Avatar Korra Season 1 Review

Asami chooses Team Avatar over her father, personally driving a moped to rescue them.

She sits on a cliff, sobbing. She has saved the city, but lost her identity. She cannot bend Water, Earth, or Fire. She tells Mako, “I’m not the Avatar anymore.” avatar korra season 1

Korra, with only airbending, fights Amon on the deck of his airship. She shatters a window, sucking him out. As he hangs onto the edge, his mask falls off. —but it’s makeup. He is not scarred. He is a fraud. Asami chooses Team Avatar over her father, personally

70 years after the end of the Hundred Year War (Aang’s era). Republic City—a 1920s-style metropolis powered by lightning-bending, metalbending, and automobiles. It is a melting pot of benders from all nations, but also a place of deep social inequality. Prologue: The New Avatar The story begins with a teenage Korra, a prodigy from the Southern Water Tribe. Unlike Aang, she has already mastered Water, Earth, and Fire by age 17. However, she is spiritually blocked—she cannot Airbend or connect with her past lives. She cannot bend Water, Earth, or Fire

Frustrated with being confined to a White Lotus compound, she runs away to Republic City after hearing about the anti-bending revolution led by a mysterious figure named . Part 1: Arrival & The Rookie Upon arriving, Korra saves a pair of street urchin brothers— Mako (Firebender) and Bolin (Earthbender)—from the Triple Threat Triad. Bolin is instantly smitten; Mako is cold and skeptical.

Amon retreats, but his plan is already in motion. Amon declares the final revolution. Using stolen biplanes and Hiroshi’s airship fleet, the Equalists attack the city on the night of the pro-bending finals.

Korra learns that bending is not universally loved. A populist movement called the claims benders oppress non-benders. Their leader, Amon, wears a theatrical mask and has the terrifying ability to permanently remove a person’s bending through bloodbending.