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And that was pretty much retconned with the whole Wan thing, as he was able to enter into the same state with just Raava. It's not as good as with all the past lives, since those give more knowledge, but it's still something of a super mode.
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Why are you quoting something from season 1(?) of TLA when we have more recent information from Korra season 2? It has shown that that avatar state is not just connecting to the past avatars but connecting with Raava as well. Korra can still do that bit.
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Jul 3, 2014 06:44
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Probending was interesting the first few times. But there's a lack of flair to it that makes it boring after seeing it a couple of times. Makes it a realistic sport at least. :\
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Jul 5, 2014 07:18
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Regalingualius posted:It's shaping up to look like their response to the leaks of some of the episodes will be to hold off on putting anything up online until the season's done. Granted, it's going by much faster with two premieres per night, but I'm honestly probably gonna skip out on this until they're legit available online. I really don't get why they're doing that. It's not like it'll prevent pirated stuff showing up.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:14
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hiddenriverninja posted:Korra doing that Avatar shieldsphere with all the elements and subelements (earth (metal/lava), fire (lightning/heat), air (spirits? it's unclear), water (ice/steam/spirit valium/bloodbent bodies) is going to be awesome. So this? 
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Jul 12, 2014 20:13
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Hakkesshu posted:I've been binge-watching TLA and Korra over the past few weeks and I gotta say I don't get why people are so down on Korra. The love triangle stuff is very poorly done, but the action and overall style and direction of Korra season 1 is way loving better than TLA season 1, most of which I really had to force myself to sit through. What an amazing start to a show this is. Based on this thread I gather season 2 is the low point, but hooooow bad can it really be?  The right is done by Studio Pierrot who did like 2/3 of the episodes for season 2.
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Jul 15, 2014 23:36
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DrSunshine posted:Why do they have to have a romance subplot in every single season? Is it to satisfy some kind of basic contractual requirement? ATLA never played up the shipping angle as heavily as Korra did. Because the creators like writing romance stuff. It is unfortunate that they are garbage at it.
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Jul 19, 2014 00:03
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ImpAtom posted:I assume that means the Red Lotus are the four superbenders. Or that it's a GoT crossover episode.
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Jul 19, 2014 00:14
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Darth Walrus posted:I did like how Bumi got to get a bit of genuine competence this episode, rather than just being usefully incompetent. Helped address some of the mismatch between his rep as one of the Republic's top officers and... just about everything we see of him on screen. I like to think he's always been incompetent and that he got his position and fame because of nepotism. BrianWilly posted:I have a feeling that the subset of airbending is not going to be something as straightforward as sound or even astral projection. With all the emphasis they've been putting on the more esoteric origins of airbending -- gurus were mentioned twice in this latest episode, with Guru Lahima being brought up for the third time this season -- and with one of the upcoming episodes of the season being titled "Enter the Void," I predict that the airbending subset is going to be voidbending. Just as metal is considered an element in Chinese metaphysics (and Suyin specifically referred to it as one of the elements in the sixth episode), the void is an element in Japanese philosophy that has some connections with sky and air. Well the wikipedia article you linked says the void/sky is poo poo involving energy and spirits, so I'd imagine spirit bending is gonna be the ultimate form of airbending. Perhaps bending another person's spirit, like waterbenders bend blood?
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Jul 20, 2014 02:06
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Lessail posted:I think it would be neat if, in a mirror to the time when Iroh and Toph met each other, Bolin runs into Toph and she helps him understand metalbending without him knowing it's her somehow. They could just set it up that Bolin meets her by himself. He's enough of a knucklehead I'm sure he wouldn't notice.
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Jul 20, 2014 03:21
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It's a shame they stopped the 2 episode per week thing. Oh well.
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Jul 24, 2014 19:16
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Don't see why it's ludicrous for Nick to want the show to fail. From what I understand neither of the previous seasons were good for selling toys which is where their big money comes in. So they purposefully set it up so it does really bad so they have an excuse to remove it and not touch it again.
