Where to stream Avatar: The Last Airbender. Where to stream The Legend of Korra. Share Selection Facebook Twitter. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Close click to copy. In isolation, unable to escape, she meditated and connected with Aang, discovering the truth about Tarrlok's heritage. However, when Amon and his Equalists ambushed the cabin, she managed to escape. Subdued by bloodbending , Korra lost her bending to Amon.
In the aftermath of her escape, Amon launched his grand attack on the city. Korra and her friends fought back for a while, but the sheer number and power of the Equalists forced them on the run. Korra retreated into the tunnel system of the city, where she would await the arrival of reinforcements in the form of General Iroh and his United Forces.
After this incident, she vowed to take the battle to Amon, and together with Mako, she set out to confront him. After having learned that he truly was a waterbender from the Northern Water Tribe , [24] they eventually found him at the Pro-bending Arena, where he was holding a victory speech. The Avatar freed Tenzin and his children, though when she faced Amon, the Equalist leader managed to take away her bending.
However, as she witnessed Amon on the verge of taking Mako's bending as well, she unlocked her airbending and managed to overpower Amon. Aang restored Korra's bending and gave her the ability to restore that of others. The old healer was unable to, however, and a heartbroken Korra ran off to grieve on her own. There, she finally managed to connect with her spiritual side, and as such, Aang and the other previous Avatars helped to restore her bending, as well as bestow upon her the ability to restore other people's bending.
Having regained her bending and mastered the Avatar State, Korra and Mako became a couple. After the Anti-bending Revolution , Korra extensively used energybending to restore the bending of the innocent benders Amon victimized with his bloodbending [25] and trained with Tenzin to perfect her skill in airbending achieving the status as a fully realized Avatar. Despite the resistance of the dark spirits , Korra managed to open the Southern spirit portal. Although Tenzin wanted her to accompany him on a journey to visit all the air temples, Korra was adamant about first attending the Glacier Spirits Festival.
However, after she learned there from her uncle, Unalaq, that it had been Tenzin and Tonraq's decision to keep her secluded in the compound, she broke with her airbending master and accepted Unalaq's offer to become her spiritual guide. When they made their way back to the Southern Tribe, Korra discovered that in the meantime, the Northern Navy had arrived and occupied the harbor.
Korra attempted to intervene in tensions between Southern Water Tribe civilians and Northern military forces. When Korra learned of Varrick 's plan to kidnap Unalaq, she feared that her father was involved. She thwarted the attempt and discovered Tonraq had nothing to do with the Southern Water Tribe rebels. In an attempt to free her father, Korra confronted Judge Hotah and learned that the entire trial and Tonraq's initial banishment from the North had all been orchestrated by Unalaq.
Enraged, Korra and her friends, with the help of Varrick, freed Tonraq and the other rebels from Northern custody, effectively commencing a Water Tribe Civil War.
With tensions rising between the two tribes and the pressure to do something on Korra increased, she also began to have relationship troubles with Mako and, after he had informed Raiko of her plan to go to General Iroh behind his plan, they broke up. In a last attempt to gather support for her tribe, Korra left for the Fire Nation to ask the Fire Lord for help.
However, she never reached her destination as she was first attacked by her cousins, Desna and Eska, and later ambushed and swallowed by a dark spirit. Korra had to reconnect with her deepest memories in order to find her Avatar Spirit. Korra washed ashore on an island inhabited by the Bhanti , though the attack of the spirit had infected her Avatar Spirit, leaving her without her memory. It was with Jinora's help, however, that she managed to cross over, [34] though soon after they arrived, the girls got separated.
Korra found herself in a dark forest, where she reverted to her four-year-old self, though with the guidance of Iroh , she was able to revert the change. Making her way over to the spirit portals, she discovered that Jinora had been captured by Unalaq, who threatened to destroy the girl's soul if Korra did not open the Northern spirit portal as well.
Korra complied, though as opposed to earning Jinora's freedom, she was attacked by Unalaq and dark spirits. Korra managed to escape with the help of a dragon bird spirit and returned to the physical world. Once inside the Spirit World , Korra tried to close the Southern portal. Having gathered reinforcements in the form of Team Avatar and Varrick's battleship, Korra made her way to the South to enter the Spirit World through the portal there and close the portals from the inside before Harmonic Convergence started.
