Our The Legend of Korra season 2, episode 7 “Beginnings, Part 1” and season 2, episode 8 “Beginnings, Part 2” recap goes in depth of all of the details of last night’s exciting episodes!
The Legend of Korra season 2, episode 7 “Beginnings, Part 1”
The episode opens up as Korra – who has lost her memory after being swallowed by a spirit creature – is cared for by the Fire Sages.
An elderly woman examines Korra, and says that a dark energy has infected her, and is now threatening the Avatar spirit. Korra is lowered into a pool of healing waters to be “cleansed.” During her examination, she frequently asks for someone named Raava.
Korra enters the spirit world and talks to her past incarnations. She’s told that she must regain her connection with her Avatar spirit or else the Avatar will die out. One tells her to “find Raava” before she encounters Wan.
Korra asks the young man who is the first ever Avatar if he is someone else she’s looking for.
“No,” he says. “But I can help you find her. My name is Wan, and I will show you how I became the first Avatar.”
Wan’s spirit then joins with his mortal life, where he is running through the streets of a small city. Wan is being chased by three portly brothers in Fire Nation-esque clothing, apparently having stolen from them. Fleet-footed, quipy and generally Aladdin-like, Wan nimbly evades capture until an unfortunately-timed stumble leaves him – still grinning – in the oldest brother’s grip.
Wan is thrown into a pile of pig muk. He returns home without a lot of food for his friends. A man named Yao, with tree branches for hands, is introduced. Wan feeds some animals that come in.
When Wan says he wants to sneak into the palace to get more food, he’s warned that he’ll get banished to the spirit forest if he does so.
Later on, Wan joins in on a hunt for the spirits. The group of hunters reluctantly accepts him.
On a cliffside, the Lion Turtle Spirit is called, who then gifts the power of Fire to the hunters. They must return the power when they come back to the village.
In the forest, Wan is scared of being in the forest and gives up. He’s sent back home alone.
When he arrives home, it was revealed that he kept the power of Fire. He’s told to bring back the power, but decides to use it to fight back the Chus.
That night, Wan’s friends gather at the Chu place. Soon, the Chu sons confront Wan’s gang.
Wan easily defeats the sons with a blast of fire, and the gang storms the pallace. The Chu brothers come back with reinforcements, eventually capturing Wan.
Wan is offered up for judgement to the Lion Turtle, who banishes the soon-to-be-Avatar. Wan justifies that he should be able to keep the Firebending to protect himself in the wild.
In the forest, Wan nervously Firebends at every bump in the night. He accidentally steps on a little blue frog, which turns larger and threatens Wan.
Wan runs away and collapses in grass, only to be attacked by the fauna.
The next morning, an exhausted Wan tries to eat what looks like fruit, but is really bees. He falls down a hill and comes upon a oasis.
When crossing the bridge to it, he’s stopped by a spirit slightly resembling a monkey on two legs.
Dejected, Wan soon notes that he can get past the Monkey spirit if he masquerades as a Bush spirit amont the other parading spirits.
Wan is still discovered and is thrown in the river. When Wan tells of how he was banished, some spirits take pity and tell him to go find another Lion Turtle City. The monkey spirit refuses to tell Wan where that city is.
Wan travels for a bit before discovering a Big Cat Antelope in a trap. The hunters from Wan’s village are the ones that trapped the animal, and don’t want Wan to free it.
A chase ensues between the hunters and Wan. The grass traps the hunters, stopping them briefly. Wan uses the bee-fruit to further plod them. One of the hunters hits Wan with a Fireball, disabling Wan.
Suddenly, one of the hunters is half-transformed into the monkey spirit, making the rest run off. When healing Wan in the water, the monkey reveals that he could’ve killed the hunter if he possessed him for too much longer.
The spirits take note that Wan is kind for trying to save the trapped animal. The monkey agrees to keep Wan as a “human pet.”
That night, only one hunter returns to the village, and reports on what happened with Wan and the spirits.
Back at the forest, Wan shows off his Firebending to the spirits. Later, he is shown fending off more hunters as they try to enter the forest.
At a village meeting, Wan’s old friend states that the Lion Turtle Spirit should give them all Firebending. The villagers all acquire it and leave their hometown for good.
Deciding that it’s time to leave, Wan rides away on the Big Cat away from the spirits he’d been staying with. A beautiful montage of the two travelling in gorgeous vistas transpires.
One day, a trampede of spirits run by, saying that “the old spirits are battling,” and that they’ll “destroy the entire valley.”
Wan tries to stop the spirits from fighting. One of them is able to convince Wan to help him in the fight. Wan notices that the tails of the creatures are attached, so he severs them.
The white spirit, Raava, tells Wan that the Red spirit was Vaatu, a spirit of chaos. By freeing Vaatu, Wan let chaos into the world.
