The issue with Korra's behavor in the first half of Spirits is that she is acting completely out of character. Take how she acts in the first five episodes of Spirits and contrast it with how she acts in Air. Korra could be brash and had few to no social skills its true, but she still recognized when she was in the wrong and was willing to own up to her mistakes. From episodes 1 through 5 Korra takes a "Never My Fault" attitude and blames everyone who is not herself.aceina wrote:people are way to harsh on korra for the early part of spirits put your self in her shoes a big issue for her first of all was learning her father and tenzin not aang where why she was locked up in the compound for her entire life she felt betrayed and they never explain why it was done
she has no social skills a key factor people forget she never got to travel the world and learn how to interact with people
She's also a jerk to just about everyone including Mako to the point that she acts almost like Crazy Steve from @$$ Bar. I think that this was partly done as a attempt to make Mako look better as Korra, along with Asami, Lin and Bolin are made into either jerks or idiots which makes Mako look better by contrast and by this point in the series Mako was still clearly a creators pet who could do no wrong.
Another problem is that Korra retains none of her character development from Air until after Beginnings which sets her back to factory settings becoming more patient and willing to listen to others while still making mistakes, only now said mistakes aren't the result of the writers turning her into a idiot and making stupid mistakes for the sake of the plot.
However, one point that I think do judge Korra to harshly on is when she attempts to close the spirit portal in the next two episodes. A lot of fans say that Korra should have just done nothing as both portals were supposedly needed and that leaving one close would have insured that Vaatu wouldn't have been able to escape. However, Korra didn't learn this fact at any point, Jinora did and she only learned it when she went to the Library. And even then one Portal may have been enough for Vaatu to escape so why take the risk at all?
However, she could have saved a lot of time and just flown to the Northern Water Tribe as it may have been less guarded due to Unalaq bringing seemingly most of his army to the south. Though this may just be the benefit of hindsight and either way it's still a risk without back up.
