Newbie's Perspective The Legend of Korra Ruins of the Empire Reviewd
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00:00The Legend of Korra, Ruins of the Empire.
00:04It starts out months ago in Earth Empire Re-Education Camp and has a really boring start to it with none of the main characters in it.
00:12Someone in power gets told that the tyrant Kuvira surrendered to Korra and ordered every Earth soldier to do the same.
00:20He refuses to surrender, and it goes to the present day where Bolin tells Zuli a bunch of appointments she has.
00:27He's thanked, and Beric wants to date with her, but realistically she doesn't have time for it.
00:33King Wu of the Earth Kingdom gets welcomed to the city and thanks Zuli and is relatively nervous about public speaking.
00:39Eventually makes a speech about his plan to abolish the monarchy, and we get to see that someone from the show isn't happy about it.
00:47He announces when the first election will be, and he gets nervous from all of the questions, and he ends up singing.
00:53He throws a hat so the grandma gets to catch it, and I like seeing Mako with his hands over his eyes saying that he didn't want him to start singing.
01:02Zuli says once the other states see this one smooth transition to democracy, they'll follow suit.
01:09Then eventually the story shows us Kuvira's trial, which is supposed to be cathartic for the audience to make up for the boring overload of dialogue with nothing happening.
01:19She's asked how she pleads and apologizes for the harm she caused, but it doesn't matter because she still digs herself deeper by saying they're ignoring her achievements.
01:29It sure is convenient that the judge tells her to list them instead of just insulting her and moving on with the trial.
01:35She points out that she brought back order to the kingdom when it fell into chaos, modernized the kingdom, and did everything she could for the good of the kingdom.
01:45I see why she thinks she did the right thing, but she had no excuse for staying in power after she brought order and expanding the empire.
01:53She pleads not guilty for some reason, and it's lampshaded that the world knows what she did.
01:59So it is stupid, because she is guilty of those charges.
02:03She says that her adoptive family turned their backs on her.
02:07I find it cathartic when she reminds her that she's apologized plenty of times and wants her to forgive her already, considering that she was completely cold to her after she apologized at the end of the show.
02:19She's told that she needs to take responsibility for what she did first.
02:23How did apologizing not count as that?
02:26I have to wonder why the story wants us to sympathize with the main villain of the show's last season.
02:32It shouldn't be right here to want her forgiveness, because it makes it harder on the audience.
02:37Eventually, Bolin tells his friends to help themselves to food in Zooli's office, and Mako asks him how the new job is going.
02:45I already know that Bolin keeps changing jobs.
02:48Eventually, Zooli thanks everyone for showing up.
02:51She tells Cholette we'll explain, and he thanks her and says he'd like the Avatar team to accompany him.
02:57For some reason, Mako thinks it'd be beneath them to protect him when they've got nothing to do.
03:02But just because it's him, he has a problem.
03:05And he eventually explains his kingdom's being threatened by its own army.
03:09There's some reports about an army in this province that never surrendered.
03:13So eventually, Korra worries that the commander with an annoying name could try to stop people from voting and give the other states an excuse to call off the elections.
03:22Which are being done to keep the Earth Empire from rising to power again.
03:26Even though nothing would stop a democratically elected leader from leading conquests.
03:31Bolin asks to go with Team Avatar, because he's bored with his menial jobs.
03:37Korra wants to find out what Kuvira knows about the commander.
03:41Atomic doesn't want to be in the same room as Kuvira because she took her father from her.
03:46So she doesn't want to be reminded of her again.
03:48Korra's fine with it and is thanked and wished good luck and kissed in the cheek.
03:53Kuvira remembers being a completely unsympathetic brat who broke a vase for no reason and was locked in her room as discipline only to earthbend and run away.
04:03Korra tells Kuvira that her commander didn't surrender and she's sincerely shocked about it.
04:09She eventually says she'd deal with him by taking someone with her that he respects.
04:14Who could reason with him and bring him in line.
04:16Which is of course her.
