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- Posted: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:45:53 +0000
This evening, I heard about the canon Korrasami ending from a friend online and naturally rushed to watch the last few episodes.
The ending was beautiful.
All along, this show has surrounded a cast of characters growing in numbers, in age and in experiences. Korra started out an unruly, brash teenager who couldn't even get herself to meditate. She was the polar opposite to Aang, which presented a new lens of the Avatar world. She underwent constant struggle, made mistakes left right and center and blundered where assumably, none of the Avatars had before. Korra needed work. And in my opinion? She got that work.
The first season fixated oftentimes on two relatively forced relationships: Korra and Mako, and Asami and Mako. And while moments of each of these were nice for entertainment value, they were nothing new to me. I've seen heterosexual couples plastered all over TV since day one. Both Korra/Mako and Asami/Mako had kissing scenes, had scenes where they had physical intimacy to some degree.And those suited the stage in life the three of them were at.
But as things progressed, from the end of season two and into season three, the emphasis on romance lessened for Mako, Korra and Asami. There were echoes, sure, but all three of them needed to overcome their own obstacles and grow. As someone in that stage in life myself, I can honestly say that the lack of love complicating already complicated situations was incredibly identifiable. I connected immensely with Korra, with her journey towards healing herself, towards understanding herself. I connected with Mako over his desire to pull back from romantic love for the sake of introspection. I connected with Asami over her drive and inspiration and her choice to be there for Korra, but her wisdom not to push for something further than friendship.
Now lets get to the last episode.
I've heard mixed reviews about the lack of a kiss or anything diffinively 'romantic' between Korra and Asami. But here is my take on their scene together.
Asami has just lost her father after finally reconciling with him. Her relationship with him has been messy and complicated. Republic City has been threatened and nearly destroyed, so Asami stood to lose her home. She has presumably held feelings for Korra a decent amount of time now.
Also take into account Korra. She has spent a long time away from home on her own trying to overcome incredibly real mental demons, not to mention the latest crap with Kuvira. There have been threats to the world. She has also changed, and her priorities have changed. Her methods of self expression has changed. Where she'd had been the type the offer Mako a passionate kiss as a younger self, she opted instead to hold hands with Asami, and to me that is reflective of her growth as a person.
Yes, there was probably some degree of censorship from Nickelodeon. Yes, more could have happened between them but there is a crucial piece behind this that I think people are missing.
The ending is not an in your face 'LOOK, THERE ARE GAYS HERE. LOOK AT HOW PROGESSIVE WE ARE' thing that I see a lot of good-intentioned hetero-lens writers doing, but a properly handled scene. The ending scene speaks volumes of hope, and the strength of healthy romantic relationships. Korra and Asami spent time building their relationship and it is that important piece I derive from this ending. It is clear that they love each other. They have both had time to practice being in a relationship as seen with their time with Mako and my impression is that they are taking a different approach to each other here rather the things that didn't work with him.
tl;dr I feel the Korrasami ending was handled respectfully and I don't think they needed a big-a** kiss for the ending to still be proper representation for queer folks. Because love ain't just the touchy feely, and proper queer representation doesn't have to be overt.
Anywho, this is mostly just my only spiel and opinions.
BUT YEAH KORRASAMI, GONNA LOOK UP FANART NOW WOO
The ending was beautiful.
All along, this show has surrounded a cast of characters growing in numbers, in age and in experiences. Korra started out an unruly, brash teenager who couldn't even get herself to meditate. She was the polar opposite to Aang, which presented a new lens of the Avatar world. She underwent constant struggle, made mistakes left right and center and blundered where assumably, none of the Avatars had before. Korra needed work. And in my opinion? She got that work.
The first season fixated oftentimes on two relatively forced relationships: Korra and Mako, and Asami and Mako. And while moments of each of these were nice for entertainment value, they were nothing new to me. I've seen heterosexual couples plastered all over TV since day one. Both Korra/Mako and Asami/Mako had kissing scenes, had scenes where they had physical intimacy to some degree.And those suited the stage in life the three of them were at.
But as things progressed, from the end of season two and into season three, the emphasis on romance lessened for Mako, Korra and Asami. There were echoes, sure, but all three of them needed to overcome their own obstacles and grow. As someone in that stage in life myself, I can honestly say that the lack of love complicating already complicated situations was incredibly identifiable. I connected immensely with Korra, with her journey towards healing herself, towards understanding herself. I connected with Mako over his desire to pull back from romantic love for the sake of introspection. I connected with Asami over her drive and inspiration and her choice to be there for Korra, but her wisdom not to push for something further than friendship.
Now lets get to the last episode.
I've heard mixed reviews about the lack of a kiss or anything diffinively 'romantic' between Korra and Asami. But here is my take on their scene together.
Asami has just lost her father after finally reconciling with him. Her relationship with him has been messy and complicated. Republic City has been threatened and nearly destroyed, so Asami stood to lose her home. She has presumably held feelings for Korra a decent amount of time now.
Also take into account Korra. She has spent a long time away from home on her own trying to overcome incredibly real mental demons, not to mention the latest crap with Kuvira. There have been threats to the world. She has also changed, and her priorities have changed. Her methods of self expression has changed. Where she'd had been the type the offer Mako a passionate kiss as a younger self, she opted instead to hold hands with Asami, and to me that is reflective of her growth as a person.
Yes, there was probably some degree of censorship from Nickelodeon. Yes, more could have happened between them but there is a crucial piece behind this that I think people are missing.
The ending is not an in your face 'LOOK, THERE ARE GAYS HERE. LOOK AT HOW PROGESSIVE WE ARE' thing that I see a lot of good-intentioned hetero-lens writers doing, but a properly handled scene. The ending scene speaks volumes of hope, and the strength of healthy romantic relationships. Korra and Asami spent time building their relationship and it is that important piece I derive from this ending. It is clear that they love each other. They have both had time to practice being in a relationship as seen with their time with Mako and my impression is that they are taking a different approach to each other here rather the things that didn't work with him.
tl;dr I feel the Korrasami ending was handled respectfully and I don't think they needed a big-a** kiss for the ending to still be proper representation for queer folks. Because love ain't just the touchy feely, and proper queer representation doesn't have to be overt.
Anywho, this is mostly just my only spiel and opinions.
BUT YEAH KORRASAMI, GONNA LOOK UP FANART NOW WOO
