Korra - Season 3

[stryke]

The new video on Su Yin and Beifong is incredible peak SFdebris content. Just fantastically put together.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Yeah. I never thought about it that way, but he has a really good analysis of the character. That's what I come here for.

[Nobody700]

I always disliked Lin but this... this is WAY better a summary than I had. I always had this feeling but this is why people listen to reviews and critics, they can put it in words you can instantly recognize. Woman always felt fake as hell.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

glad to see Beiphong and Naga have made up their differences.

[Winter]

One thing that I really enjoy about this season and why I think it's the most popular in the show, with some arguing that it's even better then The Last Airbender, is how well it utilizes most of the cast. It's more of an ensemble season this time around instead of just keeping focus on Team Avatar and Tenzin while never forgetting that Korra is the main character as she's the one who's still driving most of the plot forward and she's the one most changed by the events of the story.

The only character I feel is underutilized is Mako who doesn't get much to do this season. Asami has her growing relationship with Korra, Tenzin is rebuilding the Air Nation, Lin has her relationship with Sue, Bolin trying to learn Metalbending and Jinora has her arc of becoming an Airbending Master. Mako... kinda, has the arc of getting over his breakup with Korra and Asami... only not really because after the first episode he has no real issue working with either girl and it just kinda resolves itself with little to no effort on anyone's part.

Both Korra and Asami just kinda get on with their life, tease Mako one time and then that's it. And with the show starting to set up Korrasami as endgame that leaves Mako with basically nothing. His family drama is resolved in the same episode it was introduced in, he has no real personal struggles, gets very few moments to shine and most of those are overshadowed by other events and or characters. For me it just really emphasis that Mako is really the most worthless character in Avatar right now. He basically has no real use, it really dull, suffers little no real issues, just kinda gets what he wants and or needs and then it's over.

Asami gets more then him and she has less screen time and dialogue but,she's also this ultra badass who often loses everything dear to her yet she keeps moving forward.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Yeah, Mako is kind of a nothingburger this season. That's partly why I wrote a fanfiction where Korra eats him.

[Winter]

Yeah, Mako is kind of a nothingburger this season. That's partly why I wrote a fanfiction where Korra eats him.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooookay!

But moving on from... that! I feel that Mako never really gets a chance to develop past him just a love interest for Korra and Asami. Like that's his whole identity to be their love interest as soon as he loses that he has nothing to really fall back on.

His relationship with Bolin, barely talked about throughout the series. The death of his parents, only really relevant in one episode after they're mentioned. Him being a cop, pretty much dropped after season 2. Wu gets more development then Mako and he's basically the Neelix of Avatar.

[hammerofglass]

Mako's best development was when he was Wu's bodyguard. And then it was basically just "comically annoyed employee".

[Winter]

Mako's best development was when he was Wu's bodyguard. And then it was basically just "comically annoyed employee".

And again, Wu got more development then Mako did. I really gotta wonder why Mako was kept on after Spirits, he didn't really add anything and he was often overshadowed by Asami who often had less screen time and dialogue then him.

Honestly, Balance is perhaps the best example of this when you look at Team Avatar's overall contribution to the series as a whole. Korra concludes her character which is tied into her relationship with Kuvira, Bolin has to deal with the fact that he's joined a dictator and deal with the fallout of that choice. Asami has her developing relationship with Korra, her resolving her conflict with her father and helps in the final battle of by creating the Humming bird mechs.

And Mako... has to guard an idiot who he can't stand. The show tries to give him something by way of "Korra taught me to put others before myself" but this A) Is only brought up about halfway through the season, B) Is dropped until the finally and C) goes against what we've gotten from him up until this point since just the episode before he didn't go to guard Wu, the one and only job he has, because he was to busy pouting about Korra not writing to him.

And in said episode he spends most of it bitching how no one listens to him when the only way Korra and Asami get anything done is by straight up ignoring him.

I honestly yelled at Mako when he said "Oh, so it's my fault Wu disappeared" YES! You have ONE JOB IN THIS SEASON! Keep an eye on this idiot and you decided it was more important to pout then to do you job which is why Wu got captured and Korra and Asami are doing everything in their power to fix your screw up. And you're complaining about them not doing a good enough job?!?!

And some fans wonder why more people ship Korra with Asami, it's because they actually work as a couple even before they actually get together JEEZ!!!