04:18And Korra can't agree to that right away.
04:21So eventually, there's a boring speech and the Earth Kingdom tanks get on the move because of the commander.
04:27It's interesting that the heroes have a meeting in a steam room.
04:31Zuli doesn't want to incite another war by sending her army out.
04:35Korra waterbends saying that she wants them to relax before she tells them what she's thinking.
04:40Eventually, she explains Kuvira's idea and gets predictable complaints about it for a while.
04:46They shouldn't be saying no though because it's either this idea or a bunch of people get hurt in a war.
04:52Korra says Kuvira helped them before and her nearly dying was a wakeup call and she could somehow tell that she was still broken when she visited her.
05:00She wasn't acting evil but she wasn't acting nice either.
05:04Bolin's surprisingly the first one to side with Korra on this for a pragmatic reason.
05:10It still seems like it's got no chance of working because why would a commander who's starting a conquest agree to give up because of someone he has no respect for anymore talking to him?
05:20But it's still believable because most of these people have powers and would outnumber Kuvira if she tried anything.
05:25So it wouldn't really backfire on them if she did.
05:28And I can't blame them for wanting to try anything other than inciting a war.
05:33Why did Korra call Kuvira the prisoner instead of by name?
05:37She actually complains about that like she took offense and says they're partners now.
05:42So it humanizes her that she's sensitive like that.
05:45Why does Korra have to say they're not teammates?
05:48If she's helping her, she's a teammate.
05:51She tells Kuvira something she should already know and she genuinely smiles and says she's in charge.
05:58She gets shown a metal cage they could potentially put her in and tells them that if she was the type to try anything she'd have already done it.
06:06And Korra reassures her friends to make them agree to not humiliate her unnecessarily.
06:11I'm impressed by how calmly Kuvira's dealing with such a tense situation.
06:16Three days later, the heroes still haven't seen the commander's army.
06:20And Kuvira wishes she had some more presentable clothes.
06:24I guess she's been complaining about this for days.
06:27Because it wouldn't make any sense for her to just now start complaining about it.
06:31Mako hates her too much to say yes.
06:34And Korra's smart enough to say that the commander might refuse to meet with them if Kuvira looks like a prisoner.
06:40So Asami offers her some clothes to borrow.
06:43Korra gets shown two unlikable looking candidates who never show a personality.
06:48Who are already government officials.
06:51And Korra doesn't know how the voters would ever be able to decide.
06:55Will wanted candidates that were younger.
06:58He didn't want to keep the outdated bureaucracy alive.
07:01And doesn't see the point of having a vote if the state's going to be governed the same as it's always been.
07:07He's young, but he also wants to run away from his responsibility by stepping down as king.
07:12He doesn't even like public speaking, so that makes sense.
07:16Finally, Korra sees some tanks.
07:19And Kuvira wastes some time trying to get Asami to open up to her about the fact that just because she's Korra's friend,
07:24she's stuck guarding her when she could be doing what she wants.
07:28This is the only memorable part of the arc for me.
07:31I don't remember anything else about it.
07:34Asami says she's not going to drive a wedge between her and Korra.
07:38And she says she's not trying to.
07:40And she's actually impressed by the loyalty people have to her.
07:43Since she doesn't have that anymore.
07:46Bolin calls her out on refusing to be friends with Opal for no reason.
07:50And Asami says no one changes overnight.
07:53Even though it hasn't just been one night.
07:56And everyone should know that going through a bad enough experience could make anyone get traumatized into changing.
08:02This is more misplaced sympathy, like with Eclipse or Surge.
08:06Why make the audience miserable by making the villains too sympathetic if she'll only get put through misery by the writer?
08:14Eventually, Kuvira talks to him in a completely predictable, calm way.
08:19Somehow she doesn't even try to tell them why their great experiment should end.
08:24Why didn't she tell them the consequences of not giving up right away?
08:28The only point in her saying this is that it makes her look better to Korra.
08:32Of course a war commander won't care about getting people killed.
