I'm wondering if Kuvira is a stronger metal bender than Suyin. Toph has broken it to us that her daughters aren't actually the best metalbenders. If I remember correctly, Kuvira took out all those bandits without bending earth at all (she even used metal to break a rock flying at her, instead of breaking/stopping it with earth bending). Suyin has relied on earthbending in most all her fights. Kuvira already thinks she's stronger than Suyin for stepping up and leading the Earth Kingdom, I wouldn't be surprised if that translates to bending strength and we see Kuvira take Suyin down 1v1.
I honestly thought that, in that shot where she was facing down, when she looked back up at the "camera" she was going to be smiling evilly like Azula did when Aang when into the avatar state. Yeah you're not alone on this one. I feel kinda miffed that there was no big battle, just the duel, although the duel was awesomely choreographed, especially all of Kuvira's tricks. Reminded me of that scene in Troy actually, haha.Anybody else get an Azula-vibe from Kuvira that episode? Her let down hair and crazy aggressive attitude reminded me a little of crazy azula at the end of aang.
Mechs can't handle all of that Meelo.Also was it just me or did Meelo knock down a robot in one air blast?
PTSD is stong stuff. Not to mention I think there was something about Korra having become disconnected from Raava earlier in the season?why is Korra so weak? helllllllo she's the avatar ffs
I don't think Korra had much of a problem against Kuvira when in the avatar state, it's just that she refused to enter it for some reason.It was said quite a few times in the episode that Korra is rusty. A bit annoyed that she couldn't swallow her pride and admit she needed help against Kuvira, but that should have been expected.
Also Varrick and Huan should make a show together
I almost want to say PTSD. I thought she was being portrayed as significantly more evil than rage avatar Aang ever was when she went into the avatar state at the end of season 3. When she went into the avatar state she saw that evil again and it freaked her back into reality. I'd wager that this fear is why she didn't want to go into the avatar state at the beginning of the fight.to be honest if Korra saw that her "evil self" in Kuvira, shouldn't she be even more eager to smash that rock down?
I do not understand this because Aang had lots of notable defeats. The fall of Ba Sing Se and Omashu, the Day of the Black Sun, and failing to prevent the genocide of his people, all of which were necessary to the story. He was wracked with guilt over all of these incidents and ran away on the eve of the final fight with Ozai because he was chickenpants about taking decisive action until the lion turtle deus ex machina. Pretty much all of book 2 and the first part of book 3 was Aang being thwarted by Azula or the Dai Li.I feel like they need her to lose for the plot to progress whereas Aang did not have that problem as much, but it does have that unfortunate side effect.
This is what I meant when I said she had to lose for the plot to progress. I do agree that every time she lost it was important for the story for it to happen, but they have the unfortunate side effect of making her look totally weaksauce when it's not really balanced out by a significant number of victories or at least evenly matched fights. Which, as far as I know, was not really intended until this book and the PTSD storyline.Besides, it makes no sense for the villain to lose only halfway through the season.
Age of Kings that's kind of exactly what I'm saying. I'm not really talking at all about moral struggles or military defeats, I'm talking just about fighting. Aang lost a few fights but he also won a bunch and was never really owned hard.