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
GalacticPetey said:
They're trying to deal with the dark spirits. Unalaq is a side problem. I'm not saying the problem is minor, he's obviously evil, but he's not the big bad. It's obvious the main characters will need to go into the spirit world to restore balance. What they do in the spirit world is the mystery I'm looking forward to.
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if they're dealing with dark spirits then how come I haven't heard hide no hair of them in the season, not counting the season premiere

maybe they just decided to focus on the civil war for the Civil War episodes? but knowing the last season, that's probably not the case
 
Maybe they should have made the Civil Wars a later episode. After all, how many times did they have a 2-parter as the 3rd episode of the season?
 
Purple Yoshi said:
Maybe they should have made the Civil Wars a later episode. After all, how many times did they have a 2-parter as the 3rd episode of the season?
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yeah I felt Civil Wars was trying to be WAY too climactic for something that's the 3rd episode...
 
I think the problem is the show WAS originally meant to be a miniseries. The creators didn't exactly plan out anything after that, because they didn't know it was going to be greenlit for 4 SEASONS!!!

I hope it doesn't become progressively worse because of that.
 
Purple Yoshi said:
I think the problem is the show WAS originally meant to be a miniseries. The creators didn't exactly plan out anything after that, because they didn't know it was going to be greenlit for 4 SEASONS!!!

I hope it doesn't become progressively worse because of that.
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You need to understand that they knew it was going to be a full-fledged sequel after quite a bit of the "first" season. It was to be 13 episodes long, and that was it. No episodes of Season 2 were created with the mini-series, and they knew they were going to have to create three more seasons.

So don't blame the fact that it was a miniseries. They spent A LONG time preparing Season 2 of Korra, and I have a feeling that they have a lot in store for us. It's not like they were told they were going to be making more seasons, and had to throw stuff together.
 
Just watched the latest episode

An okay episode. I just hope to GOD they don't drag out Korra and Mako being pissy at each other. But seriously, will Korra at least think things through?! You can't just send soldiers without the commander in chief's permission! Bolin was pretty funny in this episode and I loved the part where he tried to entertain the crowd. Verrick wasn't as funny though. Asami didn't do much but it's nice to actually see her. Also, yeah for Lin and Iroh! They were some of my favorite characters from book 1. I hope wee see more of them. Eska sure isn't happy about what happened, I wonder where her story will go. Wasn't much a fan of the Meelo/Tenzn subplot. I wanted to see more of Aang's kids. Speaking of Aang's kids, I want to see what exactly happened on Air Temple Island when Lin and Tenzin broke up. Sounds like it was pretty devastating. Also loved the line "What the flameo happened here?" My headcannon now is that "flameo" is now derogatory and Aang was oblivious to the fact when he was saying it in Book 3. I also eagerly await what happens with that dark spirit.

Nabber said:
That was just... an awful episode. Everything felt badly done.
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Doesn't matter, has Lin Beifong.
 
The episode was decent, and Varrick is just so deliciously Varrick at all times. Don't really care about the breakup, but I definitely take Mako's side here.
 
Peacekeepers
President Raikou? Sorry, that's what it sounded like.

Anyway, yay! Weird political stuff that everyone finds boring except me! The President sounds like what the President of the Earth Nation was like in my fanfiction that I never wrote. Actually, his reasoning reminds me of Obama and Syria. He doesn't want to take sides, and wants to have a peaceful resolution above all else.

And I've gotta agree with Mako here. Korra is bordering on rebellion right now. I understand people aren't taking her side right now. She just needs proof Unalaq is evil. As for the breakup, it makes sense, but I feel it's there solely to give the shippers something to do.

I've just gotta say, if Unalaq is somehow controlling the evil spirits so he can take over the world, or something, I'm going to be really pissed. It does feel like the more we get into the political stuff, the harder it is for the whole 'evil spirits' thing to fit in.

Also, terrorists. I'm definitely intrigued to find out what Unalaq's master plan is. Why does he need the portal open in the first place?

Oh, and Varrick is making propaganda movies. Terrific. You can tell this is the sort of guy who would easily be working for the other side if he wasn't from the south. Let's hope they have a good way to control him.

Overall, good episode, in my opinion. They definitely made the overall goals this season a lot more clear.
 
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of course unulaq is controlling the spirits. he's using it as a way to get korra to open the northern spirit portal so that he can instantaneously lead his army across the world to the southern water tribe, making conquest much easier
 
I just don't get why he wants the Southern Water Tribe so much. And heck, how was he arrogant enough to believe his army would be able to outmatch the Republic City army, or anyone other army that would fight back?

Also, he said he didn't need Korra anymore at the end of episode 4, but by episode 5, we see he DOES need her. So was he just lying?
 
The first two episodes were on again today, plus I just watched the latest episode too.

