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Crewnh said:
wtf, I'm listening to the commentary of beginnings part 1 and they had the origin story planned out during book 2 earth of avatar

it would have made so much more sense to have that story in book 3 fire instead of book 2 spirits, would have solved a lot of issues people have with lion turtle out of nowhere, and hell man, Wan was a firebender avatar. Would show how great good could come from a firebender
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Excellent. I can officially slot in Beginnings during my Airbender re-watchings. :) hahah

Just kidding..kind of. I wonder if Raava was still a thing back then. She feels really out of place, but I'm alright the with the concept. I just had trouble getting over the fact that Aang never talked about her so it felt forced and made up in Korra. If Raava was planned all along, that also could have helped the whole Avatar State plot line in Airbender.
 
Finally Tenzin showing what he can do. After all his previous disappointing fights this one was freaking amazing. I really hope he isn't "taken out"
 
darkazcura said:
Just kidding..kind of. I wonder if Raava was still a thing back then. She feels really out of place, but I'm alright the with the concept. I just had trouble getting over the fact that Aang never talked about her so it felt forced and made up in Korra. If Raava was planned all along, that also could have helped the whole Avatar State plot line in Airbender.
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I think the way it should have worked is that the Avatar draws on all the previous past Avatars during the Avatar State, but as far as direct connections (gaining wisdom, etc.), he can only draw on the past Avatars of each element (or that's how long it goes back before the other Avatars aren't as accessible). There should probably be a deeper reason why it works like that, but then it would make sense why Aang never knew about or talked to Raava whereas Wan did because that was one of the only things he could draw on (which means that Korra should theoretically draw on Raava too, if that was the case which it isn't).

Anyway, I just think that would explain away the problems of the show where Aang would draw on Avatars, but it was clear that there was no way he could draw on all Avatars.
 
I'm surprised a lot of people consider Korra black, considering Africans aren't the only people with dark skin in the world.
 
One good thing about this episode is that it showed the stupidity of arm chair anarchy.

Kill the Earth queen, City goes up in flames. The Red Lotius's goals are as stupid as the Equalist.
 
googleplex said:
One good thing about this episode is that it showed the stupidity of arm chair anarchy.

Kill the Earth queen, City goes up in flames. The Red Lotius's coals are as stupid at the Equalist.
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when the brothers told korra that zaheer was going to wipe out the airbenders if she didnt come to him, i rolled my eyes so hard

wow, youre going to do what the fire nation did all those years ago. good job you big dummy youre officially turning into what youre trying to destroy.
 
Satch said:
when the brothers told korra that zaheer was going to wipe out the airbenders if she didnt come to him, i rolled my eyes so hard

wow, youre going to do what the fire nation did all those years ago. good job you big dummy youre officially turning into what youre trying to destroy.
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In fairness, it could have been a bluff. I doubt he would have wiped out ALL the airbenders, but I think it was clear either way that some would (or could) die if Korra did nothing.
 
I didn't really enjoy the last two episodes.

There was some cool stuff, but I just don't like the direction they took with the villains.

It's not offensively bad like season 2, but it's just not hooking me.
 
Satch said:
when the brothers told korra that zaheer was going to wipe out the airbenders if she didnt come to him, i rolled my eyes so hard

wow, youre going to do what the fire nation did all those years ago. good job you big dummy youre officially turning into what youre trying to destroy.
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honestly came off as a half hearted bluff
 
Hamlet said:
Doubt it as it doesn't exactly help Zaheers plan of getting Korra
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step 1: kill tenzen
step 2: prove it to korra
step 3: korra shows up angry and stompy.... hellbent on getting revenge.


not saying killing him is what the show should do but I am clueless how that doesn't get korra right to him o.O;
 
zulux21 said:
step 1: kill tenzen
step 2: prove it to korra
step 3: korra shows up angry and stompy.... hellbent on getting revenge.


not saying killing him is what the show should do but I am clueless how that doesn't get korra right to him o.O;
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I don't even feel like they need to do anything to get Korra to come to them at this point, aside from letting her know where she is. Simply saying that they have control of an island where a bunch of her friends are is plenty.
 
iirate said:
I don't even feel like they need to do anything to get Korra to come to them at this point, aside from letting her know where she is. Simply saying that they have control of an island where a bunch of her friends are is plenty.
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The thing is that obviously Zaheer is not interested in killing Korra -- if that's the case, then he may require Korra to be at least somewhat civil and killing Tenzin would not be a way to do that. It really depends on Zaheer's plan and what Korra has to do with it. Remember that they originally wanted to take Korra to train her, not to kill the Avatar.
 
zulux21 said:
step 1: kill tenzen
step 2: prove it to korra
step 3: korra shows up angry and stompy.... hellbent on getting revenge.


not saying killing him is what the show should do but I am clueless how that doesn't get korra right to him o.O;
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I'm assuming Zaheer still wants Korra to join him and Tenzin is a pretty big bargaining chip in getting her and making sure she doesn't act hostile
Plus going off by how much of Airbender fanboy Zaheer is I doubt he will go and kill off the last Master Airbender in the world
I'll give major props to the show if they do kill off Tenzin one of the main cast members but I still feel he's not dead just been beaten up pretty badly and will be used as ransom in exchange for Korra
 
I don't think he wants to kill Korra either. I mean dude had chances to get it down time and time.

