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Highest Cactus posted:I forgot how pants-on-head retarded Amon went for that scene. For a guy wanting to hide his waterbending, that's the worst way to save himself. Dude just got schooled and is drowning. He's probably not thinking about keeping his identity hidden at that point.
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Highest Cactus posted:I forgot how pants-on-head retarded Amon went for that scene. For a guy wanting to hide his waterbending, that's the worst way to save himself. The implication was supposed to be that Amon was knocked unconscious and that when he woke up drowning, his reflexes kicked in and he bended himself to safety instinctively. It's the exact same thing Aang did in episode two of AtLA when he was knocked off Zuko's ship, water tornado and all.
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Aug 6, 2014 01:25
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I'd hope one day the creators would give us an official time line with a brief bio of each avatar. I'd imagine out of all of them there had to have been one or two that abused their power, or were just not good.
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Aug 6, 2014 02:45
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Vintimus Prime posted:I'd hope one day the creators would give us an official time line with a brief bio of each avatar. I'd imagine out of all of them there had to have been one or two that abused their power, or were just not good. Well what else are you supposed to do if you're an Avatar born into a time of relative peace and understanding? You're supposed to bring on the balance, after all. 
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Aug 6, 2014 05:12
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fount of knowledge posted:Well what else are you supposed to do if you're an Avatar born into a time of relative peace and understanding? You're supposed to bring on the balance, after all. I always figured in times of peace most of them did something liked helped with farming or something. Firebend to clear the fields, earth to plow, air to spread the seeds, water to irrigate. That, leading negotiations, and calming/protecting the great spirits that remained. but yeah, knowing what most of them did would be cool
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Aug 6, 2014 05:28
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Sydin posted:The implication was supposed to be that Amon was knocked unconscious and that when he woke up drowning, his reflexes kicked in and he bended himself to safety instinctively. It's the exact same thing Aang did in episode two of AtLA when he was knocked off Zuko's ship, water tornado and all. I got that and I don't even remember that scene. Ah, callbacks.
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Aug 6, 2014 05:47
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fount of knowledge posted:Well what else are you supposed to do if you're an Avatar born into a time of relative peace and understanding? You're supposed to bring on the balance, after all. You go surfing, obviously. That's what Kuruk did.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:08
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DrSunshine posted:You go surfing, obviously. That's what Kuruk did. Yeah, but he was slacking, he should have been taking out the evil spirit that steals peoples' faces.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:21
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Vintimus Prime posted:I'd hope one day the creators would give us an official time line with a brief bio of each avatar. I'd imagine out of all of them there had to have been one or two that abused their power, or were just not good. As it is, they can go anywhere and do anything with the hundreds of past avatars at their disposal; probably best not to throw that kind of creative freedom away with canonic (canonical?) trading cards establishing characters, places and events they'd be forced to follow and integrate on any future Avatar project.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:26
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Highest Cactus posted:I forgot how pants-on-head retarded Amon went for that scene. For a guy wanting to hide his waterbending, that's the worst way to save himself. i get what they're trying to do, but it would've been more interesting if korra avatar stated to compel his bending or something i dunno. the rest of that scene is cock solid, especially the marionette twisting blood bending. wish there had been more of that.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:29
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FamDav posted:i get what they're trying to do, but it would've been more interesting if korra avatar stated to compel his bending or something i dunno. Infinite cock solid marionette bending comin' up: 
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Aug 6, 2014 06:33
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Really, the greatest disappointment of S1's finale was not taking the opportunity to throw in Bloodbending Thriller at some point.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:55
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Mymla posted:What thexerox said, basicly. It would be strange if everything did cater to my tastes, but it would also be pretty great! Sounds like the premise of Avatar fan fiction. Dark, dark territory.
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Aug 6, 2014 09:29
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fount of knowledge posted:Well what else are you supposed to do if you're an Avatar born into a time of relative peace and understanding? You're supposed to bring on the balance, after all. That's why I always thought the Jedi were dipshits in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. "He will bring balance to the Force!" "Well, what's the current state of the Force?" "Well, there's thousands of Jedi, and only two Sith." "...are we sure we want that equation balanced?"