08:36She warns him that his force is a fraction of what the Earth Empire once was, so he has no real power.
08:42She tells the soldiers to surrender and the law be dealt with fairly.
08:47Who would want to be dealt with?
08:49Of course they refuse to surrender.
08:51She challenges them to a fight and says he'll surrender if he loses.
08:55While they honor his word.
08:57She's just trying anything she can.
09:00He refuses to fight and calls her the coward despite the fact that he's refusing a fight.
09:05And she challenged him to one.
09:07She earthbends trying to start the fight and metalbends him to have him by the collar.
09:12Kuvira could end the whole arc right here.
09:15But instead she's shocked because of a remote trigger on her belt.
09:19All these heroes look like drooling idiots because they're completely opposed to what she did.
09:25Mako has no reason to think bringing her was a bad idea because she almost solved their problem in the only way that would avoid war.
09:32It's either one guy gets defeated or a huge amount of people do.
09:38Compare that to Aang's team avatar who were peer-pressuring them into killing Ozai.
09:45Eventually, out of nowhere the commander says he wasn't here to stop the election and says he's going to run for governor.
09:53Which he could've said he was going to do a lot earlier to avoid Kuvira being humiliated.
09:57He had no reason not to say that instantly.
10:00And he's allowed to do this even though Wu thinks of him as breaking the law.
10:05You'd think criminals wouldn't be allowed to do this because felons can't even vote.
10:10But just remember this is realistic.
10:13But he's literally a wanted criminal, not even someone with a record.
10:17And then Kuvira gets told she was being stupid by provoking an army.
10:21Mako thinks they should call off the vote and Wu doesn't want to discourage democracy just because he doesn't like one of the candidates.
10:29Even though Korin knows he'll win.
10:32Kuvira says they have to find a candidate to run against him who's popular enough to win.
10:37Wu wonders who they could pick instead of volunteering.
10:41Korin desperately picks Toph.
10:44Despite the fact that she knows her personally.
10:48Bolin's smarter than her because he knows she's not interested in world affairs.
10:53That's why it's instantly obvious this plan will fail.
10:56Toph may be in favor of doing the right thing if you have to do it to avoid something worse.
11:00But she's also selfish and harsh.
11:03The rules should have been reversed here.
11:05The story has some creepy boring dialogue between the villains.
11:09And predictably confirms that she's conveniently brainwashing people into wanting to vote for the commander.
11:15How is there so much sci-fi technology in the 20s?
11:19This isn't the kind of technology that bending would cause to come about faster.
11:24But at least technology makes more sense to do this than whatever the Dai Li did.
11:29The heroes plan on bringing Kuvira to the adoptive mother that stopped caring about her.
11:34Because they wouldn't have time to fly Kuvira back to her old prison.
11:39They hug and kiss and eventually Wu sprays himself in the eyes with bug spray by accident.
11:44I mention it because at least it's interesting.
11:48And Korin rides away with Wu on an animal.
11:51Eventually Asami finds out the engines won't start and Kuvira figures out why and the windows get broken by the soldiers.
11:58Why don't I get to see the impact when Bolin hits a soldier with a chair?
12:03Why is Asami refusing to let Kuvira out when she needs protection?
12:07She's outnumbered in a fight and she is not the bender here.
12:10And in a fighting situation it's obvious that letting out someone harsh wouldn't backfire.
12:15Asami and her friends get tied up really easily.
12:18Somehow Asami thinks all this was Kuvira's idea when she should recognize that these are the commander's soldiers.
12:25Nothing interesting is happening in Korin's trip through the swamp.
12:28I wish it just started at the part where she's in front of a plant she can tap into to connect to Toph.
12:34Wu wants to go to the bathroom and eventually runs away and sees a hallucination of the evil former ruler before him.
12:41Wu insists that nobody wants progress because she's only voicing his own fears as a result of the spirit magic of the swamp, I guess.
12:48Otherwise this is even more arbitrary than Serge's hallucination.
