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Meelo was annoying. Especially with the food thing. Hopefully next episode is better.
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I don't mind them fixing Korra so quick. I just wish the cause of her being fixed made more sense. Maybe I'm just dim but I don't see what happened to make her all better now.
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Oct 24, 2014 19:40
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Neo_Crimson posted:Seriously, the kids weren't that bad. I found that one dumb guard obsessed with macaroons to be more obnoxious than Meelo. Macaroons own tbh so I let that slide.
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Oct 24, 2014 19:42
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theblackw0lf posted:I don't mind them fixing Korra so quick. I just wish the cause of her being fixed made more sense. Maybe I'm just dim but I don't see what happened to make her all better now.
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Oct 24, 2014 19:53
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Baron Bifford posted:This is what I've been saying. Toph did help Korra by at least pointing that she still had some mercury in her, but then she tells Korra she has to get over her PTSD and remove it herself. I guess Toph had no sedatives on her. Because the actual problem wasn't the metal you dumb dumb.
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Oct 24, 2014 19:55
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Neo_Crimson posted:Seriously, the kids weren't that bad. I found that one dumb guard obsessed with macaroons to be more obnoxious than Meelo. No. He was great. You're wrong and evil.  theblackw0lf posted:I don't mind them fixing Korra so quick. I just wish the cause of her being fixed made more sense. Maybe I'm just dim but I don't see what happened to make her all better now. I think the point was that Korra was still hanging on to her past battles, because they hurt her deeply (and personally). Because she couldn't overcome the pain and loss from those fights, she also couldn't purge the poison from her body. It's basically a metaphor becoming real. And since this is Avatar, the well-being of the body is directly linked to spirituality and whatnot - so obviously Korra couldn't become better until she overcame her past... Or something. Short version: Korra found out why she couldn't let go of her trauma (doubt, balance, they had a point etc.), so she got the resolve to fix the
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Oct 24, 2014 19:56
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I wouldn't even say that they fixed Korra that quick, she's been on this journey of self discovery for what 3 years?
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Oct 24, 2014 20:02
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Torquemadras posted:No. He was great. You're wrong and evil. Well yea I got that. I just don't see how she overcame her past.
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Oct 24, 2014 20:08
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Jesus Christ this thread hates fun. I hope to god none of you ever actually have kids. 
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Oct 24, 2014 20:20
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hiddenriverninja posted:The kids are know-it-alls, especially Jinora. And maybe it's just the way I grew up (I'm Asian), but I feel like they come off as rude when they address elders by just their name. Korra, whatever, but I feel like should have at least called Toph "Auntie Toph". Kids should be as rude to "elders" as they like IMHO, preferably as rude as possible. The vast majority of "elders" are garbage.
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Oct 24, 2014 20:36
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I expect kids to be as polite to adults as I have to be.
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hiddenriverninja posted:The kids are know-it-alls, especially Jinora. And maybe it's just the way I grew up (I'm Asian), but I feel like they come off as rude when they address elders by just their name. Korra, whatever, but I feel like should have at least called Toph "Auntie Toph". You probably shouldn't expect children in a fictional universe to ascribe to arbitrary cultural norms.
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Spergatory posted:Jesus Christ this thread hates fun. I hope to god none of you ever actually have kids. There is nothing fun about Meelo.  Jinora and Ikki are fine and normal and I have no problem with them (except Jinora at her most grating in the last two seasons).
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hiddenriverninja posted:The kids are know-it-alls, especially Jinora. And maybe it's just the way I grew up (I'm Asian), but I feel like they come off as rude when they address elders by just their name. Korra, whatever, but I feel like should have at least called Toph "Auntie Toph". Did you have this same expectation of Aang and the rest of the Avatar protagonists? They're the same age.
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Oct 24, 2014 20:45
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ImpAtom posted:Did you have this same expectation of Aang and the rest of the Avatar protagonists? They're the same age. I wanna say that I did, but it's been a while since I saw TLA.
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hiddenriverninja posted:I wanna say that I did, but it's been a while since I saw TLA. I doubt Toph gives a poo poo about respecting your elders now that she is one.
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Oct 24, 2014 21:05
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The kids weren't just poorly written, but badly voice acted, and not funny. They are a failure of characterization from their core to their visual design. The less time spent on them the better. If I pause the episode 4 minutes in because it is too awkward to move on, somewhere, someone has failed.
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Oct 24, 2014 21:08
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I watched through 3 seasons of little kids when I watched AtLA. I didn't really like Aang's voice actor but it didn't bother me that much because most of the time he wasn't insufferable and obnoxious. I can't stand the kids in this show because they're annoying, not because they act like kids.
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Oct 24, 2014 21:12
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Is that the general opinion people have? I thought the kids were fine. They seemed like kids.
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TheModernAmerican posted:The kids weren't just poorly written, but badly voice acted, and not funny. They are a failure of characterization from their core to their visual design. The less time spent on them the better. You have dumb opinions please leave tia
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Read posted:Is that the general opinion people have? I thought the kids were fine. They seemed like kids. I don't think they're a complete failure or anything, but I do think they're best in moderation. They can't sustain an episode on their own.
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Oct 24, 2014 21:20
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Yea finally watched the episode and it was fine - nothing in it as grating as Bolin bird calls and  sock.
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Oct 24, 2014 21:23
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I think the show is too fond of jumping between characters as an excuse for avoiding developing the main character(s). I don't mind it in theory, but this is the last season, and the show still struggle with its main characters. I could totally see an interesting arc around the kids, if only we had more seasons ahead of us, but we don't.