Back in present day, Korra, in her healing pool, mutters that she’s found Raava.
The Legend of Korra season 2, episode 8 “Beginnings, Part 2”
The second episode opens up as the Fire Sages debate whether its time to pull Korra out of the healing pool. The woman healer tells them that they should let her continue to connect with her Avatar past.
Back in the flashback, Raava reprimands Wan, and rushes off in a fury to find Vaatu.
Moving on from the scene, Wan discovers some Airbenders taking fruit from tall branches. Wan scares them off, losing them at a cliffside. He watches as one Airbends to a floating island.
Another Lion Turtle is the floating island, which takes away the Airbender’s bending as they arrive home. Wan catapults himself via a branch onto the island.
Once on the island, Wan tries to speak to some Air Peoples, and notes how much calmer they are then him.
Suddenly, friendly spirits turn dark via Vaatu’s hand. The Air Peoples ask what’s going on, but Wan has no time to explain, as the attacks become more vicious.
Raava appears and scares off Vaatu and the evil spirits. Vaatu speaks to Raava about a Harmonic Convergence, wherein Vaatu will defeat Rava.
Wan explains to the Air Peoples what’s going on, and Raava warns that Vaatu is growing stronger as his darkness spreads. Wan promises to set things right.
Wan talks to the Lion Turtle of the Air Peoples, who tells Wan that he already has the power of Airbending within him. Raava is to hold onto Wan’s unmastered bending until he masters the given element.
Raava reluctantly agrees to helping Wan train, after which, Wan states that he’ll help Rava restore ballance to the world.
Raava and Wan have a year to master the elements before the Harmonic Convergence. When training, Raava tells Wan that she has to enter his body to give him the Airbending, which is difficult, but when they try it, it works.
Raava explains that light and darkness will always exist, no matter which defeats the other. Furthermore, darkness will cover the earth for 10,000 years if Vatuu wins.
Whilst Wan gains the powers of Earth and Waterbending, Raava explains that the North and South Spirit Portals are where the spirits can enter the human world.
After a while, Wan masters all four elements. Right after this, he and Rava go investigate the smell of smoke.
Wan greets his old friend Giah, who was amongst the people burning down trees. Giah asks why Wan is peacefully with a spirit.
Suddenly, the spirits that Wan stayed with in the forest show up. Wan is upset when both groups of his old friends battle each other.
The monkey spirit tries to call Wan to help out the spirit side, to which Wan tries to think up a compromise.
A thunderstorm announces Vaatu’s arrival, who turns the good spirits of Wan’s past bad.
Wan tries to volley the elements being thrown around, and ends up combining in spirit with Raava to bring the good back out of the spirits.
Wan is knocked out from the length of Raava’s possession of him, and the battle continues.
When Wan wakes up, he is told by Vaatu that his human friends had been killed, and that the end of the world was upon them. He finds Raava on the brink of death, who apologizes to the first Avatar as Wan scoops her up in a jar. Wan heads off on his Big Cat spirit to hunt down Vaatu.
Travelling in the tundra, Raava, very small and weak at this point, tells Wan that there’s not much time left. Vaatu arrives on the scene, and at the Southern portal, it’s announced by Vaatu that Raava and Vaatu are to have their final showdown.
Vaatu taunts Raava, sure that he’ll win. Wan puts himself in the line of fire of Vaatu, but is knocked around by Vaatu.
A laser attack takes its toll on Wan as Vaatu reveals that he was the one that created the spirit portals.
Nearing death, Wan calls upon Raava one last time to combine forces. Wan retaliates viciously against Vaatu with all four forms of bending.
Wan is about to die from the length of his possession, but when Raava tells him that they must disconnect, Wan states that they must stay connected to finish the battle together.
Captured in Vaatu’s grasp, the Harmonic Convergence begins. Wan touches a light beam that’s reaching up to the sky, and turns into the Avatar state, bonding him with Raava forever.
Wan captures Vaatu in a ball of bending, and seals the evil spirit in the base of a tree.
From there on, Wan takes it upon himself to maintain ballance between the spirit and human worlds. The Lion Turtle spirit tells Wan that the spirits will no longer give the people elemental powers.
Years pass, and upon ruin and wreckage, an elderly Wan laments that he wasn’t able to bring peace to the world. Raava assures him that they’ll be together for all of his future lifetimes. Wan passes away.
Korra wakes up and remembers who she is. Outside, she’s presented with an air bison, and is told that she has to close the spirit portal before the Harmonic Convergence happens again.
The Legend of Korra season 2 airs on Nickelodeon on Friday nights at 8:30pm EST.
The Legend of Korra season 2 will go on a, which ends 1 November.