12:51It is lampshaded what his real motive is and he refuses to admit it anyways.
12:56The commander wants Kuvira to join him again and threatens to brainwash Asami and her friends otherwise.
13:02Surprisingly she wants them released despite them treating her like garbage.
13:07Kuvira's confused by this so she didn't know about the brainwashing, which predictably was inspired by the Dai Li.
13:14Thankfully the mad scientist explains that the victims of the Dai Li tended to revert to normal more often than not.
13:21Good, that kind of confirms that Judy returns to normal.
13:25This is a better tone than IDW's Sonic has.
13:28She says magnetic waves can totally brainwash people permanently and Kuvira's against this.
13:35This would have had more tension if all the people involved didn't have plot armor.
13:40Eventually Wu gets startled by seeing Toph's face in the dirty wall and she says she's not a fan of monarchy.
13:46He doesn't hold it against her.
13:48And the predictable boredom ends when Kuvira is set free and fights back and escapes successfully.
13:54Predictably Toph says no and thinks anyone who falls into government comes out of it filthy.
14:00What about Tenzin?
14:02I guess she's exaggerating.
14:04Why does Korra think a mean person is incorruptible?
14:07She's scammed people with a shell game before.
14:10Though I don't know if Korra knows that.
14:13She also says she hates people so she doesn't want to be in service to them.
14:17Let's just ignore the fact that she was a hero for fun and a police chief, which was by definition being in service to people.
14:25She didn't really phrase it well.
14:27She's always hated people and that didn't stop her before.
14:32It's in character for her to not want to do boring paperwork because she's more about fighting and other thrills.
14:37She only stops because of her bank.
14:39But somehow she doesn't simply explain that she'd be bored by a desk job and already hated paperwork as a chief of police.
14:47Korra gets the idea to whisper in front of her to get her curiosity and mention that she told Wu to ignore what the Swamp said to him.
14:54When she knows Toph thinks the Swamp knows what's best.
14:58That explains why it gave Annie a vision of Toph.
15:00So it's not just about scaring people.
15:02Wu says it was told by the Swamp that the people don't want change and would rather feel safe than do anything unfamiliar.
15:09Somehow this encourages Toph to run for governor.
15:13Instead of causing Toph to say that Wu should run for governor.
15:17Something should've been written to explain to her that Wu's unpopular for being a wuss.
15:22The story wastes my time with a flashback of Kuvira being called a brat by her parents and brought to a master metalbender to be raised by her better.
15:31Because it's just assumed that metalbenders restrict parents for no reason.
15:35And we see her take her hand.
15:37Kuvira radios Sue and tells her everything.
15:41And she's reluctant to believe her about brainwashing despite the Dai Li existing.
15:45She says she doesn't know who else to turn to.
15:48And eventually Toph signs up.
15:50So many panels are in these comics that should've been cut out.
15:53Eventually Korra sees someone in a vehicle tell her to follow her and it's Kuvira in disguise who reveals her disguise to her.
16:00And somehow she didn't instantly recognize her voice.
16:03Why didn't she explain things to her right away?
16:06Instead Korra threatens her with fire going back to the hothead she's most famous for being.
16:11Although it's justified.
16:13Once again the story frustrates me by making me sympathize with someone I don't want to.
16:18I believe her remorse.
16:20Because the reaction to the issue would only be written if the writer thought she was remorseful.
16:25But why is she the most sympathetic character in the arc?
16:28Eventually Toph confirms that she's telling the truth.
16:31It's too bad she didn't confirm the truth as soon as Korra accused her of lying.
16:35Toph says she knew there was something fishy about people mindlessly repeating the same slogan.
16:41And it reminds her of the Dai Li.
16:43She could've said this earlier though.
16:46The story bores me until the commander gets a call about Kuvira meeting up with Korra.
16:50And Wu says this is all his fault and regrets asking them to come with him.
16:55If he's referring to Toph, it was obviously a good idea because Toph said that Kuvira wasn't lying.
