{"id":39803,"date":"2013-11-24T22:36:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T05:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/24\/the-legend-of-korra-book-2.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T16:44:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T22:44:29","slug":"the-legend-of-korra-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/24\/the-legend-of-korra-book-2.html","title":{"rendered":""The Legend of Korra", Book 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
Just finished watching (via DVR, so a week or so later) the conclusion of Book 2 of "The Legend of Korra"<\/p>\n

This has been a very mixed season. The first half was full of Korra … basically being a jerk. \u00a0"You're not the boss of me now. And … yeah, what I just said!" \u00a0And "Korra, even though I am an adult, I am going to say something utterly doltish that will further alienate you and encourage this adolescent stupidity."<\/p>\n

It's not that the basic conflict was unrealistic, but just that people were acting unrealistically stupid. \u00a0And, yeah, people act stupid all the time, but this felt … auctorially<\/i> stupid, purely for the purpose of furthering the plot.<\/p>\n

Which, in the first half of the season, was all over the place, with too many cast member and too many threads.<\/p>\n

The second half, on the other hand, recaptured that frisson of big stakes, big adventure, personal growth story that made the original "Avatar: The Last Airbender" such a joy. \u00a0Oddly enough, once Korra lost her memory and then regained it, she suddenly stopped acting like an idiot. \u00a0Similarly, once the adults in question were faced by an overwhelming challenge (and, even more so, after they faced their own memory loss and madness), they<\/i> started acting like, well, adults.<\/p>\n

The conclusion of the book represents a real game-changer. Where they go with the storyline from here, I have no idea (having not yet read\u00a0http:\/\/goo.gl\/Bskbe4<\/a> yet — though, now that I have, there are no spoilers). But while the first half of Book 2 left me more tepid about "Korra," the second half has brought me back into the fold.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Just finished watching (via DVR, so a week or so later) the conclusion of Book 2 of "The Legend of Korra" This has been a very mixed season. The first half was full of Korra … basically being a jerk. \u00a0"You're not the boss of me now. 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