Sharing, that doesn't mean they are one and the same or anything. The kite seems dormant for the most part anyway. I used to think avatars were carefully chosen, but apparently it's random, so it could still happen.
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Sharing, that doesn't mean they are one and the same or anything. The kite seems dormant for the most part anyway. I used to think avatars were carefully chosen, but apparently it's random, so it could still happen.
Supermanisdead
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yes, because nobody was really anticipating seeing zaheer's gang go to zao fu, but instead we wanted to retread the same dumb ~tenzin isn't a good leader omg~ plot
yes, we know tenzin is a shit leader, that's all his story is ever about....
Lin had every right to be angry with all the assholes in her family but I am really getting tired of all the teenage drama in Legend of Korra. I prefer focusing on the adventure and seeing the characters grow in the process.
I think maybe it is for the best to let the franchise rest a little bit and have them create a new universe.
I think maybe it is for the best to let the franchise rest a little bit and have them create a new universe.
And_Gignac
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What an amazing episode. Just in the true nature of TLA. The filler best episode ever in Korra and up there with the goodies of the last airbender.
The sky bison.
The Flying bison. Or at least that's what Tenzin referred to them in the episode when the wild ones had taken a liking to the "new airbenders". "They recognize their own" or something like that.
Oh, right. Duh. I feel dumb now.
NipplesAndToes23
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Glad that Lin got over her issues and apologized to Opal? Really I don;t see what she is so upset over something that had to happened 30+ years ago and taking it out on Opal too.
It's all cool now though, homegirl got it resolved.
It's all cool now though, homegirl got it resolved.
The earth queen said she didn't want to be "weak" like her father. It's not an unusual trope, for example Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones has a similar psychology...
she hates animals, that's explicit signaling in any children's show that the character is a jerk lol
How is lava guy able to make lava?
If this was naruto that would be like a bloodline limit combining 2 elements(earth and fire)
If this was naruto that would be like a bloodline limit combining 2 elements(earth and fire)
I dunno that scar looked pretty permanent.
i was afraid of this. season kinda hit a lull with these two episodes. i actually don't mind the happenings within these episodes, but the clock is ticking on the plot that hasn't really happened yet. we're over halfway through and we don't know why zaheer and his group is after korra. i don't get that there's a conflict that needs resolution. there are shows without that and they do what they do well, but it feels like the season's trying to build to something that is a secret to everyone. that's sort of annoying.
korra's taken a pretty big backseat to this season that has shown us more about lin and bolin and lin's family and tenzin and tenzin's family and good god this cast is so huge. why why why is it so huge and why does it just keep getting bigger?
i hope it gets back on track next time. i really do prefer where this season has gone, generally. i like that we're getting some depth to some of these characters (and i love that the generation of the last airbender turned out to be rather flawed individuals themselves). i would have preferred it come about in more natural ways other than flashbacks, or provide us with newer insights on these characters than what we already know. if episode 6 married its substance with episode 7's style, i would have appreciated both a lot more.
still, i think i prefer this general meandering to characters doing dumb things or stuff happening that doesn't make sense. korra and bolin kinda watch suyin and lin fight, and it's acknowledged why they don't jump in. kind of a step up from korra threatening to kill a judge, which is met with mild surprise.
but yeah. hopefully next time we're back in business. i get the feeling we'll see toph return if shit's getting wrecked where the metal clan's located.
korra's taken a pretty big backseat to this season that has shown us more about lin and bolin and lin's family and tenzin and tenzin's family and good god this cast is so huge. why why why is it so huge and why does it just keep getting bigger?
i hope it gets back on track next time. i really do prefer where this season has gone, generally. i like that we're getting some depth to some of these characters (and i love that the generation of the last airbender turned out to be rather flawed individuals themselves). i would have preferred it come about in more natural ways other than flashbacks, or provide us with newer insights on these characters than what we already know. if episode 6 married its substance with episode 7's style, i would have appreciated both a lot more.
still, i think i prefer this general meandering to characters doing dumb things or stuff happening that doesn't make sense. korra and bolin kinda watch suyin and lin fight, and it's acknowledged why they don't jump in. kind of a step up from korra threatening to kill a judge, which is met with mild surprise.
but yeah. hopefully next time we're back in business. i get the feeling we'll see toph return if shit's getting wrecked where the metal clan's located.
