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

[EXiku]

Bumi could be dying his hair...or she was just short for her age when that picture was taken? But no, I'm sure Bumi's the eldest...


Though, aren't the eldest usually listed first?

[RadiantBeam]

Yeah, that family tree has caused a bit of confusion. When it was first posted it caused everyone to assume Kya was the eldest, but the show has confirmed Bumi was the oldest. So either someone who made that family tree didn't get the memo, or for some reason Kya was switched from the oldest child to the middle child.

[deviatesfish]

WHO IS LIN'S FATHER?

[Blue]

I also find it strange how metalbending is there as if its a super special bending power now. If they put that there, why isn't lightning, healing or blood bending put in as well?

[deviatesfish]

Wish Airbending had a special thing. Like, I dunno, something as special as Blood/Lightning/Metalbendering.

[Nihilm]

Temperature bending, use airbending to heat/cool up/down the air around items, giving you limited fire/water bending properties as an airbender. (best I could come up with in a minute)

[Sherrinford]

I also find it strange how metalbending is there as if its a super special bending power now. If they put that there, why isn't lightning, healing or blood bending put in as well?

Yeah, it makes little sense.

[deviatesfish]

Temperature bending, use airbending to heat/cool up/down the air around items, giving you limited fire/water bending properties as an airbender. (best I could come up with in a minute)

Temperature? Isn't that kind of like bending energy or heat.

[Nihilm]

Kind of, but I was thinkign of bending air molecules to rub against eachother to create friction or to keep them steady to make them cool down. Sameway I suppose waterbenders are capable of turning the water into ice.

[Renko]

One thing confuses me though.....

It was said that the first benders learned their respective bending through various things right?

Earth Benders = Moles

Air Benders - Flying Bison

Fire Benders - Dragons

Water Benders - Moon

But in Wan's past, the bending was given by Lion Turtles. Can somebody clarify this for me? This is really getting confusing.

[Sherrinford]

I asked the same things, the explanation goes a bit like this: the lion turtles give the human the power of bending, however this pure elemental power was refined by being taught by the animals (in fact, you can see that basic firebending was quite simple in execution, it wasn't quite the firebending we know of, and you can actually see Wan training along a dragon at one point).

[Nihilm]

Turtles gave them the fire, but the dragons taught them to bend it.

[RadiantBeam]

I was really enjoying tonight's episode up until Asami started dropping apparent hints that she wanted to hook up Mako again.

Dammit, writers, didn't you learn from season one? Love triangle bullshit isn't good, especially since you don't write it well in the first place!

[deviatesfish]

Yeah! Asami should hook up with Korra after discovering they aren't interested in men!

[Renko]

It's a good episode. To think Jinora has a rare gift all along, amazing!

But Asami.....Asami! Asami! ASAMI!

JUST GIVE IT UP ALREADY!

It's like: "When Korra is away, Asami will play."

[deviatesfish]

Asami being handed idiot ball here pretty hard, all things considered. I always thought she was smarter than Mako, at least.

[Nihilm]

I was really enjoying tonight's episode up until Asami started dropping apparent hints that she wanted to hook up Mako again.

Dammit, writers, didn't you learn from season one? Love triangle bullshit isn't good, especially since you don't write it well in the first place!

Please no, please writers don't start with the stupid love triangle shit again.

[Sherrinford]

Uh, this episode felt... strange.

Asami being handed idiot ball here pretty hard, all things considered. I always thought she was smarter than Mako, at least.

Everyone was handed the idiot ball a bit. Not very good writing for this episode.

[Riven]

Idiot love triangle aside, why did Lin have to go from the cop who would go to any end (including giving up her job and her bending) to see justice done and refuses to let herself be manipulated by those in power to the ultra by the books and obstructive boss cop who is constantly being manipulated by those same people?

Did they have to shove the idiot ball down her throat?

[LJ3]

Mako not being smart about enforcing justice, Lin being played for a chump. Republic City's finest, ladies and gentlemen.

Expected Unalaq to be so driven to be callous to his kids. So a predictable Heel Face Turn, and confirmed taking orders from Vaatu.

Hope it's not him doing it for the evulz but sincerely believing that there is some benefit of causing Harmonic Convergence (re-fuse Raava and Vaatu and release every spirit back into the human world?)