June 2012
104 posts
How You Can Have a Bunch of Great Ideas but Still Fuck Up Real Bad: A Korra Essay
Hahahaha ever since Saturday the Korra finale seems to make me angrier and angrier. As a storyteller and as a fan of solid storytelling, it is an atrocious mess! I stand by the creators are amazing directors, amazing concept artists, amazing producers, but wow are they terrible writers. They have absolutely no understanding of dramatic convention, and so the first season of The Legend of Korra suffered greatly from terrible execution, and the core ideas were so good it should’ve been a gamechanger. It should’ve been the most brilliant thing on television and instead we were given a 12-week narrative case of blue balls.
Disclaimer: if you enjoyed/love/fanatic about Korra, by all means continue to do so! I enjoyed a lot about Korra. In fact that is why I am so frustrated. But that aside, this is meant as a critique and a dissection and as such you can take it or you can leave it. Nothing I have to say will change the show, nor will anything I have to say will have any effect on what season 2 will bring. Mostly I have been ranting about it to everyone on a daily basis since Saturday and this is my way to finally just. get. it. all. out. So this is me shouting into the ether for my own cathartic glee.
Cool? Cool.
This right here, THIS FREAKING MAKES A BUTTLOAD OF SENSE. I just wish Nick had actually thought it through and dumped all the ‘filler’ stuff in order to have a mind blowing series.
Had a dream
Where I was part of a basketball team (red and white uniforms), and was running late to the finale game. Thing is, the game kept getting postponed even after I got there (game should have started at 9:45, I was like, in the court RIGHT at that time, but it hadn’t started yet). Kept waiting for the game to start, it kept not happening, and then someone from the other team gathered all of the crowd and players together at the right side of the court, and a play happened using players from both teams; This caused the game to be cancelled.
Not sure what to make of this dream to be honest o.o
Avatar: School Time Shipping
Based off this ATLA short (for people new to Avatar, I highly suggest watching it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFDbJfGZMhM)
GAY BRIGADE PARTY OF 1: a neat perspective trick that you should know →
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say you drew a box and you want this box to become, I don’t know, a building:
and you want to divide the sides of the box in half, so you can know where to put the windows and doors and whatever! if you eyeball it, you’re probably going to miss the…
Shite box: battybravery: The more I look at it, the more I think that this look:... →
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The more I look at it, the more I think that this look:
is almost exactly like this one:
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Now, I’m just as disappointed as anybody at the fact that Bolin’s attraction to Korra was just completely skipped over in the later episodes, but judging by that look he gave…
