#tlok book 3

[juice-box-addict]

JUST WATCHED THE SEASON 3 FINALE OF LOK

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON

so anarchy-extremist is detained and there is seemingly no consideration of what might drive people to anarchy in modern society?? oh and korra is recovering and in a wheel chair so she’s just useless now???

i am just fascinated by how drastically different lok is from atla…

#very dramatic reaction from immediately after the last episode #but you get it #legend of korra #atla #juice box tv addict #anarchy #tlok korra #the legend of korra #avatar: tlok #tlok #tlok book 3 #tlok season 3

[we-will-all-be-stories]

you know, if it wasn't for the murder and kidnapping of a teenager, Zaheer would actually be... kinda based

#legend of korra #tlok #the legend of korra #zaheer #the red lotus #tlok book 3

[christykia]

I stumbled on the end of Book 3 on TV this morning, and after all these years my heart still hammered like crazy watching these episodes!!

I remember watching this so long ago, how I felt then and...Years later the feels are still there!💗💗💗💗💔💔💔

#the legend of korra #tlok #tlok book 3 #korra book 3 was designed to make us SUFFER #so many feels

[persnickety-doodles]

Adored 🥹💕

#tlok #korrasami #persnickety doodles #alicia draws #they’re still friends here #but I adore mine sm so why not? #book 3 korrasami is special to me #lok #avatar

[korrasamibottles]

Sometimes a family can be one red panda one white clifford and four fucked up 18 year olds stalking some gay guy

#stakeout....beloved....... #this is like a renaissance painting. to me. sistine chapel ceiling who #i know they're all between 17 and 19 in book 3 i'm just. averaging them. #tlok #lok

[five-flavor-soup]

literally begging ppl to treat the atla netflix live action as the adaptation it actually is. it’s like a fanfic, y’all. it’s a canon rewrite au. if you want to watch atla with zero changes watch the cartoon.

#natla #atla netflix #treating bryke like gods as though nickelodeon didnt give them a TEAM OF GOOD WRITERS to make atla as good as it became #they were heavily involved with the horrible movie #remember the comics ruining katara? yeah that’s their influence #remember the issues with tlok? they were the main writers #and their self-insert (aang) had zero character development in book 3 of atla btw #i love aang but he didn’t drive the plot. the plot drove him #cough cough convenient rock cough cough

[allgremlinart]

therapist: no noooo don't worry Korra book 3 cover art isn't going to seduce your wife and cuck you dont worry

Korra book 3 cover art:

#I walk in on korra book 3 cover art fucking my wife and I say soossoso so sorry maam to interrupt you... #tlok

[transformers0]

Look at this guy on Twitter saying that the other members of Team Avatar should have accepted Zuko as easily as Toph did.

Dude needs to learn that the real world does not work like that.

He's also even trying to say that Toph's attitude is fine and is justified by her parents' treatment of her.

#Avatar #Avatar: The Last Airbender #ATLA #A:TLA #Fan Dumb #Bad Take #Bad Takes #Zuko #Toph #Anti-Toph #Toph Critical #Zuko Critical #Character Critique #Critique #Criticism #The Western Air Temple #The Blind Bandit #The Runaway #Book 2 #Book 2: Earth #Book 3 #Book 3: Fire #TLOK #LOK #Legend of Korra #The Legend of Korra #Katara #Aang #Sokka #Team Avatar

[everycloudinatla]

Season 3, Episode 1, 15:01-15:21

lovely sunset

#atla #everycloudinatla #the legend of korra #legend of korra #tlok #lok #avatar: the last airbender #avatar the last airbender #clouds #book 3: change #a breath of fresh air #image description #id in alt text #spirits #republic city #korra

[lovegrowsart]

i'll be honest every time i see atla fandom defend characters' unacknowledged flaws/mistakes/underdevelopment using some comic panel or another i have to laugh, as if bryke constantly relying on extratextual material to atla and tlok to try and fix the holes they write themselves into isn't a massive indicator they're generally quite bad at writing a good and cohesive story on their own/when they insist on complete creative control 🫠

