Vaatu is free of the Tree of Time and just prancing around for a minute while Unalaq stares lovingly at the Spirit of Dark and Chaos. Vaatu gets down to business and approaches Unalaq so they can bond. Korra hurls fire at them to stay separated, then uses Avatar power to grab Unalaq, and throw him right back through the South Pole Portal and out of the Spirit World. She sends Bolin and Mako back through the portal to keep Unalaq out until she can re-imprison Vaatu.
You again?
The talking mushroom needs its own show!
They start to bicker again when Iroh shows up with his friendly spirit fox. Iroh is willing to help them find the way out of the spirit world, but Tenzin tells Iroh that they've come to find his daughter, and won't return to the human world without her spirit. Iroh wishes them the best, but warns them that eventually they'll be somewhere where only the lost can find them. Only Tenzin figures out what that means, and marches right back to the scorpion spirit, blasting it with air so it will come out and capture them.
Vague hints are free!
Bolin and Mako stand vigil at the portal on the human side, and Unalaq's attack is icicle missiles, which Mako and Bolin block, pretty easily, with fire and earth. The second season team has done an excellent job on Mako and Bolin's fight scenes, showing that together and alone, their time as professional benders has prepared them for this. These last episodes of Bolin and Mako fighting together have been staged to demonstrate what a superior team they are, at least as long as Desna and Eska aren't around.
Korra and Vaatu duke it out on the Spirit World side, with Korra hitting Vaatu with fire, blasting a hole in him that heals and he captures her with vines that hold her still so she can't bend. She struggles with them for a minute before head-butting fire to startle Vaatu and free herself. She then turns on the Avatar power, and we hear Raava tell Vaatu that she's locking him up for another ten thousand years. All four elements approach and circle Vaatu, capturing him.
Bolin and Mako are slightly bored waiting behind Bolin's makeshift cover when Eska appears suddenly, calling Bolin her turtle duck, and she and Desna knock the brothers unconscious. Eska can really make a term of endearment sound ominous. Unalaq returns, leaves his kids to guard Bolin and Mako, and goes right back through the portal. Korra is just about to place Vaatu back in the Tree of Time, when Unalaq attacks and Vaatu breaks free. Korra is a little dizzy from Unalaq's water knockout, and can't stop him from bonding with Vaatu this time.
Mako and Bolin race into the Spirit World. Desna and Eska follow, trapping them both in ice blocks that prevent them from moving and bending. They are helpless as Desna and Eska watch Unalaq and Vaatu become one. Unalaq declares himself the new Avatar for a new age. Korra calls bullshit on this. Their fight takes them back into the human world through the portal. Desna and Eska guard Bolin and Mako.
Korra and Unalaq battle it out as Avatars, even though Unalaq can still only bend water, and Korra has all four elements. Korra has a great move where she bends rock to shoot out of the ground under her, propelling her into the air so she can hurl fire at Unalaq. He gains an advantage over her and tries to kill her by crushing her in a crevice in the ice. Raava rallies Korra, who turns on the Avatar power for another attack. She uses water as a coil to trap Unalaq's arm, then turns the part on Unalaq into ice so that arm is immobilized. When she tries the same trick on his other arm, he ends up using the water link between them to draw her in close. Then Vaatu takes over.
Tenzin, Bumi, and Kya are dragged by the scorpion spirit to the Bog of Lost Souls, and Tenzin explains that the fog that looks harmless is actually a spirit that infects minds, inducing amnesia and madness. When Kya asks just how long they could be trapped there, they see General Zhao from Aang's battle at the North Pole. He is still obsessed with capturing Aang, and confuses Tenzin for Aang, until Bumi and Kya drive him away and they can escape. Tenzin tries to delay the inevitable by tying them together, but Bumi and Kya eventually forget who they are, and untie themselves, running off into the fog. Bumi is terrified of cannibals he sees; Kya thinks her own brothers are trying to kidnap her. Tenzin is left alone, about to forget who he is.
Mako tries to reason with Desna, who briefly remembers that his own dad didn't care if he died. Eska is resolute until Bolin breaks out in tears. Eska tells him "explain yourself further", and he "confesses" to Eska that he loves her and now, with the world ending in Vaatu's darkness, the ember of their love will never be big hot love flames. Eska, touched, passionately kisses Bolin, and frees him. She warns Bolin that no one can defeat their father, but maybe they can get together if Bolin lives. Bolin and Mako race back to the human world to help Korra. Desna is sure they're goners.
Sure, I want my dad to kill you. But that doesn't mean I don't love you.
Tenzin desperately reminds himself that he is the son of Aang, and all the responsibilities that come with being the son of the last Airbender, and how important it is to pass on his father's legacy, and please his father, long dead. Tenzin starts tormenting himself with fear of failure, fear of disappointing his father, and starts to go mad, until Aang appears.
You could have done this a lot sooner. Just sayin'.
Aang finally clears up all of Tenzin's daddy issues with "You are not me. You should not be me. You are Tenzin." Tenzin clears the infection and the spirit by repeating his name, driving out his fears and self-imposed expectations for pleasing his father. The air clears, and Tenzin can see Jinora, sitting on her knees, not really aware of anything around her. Tenzin gathers her up, finds Bumi and Kya, and takes them out of the valley. As they reach the top of the hill, the others remember who they are, and regain consciousness. With the mist cleared, it's obvious what a mental prison the place is, as lost souls simply stand or sit or kneel blankly, totally inert and some so close to the hill to just walk out. Kya and Bumi follow Tenzin, realizing their big brother saved them as the mist regenerates and the prison is secure again.
Leaving the party early
Vaatu opens up Unalaq and releases a huge amount of energy, that Korra tries to rebuff too late. Vaatu's energy draws Raava out of Korra.
Korra collapses on the ground, dazed and too weak to stop Unalaq as he whips water at Raava, each blow severing spiritual links with her past lives, starting with Aang and finally working back, as Raava is vanquished, to Wan, who disappears in a flash of light. Each disappearing Avatar hits Korra like a blow to the chest.
Ten thousand years of spirit power and knowledge, wiped out
Unalaq whips Raava again, and she dissolves into light particles that melt away like firecracker sparks. Raava is gone. The unbroken chain of Avatars is no more. There is no one to stop Vaatu now.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
Team Tenzin is walking back to the portals, with spirit butterfly friends of Jinora to guide them, when Jinora stops, and informs them that something terrible has happened, and Jinora will have to leave them. She hands her dad a spirit butterfly, tells him to find Korra, and disappears. After all Tenzin and his siblings risked, Jinora isn't leaving the spirit world anytime soon.
Vaatu unleashes, and now we see the end of Unalaq. Vaatu grows enormous, and Eska and Desna come through the portal to watch their father completely disappear into an enormous, black and red spirit giant. Bolin and Mako reach Korra, and together they watch as Vaatu reaches up to the Aurora Borealis that extends all over the globe during Harmonic Convergence, and it sucks him from the ground. He disappears into the Aurora, to create the world of darkness and chaos he's wanted for 10,000 years.
Well, at least Unalaq is gone
What happened to Unalaq
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ReplyDeleteOh and thank you Vaatu
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