Not the first time we've seen benders change the state of matter. Waterbenders are able to turn water into ice, so turning rock into lava is a bit more of a stretch but it's not unprecedented.
Yeah I wish they were a little more subtle with that
Dominican Power
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Great episodes. Reminds me of the original.
Icyflamez96
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The whole season has been gorgeous.
jediyoshi
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Great, then this has been more gorgeous. Go back and rewatch something like ep 3 and take note of all the dead frames there are when someone is idle. It's been pretty distracting up until this point.
Ah, finally, free talk.
Episode 7 was wonderful. Tenzin struggling with his personality and his lack of ability to inspire people and Korra actually giving sound advice. Korra should make all her avatar duties by phone calls.
It was interesting to see the airbending training, even when Tenzins methods are shit. It's surprising that most of them even took that shit for so long. The fight between the barely trained airbenders and the bandits was nice to see too. Usually we always have master or at least elite benders fighting, nice to see a bit low level fights.
Also I approve now of Jenora x Kai. It's nice to see, that she is the stronger and more mature one in the relationship and bnobody of the two dominates. They just influence each other. Very very sweet.
I hope we can Tenzin finally from shit level. This guy just rolls throw the seasons pretty much failing everything he does.
Yes, even when Pierrot took over Korra looked still good and that's one of the things I can't fault the second season.
Episode 7 was wonderful. Tenzin struggling with his personality and his lack of ability to inspire people and Korra actually giving sound advice. Korra should make all her avatar duties by phone calls.
It was interesting to see the airbending training, even when Tenzins methods are shit. It's surprising that most of them even took that shit for so long. The fight between the barely trained airbenders and the bandits was nice to see too. Usually we always have master or at least elite benders fighting, nice to see a bit low level fights.
Also I approve now of Jenora x Kai. It's nice to see, that she is the stronger and more mature one in the relationship and bnobody of the two dominates. They just influence each other. Very very sweet.
I hope we can Tenzin finally from shit level. This guy just rolls throw the seasons pretty much failing everything he does.
13 for books 3 and 4 and yeah it's been a great season so far
Admiral Woofington
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Just saw the two new episodes: Some thoughts. All of my issues stem largely from season length.
Episode 6:
- Lin's backstory was done in a very cheesy manner. The set-up for the flashbacks was hilariously awkward for me. I mean it was basically:
Only less self aware. And then to continue them off but make it clear Lin is not pleased we have her storm off. Then come back and the acupuncture guy is all "Please sit down, we have more backstory"
- Her sister was a dick. Plain and simple. Apparently Lin isn't necessarily jealous that her life is so perfect now while hers is pretty miserable (outside of her job). I'm actually glad it was more due to family stress and about her getting away with what she wanted and then Lin getting nagged at by Toph. All a culmination. It's a shame the battle we got was of an extremely weakened Lin, I wanted to see her school the sister.
- No joke I'm kind of getting tired of Korra mastering shit so easily. She could access the avatar state really fucking easily previous seasons, and now it's like "oh wow you're a natural metalbender!". Honestly this should have been Bolin's thing. I could almost swear I recall Mako lightning bending once, they couldn't give Bolin metal bending? In the original series it was a sort of joke in the pirate episode how quick Aang mastered motions for waterbending. But highly specialized shit like lightning, metal, blood bending and healing with water? He never did that. The original series worked so well because Aang could eventually do the four elements, but he never mastered more complicated bending. Though there were a lot of characters with these talents all around him which made them stand their own and so it wasn't entirely the Aang show.
