I kind of loved this episode for the fact that it threw Korra's inadequacies in her face. I was getting tired of her everyone-listen-to-me-I'm-the-Avatar entitled jock manner, and wondering when Bryke were going to break out the political trip-wires they used in 'City of Walls and Secrets' and complexify what seemed a very one-sided depiction of the conflicts in Republic City.
The shot where Korra was looking at the statue of Aang made me tear up - I miss Aang! But at the same time, he was also just as crap at dealing with bureaucratic power as Korra seems to be. I'm really interested in seeing how LoK deals with it, as opposed to A:TLA, where the kids just ran away from occupied Ba Sing Se. I hope we see a maturity in Korra that Aang seems to have not mastered, in understanding the political reality of large groups of people and concentrated power, without a deux ex machina to force a recalibration of that power. I've also read the first 2 editions of The Promise, and I really hope the conclusion deals with these things too.
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The shot where Korra was looking at the statue of Aang made me tear up - I miss Aang! But at the same time, he was also just as crap at dealing with bureaucratic power as Korra seems to be. I'm really interested in seeing how LoK deals with it, as opposed to A:TLA, where the kids just ran away from occupied Ba Sing Se. I hope we see a maturity in Korra that Aang seems to have not mastered, in understanding the political reality of large groups of people and concentrated power, without a deux ex machina to force a recalibration of that power. I've also read the first 2 editions of The Promise, and I really hope the conclusion deals with these things too.