Although their initial attempt to breach through the Northern defenses at the portal ended up with their capture, the team managed to escape due to Bumi 's intervention. She did not manage to close them in time, however, and Vaatu managed to escape at the start of the celestial event. Korra reached inside Vaatu for the reborn Raava. With the fate of the world at stake, Korra engaged Unalaq in battle. She was overpowered by him, however, and he extracted Raava out of her and destroyed the Light Spirit, effectively severing Korra's connection to all her past lives.
During the fight, she searched the Dark Avatar for a sign of Raava, as she knew that dark could not live without light and, upon the destruction of one spirit, it would always live on in the other.
Distracted by her mission, UnaVaatu took advantage of the unguarded moment to trap Korra's soul with spiritbending. As Korra's spirit was on the verge of being corrupted, Jinora's spiritual projection appeared and revealed Raava within Unavaatu.
Korra pulled the Light Spirit out before using spiritbending herself to purify UnaVaatu, dissipating him in the process. Upon her return to the physical world, Korra declared the Water Tribe Civil War over and the South an independent nation with Tonraq as its chief.
She also announced that both spirit portals would remain open, ushering in a new era in which humans and spirits coexisted. Korra was confronted by Hundun , an enemy that one of her past lives had faced a thousand years prior.
Shortly after the Unalaq Crisis , Korra temporarily lost her bending due to being attacked by chi blocking darts. On a quest to regain her abilities, she fought off the Triple Threat Triad and the residual Equalists, who had all been enlisted by Hundun , as well as hordes of dark spirits. She eventually tracked Hundun down to the Spirit World, where she learned that he was out for vengeance due to the actions of one of her past lives. Despite facing fierce mental and physical challenges, she eventually managed to regain her ability to enter the Avatar State and overpowered Hundun, using her spiritbending to dissipate him and his brother.
In the following week, Korra continued to struggle with the changes that Harmonic Convergence brought. The spirit vines created by the Dark Avatar had taken over parts of Republic City, leaving countless citizens homeless, and her failure to remove them caused tension between her and President Raiko.
Additionally, the shift in the world's energy gave several people across the Earth Kingdom the ability to airbend. After her clash with Raiko reached its zenith and her banishment from the city, Korra and her allies set out to scour the Earth Kingdom in search of these new benders to offer them training and guidance. Korra and Tenzin held off the Dai Li along with the imprisoned airbenders as they prepared to escape. Despite initial failures to persuade the new airbenders to abandon their lifestyle in order to rebuild the Air Nation, they eventually managed to persuade Kai to join them.
Before they could formulate a plan to free them, Lin joined them and informed them of the escape of four dangerous criminals who were after Korra. She dismissed the threat, however, and decided to stay focused on freeing the airbenders. Successfully fighting off the Dai Li and escaping the city, the airbenders and Tenzin traveled to the Northern Air Temple , while Korra, her friends, and Lin continued the search for more benders.
Korra and Naga were sedated by the shirshu-spit darts. Their search led them to Zaofu , where they met up with Suyin Beifong , Lin's half-sister, whose daughter Opal had become an airbender. Although the plan had been to send Opal to the Northern Air Temple, the team stayed at Zaofu for a while on Suyin's suggestion. Before they could escape, however, she was saved by her friends, and after discovering that Aiwei had led the criminals inside the city, Team Avatar left the Metal Clan in order to track him down and find out why Korra was being targeted.
Korra met and talked to Zaheer in Xai Bau's Grove , who told her about his group and their plan. In an attempt to follow them, they staked out Aiwei's room at the Misty Palms Inn , though eventually discovered that the grove was located in the Spirit World.
Korra entered the Spirit World via mediation herself and found Aiwei being confronted by Zaheer. Zaheer promptly disposed of Aiwei by throwing him into the Fog of Lost Souls , leaving the two of them to talk. Being allowed to ask questions, Korra discovered that Zaheer and his associates were part of the Red Lotus, who desired to radically change the world by doing away with the separation of the four nations.
Although they managed to escape the Red Lotus, however, they were captured by Earth Kingdom soldiers since the Earth Queen had declared them enemies of the kingdom. Korra and Asami were captured by the Earth Queen 's forces.
Korra and Asami eventually managed to free themselves and prevent being taken back to Ba Sing Se. Their escape left them and the airship crew stranded in the Si Wong Desert , forcing them all to work together to reach the safety of the Misty Palms Oasis, where they once again met up with Mako, Bolin, Lin, Tonraq, and Zuko and learned that Zaheer had killed the Earth Queen [44] and threatened to do the same with the airbenders at the Northern Air Temple lest Korra surrendered herself to them.