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Jul 25, 2014 17:39
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DrSunshine posted:She's a nonbender, isn't she? What's she gonna do, pull out some chi-blocker moves or something? Turns out she's a Terminator; when Varrick called her a "cold, heartless war machine" he was being literal.  Seriously though, that fight sequence was amazing, probably the best one in both series so far what with all the poo poo going on.
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Jul 26, 2014 06:09
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Veotax posted:Footage of the Platinum Korra game from Comic Con It'll probably be like Metal Gear Rising where hard is the actual normal difficulty you;d expect from a Platinum game.
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Jul 26, 2014 19:36
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Fried Chicken posted:So, I went to tumblr to see if someone had uploaded or at least screen capped the preview for the second half of the season yet. That's about par for the course for Tumblr.
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Jul 27, 2014 04:34
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dj_clawson posted:I wasn't a big fan of the scene where Amon's goons jump Korra in the first season because of the overtones, which some people turned into fan-made porn. get some better friends hth
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Jul 27, 2014 04:43
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Xelkelvos posted:The Fortune Teller episode of TLA had Earthbenders moving Lava iirc, but not in any significant way beyond "direct it this way" didn't they just build paths for the lava to take?
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Jul 27, 2014 07:06
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ShadowCatboy posted:I've mulled over the Su Yin conspiracy a bit and I find it a little disturbing. I'm not saying there's any evidence for it, but there's a couple hints outside of the circus pic that make it seem possible. I got that impression too but what's happened after doesn't really suggest that.
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Jul 29, 2014 00:01
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NO LISTEN TO ME posted:instead of watching S2, just watch the Wan episodes, then search "Varrick" on youtube and watch all the top results.
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Jul 29, 2014 17:57
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X_Toad posted:I think Verrick is coming up to some comeuppance soon : Bolin has rejected his relationship advices, he's been shown to be an idiot with his ridiculous airbender detector and, most importantly, Zhu Li is starting to show signs of weariness. He loses her, he's done for, I think. He may act like an idiot but season 2 showed that that's (mainly) as a cover to make himself seem harmless. His actions tend to be intelligent and shrewd in the long run. I doubt Varrick is gonna have much impact this season. I think he's just here to please the fans since he was pretty much the most popular character from season 2.
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Jul 30, 2014 00:20
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It's also possible Aiwei wouldn't have been able to tell if Varrick is lying. He could be fooled if the person is capable of being completely calm when they lie.
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ZorajitZorajit posted:Actually, if the spoilered titles are to be believed Good job failing to use spoiler tags
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Jul 30, 2014 19:23
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Even if the show were off Nick they wouldn't do that (or much of it) since it wouldn't be very entertaining if every fire boiled down to "burn the other dude with fire/suck out their lungs with air" or w/e. And lavabending doesn't have convection because lava in fiction never has convection.
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Jul 31, 2014 04:36
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So is there gonna be a new episode tonight?
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Aug 1, 2014 01:57
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DoctorWhat posted:Can't cabbages be blood-bended? (Bloodbent?) What kind of cabbages do you eat?
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DoctorWhat posted:Bloodbending isn't literally bending blood, it's bending the water in the blood. And cabbages are full of water. That would be plantbending, like what the Foggy Swamp Tribe do.
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I saw him pull off one of his masks into one of the umbrellas. If you can't hide what you're doing completely then you're a terrible magician.
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ShadowCatboy posted:What's the time index of this? 1:26
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thexerox123 posted:You know, it's entirely possible to read what hiddenriverninja and not assume that it would mean a super-dark version of the show. I'd take a moral quandary about the Dark Avatar over turning into a giant blue spirit and getting in a fist fight with it any day. I'd have preferred it if the finale had started as the Kaiju stuff, then Korra destroys his monster body with her blue spirit thingy and they have an Avatar-off, using all four elements and having a cool fight. Then she kills him, or at least beats and imprisons him or something, allowing for a Dark Avatar reincarnation to be a thing. It would be a pretty neat change to make to the world, even if it's more something to explore if they ever make another series set farther into the future.
