green_apple | korra ep 10

whose title i can't remember because my mind is pressed enough as it is.

this is sort of what my emotions are doing atm:

LIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dante Basco, tho
BUT LIN!!!!! LIN!!!!!
Badass Upgrade for everyone and their mother.
YEAH, BUT LIN.
Holy fuck, Naga. Holy fuck.
L.I.N.
the lieutenant must have gained his position simply by outliving his predecessors. Maybe Amon saw the wisdom in having a 2IC with such resilience. Even if he is kind of very inept.
LIN BEIFONG YOU SHALL BE AVENGED AND NOT FORGOTTEN AND AMON IS FULL OF IT BECAUSE SUCH SHIT CANNOT HAVE BEFALLEN YOU.
Bit peeved at how the airbabies just BUMPED equalists into unconsciousness. Like, Jinora was awesome and made sense, but Ikki and Meelo? They just BUMPED (or farted/burped) EQUALISTS INTO THE FLOOR AND THAT MEANS THEY'RE OUT OF COMMISSION?
LLLLLIIIIIIIINNNNNN :: wails::
Dear Korra: every time I think I cannot possibly love you more, you uncover further depths into which I can fall for you.
LINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
Finally airbending has uses that do not involve fun and games (why am I so annoyed at Aang today? I don't get it...tho maybe it's tumblr's fault)
OMG MY LOVE LIN!!!! JUST AS I WAS YELLING ABOUT HOW PROUD TOPH WOULD BE OF YOU, YOU GO AND MAKE HER EVEN MOAR PROUD BECAUSE FUCK YOU AMON YOU AIN'T INTIMIDATING THIS FIERCE BITCH.
For a fraction of a second I was all, please please please do not name that child Aang because there is only so much sap I can handle. And then he wasn't named Aang (and there were lovely family moments in which they were all family-like and adorable and then Korra's all d'awww dis be cute and all, but equalists. And Tenzin goes into papa wolf-ish mode and folk were making sense and Korra accepted she needed to wait BECAUSE SHE'S LEARNED STUFF EVEN NONE IF OF THAT STUFF CULMINATES IN A MEASLY PUFF OF AIR.)
AND LIN WAS ALL YOU'RE THE LAST AIRBENDERS AND AMON CAN'T HAVE YOU BECAUSE I SAY HE CAN'T.
But General Iroh (saaaaap), tho.

And finally, because these are the two points my heart keeps on bouncing off of:

LIN LIN LIN LIN LIN, and
General Fucking Iroh (which also stands for ZUKO OFFSPRING and DANTE BASCO, btw. He's a multitasker like that. And Korra apparently knows him? and had a humongous crush on him when she was wee and which developed when Zuko took him to visit Katara at the South Pole because bffefery needed to be had. Korra would stalk them while Iroh just sat despondently on a chair in a corner watching his grandfather play pai sho with his LIFE-LONG FRIEND AND POSSIBLY LOVER AT SOME POINT BUT HE'D RATHER NOT THINK ABOUT SUCH THINGS BECAUSE WOW, NO. He taught Korra how to play hide and explode and ended up actually enjoying babysitting the avatar, after all. They send birthday cards to each other every year. Also, this dude's had one line so far and already I headcanon'd. I am hopeless)

In conclusion
pino can't

(this gif is perfect because Zuko + General Iroh I. And ALL MY LIN FEELS)

Oh man, emotional exhaustion via cartoon characters. Who'd've thought.

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Did a marathon of sorts. :D

1. There are too few scenes of Korra being awesome. Because she is and she needs to be shown that more.
2. I really like Asami. And Bolin. Therefore I shall ship them. (No, not really but I wouldn't mind.)
3. It's really strange because I like fire (I mean Roy from FMA is a huge favourite of mine and I love watching him fight with fire) but I've become so disinterested in Mako. I've seen a lot of unhappiness about him on tumblr but I don't feel negatively towards him. I just don't really care about him. He's managed to become more and more uninteresting as time goes by. Of Team Avatar, he's like their A direct contrast to Asami btw.
4. Lin is cool and badass although not so keen on how the kids managed to save her and beat the equalists when everyone else has such problems with them. Oh well. I suppose they had the element of surprise. But oh god, her last scene.
5. I've sort of given up on there being more insight into the non-benders POV already. I mean there was a little I think in episode 8 but then well, it's just a clear black vs white sort of fight I guess. And the non-benders don't really matter in that fight. Apparently, only unreasonable, power-hungry, evil non-benders join the equalists.

