I love how their relationship arc took its time, through kindness andĬaring. Out beautiful, and again, it is a resolution of which I am very proud. Think the entire last two-minute sequence with Korra and Asami turned Romantic, and he fulfilled the assignment with a sublime score. We asked Jeremy Zuckerman to make the music tender and Towards each other, clasping both hands in a reverential manner, in aĭirect reference to Varrick and Zhu Li’s nuptial pose from a few Later in the retake process I staged a revision where they turned We went back and forth on it in the storyboards, but It was originally written in the script overĪ year ago that Korra and Asami held hands as they walked into the Limit to how far we could go with it, as just about every article I We approached the network and while they were supportive there was a Unambiguous about the intended relationship. That.” Mike and I talked it over and decided it was important to be And I didn’t want to lookīack in 20 years and think, “Man, we could have fought harder for If we want to see that paradigmĮvolve, we need to take a stand against it. It was just another assumption based on a paradigm that How do I know we can’t openly depict that? No one ever explicitly said Series, working in the idea that their trajectory could be headingīut as we got close to finishing the finale, the thought struck me: So we alluded to it throughout the second half of the However, we still operated under this notion,Īnother “unwritten rule,” that we would not be allowed to depict that Progressed, the more the idea of a romance between them organicallyīlossomed for us. Not everyone is queer, but the other side of that coin is that notĮveryone is straight. It should not preclude the possibility of a romance between them. Just because two characters of the same sex appear in the same story, Show’s fans, so I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the positiveĪrticles and posts I’ve seen about Korra’s finale.Īs for why some people didn’t see the romance for themselves, I’ll let Konietzko describe why they chose to depict the scene the way they did and not, as some had wished, with a more explicit embrace.
#WHAT HAPPENED AFTER AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER SERIES#
Rarely does a series finale of any show satisfy that I get that not everyone will be happy with the way that Wanted to make a clear verbal statement to complement the show’s Avatar: The Last Airbender is set in a world where human civilization consists of four nations, named after the four classical elements: the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads.In each nation, certain people, known as 'benders' (waterbenders, earthbenders, firebenders and airbenders), have the ability to telekinetically manipulate and control the element. But inĬase people were still questioning what happened in the last scene, I Part, it seems like the point of the scene was understood andĪdditional commentary wasn’t really needed from Bryan or me. Many news outlets, bloggers, andįans picked up on this and didn’t find it ambiguous. Moment where they enter the spirit portal symbolizes their evolutionįrom being friends to being a couple. That yes, Korra and Asami have romantic feelings for each other. Our intention with the last scene was to make it as clear as possible