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DrSunshine posted:Mature Avatar World: Set 70 years after the events of LoK, the new Avatar is the Secretary-General of the World Council. As the curtain draws on a new age, the Avatar is called upon to negotiate a trade dispute between the Earth Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Fire Nation, while skillfully making concessions concerning certain border provinces to draw in the Water Nations and the fledgling Air Republic. I'd watch it.
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Alright, now I'm waiting for a gif of Mingwa instantly desiccating a dude.
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ImpAtom posted:How does this keep happening? I'm surprised you're surprised.
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I like how tumblrites are reblogging the guy's post with the leak expressing their dislike, since that's kinda counter-intuitive.quote:no one loving watch it so disrespectful quote:I’d prefer it not be liberated. I would prefer not being spoiled at all and this makes it a hell of a lot worse. http://zaheerforthepeople.tumblr.com/post/94040189523/i-dont-believe-in-nickelodeon Is the tumblr post if anyone wants to know. Genocyber fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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drat that episode was good. Also yeah the Earth Queen actually loving died. Probably the most violent death aside from the murder-suicide in season 1 (actually, how many confirmed deaths have there even been in Avatar as a whole?). Zaheer means business. Love how Ghazan was being all buddy-buddy with Bolin for a bit there. Gives him a bit more personality.
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AshB posted:^Yes. Yeah I remember that line clearly. Seriously, he just loving fragged the Earth Queen, he can't say "Death" just this once?
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RyuujinBlueZ posted:I legitimately want the Red Lotus to stick around, some how. I think it's possible Zaheer could be talked into forming his own Air Nation to rival Tenzin's, and P'li will probably just do whatever he does. The other two also kind of seem like they're ultimately just following Zaheer too, and would probably back down if he's convinced. It'd be neat to have them all exist in the background. Hell, they could even try and teach their unique bending to Team Avatar members. Bolin could pick up Lavabending, Mako could grab Combustionbending, and Korra could learn that perma-tentacle thing. I doubt that. I could see Mingwa and Ghazan chilling out; they do seem like they're more following Zaheer than his ideology. But Zaheer so far has been shown to be very extremist in his views, and willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish his anarchic goals. The only thing that would stop him is death or imprisonment, and if either of those happened P'li probably wouldn't be happy either.
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I still dislike they had to have Zaheer say darkness instead of death. It's only a single word but it just really took me out of the moment.
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I don't see how the murder-suicide is being edgy mature since it's fairly sudden and soft-spoken. One moment they're driving away the next *BOOM*, and then it quickly cuts away.
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Fried Chicken posted:The thing is, independent of all the problems Season 1 has in itself, it also suffers for the real world conditions impacting how it is viewed. Mako gets a job at the power plant. It is grueling work leaving him sweat soaked, and shows that benders are instrumental in how the world works, not just exploiting nonbenders. Except Mako is able to just walk on a job by dint of birth and make a living wage able to support him and his brother. Not to be all Thomas Friedman and "In Today's Economy" but seriously, how are we (the 17-21 viewing age of this show) supposed to sympathize with that? We are trying to get jobs ourselves now, and are competing against people who can just walk on because of how they were born. The viewer contrasts it with their real world experience and it shifts from "benders and non benders work alongside equally" to "even if inherited privilege doesn't protect you from everything, it still gives you a massive loving leg up" Not really. Most benders probably have to train to have any sort of actual skill, although the show tends to present the opposite view since every important bender character is a genius and therefore absurdly skilled.
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My favorite part of the episode was Zuko learning Iroh's still around. That face he made was perfect. Really hope that's followed up on either at the end of this season or sometime next season. As has been said already, I really loved the fight between Zaheer and Tenzin. Especially with how it showed their difference in skill, like Zaheer using short wind-boosted jumps and Tenzin just flying up in a tornado of air.
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