Avatar: The Last Airbender + Legend of Korra

If you could choose what kind of Bender you'd be. What element would you choose?

  • Waterbender

    Votes: 20 29.9%

  • Earthbender

    Votes: 13 19.4%

  • Firebender

    Votes: 22 32.8%

  • Airbender

    Votes: 10 14.9%

  • Non-Bender

    Votes: 2 3.0%
  • Total voters
    67
That was great!

I like the new characters they introduced. The twins (or at least Eska) got some funny lines. "I will protect you my feeble turtleduck". So Tonraq was banished? Interesting. I'm calling it right now, Unalaq is evil. I also hope we see more of Tenzin and his siblings. Also, what's up with Jinora? Now I'm just rambling. I have a good feeling about this season.
 
Pretty good start if I must say so myself. I'm liking where the story's going already.

At first I thought the Twins were related to Mai in some way. But then I realized they're from the Northern Water Tribe and they were Waterbenders. So that couldn't be the case.

Anyway it was excellent to see more of Aang's children in Kya, and Bumi. And from the end, it almost seems like the Northern Water Tribe is taking over the Southern one.

Also, Bolin was pretty funny in this I must say xD
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are there any good places to watch this online? my friend linked me to one but it didnt work right
 
it's like a civil war or some such shit

you wanna know what was better than watching the premier?

Watching it with Bojangles.
 
Well, coming from my expectations, it was better than what I thought. There were some funny lines. I really like Bumi.

That said, it still felt distinctly non-Avatar. Especially the bit with Bo Lin and Asami.

It still bothers me, though. Why could everyone see the spirit? Why was it able to be calmed down with, of all things, just bending by an outsider? What is it with this show and having people steal the Avatar's powers? Next thing you know, everyone else will be able to bend multiple elements.


also I kinda didn't like the spirit's design though I guess that's more of a nitpick

One final thing: the animation change. It's not one of my bigger complaints, but I don't like the direction it took. Now the background is one big waterpainting; there's little animation in it. People just stand in place.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and why are the characters so stiff? The voice acting is awful. Is that really the same person who voiced Cave Johnson?
 
Nabber said:
It still bothers me, though. Why could everyone see the spirit? Why was it able to be calmed down with, of all things, just bending by an outsider? What is it with this show and having people steal the Avatar's powers? Next thing you know, everyone else will be able to bend multiple elements.
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for an out of universe reason, it's because they don't want her to be as weak as aang was at the start of his series, because that would be weird after how much ass he was kicking by the end of it. this is why she starts out knowing firebending, waterbending, and earthbending so well. but at the same time, they need to make it so korra still has a lot to learn, so that she isnt just a deus ex machina that gets no character development. so they have to make the threats into something she doesn't have the ability to deal with, and then they also have to give everyone else a corresponding scaling-up of abilities so they'll still be decent backup

in universe, the fact that it was once believed that some skill is exclusive to the avatar doesn't necessarily mean that it really is. ancient knowledge is sometimes wrong. once upon a time the fire nation thought, based on generations' worth of evidence, that it was a good idea to keep earthbenders trapped in a metal prison. but since then it's been clearly demonstrated that that is not effective. so if there was previously a belief that only the avatar could calm spirits, i don't think it's a problem that we now have a counterexample. i'm not totally sure that was ever said, though. it seems to me that calming an individual enraged spirit is not quite the same thing as the avatar's "being a bridge between the physical and spirit worlds". i havent watched the original show in a while though, so

also i don't understand why you think only the avatar would be able to see it. these spirits look nothing like anything from the first series, so why should they work the same way?

which on an unrelated note, makes me wonder how exactly you do imprison an earthbender. in a wooden cage on a hot air balloon?

wow sorry i kind of ended up writing an essay there
 
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I understand that Korra needs to progress, but the show does a very bad job of showing that - power-wise, she's already mastered the Avatar state (which I'm not really sure how that's possible, doesn't she need to deal with her chakras and stuff? One of which involves kinda losing attachment to the world around her? I have to rewatch that episode sometime, I haven't seen it in years.)

The point is, it's Korra's personality that really needs development, and so far the show doesn't really seem to think that's a problem. So if you want to make her seem like she has a long way to go with her Avatar powers, the first step is to nerf her down a bit.

And it was under my impression that the spirits were the same type as those from the previous series, just with utterly botched designs. I guess we'll have to wait and see on that before I can say more.

And in response to your unrelated question: they did impression Toph in a wooden cell. The problem was just that Katara was in the same cell and used her sweat to destroy the wood.
 
