It'll probably be mentioned but not fully addressed.
Korra might be split on being a human and her duties with the spiritual world. Like the spirts want to take people's bending away to obtain harmony, but a lot of humans need it to survive and civilization is dependent upon bending.
who knows but the writters
Just finished watching both TLA and LoK and I must say they both (but particularly LoK) really put into action what Don Bluth said about children's entertainment.
[QUOTE=Ithon;36984322]Korra might be split on being a human and her duties with the spiritual world. Like the spirts want to take people's bending away to obtain harmony, but a lot of humans need it to survive and civilization is dependent upon bending.
who knows but the writters[/QUOTE]
The voice actors and animators. And possibly the janitor if he/she was dropping eaves.
[QUOTE=Cpn Crunch21;36832061][url]http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/legend-of-korra-comic-con-2012-panel-full-episode.html?ATLAFB2[/url]
19 minutes in they show some of the new season
[img]http://oi47.tinypic.com/wcfntv.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
It that a fucking angel from EVA?
[QUOTE=Ithon;36984322]Korra might be split on being a human and her duties with the spiritual world. Like the spirts want to take people's bending away to obtain harmony, but a lot of humans need it to survive and civilization is dependent upon bending.
who knows but the writters[/QUOTE]
I hope it isn't another removal of bending theme. Hopefully they will do something different but equally sympathetic. One of the best things about the first season was that the equalist movement could actually be justified.
[QUOTE=squids_eye;37001276]I hope it isn't another removal of bending theme. Hopefully they will do something different but equally sympathetic. One of the best things about the first season was that the equalist movement could actually be justified.[/QUOTE]
Really? All I saw of "bending oppression" is a few bad apples being pricks and everyone's parents or spouses or whatever being killed in the backstory. Benders aren't the only people who can be jerks. Really now since the UR now has tools to fight against benders specifically, they should have little problem tackling the triad crime problem then people have little to complain about. I'm not sure if it's explicitly stated whether you have to be a bender to become a member of the counsel but bending as a spiritual side to it that seems rare in the non-bending (and in Korra's time even most benders) rarely explore. If they really see it as an issue they could change the law to simply being the right person for a position in leadership. Really now, the UR should have prisons to hold different disciplines of benders.
Dudes, I just had an epiphany. Everything makes sense now.
The season finale of every episode in The Last Airbender (the old show) rips off an episode of Star Wars (original trilogy).
In A New Hope (Season 1 finale), the Rebels (Water Tribe) must take down a massive assault by the Imperials (Fire Nation). While large numbers of Rebel troops fight, many are killed, and the battle is ultimately won by the plucky young hero, Luke Skywalker (Aang), who single-handedly destroys the bulk of the enemy forces by shooting a proton torpedo down the exhaust vent (going into the Avatar state and fucking their shit up), which he only accomplishes by consulting with his old, wise, DEAD mentor, Obi Wan (Avatar Roku). Note that both wise dead mentors have connections to the enemy. The main bad guy, Darth Vader (Prince Zuko) is defeated but not killed by a sidekick of the hero (Han in SW, Katara in TLA). The ruthlessly-evil-but-not-main-bad-guy Grand Moff Tarkin (Admiral Zhao) is killed. The rebel base ultimately survives, but the imperials are relatively unharmed.
In The Empire Strikes Back, the plucky young hero (Luke) is being trained by another, older, mentor, Yoda (Guru Pathik), but leaves at the last minute after receiving a vision of his friend/love interest Leia (Katara) in danger, despite the protests of his mentor that if he leaves now, he will never complete his training (unlock his chakras). One of the hero's friends, Han (Toph) is captured and encased in carbonite (locked in a metal box). Ultimately the hero duels the main villain, Darth Vader (now replaced by Azula) and loses his hand (ability to enter the avatar state). Everything looks grim for the ending...
