He is, for lack of a better term, a “salt of the earth” sort of fellow. That’s not an insult, for the record, just an observation of the kind of person he is. That’s fair enough, but when I think of the word “refined,” Bolin doesn’t exactly come to mind. Metal is processed and refined, but earthbenders are able to seek out and bend the earth particles inside it. But the more I think about it, the more right it seems for Bolin to be a lavabender and not a metalbender. It was also nice to see Bolin get his moment to shine, and I particularly enjoy that it flipped the expectation: most of us were assuming his big triumph would be in metalbending, since he’d tried so hard earlier in the season. It wouldn’t have felt true to the battle she had to fight. They could’ve taken the easy way out and had her smiling and happy and physically fit, but they didn’t. She looks, for lack of a better phrase, like death warmed over. When we leave Korra at the end of the episode, she isn’t back to her old self. I bring that up because this finale proves to me that this show is at its best when it doesn’t do that - one of the many reasons Korra is so amazing to me and a worthy successor to The Last Airbender is that it peels back the layers of oppression, violence, and heroism to show you the true consequences of this world. Korra and Lin got their bending back, Korra and Mako got together, and virtually every other sacrifice that had been made was “fixed.” In short, it ignored the realities of violence and war. I had a problem with the finale of season one, you might remember - the last five minutes shoehorned in a happy ending. The season three finale of Legend Of Korra is easily my favorite finale this show has done so far. 3.12 Enter The Void 3.13 Venom Of The Red Lotus
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