Korra Discussion Post: 'The Revelation'

[whitelotusmods]

This is a post where you can discuss this week's episode* and link to your own reaction posts.

Spoilers for the series up until 1x03 below.

*(eeee I still can't over the fact that there are going to be new episodes every week now I am so excited. :D)

Comments

[talibusorabat]

so we (the audience) don't have to deal with the consequences of what Amon is doing through the lens of someone we care about; like the characters, we can view it from a comfortable distance ...

I don't know. If the episodes were longer, maybe, and not geared towards kids, maybe, but I feel like taking away Mako & Bolin's ability to participate in the pro-bending tournament would be too much for 12 22-minute episodes to handle. You'd either have to add in another bender character, or you'd have to show how Mako & Bolin deal with being evicted, jobless, and having to rebuild their lives yet again. Which would be really interesting, but I don't think you could have both that storyline and the Equalist storyline in just twelve episodes and do either of them justice.

I also feel like having that happen right after we find out about the boys being orphans and what they've had to do to survive on the streets would push the show too far into really depressing territory. Bolin is a great big golden retriever of love... there's only so much I can watch him suffer while still being entertained. >.>;;;

[sholio]

Heh, yeah - I don't mean to be Squeeharsh McBuzzkill here, and I do think that a lot of my reaction to the show are simply things that it's not going to be able to deliver in a half-hour kids' show. High expectations much, self?

That said, I think most of my dissatisfaction comes down to being unhappy with how the central conflict is being handled (most of the rest of it is more along the lines of "wouldn't it be cool if ...?"). I agree with your comment above that it probably won't stay this black and white, and it is possible that it's only being set up so black and white at the beginning to make it more shocking for Korra when the rug is pulled out from under her feet. And I do love the shiny, squeeful, kids-throwing-fireballs-around aspects of the show, too! I just wish they were giving us a little more nuance in the Equalists' point of view, but perhaps that is still to come.

[talibusorabat]

Dude, I would totally want to be Squeeharsh McBuzzkill for the NAME ALONE.

But yeah, I feel you. I do think the story they want to tell would have been better served with a 24 episode season rather than a 12 episode season. The pacing feels SO FAST to me, and not in a fun way.

Not that the episodes aren't fun, because I'm totally along for the ride. It's mostly after the episode ends that I'm like "...wait. But where's...what...that went fast." I had the same issue with The Promise. The pace in the first book moved so quickly, I barely had time to breathe, much less truly connect with what the characters were feeling.


But I do believe more nuance for the Equalists is to come. If only because I have to. XD