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?
 
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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.