It’s a rare bustling location as Varrick woos President Raiko and his wife, Buttercup (who reminded me of Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos) to back him with military spending, flashbulbs burst, onlookers cheer, and announcer plays Ryan Seacrest to the affair. She can’t even bear to see him, unwilling to risk memories of her father flooding back.Īnyone missing the vibrancy of Book One Republic City should be pleased by Hero of the South’s premiere, director Colin Heck channeling the glamour and grandeur of golden age Hollywood with the Eastern trimmings that make the show’s production design so unique. Mako is in the wrong too, having landed himself in prison, the well-worn path for Asami’s loved ones. The nuance of the jail cell conversation takes the scene beyond Bolin’s frustrating disillusion. Even when Mako, his brother and trusted ally, spells out Varrick’s involvement in his framing, Bolin sides with the innovator who made him a “mover star.” He’s like Edmund in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, with Varrick as the White Witch and a rabid fan base replacing the Turkish delights. Mako’s in the slammer, Asami is subservient to the almighty dollar, and Bolin, for once in his life, is the star of the show. It’s premiere night for The Adventures of Nuktuk: Hero of the South’s epic conclusion and Team Avatar is stretched tauter than ever. It’s a blast of peril that keeps the airbender clan in the back of our brains as the episode drifts back to Republic City for a Bolin-centric half hour. The episode opens with a brief, punch-to-the-gut coda to last week’s episode, a tearjerking admission from Tenzin to Pema that their daughter Jinora is lost in in the spirit world. The show can spin plates like Game of Thrones.
With an invisible transition between episodes, the hour-long “Night of a Thousand Stars”/“Harmonic Convergence” gradually unspools the show’s many character threads while still piling on more action than we’ve seen all season.
Which makes the show’s decision to double-feature it’s remaining four episodes an absolute delight. With the production costs of animation and the standard block scheduling of Nickelodeon programming, it’s not all that feasible, but the storytelling begs to be extended. Since its first episodes, Legend of Korra has ached to be an hour-long show.
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