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Season of television series

The Legend of Korra
Flavour 2
Book 2: Spirits
Legend of Korra Book 2 DVD.jpg

Region one DVD cover art, featuring Korra (foreground), forth with the spirits Raava and Vaatu (background)
Country of origin United states
No. of episodes 14
Release
Original network Nickelodeon
Original release September 13 (2013-09-13) –
November 22, 2013 (2013-11-22)
Season chronology

←Previous
Book Ane: Air

Next →
Book Iii: Alter

List of episodes

Book Two: Spirits is the second season of the animated TV series The Legend of Korra by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. It consists of fourteen episodes ("chapters"). It focuses more than on spiritual concepts and themes than the preceding season, Volume One: Air. Ordered in early 2011, Book Two: Spirits began airing on Nickelodeon in the U.Due south. on September 13, 2013.[1]

Premise

In a world in which some people tin telekinetically control one of the four classical elements, the Avatar is the only individual who can "bend" all four elements and is responsible for maintaining rest in the world. This season focuses on Avatar Korra coming to terms with her role every bit the liaison betwixt humans and the mystical "Spirit World".

Book Ii takes identify six months after Volume Ane; its narrative is divided betwixt Commonwealth Metropolis (the primary setting of the outset flavor) and other locations[2] such as the Spirit Earth and the South Pole home of the Southern Water Tribe. Korra'south uncle Unalaq, the primary of the Northern Water Tribe, seizes control of the Southern Water Tribe as office of a scheme to free Vaatu, an ancient dark spirit. The story follows Korra'south friends' efforts to win back up for the southern tribe in Republic Urban center, and Korra'south quest to foil Unalaq's plans while learning about spirits. A two-part episode entitled "Ancestry" delves into the history of the Avatar lineage. It tells the story of Wan, the immature human who became the first Avatar as a result of his attempts to maintain balance betwixt the material and spirit worlds, and to atone for empowering the dark spirit Vaatu.

New characters introduced in this season include Unalaq and his children Desna and Eska; Kya and Bumi, the siblings of Korra's mentor Tenzin; Varrick, an eccentric and wealthy inventor and businessman from the Southern Water Tribe.

Production

Evolution

In early 2011, during the production of Book One: Air – initially conceived as a standalone 12-episode miniseries – Nickelodeon decided to social club fourteen additional episodes[three] to round out a standard 26-episode season.[iv] As of June 2012, Book Two 'south writing had been completed and the episodes were in the process of being storyboarded and animated.[ii] Joshua Hamilton and Tim Hedrick, writers for Avatar: The Last Airbender, contributed to the scripts of Book Two, and the flavour'due south episodes were directed past Colin Heck and Ian Graham.[ citation needed ]

Cast

Vocalisation actors added to the cast for Book Two: Spirits include:

  • Lisa Edelstein as Kya, Tenzin'south elderberry sister, a waterbender, and the merely daughter of Aang and Katara.[five]
  • John Michael Higgins equally Varrick, an eccentric man of affairs[five]
  • Adrian LaTourelle as Unalaq, Korra's paternal uncle, Tonraq's younger brother, Senna'south brother-in-law, Desna and Eska'due south father and chief of both Water Tribes who serves every bit the main antagonist of Book Two along with Vaatu[5]
  • Aaron Himelstein every bit Desna, Korra's cousin[5]
  • Aubrey Plaza as Eska, Desna's fraternal twin sister and Korra's other cousin.[v]
  • James Remar equally Tonraq, Korra's father and de facto leader of the Southern Water Tribe.[5] Remar replaces Carlos Alazraqui, who voiced Tonraq in "Welcome to Republic City".
  • Alex McKenna equally Senna, Korra'south female parent. McKenna reprises her role from "Welcome to Democracy Urban center".[vi]
  • Richard Riehle as Bumi, Tenzin's older blood brother, and the eldest child of Aang and Katara. He is a non-bender as he does not have whatever angle abilities.
  • Steven Yeun as Wan; a young man who lived 10 k years ago, and became the kickoff Avatar by fusing with Raava, the spirit of light.
  • April Stewart as Raava, the spiritual embodiment of lite and peace. After permanently fusing with Wan, she was transformed into the divine Avatar Spirit.
  • Jonathan Adams every bit Vaatu, the main antagonist of Book Two, and the spirit of darkness and chaos.
  • Stephanie Sheh as Zhu Li, Varrick's assistant.
  • Greg Baldwin as Iroh, an ally of Aang from the original serial, who is revealed to have lived in the Spirit World ever since his physical body's death forty years before the beginning of the series.
  • Amy Gross as Ginger, an actress who stars in Varrick'due south movers who constantly rejects Bolin's advances on her.
  • Spencer Garrett every bit Raiko, the president of Republic Metropolis who was elected following Amon's set on on Republic City in the first book.
  • Héctor Elizondo as Wan Shi Tong, the owl spirit of knowledge from the previous series who believes Unalaq to be a true friend of the spirits. Elizondo reprises his function from Avatar: The Concluding Airbender.
  • Jason Isaacs equally Zhao, the former Admiral of the Fire Nation Navy that encountered Aang on multiple occasions in the showtime series. He encounters Aang's children in the Fog of Lost Souls, where he is forced to wander for eternity while going insane, his penalty for killing the moon spirit. Isaacs reprised his role after starring in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Animation

