It's never a bad time to drop a reminder that this dude called himself the "Dark Avatar" and expected to be taken...

>Unalaq though, he actually works for and earns his powers.
But he doesn't do anything with them. He's just a water bender and not even a special one compared to Amon

>Unalaq though, he actually works for and earns his powers.
But he doesn't. He doesn't learn from 3 other master benders. He doesn't shake the foundations of the presumption of the universe by even being able to bend two different elements. He just uncorks a sealed evil and becomes its host for frickin laser beams.

Yes, the point is that he realizes that mere bending is inadequate, and so that's why he had to become an Avatar himself if he wants to change the world. He studied spiritually and surpassed all the other antagonists, and would've even surpassed Korra had he not imparted his teachings to her and got btfo by his own move.

>he wants to change the world
Change it how. He actually wants 10,000 years of Darkness?

>Dude what if we eliminate any ambiguity or nuance to the season by literally making it about a giant glowing kite who is good and pure and possesses a cunt, and pit her against a giant glowing dark kite who speaks with a deep base, shoots lasers, and possesses a guy who then calls himself the Dark Avatar

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>But he doesn't. He doesn't learn from 3 other master benders.
He was the innovator of spiritbending, and would've been the sole user of the technique if he never taught Korra
He wanted to do the same thing that Korra ended up doing at the end of the season, and give the world back to the spirits, only with him in charge instead of Korra

>He wanted to do the same thing that Korra ended up doing at the end of the season, and give the world back to the spirits, only with him in charge instead of Korra
Then what was the point of turning into an evil spirit monster?

So that he could be the leader instead of Korra. He wouldn't be able to overcome Korra in a fight, or have the same kind of influence, if he wasn't an Avatar himself

What leader? Korra wasn't any kind of leader. He's literally the mustache twirling bad guy who wants power for the sake of power

>Korra wasn't any kind of leader.
That's exactly what Unalaq's big problem was. He thought Korra was an utter failure in guiding the world, so he took matters into his own hands by wanting to become the Avatar himself, and correct Avatar Wan's mistake of separating spirits and humans

And how was having Korra open the portals insufficient? The only reason she wanted to close them was learning that he actually planned to turn into a giant spirit monster

Yeah that was stupid. He thought he was the good guy, why the fuck would he name himself the dark avatar?

It would help if you would read the whole post instead of just the last few words

I did and you didn't answer my question. He had Korra eating out of the palm of his hand and doing whatever he wanted. Why did he need to turn into an evil spirit monster?

Netflix greenlit Voltron, which flopped and ended up in the hole with merchandise. Then it greenlit She-Ra, which flopped and ended up in the hole with merchandise. It Samantha Wolfe's show, that flopped. It greenlit Bright and unsurpisingly Bright 2 isn't exactly coming on the horizon. It greenlit a shitload of shows that flopped.

They saw the name recognition and said "Okay', probably think its unkillable thanks to its fantastic reputation and heavy nostalgia from being 12 years old. But they don't get anything can be killed now, nothing is safe.It'll be killed off just like all the rest

Those were the good days.

When you think about it, this is actually right. Season 2 was the most boring shit, and people only liked the parts with Wan and Zaheer, but thematically and conceptually they don't make sense, while Unalaq's premise is solid to develop Korra. It just goes to show how important execution is, and that execution > concept.
Personally, I would've preferred if Unalaq was a genuine good guy and mentor to Korra, and that the Dark Avatar shit was just Vaatu's possession near the end of the arc instead of Unalaq's actual intention. Like still have Unalaq die, but turn it into one of those bittersweet heroic sacrifice things where Korra has to kill her loving uncle and trusted teacher to give him peace.

I really tried to like Unalaq. He had a cool design, and his motives seemed substantial at the very beginning, but he was so generically evil and by the point he became the "Dark Avatar" I didn't even care anymore. Good thing the "villains" in the next Book were based.

>>Amon, a Waterbender that admittedly sealed most of the Avatar's arts, but then jobs to a single element in Airbending anyways. He was at best a glorified chiblocker, or a slightly powered up version of a one-off character from's Aang's series
That was the reveal but it wasn't the original concept. The original CONCEPT, as in what we the viewer were lead to believe for like 90 percent of the season before they infodumped an entire fucking backstory to explain everything in the most jarring possible way, was that he was a legit spiritbender there to bring balance back between benders and non-benders.

A spiritbender Vs the Avatar was a far better concept because its a bender beyond the 4 elements who has the opposite ideal of undoing the bridge between the spirit world and the real one.

>Describes the Red Lotus as "villains"
This guy gets it. If you look at the fact that literally every single government in Avatar has been shown to be pure evil, dangerously inept, or both, any reasonable person in that world would be an anarchist.

>which in turn causes Korra to look into her spiritual heritage and undergo a major turning point in growing into her Avatar role
You mean when she touched a tree and instantly gained the power to fight him without a single actual bit of growth in her entire character?

>with Korra actually earning that moment instead of being saved by an asspull
I understand that the series was so shit you blocked stuff out, but you do remember the child descending from heaven and instantly saving her when she was about to lose, right?

Just having some influence over Korra doesn't mean total control over their actions (think Iroh and Zuko), and even in small picture stuff he was at odds with Korra, like the drama between the Water Tribe factions and how he disagreed with her father. He already deemed Korra as incapable and not a threat, so might as well take full measures to completely surpass her and take the helm of Avatar from her

>even in small picture stuff he was at odds with Korra, like the drama between the Water Tribe factions and how he disagreed with her father
Her orchestrated all that shit to get Tonraq out of the picture even though he had obtained Korra's total trust already. He fucks himself over for no reason

>He already deemed Korra as incapable and not a threat, so might as well take full measures to completely surpass her and take the helm of Avatar from her
You're still not explaining what he planned to do with that helm. He's the one who turned into a giant spirit monster and decreed the beginning of 10,000 years of darkness, so I can only assume that was his plan all along

>I understand that the series was so shit you blocked stuff out, but you do remember the child descending from heaven and instantly saving her when she was about to lose, right?
I don't, because I wrote that post without actually watching all of season 2. I stopped after the second Wan episode, and then my roommate told me that at the end Korra beat Unalaq with a spiritbending technique he taught her, and that she left the portals open at the end even though she was trying to close them for the rest of the season. The rest of the post was just me bs-ing
>He's the one who turned into a giant spirit monster and decreed the beginning of 10,000 years of darkness, so I can only assume that was his plan all along
I actually don't know if he actually states anything in the show, and couldn't find out from his wiki page, so sure, let's go with that