The Finale: 111 and 112 [Spoilers]

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Makorra fills me with a lot of rage at this stage.

I was thinking "omg Tarrlok and Amon are so cute as brothers" BUT THEN NO TARRLOK KILLS THEM BOTH HOW IS THIS EVEN A KID'S SHOW OMG!?!?!?!?!
*dead*

Dude, seriously, when Mako went up to Korra and was all "I LOVE YOU KORRA!", I pretty much facepalmed, but then Korra was all "NO I CAN'T" and ran away and I was thinking "YES KORRA YES REJECT THAT MAKO REJECT HIM!!!!!!!!" even though I knew she was upset about losing her bending but I thought that, you know, she had some sort of sense that whatever game Mako was playing with her and Asami was wrong.

But then of course there was the whole "I LOVE YOU TOO MAKO!" and there was more facepalming.
Like... did Mako even break up with Asami?
Also, I felt so bad for Asami throughout the whole thing. She has a douchebag of a boyfriend who goes around telling Korra that he loves her AND a douchebag father who tries to kill her.

But yeah... I was a little disappointed about the fact that, uh, nothing was really explained at the end of it? Like... hey, whoa so because Amon can bloodbend, he can also take people's bending away? Does that mean Katara can take people's bending away too? And I was waiting some sort of an explanation about why Yakone and Amon and Tarrlok can bend when there is no full moon but there was no explanation for that either. It was like "we bended during the full moon... and then we bended during the not-full moon! YAY!"

I need to re-watch it though before I can actually write down proper thoughts because I'm still not actually thinking properly.

All of your yes?

Did we watch the same episode?

It left me with... So what now?

I feel as if it all rushed to a conclusion. I DESPISED Makorra coming to fruition, you learn about Amon, Amon is revealed, then POOF. No Amon. I was expecting, and glad Korra lost her bending. I was like, "Great! Season two is her spiritual journey!"

Nope.

We just couldn't have nice things because she just POOF. I'm the avatar and now I understand how to tap into my spiritual consciousness. Bullshit. It REALLY irked me.

So what now that she's got her douche boyfriend and an avatar spirit, which she now can heal people? Okay, Republic City needs to be rebuilt in a sense. But there's no force to rise against. She still needs to journey spiritually, but there's no urgency. She probably can choose not to, either. Korra just has shit handed to her constantly.

I just finished up the finale at least. Let me just say, that with all that has happened, and the music setting off the mood, I was very close to coming to tears myself.

I do realize that there were come complaints about some things being too brief, abrupt, sudden, and just simply not well explained, which could have easily made the season a little bit longer to look more in-depth in detail.

Poor Mako... He seemed to have picked out a poor and devastating time to spill out those words. The whole romance throughout the season was.... I wouldn't say overdone, but perhaps showed a bit more than necessary, although at the same time it added quite a bit of touch.

I didn't want to say too much here that connected with the episode itself, since I wanted to save quite a bit of it for the Season Two Speculation thread, but this is something I'll have to see again. Perhaps a whole twelve episode marathon.

Of course they are insinuating Aang is healing through Korra... But even then it should have taken time. Like learning the elements. She's born to bend all, but needs direction. Spirit bending doesn't just happen. I wish they could have saved the spiritual mumbo jumbo for later. It feels too soon.

I don't know. I'm judging her unfairly. I keep comparing her to Aang.

Is anybody else mourning Tarrlok? No? Just me? Great jumping jehosaphat, when that man opened the fuel tank, my whole body shook. He could have electrocuted Noatak, bloodbent him into the sea, just about anything, but he chose to die with Noatak. Was he trying to end the line of superbloodbenders? Did he come to despise himself when he found out who Amon was?

Moving on, I agree that Korra's energybending seemed a wee bit early, but remember that she's been in training for the vast majority of her life. Aang wasn't. She knew that energybending was possible. Aang didn't. It's not completely without reason.

I think Lyssa's probably right that the Avatar Spirit (Aang, Roku and Company) are healing through Korra at the moment, but Korra's certainly got the spirit strength and probably a general know-how that gives her the advantage Aang never had.

I looooooooooved her airbending kicking in to save Mako. She knew all of the pieces, knew all of the steps to airbending. It seemed appropriate that it would take the prospect of losing someone for her to fuse her spirit with her physical presence.

Also, this begs the question--is there something fundamentally different about Airbending or did Amon not know how to block that kind of bending? He had only "neutralized" water-, earth-, and firebenders before--is there a different technique used to redirect the chi flow of each? Or is airbending so spiritually oriented that bloodbending alone cannot remove it?

Makorrasami needs to die. Asami--who I think has the potential to be a really great character--has been constantly marginalized. The plot keeps getting sidetracked into love triangle world. Since his removal as a love interest, Bolin has been pushed aside. The sad thing is, I love Makorra in theory. I think they make a good couple when it's just them. But they've ruined it.

Why, why, why, why, why wasn't there more Iroh and Bumi?

Also, where's Kya?

And, most importantly, CHIEF BEI FONG GOT HER BENDING BACK. This makes me happy.