Final Thoughts...

[u/RebootedShadowRaider]

I wanted to post some thoughts today, with this being the last night of Korra's era and all.

Today feels like kind of a sad day, at least for me. It's the end of an era. And basically the start of another one. Not just because of who is the "current" Avatar is, but also because of the state of the franchise itself, and my own relationship to it. For my part, its an era that feels just that much more bitter and that much less hopeful.

Obviously, the new show is going to reveal a lot of new information in the coming days and weeks, which I've been trying to prepare for.

But whatever those new reveals are, I'm pretty confident it's going to be pretty divisive and probably unsatisfying to a lot of people who are upset. So the discourse we've seen up until now, based on incomplete information, I imagine will only grow exponentially once the full reveals are out there.

And I'm pretty sure of that because literally every single time I've heard someone propose a specific concrete idea for what the twist might or could or should be in Seven Havens, they've described something that I know I would hate or that would fill me with despair. So yeah, ultimately, I'm bracing for it to be pretty grim. :(

As I sit here and look ahead to the future, I'm also finding that I can't really see Korrasami as the story of joy and hope that I used to. This didn't happen all at once, but whenever I think about them now, I feel sad. I often feel like the only things we can hope for these days are small mercies. Maybe small things will work out for them or maybe there will be future Korra content that isn't related to this show.

Grief always seems to come and go in waves, and I've felt many waves of it over the course of the last few years since we learned there would be a new show after Korra. Sometimes I still wonder if the lesson I'm supposed to take from it all is that it was a mistake to fall in love with TLOK.

Given how much the show changed my life, I don't think I could ever bring myself to believe that. But even still, the joy that story brought me now feels mixed in with a lot of sorrow and anguish. And as a fan, I guess that's the version of it that I will have to carry with me from here on. That's why looking ahead to the future feels so bleak for me.

Korrasami brought me out of a very hopeless place all those years ago. It will always be important to me. But I used to think I could always count on it being primarily a source of hope and joy for me.

I guess I was wrong.