Avatar: The Legend of Korra

Originally posted by marwash22
Bolin is poorly written because his level of buffoonery is unrealistic.

The only reasoning you've given as to why Bataar is poorly written is you not liking his reactions to his family dynamics.

I must totally unaware of how many real life dictators rose to power on the sole motivation of sticking it up to their parents who simply had more recognition than someone who hasn't accomplished jack shit.

If we're talking unrealistic I'm taking perhaps unnecessary comic relief over a harbinger of humans rights and probable mass murderer because of said unrealistic motivations.

history is filled with irrational people who killed over what you and I would deem to be nothing.

the only people in history who act like Bolin are mentally retarded.

Originally posted by Based
He's clearly a top figure in the Empire and is literally Kuvira's right hand man. He's supporting every move made and has threatened people with death or imprisonment in those camps? Why?

Because he is weak and easily manipulated.

Much like how many people with perfectly ordinary lives were manipulated in supporting the Holocaust.

*gives crap about the subjectivity in calling someone poorly written
*calls Bolin poorly written*

I didn't actually say that. Bolin was poorly-written in season 2. Not so much 3 or 4.

for the record, Bolin hasn't been terrible in this book.

One of the few truly skipable episodes. I laughed but reminding me of how awful Mako was in the first two books doesn't help.

Toph will probably die next week.

A clipshow...I can't believe they did that.

As often happens with bad Korra episodes, Varrick's bit was the only saving grace.

However I will say that I liked how self-aware the episode was, highlighting all the stupid moments in the show as if to say "all right, yes, this all happened, can we move on?"

Also LOL @ Unaloq being recognized as a boring villain.

Originally posted by NemeBro
I didn't actually say that. Bolin was poorly-written in season 2. Not so much 3 or 4.

Even then, Bolin saving the President was one of the highlights of the season. Plus his stuff with the movers and his interactions with Varrick were pretty good.

I actually thought season 2 was the best season for Bolin.

Originally posted by AuraAngel
One of the few truly skipable episodes. I laughed but reminding me of how awful Mako was in the first two books doesn't help.

Toph will probably die next week.

They poked fun at Mako's antics though, so that should have helped.

And the Varrick-Bolin story was brilliant.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
I actually thought season 2 was the best season for Bolin.

Also, a ****ing compilation episode? What the **** is this, an anime?

Is there any reason for me to watch this episode at all? Anything new?

Only reason to watch it is for Varrick's story really.

Originally posted by NemeBro
So what about Bolin being a sexual predator and legitimately mentally disabled struck you as good?

Also, a ****ing compilation episode? What the **** is this, an anime?

Is there any reason for me to watch this episode at all? Anything new?

The reactions from people are neat. Everyone rips on Mako for being a shitty boyfriend and jerk for example.

Also Varricks version of the events is pretty epic. The supervillain teamup was great.

The creators commented saying that it was because Nick cut their budget for season 4 - an episodes worth. It was either fire a bunch of the crew or create a clip episode. 😬

i usually dl the ep., put it on my thumb drive and watch it on my television.

sounds like I'll just stream this one.

Should have just made the entire episode about Varrick telling his sensationalized version of the entire plot. Would have been kind of like the Ember Island Players.

Originally posted by Blair Wind
The creators commented saying that it was because Nick cut their budget for season 4 - an episodes worth. It was either fire a bunch of the crew or create a clip episode. 😬

The more I think of it, the more I realize that I'm just not impressed by Kuvira as the big bad.

She's given a lot of hype (Suyin basically describing her as a prodigy, Korra saying that things are more out of balance now than they have ever been), embodies what I honestly view as a relative lack of threat compared to the other villains (Amon and Zaheer seemed far more personally powerful and even Unalaq arguably has better feats), has been given a semi-infallible presentation thus far (curbs Korra, declares herself ruler of the Earth Kingdom while everyone else stupidly watches and lets her leave the city, everything coming according to her plans thus far), and rounds all this out with frankly sort of boring motivations. We see a flashback of Kuvira going into this with a desire to do good and basically save the Earth Kingdom, but as of right now her villainy is so unambiguously certain it's actually kind of corny. She gets laughably evil scenes (like the petty hostile takeover of Wu's suite, the concentration camps for undesirables, or whatever) that make me cringe. It isn't cool or chilling in its villainy. It's boring. I think the reason for this is that we never really saw any transition or change between what she set out to do and what she has become.

So I take it this week's LoK is a filler episode? I still might watch it unless it's "Great Divide" level of filler.

Originally posted by wakkawakkawakka
So I take it this week's LoK is a filler episode? I still might watch it unless it's "Great Divide" level of filler.

Not so much filler. More like, "Necessary let down to keep people employed because NICK cut funding by one episode."

I think they had the intention to make it sort of like TLoK's version of 'Ember Island Players'.