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Akumos posted:I never understood why lightning bending was a fire bender thing instead of air bending.. why not give fire bending the lava bending too? Earth already has metal bending, water has blood and ice bending. Because all the airbenders were dead except one who was a pacifist. And there was only one reasonable application of lightning in TLA.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:There's a thin but significant line between putting dissenters in "re-education camps" and rounding up non-earthbenders to put in those same camps. One is typical fascism, the other is straight-up genocide. They could have had Bolin switch sides after learning about what really goes on with the re-education camps without needing to bring purification into the mix. to be fair, they went with the much more pg-rated version of just plain trying to kick them out, didn't they?
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Fire is a form of plasma and so is lightning so there's a direct link there. Also how come everyone forgets Sandbending and Swampbending? Come on guys!! Ambivalent posted:The art direction is pretty hard in the direction of Nazis. I refuse to believe it didn't get there without someone directing the artists 'A little more Nazi." Every time I see those Earth Empire banners I feel like there should be dudes saluting them all the time. That's not necessarily a Nazi thing though. e: also forgot Fartbending
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IIRC wasn't lightning bending invented by fire benders studying airbender techniques?
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Eej posted:Fire is a form of plasma and so is lightning so there's a direct link there. I thought swamp/vine bending was water-bending because you're bending the water in the vines? Or am I way off.
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LemonAIDS posted:IIRC wasn't lightning bending invented by fire benders studying airbender techniques? No, it was lightning redirection that Iroh invented, based on Waterbender forms.
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LemonAIDS posted:IIRC wasn't lightning bending invented by fire benders studying airbender techniques? waterbenders. Iron mentions that the act of conduction through the body was derived from observing the fluidity of waterbender motions.
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nutranurse posted:I thought swamp/vine bending was water-bending because you're bending the water in the vines? Or am I way off. It's water bending yeah but no one throws swampbending into "specializations of water bending". Same with sand benders for some reason even though Toph does it in the last episode she's in. I think.
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 Seeing the co-creator of a franchise that I love in no small part because of its representation of Eastern culture through a Western fantasy lens lay the smackdown on heteronormativity fills me with absolute satisfaction and joy, and I love seeing people not getting that they've been told off by a guy whose work has been a part of their life for a literal decade. Avatar is cool and good. And I'm real happy that a show that's been a paragon of ethnic and gender equality in children's media can now be admired for the significant step it's taken in the portrayal LGBT relationships. SpiderHyphenMan fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Dec 24, 2014 |
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Dec 24, 2014 00:06
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I hope that in a decade no cartoons are a major facet of my life. I hope, but I know things will play out otherwise. I'm doomed to goon it up. 
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:
I totally agree. Crying Korra camaraderie.
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Akumos posted:I never understood why lightning bending was a fire bender thing instead of air bending.. why not give fire bending the lava bending too? Earth already has metal bending, water has blood and ice bending. Fire and lightning are closely related in Eastern mythologies.
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Dec 24, 2014 00:12
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Eej posted:Yeah, reminder that the railgun is literally a Nazi superweapon.
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achillesforever6 posted:Yeah but let's be honest Nazi Wunderwaffe are the best superweapons If we're really being honest, Nazis make for the best villain because they're so clearly evil and yet still human. America longs for the day when its primary foe was an out-and-out douche like Hitler.
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nutranurse posted:If we're really being honest, Nazis make for the best villain because they're so clearly evil and yet still human. America longs for the day when its primary foe was an out-and-out douche like Hitler.
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Breadbox posted:
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nutranurse posted:I hope that in a decade no cartoons are a major facet of my life. Can't things be enjoyed without taking them too seriously though? Life kinda sucks so gotta grab the fun where ya can. Maybe it's a cartoon. Maybe it's a record collection or something.
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Ambivalent posted:The art direction is pretty hard in the direction of Nazis. I refuse to believe it didn't get there without someone directing the artists 'A little more Nazi." The military of Nationalist China also had the whole Nazi aesthetic going on, right down to the stahlhelms. Up until war broke out between Japan and China, there was actually a lot of cooperation between Germany and the ROC. So the aesthetics of Kuvira's army are still generally in keeping with the whole KMT/Northern Expedition thing they have going on.
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Captain Rufus posted:Can't things be enjoyed without taking them too seriously though? No.
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There was once an belief called catharsis that said it was good to get your emotions out in fiction. It would say that getting their rage out on fiction would be to their benefit in life. Catharsis isn't psychologically true at all and may actually make it all worse, but...uh...yeah.
