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DrSunshine posted:Cabbage Corp must've built their airships out of tin, if a not-particularly-bulky teenage girl could just pry and bend everything like it was a can of sardines!
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RyuujinBlueZ posted:Isn't Asami actually a pretty well trained (and likely strong) martial artist? We haven't seen it in a while, but given she's traveling with the Avatar I doubt she's slacking on training. If I remmber right she took out one of those bikers in a pretty cool way. Haha, Avatar has bikers.
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Calico Heart posted:If I remmber right she took out one of those bikers in a pretty cool way. FIREBENDING ON MOTORCYCLES!!! SpiderHyphenMan posted:Actually it's highly-purified cabbage. On the plus side, it's unbendable. Can't cabbages be blood-bended? (Bloodbent?)
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DoctorWhat posted:Can't cabbages be blood-bended? (Bloodbent?) What kind of cabbages do you eat?
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Rexides posted:Well, I am happy that the motives of this season's villains are grounded in reality instead of being stupid esoteric lore bullshit, but I wonder how it's going to be handled with only a few episodes left. Am I wrong, or didn't they say that season 3 and 4 were one overarching plot this time, instead of self contained like seasons 1 and 2? We may not see the end of the Red Lotus this season.
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DoctorWhat posted:FIREBENDING ON MOTORCYCLES!!!
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Octopode posted:Am I wrong, or didn't they say that season 3 and 4 were one overarching plot this time, instead of self contained like seasons 1 and 2? We may not see the end of the Red Lotus this season. Which is to say, I'm reasonably certain the Red Lotus will have been dealt with by the end of Book 3, but the aftermath will probably introduce the lead in to Book 4.
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Genocyber posted:What kind of cabbages do you eat? Red cabbage.
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Personally, I'm wondering if Book 4 isn't going to tie everything else together. We've already learned that Book 2 and Book 3 are connected, what if Amon was part of the Red Lotus too? Another cell, working from a different direction for the same ends?
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Genocyber posted:What kind of cabbages do you eat? Bloodbending isn't literally bending blood, it's bending the water in the blood. And cabbages are full of water.
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DoctorWhat posted:Bloodbending isn't literally bending blood, it's bending the water in the blood. And cabbages are full of water. That would be plantbending, like what the Foggy Swamp Tribe do.
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Genocyber posted:That would be plantbending, like what the Foggy Swamp Tribe do. I forgot about swampbending.
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Lessail posted:do you even watch the show computer parts posted:To be honest they're more articulate than most anarchists regarding their end game beliefs.
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RyuujinBlueZ posted:Personally, I'm wondering if Book 4 isn't going to tie everything else together. We've already learned that Book 2 and Book 3 are connected, what if Amon was part of the Red Lotus too? Another cell, working from a different direction for the same ends? I think this'll be the case. Like, Korra defeats Zaheer this book but then we find out that the Red Lotus is much bigger than it seemed and manages more of the world than you'd expect.
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RyuujinBlueZ posted:Personally, I'm wondering if Book 4 isn't going to tie everything else together. We've already learned that Book 2 and Book 3 are connected, what if Amon was part of the Red Lotus too? Another cell, working from a different direction for the same ends? Spoilers, it's a cabbage.
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RyuujinBlueZ posted:Isn't Asami actually a pretty well trained (and likely strong) martial artist? We haven't seen it in a while, but given she's traveling with the Avatar I doubt she's slacking on training.
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Aug 2, 2014 20:05
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Kegslayer posted:I'm actually hoping they'd recreate Aang's assault on Ba Sing Se but with Zaheer's team. It's been a while since we saw a massive bender battle. This would be awesome.
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hiddenriverninja posted:This would be awesome. This, except with Team Korra also invading from the other side, and with the Earth Queen in the middle. A titanic, three-way bending hullabaloo!
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DrSunshine posted:This, except with Team Korra also invading from the other side, and with the Earth Queen in the middle. A titanic, three-way bending hullabaloo! The icing on the cake would be the Earth Queen revealing that she's a King Bumi-tier Earthbender.
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My guess is that the Red Lotus wants to separate Raava from the Avatar, and tie her back together with Vaatu.
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X_Toad posted:I always got the impression that she was in the "skilled but not particularly strong" range, perhaps because she uses a weapon that can send people down in one shot and doesn't display as many acrobatics as Ty Lee. Her fights tend to be really short, she generally begins them with a sneak attack to reduce the opposition and prefers to have her opponents down very quickly. Compare with Korra, who is physically strong and prefers to hit the opposition relentlessly until their defense breaks. Asami hasn't shown as many gymnastic moves as Ty Lee, but she's still got plenty. Just in this season she managed to do a flip over a motorcycle and zap one of the riders.
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Asami's the Gadget of the group. She doesn't do much, but its nice to have her around in a jam.