Their forces were strengthened by Suyin and her security force, and the team set course for the Northern Air Temple. On the way, Korra decided that she would give herself up, as it was the only way to save the airbenders. As such, she met Zaheer atop Laghima's Peak , while Asami, Mako, and Bolin would check on the airbenders at the temple, and Tonraq and the metalbenders would scale the mountain to be her back up.
Zaheer double-crossed them, however, and despite P'Li's demise in the ensuing battle, he managed to escape with an unconscious Korra. When she woke up, Korra found herself suspended in chains in an underground prison hold and was administered poison through pores in her skin. She was told the poison would force her body into the Avatar State, enabling the Red Lotus to end the Avatar Cycle if they killed her in the Avatar State.
She tried to fight it off, though she eventually succumbed to the poison's influence, and the Avatar State was triggered. The moment she remained in the state, she was attacked by Ghazan and Ming-Hua.
Using her enhanced strength and bending abilities, she managed to free herself from her chains and confronted Zaheer in a duel while Bolin and Mako took care of the others. Defenseless, Korra was slowly suffocated by Zaheer. With the Avatar State, Korra was able to hold her own against Zaheer, even force him on the defense, though she could not keep up battling both him and the poison, eventually succumbing to its effect.
Rendered defenseless, Zaheer took the opportunity to suffocate her, though before he could finish his attack, they were both trapped in a tornado created by Jinora and the novice airbenders. Freed from Zaheer's hold, Korra managed to ensnare Zaheer and pull him down with her, enabling Lin and Suyin to trap him in an earthen prison. Despite her victory, Korra was left on the verge of death due to the poison within her. When Jinora recognized the poison to be a metallic solution, Suyin tried to bend it out of her, saving her life.
However, the poison had taken a great toll on her, confining her to a wheelchair in a physically and emotionally weakened state. After Jinora's ceremony, Korra changed into her normal attire and was set to board the steamship heading toward the Southern Water Tribe, together with her parents, Naga and Kya. Before boarding, she was given a letter by Bolin, who expressed his delight over becoming pen pals with her. Although Asami inquired if she would be fine on her own as the businesswoman would be happy to accompany her, Korra declined the offer, stating that some weeks by herself to heal would do her good.
Tenzin reassured her that he, Jinora, and the Air Nation would try their best to take care of things in her absence so she could focus all her energy on healing. After another sleepless night, Korra agreed to her mother 's request to visit Katara. She woke up, severely distressed and breathing heavily. Korra went out on the balcony for some fresh air and to look at the spirit lights, where she was found by her mother. Senna approached her, worried about her well-being, and urged her to seek help from Katara.
She agreed and received a hug from her mother, who expressed her love for Korra. While being healed by Katara, Korra was told that the mercury poison had caused considerable internal damage. Inquiring if the elder could fix it, Korra was told that her recovery was dependent on her own efforts, though Katara would help guide her through the process.
Korra expressed her desire to recover and was urged to visualize her big toe moving, a feat she managed to accomplish, much to her delight. Korra subsequently moved to the parallel bars in order to try walking. Leaning heavily on the bars, she managed to keep herself standing, though before she could take a step, she was overwhelmed by the memory of herself being poisoned by the Red Lotus, causing her to lose her balance and fall down.
Although Katara comforted her, emphasizing that she was safe there and urging her to use her mind to overcome her pain, Korra refused to try again, declaring herself done for that day. Throughout her stay in the South, Korra received and read the letters sent to her by Asami, Mako, and Bolin. Korra worked intensively with Katara to help speed up her recuperation from the mercury poisoning.
Korra kept up her intensive physiotherapy training, though nearly six months later, she lost patience due to a lack of significant progress. Lamenting about her inability to take more than a few steps without collapsing, she snapped at Katara in her frustration over being dependent on others for everything while her friends were helping the world, and the elderly woman could not heal her.
Immediately realizing that she should not have addressed Katara that way, she apologized and was told to let go of her anger and frustration. Upon admitting that she was tired of her situation and the senselessness of it all, Katara tried to comfort her by sharing the sense of loss Aang felt over losing his entire culture and telling her he had tried to find meaning in the suffering and eventually even succeeded to find peace.