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Akumos posted:I never understood why lightning bending was a fire bender thing instead of air bending.. why not give fire bending the lava bending too? Earth already has metal bending, water has blood and ice bending. one thing they could have done with korra, since all the nations were mixing together, was have hybrid bending styles and lavabending could have been from fire and earth parents. which bolin was anyway i think. or lavabending could have been a dual technique where they worked together. either would have been better than just another specialty
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I swear I have to be an alien. This poo poo just doesn't make any sense. I'd like to just say it's the internet and nerd poo poo but it's not. I work at a casino and was in the Navy. People are just awful for everything and always. You would think maybe Magical Inuit Kung Fu Lesbian Adventures in the Steampunk Roaring 20s would be a place to escape stupid but not so much. Kind of like how almost every giant robot fandom seems to be hellbent on being a bunch of miserable loving morons seemingly hellbent on making semi sane people hate it completely.  This is why weed needs to be legalized maaaaan...
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i just rewatched the first season and it was better than i remember. they really took more advantage of the setting. even with the alternate history chinese big band soundtrack i don't know if i evern want to watch season 2 with how lovely it was
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Captain Rufus posted:I swear I have to be an alien. This poo poo just doesn't make any sense. I'd like to just say it's the internet and nerd poo poo but it's not. shut up lol (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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This show has great loving music. That's been the one constant throughout*. Whenver that theme swells, goddamn. *From the really bad first season, the average second season, the surprisingly fantastic third season and the kinda eh, full-on-anime fourth season.
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ImpAtom posted:1: Mako knew how to Lightning Bend since before the series started. He learned it during his days as a street thug. He's done it throughout the series.It is how he defeated the waterbender member of the Red Lotus. I do believe Bryan or Mike mentioned that Mako learned lightning bending from Lightning Bolt Zolt (old boss of the Triple Threat Triad) specifically somewhere. ETA: Apparently, both lightning and lightning redirection from said boss. In the commentaries for the Revelation. Jorghnassen fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Dec 24, 2014 |
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The level of betrayal I felt when Bryan and Mike announced that Korrasami was canon tore something from me that I'll never be able to recover. They tore away my ability to respect anything, and they tore away my ability to feel human.
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DrSunshine posted:The level of betrayal I felt when Bryan and Mike announced that Korrasami was canon tore something from me that I'll never be able to recover. They tore away my ability to respect anything, and they tore away my ability to feel human. Usually only bad wallpaper choices does that to me.
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nutranurse posted:Usually only bad wallpaper choices does that to me.
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Covok posted:There was once an belief called catharsis that said it was good to get your emotions out in fiction. It would say that getting their rage out on fiction would be to their benefit in life. "Writing The Crow didn't help at all. I thought it would be cathartic, but as I drew each page, it made me more self-destructive, if anything. There is pure anger on each page, little murders. I was more messed up by the time I was done with the book"
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I still want a comic about Varrick and Su and their time in the circus. Possibly with appearances by some of the Red Lotus.
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Xelkelvos posted:I still want a comic about Varrick and Su and their time in the circus. Possibly with appearances by some of the Red Lotus. I'm torn between believing that Varrick's early life was incredibly eventful, and that everything we've heard about the seal hunter, farm, circus, and Mrs. Beaks was total bullshit to support his story of the moment. Possibly both at once. This doesn't mean I wouldn't love to see the comic, as narrated by him.
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Captain Rufus posted:I swear I have to be an alien. This poo poo just doesn't make any sense. I'd like to just say it's the internet and nerd poo poo but it's not. 
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DrSunshine posted:The level of betrayal I felt when Bryan and Mike announced that Korrasami was canon tore something from me that I'll never be able to recover. They tore away my ability to respect anything, and they tore away my ability to feel human. Speaking of, whatever happened to the sun guys from ATLA?
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:http://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/post/106008606112/howdy-friends-its-been-a-doozy-of-a-year-for I never noticed the few frames at the end where they were really close and their hands were clasped in that way. Yeah, they're totally in love.
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I really enjoyed Korra, every season and every episode, even if it was a bit ham-handedly written at times. Actually the first four episodes of season 2 are kinda boring, but there's some good stuff in there still. People kept saying that more Avatar stuff wasn't gonna happen because Nick has the rights and they hate it or whatever.... Would Nick lose the rights after a certain time period if they didn't utilize it? I know that happens with movies which is why we keep getting reboots like Amazing Spider-Man or X-men First Class. It has to be the same, right?
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Je suis fatigue posted:I really enjoyed Korra, every season and every episode, even if it was a bit ham-handedly written at times. Actually the first four episodes of season 2 are kinda boring, but there's some good stuff in there still. A situation where a company would lose the rights to characters they own exists only long after we're all dead. Probably not even then if Disney has its way. The Spider-Man or X-Men stuff is because Marvel owns the characters, they licensed the film rights to other studios, which is not the same thing.
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Crosspeice posted:I never noticed the few frames at the end where they were really close and their hands were clasped in that way. They're actually just really good friends, but they might be roommates soon.
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