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Aug 6, 2014 12:19
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kazmeyer posted:That's why I always thought the Jedi were dipshits in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Balance doesn't only mean "there are equal amounts." It is also possible for something to be unbalanced by having corrupted elements. That is in fact the way Star Wars uses it.
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Aug 6, 2014 12:39
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ImpAtom posted:Balance doesn't only mean "there are equal amounts." It is also possible for something to be unbalanced by having corrupted elements. That is in fact the way Star Wars uses it. There was a comic where Mace argues with Yoda about exactly this. I thought it was kind of dumb, especially since he dumps out salt and pepper as a visual aid and Yoda isn't given any convincing argument to support the opposing position.
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ImpAtom posted:Balance doesn't only mean "there are equal amounts." It is also possible for something to be unbalanced by having corrupted elements. That is in fact the way Star Wars uses it. The irony (semi intentional?) is that Luke brings balance to the Force in both ways - he physically destroys all of the Jedi & Sith, and he's also merged their techniques to remove the corruption of both. (The corruption of the Sith being self evident and the corruption of the Jedi being the past Avatars style of "oh yeah you totally need to murder your enemy")
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Aug 6, 2014 16:21
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Potsticker posted:There was a comic where Mace argues with Yoda about exactly this. I thought it was kind of dumb, especially since he dumps out salt and pepper as a visual aid and Yoda isn't given any convincing argument to support the opposing position. There's a lot of Star Wars EU stuff that clings desperately to the "maybe the Force is shades of grey?!" stuff because they want to write about Jedi who use force lightning and do morally questionable things, despite the fact this doesn't really fit with the setting as presented. It's kind of the same problem that a lot of Avatar fanwankery seems to run into where the actual setting is really super optimistic. It's the kind of setting where redemption is possible, pacifism is a valid choice, and while it has a lot of cool abilities and amazing skills, the most powerful thing one can do is choose not to use those when the time is right. A "more mature" Avatar wouldn't be one where people vacuum bend their lungs out, it would be more spiritual and philosophical than it already is and, if anything, would probably have less kung-fu battles and more people discussing and arguing their philosophies. A lot of lovely writers seem to fall for the trap of assuming that more mature means "more violent and more morally ambiguous" as opposed to actually fitting the tone of whatever they're trying to mature up.
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Aug 6, 2014 16:40
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ImpAtom posted:There's a lot of Star Wars EU stuff that clings desperately to the "maybe the Force is shades of grey?!" stuff because they want to write about Jedi who use force lightning and do morally questionable things, despite the fact this doesn't really fit with the setting as presented. I can see it now, the master airbenders sitting around for days discussing details about philosophies, ways of life and meditating on the future.. Air nomads sound like they should be a very scholarly nation..
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Mature Avatar World: Set 70 years after the events of LoK, the new Avatar is the Secretary-General of the World Council. As the curtain draws on a new age, the Avatar is called upon to negotiate a trade dispute between the Earth Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Fire Nation, while skillfully making concessions concerning certain border provinces to draw in the Water Nations and the fledgling Air Republic.
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DrSunshine posted:Mature Avatar World: Set 70 years after the events of LoK, the new Avatar is the Secretary-General of the World Council. As the curtain draws on a new age, the Avatar is called upon to negotiate a trade dispute between the Earth Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Fire Nation, while skillfully making concessions concerning certain border provinces to draw in the Water Nations and the fledgling Air Republic. I'd watch it.
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Aug 6, 2014 17:06
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DrSunshine posted:Mature Avatar World: Set 70 years after the events of LoK, the new Avatar is the Secretary-General of the World Council. As the curtain draws on a new age, the Avatar is called upon to negotiate a trade dispute between the Earth Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Fire Nation, while skillfully making concessions concerning certain border provinces to draw in the Water Nations and the fledgling Air Republic. Political thriller with superpowers was 2 of the big movies of the summer, so yeah you could probably make it fly.