17:01And Kuvira tells him it's pointless to blame himself.
17:04Wu acts like calling off the election is an idea he came up with and not just him recycling Mako's idea.
17:11Yeah that totally won't cause a revolt.
17:14Kuvira warns him that once the commander realizes what Wu is up to, none of them would get out of this state without being brainwashed.
17:21So she says they should regroup in Zaofu, where Opal's mother gets whined at some more and eventually reunites with her.
17:28This is like how Panders tried creating sympathy for Thayer after he was made unlikable by having everyone hate him for dumb reasons.
17:35Nothing happens until Korra says she's not leaving without her friends.
17:39Kuvira says she'll help her.
17:41And she actually thanks her.
17:43And Suge says they'll help too.
17:46Oh great, Korra's doing the you can fight this cliche.
17:50Kuvira says it's pointless right away and hopefully this is the end of that because it'd be hacky writing to have her like this for the entire fight.
17:57How convenient that Korra's friends are just slowly walking to them, letting them plan against them, when they were only ordered to go fight them.
18:05They just instantly start the fight.
18:07Why didn't Korra make this plan earlier when it was safe?
18:11Opal airbans the three into each other and ropes get shot around them and somehow they snap off.
18:17Eventually Kuvira, Sue, and Toph earthban the soldiers upwards and somehow Opal doesn't send a wall of air that couldn't be avoided to knock over Bolin.
18:26So she's hit with a rock after being made to fight like a dumbass.
18:30What made her think she was doing a good job?
18:33Someone approaches Wu who says that the commander got to him too and he gets scared by him.
18:38Asami gets dodged and her hands close enough to the ground that it can be trapped in earth.
18:43And Toph and her family are hiding behind a wall that they somehow don't just send at the people using fire against them.
18:49Korra comes to the rescue with airbending and Korra gets told to settle for just getting Asami back and they leave the king behind.
18:57The story torments Korra with Asami a little more than necessary, but it would feel empty if she said nothing.
19:05Sue thankfully refuses to have Kuvira restrained.
19:08Who says she could reverse engineer the brainwashing tech to reverse it, but would need her ex-boyfriend's help.
19:14And Kuvira's reluctant to face Batara again.
19:17So eventually we get to see her apologize to him and he says he wouldn't have tried to kill her.
19:22He says she hasn't changed even though she said she felt terrible.
19:26So after that forced drama, Korra tells him that the future of his kingdom depends on him.
19:31And eventually Wu says the election is going to take place today and the voters are already here.
19:36It takes advantage of him being brainwashed because it shows him being mad for once.
19:41Opal's venting doesn't have any consequence thankfully.
19:44And Sue says that she and her family can't be seen as aggressors against democracy.
19:49And Opal complains and is told to stop bickering.
19:52Toph says she forfeited when she left the state and I get reminded of the heroes' plan and it gets boring again.
19:59Why does Korra even bother trying to hold Asami's hand here?
20:02The story has a vague time skip to when the anti-brainwashing machine is done.
20:07And Kuvira's praised by her ex on her excellent memory.
20:11The hard part is figuring out the electricity settings used to alter Asami.
20:16Why don't they know it already?
20:19The story keeps having them fail.
20:21But I understand that the writer thought it'd feel anticlimactic if it worked instantly.
20:27Kuvira wonders if the solution is starting with someone who wasn't brainwashed yet
20:31because it gives them a proper baseline to calibrate the settings from there.
20:35Why would there be a risk?
20:37Why'd they take a million different settings for someone to think of this?
20:40Somehow they're worried that the machine could give Korra memory loss.
20:45This gives Kuvira the excuse to help redeem herself by volunteering.
20:49And Sue says she doesn't have to do this.
20:52Katara finally says she changed because she said this is her mess.
20:56He'd only know for sure if she was back in her old position.
21:00But that won't happen so there's really no harm in being nice to her.
21:03It's not like the heroes are giving a second chance to a walking plot device
21:06who only exists to try to kill the heroes.
