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Post by
Skreeran
It's also possible that other people either figured it out as scientific knowledge increased (like that people are mostly water), or witnessed other someone who could do it and tried to figure out how they could do that themselves.
Post by
Gone
Trust enough to teach them a forbidden art though?
I don't see why this is even up for debate, Yacone learned it somewhere, there was clearly some form of wide spread use of the technique beyond the two people that knew it in TLA, and enough so for Katara to get it banned.
Post by
Nathanyal
For all we know, Yacone figured it out on his own as well. And since his form of bending was special, in that it didn't require the full moon, it was probably easier for him to figure it out.
Post by
Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0UBbzeFc74
Season 3 trailer.
I spy, with my little eye...
ZUKO!
Post by
EdantheDwarf
I don't have to say it but I will awesome! Next up is a when can I has it?
Post by
Rankkor
I'm still impressed at the striking balance they strove for and achieved with the Korra show.
It had to be different enough from the Aang show to avoid the syndrome of "Rehashed, Recycled, and more of the same" but at the same time, keep it similar enough to avoid the other syndrome of "This is a sequel in name only, and barely resembles the original"
They did it flawlessly, and Korra is both similar and different enough from Last Airbender to stand on its own, toe to toe with the original show. I can't wait for season 3.
My only regret is that each individual season is shorter than in Last Airbender, but given that this one will have 4 seasons, I guess the total number of episodes will even out.
Post by
Gone
I still hate the pro-bending thing, but I agree with Rank.
Post by
Rankkor
I don't "hate it" per se, I'm more "meh" about it. They spent an awful lot of time developing that subplot and it was ultimately irrelevant, and inconsequential. Ultimately, its just a low-key sport that isn't really that important, mid-season it got closed and nobodies lives were shattered by it.
Some shows revolve around a competition of some form (Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh) and for those types of shows, the whole tournament is very important and epicenter to the plot, but in Korra, it was just a side thing that wasn't neither terribly exciting, nor really important enough. I'm glad it was scrapped out of season 2, and I hope its not back in season 3. Our heroes have more important things to do than spend half the season playing a game.
What I really hated about Legend of Korra (and is in fact my only real complain about it) is how terribly they handled romances. They were adequate enough on the first show, but on Legend of Korra, it was horrible. I'm hoping they tone that down too for season 3.
Post by
Gone
Well you have to remember they're teenagers. Stupid romantic decisions and behavior is pretty typical.
Honestly I just have a persona bias against the pro-bending thing I think. A friend of mine is an MMA coach and it's all I hear about. Frankly I don't want it polluting my Avatar >:(
Post by
Rankkor
Well you have to remember they're teenagers. Stupid romantic decisions and behavior is pretty typical.
I guess. The cast in the previous show was a lot younger, two 12 year olds (Aang and Toph), one 14 year old (Katara), two 16 year olds (Sokka and Zuko). Mostly pre-teens or early teens, whereas the entire cast in this one is exactly 17. All of them.
Post by
Gone
Are they still 17? How much time has passed since season 1?
Post by
Rankkor
I vaguely recall that season 2 was six months after season 1.
Not sure how much later season 3 is compared to two, but its possible they're now 18.
O_O that'd mean they're adults now. Which means the creators could get away with more stuff to do/happen to them.
Ohhh the possibilities........
Post by
Gone
Wellllllllll, it's still Nickelodeon. Although I'll admit they've shown some balls. Tarlock killing his brother, Korra killing her uncle.
Post by
Gone
You know saying that actually points out something else I like about Korra. The way that the show shifts its tone in the way the Avatar character is dealt with.
Aang worried and worried over having to kill Ozai and in the end he couldn't go through with it. Korra kills a villain that was a member of her family and her reaction afterwards is basically:
/shrug "soz" no &*!@s given
Post by
Rankkor
Come on, they got away with A LOT in season 1. And don't even get me started on how much they managed to sneak away in Last Airbender.
This
is a small sample of all they managed to get away with on a show where the majority of the cast was below 15 years old =P
Post by
Rankkor
You know saying that actually points out something else I like about Korra. The way that the show shifts its tone in the way the Avatar character is dealt with.
