Just to bump this thread, I just heard that all 3 seasons are now available to watch on Nick.com. The only full episode they don’t have is The Siege of the North: Part 2. Hopefully they’ll be able to fix that. (maybe it was put with the first part?)
Thoughts on the first season of Korra? I thought it was great, but the characters and their development got muddled halfway through. The amount of action and suspense almost makes up for it. The story of [spoil]Tarrlok and Noatak[/spoil] is one of the best bits ever in Avatar. I just wish the ending was a bit less tidy, and wish that [spoil]Korra and Mako didn’t hook up[/spoil].
Overall, I did think The Legend of Korra was good. It does feel like the whole story was wrapped up, but the discovery of [spoil]Amon being a bloodbender and having Republic City fooled was both surprising and not surprising at the same time. It shocked everyone, but at the same time, there was that hint of doubt that he was making up the scam all along.[/spoil] Of course, the story is pretty original with characters that haven’t been seen before, so I hope they’re able to top that in Book 2. (if they do make one)
As for pairings, I really don’t care who ends up with who, as long as it’s canon. 
I have a feeling that Book 2 will be called Energy… Korra’s gotten all 4 elements at her disposal now so it sort of makes sense for her to pursue the mysterious 5th kind of bending.
Then again, [spoil]she only just airbent for the first time, so she hasn’t exactly mastered it yet.[/spoil]
Book 2 being Energy would also work if you look at The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra together - we’ve gone through Water, Earth and Fire in TLA, then Air in LOK. Energy seems to make the most sense.
I’d like to know if there’s some sort of sub-type of air bending - fire has lightning bending, earth has metal bending and water has blood bending… I dunno what an air one would be though. Light bending?
^^ Yeah, I’d like to see something for the Airbenders too, but I doubt it’ll ever happen since it hasn’t yet.
But honestly in Korra, I wish [spoil]the final battle had been lost. They weren’t prepared to win anything. I wanted a bad guy to span a couple books like TLA did, even though there’s only going to be two seasons. And how exactly will there be a season two?.. It just all tied up so nicely. I wish it hadn’t, I really do. And I wish we could see some place other than Republic City.[/spoil]
I recently heard that Korra has been renewed for three more books.
I heard Legend of Korra is good and all, but watching something Avatar without the trio (if you know what I mean) related just seems too painful. But I’m excited to see the new Evil Dead movie without Ash in it so…
But still. Aang, Katara, and Sokka are what made Avatar: The Lastbender the great show that it is. Maybe I’ll give Legend of Korra a shot when it comes out, but I don’t know.
I really like Legend of Korra. I loved how they updated the world to make it fresh and new, and I liked how it jumped into an ongoing storyline much more quickly than Airbender. I think that Amon was a good villain and I like most of the new characters. I felt they were a bit hasty with the romance sub-plot- [spoil]I hadn’t even realised Korra was supposed to have had a crush on Mako until the announcer guy said it at the start of episode 5[/spoil]. I also wish that they had addresed whether or not non-benders were actually being oppressed. The only times we definitively see evidence of this is after the Equalists start attacking everyone. And Mako and Bolin are poor, whilst Asami is rich, so I never really got the impression that they were being oppressed until after Amon showed up. On top of that, in the first series we saw lots of powerful non-benders. I think the writers should have cleared it up, because a lot of people think that Korra was in the wrong for fighting them (even though they were pretty much terrorists).
I think Korra maybe would have benefited from a couple more episodes to stop it from feeling rushed in places. And I can’t help but think that the ending was probably written before the creators knew whether or not a second series had been commissioned. But overall it was a worthy successor to Avatar and I hope that next season will be even better.