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Veotax posted:Footage of the Platinum Korra game from Comic Con I don't know if it's great or terrible that they turned Naga sections into endless runners.
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I don't think Su Yin's a traitor, but I don't think she has Korra's safety as her top priority when she sends him after Ai Weh. Note that when Ai Weh first brings up that it had to have been a mole, Su Yin shouts "Whoever betrayed my city will suffer the consequences!" She is taking Ai Weh's betrayal very personally, so much so that she's willing to put Korra at risk to get him back.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:I don't think Su Yin's a traitor, but I don't think she has Korra's safety as her top priority when she sends him after Ai Weh. Note that when Ai Weh first brings up that it had to have been a mole, Su Yin shouts "Whoever betrayed my city will suffer the consequences!" She is taking Ai Weh's betrayal very personally, so much so that she's willing to put Korra at risk to get him back. Before Su came knocking at night, I turned to my husband and said, "Sure, attract an elite group of bender-terrorists into a densely-populated city." Taking Korra back to Republic City is a poo poo idea for many reasons, that being one of them but -- gently caress it, that'd bring the plot to a grinding halt in a number of ways. Su's not wrong when she says her city was literally the safest place to be, mole not withstanding, but even if the RCPD is capable of fending off the crack team of season villains, I don't think any of us want to see that realty play out. I think Su is certainly acting to bring Ai Weh to justice, but also acting because she recognizes that taking Korra to Republic City is a poo poo idea regardless. She's the cool kid who cut her teeth driving getaway cars -- she's not going to be a fan of taking the conservative approach. Launching the avatar headlong into a threat is pretty much how Su has operated in the past, given what the show has told us. Risk is worth it if the reward is on par, and in this case, it's not that bad of a bargain. Carlton Banks Teller fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Jul 26, 2014 |
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Jul 26, 2014 17:27
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I don't see how anyone in this show could possibly think Republic City would be safer than the futuristic Zao Fu. What nonsense.
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Jul 26, 2014 17:40
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Veotax posted:Footage of the Platinum Korra game from Comic Con the thumbnail looksl ike korra's about to start pelvic thrusting
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Jul 26, 2014 17:44
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i'm calling it that suyin is working with zaheer's gang, and if i'm right everyone has to suck my dick
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Jul 26, 2014 17:46
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:In Nick's defense, if I was an advertising executive for a children's network, there are more than a few episodes of Korra that I would just have no idea what to do with. lol
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Jul 26, 2014 17:50
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Did someone catch the name of the Red Lotus members from the beginning? I don't think they've been mentioned before then.
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Jul 26, 2014 18:49
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computer parts posted:Did someone catch the name of the Red Lotus members from the beginning? I don't think they've been mentioned before then. They've all been mentioned at one time or another, either with them talking to each other or other people yelling (X) has escaped or whatever. Not so straight up though. It's Zaheer, Ming-Hua, P'li and Ghazan
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Jul 26, 2014 18:52
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Preview clip from the next episode. Korra does the thing. 
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Jul 26, 2014 19:05
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Veotax posted:Footage of the Platinum Korra game from Comic Con It'll probably be like Metal Gear Rising where hard is the actual normal difficulty you;d expect from a Platinum game.
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Jul 26, 2014 19:36
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BrianWilly posted:Preview clip from the next episode. Korra does the thing. That was great. Goofy Korra expressions are always welcome.
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Nickelodeon says that the plan is for new episodes to go live online Fridays at 12pm EST.
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Veotax posted:Footage of the Platinum Korra game from Comic Con It just occurred to me that the Avatar state will be this game's equivalent to Devil Trigger/Ripper Mode and for some reason that's hilarious to me.
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Jul 26, 2014 20:58
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in season 4 korra is arrested for rape (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 26, 2014 21:40
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I bet Bolin picks up sand bending rather then metal bending. We haven't seen sandbenders in a long while.
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Jul 26, 2014 21:41
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Or the metal bending will kick in at a crucial moment like the air bending did for Korra.
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Jul 26, 2014 21:44
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how come waterbending, earthbending, and firebending all have some kind of specialized alternate technique but airbending doesn't. i mean bloodbending, metalbending, and lightning bending respectively
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Jul 26, 2014 21:45
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raspy trashfucker posted:how come waterbending, earthbending, and firebending all have some kind of specialized alternate technique but airbending doesn't. i mean bloodbending, metalbending, and lightning bending respectively Probably because basically all the airbenders were dead while all those other alternate forms were being invented. Well, maybe lightning-bending existed already.
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Jul 26, 2014 21:47
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I think Airbending's thing is "Astral Projection". Kind of fitting it'd be the least "offensive" of the special-type bendings. Also-- Poor Zhu Li. She works so hard. 
