Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra discussion thread

[LJ3]

That's pretty weird.

But hopefully it's good since you know, Platinum?

[Zenieth]

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/...ns-the-avatar/

[Riven]

Well that was certainly an interesting start to everything.

Spoiler:

Spirits are apparently connected to a bunch of trees and vines that they can't get to leave. Funny inversion on humans destroying spirit habitats. Since we leave so quickly though, I suppose that these vines are only in Republic City. Good thing it gives us an excuse to leave.

Airbenders popping up all over the place (including Bumi), but obviously, nobody wants to join the almost dead cult of bald, tattooed, vegetarian, nomadic zoophiliacs. Except for the runaway thief feeling incarceration, whom Jinora starts crushing on within minutes. Wasn't she supposed to be the sensible one?

So we get to Ba Sing Se, and it turns out that the Earth Queen is basically Louis XVI, and the Fren--I mean Earth Kingdom Revolution is already forming, which we had to be told using a tax collecting mission, because subtlety is for scrubs.

Meanwhile, Mako and Bolin manage to attempt to rob the one fruit stand in the city owned by their long lost extended family. There's a couple of touching scenes with their uncle and grandmother, but we'll have to wait to see how this plotline develops. Through it though, we do find out that the Earth Queen is abducting airbenders for an airbending military unit. Which I guess she'll use to reclaim the United Nations because she makes a huge fuss about them being independent.

As for the real villains (because this one sucks), They're apparently an four person team of one of every kind of bender, essentially an evil team avatar, with the exception that they all seem to be over the age of forty. They're apparently after the Avatar and the White Lotus for some reason, and they're skilled enough to make good on their threats. Zuko is also back, knows them somehow, and is trying to stop them from freeing their firebending member, who is basically a female Combustion Man. He's also lost none of his accidental irony, where he compares notes with Eska on how they both tried to kill the avatar.

Hope the situation in Ba Sing Se isn't as dumb as it looks, and also hoping that this new cast of villains has better style than the last one.

[deviatesfish]

Dumb dumb dumb, but I'll still watch this and love it. Unlike that M Night Sillyname film.

[Sherrinford]

Talk about some overhype. Zuko portrays them as the four horsemen.

Also, I feel like calling it, Mako's and Bolin's parents are realted to the four guys.

[deviatesfish]

Well, too bad Fire Nation got flipped like Japan did post-WWII. Would have been nice to see it rape the Earth Kingdom like the British did the Chinese.

[Riven]

Well, too bad Fire Nation got flipped like Japan did post-WWII. Would have been nice to see it rape the Earth Kingdom like the British did the Chinese.

Because we need another show about the Fire Nation being a bunch of half-intelligent power maniacs intent on ruling the world for teh evulz?

[Lycodrake]

The armless Water-bender seems the most interesting, since I don't think we've been shown amputee Benders and she seems to know hot to get around it.

[Sherrinford]

Don't have arms to waterbend? Just waterbend arms!

(At first I thought her arms were just concealed in a straitjacket)

[In-N-Out Double-Double & Animal Fries]

(At first I thought her arms were just concealed in a straitjacket)

same

Also, Kai is 13, the number of years the prisoners were in jail

Any bets that he's the son of the Air and Fire Bender?

[Tiresias]

On Eps 3:

Spoiler:

Honestly, right now I'm more interested in Zuko's manhunt than whatever Korra's up to.

Earth Queen is bitch, but at least she reminds us how the Earth Kingdom gets the worst deal Post-War, territory wise (Fire keeps their land, Water keeps theirs, Air gets their temples back...Earth territory shrunk).

First Airbending Regiment? Well at least they're pragmatic. Old Fire Nation would have never raised a Foreign Bender Legion due to their Firebending Uber Alles thing.

Can't say I sympathize for Kai. Getting conscripted is really a bad deal, but the friendly street urchin thief cliche always grates me so meh (I always skipped that scene of Wan's life).

[deviatesfish]

Yeah, I kinda wanna just have Kai left there to rot.

[Riven]

Unfortunately, they're not going to do that in a show aimed at kids around that age. He's going to do something cannily heroic, get respect, get the girl, and drop a few Aesops around while he's at it.

But whatever. Hopefully, it gives Mako and Bolin some time to shine as brothers rather than throwaway romance filler as they try to track him down.

[Nihilm]

Oh this thing started up again, gotta go look for the downloads.

[In-N-Out Double-Double & Animal Fries]

also, the NEET that Korra tried to recruit was voiced by Napoleon Dynamite

[In-N-Out Double-Double & Animal Fries]

Current fan theory after ep 5 is that Lin is infertile which is why she could never hook up with Tenzin since that would mean the end of the airbenders and why she is bitter around her sister who has a large family.

[Petrikow]

>tfw no gf

[Tiresias]

Kai pls die

pls

[Nephirin]

Did they really name a nerdy airbender "Otaku?"

Also, yes, Kai is awful.

Edit: Also, wasn't it a thing that you had to create a new airbending technique to become a "Master?" Aang was labeled such because he created the air scooter, right? It's not simple mastery of current techniques that gets you the title. So why is this an issue of discussion with Jinora?

[Laith]

Korra is going to end digitally. It ended its own good will after two terrible seasons.