Legend of Korra

Polantaris; @李船長; It's called queerbaiting.

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It was a good end. It definitely solidified season four as the second best (vying for best with the first season, of course) season. When Varrick proposed to Zhu Li though, I died. That is probably my favorite relationship.

I doubt Korra is actually bisexual or a lesbian. Given that this is probably the last fully animated Avatar series that will air on Nickelodeon, I wanna say that they said "pineapple it" and wanted to address some fans. (see also: link to queerbaiting above). Either way, her sexuality wouldn't have any substantial impact on Legend of Korra's story anyways, so I'm indifferent.

Bolin was amazing and he's definitely my fave on Team Avatar 2.0. Also, he's gotten so much better as a character compared to seasons one and two. Mako on the other hand.... stale as ever.

Overall I was pleased.

The definition for it itself doesn't really fit though.

"when people in the media (usually television/movies) add homoerotic tension between two characters to attract more liberal and queer viewers with the indication of them not ever getting together for real in the show/book/movie."

The ending itself is a clear indication that it's possible, although intentionally left open-ended. I don't really see there having been any points to do such a thing to "gather viewers" either, considering none of this really started until Season 4, at most the VERY end of Season 3, at which point they already knew that Nick was fu'cking them over royally. They knew at that point that viewers weren't going to do the series any good. If anything, they did it because they wanted to.

 Spoiler

It wasn't platinum or oil. It was the meteorites that Su showed in season 3, their flexibility and etc. etc. for a metal bender supposedly made them the best tool for Kuvira.

Oh right, I forgot all about that stuff.