#holly talks bs #atla critical #tlok critical #bryke critical #brought to you by atla twt arguing that aang wasn't a bad father because some comic or another showed kya meditating or something like... #you can think it's ooc that's fine #but canonically in tlok itself aang is framed as an at BEST absent father to bumi and kya #and this is pretty much brushed under the rug left unpacked #also only semi related but i saw an atla comic panel whichever one introduces the air acolytes i think #and the girl air acoytle was literally WEARING A PICTURE OF AANG?!?! #genuine question why did bryke want aang rebuilding his nation and culture framed thru this twelve year old KID #having fellow kid groupies with weird cultish worship of him??? #at every turn they make the weirdest choices imaginable when it comes to aang's character #esp late book 3 and post canon into tlok aang #this also goes to out everyone who uses that damn fucking cooking anecdote to refute people having an issue with katara's parentification #never being interrogated generally or in her relationship with aang #great that's it's semi canon aang can book i guess?? that's not a STORY tho #**cook lmao #moral of the story is that i need to stay away from atla twt that place is the Bad Place #just garbage takes and purity culture and dudebros run rampant but it's like watching a car crash happen in real time

[raccoonrabies]

I wanna talk about Asami quickly.

Before starting the show, I thought she would be the basic rich girl character who's kinda mean and jealous girlfriend who hates Korra at first. I wanted to like her but I also was so ready to be annoyed by her.

She turned out to be so cool and nice and I love her so much. She was the biggest surprise of the show. She’s amazing.

#I'm starting book 3 #i need less mako and more asami PLEASE #tlok #asami sato

[morbidmagnolia]

I just realized Aang and Korra have the same glider 💔

(I’m sure people have noticed this before, but I just did right now and my heart has died 😭)

#avatar korra #avatar the last airbender #the legend of korra #avatar aang #atla #tlok #lok book 3

[lifblogs]

Book 3 is just… something else. It’s one of my absolute favorites in the show, but they literally did some of the worst things they could have to Korra on a “kid’s show.” I can’t even begin to list the injuries she has to heal from. And then the trauma is bad enough to make her not want to be alive, and it hurts just looking at her at the end of book 3. She’s so hurt, and there’s so much pain inside, and she’s so tired, and she just… doesn’t want/can’t say much of anything. I’ve been in those moments before, where the trauma hurts so much you can’t speak. I just cannot believe this happened on my screen. I love Korra, and even while some of you know I enjoy intense whump, I still hurt for this character. I might write something. Such beautiful storytelling.

#tlok #the legend of korra #book 3 #korra #trauma

[likeadragonfruit]

Much like last book, anything that doesn’t get its own dedicated post is going into this brain dump post.

Big Picture

Overall flow

This book was a slog from the jump, mainly because how it ended made the prospect of 14 episodes building to that finale daunting

In retrospect, with the entire season finshed, I can say the first six episodes, despite their flaws are “better.” Even though I had such a difficult time watching those on a consistent basis.

I better understand why the “Beginnings” two parter is such a breath of fresh air on the whole for so many people. Even if it does introduce Vaatu, and with him begin the slide in story quality.

But really, there was a precipitous drop in the last two episodes of the book.

Also remember how I said this show had a cast size management problem? Well here’s where it starts worsening. We drop Tarrlok, Amon and Hiroshi… but keep Korra and the rest of the Krew, Tenzin and his family and Lin. Then add Korra’s family, expand Tenzin’s family with Kya II and Bumi II, plus Varrick…

Korra’s spirituality arc:

I- don’t have much to say here

I thought I would, but I don’t

There’s remarkably little to say

Which is odd for an arc that’s supposed to be about rounding out Korra’s knowledge and understanding of spirits and spirituality 

Themes:

The big thing that jumps at me is identity, which Tenzin embodied well. Shame more of that didn’t completely trickle down to Korra

Character opinions

Korra: I’m kind of frustrated and underwhelmed, but less with Korra herself and more how her arc has been handled, and going to be handled going forward 

Mako: I came into this season expecting to hate Mako more than I did in book 1, but that didn’t happen. He, his romance subplots not withstanding, was fine. In fact, his police work storyline was a relative bright spot.

