*sigh* My ship sunk once again. I was half hoping they would use the original ending of Korra and have Asami run off with Iroh to the fire nation. Don't get me wrong, Korrasami is infinitely better then either of them ending with Mako, but still....
Do you mean the books?
I don't really agree with you guys, I absolutely hated the ending. Just like with Naruto, the end pairing left a bad taste in my mouth. It's like that all over again, the practically least developed pairing won when the one that was heavily hinted since Book 1 ep 2 sunk and was left completely unresolved? Cannot believe it. Bryke seemed to have done it just to cater to the Korrasami shippers because even one of the people involved said that they changed the ending and he was very surprised to see that. I mean, they must have changed their minds because why else did they hint at Makorra even in interviews and defended it from angry fans. I just refuse to believe they are the biggest trolls on the face of the planet. And I thought they were better than Kishi,,,
While I agree that it is a huge thing for the LGBT community to have a cartoon end like this because it's almost unheard of, it should have been done very differently and developed more. My gay friends are actually pretty mad at the ending, they call it a wishy washy representation with absolutely no depth. Funny thing is, my have headcanon ever was that Korra really was bisexual and I actually would've liked if we were shown her being attracted to girls or anyone else besides Mako for that matter, but we never even saw that except for those last few seconds. Sorry if I sound mad or if I offended any of the shippers, but I just feel betrayed yet again.
As for the rest of the finale, it was meh. The whole Book is just not as good as the other ones were, and even though the finale had good aspects, it just didn't make up for the slow-paced Book. They thing I dislike the most is what Korra actually became. I loooved that headstrong and bashful girl and they mellowed her out so much that she's almost unrecognizable. I get you have to have some development, but they changed her too much in my opinion. Even Aang didn't have to sacrifice so much of his personality.
Meh. I didn't actually ship anything...but I kinda liked Makorra first. The other day I saw a post with Korra blushing at Assami talking about her hair and that in Aavatar, the blushes were always romantic or some thing like that, and then I saw a post that it said that Mako said "No since I broke up with Korra" when he was asked if he was dating someone. And the shippers freaking out. I'm going to catch up because I didn't watch Korra since episode 3.
Anyway, when I saw those posts I was like..."hehe, Korrasami may be cute but I really doubt it would be canon, because.....................gays", then at the Makorra post I said "ohh, probably the resolution is about to happen".
And now I saw this??? I'm happy. I'm from LGTBA+ community, so I was really shocked, because we don't have this kind of representation on the media.
You say that this is the less developed ship, but, to be honest, I even believe its more developed than Makorra (in platonic terms) which makes the ship have a good base. They have this friendship that blossomed despite of having dated the same person and not be uncomfortable about it. I've seen more about Korra and Assami frienship than anything between Korra and Mako, except Mako talking about Korra. She never show any kind of romantic feeling for him after it, so...I was thinking in how the dudes were going to make credible that she always loved him until the end.
Even then, I believed Makorra was going to be canon, but when I think of it, it would have let me a bad taste in my mouth, because their lack of...............anything since they broke up. I mean, either way I feel Korra in general is rushed as hell, and the endings with a new villain every season is horrible...even more because it doesn't have enough episodes to develop the story properly.
So, yeah, either way, Korrasami is better than a Makorra ending :/ But now that I'm reading all this it seems that it was just "up to interpretation"??? That's awful. As always, no one wants to say the "B" word out loud...
Actually how do parents feel about this, I mean this is a kids show after all.
That's kittening homophobic. If they can kittening see straight couples all the time, why they can't see h o m o couples?????
Lok was banned from Nickelodeon anyway because of its content, but this won't be a kittening reason.
EDIT: I had to write h o m o like this because "kitten" is censored as if it were a "bad word" ._.
Edited by theunburnt, 19 December 2014 - 08:20 PM.
Asami is her nr1 support and important person, just like Katara was to Aang. That's canon enough for me.
I wish that had been explored more, but mistakes can't be rewritten.
