Comments | tanndell: Korra doesn't 'swoon' and Lin is not a man: 3 Fangirls and a Rant

tanndell

Korra doesn't 'swoon' and Lin is not a man: 3 Fangirls and a Rant

Jun 15, 2012 01:12

If you haven't seen Avatar: the Last Airbender or Avatar: The Legend of Korra what are you doing? Don't stay here looking at this post. Go forth, buy, borrow, download. AtLA and Korra are among the most interesting, nuanced, fascinatingly constructed genre television programming I have ever watched, with superbly etched out characters and ( Read more... )

korra; awesome ladies; damn my friends

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keithmex17 June 15 2012, 02:44:25 UTC

This is a good post and you should feel good for posting it.

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swatkat24 June 15 2012, 06:11:28 UTC

Reading through the notes in that Tumblr post now (an accomplishment, since there are 500 of them), I'm finding some great points, like this one: Aang had an element of surprise up his sleeve, airbending, which nobody back then knew to still exist. How do you fight against a style of bending that no one has knowledge of for 100 years? Pretty difficult, dontcha think? I hadn't really thought about this last night, but of course. One of the many reasons Airbending is so difficult is because it's so uncommon, even now - it's an endangered form of martial arts, with Tenzin as the only living master. (It also sort of puts Tenzin's cautiousness to a different perspective, doesn't it. He has to survive so that Airbending survives with him.)

And here: So rather than ask why she’s less competent, I suggest we ask why, even with the highest talent and power, even in crushing Tarrlok, or in single-handedly saving that one bending match, or when, in threatening Tarrlok she wields two boulders with ease, or when, in obvious parallel to Aang in ( ... )

keithmex17 June 15 2012, 06:34:56 UTC

I suggest we ask why, even WITH those things, why she needs to be cradled by Mako at the end of an episode?

What I took from that episode and the ending of episode 8 was that Korra was held captive in solitary confinement without food and water for over a day and a half. Her escape was harrowing and desperate through the grasp of two power-hungry madmen and a shock-happy lackey, down a treacherous mountainside only to be discovered in the snow by Naga. She was totally spent, and dammit, she could have used a little coddling after that experience :)

(though the argument for Mako being the one to do so is on real thin ice for now, but I'll wait for the season to finish up before passing judgment)

zorana84 June 15 2012, 06:35:24 UTC

The first point T and I had read and agreed with. IA Airbending is still so rare, it makes all the dynamics there even more interesting. Though I do wonder if Pema believed in the philosophy from before or adopted those ways after her marriage. It makes the three babies extremely precious too come to think.
The second idek why are we having such a visceral reaction against Korra getting some comfort after almost dying? Aang was cradled again and again and again. Actually one of his refreshing characteristics was that he LIKED being comforted and didn't think it showed ~weakness or whatever. Why are we falling back into these paradigms now!

btw you've spelt tanndell wrong in your orig post magi!

tanndell June 15 2012, 10:05:18 UTC

Oh absolutely. The airbender point is totally relevant. It's also interesting when you look at the Air-Acolytes. A culture of non-benders created to preserve the secrets of air-bending just in case the air-benders come under threat again. Also significant that it is the only kind of bending Korra has not mastered, because it's clearly so important, not just to her as an Avatar but socially and culturally as the art of a forgotten race ( ... )