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[Socalmuscle]

Except they DIDN'T throw it in at the end. All throughout book 3/4, we see Korra and Asami form bonds of intial friendship(Started off in Book 2, IIRC), and it grows over time. Off of the top of my head:
 
Asami being the one to take care of Korra while she's talking to Zaheer
 
Asami being the one who looked after Korra when Korra was recovering
 
Korra writing and keeping in contact ONLY with Asami. Not Tenzin, or Mako, or Bolin, or anyone besides Asami. That's beyond friendship, that's true trust, and Asami was willing to keep that secret up.
 
It's in the series, you just need to look for it. What WOULD have been fanservice would have been Makorra, as we saw them constantly sink that ship over and over again.

And all of that is nothing that freinds won't do for each other.

Their was nothing to suggest more.

Kind of felt like a last minute hype job.

[Portal]

Bump since Books 3 and 4 are on Blu-ray and I rewatched both.
Book 3 is still immensely awesome, albeit more obviously rushed/quickly paced. Even more so than Book 1.
Book 4 I loved a lot more upon rewatch, especially since I got more out of it as I saw more StarWars/Rebels influences and I've been studying World War 2 in school recently. Kuvira was absolutely awesome. Amon will probably be my favorite villain for years to come, because he wasn't really evil and how the writers used him in Korra's character arc, but Kuvira's story sets her apart for me. I just loved it. I found myself saying, both jokingly and quite seriously, "All hail the Great Uniter!" much more than once. The series finale was much better a second time around. Avatar State aside, the series ended perfectly, kind of like Green Lantern: TAS, but with more stories that will actually be told.
On Korrasami. I thought it was forced. I was looking out for everything, even looking at it differently like the producers said to. It just felt like the writers were trying to get Korra and Asami to know each other better for future episodes. Oh, and outside of them holding hands, the whole "Look, Korrasami!" was really open ended.

Tl;dr Long post is long, but I wanted to post this like I said I would. Pretty much Korra is best TV series and one of the best stories ever told, Korrasami is very meh. Thoughts?

[magiciandude]

My thoughts are that Book 4 was just as boring as Book 2 and for all the hate Korrasami gets, the spirits deserve it more for ditching Korra when she pleaded them for help. So while everyone in the show are happy about the new spirit portal all I can is "Who gives a ****?". Oh sure, help Korra when she had that PTSD or attack Tonraq when he raided bandits in spirit territory, but when the Avatar asks for help? Disappear like the cowards you are. And speaking of Tonraq, where the hell was he in all of this? We only saw him in the first episode of the Book and a couple of flashbacks but that's it. You'd think Tonraq would be fighting alongside with his daughter just like in the previous book but nope. I can at least understand Desna and Eska being apathetic towards the whole ordeal, but Tonraq? ***** no. Don't even get me started on Kuvira's motivation for being a ******. "Oh I only to protected my nation because my parents abandoned me and that's why I became a mass murderer. Waah." Quite frankly, I don't give a damn about the whole Korrasami controversy, because at that point, I just stopped giving a ***** about the show altogether. I don't care if I get hated for this, but Book 4 was a huge letdown and I wished the series ended at Book 3 because that is the only book in the entire series that came to the quality of the original Avatar series. 

 

In retrospect, the series doesn't hold, not even on its own. Book 1 was okay but was plagued by its awful character development. Book 2, do I even have to explain? Book 3, again, the only book that ever came close to the Avatar series. Book 4, just flat-out boring

 

Overall rating: 5/10 (would've been a 3/10 if it wasn't for Book 3).

[Portal]

http://darkhorsecomi...st/123734652322

Three volumes of Korra graphic novels announced. Take place after Book 4 and is supposed to focus more on Korrasami. Both Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko are involved. I know the show was divisive, but I've been waiting for this announcement since Book 4 ended. And yes, I am currently going through A:TLA. I'm almost done with Book 1. Hopefully TLA and both series of graphic novels can hold me over until Geniuses, and then Threadworlds.