#tlok commentary

Korra’s shirt is definitely a bodysuit 🩱👀

So as I said on other posts, I’m writing a longfic and that’s why I’m making all this research paying attention to the minimum detail...

(➡️ That's the reason for all the posts I'm publishing these days.)

And when I started to think about Korra’s outfit (you must know in Mature Fanfics what we all writers do...), I noticed that Korra’s shirt isn’t precisely just a conventional shirt.

Maybe I didn’t discover anything new!! 🤣 Anyway, I wanted to leave this post for all of you here.

🔎 How do I know that it must be a bodysuit instead of a normal shirt? 👀

I have several reasons to think this:

When you see her from behind you can see her shoulder blades are very defined. Same happens with her collarbones. Also in very few scenes you can almost tell the fabric dips a little into her belly button:

All these details could tell us the shirt isn't just made of cotton. It has necessary to be composed as well with some elastic fabric. Plain cotton sometimes erases the lines of your body. This doesn't happen on Korra's shirt.

❓ BUT, now we should ask ourselves:

"How it is possible that she wears an elastic shirt that fits her so tight and NEVER rolls up to her navel??"

We have never seen the skin of her stomach when she's wearing this outfit. And, you know, Korra fights and moves like A LOT. So it is impossible that this shirt is never shown rolled up a single inch.

You can say: "Well maybe this shirt is so long she hides the end of the fabric inside her pants".

🤔 Really? I don't think she could have fought with Zaheer so agressively and the shirt stayed in its place just fine.

It stayed even when the rest of her outfit was a completely mess and she had her pants loosen. Look at these pictures:

And how it closes up? How stays put? It probably has one clasp like this (harder than her muscles...):

🆕 How about the new outfit?

It’s the same design. Even when you could tell she has lost body weight due to physical inactivity, the suit still fits her tight. It's just a darker blue version of the previous outfit.

By the way, in case you didn't know, the top half of the new outfit it's the same she used on Book 2:

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It's funny. After analysing this topic it came to my mind the idea of a Korra needing so hard to pee and she and Asami were alone on the desert... or some place like this:

And I can imagine her asking Asami for help:

K: "Asami please cover me, I need to pee"

After a while covering her, Asami asked:

A: "Wtf is taking so long Korra?" K: "I need to open up this clasps but they are really hard. Can you help me?"

Hahaha and Asami already had a super crush on her. Imagine our poor Asami fighting so hard with her feelings.

Asami's bisexual disaster moment: "I didn't tell my best friend the little detail that I'm bisexual and I have a crush on her..."

Ps. Nah, at that moment she wasn't completely aware of her feelings towards Korra (I think).

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EDIT: Asami to Korra after those three years..... ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

We both ship Makorra like OTP4LIFE.  But if you’re wondering who the last ask about Mako was written by, it was Seo. XD  But I’ll get into it a little more because I agree.  My shipper heart was slightly unsatisfied with the Makorra interaction because Mako’s doing the whole silent support thing.

Unlike last episode where Asami tried to strength Korra’s spirit in herself, Mako just kind of sat back, saying he was there for her through anything, but I assume he felt at a loss as to what to do for her.  I think it may be that when Mako looks at Korra, he sees this beautiful, strong, fierce girl that can do absolutely anything, but when Korra looks at herself, she doesn’t.

I think, Mako doesn’t understand Korra’s self-esteem issues because in his mind, she’s pretty close to perfection.  Asami, meanwhile, has felt her whole life fall apart like Korra did when her dad betrayed her, Varrick betrayed her, etc., so she can connect to her on that level.  It’s why I really liked the last episode where they were talking (even though I totally wished Mako could have supported Korra, too, in that respect).

So, sorry if that wasn’t why you asked the question, and I totally went on a long spiel.  But we can definitely try to remember to put who answers what on these things. <3

i can't tell if this is just an animation thing, but i doubt bryke and studio mir would just forget this. my bby lost muscle mass.

and it hits me how much trauma she's experienced.

who in the mix has a mind to leak so much of the show EVERY SINGLE SEASON?

why did they not bring more/better writers in (or at least that Aaron Ehasz guy back)?

and this whole rush-premiere has really just flushed the whole damn thing because of the worst leak both ATLA and TLOK have ever seen--4 full episodes of the season on the internet in Spanish before we even got a release date, WHICH WAS GOING TO BE ANNOUNCED AT COMIC-CON AND WE KNEW THAT.

Oh, Mako.

Where do I even start.  This episode may have broken my heart, but I guess I can understand why the writer's did what they did.  It says a lot for Mako's characterization, and even if it makes us shed tears....Mako just wants to be needed.

