The Legend of Korra

That is what happens when the network slashes your budget and you're forced to either do a clip show or fire a bunch of your staff.

Huh… they did? ò.Ô

Yep.

I liked that episode if only because it did a great job of showcasing Mako's character development.

I never watched it because it was a clip show.

It was an awesome clip show though

Aaaand done.

Hum… it was a good ending but it didn't quite feel as epic as TLA's climax. That may be due to the feeling of déjà-vu il Kuvira's treatment and defeat, or the fact that the giant CGI robot burned my eyes forever.

Varrick finally stopped to be (deliberately?) blind towards Zhu Li, Asami and her father made up (although he died afterwards), a new portal was created, Woo realized that the Earth Kingdom's monarchy had become pointless, and all is well that ends well. But… I don't know, it left me hungry for more.

Still, I'll always be grateful to the writers that despite the early love triangle, Korra and Asami never had any grudge for each other and stayed close friends. *watches the last scene* Yep, close. Reeeaaally close… ò.Ô Did they get that close or did I just forget to take off my yuri glasses? If it's the former, it kinda came out of nowhere, but, oh well.

PS: A tiny bit of Fridge Logic: why do metalbenders never use the metal that covers their opponent's uniform when they fight each other? Kuvira clearly showed that it can be bended when she threatened Varrick on the train. Unless the higher officials have platinum on them…

Yup, Korra and Asami did get that close. I am kinda surprised you didn't know already, it was everywhere in the Internet back in the day. It is not exactly out of nowhere. It wasn't much explicitly, evidently, but it have been building up since Season 3. The writers weren't sure they could get away with it, though, so they kept into subtext most of the time.

No, you didn't leave your yuri goggles on. Korrasamai is indeed canon. But Nick's standards and practices limited just how much they could show.

As for being hungry for more... well Aang had a single, massive conflict dominating the plot where as Korra had several different antagonists spread out over several seasons. Avatar ended with that main story close but Korra is trying to rebalance the world that is dealing with the long term changes that Ozai and his predecessors wrought and that's the mission and journey of a life time.

I… think I vaguely remember Doug Walker briefly mentionning the theme of homosexuality in Korra in his editorial about modern cartoons, but since I didn't follow the show at the time I didn't pay much attention to it. But otherwise, yeah, I'm pretty good at avoiding Late Arrival Spoilers for some reason. As for hints, they must have been really subtle. There is the fact that Korra only felt comfortable writing to Asami, I guess.

Yeah, TLA was a long, world-wide conflict that spanned the entire 75 episodes. Korra is a series of smaller-scaled conflicts (although Kuvira did rule an entire nation), and since the seasons are shorter there's less room for buildup, that may be why.

edited 5th Sep '15 4:24:30 PM by Lyendith

Korrasami is something that seems fairly obvious in hindsight. I think a lot of us picked up on the hints over the last two seasons. Most of us just dismissed them because we didn't expect them to actually go through with it.

Pretty much this.

Remember Aang grabbing Zuko from behind to get his piece of fire? Remember Aang telling Zuko, "I want you to dance with me"? We've come to expect Ho Yay not to play out

edited 5th Sep '15 4:41:36 PM by blkwhtrbbt

The thing is, in the absence of specifically romantic words or actions (like the hand-holding at the end), there's really no way to distinguish a deep friendly relashionship from an outright romantic one.

That's why I didn't believe it was canon yuri-end at first.

All true, but I imagine that if one of them had been male, a lot more people would have perceived the ending and the rest as romantic without Bryke's followup posts.

Remember the show has a precedent of Ho Yay going nowhere

To be fair, most of the non-Korrasami Ho Yay (like your Aang/Zuko example) happened between characters who had clear love interests of the opposite sex. Asami most definitely didn't have that in Season 3/4. You could make the case that Korra could've gotten back together with Mako, but she still interacted with Asami a lot more.

edited 5th Sep '15 7:47:51 PM by FawfulCrump

Not sure that's true? I mean, I don't have it on hand, but I recall seeing some posts by some particularly obsessive shippers about Korra's S4 interactions with the team and those gave the edge to Mako.

I don't think the evidence holds up if you admit that the people who compiled it were "particularly obsessive shippers"

Confirmation bias is a thing

I've said this before, but I'll say it again:

I don't think that's a valid argument, ever. Swap Anna or Elsa for a guy and they'll look a lot more like a couple than Korra and Asami did. If you swap Timon or Pumbaa for a female character, they'll look like a couple. Same thing can be said for a lot of buddy cop movies. I'd even go as far as to say Wallace And Gromit would look like a couple if Gromit were a woman.

Male-male, female-female, and male-female interactions cannot simply be assumed to always hold the same meaning, even if what actually happens is precisely identical. That's not exactly a good thing, but it certainly can't be ignored.

That's a question of probability I would say. No matter how it's perceived, between two people of the same gender romantic love is the exception, not the rule − even moreso in fiction, and even moreso on a channel that has "NO GAYS!" in his chart. So when you see two girls talking together, the first thing you assume is "they're friends", not "they're lovers".

But even then… I don't know, Korrasami's interactions never struck me as particularly romantic, or I just didn't pay attention. I'll have to watch Book 3 and 4 again I guess…

That's why there's this page, really.

Was Korra blushing at Asami's complement really that subtle? Most of the other stuff can be written off but that's pretty blatant in my mind.

Huh, I didn't realize most of those small details in B4 before reading that page.

While watching the main one for me was that blush.

edited 6th Sep '15 7:09:41 AM by 32ndfreeze