|
Since we're on the topic of Hanna-Barbera, bought the Blu-Ray set for Jonny Quest and man they did a great job with it, very crisp image quality, really lets you appreciate how gorgeous the art and design work is, and even the comparatively limited animation looks good because of it
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2022 09:39
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 15, 2024 05:59 |
|
|
TwoPair posted:Pass. I know Korra got better with time but I'd much rather just have Avatar be lightning in a bottle than trying to expand it Star Wars-style into a big universe/ timeline where everybody is related to one another and every important figure in history is only like 3 degrees of separation away from one another.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2022 17:34
|
|
|
Easier to ignore ancillary Avatar stuff than Star Wars though. Nobody's been to a sad, plastic Kiyoshi Village and bought a $27 mimosa.
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2022 18:41
|
|
|
And it's naturally built into the setting that a bunch of people who get involved with a new Avatar will be related in some way to old characters. It's not like it's a coincidence.
MikeJF fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Apr 6, 2022 |
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2022 18:51
|
|
|
Though the Kyoshi books are legitimately great, they’re also pretty firmly in “PG-13” territory by visualizing and depicting violence in ways that the original shows never would have been able to get away with, considering how hamstrung they were by the network.
|
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2022 18:53
|
|
|
Regalingualius posted:Though the Kyoshi books are legitimately great, they’re also pretty firmly in “PG-13” territory by visualizing and depicting violence in ways that the original shows never would have been able to get away with, considering how hamstrung they were by the network. That said, Korra got away with some pretty dark poo poo at times Hell, some recent Disney shows have gotten away with a fair bit (like a human character getting stabbed through the chest on screen in Amphibia ) Larryb fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Apr 7, 2022 |
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2022 19:04
|
|
|
Larryb posted:That said, Korra got away with some pretty dark poo poo at times oh poo poo so someone got Leomon'd in an american cartoon? drat
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2022 20:17
|
|
|
Neeksy posted:oh poo poo so someone got Leomon'd in an american cartoon? drat Technically she survives and is turned into a puppet for the main villain but yeah (that show gets DARK as it goes along) Larryb fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Apr 7, 2022 |
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2022 20:30
|
|
|
Lotta spoilers today huh
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2022 23:04
|
|
|
MikeJF posted:And it's naturally built into the setting that a bunch of people who get involved with a new Avatar will be related in some way to old characters. It's not like it's a coincidence. Yeah I mean I know the Avatar cycle intrinsically links all of the Avatars, what I more meant is that I'm worried that even all the side characters will be linked. Like there'll be a story with an older Avatar and an Earthbender will appear and they'll make sure to mention they're a Beifong so the audience can go "ooohh like Toph!"
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2022 23:28
|
|
|
I really like the idea of Avatar Expanded Universe stuff. Absolutely rolling my eyes at a theatrical movie and new series being announced as "starting production soon". It should be smaller stuff like that Kyoshi book. Some mini-series y'know? When something's announced as looking to begin production of something that big later in the year, I take it as not likely getting made.
|
|
|
#
?
Apr 6, 2022 23:53
|
|
|
MorningMoon posted:I really like the idea of Avatar Expanded Universe stuff. Absolutely rolling my eyes at this logic.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 00:06
|
|
|
The best thing Avatar ever did the first time around was know when to stop. Shame they didn’t stick with that. More media should just end and move on to new things.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 01:41
|
|
|
But the money, tho.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 07:41
|
|
|
All I want is an Avatar series that is about the next Avatar in the cycle and it's all about the avatar world space race. Not a conflict, really, just a couple of the nations attempting to be the first to put someone on the moon. It requires the Avatar a.) incase something goes wrong, and b.) in case sending someone to land on the moon upsets Yue and they need to have a spirit diplomat handy.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 08:05
|
|
|
Air benders discover they can use nuclear fusion by bending hydrogen and helium.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 10:11
|
|
|
Elman posted:Air benders discover they can use nuclear fusion by bending hydrogen and helium. Nuclear fusion requires incredible heat and incredible pressure to overcome the Couloumb barrier, so only the Avatar, master of all four elements,
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 14:32
|
|
|
I’d kind of like to see an Avatar series set in modern day if only to see how bending works in a more technologically advanced world (also it’d be funny to see Korra as a spirit guide trying to mentor the new Avatar).