One of my biggest pet peeves with the Pokemon series is how they kept nerfing Ash and Pikachu, and I'd be really pissed if they did that to Korra too - it's just such a cheap move, and she already has lots of character development potential anyway.

In a way, she and Aang are opposites: he was young and had to mature and reluctantly shoulder the fate of the world, all the while slowly learning bending and fighting skills - but he had the spiritual stuff down straight away, save for his issues about going into the avatar state. Now we have Korra, who's older and yearning for responsibility, and who's powerful and skilled straight from the get go, even being able to turn on the avatar state on a whim - but without comprehending any of the spiritual significance of her existence. That's evidenced by how she used the frivolously avatar state to win a race and then fight a spirit, as opposed to Aang who always tried to make peace with spirits and used his avatar state to work with them (i.e. at the North Pole - literally the polar opposite of Korra's South Pole situation).

So yeah, Korra has a lot to learn. My only real qualm is how her father's a chief's banished son who destroyed a spirit forest: seems a bit too convenient that he'd be the one to father the next avatar, especially since the requirements for being the avatar are being born at the same time the old one dies and being the right kind of bender. It's also hard to believe that the story of what her father did had never been made privy to Korra: did she never wonder why his younger brother was chief of the north instead of him? It's also a big thing to try and go back and retcon in, as it makes Unalaq and his army not being part of the Amon fighting stuff seem like a rather conspicuous omission. And anyway, given Korra's hangups, it's not like they even needed to stack the decks against her with a "sins of the father" backstory. The Southern Water Tribe being spiritually impoverished and the Northerners being a bit too militant in trying to fix that also seems like it doesn't need a brother blood feud in there - it's a strong enough plot on its own.

My main hope is that Unalaq will turn out to not be a bad guy, and that the interpersonal issues and the civil war alike will be a grey-and-grey morality situation, rather than black-and-white like the Fire Nation war and Amon.
 
Well, I think I didn't phrase what I said well. I think that Korra is too powerful, but I do agree that changing her would be a bad move.
 
Well...that was anticlimatic. All she needed to do was touch the portal, and then it opened? (Well, touch it in the avatar state, but whatever). I thought this thing was sealed for decades? Why was that so hard?

I also don't like that her father was going to be the chief. So Korra's the Avatar AND a Water tribe princess? After all, I'm betting her father is going to overthrow his brother because he's evil or something. So then Korra will be a princess. Why can't Korra just be from a random normal family? Why does she have to be important from blood? You can't say it's so there's a reason she can easily talk to these important leaders, they talk to her because she's the Avatar, anyway.

I thought I was the only one who noticed the watercolour painting backgrounds. They're pretty, but it does make the world look...well, static. After all, there's no background movement or anything.

And why doesn't her uncle just teach her how to do the magical water thing? That would be VERY helpful. At least teach her the basics of it, even if it takes years of experience.

How did the Southern Water Tribe lose their connection to the spirits? During the war, their population was nearly DECIMATED. Can the spirits really start punishing them for that? It's like "Oh, I see the fire nation nearly wiped you out. But you aren't paying attention to us so GRARR SPIRITS MAD!"

But despite all my nitpicks, it's still good. There just doesn't seem like an arc is forming from this. This is what A:TLA would make a random episode, not a season beginner.
 
you uh... don't think that part with the
troops from the north invading
is gonna develop into an arc?
 
Gomamon said:
you uh... don't think that part with the
troops from the north invading
is gonna develop into an arc?
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Yeah, but that was the end of the episode. The rest of it just felt like it was just a standard job for Korra to do as the avatar. And then, you know, cliffhanger ending. Dunno what's going to happen after that.

Now I'm not sure if this is going to be the focus of the whole season or not. Is the entire season going to be about the Water tribes and spirits? Cause I found the equalists a lot more interesting.
 
Purple Yoshi said:
Yeah, but that was the end of the episode. The rest of it just felt like it was just a standard job for Korra to do as the avatar. And then, you know, cliffhanger ending. Dunno what's going to happen after that.

Now I'm not sure if this is going to be the focus of the whole season or not. Is the entire season going to be about the Water tribes and spirits? Cause I found the equalists a lot more interesting.
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it sure seemed to me like they were trying to set the tone for the rest of the season with that ending, but i guess its possible she resolves it in episode three
 
wow, it seems like you two have a lot in common

you'd be perfect for each other
 
Rei Hino said:
you poison types are despicable
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poison type? i have noooo idea what you mean by that. maybe you meant to say "marine animal type"?
 
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