So my babynerd queen Jinora did save the day, ultimately, which is pretty cool. Admittedly, at one point Unavaatu almost wins until Jinora floats down from the sky with with Raava like Tinkerbell Jesus. Given there’s more than half the episode left at this point, I assumed there’d be some sort of plot twist, and the tree bullshit wasn’t actually going to be the way she’d defeat the big bad, but no… that’s all there is. Korra uses her newfound phenomenal cosmic powers (…iiiiitty bitty living space) to book it to Republic City, where she and Unavaatu proceed to wail on each other.
It makes no sense! The writers spent a whole season creating this massive problem for Korra to solve, and then they pull a convenient solution out of their asses at the last minute with absolutely no buildup! It’s Heroes season one-level anticlimactic.Īnd we have two seasons left! How can any baddie possibly pose a threat to Korra now that it’s established that even when she’s not even the Avatar anymore she can literally tap into the cosmic energy of the universe and become a big blue meanie powerful enough to quite handily defeat the literal incarnation of everything bad in the universe.
“Wan became the Avatar because he was awesome, not the other way around, and so are you, so you should have no problem connecting with the deus ex tree and blah blah magic.” By that logic, couldn’t anyone who shares Korra’s virtues do the exact same thing? They’re just bullshitting the mythology at this point.