to her past lives’ legacies.
But in the finale it was HER spirit that held the power, not Raava’s. It was HER spirit that won the battle, not the spirits or wisdom of the past Avatars. She made an unprecedented decision at the end to leave the portals open. She is her own person. She isn’t just Korra, the Avatar after Aang, she’s Korra, a spiritual leader and strong young woman. She finally connected to her inner spirit and found herself.
She’s independent. She’s strong.
The past does not define her.
Aang’s statue being torn down was a necessary symbolic gesture. As much as it pains me to say this, this series isn’t about Aang. It’s about Korra.
Baby I’m so proud of you.
