You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
In this episode,
composer Jeremy Zuckerman will break down his score for the final scene of the final episode of the groundbreaking animated series The Legend of Korra.
Spoilers are ahead, but honestly, as someone who's seen every episode,
I don't think these spoilers will detract from how much you'll love the franchise
if you've never seen it and you decide to start after this.
So. In 2005, Nickelodeon premiered an animated series called Avatar, The Last Airbender,
about a young boy and his friends who have to keep peace and balance in the world.
It combined fantasy and martial arts.
It ran for four seasons, won an Emmy and a Peabody,
and in 2012, spawned a sequel called The Legend of Korra.
This time, the story was about a girl, Korra, who's a teenager.
And just as the characters were older and the world they inhabited was older,
the themes of the show matured as well.
In December 2014, after four seasons of its own, the series aired its finale.
The finale made headlines, because in the very last scene,
Korra and her female companion Asami come together as a couple romantically.