mako: we need some Muscle™️ for this sting operation
asami: mUsClE?!?! korra can be our muscle!! oh she’s so strong mako… mako where’s korra i haven’t seen her korra should be here it would be so great if korra was here!!
midnight take: bolin is actually an exemplary look into how a non-avatar may deal with bending an element that is in opposition to their nature, and the fact that he has no aptitude for metalbending ties into this. earthbenders are to be stubborn, decisive, immovable, while bolin is compromising and malleable. i imagine this is why bolin’s style is so non-traditionally agile even outside of the bending arena, and why he took to lava so well. metalbending is also like the final boss of conventional earthbending, so it naturally follows that bolin would be pretty poor at it
all this goes to show that even if there’s a “correct” or “traditional” way of doing things you can also, to an extent, just make shit up if that doesn’t jive with you. go on, bolin, go do your earthbending gymnastics. you go korra, you punch people with air. you’re both valid af
with the Legend of Korra going on netflix, I just want to remind people that the FIRST season was thought to be the last one. that every season was made to stand alone. the first season was meant to be the end. the last two seasons aired online.
pls don’t come in here and compare it to atla, which was made with different resources and no expectations placed on it as sequel.
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