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raspy trashfucker posted:i'm calling it that suyin is working with zaheer's gang, and if i'm right everyone has to suck my dick can I use my anus instead?
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Jul 26, 2014 22:04
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Nickelodeon says that the plan is for new episodes to go live online Fridays at 12pm EST. Seems legit so far, last night's episode is already up. Which is good, given I forgot to watch it last night. I kind of hope they go back to doing two a week from here, though. If only because I'm impatient.
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raspy trashfucker posted:how come waterbending, earthbending, and firebending all have some kind of specialized alternate technique but airbending doesn't. i mean bloodbending, metalbending, and lightning bending respectively I'm pretty sure the astral projection thing is that. Jinora said that it was combination of high level airbending and some spiritual power, so the implication there is that only an airbender could do it. It makes sense: airbending isn't really offensive by nature so having a specialized form devoted to offense wouldn't make much sense, and the air nomad culture as a whole is all about spirituality and detaching oneself from the world. So being able to detach your own spirit from your body would be the logical culmination. Also it's not like there aren't other inconsistencies between the elements. Why can firebenders just generate fire when everybody else needs to have some of their element around to bend? Why is waterbending the only art lacking an animal precursor and instead derived from a celestial body? It's not exactly a level field all around.
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Jul 26, 2014 22:26
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Veotax posted:Footage of the Platinum Korra game from Comic Con Man, Republic city needs to work on it's pot hole problem.
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Sydin posted:Also it's not like there aren't other inconsistencies between the elements. Why can firebenders just generate fire when everybody else needs to have some of their element around to bend? Why is waterbending the only art lacking an animal precursor and instead derived from a celestial body? It's not exactly a level field all around. Because the atmosphere has oxygen in it. Similarly, high-level waterbenders can pull moisture from the air. Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Man, Republic city needs to work on it's pot hole problem. The game's set between S2 and S3. A spirit did it.
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Darth Walrus posted:Because the atmosphere has oxygen in it. Yeah, but what's burning? Oxygen is a strong reducing agent, which is why it's so combustible with other materials, but what is being oxidized? I know, I know, "Don't think about it, it's chi magic stuff". Still, it just sort of demonstrates that that sort of nitpick is irrelevant.
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DrSunshine posted:Yeah, but what's burning? Oxygen is a strong reducing agent, which is why it's so combustible with other materials, but what is being oxidized? Turns out, chi is highly flammable. Who knew?
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DrSunshine posted:I think Airbending's thing is "Astral Projection". Kind of fitting it'd be the least "offensive" of the special-type bendings. Sydin posted:I'm pretty sure the astral projection thing is that. Jinora said that it was combination of high level airbending and some spiritual power, so the implication there is that only an airbender could do it. It makes sense: airbending isn't really offensive by nature so having a specialized form devoted to offense wouldn't make much sense, and the air nomad culture as a whole is all about spirituality and detaching oneself from the world. So being able to detach your own spirit from your body would be the logical culmination. Yeah, I agree that it's probably this but also didn't Zaheer mention a Guru who worked out how to constantly levitate himself for his entire life or something? Flat-out flight would be a possibility. Personally though I think Air is broken enough to not need a higher form of bending and there's not really anywhere I can see for it to progress to anyway.
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Nephthys posted:Yeah, I agree that it's probably this but also didn't Zaheer mention a Guru who worked out how to constantly levitate himself for his entire life or something? Flat-out flight would be a possibility. Personally though I think Air is broken enough to not need a higher form of bending and there's not really anywhere I can see for it to progress to anyway. I actually think that the Guru Lahima story is a reference to the astral projection ability. The words Zaheer reads from Lahima's locket are: "Let go your earthly tether, enter the void - empty - and become wind." Sounds like a fairly accurate depiction. But yeah, I'm with you that air is pretty broken. Its practitioners aren't generally offensive in nature, but we've seen through people like avatar state Aang and Zaheer that it can be downright devastating if you're on an all out attack.
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Sydin posted:But yeah, I'm with you that air is pretty broken. Its practitioners aren't generally offensive in nature, but we've seen through people like avatar state Aang and Zaheer that it can be downright devastating if you're on an all out attack. If this show went all HBO, Air would have all sorts of explosive decompression or pulling oxygen out of people. Hell, I like the show's more kid friendly atmosphere and martial arts because it grounds everything nicely. Otherwise, Benders would literally be lethality incarnate no matter the element.