Finally, in Return of the Jedi, the hero fights the true villain-behind-the-villain, Emperor Palpatine (Fire Lord Ozai), but almost falls to the dark side (is consumed while energybending). The former nemesis, Darth Vader (once again Zuko), turns (has turned) to the side of good and sacrifices (nearly sacrifices) himself to save another. There's even the A plot/B plot synchronized finale (Luke vs Emperor / Aang vs Fire Lord as the A plot, Han+Leia on Endor / the Gaang vs Azula as the B plot). Good guys win, but the scars will take years to heal yadda yadda big kiss roll credits
It goes deeper than that. Katara has hair loopies. Leia has hair buns, which are a kind of hair loopie. Both are based heavily on a Japanese cinematic genre (jidai geki for one, anime for the other). I don't even need to get into the martial arts and spirituality aspects...
You can even (roughly) line up the casts:
Aang = Luke (obvious)
Katara = Leia (also obvious)
Sokka = Han (badass normal, to use the tvtrope term)
Toph = Chewie (violent but peaceful, and also kind of dirty)
Momo = R2D2 (can't talk but everyone talks to him anyways, and saves the day in unlikely ways)
which leaves Suki to be Threepio, somehow. So it's not perfect.
So now I'm off to reread my Expanded Universe novels to see if I can make LoK fit into that somehow (massively overpowered superweapons? check!).
[sp]No, I'm not 100% serious. I just found a lot of coincidences that were kind of funny. CALM YOUR NERD RAGE.[/sp]
My nerd rage is too large to be calmed at this point
[QUOTE=gman003-main;37010806]Dudes, I just had an epiphany. Everything makes sense now.
The season finale of every episode in The Last Airbender (the old show) rips off an episode of Star Wars (original trilogy).
In A New Hope (Season 1 finale), the Rebels (Water Tribe) must take down a massive assault by the Imperials (Fire Nation). While large numbers of Rebel troops fight, many are killed, and the battle is ultimately won by the plucky young hero, Luke Skywalker (Aang), who single-handedly destroys the bulk of the enemy forces by shooting a proton torpedo down the exhaust vent (going into the Avatar state and fucking their shit up), which he only accomplishes by consulting with his old, wise, DEAD mentor, Obi Wan (Avatar Roku). Note that both wise dead mentors have connections to the enemy. The main bad guy, Darth Vader (Prince Zuko) is defeated but not killed by a sidekick of the hero (Han in SW, Katara in TLA). The ruthlessly-evil-but-not-main-bad-guy Grand Moff Tarkin (Admiral Zhao) is killed. The rebel base ultimately survives, but the imperials are relatively unharmed.
In The Empire Strikes Back, the plucky young hero (Luke) is being trained by another, older, mentor, Yoda (Guru Pathik), but leaves at the last minute after receiving a vision of his friend/love interest Leia (Katara) in danger, despite the protests of his mentor that if he leaves now, he will never complete his training (unlock his chakras). One of the hero's friends, Han (Toph) is captured and encased in carbonite (locked in a metal box). Ultimately the hero duels the main villain, Darth Vader (now replaced by Azula) and loses his hand (ability to enter the avatar state). Everything looks grim for the ending...
Finally, in Return of the Jedi, the hero fights the true villain-behind-the-villain, Emperor Palpatine (Fire Lord Ozai), but almost falls to the dark side (is consumed while energybending). The former nemesis, Darth Vader (once again Zuko), turns (has turned) to the side of good and sacrifices (nearly sacrifices) himself to save another. There's even the A plot/B plot synchronized finale (Luke vs Emperor / Aang vs Fire Lord as the A plot, Han+Leia on Endor / the Gaang vs Azula as the B plot). Good guys win, but the scars will take years to heal yadda yadda big kiss roll credits
It goes deeper than that. Katara has hair loopies. Leia has hair buns, which are a kind of hair loopie. Both are based heavily on a Japanese cinematic genre (jidai geki for one, anime for the other). I don't even need to get into the martial arts and spirituality aspects...
