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Augster posted:Looks like sword-bandit dude was hired: Other than the armbands, these men do not look alike. Even their hair color is different, unless that was an error.
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The Kuvira vs bandits fight was a hilariously obvious establishing moment to make her "badass", but I don't even care because it was so good.  It feels a lot more like I actual figured metal benders would fight, instead of the spindle whips they were saddled with in season one.hiddenriverninja posted:I hope Korra finds Toph and is all "OMG Toph! You were on Team Avatar, I've lost my way, what should I do with my life?" and Toph is all "Do what I did: join Earth Rumble" I doubt meeting Toph would help her. If anything, Toph would just tell Korra to stop whining so much and git gud. RottenK posted:Kuvira is very clearly shown to be the antagonist of this season, going "oh boy another benevolent leader who's gonna turn bad what a surprise Yeah this. Both this episode and the trailers have made it very clear that Kuvira is an antagonist. Also half the cast openly hates her.
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PaulDirac posted:So, is it me or do the animations look a little less fluid than they used to? I wasn't quite sure but some of the scenes didn't seem to have as many frames as they should have. Or maybe im mistaken. I legit rewatched that first color shot (where you see Tenzin and his family in the crowd) and there wasn't any motion at all, it was a single image being panned. Really hope they didn't cheap out for the last book  Sithsaber posted:Ps. Wait, Korra might turn to Zaheer for assistance. He's the only villain to not die (besides Hiroshi who is also back), this is probably happening.
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Sithsaber posted:But should she be THE antagonist? The red lotus has to be good for something. I doubt he'll be an actual villain again, but unless they're keeping him under constant sedation they can't stop Zaheer from meditating. So my guess is that Korra will probably meet him in the spirit world at some point and he'll give her advice on how to deal with Kuvira. In book 3 the primary antagonists wanted to impose absolute chaos, and now we have an antagonist who wants to impose absolute order. Considering the book title is "Balance", I'm guessing the message is that you have to aim for somewhere in the middle. Hence Zaheer helping to counteract Kuvira.
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My greatest random inconsequential wish for this season is for Opal to be the one who invents soundbending, by utilizing metalbending techniques she grew up surrounded by.PaulDirac posted:So, is it me or do the animations look a little less fluid than they used to? I wasn't quite sure but some of the scenes didn't seem to have as many frames as they should have. Or maybe im mistaken. Seemed fine to me. Gifs can be terrible at depicting fps correctly, but here are some anyway for reference. (not that the entire episode looks like that)
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^^^^^^^^ Opal inventing soundbending hadn't occurred to me at all and now I want it a lot. Maybe to break up a family fight like she did last season?
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Sydin posted:I doubt he'll be an actual villain again, but unless they're keeping him under constant sedation they can't stop Zaheer from meditating. So my guess is that Korra will probably meet him in the spirit world at some point and he'll give her advice on how to deal with Kuvira. While total war would bring renewed tyranny, it would also lead to societal chaos that could birth new technologies and ideologies. My guess is that Zaheer would view all governments equally and assume they'd make a Orwellian deal once a few million people die in "border skirmishes". This is better than simply dumping the red lotus although they could have probably handled the group better by having a few cells working in opposition to Zaheer if he went assassin's creed and offed a secretly collaborating dai li official. Or they'll say that the militant wing died in the caves, leaving only aimless moles like Unaloq and noise jewelry guy. E
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Sato posted:^^^^^^^^ Wouldn't this be a form of energybending and therefore something that only the Avatar could do?
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Rosalind posted:Wouldn't this be a form of energybending and therefore something that only the Avatar could do? Everything's energy when you think about it. If you can block chi you can probably activate particles of it that move through the environment.
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Rosalind posted:Wouldn't this be a form of energybending and therefore something that only the Avatar could do? Sound is just the vibration of molecules in a medium (particularly air).
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RottenK posted:Kuvira is very clearly shown to be the antagonist of this season, going "oh boy another benevolent leader who's gonna turn bad what a surprise Similar surprise villain reveals to Kuvira: Darth Vader, Hitler Also where was Hiroshi? I thought that was the president? MatildaTheHun fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Oct 4, 2014 |
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Rosalind posted:Wouldn't this be a form of energybending and therefore something that only the Avatar could do? Others have covered it before me, but it's just a shift change like metalbending itself was to earthbending. If what you suggest is true Aang would have invented metalbending instead of Toph. Thinking about it though, haven't Aang and Ikki amplified their voices in the past? I'm not sure if that's formal soundbending though.
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One thing I've been wanting to know is what happened to the flying bison with the broken horn Korra picked up in Book 2. Was it just a rental or what?
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Sato posted:Thinking about it though, haven't Aang and Ikki amplified their voices in the past? I'm not sure if that's formal soundbending though. I can dream.
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I'm just hoping next episode has a training montage to get Korra back in the groove. I don't which Rocky montage would work though.