21:09She remembers telling Opal to get out of her own bedroom
21:12because it's her turn with the dollhouse
21:14and she responds to not getting away by breaking it.
21:17And she's asked why she did it because she's the king of stupid questions
21:21and somehow she says she doesn't know why she did it.
21:24Sue isn't interested in punishing her out of pity
21:27and Opal refuses to call her her sister and says nobody wanted her
21:32even though her parents might have before she drove them away herself.
21:36So Sue is completely unsympathetic here by being completely inconsiderate to her family.
21:41Also, Kuvira was told to clear her mind.
21:44Apparently she was wrong about that being necessary
21:49because her mind isn't clear and there's no consequences to it.
21:53Eventually, Asami gets brought back to normal
21:56and conveniently she can't access the memories she would have been creating when she was brainwashed.
22:01Korra hugs her reassuring her
22:03and eventually they're told the commander stole the election.
22:06Sule is given exposition by Korra
22:09and eventually she says she doesn't want Korra doing anything
22:12because if word gets out that Wu is brainwashed, that could cause chaos.
22:16She plans to speak with Sue and other world leaders
22:19and wants Kuvira back in her old prison because she's a hindrance now.
22:23Somehow.
22:24None of the world leaders are okay with going to war
22:28so there's no reason this would do anything.
22:31Vitar gets thrown back in his face how he was rude to her
22:34and he calmly tells her to have a safe trip back.
22:37Kuvira puts her hand on him reassuringly
22:39and says that she broke her own heart betraying him
22:42and insists that she loved him too.
22:45He says it was nice working with her again
22:47and Asami asks Korra if she did or said anything she might have regretted
22:51instead of staying quiet
22:53which proves that somehow she did forget
22:56that the unbrainwashing conveniently had the side effect of memory loss
23:00and so can be that magnetic waves destroy neurons.
23:04Korra forgives and hugs her.
23:06They hold hands and eventually Sue says she found the guards unconscious outside Kuvira's door
23:11because she escaped.
23:13I can't blame her for not wanting to go back to a solitary confinement cell.
23:17Again the only reason she was a villain was because she was in a position of tyrant
23:21so without that she's harmless.
23:24It's not like she's a thief
23:25and her flashbacks at least had a point in establishing that she changed
23:28because she used to have no control over her anger
23:31and now she can put up with anything.
23:34So the only worry is about bad writing coming up.
23:37She's not a 90W Sonic villain is what I'm saying.
23:39That's why I'm not mad at Korra for having faith in her
23:42and telling Asami what she owes her.
23:44Why didn't she tell her this earlier?
23:47Korra says that because she was mad at the commander earlier
23:50she thinks she's heading for him in that stolen plane.
23:53I would have gone somewhere that wasn't the most predictable place ever
23:56so I could actually hide.
23:58Eventually the mayor is escorted out of the room
24:00even though he's right that he could be his assistant.
24:03I wish he got to explain what he plans to do for him
24:06because just saying that isn't a good argument.
24:09The commander says he'd ask how Kuvira snuck in
24:11but that'd insult her cunningness.
24:14I just wish they got that plot hole filled in
24:17because all it looks like is that she effortlessly walked away here
24:20with no resistance.
24:22Out of all the different times the comics wasted her time
24:25instead of not showing us stuff
24:28or showed us stuff that was plot progression
24:30but didn't actually need to be in the comic
24:33what isn't shows how she got here too.
24:36She says that she'll never get things back to the way they used to be for herself
24:40so the only path left for her is to follow his.
24:43It makes sense.
24:45Or he's just being manipulated.
24:47Eventually, after he makes a long rant
24:49that he doesn't want to give her her old position back
24:52she says she has no interest in that
24:55and all she wants is to forget her regret-filled memories.
24:58To make things make more sense for him
25:01she says she always knew he wouldn't let her back with him
25:04without brainwashing anyways.
25:06This really is the best deal for her
25:08because it's either this or she lives the rest of her life as a hiding hermit
25:11who could be caught up with by the cops any day
25:14while she's alone with her thoughts.
