LogFAQs > #956662011

Welp, finished season 3. It is definitely a nice rebound from season 2. Vaatu being explained as a part of the Red Lotus plan along with showing up (albeit in hallucination form) gave me some ptsd though, yuck! As I mentioned before, the air nomads were the most appealing part of this show. I'm glad to see the large impact they get to have in this show. They are my favorite part of the show personally.

Man, this season definitely had more of what I like in terms of villains. As I said in the last post, I don't mind one-dimensional villains, I just hated Unalaq and Vaatu. The Earth Queen was a textbook "I kick puppies" kinda villain, and I did hate her, but in the way you should hate a villain. She reminded me more of Ozai, in that her basic one-dimensional villainy improved the overall ensemble. It's crazy that the show featured her gruesome suffocation, though. Props to the showrunners and Nick for letting it happen (I know Nick screwed this show over, but at least they did let the showrunners do things like this).

Zaheer himself was exactly what someone like Unalaq should have been. His motivations were less "evil = good" and more of a distorted view of what balance is. To be fair to him, as well, his points about how the leadership has failed was mostly true. The Avatar has long failed the people in terms of keeping them from suffering under oppressive rulership. The Firelords during the 100 year war, the Earth Queen, the Northern Water Tribe, and the president with his cowardice, has long been a major cause of people's discomfort in this world. In terms of grey villains, I feel he did it better than Amon did (who kinda fell flat in the end). Lastly, he gave me what I wanted in terms of seeing the extremes someone could go with air bending, so that was a plus as well.

His gang also gets points for actually being pretty likeable, in terms of villains, for the short amount they got to show a little personality. They were small moments, but I think they worked well. I believe the bending was at its best this season, as well, mainly because we got to see a wide range with the villains and heroes in terms of both primary and secondary powers. Also, I liked some of the new settings, the metal clan city was pretty sick. Suyin and Opal were great additions to the world as well imo. While some would have preferred if the original series was never mentioned, I'm glad to see characters like Zuko get a direct appearance, as well as the impact the former characters had on today's world.

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