That is the best way to watch anything you'e behind on, I think.

1. Korra is extremely awesome. And a part of me wants to wail because ofc the female lead has to deal with the EMOTIONAL stuff to the detriment of everything else. Like, she is perfectly capable of handling mushiness of varying degrees WHILE getting her MULTIPLE ELEMENTS BENDER hat on. It is not rocket science. I mean, she has grown heaps since the beginning, but it's mostly about emotional maturity and while this is HUGE IMPORTANT STUFF, it's not all there is to her, except it feels like it is. She's the Avatar, have her deal with the political/social issues that come with it; have her bending on all the levels that her toddler self told us she could manage.

2. Hahaha, I am mostly indifferent to Bolin at this point, but Asami does bring out a more serious (read: makes him get serious) side to him, so I would be down with this. Besides, he'd worship the ground she walks on and she kind of needs that kind of emotional support that shamelessly borderlines devotion rn, after what she's been through. Asami's straightforwardness continues to be my favoritest thing about her, which is why I think she'd be good for Bolin, she wouldn't let him just make a joke and get out of it. I want her to have a one-on-one with Korra because there is a lot of good will between the two of them, but there's also a few scratches that could fester and grow into actual wounds and ultimately tear them apart. Do not want.

3. This is my general disposition towards Bolin, tbh. Mako still feels interesting to me mostly because I'm strangely mesmerized by this tunnel vision+need to nurture/be needed+painful lack of self-awareness thing he has going. But yeah, fandom's punching bag. And I think it speaks to how easily I could stop caring about him, that I haven't felt the need to jump into PROTECT UNDERDOG MODE yet. Not even out of spite.

4. IKKI BUMPED THEM OFF THEIR FEET AND THIS WAS ENOUGH TO TAKE THEM OUT OF THE FIGHT, APPARENTLY. LIKE, WHAT EVEN? NO. I guess this was just so that everyone and their preggers mother had a chance to shine before they're gone, likely never to be seen again until S2, but it could have been done better. Jinora had the element of surprise and her staff, but Ikki and Meelo could have, idk, outwitted the attackers, or distracted them until Lin got back on her feet. Or something that didn't involve making everyone else look like incompetent fools (except the lieutenant, he's just hopeless). That last scene, tho. A part of me doesn't want her to get her bending back because it would make the sacrifice a bit moot, besides, I've no doubt she'd find a way to continue being a player, even without her bending, because she's Lin Beifong and she does not believe in giving up. But the other part is kind of desperately weeping because she has lost so much already and now this very defining identifier is gone, given up, but still forcibly taken and GONE. And it just hurts.

5. Yeah, I'm still disappointed in this. I guess it's understandable (12 eps, a whole world to set up for both newbies & veterans, Nickelodeon), but still not excusable. I mean, what was the point of Tarrlok? that screen-time could have been given to exploring the non-benders side of things, to more of Korra and her issues with Airbending, to the Krew bonding and interacting with each other in non-stressful/non-romantic situations... maybe a line will be thrown in to this effect at some point in the finale? I DOESN'T EVEN TAKE THAT MUCH, JUST HAVE SOMEONE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS IS AN ISSUE OF IMPORT AND THAT IT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED, you don't even need to show me those considerations (tho I'd be hopping in joy if you did) c'mon, Korra is sufficiently good at introspection for this, there's Asami who could help her get there if you need a catalyst, there's the bros' experience in the streets which could come in handy when dealing with social disparities. There's Tenzin who's Aang and Katara's spawn. JUST. ANYTHING.

But I forgive all these things (or at least overlook them for long enough) because I'm still so excited about the show. It makes me all gleeful and when it gets it right it hits every possibly spot I'd want it to hit with whatever it is that it got right, yanno?

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