Regarding Unalaq, I still feel like he's more of a misguided extremist than a power-hungry tyrant. I don't think he's behind the spirit attacks, and that he's sincere about wanting to appease them - and feels that forcing the south to repent n' junk will help smooth things over. Bad methods for sure, but I still don't think he's gonna be a straight-up black-and-white villain in the end - just a dark shade of grey. The only thing that doesn't fit is the destroying the spirit forest thing in his youth - I really hope there will be more to that story.

Meanwhile, I think Varrick's gonna turn out to be a villain - they're making him way too charismatic to be a straight-up good guy: he even said so himself - war's are lucrative. He probably arranged for the cultural center to be bombed to make sure things stay dicey, and part of me suspects he's got channels in the policy department too, to cover himself - hence the ominous, not empty drawer where the assholes stowed Mako's photo.

In a way, Varrick's unscrupulous drive for material gain is kinda paralleled by Unalaq's sledge-hammer approach to spiritual appeasement - both ends of the scale. And then Korra, the bridge between the spirits and the material world, has to make a balance between the two extremes in the modernizing world. Which she can only do once she calms the hell down and learns to be more objective and less filled with fiery, visceral raeg (hence the book's "spirits"). At least, that's my current theory on where the show's going with all this.

Regarding the specifics of the episode, f-yeah - Lin, and Bolin was hilarious as always, but yeah, I agree that the Meelo subplot seemed a bit superfluous.
 
I agree with you about Unalaq. He seems to me more like Zuko than like Azula, to make a series-relevant comparison. Based on that, I'm under the impression that Unalaq is acting against his will (not literally, like with bloodbending, for example) to cause this division between the tribes or is making a sloppy attempt at stopping something that will happen and that he has known will happen (and for which he might be at fault).

About the series itself, it feels rushed compared to The Last Airbender. I'm not sure if that's because it is or because I'm not used to the Avatar already being able to bend the four elements and enter the Avatar State in more or less every episode.
 
So I've been trying to catch up watching Doug Walker's (the Nostalgia Critic's) videos, since I stopped watching them for almost a year, since he decided to do an Adventure Time vlog, to follow up the success of his Avatar: The Last Airbender vlog. Since I've caught up to the point where he started those vlogs, I've decided to FINALLY check out the show that everyone's been talking about for years, and watch his vlogs as I go. I'm only in 2 episodes so far (though I saw the first episode a while back), and I'm definitely intrigued, though I have to say, in the second episode, they place a lot of awkward comedy in some pretty inopportune moments... Most notably with Prince Zuko. I'm not going to ask if this happens to him a lot, since like Doug, I want to be surprised as I go, though knowing a sequel, The Legend of Korra, exists, it might dampen some of the surprise for certain characters...

Still, though, I'm excited, though at the same time, if and when I inevitability catch up to where the series is now, I'm going to have yet ANOTHER show I'll have to keep up with.
 
it may put your mind to ease that the legend of korra is pretty unrelated to the first series, so it doesn't spoil too much
 
Mario4Ever said:
I agree with you about Unalaq. He seems to me more like Zuko than like Azula, to make a series-relevant comparison. Based on that, I'm under the impression that Unalaq is acting against his will (not literally, like with bloodbending, for example) to cause this division between the tribes or is making a sloppy attempt at stopping something that will happen and that he has known will happen (and for which he might be at fault).

About the series itself, it feels rushed compared to The Last Airbender. I'm not sure if that's because it is or because I'm not used to the Avatar already being able to bend the four elements and enter the Avatar State in more or less every episode.
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Yeah, I do agree.
I guess the fact is, Korra is already strong enough to deal with most threats (besides the spirits, of course). But I do like the way the show makes it so that the problems aren't ones you can deal with by just jumping in and fighting. Because, if it was, Korra would deal with it, no problem. That's why she has to take the diplomatic approach. But Korra + Diplomatic approach = doesn't end well.
 
Smashgoom202 said:
So I've been trying to catch up watching Doug Walker's (the Nostalgia Critic's) videos, since I stopped watching them for almost a year, since he decided to do an Adventure Time vlog, to follow up the success of his Avatar: The Last Airbender vlog. Since I've caught up to the point where he started those vlogs, I've decided to FINALLY check out the show that everyone's been talking about for years, and watch his vlogs as I go. I'm only in 2 episodes so far (though I saw the first episode a while back), and I'm definitely intrigued, though I have to say, in the second episode, they place a lot of awkward comedy in some pretty inopportune moments... Most notably with Prince Zuko. I'm not going to ask if this happens to him a lot, since like Doug, I want to be surprised as I go, though knowing a sequel, The Legend of Korra, exists, it might dampen some of the surprise for certain characters...

Still, though, I'm excited, though at the same time, if and when I inevitability catch up to where the series is now, I'm going to have yet ANOTHER show I'll have to keep up with.
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Have fun! I followed him as he did the vlogs, watching an episode whenever he did. Watching Avatar was a very good decision.
 
I found that funnier than I probably should have.
 
As much as I love Varrick, his thing is kinda getting old... it feels like he only exists to supply Team Avatar with whatever they need, and for comic relief, though as I said his jokes are getting old.
 
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