![]() It started to feel like Bryke were writing themselves into a corner: on the one hand, this season was all about redemption and learning from the past on the other, Kuvira’s actions were quickly moving her out of “redemptive” territory (I even said previously that betraying Batar put her solidly in the bad guy camp). ![]() I spent a lot of this season worrying about this finale, and particularly about how they’d handle Kuvira’s character. ![]() There’s so much we could talk about, but I really just want to focus on Korra, her relationships with two other prominent women this season, and how it ties in with ideas that have been running through the entire series. It may not have gone where I thought it would go, but it ended up exactly where it needed to be. Much like with A:tLA, it’s not quite what’s expected-the protagonist’s real conflict proves to be more internal than external, the resolution reached due to an understanding of the Avatar’s own values rather than a big, violent showdown (although we certainly had that, too)-but it’s very much the ending the series needed, bringing together many of the show’s central themes as well as providing a kind of completion (of one stage, at least) to Korra’s growth and journey as a person. have done it again and crafted a splendid finale, writing a lovely final page to a series that only seemed to get better with time. ![]() So let me start by saying how elated I was when the end credits rolled, because Bryke & Co.
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