After Studio Mir, which worked on the series' first flavour, initially declined to piece of work on Book Two: Spirits, it was ready to be completely blithe by Japanese animation studio Pierrot.[7] Even so, Mir's animation director Yoo Jae-myung said that because of problems with this arrangement, the serial's producers asked Studio Mir to assistance step in and breathing Book ii as well, an offering they accepted to preserve their studio's reputation. He said that Studio Mir initially chose to focus on animating the less challenging The Boondocks rather than the 2d season of The Legend of Korra because of the exhaustion brought almost past their work on the kickoff season.[eight] Pierrot eventually animated episodes 1 through half dozen and episode ix, while Studio Mir was responsible for episodes seven, eight, and 10 through fourteen.[ix]

Release

Broadcast

Book Two began broadcast on Nickelodeon in the U.S. on September xiii, 2013, after a 1-yr hiatus.[1] Ambulation on Fridays, it initially premiered at seven:00 PM EST but then shifted in mid-October to an 8:00 PM timeslot. Episodes 11 and 12 were shown on November 15, 2013. The Book Two Finale, episodes 13 and fourteen, were to exist broadcast on November 22, 2013, but became available online on November 16, 2013. It was followed by Book Iii: Changes, which consisted of xiii episodes.

Marketing

Completed footage from Book Two was starting time made public in a June 2013 promotional video, in which Korra fights spirit creatures in an Arctic setting.[10] The premiere episode was shown in full at The Legend of Korra panel at San Diego Comic-Con on nineteen July 2013,[xi] together with the release of a trailer video for Book Two.

Episodes

Reception

Book Two, overall, received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics, with review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes calculating a 67% approval rating for the season from 9 reviews and an average rating of 8.35/10.[22]

The premiere episode screened in advance at Comic-Con was positively reviewed by Max Nicholson of IGN, who appreciated the setup of the overarching conflict and the humorous writing. He also stated that "the animation in Book Ii has taken all the same another step up in quality, with noticeable advances in the action sequences and color handling".[23] At Tv.com, Noel Kirkpatrick commented favorably on how the episode handled the necessary quantity of exposition, and on its introduction of the theme of conflict between spiritualism and secularism.[24] Writing for Vulture, Matt Patches highlighted the loose, handheld-mode cinematography – challenging for an animated series – and the "weird, wonderful", wildly imagined spirits fought by Korra; "a Kaiju parade with beasts that mirror velociraptors".[25] The A.V. Club's Emily Guendelsberger stated that they kept up the first flavour'south plot's "breakneck pace" and appeared intent on signaling a intermission with the convention of avoiding decease in children'southward entertainment, by showing a spirit dragging a sailor to his likely death in the bounding main. She appreciated the nuanced portrayal of Korra's and Mako's relationship and Korra's character flaws, but remarked that Unalaq was existence set up as the season'due south antagonist a bit as well plain.[26]

Parts one and two of the medial episode, "Beginnings", were positively received by critics equally well. Max Nicholson of IGN rated the episode ix.vi/10 and praised "Ancestry" for its "stunning" animation, "top-notch" voice acting, character origins of Avatar Wan, the friendship and heartfelt relationship between Wan and Raava, "great" new insights in the Avatar universe, and every bit a "masterstroke in storytelling and worldbuilding." At the stop of his review, he opined that "Book 2 has never looked so good.".[27] "The Sting", which premiered before "Beginnings", was every bit praised by Nicholson for the improvement of the characterizations of Mako and Asami and their chemistry between each other, in addition to establishing Varrick as a "greedy mastermind" rather than as an eccentric man of affairs and entertainer as he had been earlier.[28] For "The Guide", Nicholson praised the graphic symbol growths of Tenzin and the fleshed-out label of Jinora.[29] He lauded the episode "A New Spiritual Historic period" for a "keen character narrative" for Korra and the establishment of Unalaq as a more of a corrupt, twisted, and menacing villain. He was also surprised to come across the return of Iroh of Avatar: The Last Airbender; this fourth dimension, to help Korra with her journey in the spirit world.[30] Parts 1 and ii of "Ceremonious Wars" were as acclaimed by Nicholson for the friendship betwixt Bolin and Varrick, the sibling dynamic of Tenzin, Kya, and Bumi, a "stiff, complex conflict" for Korra, the respective relationship of Tenzin, Kya, and Bumi, and Korra, Tonraq, and Senna every bit the center of the story, and the twist behind Tonraq's adjournment from the Northern H2o Tribe and his imprisonment.[31] [32] Co-ordinate to him, "Night of a Thousand Stars" brought out the best of Bolin and the worst of Varrick, likewise equally setting upwardly the conflict for the last 3 episodes of Book 2.[33] For "Harmonic Convergence", Nicholson praised its spectacular action sequences, fleshing out more on Unalaq'southward intriguing evil purpose, the heroism of Bumi, and the animation.[34]

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External links

  • Official website
  • The Legend of Korra at IMDb

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