Legend of Korra Book 3 Chapter 8 review - The Terror Within

Before I start the next review, I’d like to say SCREW YOU NICKELODEON. Advertising for Korra started a mere 2 weeks before its air-date, and the air-date itself wasn’t revealed until a week later, not surprisingly ratings haven’t been very good (if I had a penny for every book 3 post I’ve seen through various blogs saying ‘Korra book 3 is on? I didn’t know’ I’d be quite rich)

On top of that, Nickelodeon went to advertise that their episodes would not be available online (at least for a few days) except now, they’re only going to be available online. I understand that ratings online are very good for Korra, and Korra isn’t your usual type of show (because it’s good) but seriously, you pull it mid-book! THAT’S DUMB

OK, let’s get started with the last episode to air offline

Chapter 8 – The Terror Within

The moment has finally arrived, but before we get to that we get some scenes where Korra masters metalbending, and Bolin…. Doesn’t. We also get a brief goodbye to Opel as she departs for the northern air temple with a truly sweet scene between her and Bolin

But the meat of this episode, Zaheer and his group make their move. It’s amazing, they work as a team very well, Ming Hua and Ghazan defended P’Li when they saw that Bolin was attempting to exploit her weakness, and they did it with no speech whatsoever. And there were no arguments when Zaheer ordered their retreat, this kind of thing shows them to be a formidable group

It is a shame then that Korra herself spends the entire fight drugged up and unconscious, although it does give us an opportunity to see Metalbending used brilliantly, although I personally would’ve liked to have seen more wire-fu fights (like those in book 1)

Also nice reference to TLA using Shirshu toxin to knock Korra out. Anyway, with the fight won, and only half the episode done, we look into the details of how the attack happened. Aiwei, being a truth seer, is the one doing the questioning

Which does pose the question, how come neither of Toph’s daughters learned this skill? And why don’t they teach it at police academy, it surely would be helpful for Earthbending police (which are most of them) to be able to tell that

It’s nice to see Mako’s detective skills are used here, and without everyone else acting like an idiot (I’ll get to this when I get into my review of book 2 starting later this week) with him asking the questions that eventually allowed them to deduce that Aiwei himself was the traitor

Varrick is on top form this episode, providing good humour throughout the episode, and also proving useful in reminding them how it’d be really easy to plant evidence if you already suspect someone’s guilty (much like he did to Mako in ‘everybody’s an idiot except Mako’ – I’ll explain this in my review)

We end the episode with Korra setting out to find Aiwei and stop Zaheer and his gang. This leaves us with a few unanswered interesting questions. Did Aiwei do something to Lin to make her receive acupuncture? How big is this conspiracy? Who is ultimately the head of it? How many other agents are there? Questions to be answered in the coming weeks.

Rating 8.5/10

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