Bolin: frustrates me immensely. Had a good moment or two in this season, but at this point I despise how he’s written.

Asami: she has some good moments, but she’s hurt by barely getting anything to do. In a sense, she’s the Krew’s Toph in terms of having no arc

Tenzin: I’m a little stuck for what to say, here. I guess I don’t hate what they did with him? He does bring up the question of how airbending and spirituality work, but that’s another story.

Bumi II: I don’t hate him, but I don’t particularly like him either. 

Kya II: favorite new addition this season. She doesn’t get too much to do, but she more often than not holds the familial brain cell

Lin: poor Lin. She spends most of the season playing disbelieving boss for Mako’s Cassandra storyline. I still love you tho

Tonraq: meh. 

Unalaq: an absolute mess, but could’ve worked with a clearer sense of where they were going

Eska: don’t hate her but don’t care for her either. She did present a contrast for some franchise weirdness, though.

Desna: I was surprised by how much I liked him. Probably helps that he’s not weighed down by a terrible romance subplot like his sister

Varrick: he’s absolutely awful, amoral businessman and thrives in the role of self-interested schemer who helps when it’s to his benefit

Shipping

sigh yeah, I’m dedicating a section to the messes this time

Even if I wasn’t big on Makorra, the way it’s handled is such a mixed bag. On one hand, when their break up happens mid season, I could see where both of them were coming from. But there are several points of their relationship that feel like they’re written with this air of “women, amirite?” When Mako is having difficulty understanding what Korra wants or needs at the moment

And that’s before getting to the whole amnesia element… 😒

But then I’m not really against or for Masami. They can be cute together, but the way the decided to have them get back together, kinda, felt weird. Then they torpedo that too…

Do I have to comment on Boleska? It was bad, just bad. Made worse by trying to have Bolin get back together with her at the end of the season.

Looking at Varrick and Zhu Li’s dynamic in book 2, and looking forward to the finale, they’re really going to try to pass this off as romance?

Stray observations

Asami and Bolin are actually a good duo and them hanging out before Bolin got swallowed by his dumb plots for the season was nice

Despite generally not caring for the Beginnings two-parter, I did come to find myself coming around on them. I still didn’t think it was a necessary story but it’s well told for what it is.

Also there’s something about Raava saying “we will be together for all of your lifetimes” that just hits 

In “The Guide,” Tenzin brags about the garden at the Eastern Air Temple being the very one that Aang trained with Guru Pathik in. So that’s apparently public knowledge? Oh okay

Why is Unalaq working for Vaatu?

(No really, why is Unalaq working for Vaatu?!)

Despite all my grievances with Bolin’s handling for the book, there’s something wonderfully poetic about Varrick’s plan unraveling due to that “knucklehead earthbender” he underestimated 

At the end of the season, the level of detail for my notes plummeted. Around “Darkness Falls.” I basically gave up.

But I also find it interesting that there’s the decision at the end of whether or not to leave the spirit portals, when Korra is presented with an opportunity to that no other Avatar was: to stop being the Avatar. But there’s not even a debate there, she just wants to reunite with Raava and try to regain her connection to her past lives.

Mind, the “leave the spirit portals open” idea has a lot of ways that it should backfire

The franchise never going to get to deal with the can of worms that Korra’s successor 10,000 years in the future will have both Raava and Vaatu inside them, will it?

From what time I’ve read, this was the most hellish season of either show to finish. It took from May 2011 for the writing process to begin to November 11, 2013 to finish mixing the final episode, which then aired 11 days later. 

And on a personal note, gathering my thoughts on this season was much harder than with the first.

It’s been like pulling teeth to try say what I wanted to about this

Now onto book 3 😬

#the legend of Korra #tlok #TLOK rewatch #book 2 spirits #wish me luck with book 3

[aninounettear]

🥹

#tlok liveblogging 2024 #book 3 is so good

[korrasamibottles]

Korra brings back airbending....Korra sacrifices herself to save the Air Nation.......Air Nation snatches Korra back from Zaheer at the last moment....

#currently experiencing a book 3 derangement episode #lok #tlok