The animators nailed the body language of a wild animal, though.

I'm amazed that somebody decided that the Calydonian Boar was worth putting into a major Hollywood movie.

I KNEW I KNEW THAT VOICE FROM SOMEWHERE

What's this? A moment of genuine honesty and personal growth from Gunslinger Givens? Is Raylan going to be upfront with his boss for the first time in a couple of seasons?

Where is this information about season three coming from? Did the creators give an interview somewhere that I missed?

Whenever I read the "Korra never changes or matures" meme that seems to be floating around here, I wonder if the people who espouse it are watching the same show I'm watching. Korra's changed a lot from her first season by the finale; she's become more mature, more thoughtful, more in touch with her spirituality. Was…

English does not contain the words I would need to register my agreement with that.

I'm holding out for that so hard. Aang keeping still? Pretty easy for him. Korra? That's a serious challenge.

I've long been a believer that the most important thing for a fantasy story is that things must make thematic sense where they don't always make logical sense. Looper is an excellent example; it sets out a set of rules that echo the beats and themes of the story, and that's sufficient. Magic, after all, is weaponized…

I'll bite.

The season's not over yet, though. There's still several more episodes to go, and it seems like they're going to start pulling everything back in again. If by the end of the season plot threads remain dropped, yeah, I'll be annoyed. But right now I feel it's a little early to be certain of what's been dropped and…

She's a lot like Korra, as Tenzin points out. Very, very competent in certain matters. In others….not so much. She's brave, and a very skilled martial artist, but we never really got a sense of how she handled her police organization. It's entirely possible that she's just not brilliant at her job. Awesome martial…

Yeah, that's possible too. I think the issue with a lot of the early episodes comes from the amount of time devoted to conversations, and for something like that you need fairly expressive facial animation. Which we weren't getting. If Korra, Mako, Asami and the rest would adopt more than one facial expression during…

Yeah, I suspect that if Studio Mir had been handling things right along, the level of complaints wouldn't be as high. There are still issues, of course, but it's really astonishing how important the animation is to selling the show.

It's also worth pointing out that despite her ex-husband's romantic monologue, it cuts to Virginia sitting cold and alone on a bus bench, having missed the bus. The imagery is desperately mundane, and the monologue is over the top romantic, and I can't help but feel as if that's kind of the point.

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I think it's interesting how badly the style of Korra translates into typical anime animation. The thing I kept noticing as I was watching this episode is that it looks like something from, say, Full Metal Alchemist—-not very dynamic, except when it comes to fight scenes. Sometimes not even then.

But the real question is, how will they fuck up Kaa this time?

I'm honestly impressed that they managed to put Benedict Cumberbatch's eyes on a dragon face.

I agree, but that does raise the obvious question of whether they should tackle or refer to them in the first place.