Bolin has left him, moving out, fighting with him about Varrick because for the first time he's the one making the money, he's loved and adored and not in Mako's shadow.  So, Bolin doesn't want to hear that Varrick is a bad guy, and I think Mako sees him as his naive little brother, and so that's why he doesn't push the matter more than he did.

In regards to Korra, well, it's been a week and he hasn't heard from her.  He has no way of knowing that she's washed up on an island without her memories and meeting the first Avatar.  It's not like Desna and Eska swung by Republic City to go, "Hey guys, btw, Korra got eaten by a dark spirit.  See ya!"

Mako is stubborn, and he is the type of person that needs to be needed.  He needs to fix people's problems, and since he can't fix Korra's anymore, he's going to fix Republic City's.  Because even after the interrogation room scene, he's still in his uniform.  He's still doing his job. The same job that lost him the person he loved.

And at first, he probably hoped that Korra would cool down, she'd come back and they'd both be stubborn but finally make up.  But it's been a week and no one has seen Korra at all.  So, Asami is there, needing to be protected.

And Mako is the guy that needs to be the protector, the savior, the one that can fix the problems.  He can't do it for his brother anymore, Korra isn't there, and Republic City doesn't want to listen to him.

But maybe Asami would, given time.

So i want to talk about the fact that Lin Beifong, the badass that she is, seemingly acted irrational in "the Sting".  Personally, I feel like how she acted was not intentionally to make Mako "look" good, but because she's the chief of police, and Mako barged into her interrogation room and starting spouting off theories in front of civilians, maybe even civilians she was starting to suspect.  While Mako trusted Varrick and Asami, Beifong may not have, and to have acted concerned and talked to Mako about his detective work in front of them would have just been stupid.

Again, Mako is a rookie cop, something Beifong pointed out.  As a rookie, maybe he wasn't thinking about that, personally, I feel like he trusted Varrick too much to think badly of him because he was helping Asami.  Beifong has been around the block, she knows how to be a detective and how to run her squad.  

So, why doesn't this come off in the episode?  Well, I personally feel like that's what the dialogue was trying to get across, but maybe if it had been Studio Mir animating Beifong's expression and not Studio Perriot with it's 20 frames of still motion (it makes me cringe inside when I make gifs, okay), we might have gotten some of that body language from Lin.

I'm surprised that I haven't seen anyone talk about the scene between Mako and Korra in regards to watching Mako. Granted, I'm not on the dash too much, but gah. LOOK AT THAT FACE.

I know that Mako is notorious for receiving a lot of negativity in the Avatar fandom which makes me sad. I know that both sides have validity to their opinions, but it just makes me sad in general. Call me a hopeless romantic and a simple fangirl, but I do love Mako's extremely flawed character development. He's very real to me regardless of what I read on Tumblr. Now, actually moving onto this picture. LOOK AT THAT FACE. Please look at it and tell me you don't feel sorry for him.

I know that Korra's got some adversity coming to her and she really does have to face it, but all the other characters have got their tribulations. Mako has to deal with being a "man of the law" and supporting Korra's decisions. You know that he loves Korra and there's been a lot of friction between the two of them. They didn't start out on the right foot, but they managed to push their differences aside and fall in love with one another. As Janet Varney said in a recent interview, they're a high-powered couple. More so, they're a short-tempered couple as well. Mako has tried his best to not let his opinion or decisions get in the way of Korra's decisions. I'm sure that she was frustrated that he wouldn't give her an opinion in the first episode of what she should do and now he's caused a rift by revealing her decisions.

Mako's face makes me really sad because he keeps looking back and forth between Korra and averting his gaze. What's more saddening is that he's clearly upset and stressed beyond belief. He's found a calling that allows him to be the complete opposite of what he used to be when he was younger. He's a man of the law as President Raiko has put it and that President is the cause of his troubles. We can tell that he's up to no good. You can tell by the way he manipulated Mako into stopping him at that very last second. He played on Mako's good intentions and his commitment to his post. And it obviously sucks that he had to hurt Korra in the process of following the law.

Now what is disheartening is the look of his eyes. His eyebrows are furrowed. His gaze is averted. And he has lines and bags under his eyes. No doubt from guilt, pain, and stress. He just ratted out his girlfriend to the President - the one person that has stopped Korra from trying to save her family and her people. That stings. And I do feel sorry for Mako because he was put in a painful, compromising position. You know what else? I think he's been awake a lot, trying to figure out the truth behind the attack. It's obvious that there's some FUNNY business going on and like a true officer, he's trying to figure out the truth. It's just so hard that he had to involve Korra.