- As cute as Bolin's new relationship with Lin's niece is, it's moving WAY too fast. Like last episode they were awkwardly flirting and establishing parameters. In this episode they were being way more honest and straightforward than somebody else would be this early in a possible relationship, and then they're hugging and stuff. At least give us a couple of episodes.
- It was nice to see Lin with a calm face for once. This must be a huge part as to why she's always so pissed throughout the show.
Episode 7
- The writers keep writing Tenzin as such a snorefest of character. Nobody can be this oblivious that his teaching methods are boring and slow can they? Because I feel most would see the bored class and realize "hey let's focus on air bending first, then introduce principles of air monks throughout these". I hope he's a decent fighter but him being the butt of the joke of "only had 3 students who were his children so doesn't know how to teach others" is getting a bit irritating.
- I am going to go ahead and say it: I can't fucking stand Kai. He's here as the pretty boy Aladdin street rat who is largely here for being Jinora's love interest and to be the cool handsome kid. His character seems extremely forced to me.
- The bison were awesome. But that's no surprise.
- I'll reiterate that I hope Tenzin isn't just the 'bad teacher' joke all throughout their training. It seems like he's a pretty decent teacher of airbending itself, I mean look at exhibits 1 2 and 3.
Over-all I'll mirror the thoughts of others: this show suffers way too much over the half the episodes of TLA seasons, and also from the "baddies of the season" plot. The Last Airbender had close to 20 episodes on average per season, had a clear goal (master the elements save the world), and baddies that spawned multiple seasons. With Korra they have to get through so much character development and stories in like 8-9 episodes then most likely have final battle episodes with the baddies. The development felt awkward in episode 6 since it had to get done in one episode so they could move on. Then episode 7 was a bit of filler of airbender training. This episode would be fine a 20 episode season but as is? It wasted time for me.
Episode 6:
- Lin's backstory was done in a very cheesy manner. The set-up for the flashbacks was hilariously awkward for me. I mean it was basically:
Only less self aware. And then to continue them off but make it clear Lin is not pleased we have her storm off. Then come back and the acupuncture guy is all "Please sit down, we have more backstory"
- Her sister was a dick. Plain and simple. Apparently Lin isn't necessarily jealous that her life is so perfect now while hers is pretty miserable (outside of her job). I'm actually glad it was more due to family stress and about her getting away with what she wanted and then Lin getting nagged at by Toph. All a culmination. It's a shame the battle we got was of an extremely weakened Lin, I wanted to see her school the sister.
- No joke I'm kind of getting tired of Korra mastering shit so easily. She could access the avatar state really fucking easily previous seasons, and now it's like "oh wow you're a natural metalbender!". Honestly this should have been Bolin's thing. I could almost swear I recall Mako lightning bending once, they couldn't give Bolin metal bending? In the original series it was a sort of joke in the pirate episode how quick Aang mastered motions for waterbending. But highly specialized shit like lightning, metal, blood bending and healing with water? He never did that. The original series worked so well because Aang could eventually do the four elements, but he never mastered more complicated bending. Though there were a lot of characters with these talents all around him which made them stand their own and so it wasn't entirely the Aang show.
- As cute as Bolin's new relationship with Lin's niece is, it's moving WAY too fast. Like last episode they were awkwardly flirting and establishing parameters. In this episode they were being way more honest and straightforward than somebody else would be this early in a possible relationship, and then they're hugging and stuff. At least give us a couple of episodes.
- It was nice to see Lin with a calm face for once. This must be a huge part as to why she's always so pissed throughout the show.
Episode 7
- The writers keep writing Tenzin as such a snorefest of character. Nobody can be this oblivious that his teaching methods are boring and slow can they? Because I feel most would see the bored class and realize "hey let's focus on air bending first, then introduce principles of air monks throughout these". I hope he's a decent fighter but him being the butt of the joke of "only had 3 students who were his children so doesn't know how to teach others" is getting a bit irritating.
