One of the peculiarly great things about Legend of Korra Book 4 is the way it has managed to , ahem , balance the show ’s tremendous cast . In this week ’s episode , Tenzin ’s Kyd take midway stage when they journey to notice Korra . And , in the meantime , we learn incisively what made Korra ’s former antagonists scoundrel .
Well , it is metre for Jinora , Ikki , and Meelo to follow in their grandpa ’s footstep and have a kids - only dangerous undertaking . To some extent , the option to ship the three of them is a practical one ; Jinora has a close spiritual link to Korra , and while Pema is reckon after young Rohan , Tenzin is dealing with diplomatic topic . But it ’s also a rite of passage . The Airbender kids are expected to acquire up and instruct some independency from their parent — and reliance on each other — by going on their own missions . It ’ll probably help insure they grow up with a stronger bond than Tenzin , Kya , and Bumi had .
Jinora and Meelo have get their share of delineation over the last few season , but now we have a hard sense of where they are . Jinora ’s ghostly duties have made her serious , and while she is still the spit image of Aang , it ’s clean that she ’s got a lot of Tenzin in her as well . Meelo is still the farting , nose - pick little brother , and growing up hearing about Aang ’s adventures have left him with a romantic ( and not awfully pragmatic ) sense of liveliness on the road . Pro tip : Even if you ’re grown up enough to ride an air bison without your parents , DO NOT befuddle by the intellectual nourishment your mother take for you .
I hold , though , that half the reason that i was make about Meelo ditching Pema ’s bag of food is that this installment left me with a craving for sweet bean buns , and I could not imagine throwing such deliciousness into the river .
Ikki , however , has been suffering from middle child syndrome , not just within her kinfolk , but on the show as well . away from her Airbending skill and her philia for Korra , we have n’t had much of a ground to pay attention to her . So it ’s only right that Ikki is the one who finds the strong leading on Korra , while Jinora use her strategy of randomly flying about and meditating and Meelo orgy on poisonous berries .
Ikki gets herself captured by a twosome of Earth Empire guards , and in go on with the show ’s recent trends , these Guy are n’t idiot henchdudes , but actual human beings . At first they mistrust that Ikki might be an Air Nation undercover agent , but one of them chop-chop realise that she ’s Tenzin ’s kid and that Kuvira might view her as an asset . Here we learn what Ikki ’s strong traits are : she ’s favorable , empathic , and not easily rattle . She immediately treat the guards like friends , and not in a soak up - up - to - them agency . snake pit , she ’s got one of them feeding her macaroons within five minute of arc .
And I love that , just as the Earth guard are aid Ikki out , Meelo and Jinora storm in to “ deliver ” her . Aww , I like those guys . I would n’t mind get a glimpse of them one more time before the book closes .
Korra has to get to a position where she is emotionally ready to off the metallic element toxin from her trunk , and Toph cognise that . So she sends Korra back into the swamp , where Korra relives her struggle with her greatest foes : Amon , Unalaq , and Zaheer .
This where we dig into the real pith of the season , the theme that this book , “ Balance , ” is trying to resolve . All of Korra ’s opposition had sure laudable values : Amon wanted equation ; Unalaq wanted humanity tied bambino he spirits again ; Zaheer need exemption . The job was that all of these people were extremists . in force values are n’t enough ; you want balanced execution as well . What ’s result unuttered is that Kuvira is the queen — I’m sorry , the empress — of imbalance .
Korra regain her personal residuum among her people , and she has keep apart herself from them for too long . It ’s no coincidence that when she sends a tendril of energy out in the man , it leads Jinora right to her . When Tenzin ’s minor regain her , it ’s like a reunion of sib . Korra adores her Friend , but it ’s fitting that the children who encounter her are essentially her folk . That ’s what in the end give her the strength to remove the metal from her own soundbox . It is n’t easy , but she ’s find her heart again . With her heart comes her determination . And with her finding come Raava .
Toph bid good riddance to Korra and the Airbender nestling , and if this is her exit from the series , it ’s a utterly o.k. one . But with Kuvira ’s army head to Zaofu , will Toph simply sit back in her swampland and ascertain ? Or will she rick up to lend her own kids a hand ?
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