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The thing that bugs me about the end of LoK

~Shockwave~

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I think I pinned down what's felt off about it.

 

At the end of Avatar, after the final battle, Aang was shown standing triumphantly on one of the rock structures in the middle of where the battle with a slow, powerful version of the melody that's heard in quite a few of the AtLA and LoK music pieces. followed by a little bit of a time skip when we got to see how everything turned out.

 

Korra didn't get that. The final battle ended in a huge literal bang and then just fell off a cliff into having a conversation with Kuvira and then her surrendering and it's all over. We get a little bit of winding down at the party, a few conversations, and Korra and Asami running off together.

 

No triumphant fanfare while Korra stands with a backdrop of the gutted city, No crowning of the earth king that we now know actually might deserve the title.

 

I still like the finale, but those moments between the end of the final battle and the actual winding down just doesn't sit well with me.

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using spoiler tags simply because eh. with that title i don't expect anyone who hasn't watched to come in, but better safe than sorry i guess

 

 

About the king thing

 

Wu said he was gonna let the Earth Kingdom stop being a Kingdom and just let them all govern themselves and choose their own leaders. So we didn't really need to elaborate on his coronation, because there wasn't going to be one.

 

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Interesting, I hadn't thought of that.  If I had to take a guess, I think it was done because of the differences between Aang and Korra.

 

Aang was raised a peaceful nomad and never wanted to be the Avatar, so at the end of his story we get to see him triumphantly embracing that power and everything that comes with it.

 

Korra started out as a hot-headed warrior and calms down over time, and eventually becomes enlightened enough to show mercy where she wouldn't have shown it before.

 

The powerful shot of Aang can be seen as a portrait of the final destination of his development, I guess.  Korra, whose journey has always been more of a spiritual/internal one, instead has a discussion with Tenzin where she accepts everything that has happened and looks to the future with calm hopefulness.  Same basic principle, just presented differently for the protagonists' different needs: each has gained what they initially lacked.

 

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