25:16The heroes take a ride on Ear Bison
25:19and Opal's mother gives Kuvira the benefit of the doubt.
25:22Eventually, Kuvira is put in the brainwashing machine
25:25and she metal bends to put the helmets on the bad guys instead.
25:28How inconvenient that they were apparently too cheap
25:31to make pure platinum helmets.
25:34So she wouldn't be able to do this.
25:37It would be smart of her to make herself forget after this is done.
25:40But if she had a real brain
25:43she'd immediately brainwash them instead of buying them time with a monologue.
25:46She says she's gonna make him tell the whole world
25:49that he stole the election and surrender
25:52so she doesn't have ill intentions here.
25:55I guess. Based on just what she's saying.
25:58It's so frustrating that she only has to avoid fire
26:01and the bad guys only get to take the helmets off
26:04because she didn't just press the buttons right away.
26:07At least it was smart of the villains to have backup just in case.
26:10So she has to run away
26:13court airbends to restrain her old friends
26:16and Toph and her family start fighting the bad guys.
26:19Yeah, Toph is still a wasted character here
26:22if she's literally only doing stuff that other people
26:25on the same team as her are also doing
26:28so you can remove her from the plot with no difference.
26:31She's trying to shock the person who brainwashed her with the impact shown
26:34rather than her never getting to land a single hit
26:37on the person who brainwashed her because of lame writing.
26:40She chomped her in the chest.
26:43How does she not have a heart attack from this?
26:46Maybe she did.
26:49Kuvira's bending ruins the commander's escape in a vehicle.
26:52Eventually she gets hurt.
26:55She slices a vehicle apart and adds some pins to a wall with metal.
26:58And sadly the writer makes her threaten to kill him in front of Sue
27:01to turn her against her.
27:04Sue says that killing him won't solve anything or bring her peace.
27:07She agrees with her and conveniently drops her weapon.
27:10And again, it's ambiguous here.
27:13Either she actually agrees with her
27:16or she's just completely desperate to get Sue to like her again.
27:19It makes the writing of season 4 better
27:22because the fact that she's actually useful here
27:25establishes that it was actually a good thing that Korra didn't kill her.
27:28After she had told the commander to start his army idea,
27:31at that point it would've been too late
27:34and it would've actually completely screwed them over
27:37if Korra killed her in season 4.
27:40Korra's friends get brought back to normal and hugged.
27:43And the civilians get returned to normal too.
27:46Just like when they were first brainwashed,
27:49the story just conveniently skips over showing how they were brought to these machines.
27:53I guess metalbending cops and airbending did it.
27:56The mayor gets told that it's Kuvira who saved the day.
27:59Eventually, Will makes a speech to people
28:02saying that each state's gonna come up with its own timetable for elections
28:05according to the wishes of the citizens
28:08because otherwise he'd be forcing his will on the people.
28:11He says that trying to create democracy too fast was being unrealistic.
28:14Reminds me of Pneumo Metropolis.
28:17We never saw the rest of the Acorn Kingdom reacting
28:21to its monarchy getting weakened.
28:24Or Ixiz being elected.
28:27He keeps boring me until the people cheer for him.
28:30And Toph says she prefers the swamp because there the predators are honest with her.
28:33So that's relatable.
28:36Eventually we see another trial that has Varric give testimony against Kuvira
28:39based on what she did in the show.
28:42I thought she already had a trial.
28:45There's no reason they would've left anything out.
28:49Why is this being done again?
28:52I guess all of this caused Sue to appeal her original trial?
28:55And she could just do that whenever she wants because she's a leader?
28:58Kuvira confesses and admits that she was wrong
29:01about thinking she knew what was best for everyone.
29:04And that she didn't concern herself with consequences in her quest for power.
29:07She hopes she'll be able to heal some of the pain she caused
29:10by pleading guilty.
29:13Eventually Bolin says that after everything he's been through
29:16he's fine with a boring office job for a while.
