QueenCeline wrote:Kuvira's actions were villainous, no doubt,but her overall goal was to help her country [...]
Isn't that always kind of the whole point of villains in LoK? Equality, balance, freedom, stability, those are the four words I'd associate with them in order. Noble in and of themselves, but all of the villains just overshot their ideals.
Anyway, I do think Book 4 has some issues, but a lot of them also come down to Nick just absolutely not giving a crap about the series, cutting funding halfway through, throwing it out there without any marketing, yada yada yada. I think that if they'd have been left alone, a lot of the plot threads that felt either rushed or unresolved, could have been better. Zaheer helping Korra, for instance. I like the finale okay, I think the robot was a bit over the top, but then again, it could be worse. Does provide them with some unique battles to fight. What I don't like though, is that when compared to the Book 3 season finale, it felt a bit underwhelming. You know, with Korra and Zaheer flying around, tossing enormous boulders at each other, all that good stuff. This felt a bit smaller, and that isn't in its favor. Then there are smaller things like Wu being pretty annoying, Opal is kind of a bitch to Bolin, Su doesn't want to do anything because question mark, etc. All reasonable issues, and yeah, I suppose that they do start to add up in the end.
That being said, I still rank this one second best, simply because it has the best beginning and middle. The beginning and middle of Book 1 are severely flawed (I hate the love traingle and don't really care about pro-bending) and the finale was great right up until 3 minutes from the end, Book 2 was pretty bad until we got to Beginnings, which were great, and then it went downhill again after, Book 3 had a really good beginning, then sagged quite a bit in the middle, and then had a great finale, and Book 4 had a great beginning and a great middle, but then it went downhill a bit towards the end. Korra Alone is my favorite episode of LoK, Suyin fighting Kuvira on top of the cannon is probably the best non-Avatar fight across both series (though you can make a good argument for the Comet-Enhanced Agni Kai), I think Bolin and Varrick working off each other is really funny, and yeah, I am a sucker for Korrasami, so I do like that they actually went through with it.
In conclusion... I really liked Book 4. It's more quiet and restrained than the other ones, relying less on actionny bending and more on character development, which is a bold choice, but I think it worked out for the most part. Worst Book for me is still 2, by a wide margin.