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Octopode posted:Am I wrong, or didn't they say that season 3 and 4 were one overarching plot this time, instead of self contained like seasons 1 and 2? We may not see the end of the Red Lotus this season. I'm going to just put it out there: every single season of Korra, despite some weak episodes always had this promise of something amazing for the finale and then it turned into a joke. Book 1: Amon and the Equalists: Non-benders making a serious stand against the bending culture, tons of exciting philosophical potential, ends on the bullshit deus ex machina of Korra magically regaining her bending and able to cure all those who Amon blocked. Book 2: Delving deep into the spiritual world, Korra becoming conflicted in terms of who should teach her how to be the avatar, evil spirits are introduced, and the series ends with a Kaijuu fight between glowing bad guy and glowing Korra with random help from Jinora. The Korra writers may know how to lay the framework for a great story, but when it comes to resolving it they literally make up something on the spot to tie it up.
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X_Toad posted:I always got the impression that she was in the "skilled but not particularly strong" range, perhaps because she uses a weapon that can send people down in one shot and doesn't display as many acrobatics as Ty Lee. Her fights tend to be really short, she generally begins them with a sneak attack to reduce the opposition and prefers to have her opponents down very quickly. Compare with Korra, who is physically strong and prefers to hit the opposition relentlessly until their defense breaks. The shock glove wasn't always part of her style, though. She was shown in Book 1 to be pretty capable in hand-to-hand before getting the glove. Hell, I'm shocked she hasn't gotten a second one yet.
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Just bring one of those mech things around with you, in like a crate or something. Oh man, I hope she totally has one on that airship and she busts it out for the finale.
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This was a terrible episode. Exceedingly boring for the majority of its running time (i.e. until the cool fight during the final few minutes), overly talky (which isn't problem if anything that's being said is interesting, but there wasn't) and almost nothing of interest for Nickelodeon's intended audience. You can really see why they yanked the show right before this point and why this was the first ep not even getting broadcast on TV at all anymore. These writers are just hopeless. The AV Club review score for this is absolutely ridiculous and embarrassing, but that's pretty par for the course for them at this point (not just with this show but with many others as well). I'm not sure why I even read them anymore, tbh. Force of habit, I guess.
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RembrandtQEinstein posted:My guess is that the Red Lotus wants to separate Raava from the Avatar, and tie her back together with Vaatu. oh yeah that might be one of their things to do
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Babygravy posted:Why would they muzzle korra ? Has she shown ability to bend with her face like Bumi? She's used fire breath.
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Things I can't ever imagine someone in that universe saying: "Boy, I sure wish we were less careful about how we imprisoned the Avatar."
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DoctorWhat posted:She's used fire breath. Killer robot posted:Things I can't ever imagine someone in that universe saying: "Boy, I sure wish we were less careful about how we imprisoned the Avatar." Touché people.
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Babygravy posted:Touché people. And of course, more importantly, it's a striking visual shorthand for "dehumanizing restraint" and is a visual quote from one of the most influential films in decades.
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RyuujinBlueZ posted:The shock glove wasn't always part of her style, though. She was shown in Book 1 to be pretty capable in hand-to-hand before getting the glove. Hell, I'm shocked she hasn't gotten a second one yet. As for a second shock glove, I've come to the conclusion that hers is the only one that remains in the entire world. Plus, I'm not sure that it would be smart to have both arms weighted down by that thing. Hiroshi kind of didn't have a choice because he's not a physical fighter, but she does. Irish Joe posted:Asami's the Gadget of the group. She doesn't do much, but its nice to have her around in a jam.
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Are all of you forgetting that this whole season is happening because they are in her airship? She's the wallet of the group. less laughter posted:This was a terrible episode. Exceedingly boring for the majority of its running time (i.e. until the cool fight during the final few minutes), overly talky (which isn't problem if anything that's being said is interesting, but there wasn't) and almost nothing of interest for Nickelodeon's intended audience. You can really see why they yanked the show right before this point and why this was the first ep not even getting broadcast on TV at all anymore. These writers are just hopeless. As someone who's watched this show in its entirety in the last two weeks, this is probably the best episode they've ever had.
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TheModernAmerican posted:Are all of you forgetting that this whole season is happening because they are in her airship? She's the Appa?
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What Asami is, is the obvious tag-along. She really has no reason to be part of team at this point. In fact, she's CEO of one of the world's largest megacorps, so you think she'd has way more important things to do than traipse around the Earth Kingdom and take a weeks vacation in Zaofu. Honestly Asami would be way better as a supporting character. She could be the old friend who bankrolls Korra and provides her with shiny new toys, uses her connections to forward intel from Republic City, and maybe have an episode where she rolls up with a cavalry of some kind and gets a badass moment. As it stands the writers just can't seem to come up with enough for her to do onscreen as a main character, which is just wasting the character at this point.
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