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Oct 24, 2014 21:43
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The kids were fine, holy poo poo. Like, Meelo was annoying sometimes but  deal with it.Buncha crazy farts itt raging about cartoon children.
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hiddenriverninja posted:I wanna say that I did, but it's been a while since I saw TLA. The characters in TLA did not show reverence and deference to elders as a default. They did when it came to their masters or certain wise respected characters but there was a lot of casualness (or outright sassiness) from Katara, Sokka, Zuko and especially Toph. (Aang was pretty polite to most people.)
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Oct 24, 2014 21:54
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ImpAtom posted:(Aang was pretty polite to most people.) Flameo, Hotman.
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Oct 24, 2014 21:56
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My favorite episode of Avatar was when Sokka farted on Zuko while Katara pestered Aang for twenty minutes.
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Deakul posted:I wouldn't even say that they fixed Korra that quick, she's been on this journey of self discovery for what 3 years? So like real life, Korra's recovery wasn't straight uphill. There were a lot of stops and starts and a lot of parts where she thought she was better but she'd really just hit a wall and she needed something to happen to her to get past it. I'm surprised they spent so long on it, what with the guy at the AV Club complaining about it taking too long and cutting down on the action. I thought it was a pretty dynamic depiction of PTSD.
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Didn't mind the kids too much. Meelo seems to be going through the same thing that Sokka went through, when he and Katara left on their adventure with Aang. He's just young, obnoxious, and obsessed with being, A MAN. Without understanding. He's desperate to prove himself, after being sheltered for so long as one of the few airbenders left, and on his first real excursion out into the world, he's forced to go with his sisters. It's annoying, a small bit understandable, but still annoying. Of course, with Sokka, Katara and Toph made him suffer for his stupidity. So, maybe Korra'll thump some sense into him, as she greatly respects Jinora. Or just seeing Korra and Kuvira battle, could be his wake up call, at least, I hope.
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Nude Bog Lurker posted:My favorite episode of Avatar was when Sokka farted on Zuko while Katara pestered Aang for twenty minutes. My favorite is the one where Toph burped a lot and picked gross stuff out of her feet!
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Oct 24, 2014 22:06
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AV Club review is up. The writer shares my growing impatience for the lack of fight scenes this season. Seriously, we've gone from action-tastic season 3 to this? This is where I say, for maybe the eighth time, that they should have just let the Red Lotus survive for one final season.
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If you want action scenes that are there for the sake of being action beats rather than serving a purpose in the story and having the weight of buildup and tension behind them, I suggest you look to a more episodic series. That conversation between Su and Kuvira last episode was way more exciting to me then, say, the Kya vs. Zaheer fight last season (the one on the island, not the Air Temple). Will agree that this episode felt like a backslide in quality, though. But the answer is definitely not "MORE ACTION!" The answer is tighter writing and, in the case of Meelo and Jinora, voice acting. Also Raiko said at the end of Season 3 "Who knows how many Red Lotus members are still out there" which is right up there with "Toph went off in search of enlightenment and no one knows where she is" in terms of obvious foreshadowing. And since we got no mention of there being any success finding them over the past three years, I would be shocked if they don't come back. SpiderHyphenMan fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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Oct 24, 2014 22:36
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Oh, she got fixed already. Well drat, I guess that the mercury was pretty much the only problem. I was expecting her Avatar State version of herself to be a much bigger problem in the series but oh well.
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dj_clawson posted:So like real life, Korra's recovery wasn't straight uphill. There were a lot of stops and starts and a lot of parts where she thought she was better but she'd really just hit a wall and she needed something to happen to her to get past it. I'm surprised they spent so long on it, what with the guy at the AV Club complaining about it taking too long and cutting down on the action. I thought it was a pretty dynamic depiction of PTSD. Yeah, I've been loving this season. Especially how relatively low key it's been, it's just the pieces getting put into position for poo poo to hit the fan.
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Sato posted:I hope so too, though you're forgetting Hiroshi, who has been confirmed for this season I'm assuming both he and Zaheer will return, along with somebody associated with season 2's plot (Varrik I guess?) and Korra will have a confrontation with an artifact of each of the previous villain plotlines. Each of them can represent how Kuvira stands at the opposite extreme of each of the previous villain's agendas: threatening equality with her conquest, the spirit/human balance with her abuse of spirits for technology, and freedom via fascism.
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Sounds like poo poo hits the fan next episode - Kuvira attacks Zaofu? Going by the dialogue in this one and the last.
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RareAcumen posted:Oh, she got fixed already. Well drat, I guess that the mercury was pretty much the only problem. I was expecting her Avatar State version of herself to be a much bigger problem in the series but oh well. During the last thread when people were talking about how Korra was so much weaker than Aang since she had so much trouble taking out Zaheer even in the Avatar State, I said this: I posted:I think you vastly underestimate the advantage that not being confined by gravity gives you in a fight with projectiles. And there's a deeper, thematic level that a lot of people are ignoring here. It's gonna be legendary.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:good post Good post. I'm excited for Korra to get her Avatar on.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:It's gonna be legendary. Y'know, just gonna throw this out there, but I think you make pretty good posts. Keep doin' that. So, who else hopes for another giant collaborative airbending effort to take down this season's big bad, only this time with Meelo and fartbending? Nobody? I'm sorry
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