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Episode 6: In midst of the third week of round-table discussions, talks are at an impasse with both sides puffing hot air and grandstanding with no end to the debate in sight, when all of a sudden, an Equalist hacker group leaks diplomatic cables tying high-level cabinet members of both the Earth Republic and the Fire Nation to certain powerful corporate lobbyist groups. How will the Avatar face the upcoming press conference???
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DrSunshine posted:the Democratic Republic of the Fire Nation
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Aug 6, 2014 17:14
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The Avatar is gifted Truthbending in the zero hour!
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DrSunshine posted:Mature Avatar World: Set 70 years after the events of LoK, the new Avatar is the Secretary-General of the World Council. As the curtain draws on a new age, the Avatar is called upon to negotiate a trade dispute between the Earth Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Fire Nation, while skillfully making concessions concerning certain border provinces to draw in the Water Nations and the fledgling Air Republic. Unless LoK has a timeskip at the end the avatar would still likely be Korra, or a young kid if it were just 70 years from now, so maybe 140 years later? Either way I'd still watch this too, yeah.
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The premise does not leave much space for people who can kick the ground so hard that can make rocks fly or making fireballs using sweet kung fu moves, would definitely not watch. Am I the only person who enjoys the show as a western take on Wuxia?
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Aug 6, 2014 17:34
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Only the Avatar can master all four ideologies and bring balance to the government.
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Aug 6, 2014 18:26
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Mymla posted:Monarchy. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Only the Avatar can master all four ideologies and bring balance to the government. Fixed that for you.
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ImpAtom posted:There's a lot of Star Wars EU stuff that clings desperately to the "maybe the Force is shades of grey?!" stuff because they want to write about Jedi who use force lightning and do morally questionable things, despite the fact this doesn't really fit with the setting as presented.
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DrSunshine posted:Mature Avatar World: Set 70 years after the events of LoK, the new Avatar is the Secretary-General of the World Council. As the curtain draws on a new age, the Avatar is called upon to negotiate a trade dispute between the Earth Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Fire Nation, while skillfully making concessions concerning certain border provinces to draw in the Water Nations and the fledgling Air Republic. I'd watch the crap out of this.
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I'd like to see a ten thousand year time skip to the next harmonic convergence and the scifi civilization that'll have to deal with that.
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Level Slide posted:I'd like to see a ten thousand year time skip to the next harmonic convergence and the scifi civilization that'll have to deal with that. I don't believe the setting would work as well in the modern day, and honestly LoK is probably pushing about as close as it can get, but a sci-fi Avatar? Yes, please.
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Level Slide posted:I'd like to see a ten thousand year time skip to the next harmonic convergence and the scifi civilization that'll have to deal with that. They already made Pacific Rim.
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uMMMmmm speaking of more violent forms of bending... BIG SPOILER GIF posted on Nick's own website.  "Instead of offering her a breathe mint, Zaheer decides to get to the root of the Earth Queen's problem." r u SRS Nick.com
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BrianWilly posted:uMMMmmm speaking of more violent forms of bending... ahahahahahhahahhah they actually did it holy poo poo
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DoctorWhat posted:ahahahahahhahahhah they actually did it holy poo poo  Oh my god, Bryke&Mike, we were all joking about the GRIMDARK lungbending poo poo, we didn't mean for you to actually do it 
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DrSunshine posted:
tvtropes won years ago, hence all the shipping bullshit in the first two books. Now it's metastasized, no longer mere slashfiction - it's fanwank given form. nothing remains
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DoctorWhat posted:
Beware that, when you stare into the Fandom, the Fandom stares back and then awkwardly tries to wink. Though I am curious now, do Online shows have the same ratings/restrictions placed on them? I know this season is already done and I'm sure the majority of the work on Season 4 is already set in stone, but I'm wondering they are going to try to court an older crowd in due time. I prefer the Young Adult rating myself and I doubt Nick will let anything too graphic/adult go out with its logo plastered upon it, but who knows after Season 4?
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