{"id":619,"date":"2013-09-11T15:54:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/2013\/09\/11\/are-you-guys-at-all-concerned-with-the-lack-of\/"},"modified":"2013-09-11T15:54:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:54:20","slug":"are-you-guys-at-all-concerned-with-the-lack-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/2013\/09\/11\/are-you-guys-at-all-concerned-with-the-lack-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you guys at all concerned with the lack of Asami in any of the recent trailers? I really enjoy her character and hope she isn’t relegated to being the chauffeur of the group. Especially since the main antagonists are going to be spirits, which she has no way of really fighting. :\/ thoughts? All the new characters look great but I hope Asami isn’t looked over."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not as concerned about Asami as I was concerned about – say – Kelly MacDonald’s absence from the new season of Boardwalk Empire’s trailer. Because Kelly’s character was in a compromising position at the end of the last season and her absence doesn’t bode well for the character.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asami may be absent, but we did get a few clips of her in Book 2 way back at Comic Con 2012 and we know she’s taking over her father’s business, but needs to head down to the Southern Water Tribe, which is where Korra, Bolin and Mako have been spotted in other promotional material.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There’s a lack of Asami at the expense of a lot more Jinora, which just makes me think that well be spending a lot of this season in meditation before we find our gateway into the Spirit World. We don’t have much evidence yet as to who can pass between worlds, for all we know it’s just the Avatar. And as a non-bender, Asami might have a totally different set of goals (like the Atheist in a movie about religion).<\/p>\n

Two things to think about that make me not worried about Asami:<\/p>\n

1) Seychelle Gabriel, who plays Asami, was the person who gave the quote that she was having trouble remembering Book 2 because she was already deep into recording Book 3.<\/a> This implies Asami makes it through Book 2 and is in Book 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2) We know the other theme of Book 2 is “Family,” which is why we’re seeing the Korra Clan in more detail. I can’t imagine Bolin, Mako and Asami not providing the counter-point to our family-oriented Avatar and Airbenders, which means at least a few check-in moments with Team Avatar Generation 2 as a group. In my mind at least.<\/p>\n

What I’m really hoping for with Asami is that a greater number of episodes allows for more nuance in whatever her journey is. Re-listening to Book One’s podcasts, the Asami story is all over the place. Sometimes we neglected to interpret it correctly, other times there wasn’t enough on screen for a correct interpretation and Asami’s motives became assumed as the climax approached.<\/p>\n

Then the whole Mako thing happened and…I’m sure we’ll be getting a bit more tension there as we also haven’t seen a ton of Policeman Mako in the trailers either.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Or maybe we have and I’m not paying close enough attention. It’s hard to pay attention when all you’re thinking is: THIS FRIDAY!<\/p>\n

-Da7e-<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not as concerned about Asami as I was concerned about – say – Kelly MacDonald’s absence from the new season of Boardwalk Empire’s trailer. Because Kelly’s character was in a compromising position at the end of the last season and her absence doesn’t bode well for the character.\u00a0 Asami may be absent, but we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}