‘Enemy at the Gates’ Legend of Korra Book 4 review
Korra tries to fix things in a boring, diplomatic way
Korra is finally back in action and Zaofu is her first port of call. She finds Kuviras army amassed out the front and fears the worst, however no invasion has formally begun. Tensions run high at the diplomatic attempts as we find out that Kuvira was Suyins protege who offered to bring order to Ba Sing Se when Suyin declined Raikos plea. Meanwhile Varrick accidentally creates a super-weapon out of spirit vines, and when he tries to close down the project on account of his recently discovered conscience, Kuvira threatens him and forces him to continue. Clueless and naive Bolin finally catches on to some of Kuviras dodgy practices and helps Varrick and Zhu li escape. Once recaptured Zhu Li shocks everyone and pledges allegiance to Kuvira, siting her mistreatment by Varrick as the reason. Bolin is sent to a ‘re-education camp’. In the final moments of the episode a shocked Korra discovers Suyin and her to beefy sons have gone out to assasinate Kuvira.
The first issue of contention is whether or not Zhu Li has legitimately joined Kuviras cause. If she is legitimately betraying Varrick, that is completely understandable. On the other hand I think its a fairly predictable plot twist that shes going to use her position of trust to help save Varrick. Im also interested to see what the re-education camps end up being like. Like the Dai Li Lake Laogai or more Fire Nation prison?
This episode was good although book 4 has been off to a slow start, and for not the first time I cant help but thinking and hoping maybe next week will be the week that shit starts happening.
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