I agree that he wants to persuade her into joining the Red Lotus instead.
 
Anyone remembers the way Aang found Monk Gyatzo's corpse? It looked as if he had used a super powerful airbending technique in order to take down as many fire nation soldiers as he could with him. I could see something like that happening with Tenzin.
 
As I predicted,
Tenzin proves to be the superior air bender in a 1v1 against Zaheer. Glad he didn't end up jobbing again.

Htown said:
Yep.

Earth is next in the chain, btw. Time for somebody to finally sort out the Earth Kingdom
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Exactly. I can totally see the Earth Kingdom going through decades of turmoil after these events, similar to everything China went through between the end of its monarchy and reaching its current government.
 
Gorillaz said:
I don't think he wants to kill Korra either. I mean dude had chances to get it down time and time.

I agree that he wants to persuade her into joining the Red Lotus instead.
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Hes gonna tell Korra the ultimate secret.

Aang was the founder of the Red Lotus.
 
OmegaX said:
Anyone remembers the way Aang found Monk Gyatzo's corpse? It looked as if he had used a super powerful airbending technique in order to take down as many fire nation soldiers as he could with him. I could see something like that happening with Tenzin.
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I could too -- especially if they were to show that Tenzin died. I think it would have been better for the screen to go off camera and you could hear Tenzin putting up a pretty good fight with the other three. Team Avatar would then see Tenzin had died, but next time they came into contact with the Red Lotus they may see that Tenzin did some of his own damage as well, which would be pretty impressive since it was 3v1.
 
If Nick does shop for the next series of the show, they can really do alot with an Earthbending Avatar and Earth Kingdom stuff

I still want my wasteland/anti avatar world tho but I would like the next avatar tackling the class/society problems of Ba Sing Se

Loofy said:
Hes gonna tell Korra the ultimate secret.

Aang was the founder of the Red Lotus.
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that would be a crazy swerve
 
StormKing said:
Korra is ambiguously brown.

That means she could be black, inuit, indian, south east asian etc.

Anyway, has Azula shown up yet?
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Not unless she had escaped the Forgetful Valley. And even if she did, I wouldn't see her lasting to her next Birthday, let alone to the present setting of The Legend of Korra.
 
I don't know how I feel about Tenzin randomly being a better fighter then mad Stan.

I mean, logically he should, but until now, he has been the biggest jobber in the history of jobbers.
I'm not used to him being even slightly competent.
 
Khezu said:
I don't know how I feel about Tenzin randomly being a better fighter then mad Stan.

I mean, logically he should, but until now, he has been the biggest jobber in the history of jobbers.
I'm not used to him being even slightly competent.
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He should have handled any equalist pretty easily based on the skills shown against Zaheer, but I guess it could also be that Zaheer was trying to battle Tenzin as an airbender (and we haven't seen Tenzin fight any other airbenders).
 
Khezu said:
I don't know how I feel about Tenzin randomly being a better fighter then mad Stan.

I mean, logically he should, but until now, he has been the biggest jobber in the history of jobbers.
I'm not used to him being even slightly competent.
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zaheer recognized him as an airbending master. he's supposed to be better.
now whether he's as good vs the other elements is another story.
 
Khezu said:
I don't know how I feel about Tenzin randomly being a better fighter then mad Stan.

I mean, logically he should, but until now, he has been the biggest jobber in the history of jobbers.
I'm not used to him being even slightly competent.
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Eh, pretty much every time we've seen Tenzin go down, it was a full wipe for Team Avatar anyways.

Sato's hidden mechatank base? Full party wipe.
Equalist raid on Air Temple Island? GG Lin.
Spirit attack at Southern Water Tribe? Everyon jobbed to the spirit except Unalaq's purification waterbending.
Running the blockade on the southern portal? Full party wipe.

I think this was also the first time we've ever seen Tenzin go 1v1 with another bender.

Also it was the first time we've ever seen an airbender vs airbender fight!
 
TheIronChancellor said:
Korra is Inuit...
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I know. I mean, the darkest skin color in that show's universe. Since everyone is some kind of asian. There are no actual "white" (european) people or black (african) people in the show.

The only non-asians on that show are the inuits. And maybe a few characters can be considered Native American (or maybe they just borrowed some of the fashion) like the couple in the Oasis that turned out to be crazed Bolin fans.
 
I haven't seen it talked about much around here but I loved the moment when Korra told Zuko that she talked with Iroh, and Zuko is shocked and the camera lingers on his face a bit. I felt like you could really see all of those memories and anguish of losing him combined with hope come rushing back even in his old age.

Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but I thought that was really well done.
 
Gorillaz said:
I don't think he wants to kill Korra either. I mean dude had chances to get it down time and time.

I agree that he wants to persuade her into joining the Red Lotus instead.
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I don't think he wants her in the red lotus either... I figure he has some big plot that requires the avatar such as opening up the spirit world (note not that as we already did that) and needs her alive, but plans to force her to do whatever...

either way we have next week and if the season finishes as strong as it has been it's gonna be soooooo good .
 
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