#finale issues

[hiddeninhuman]

I’ve been thinking about the whole “earned death” thing the writers talked about. Initially I was thinking there is no way a good person can earn a death, but I think I was wrong.

I think if the plot calls for a cathartic release, a hero death can be “earned.”

I think regarding Lincoln the writers tried really quickly to build a link between Lincoln and Hive with Lincoln’s desperation to save Daisy and Hive goading him at the missile base. But, regarding Lincoln, it wasn’t enough of a build up to feel earned.

The grand romantic gesture can only serve as catharsis if the viewers buy in to the relationship, and static quake (while I love them both) had not had the build up to land that emotional devistation for the whole fandom to experience.

The thing was, there were characters that this would have been cathartic. An earned death. If it had been Coulson who was obsessed with taking out Ward, killed Ward and let Hive into our world. Or May, who was very focused on killing ward, when she say Hive saw it as an opportunity to kill Ward and who had Hive kill her husband in 3.20. Daisy would have been revenge for what he did in the dark turn, plus be a closing of the chapter in ending him after she blamed herself for not letting him die in season 1. Simmons killing him would have been her keeping her promise that has been echoing for seasons. Fitz killing him to save Simmons would have really played the tragic romance card plus allowed for revenge for the pod in season 1. Hunter was desperate to end Ward in 3a. His ending that plot by ending Hive would have felt earned.

Having Lincoln take out Hive makes all of this feel like dropped plotlines. I mean I have heard this was supposed to be the closing of a chapter, but having it not have that catharsis makes it feel incomplete...tragic because a good character died, but incomplete

[swan2swan]

Korra felt herself float gently to the ground, and when her feet were set upon the snow, she was standing not with the strength of all her past lives, but her own strength, her own two feet. She was herself again.

She opened her eyes, and though the glow had faded, the world still seemed somehow brighter than it had when she had run to the edge of this cliff. And she knew why. Her powers had been restored, no, they had been there all along, just like her airbending. All that she had needed to know was that the only one who could overcome the block was the Avatar herself, Avatar Korra.

She finally understood the meaning of her title.

She smiled, and then felt as though someone was watching, someone who was not Naga. She turned around, and there, in front of the polar bear dog, watching with the proudest smile that Korra had ever seen, was Katara. Her mentor must have followed her out of the house, must have tracked her all the way here, even at her age...

Because she had known what was going to happen, Korra realized. She had known all along. She had told Korra before she had set off for Republic City that it was time for Korra and a new generation to take over, that she could not be the one to save the world this time. Katara had admitted that there was nothing more that she herself could do for Korra, and that Korra would have to find her own solution. And she had.

She had believed in Korra all along.

And then Korra was running toward her, running gratefully, finally understanding this final lesson of healing, understanding what it must have been like for Katara to watch the new Avatar find her true power and restore her potential, and she saw the tears of joy in Katara's eyes as she drew close. Korra was so overwhelmed when she reached Katara that she snatched the old woman up in her arms and spun her right around, then remembered that such forceful handling was probably not the best treatment of her old bones and set her down again. But when Katara's arms wrapped around her and pulled Korra into a hug, her arms were surprisingly strong.

"You knew, didn't you?" Korra asked, burying her head on Katara's shoulder. "You knew all along that I could still be the Avatar!"

"I never knew," Katara replied. "I believed."

[thecringeisreal90]

Here's my minor issue for the night

I need to have an arrangement somebody ordered done, edited, in mp3 format, pdf, and emailed out in an hour. That wasn't gonna happen anyway, but I was gonna be pretty close to being done. But, my laptop kept telling me that Finale is using up too much memory and to shut that shit down for a spell. So, now I have to wait and be even later turning this in. Meh. The client was being difficult an indecisive anyway...

[xtinydotsendlesstimeline]

omfg what was that finale, why is lily leaving rufus for bart the bald horrible fake dead bastard, why has serena regressed back to her 15 year old slutty self, why is nate still even on this show AND WHY COULDNT CHUCK JUST IGNORE HIS STUPID DAD AND KISS BLAIR AND EVERYTHING WOULD HAVE BEEN OKAY

and dan can just go away now his curly hair is starting to irritate me