The Legend of Korra (season 3) 720p - (2014 Lang: English)

'The Legend of Korra' is the sequel to the show 'Avatar: The Last Airbender'. While the first and second season were kind of "meh", the creators of the show really stepped up their game for the last two seasons and created something that was really on par with its predecessor. This show really gets better from season to season and while it isn't quiet as good as 'the Last Airbender', there is a lot to appreciate about the show.

The best thing about 'The Legend of Korra' is its titular character, 'Korra'. She is the total opposite of Aang, the main character of 'The Last Airbender'. For the first three seasons, she is angry, sarcastic, self confident and even a bit arrogant. She loves to fight and threatens to kill people multiple times during the show. She is a blast to watch and I also love the way she pouts. What is really interesting is her character development. In the final of the third season, a bunch of bad guys inject some poison into her. It wrecks her both physically and mentally, she has to sit in a wheelchair and gets depressed. The best Episode of the series 'Korra Alone' also shows that she has some kind of PTSD and that she gets haunted by a past version of herself.

The series also is the most dark and violent Nickelodeon cartoon ever made. Now, it is still not even as graphic as a Simpsons Halloween episode, however it is remarkable with what Nickelodeon let the creators of the show get away with. As opposed to 'The Last Airbender', a few people actually die in this one. In one scene, a character gets the air sucked out of her lungs and you see a close-up of her throbbing face. The most brutal scene is the one where they poison the main character. She is chained up and stripped of most of her clothes and they forcefully administer the metallic poison through her skin and she screams and convulses and sweats and it's just horribly violent. Really great!

The general themes of the show are also pretty grim. It's a show about Fascism, Concentration Camps, Terrorism, Anarchism, Depression, PTSD and Weapons of Mass Destruction to only name a few. There are tons of political references and parallels and it's just amazing.

Another thing that is great is that this show isn't a lame rip-off of 'The Last Airbender' , but instead they actually innovated and stayed fresh. The atmosphere is completely different to 'The Last Airbender', but really nicely done. It has more of a steampunk, 1920's vibe to it. I really like that the retelling of the plot before each episode is done in the style of an 1920's movie. Even the villains make sense in this atmosphere, as the 1920's were the time when the communist and fascist movements really started to grow.

The animation is absolutely stunning, especially the episode 'Beginnings' which is almost entirely done in the style of Japanese woodblock paintings and looks gorgeous!

The show is amazingly tense at parts, in particular the latter half of the third season. The fight scenes are great as well.

The ending to the series also deserves special mention as it is pretty perfect. Korra and another main female character enter a same- sex relationship with each other, and it is probably the first time this has been done in a series "for children" that comes out of the USA. However, the ending is also great on its own, the soundtrack is the best in the entire series and finally, Korra isn't crying or ruined but instead is happy for the first time. A remarkable scene that made me cry.

Now the bad parts of the series.

The biggest problem that it has parts were the humour is just absolutely unholy. The three kids are absolutely terrible, especially the little one. There are multiple scenes in the first season were he farts on people, and that is supposed to be the joke! The humour in 'The Last Airbender' was so much better, and while most of the stuff in 'The Legend of Korra' is still funny, everything that has kids in it is just horrendous. They also are the only characters in the series who have atrocious voice actors. I don't get why they are in the series at all. The creators themselves said that this was supposed to be a more mature version of 'The Last Airbender' and they are right for the most part, so why are the children even there? Did Nickelodeon force theme?

Another thing is that some of the characters don't feel that well written compared tp 'The Last Airbender'. While some of theme are good, like Varrick or Zaheer, other just feel bland, like the villain of the second season. That is mainly because instead of telling one story for four seasons, each season tells a different story and they are only loosely connected. And while this allows the creators of the show to tell more stories, the show fells a lot less tight. In 'The Last Airbender', every character felt great because they had three or two seasons to develop. I realize that I am criticizing on a very high level. This show is still light years better than everything else Nickelodeon has ever made, and if you liked 'The Last Airbender', you should definitely watch this one. It was really sad, heartwarming, intelligent, tense, political, action packed, violent, spectacular, witty and funny(except the kids). There aren't a lot of shows which made me feel so much and made me so sad when it ended. I am still suffering from post-series depression. Great Television without a doubt! Just prepare to be a little annoyed and underwhelmed at certain parts.

I absolutely love this show after the shocking end of book one with Amon and his posy I'm excited for book 2 spirits. Since we will get to learn more about the first Avatar and even meet the very first one. With the war that will be going on with the southern Water Tribe and the Evil Dark spirits and to see where the characters are after such a long wait. then there will be the Return of the Voice actress of Princess Azula from ATLA ....and ill finally get to seen Ang and Kataras children in Action. In the Trailers or clips you see korra going into the Avatar state a lot and Im worried that she might be relying on it too much. Im also wondering if Amon dint really die or if he might return in a later season plus all the new places the Gang will be traveling to and returning to like the Library with the Great Owl from the dessert in ATLA, If they plan on bringing any flask backs into the lives of other Avatars Like Kyoshi or Yangchen. I dint really see much of her in ATLA but the trailer for book 2 shows glimpses of Korra in the spiritual state talking to Roku and Kyoshi plus Ginora going into the spirit world.