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>The sense I'm getting is that the show was built to tell Book 1 alone, which was meant as a mini-series. Korra's cast was designed to tell the Amon story, and her enlightenment arc finally living out in the world. So in Book 2, when the show suddenly wants to delve into all this stuff going on outside Republic City, her supporting cast doesn't translate well outside their native setting.
To some extent I agree, however, I think this more the case with Mako and Bolin than anyone else. In the South Pole, Mako had no real purpose and Bolin's deal was just comedic filler to help deflate the tension. Asami on the other hand, is a much more universal character I think. She mixes well in any environment because she's a budding business woman in an ever industrializing world and so she does have something she can do in these other nations that's worth watching. On that same note, characters like Varrick I think provide a bridge so that Mako and Bolin can take part in this particular story.
>It's not until "Peacekeepers" and "The Sting", when we return to Republic City, that the Krew members finally have a role to play in the ongoing story... although even then, that's all been divorced from Korra. She's understandably worried about the Harmonic Convergence at this point, but she's also totally dropped any concern for the civil war.
I disagree on account of the fact that you can't divorce Harmonic Convergence from the Civil War. The two at this point are still loosely intertwined and, depending on the direction the story takes, may or may not become more intertwined. We are given good reason to believe that if Varrick succeeds in his plans, it will only cause the dark spirits and thus Vatu to gather more strength from the ongoing conflict. So stopping Varrick's ambitions seems pretty important in the overall grand scheme of things. Korra's side deals with the more spiritual aspects of the conflict and Asami, Mako and Bolin's story deals with the more physical and worldly aspects. However, neither of these have yet to have been shown as independent of another since one affects the other. And while I would agree the effects of one on the other haven't shown except on the political level (the thing with the dark spirits was what motivated Unalaq's invasion of The South), theoretically, if Varrick succeeds, it will have disastrous effects as the negative energy will strengthen the dark spirits. All we've seen points to such an outcome, whereas if Varrick fails, it deals a serious blow to the dark spirits and makes Korra's job much easier. However, we haven't seen the direct effects that the Civil War has on the Dark Spirits, we've just had it confirmed that the dark spirits gain strength or are created through the force of negative energy. But nonetheless, I think your judgement is premature since we haven't seen the outcome of the Varrick subplot yet nor how that outcome will effect Korra's side of things. So to say the situation with Varrick has no impact on the Unalaq plot acts as though that subplot is already over and to operate under the assumption that it's outcome doesn't affect the main plot involving Vatu, Unalaq and Harmonic Convergence when all that we've been shown thus far in the last four episodes where even generally good spirits can be affected easily by the overwhelming negative energy of humans points to the fact that it ultimately will. Now if the Varrick subplot does just end abruptly with no delving into how its impacted Korra's end of the spectrum, then I think we can say it was just there to give the other characters something to do until they were ready to join Korra. But if for example, Varrick succeeds and our heroes in Republic City fail to prevent full scale war and this all of sudden multiplies and gives a power boost to all the rampant dark spirit kaiju, then I don't think we can say it was pointless.
Basically, I'm just saying that I think any story is allowed to look a little disjointed until it reaches its conclusion, where loose ends are expected to be tied up and all subplots should be connected by then.
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