- I am going to go ahead and say it: I can't fucking stand Kai. He's here as the pretty boy Aladdin street rat who is largely here for being Jinora's love interest and to be the cool handsome kid. His character seems extremely forced to me.
- The bison were awesome. But that's no surprise.
- I'll reiterate that I hope Tenzin isn't just the 'bad teacher' joke all throughout their training. It seems like he's a pretty decent teacher of airbending itself, I mean look at exhibits 1 2 and 3.
Over-all I'll mirror the thoughts of others: this show suffers way too much over the half the episodes of TLA seasons, and also from the "baddies of the season" plot. The Last Airbender had close to 20 episodes on average per season, had a clear goal (master the elements save the world), and baddies that spawned multiple seasons. With Korra they have to get through so much character development and stories in like 8-9 episodes then most likely have final battle episodes with the baddies. The development felt awkward in episode 6 since it had to get done in one episode so they could move on. Then episode 7 was a bit of filler of airbender training. This episode would be fine a 20 episode season but as is? It wasted time for me.
captainpat
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"You know even tho Im aangs son, I guess I never really felt like I was part of the air nation before"
"You are now"
Aang was a really bad dad.
"You are now"
Aang was a really bad dad.
unknownstranger
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All the elements are linked if you put thought into it. Whenever someone is earth, water, or fire bending (less so the latter), the air around them is moving. Water benders can freeze and unfreeze (so basically heat) water. Katara was able to stay underwater a long time because she made a bubble of air around her. Water and Earth have probably the least connection to each other but water can soften earth and assumedly harden it by sucking the water out. It's already been mentioned that friction with Earth can create fire although it makes less sense in action.
My mind is weird so this is something I've thought about a lot.
You never met such a type of teacher in school or university? They exist, I can assure you that
The thing is, he knows a lot and can repeat it. But he fails to understand, that others may be not interested in the topic. Those airbenders want to learn airbending, they're not interested in airbending culture. Tenzin probably recognized long ago, that people are not interested in his teachings, but don't really know what to do and so just tried a long time just to to the same as ever and pray. He fails to invoke interest in people for the topic that interests him.
He controles the moleculs in the earth. He just lets them vibrate quickly to create heat that melts the stone. Would be my guess.
Icyflamez96
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Admiral Woofington
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meelo is still the best of the three children. Such a sociopath badass. He's going to be like Zaheer, only for the forces of good. So air bending batman. I want that show plz.
It still is getting a bit old. Hopefully this episode is the last we need to see of his awkward teaching methods and next time we see these guys they're fully in air bending training.
You never met such a type of teacher in school or university? They exist, I can assure you that
The thing is, he knows a lot and can repeat it. But he fails to understand, that others may be not interested in the topic. Those airbenders want to learn airbending, they're not interested in airbending culture. Tenzin probably recognized long ago, that people are not interested in his teachings, but don't really know what to do and so just tried a long time just to to the same as ever and pray. He fails to invoke interest in people for the topic that interests him.
It still is getting a bit old. Hopefully this episode is the last we need to see of his awkward teaching methods and next time we see these guys they're fully in air bending training.
That we can agree on. Tenzin seriously need some love from the writers.
Or at least a name change into Master Buttmonkey.
Well quality fell in the last two episodes. Lin relationship with her sister and the flash back all feel forced. Similarly I hate how easily Korra can learn new things without putting any effort.
Also we can all agree that Tenzin is the worst character in the show. He is a bad teacher not cool headed like air nomads is not spiritual and is worst fighter in the series.
one more thing that bugged me that there is no consequences of merging human and spirit work shown yet beside air bending.
Also we can all agree that Tenzin is the worst character in the show. He is a bad teacher not cool headed like air nomads is not spiritual and is worst fighter in the series.
one more thing that bugged me that there is no consequences of merging human and spirit work shown yet beside air bending.
WrenchNinja
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I wish we had gotten something yknow, profound about air bending in this episode.