Aang worried and worried over having to kill Ozai and in the end he couldn't go through with it. Korra kills a villain that was a member of her family and her reaction afterwards is basically:
/shrug "soz" no &*!@s given
Of course, this has less to do with being the Avatar, and more with being an Airbender.
Since the airbenders were pacifists, that is the real reason Aang showed aversion to killing, while everyone else urged him to do so. Note how Avatar Kyoshi also killed a dictator in her time (technically he killed himself by refusing to back down from a collapsing cliffside, but Kyoshi made it very clear to Aang that she would have had zero problem killing him if he had backed away and continued his aggression later)
Korra was raised in a different culture, and thus aversion to violence isn't in her nature.
This is one of the MANY things the movie screwed up about the Avatar character. Because in the movie, Aang WANTED to kill the Firelord, but was told he was forbidden to do so because apparently the Avatar can never kill anyone.
What the f.............
#$%& you shyalaman >_>
Post by
Gone
I think it was more than just being an airbender. Remember even Yangchen said he should ice Ozai. Aang's character just wasn't one that begot violence.
Post by
Gone
3 episode premiere one week
Post by
Haxzor
ITS AMAZING
Post by
Rankkor
So I just saw the first episode of Korra Season 3.
First allow me to take this off my chest by getting the formalities out of the way:
IT WAS #$%&ING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that we settled that little bit, time for some analysis. No spoiler tags, this premiered several weeks ago, if you don't want to be spoiled, the episodes are available online (On Nick's site for US users, and on several other sites for anyone else).
Personally, while the fact that there are new airbenders now came as a big shock, I think the way they handled it completely ruined any surprise to it.
For starters the frikking trailer spoiled it, making what should had been a HUGE twist, simple common knowledge, but then the way it actually is revealed in the show, was also not the best. They show Bumi airbending within the first 5 minutes, and in a completely common way.
Me, I think this would had worked better as a surprise if:
A: they didn't showed any airbenders in the trailers
and
B: They skipped those first 5 minutes of the episode. Have bumi discovering he can airbend offscreen. That way, we would had brushed off his wild claims that he just airbended as just more bumi crazy antics, of which we've gotten plenty in season 2. And it would had made Bumi showing his bending at the dinner scene that much more meaningful and impacting.
However, with the trailer spoiling it, and the episode itself giving it away right at the start, it didn't had the punch it could have. =/ what a wasted opportunity.
Apart from that, I think it was a great change in direction, so far we've had several major villains that were firebenders, followed by several more that were waterbenders. But an Airbender bad guy? after practically every single episode up to this point showing any airbender as a good person, this is a significant change.
And one I absolutely love.
Speaking of villains. That guy they showed at the end, I only saw less than 5 minutes of him and already he left a mark. I'm hoping he's a better bad guy than Unolok. Unolok was a disappointment after the awesomeness that was Amon. He came off to me as your typical cartoonish saturday morning bad guy that wouldn't be out of place in the Super League cartoon from the 60s.
In the end he had little characterization beyond "He's evil" and ultimately wasn't even the main villain, just the pawn of someone else who had even less characterization. He reminds me all too much of Deathwing in Cataclysm, who couldn't had been any more of a let down as a bad guy.
This one however seems a bit different, and I'm hoping he delivers. His intro was nothing short of badass. I have to imagine what kind of person he must have been to have a custom-built high-security prison all to himself
WHILE BEING A NON-BENDER
o_O just what was this guy capable of doing? and how much more dangerous he must be now that he IS a bender? furthermore, he's presumably discovered his bending days ago at most, and yet with no master, and little room to practice, he more or less self-taught himself how to use airbending like a champ to curb-stomp the ground with FIVE White Lotus Masters.
Holy Frick on a Stick O_O
Color me impressed, THAT is a proper villain introduction.
I am SO glad that romantic tumor was cut off, and here's to hoping it NEVER shows its ugly head again. I'm even happier that they didn't resorted to the typical "cat fight" dynamic between the two female leads over mako, and quite the opposite, the two are closer than ever now. So, Cheers for that.
All in all, awesome first episode, and if this is just a taste of things to come, Season 3 could indeed be much better than Season 2 which for me, was sorta a hit&miss deal, liking some parts, and disliking others.
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