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 15:03
|
|
|
Come And See posted:Lotta spoilers today huh Larryb, you seem to have missed this comment, but it's about you. Please be more careful about spoiling major events from series which are still recent/unfinished.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 15:34
|
|
|
jassa posted:Larryb, you seem to have missed this comment, but it's about you. Please be more careful about spoiling major events from series which are still recent/unfinished. Oh sorry, I figured since the episode in question was about a year old at this point it’d be ok. I’ll go back and tag it properly Larryb fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Apr 7, 2022 |
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 16:07
|
|
|
Larryb posted:I’d kind of like to see an Avatar series set in modern day if only to see how bending works in a more technologically advanced world (also it’d be funny to see Korra as a spirit guide trying to mentor the new Avatar). If you're going to do an avatar after Korra you pretty much either have to kill her off young or go modern day tech or beyond. Or they could jump a few avatars down the line and pull out the old concept art from when Aang had been frozen a thousand years and was from a since-fallen high tech cyberpunk civilisation lost to time and his robot sidekick momo-3 
MikeJF fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Apr 7, 2022 |
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 16:21
|
|
|
MikeJF posted:If you're going to do an avatar after Korra you pretty much either have to kill her off young or go modern day tech or beyond. Oh I imagined the new show taking place at least a few decades after Korra like that series was to ATLA (also Toph is somehow still alive). Though given Korra’s personality I potentially could see her going out young as well Larryb fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Apr 7, 2022 |
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 16:44
|
|
|
Inkspot posted:Easier to ignore ancillary Avatar stuff than Star Wars though. Nobody's been to a sad, plastic Kiyoshi Village and bought a $27 mimosa. ....Yet
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 16:52
|
|
|
What is that post referencing? Sad, plastic village with overpriced drinks is stirring some memories in me.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 17:15
|
|
|
Electric Phantasm posted:What is that post referencing? Sad, plastic village with overpriced drinks is stirring some memories in me. Presumably the Star Wars Disney theme park thing.
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 17:29
|
|
|
Elman posted:Air benders discover they can use nuclear fusion by bending hydrogen and helium. People start punching open new spirit portals everywhere so they can lay highways and railroads through the spirit world as shortcuts LOOK SPIRITS IF WE STOP DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WOULD DO TO THE ECONOMY
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 18:25
|
|
|
MikeJF posted:If you're going to do an avatar after Korra you pretty much either have to kill her off young or go modern day tech or beyond. Tbf killing off Korra young is like the natural end point of that series where half the storylines are depression and making GBS threads on her inability to do anything without a nagging adult
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 18:46
|
|
|
MikeJF posted:People start punching open new spirit portals everywhere so they can lay highways and railroads through the spirit world as shortcuts LOOK SPIRITS IF WE STOP DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WOULD DO TO THE ECONOMY P sure this is that one Zelda game
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 19:02
|
|
|
The only thing i really want from a new avatar anything would be more sick fight scenes
|
|
#
?
Apr 7, 2022 22:41
|
|
|
Larryb posted:Oh sorry, I figured since the episode in question was about a year old at this point it’d be ok. I’ll go back and tag it properly We good. I'd be caught up but the most recent seasons of shows haven't hit streaming yet.
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2022 00:07
|
|
|
drrockso20 posted:Had an idea in this vein, would be set about 200 years after Korra's time, the protagonist and current Avatar is the fifth* since Korra and is an Earth Bender who only was discovered to be the Avatar about a year or two before the show starts(his immediate predecessor died as an infant without being discovered at all, so everyone spent the last 20 years or so looking for a Water Bender), and well the world is basically a complete shithole at this point, so this Avatar has a ridiculously uphill battle if they want to achieve anything meaningful drrockso20 posted:Hence why things go so badly for the four Avatars between Korra and our new Avatar, by his time Korra is in many respects the most hated person in the world(and Aang and Roku aren't considered much better) as most of what's gone wrong in the world is pretty much considered her and her two immediate predecessors fault Well since we're on the topic of ideas for future Avatar series, might as well quote my ideas from when we discussed this idea a couple years ago
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2022 00:30
|
|
|
I’d love something like the next Avatar being a punk rocker metalbender because Raava just loved the irony, and the awkward past life conversations that ensue when it turns out that he wrote and sang a lot stuff ragging on Korra in particular.
|
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2022 08:16
|
|
|
I want an avatar who has to get most of their spirit advice from the previous avatar who was a lovely and bad person and generally looked upon very unfavorably by history
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2022 19:19
|
|
|
ninjewtsu posted:I want an avatar who has to get most of their spirit advice from the previous avatar who was a lovely and bad person and generally looked upon very unfavorably by history So Korra's successor  I'm kidding
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2022 19:24
|
|
|
Actually come to think of it, after the events of season 2 would it even be possible for a successor to contact any pre-Korra Avatars anymore?
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2022 19:29
|
|
|
Larryb posted:Actually come to think of it, after the events of season 2 would it even be possible for a successor to contact any pre-Korra Avatars anymore? Always figured one of the major plots for a series for a post Korra Avatar would be repairing the links between past Avatars that Korra broke Though one of the tie-in books apparently hints that Korra broke it for All future Avatars and not just the ones before her which arguably makes it even worse
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2022 21:15
|
|
|
Larryb posted:Actually come to think of it, after the events of season 2 would it even be possible for a successor to contact any pre-Korra Avatars anymore? No but they've tweaked the rules before to make the story they want to make happen. All they have to do is handwave it and say that the next rebirth fixed the cycle or some bullshit if they want to talk to other Avatars
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2022 21:16
|
|
|
I just figured that the simplest explanation would be that Korra restarted the cycle, and she’s the Wan when it’s finally her time.
|
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2022 23:25
|
|
|
Regalingualius posted:I just figured that the simplest explanation would be that Korra restarted the cycle, and she’s the Wan when it’s finally her time. Yeah, that’s pretty much what I always assumed as well
|
|
#
?
Apr 8, 2022 23:38
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 15, 2024 05:59 |
|
|
Season 2 of Green Eggs and Ham was released on Netflix today
|
|
#
?
Apr 9, 2022 01:50
|
|
