Wait, are you just rewatching everything?
Yup.
Book 3 has some of my favourite episodes. The 4 finale episodes are spectacular, of course, but there are also the various Zuko field trips. I also really like The Puppetmaster and the episode with the Roku backstory. Oh, and the space sword!
Don't forget Ember Island Players. Probably my favorite episode of the whole series.
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First book of Korra was decent but the end was really abrupt.
I feel like all the plot lines are really rushed through. There's not much time to stop and think about pretty much anything. To me it feels like they had to cut down on side stuff in order to keep the whole main plot. But I guess it's not that easy with that much shorter season.
Second book got kind of crazy at the end. Not necessarily in a bad way, but in a weird way. Backstory for Wan was probably the best thing in that book. The primary two things that felt weird to me were spirit world info doesn't feel the same as it did in ATLA, though the info in ATLA was so sparse that I can't say that there are actual contradictions. It just wasn't what I'd been expecting; and waterbending's ability to calm spirits seems to come out of nowhere... why is waterbending so special now, when airbenders have always been called the most spiritual of the four nations?
While some parts of AtLA felt overly expositioned, I feel like Book 2 of Korra was not explained enough. I didn't really like the whole
Bolin becomes a movie star plot line, I think the rest of the book was very entertaining.
But the third book feels best so far because the gang is travelling to new (and old!) locations, giving us that grander sense of exploration (note: this is barely a spoiler).
Haven't seen anything of this yet, so I can't comment on it.
There are two things that I think AtLA did much better than Korra have done so far. The first is that AtLA had this epic story that started in the into of the first episode and ended in the end of the last. It felt like a single series. Not three separate seasons. Korra has a very definitive season 1 and season 2.
The second thing is that the characters in Korra aren't as appealing to me as the ones in AtLA. Mako and Bolin are nowhere as interesting as Katara and Sokka. There is absolutely no substitute for Toph, and the villains in Book 1 and 2 of Korra is nowhere on the level of Zuko/Azula/Ozai.
@Awaclus: Happy Birthday?
