In the fourth episode of the third season of\u00c2\u00a0The Legend of Korra<\/i>, two different groups try to rescue someone. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0The Legend of Korra<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prison Break<\/b><\/p>\n
JUST!!!!!! I WASN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T READY. MY BODY AND MIND WERE NOT PREPARED FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF P\u00e2\u20ac\u2122LI AND HER POWERS AND\u00c2\u00a0WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW.<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0It was already unreal enough having to deal with Ming-Hua\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s water tentacle chaos. I love so much that the show chose to have a character like her be the most physically agile fighter we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve probably ever seen. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even wrap my mind around the way she moves her body. The physics of it all is astounding!<\/p>\n
And then P\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Li strikes Zuko\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dragon with a combustion beam and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M DONE.\u00c2\u00a0DONE<\/i>. Oh god, why is she a villain? Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t I just root for her because her power is cool??? Okay, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be a fan of that for now until I find out why they all tried to kidnap Korra years ago. Yeah, right, THANKS FOR REVEALING THAT CASUALLY WITHIN THE EPISODE. Just\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 why??? Why do they want Korra? What for?<\/p>\n
I want a thousand more scenes with this villainous quartet. I WANT SO MUCH MORE.<\/p>\n
Prison Break Part 2<\/b><\/p>\n
And while Zaheer, Ming-Hua, and Ghazan are breaking their friend out of prison (who they haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen for thirteen years!), Team Avatar plans their own heist\/prison break. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a neat parallel, one made all the more intriguing because we still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know Zaheer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s motivations. Are these sides clearly defined as good and evil?<\/p>\n
Regardless, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of obfuscation on the part of Queen Hou-Ting, who makes it very evident that she wants Team Avatar out of Ba Sing Se. I had a moment during that scene outside the guest home where I wondered what Ba Sing Se would be like when it\u00c2\u00a0wasn<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0run by some corrupt force. I imagine that it could truly thrive! However, Hou-Ting is just another ruler in a long line of exploitative jerks who use the people of Ba Sing Se for their own benefit. Fortunately, Team Avatar are resilient and creative, and they set to work in trying to identify where the airbenders are being held. And y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so glad that Jinora continues to be a part of this. No big deal, though, she just SHIFTS HER SPIRIT OUT OF HER BODY TO CHECK ALL THE UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS IN THE LAKE. No big deal at all! (She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like ten times more accomplished than I was at her age, I swear.)<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s during that sequence that we find out what training is like for the kidnapped airbenders. Spoiler alert: IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S FUCKING AWFUL. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a form of forced conscription, and it resembles prison more than anything else. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so callous and blatantly terrible, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure that Huo-Ting doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care. If she can exploit the airbenders for her kingdom, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna do it. Then she has the gall to confront Korra and claim that this rescue is AN ACT OF WAR. !!!!!!! You literally kidnapped your own citizens and forced them into the military! And in Kai\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case, he got stuck in solitary confinement for NOT BEING VIOLENT ENOUGH.<\/p>\n
Admittedly, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not much depth to Huo-Ting or the Dai Li agents at all, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that this story needed that. Through this experience, the airbenders get to use their powers to defend themselves and others, and it helps them bond. I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be surprised to see most of them in one of the Air Temples in a future episode, training together. So I feel like these characters served their purpose: to give motivation to Team Avatar and the new airbenders. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like this search is over, either. Once Tenzin departs for the Northern Air Temple, taking the airbenders with him, Team Avatar splits off to continue looking for more people who suddenly have the ability to airbend.<\/p>\n
And then what? The threat of Zaheer and his group hangs over this season, and I am\u00c2\u00a0honestly filled with a little bit of dread when I think about it. What does he want with Korra? Where are they? ARE THEY HIDING IN MY APARTMENT\u00c2\u00a0THIS IS A LEGITIMATE FEAR<\/i>, Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL.<\/p>\n
The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In Harm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Way\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded\u00c2\u00a0here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – Please help book\/finalize the Mark Does Stuff European Tour!<\/a> In the fourth episode of the third season of\u00c2\u00a0The Legend of Korra, two different groups try to rescue someone. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0The Legend of Korra.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,333],"tags":[335],"class_list":["post-4749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avatar","category-the-legend-of-korra","tag-mark-watches-the-legend-of-korra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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