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TheModernAmerican posted:Also where was Hiroshi? I thought that was the president? We know he's back from a screenshot. Not sure what episode.
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One aside I really want to see touched upon is if Rohan is a bender or not. Just a little thing I hope get explored. I hope the third episode is the Team Avatar reunion, hopefully things aren't too strange between them.
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TheModernAmerican posted:Also where was Hiroshi? I thought that was the president? Hiroshi Sato is Asami's dad, former president of Future Industries and bad guy from season 1. The president of Republic City is President Raiko.
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Apparently my local cable company pissed off Viacom so now I get this when I try to watch the episode: I don't even have cable with them is the sad part (although I have internet but I'm guessing it's a geographic block).
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computer parts posted:Apparently my local cable company pissed off Viacom so now I get this when I try to watch the episode: Have you tried Hola? That might work.
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computer parts posted:Apparently my local cable company pissed off Viacom so now I get this when I try to watch the episode: I got a message like this a few times, just refresh it a bunch. The episode is on other sites now too if that fails.
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computer parts posted:Apparently my local cable company pissed off Viacom so now I get this when I try to watch the episode: Such a diplomatic way of saying "we demanded more money from your cable company and they told us to gently caress off. So we took our ball and went home."
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I look forward to Mako just being exasperated about everything over the next two months. Buy the game, it comes out October 21.
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Superstring posted:Hiroshi Sato is Asami's dad, former president of Future Industries and bad guy from season 1. The president of Republic City is President Raiko. I am aware, but I was running through my memory of the episode and the only middle aged man I remembered was the president.
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Christ, this thread. Once again I am very, very glad none of you are anywhere near this show's writing room.
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hiddenriverninja posted:Buy the game, it comes out October 21. Dont care about story, need playable probending in my life.
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Harold Cooplowski posted:Dont care about story, need playable probending in my life. I wish they did a 3 on 3 online component with 3 players on each side. I'm still getting it, though.
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AmiYumi posted:Christ, this thread. Once again I am very, very glad none of you are anywhere near this show's writing room. I don't know, I feel like the show would be a lot better if it explored moral grey areas, like "What if fascism was right?"
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AmiYumi posted:Christ, this thread. Once again I am very, very glad none of you are anywhere near this show's writing room. Hey now, we made it almost 10 pages before fanfic bending showed up! I think. Also if there's anything the first two seasons of this show taught us, it's that this show absolutely shouldn't try to play in grey areas because these guys are not good at it. Oh Snapple! fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Oct 4, 2014 |
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Gnome de plume posted:One thing I've been wanting to know is what happened to the flying bison with the broken horn Korra picked up in Book 2. Was it just a rental or what? I've wondered about that as well. Plus the female Fire Sage seemed so happy to be able to present the Avatar with her own flying bison. They had like, and entire herd of them, but by the time Book 3 came along all the airbenders were like 'welp, guess we have to befriend some wild bison'.
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Gnome de plume posted:One thing I've been wanting to know is what happened to the flying bison with the broken horn Korra picked up in Book 2. Was it just a rental or what? King of Foolians posted:I've wondered about that as well. Plus the female Fire Sage seemed so happy to be able to present the Avatar with her own flying bison. They had like, and entire herd of them, but by the time Book 3 came along all the airbenders were like 'welp, guess we have to befriend some wild bison'. I thought the one with the broken horn was Lefty, the Bison that Kai and Opal were riding in this episode.
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I have avoided the previews, but I am guessing Toph will train someone, Korra or Lin I guess, to "see" the way Toph can, through vibrations. Then when Kuvira uses her flying metal slap bracelets to blind them, they'll beat her through the power of unexpected feet-seeing. I hope this time Bolin figures out for himself that the seemingly awesome person he's teamed up with is bad.
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Metropolis posted:I have avoided the previews, but I am guessing Toph will train someone, Korra or Lin I guess, to "see" the way Toph can, through vibrations. Then when Kuvira uses her flying metal slap bracelets to blind them, they'll beat her through the power of unexpected feet-seeing. AmiYumi posted:Christ, this thread. Once again I am very, very glad none of you are anywhere near this show's writing room.
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Metropolis posted:I have avoided the previews, but I am guessing Toph will train someone, Korra or Lin I guess, to "see" the way Toph can, through vibrations. Then when Kuvira uses her flying metal slap bracelets to blind them, they'll beat her through the power of unexpected feet-seeing. Lin can already do that, we've seen her do it repeatedly. At least once a season, I want to say. If anything's going to come into play against Kuvira it's going to be Korra's ability to Metalbend, not another new power.
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Rincewind posted:I don't know, I feel like the show would be a lot better if it explored moral grey areas, like "What if fascism was right?" Napoleon was better than the ancien regime.
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Rincewind posted:I don't know, I feel like the show would be a lot better if it explored moral grey areas, like "What if fascism was right?" 
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