Sparky Prime wrote:Aside from somehow helping to bring back Raava, I don't really see that they've pushed Jinora as being anymore significant than any other supporting character in the series.
I dunno, Book 2 worked really hard to make her super-special, giving her amazing spirit-powers that even Tenzin didn't get (Book 2 seemed to go out of its way to shit on Tenzin, but that's a whole other topic) and letting her use her deus ex machine ability to save Korra (and the world) at the last minute out of nowhere. I seriously thought for a while there in Book 2 that they were going to use all the spirit-swapping going around to switch Raava into Jinora's body and BS her into the new Avatar, which likely would have been enough to make me drop the series. I'm glad they didn't, but it's a fine line, and Aang-Jinora from the end of Book 3 is walking that line as well. I don't WANT more kid-airbender adventures, I've got the original series and the comics for that, let's see some progression.
(I actually really hope that, following Korra, they skip ahead AGAIN and we get a new series with a new Earthbender Avatar and a new cast around them. I would not complain about the Avatar franchise just going full JoJo's on us.)
Yeah, I thought he made for a really interesting villain as well. It would have been nice to get a little more about his background as he did seem to already know an awful lot about Airbending and their philosophy when we first saw him in prison. Also thought it was a bit odd he was put in a special prison like the other 3 Red Lotus, despite not having any bending before the Harmonic Convergence. A normal prison would have held him just as well, but I figure they wanted to play it safe given what the others could do even if he wasn't a bender.
I questioned that as well, and was really looking forward to some flashbacks or something showing how dangerous an unpowered Zaheer had been. Sadly, it seems the series didn't have time for it, but there's at least precedent within the series (Sokka, pre-Airbending Bumi, Asami, etc.) to believe that a non-Bender could be a threat.
I dunno, each season of Korra seems fairly self-contained to me, with each season introducing a new villain with their own evil plot.
You sure? Imagine going into Book 3 cold, especially after the huge status quo shakeup it was coming off of, with no context for how the world works, what spirits are, what Airbenders are and why more of them are a big deal, or any of that. It's simply not a show that's friendly for people to jump onto. That's not necessarily a bad thing, since the mounting continuity and ongoing story are a big part of its appeal, but it's also a weakness for the show in terms of getting new viewers (which could be solved with regular reruns, but Nick hardly seems interested in that sort of thing. I know all of ATLA is on Netflix though).