29:19He doesn't remember being brainwashed though.
29:22He didn't really go through anything traumatizing.
29:25Like Mako breaking an arm.
29:28Korra praises Kuvira and so do Mako and Bolin.
29:31And Asami does too.
29:34Kuvira says she's glad she helped him out.
29:37And Sue finally says she owes her an apology.
29:40She thinks that if she had been a better mother
29:43Yeah.
29:46What she needed to apologize for was being heartless to her recently.
29:49But she did fail her parents by not disciplining her
29:52when that's the whole reason she was brought to her in the first place.
29:55And if only they had known that
29:58none of season 4 would have happened.
30:01She needs to apologize to Kuvira's parents.
30:04Because it wasn't just Sue's fault.
30:07It was also the people who put Kuvira in charge in the first place.
30:10Kuvira shows gratitude to her.
30:13Gets hugged as I wish I found the scene to be memorable
30:16considering how depressing the ending of the show was.
30:19Not to mention the whole arc.
30:22She says that because of her remorse and her help stopping the commander
30:25she gets to be released into her custody.
30:28She'll be under house arrest like her ex.
30:31Who also isn't actually dangerous.
30:34Because there's no reason he would ever get back in his old position.
30:37That's the only position where he was ever a villain.
30:40And Opal says that she and her family all came around
30:43to the idea of her coming home.
30:46I wish she didn't say that her family thought she was crazy.
30:49Because I think based on what she did
30:52they should have already come around.
30:55I'm so relieved she won't have to be in solitary confinement anymore.
30:58Seriously, that was messed up.
31:01Snavely was being put through that by Eggman.
31:04There's an entire rant in the description of that issue
31:07explaining all of the side effects of solitary confinement.
31:10So the only reason she wasn't showing those side effects
31:13in this arc
31:16was that she was tough enough to completely hide them.
31:19The story ends with her being shown affection by Sue again.
31:22This arc by Michael DiMartino and Brian K
31:25was about Cora dealing with a wannabe tyrant
31:28who brainwashed her friends like the guy Lee all over again.
31:32So no wonder I forgot everything about the plot of this.
31:35It's just like what Jet went through
31:38only applied to the main characters.
31:41But with better technology than the 1920s should allow for.
31:44And the tyrant thing is just Ozai again, obviously.
31:47There's an election in the background.
31:50But nothing is done with the fact that the commander won the election
31:53so no wonder I forgot.
31:56The only memorable part of the arc was Asami being cold to Kuvira
32:00while she was portrayed as sympathetic.
32:03As much as it's a risk to give a happy ending to one of the main villains
32:06it's great that the story did it and redeemed her
32:09because she's not a villain unless she's in a position of tyrant.
32:12She earned her happy ending by tricking the commander
32:15and ruining his attempt at escaping the heroes.
32:18So the arc was written alright
32:21with the only thing hurting the experience being the typical unavoidable problem
32:24of a padded out arc.
32:28I was constantly annoyed by the needlessly slow pacing
32:31and how it keeps grinding to a halt to have too much boring dialogue.
32:34When these aren't larger than life characters
32:37they're all calm people most of the time.
32:40So most of the time you could take the dialogue of any particular character
32:43and put it in a different character's mouth
32:46and you wouldn't be able to notice a difference.
32:49Bolin and Beric are supposed to be the entertaining ones
32:52but they barely got to shine.
32:55I also hated that the so-called heroes were wasting time
32:58lashing out at someone verbally when they should know better.
33:01They're not dealing with someone who's only motivated by the desire
33:04to kill the main characters.
33:07Or a thief.
33:10So it's annoying seeing them selfishly treat her like garbage
33:13for mistakes they know she'll never be able to make again.
33:16It's not fun to see all the main characters you're supposed to like be annoying
33:19and the main villain of the past be pitiful.
33:22I do not want to go back to his story
33:25because all that's memorable about it is the depressing tone
33:28with just one happy scene for her.