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Airbenders could probably stormbend, too. I'd imagine if a practiced airbender knew how thunderstorms are formed, they could mimic it with airbending. I wonder how an airbender would fare against a hurricane or tornado. (Aside from the unexplained one in The Swamp... although Aang didn't fare well against it. I doubt they'd have much chance of doing anything against a hurricane, even working in large groups.)
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Am I the only one who honestly thinks the game looks kind of ugly? It's mostly the bending; the fire looks kind of meh, and I'm not a fan of the weird coloration they give Korra to show what style she's using. There's gotta be a better way to convey that visually.Crazy Ferret posted:If this show went all HBO, Air would have all sorts of explosive decompression or pulling oxygen out of people. Hell, I like the show's more kid friendly atmosphere and martial arts because it grounds everything nicely. Otherwise, Benders would literally be lethality incarnate no matter the element. One thing I've always appreciated about bending is that it requires movement. So even if the show was willing to go there, you couldn't necessarily just explode someone; you'd have to find the specific set of movements necessary to seize the air in their body and expand it, all while dodging whatever they are chucking at you. It's a nice bit of in-universe balancing and a major part of what annoyed me about Amon. A 'psychic' bender could be an awe-inspiring villain, but they pretty much gave us the lamest form of it imaginable. Imagine something like a psychic earthbender who could animate an army of literal terracotta warriors, or give himself earthen armor and a bunch of extra fists so he is basically this guy.
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The first three episodes are on Hulu, although they mislabeled them as "Season Two"
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Spergatory posted:One thing I've always appreciated about bending is that it requires movement. So even if the show was willing to go there, you couldn't necessarily just explode someone; you'd have to find the specific set of movements necessary to seize the air in their body and expand it, all while dodging whatever they are chucking at you. It's a nice bit of in-universe balancing and a major part of what annoyed me about Amon. A 'psychic' bender could be an awe-inspiring villain, but they pretty much gave us the lamest form of it imaginable. Imagine something like a psychic earthbender who could animate an army of literal terracotta warriors, or give himself earthen armor and a bunch of extra fists so he is basically this guy. Agreed to some extent. There is still things like Azula's rocket boots or Iroh's fire-breath that seem more D&D than Martial Arts, but I'm more than capable of overlooking those for the sake of a cool scene or good effect. I like my Martial Arts moving to be a bit more fantastical to begin with so there that as well. At first, I was a bit leery of the new Waterbending villain not having arms till someone in the thread mentioned Phantom Limb possibly being the cause, and I thought that was neato. The idea of the character bending water based on the feeling of her missing limbs is very cool. I will defend Amon's bending though. I agree that his plot arc is lacking and I really wanted more with the Equalists as that's very interesting to me but his "moves" so to speak were consistent with what we saw. He is usually palm down, fingers clenched, marionette controlling-esque we saw from the first avatar series. I do not pretend to know martial art fighting styles, but I always felt his moves were consistent with what we saw of waterbending, or at least using water as a cutting tool and how to "hold it". When he was bloodbending, he was as if he was keeping the blood/water from flowing as if it was ice-slush. Ugh, the sound that happens when is blood-bending those wolves still bugs me. I don't think he was psychic, or at least any further than of the show just hand waving "The villain can now bloodbend during the day because...", but thats cartoons/anime being cartoons/anime for ya. Now that you mention it, I'm surprised we've not seen a Earth Bender make a simulacra to fight along/with. Aang kind of does it where he makes Earth Armor for himself and than rushes the Aang shaped armor out towards his opponent but that's it really.
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I like that the super-rare Firebending is actually just called Combustionbending. It also sounded like Lavabending isn't entirely unheard of either. I'm curious if water arms is unique, or like the others something that has been done in-universe before.
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RyuujinBlueZ posted:I like that the super-rare Firebending is actually just called Combustionbending. It also sounded like Lavabending isn't entirely unheard of either. I'm curious if water arms is unique, or like the others something that has been done in-universe before. Well, multiple water-benders have done the Water-Arms thing. Katara did it for example. Just never without the actual arms.
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Crazy Ferret posted:Now that you mention it, I'm surprised we've not seen a Earth Bender make a simulacra to fight along/with. Aang kind of does it where he makes Earth Armor for himself and than rushes the Aang shaped armor out towards his opponent but that's it really. 
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True, but I don't remember them being able to keep them "always on" like she does. I do like the phantom limbs explanation, I'd just be curious if she's the only amputee bender that does it.
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thexerox123 posted:
Man, I'd totally forgotten this scene. I really should do a big re-watch though the Original series some day soon. Thanks for that.
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thexerox123 posted:
Man this gif's loop is goddamn Sisyphean. Sokka and Suki are going to fight the Melon Lord's minions forever.
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