Part of what made Bitter Work and Firebending Masters so good was that they went so deep into what made Earth Bending and Fire Bending work.
With a title like Original Airbenders, you'd expect something more rich in lore. But it's a reference to Sky Bison. Kind of lame.
Still I enjoyed these two episodes. This season is so much better than the last two.
Also I kind of don't buy that Aang never learned metal bending. He got really good by the end. Hell it was him using seismic sense that ended up stopping Ozai in his tracks. And you have to be nearing Toph in skill to use that ability. It's how she freaking sees.
Part of what made Bitter Work and Firebending Masters so good was that they went so deep into what made Earth Bending and Fire Bending work.
With a title like Original Airbenders, you'd expect something more rich in lore. But it's a reference to Sky Bison. Kind of lame.
Still I enjoyed these two episodes. This season is so much better than the last two.
Also I kind of don't buy that Aang never learned metal bending. He got really good by the end. Hell it was him using seismic sense that ended up stopping Ozai in his tracks. And you have to be nearing Toph in skill to use that ability. It's how she freaking sees.
unknownstranger
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It's not all that different from sensing what's behind you by the air movements like that one guy did in tonight's episode.
The Silver
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well she was able to bend 3 elements at 4 years old, even among avatars she's a goddamn freak of nature
Now that you say it. How did she figure it out? Water makes sense and maybe fire (which is the element that fits her personality the best), but seriously how did she learn it without anyone to teach her with this amount of control?
korra is an extra special prodigy for the sake of condensing her story and keeping her young enough to engage the target audience
i doubt theres more to it than that
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also i wanna mention Grey Delisle did a great job as young lin. had old lin's diction down pat imo. thats the Professional Voice Actor Difference (TM). they need to hire more of those.
i doubt theres more to it than that
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also i wanna mention Grey Delisle did a great job as young lin. had old lin's diction down pat imo. thats the Professional Voice Actor Difference (TM). they need to hire more of those.
Some reviews for episodes 6 and 7
IGN Original Airbenders Review
Interesting interview with both Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino
Pretty much confirms in the interview that once Book 4 is done thats it for Legend of korra
AV Club
IGN Old Wounds Review
IGN Original Airbenders Review
Interesting interview with both Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino
Salon
Pretty much confirms in the interview that once Book 4 is done thats it for Legend of korra
IsntChrisL
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Both episodes were mostly there to add background to whatever's coming up next. I have a feeling the show is going to kick it into high gear again next week.
I don't see that as a retcon. We know from the original series was that Zuko could never live up to his father's unreachable expectations and that he was abusive. The Promise just goes into a little more of the specifics.
Never saw the end of Part 1 as a genuine threat either. It only illustrated Aang's internal struggle at the time. The ongoing theme was the conflict between Aang and Roku's philosophies. Aang learning to trust in his own judgement and not lean on his past lives' anymore.
You're getting hung up on the minor details. But, eeh, opinions opinions. I'll agree that the comics aren't on the same level as the original series.
Great episodes once again. Really liked the focus on the interactions, the brothers/sisters maturing their relationships and the themes of growing up. Bolin was on point too, haha.
Maybe I'm in the minority but I don't really care that much about what's the deal with Zaheer and company, in the sense that I don't mind that it's not the focus. I mean, I'm looking forward to it but I don't care that it's taking long. I just love that we're getting well-made developmental episodes with good pacing and characterization. It probably could be better tied together with this season's main villains, but I'm just enjoying the ride. Hopefully it all ends on a high note.
Maybe I'm in the minority but I don't really care that much about what's the deal with Zaheer and company, in the sense that I don't mind that it's not the focus. I mean, I'm looking forward to it but I don't care that it's taking long. I just love that we're getting well-made developmental episodes with good pacing and characterization. It probably could be better tied together with this season's main villains, but I'm just enjoying the ride. Hopefully it all ends on a high note.
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