The Legend of Korra - Book 1, Chapter 3: The Revelation [Review]

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The Legend of Korra is three episodes in and in this latest episode the plot thickens quite a bit with an ending that is sure to add a lot of tension and danger to the series.

Chapter 3, The Revelation, begins with Korra and her pro-bending teammates, Bolin and Mako, trying to figure out how to make money to enter a pro-bending championship. In an effort to raise the funds needed, Bolin takes a job offer from one of the bending gangs in town and then disappears soon after.

Mako and Korra go looking for Bolin and after learning more about The Equalists, a movement set on ending the era of benders, they discover details on an Equalist event and take it as their best shot at finding Bolin. There they see the leader of The Equalists, Amon (pictured above), who reveals to the crowd of fellow bender protesters that he has the ability to remove the power of bending, a skill only ever possessed by Aang, the previous Avatar. He proves this by taking away the bending abilities from three benders and almost removes Bolin’s earth bending abilities before Korra and Mako rescue him.

So far I’m really enjoying the series. The story is great and is a completely different twist on the story from the first series, Avatar: The Last Airbender. The animation and action scenes have definitely improved, also. The only thing is I really want the characters to be fleshed out a little more. I know that this is only the third episode, and while I do like the characters, sometimes they just make me miss the old team of Aang, Sokka, Katara, and Toph. But I remain hopeful that with more episodes I will learn to love these new characters almost as much as the ones from the first series.

I really enjoyed the way The Revelation ended. It added such a dark twist on the Avatar mythology. I’m really looking forward to seeing what this plot point adds to the series.

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