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Wildeyes posted:But I also really wish they had gone with the spooky spirit possession in some non-clichéd way. Something like that would have probably given us plenty more to talk about and think about than this finale will. Wildeyes posted:I think Book 1's finale might be fine if you binge-watched the season. But fans had way too much time to speculate on Amon's motives and how he could take bending away (I heard some wacky poo poo, like he was Koh the Face Stealer or some lost Avatar), so the answer ended up being pretty disappointing. That must be something you have a problem with. You wish they had "gone with the spooky spirit possession" as if that was a concept even hinted at by the show, instead of something that was entirely speculation based off a hoaxed quote. Why would they have gone with that?
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Wildeyes posted:Didn't they explain it as platinum lacking the impurities that metalbenders need to metalbend? None of what you said was in the show. They just said "You won't get out, unless the metal clan taught you a way to bend platinum." It's vague enough to mean that either there currently exists no way to bend platinum or there is a method, but it is too advanced and specialized for Korra to learn so early in her metal bending training.
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Ravane posted:None of what you said was in the show. They just said "You won't get out, unless the metal clan taught you a way to bend platinum." It's vague enough to mean that either there currently exists no way to bend platinum or there is a method, but it is too advanced and specialized for Korra to learn so early in her metal bending training.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:It was over two years ago (WOW!) but no, Book One made it clear that not even someone of Toph or Lin's skill can bend solid platinum. Maybe Toph will find a way to levitate platinum by listening to guru laghima.
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I loving loved this shot. It's one of the only points in the ending where Korra looks kind of happy. Even if it didn't last long, her adoptive little siblings cheered her up. 
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FourLeaf posted:Why are there always so many creepy idiots in the Korra threads. Do you remember that person who said the show was clearly showing hentai and tentacle rape influences after the season 2 premiere? it was
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korra looksl ike tomoko kuroki
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Whoever was asking what they should get as their Avatar avatar should get this with a quote from the end of True Detective
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Well, holy poo poo. That made up for the lovely season 2 and brought me right back in. Major improvement in all aspects of the show. I hope to see the same quality in Book 4. achillesforever6 posted:Can I also say the music during the action scenes was amazing, that actually made me even more engrossed listening in the episodes. I am so hype for the Korra Platinum game. I think the first time I heard that news, I thought it was too good to be true until I saw the alpha footage. I hope they at least add DLCs (like boss fights against notable villains in the series) or make a sequel to it when it succeeds.
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uncleKitchener posted:when it succeeds. ahahahhahah I'm so sorry.
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uncleKitchener posted:when it succeeds. It's a Platinum game. This won't happen.
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what is a platinum game
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raspy trashfucker posted:what is a platinum game A very very good game that no one will buy.
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raspy trashfucker posted:what is a platinum game A game that not even the strongest metalbender can move.
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Goddammit guys, let me be hopeful about a Platinum game for once. I still play Vanquish once a month 
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holy poo poo the viewtiful joe/bayonetta guys are making a korra game? it's gonna look really good
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Now that I've gone back and listened to it again, that music during Jinora's ceremony was downright beautiful.raspy trashfucker posted:what is a platinum game [Insert joke about how platinum games tend to have poor sales records despite their history of quality here.]
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Holy poo poo, they actually managed to stick the landing this time. Best season since Last Airbender S2, fo' sho'.
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raspy trashfucker posted:what is a platinum game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mALkd3DG6HA achillesforever6 fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Aug 23, 2014 |
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Zaheer posted:So we lucky few, this band of brothers and sisters in anarchy are witnessing the beginning of an era of true freedom. Together, we will forge a world without kings and queens. King Henry V posted:We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; I like how this parallel sort of points out how Zaheer and the Red Lotus have inconsistent beliefs. Like how they're constantly restraining other people (a necessity, but apparently against their ethos) and how P'Li was rescued from being a warlord's killing machine to being... Zaheer's killing machine.
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That was a good last few episodes. Early part of the season was pretty weak but once the Red Lotus got going it was good.
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Jinora looked so much like Aang during her induction that I'm expecting her to grow a goatee when she gets older.
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This was probably the best season of Avatar ever, or very close to it. It was really, really excellent and fired on all cylinders.
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What a crazy improvement for this show. I wonder what changed in the development of this show to make it improve so much over season 1 and 2. I guess they listened to feedback about those seasons. The most underrated part of this season was the new "fighting" music used throughout this season. Does anyone know what that song is called? It was used in pretty much every episode that had a fight.
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So It Goes posted:What a crazy improvement for this show. I wonder what changed in the development of this show to make it improve so much over season 1 and 2. I guess they listened to feedback about those seasons. I'd imagine part of it was that Book 2 was already too far along in production for them to really make any major changes by the time the criticisms of Book 1 started up in earnest. Hence us getting more love triangle stuff in 2, while 3 (aside from briefly cropping up in the first episode when Korra and Asami are just cruising through the city) had virtually none of it.
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So It Goes posted:What a crazy improvement for this show. I wonder what changed in the development of this show to make it improve so much over season 1 and 2. I guess they listened to feedback about those seasons.