When Korra asked what she would find, she was offered the response that whatever it was, it would be interesting to find out. Korra subsequently tried to walk again with the aid of the parallel bars and managed to walk the short distance toward Naga, falling happily against the polar bear dog's chest.
Although she had improved greatly, Korra grew frustrated that she had not recovered completely and began to fear that she may never do so. Korra continued to improve, and by the time Tenzin arrived at the Southern Water Tribe compound, Korra had improved to the point where she could once again run around and fight. As the airbending master climbed off Oogi, she warmly embraced him, exclaiming how much she had missed him.
Upon receiving the compliment that she looked great, she dragged Tenzin off toward the training grounds, eager to show him how much she had improved. She sparred against three firebenders, and although she started strong, she was knocked down after she was once again overcome with a vision of Zaheer flying down upon her.
Helped back to her feet by Tenzin, who declared the sparring match to be over, she angrily stated that she believed she had been ready. As Tenzin tried to put her at ease by pointing out that there was no shame in taking the time needed to make a full recovery as her duties as the Avatar could wait, Korra asked about the Earth Kingdom since she knew it was still in chaos.
Hearing that the situation had been stabilized by Kuvira, she grew sad, stating that the metalbender was doing her job. Before Tenzin could tell her that she merely needed to be patient, Korra glared at him, threatening that if he would voice the thought, she would "water-smack" him in the mouth.
Frustrated about the situation, she left the sparring ring. Korra confided in Asami about all her fears regarding her recovering via a letter. For two years, Korra continued her training and recovery at the Southern Water Tribe. At one point, she wrote a letter back to Asami, in which she apologized for not having written before. She revealed that the past couple of years had been the hardest of her life, and even though she had recovered physically, she still could not enter the Avatar State and was often plagued by memories of Zaheer and the Red Lotus attack.
She admitted that she worried that she might never fully recover, despite her best efforts. Korra implored Asami not to inform Mako and Bolin about the letter, as she did not want to hurt their feelings and felt like they would not understand her as opposed to Asami.
Korra learns of Won, the first Avatar. With the help of Jinora, Korra defeats Unalaq. The world enters a new age where spirits and humans live together.
When reports of people suddenly gaining the ability to airbend reach Korra, she travels with Tenzin, his family, and team Avatar to restore the Air Nomads. The Red Lotus, a criminal organization that tried to kidnap Korra when she was young, escapes from prison. Zaheer and his cronies go on a quest to rid the world of its leaders and the Avatar. Tenzin announces that the airbenders will regain their nomadic roots. So i viewed your article to kind of give me a jump start on my ideas and how to go about this project.
I recently made 2 posts one i am still finishing and I was wondering if you could give them a quick look when you have a moment and tell me what you think. Any kind but construct feedback is welcome. Here is the link to the post. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. We'd already watched Avatar , and if anything, that show has gotten better with age. It was time for something different. I got an X-Men kinda vibe off of the pre-release stuff, and could easily imagine enjoying a part miniseries about a teenaged Avatar coming into her own in a more modern and morally complex setting.
I understand that showrunners DiMartino and Knoietzko had some things change on them in the midst of production, and don't doubt that some of the shortcomings of the show were due to those outside factors.
All the same, I gotta critique the show that I watched, and despite the fact that I liked it fine overall, I felt The Legend of Korra had some significant problems. Here we go. Five ways The Legend of Korra went wrong. Spoilers follow. The fundamental conflict of The Legend of Korra was a strong one: If benders are so powerful, what's to stop them from oppressing non-benders?
What happens if non-benders rise up? It's the same conflict at heart of the X-Men comics, and it can lead to all manner of complicated, interesting moral dilemmas. At the start of the series, it looked like Korra was going to explore the conflict in an interesting, honest way—Brash Korra had a few scenes in which she pushed around non-benders, and Big Bad Amon spent his first few scenes talking actual sense about the merits of the equalist movement.
Unfortunately, almost immediately after he was introduced, Amon hopped the bus to crazytown. He stopped sounding like a believable rabble rouser and became a straight-up evil cult leader. Worse, the eventual reveal—that he was a powerful waterbender who via retconned bloodbending could take away others' bending—only served to remove the whole thing even farther from the realm of non-benders.
It became just another jedi-vs-jedi wank, without much of a thought for regular folk.
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