You can even (roughly) line up the casts:
Aang = Luke (obvious)
Katara = Leia (also obvious)
Sokka = Han (badass normal, to use the tvtrope term)
Toph = Chewie (violent but peaceful, and also kind of dirty)
Momo = R2D2 (can't talk but everyone talks to him anyways, and saves the day in unlikely ways)
which leaves Suki to be Threepio, somehow. So it's not perfect.
So now I'm off to reread my Expanded Universe novels to see if I can make LoK fit into that somehow (massively overpowered superweapons? check!).
[sp]No, I'm not 100% serious. I just found a lot of coincidences that were kind of funny. CALM YOUR NERD RAGE.[/sp][/QUOTE]
Hate to rain on your parade, but that's because both Avatar and Star Wars follows (even if it was accidental) the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth"]Monomyth[/URL], also known as the Hero's Journey. Pretty much every successful story, regardless of cultural origin or date penned, follows this.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;37012011]Hate to rain on your parade, but that's because both Avatar and Star Wars follows (even if it was accidental) the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth"]Monomyth[/URL], also known as the Hero's Journey. Pretty much every successful story, regardless of cultural origin or date penned, follows this.[/QUOTE]
Dude, I know about the freaking monomyth. I can't count how many papers on it I've written, back in school.
But some of the details go beyond the mere archetypal story, particularly Book 2's finale (I watched it today, that's what got me started on this thoughtline). Leaving the mentor before it is time, to go save your friends who have been captured by the enemy? Doesn't happen in any of the other stories I can think of right now.
I'm a little behind. Only just watched book one finale. Where does it go from there?
[QUOTE=Mr Shadyface;37017445]I'm a little behind. Only just watched book one finale. Where does it go from there?[/QUOTE]
Book 2.
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;37017528]Book 2.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, i just discovered thanks to a handy site called google.
In retrospect, shoulda gone there first.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;37010806]Dudes, I just had an epiphany. Everything makes sense now.
The season finale of every episode in The Last Airbender (the old show) rips off an episode of Star Wars (original trilogy).
In A New Hope (Season 1 finale), the Rebels (Water Tribe) must take down a massive assault by the Imperials (Fire Nation). While large numbers of Rebel troops fight, many are killed, and the battle is ultimately won by the plucky young hero, Luke Skywalker (Aang), who single-handedly destroys the bulk of the enemy forces by shooting a proton torpedo down the exhaust vent (going into the Avatar state and fucking their shit up), which he only accomplishes by consulting with his old, wise, DEAD mentor, Obi Wan (Avatar Roku). Note that both wise dead mentors have connections to the enemy. The main bad guy, Darth Vader (Prince Zuko) is defeated but not killed by a sidekick of the hero (Han in SW, Katara in TLA). The ruthlessly-evil-but-not-main-bad-guy Grand Moff Tarkin (Admiral Zhao) is killed. The rebel base ultimately survives, but the imperials are relatively unharmed.
In The Empire Strikes Back, the plucky young hero (Luke) is being trained by another, older, mentor, Yoda (Guru Pathik), but leaves at the last minute after receiving a vision of his friend/love interest Leia (Katara) in danger, despite the protests of his mentor that if he leaves now, he will never complete his training (unlock his chakras). One of the hero's friends, Han (Toph) is captured and encased in carbonite (locked in a metal box). Ultimately the hero duels the main villain, Darth Vader (now replaced by Azula) and loses his hand (ability to enter the avatar state). Everything looks grim for the ending...
Finally, in Return of the Jedi, the hero fights the true villain-behind-the-villain, Emperor Palpatine (Fire Lord Ozai), but almost falls to the dark side (is consumed while energybending). The former nemesis, Darth Vader (once again Zuko), turns (has turned) to the side of good and sacrifices (nearly sacrifices) himself to save another. There's even the A plot/B plot synchronized finale (Luke vs Emperor / Aang vs Fire Lord as the A plot, Han+Leia on Endor / the Gaang vs Azula as the B plot). Good guys win, but the scars will take years to heal yadda yadda big kiss roll credits
It goes deeper than that. Katara has hair loopies. Leia has hair buns, which are a kind of hair loopie. Both are based heavily on a Japanese cinematic genre (jidai geki for one, anime for the other). I don't even need to get into the martial arts and spirituality aspects...