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^The original series writers (TIm Hedrick and Joshua Hamilton) came back in Book 2. I'm gonna break down how I feel about Korra book by book. Book 1: AN ambitious experiment that ultimately worked despite some real flaws, until the last seven minutes saw everything crashing down. Book 2: Six episodes of meandering and character defiling sludge ranging from aggressively mediocre to outright awful (except for Varrick), followed by two of the greatest episodes in the franchise and a salvage operation that, while more than a little fan-fictiony, allowed the season to end on an intriguing high note. Book 3: If you didn't love or at least really, really like this book, but you love A:TLA, I ask you to watch the original series again with the same critical eye.
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Silynt posted:That must be something you have a problem with. You wish they had "gone with the spooky spirit possession" as if that was a concept even hinted at by the show, instead of something that was entirely speculation based off a hoaxed quote. Why would they have gone with that? Uh, I didn't know it was a hoaxed quote at the time I was imagining what they'd do with the finale? And Zaheer quoted the phrase "enter the void," which was also the name of an episode. Like most people, I thought it sounded ominous and wasn't expecting it to be about flying around like Superman Wildeyes fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Aug 23, 2014 |
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The only thing I regret is that Katara wasn't even there for her grand daughter's air master ceremony and that Toph didn't show up. I really hoped for her to make an appearance the way they left her as just walking off into the sunset and has not been seen since. With Old man Zuko there, it would have been interesting to see the surviving old school group stand together. Book 4 better have some mother loving Fire Nation in it since we have seen so little of that. As well as Iroh-man again.
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Jack Skeleton posted:As well as Iroh-man again. There's no way they're not planning on paying off the fact that Zuko now knows that Iroh is in the spirit world.
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I keep waiting for the Face Stealer to be the big bad of a season like I'm waiting to go to the fireworks factory (I thought he would be season 3's with the Spirit World open.) Still, amazing season all around. Definitely far and away the best of Korra's run.
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E the Shaggy posted:I keep waiting for the Face Stealer to be the big bad of a season like I'm waiting to go to the fireworks factory (I thought he would be season 3's with the Spirit World open.) Have you read the comics? You should, if you haven't! Not that Koh himself comes back, but... he's relevant to one of them.
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Wildeyes posted:Uh, I didn't know it was a hoaxed quote at the time I was imagining what they'd do with the finale? Well then you're pretty lovely at critical thinking. The phrase is a quote from his idol who explicitly (albeit borderline mythically) could fly; obviously the void he was going to enter was the sky. Flight has clearly been his goal since like episode 2. And not knowing it was a hoax excuses hypothesizing before the show aired, but it doesn't excuse complaining after the fact that they went a different direction than your theory.
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Silynt posted:Well then you're pretty lovely at critical thinking. The phrase is a quote from his idol who explicitly (albeit borderline mythically) could fly; obviously the void he was going to enter was the sky. Flight has clearly been his goal since like episode 2. If there's one things I've learned from watching live reaction videos for anime (don't do this) it's that the adults who watch these shows lack the ability to think critically.
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Silynt posted:Well then you're pretty lovely at critical thinking. The phrase is a quote from his idol who explicitly (albeit borderline mythically) could fly; obviously the void he was going to enter was the sky. Flight has clearly been his goal since like episode 2. I'm sorry, do you have a problem with me? I'm not the only person who was expecting "enter the void" to be about something else. Why don't you go exercise your own hot critical thinking skills and go re-read what I typed? At no point did I suggest the hoax quote was legit, or that the creators set up the spirit possession thing to happen. All I said was that I kind of wished that the quote hadn't been a hoax, and that something non-cliched had happened that was related to the passage, instead of the villain plan we got. I'm not holding the creators to poo poo. We're in here discussing a kids' show. Don't you have more important things to save your anger for?
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I think the thing that strikes me most looking back at this season is how completely full of poo poo Zaheer was. I mean—he was completely sincere in his own beliefs and faithful to his four-man band, but for a supposed spiritual leader, every interaction he has with someone outside the Red Lotus is an exercise in bullshit and deceit. He never deals honestly with anybody outside of his fan club.
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thexerox123 posted:There's no way they're not planning on paying off the fact that Zuko now knows that Iroh is in the spirit world. I was talking about Zuko's grandson. but yeah, I want to see Zuko and old man Iroh back again. It would bring great honor to this show.
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Jack Skeleton posted:I was talking about Zuko's grandson. but yeah, I want to see Zuko and old man Iroh back again. It would bring great honor to this show. Oh! Right, Iroh-Man, that makes more sense. Haha. Hopefully we get a decent amount of Zuko and his family next season.
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Bryan Konietzko's tumblr posted:
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"The bumpy ride in Book 2"...I haven't really paid much attention to the creators' media comments. Do they acknowledge that fans had a lot of complaints about Book 2? It kind of surprises me how much I've forgotten about Book 2. I sort of remember the big spiritzilla battle, the fact that relationship drama was a thing, and the fact that it was the season Varrick showed up, but everything else is a blur.
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