You can even (roughly) line up the casts:
Aang = Luke (obvious)
Katara = Leia (also obvious)
Sokka = Han (badass normal, to use the tvtrope term)
Toph = Chewie (violent but peaceful, and also kind of dirty)
Momo = R2D2 (can't talk but everyone talks to him anyways, and saves the day in unlikely ways)
which leaves Suki to be Threepio, somehow. So it's not perfect.
So now I'm off to reread my Expanded Universe novels to see if I can make LoK fit into that somehow (massively overpowered superweapons? check!).
[sp]No, I'm not 100% serious. I just found a lot of coincidences that were kind of funny. CALM YOUR NERD RAGE.[/sp][/QUOTE]
Same could kind of be said for Harry Potter and Star Wars.
[QUOTE=LtKyle2;37021201]Same could kind of be said for Harry Potter and Star Wars.[/QUOTE]
And Lord of the Rings. Other's have noted the similarities between Aang's training from Guru Pathik and Luke Skywalker's training from Yoda, but to say the entire series rips off Star Wars is going way too far.
SF Debris has his Season 4 review up for TLA
[url]http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/avatar-the-last-airbender-fire-part-1-6282880[/url]
[url]http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/avatar-the-last-airbender-fire-part-2-6282888[/url]
[url]http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/avatar-the-last-airbender-fire-part-3-6282905[/url]
[url]http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/avatar-the-last-airbender-fire-part-4-6282934[/url]
he says at the end of Part 4 that more avatar reviews are coming in the fall, so he could be reviewing season 1 of Korra, or some of the TLA supplemental material.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;37041276]SF Debris has his Season 4 review up for TLA
[url]http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/avatar-the-last-airbender-fire-part-1-6282880[/url]
[url]http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/avatar-the-last-airbender-fire-part-2-6282888[/url]
[url]http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/avatar-the-last-airbender-fire-part-3-6282905[/url]
[url]http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/avatar-the-last-airbender-fire-part-4-6282934[/url]
he says at the end of Part 4 that more avatar reviews are coming in the fall, so he could be reviewing season 1 of Korra, or some of the TLA supplemental material.[/QUOTE]
This reminded me, although Legend of Korra was great, it didn't hold a candle to The Last Airbender.
I think I like both of them equally.
I think i like them equally to. Avatar was pretty perfect but it never had me at the edge of my seat like Korra did. Although Korra has some problems, it was still pretty damn intense.
Korra focussed too much on the action instead of the character in my opinion. Sure we know the very basics of the motivation behind the characters and such but do we really [B]know[/B] the characters? Some of the characters we do, but a lot of them we don't. I am glad they got a lot of extra episodes so that they can hopefully fix this.
[editline]ae[/editline]
We know more about Sokka's boomerang at this point than some people in TLoK.
That feel when we know more about a minor side character then anybody else in the series.
Katara.
[QUOTE=Zarjk;37052192]That feel when we know more about a minor side character then anybody else in the series.
Katara.[/QUOTE]
Well, that's just cheating.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yxjSFNP-A0[/media]
Saw this on an internet just now.
Taioo always has some great piano covers.
[QUOTE=Mister Royzo;37057971][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yxjSFNP-A0[/media]
Saw this on an internet just now.[/QUOTE]
I've always felt that the theme song doesn't seem complete in that it could be prolonged in the amount time taken to build up in emotion.
[QUOTE=Dominicus;37048368]This reminded me, although Legend of Korra was great, it didn't hold a candle to The Last Airbender.[/QUOTE]
I think that if LoK had been 3 or 4 seasons from the beginning it would have fared better against TLA. Now that they supposedly have another 3 lined up and have a lot more room to stretch out story arcs it'll turn out a lot better.
Yeah, apparently the show now has four books. Yaaaay.
Also, I'm trying to find a picture that was posted here of Lin, as a child, taking care of her mother's hair.
It was so daw-ish.
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