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Icyflamez96 said:
Also, looks like Korra is the first person in history to

platinum bend. It makes enough sense. She was the first metal bending avatar, so combine metal bending with the avatar state and you got yourself some platinum bending.

I swear how don't people know by now that when the avatar enters the avatar state, he/she is about to f*** s*** up? Just sayin things aint about to go according to plan when you got that to deal with.


Also, to whoever said it, it's highly doubtful that anyone will earn to fly in season 4. The only reason Zaheer could fly is because P'li died, and she was the last worldly thing tying Zaheer down.
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Nah. It doesnt make sense. Platinum is refined as fuck. And good lord is korra a weak ass avatar. They really butchered
the avatar state. Avatar Wan was the first avatar in the state he took down a 10,000 entity of chaos and evil. Meanwhile korras is struggle with a dude who can fly? And dont gimme any of that poison crap. Yokone's bloodbending was just as debilitating as any poison but aang glowed the fuck outta that.
 
DragonKnight said:
But zaheers motivations contradict themselves given that the avatar is in opposition to such leadership and forced governance. See roku and koyoshi (sp?). Hell the latter let chin do whatever until he came to her homeland. The avatar doesnt roam the world telling people what to do. In fact, zaheer is essentially becoming his own enemy. What if the people want an elected leader? Would he kill and strike down such a person? If so, he would be imposing his own will. He could have just as easily convinced people that they did not need leaders without going to the chaos route. Brings brings fear and in times of fear people give up their freedoms for order.
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According to what I recall (+ the wiki), Chin the Conqueror was a tyrannical warlord who only achieved power because people wanted to overthrow the Earth King. Kyoshi helped the Earth King maintain control by creating the Dai Li in the first place and we all know how that turned out.

So assuming that the avatar is always against such governments is incorrect. Either way, having a random human getting such immense power over everyone else is still antithetical to an anarchist philosophy. We've seen how avatars don't always use their power wisely.

Anarchist state does not mean the complete elimination of leaders. Zaheer was technically the leader of the Red Lotus but they were still equals acting as a team in order to achieve a common goal.

Obviously, Zaheer's methods are brutal (this is what makes him an antagonist) but in his mind the initial violence is necessary in order to achieve the "greater good" aka true change could only be achieved through radical means.

The elimination of the Earth Queen brought the Earth Kingdom to a state of disarray but we saw how horrible conditions were under the monarchy. I disagree with Zaheer's methods but I definitely think the people will be better off once things settle down.
 
DragonKnight said:
Nah. It doesnt make sense. Platinum is refined as fuck. And good lord is korra a weak ass avatar. They really butchered
the avatar state. Avatar Wan was the first avatar in the state he took down a 10,000 entity of chaos and evil. Meanwhile korras is struggle with a dude who can fly? And dont gimme any of that poison crap. Yokone's bloodbending was just as debilitating as any poison but aang glowed the fuck outta that.
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Yes, it's been established she wasn't platinum bending.

And poison is way worse and less plausible to just break out of than blood bending. If someone is bloodbending, you can overpower it with your bending (Like Amon or Aang). It makes much less sense to think that just because you're the avatar, you can survive lethal poison.
 
MartyStu said:
The writers sort of address this both in the show and in an interview. Techniques like lightning-bending just become more commonplace as the general public becomes aware of it.

Just because Zaheer does it one way does not mean others will not discover easier methods.

Still, I do not know I would like it if more people learned to do so. As for platinum-bending, I do not think she did.
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Maybe but I don't expect it.


Well I guess considering this show is always trying to expand on things like that
 
Kinvara said:
According to what I recall (+ the wiki), Chin the Conqueror was a tyrannical warlord who only achieved power because people wanted to overthrow the Earth King. Kyoshi helped the Earth King maintain control by creating the Dai Li in the first place.

So assuming that the avatar is always against such governments is incorrect. Either way, having a random human getting such immense power over everyone else is still antithetical to an anarchist philosophy. We've seen how avatars don't always use their power wisely.

Anarchist state does not mean the complete elimination of leaders. Zaheer was technically the leader of the Red Lotus but they were still equals acting as a team in order to achieve a common goal.

Obviously, Zaheer's methods are brutal (this is what makes him an antagonist) but in his mind the initial violence is necessary in order to achieve the "greater good" aka true change could only be achieved through radical means.

The elimination of the Earth Queen brought the Earth Kingdom to a state of disarray but we saw how horrible conditions were under the monarchy.
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I didnt know the first bit about chin. Thanks for clearing that up. But on the flip, Sozin wanted to oppress and force his will on the entire world the roku said hell nah to all of that. So it is an individual thing. Thats like saying "well hitler was german so lets kill all germans to be sure this never happens again".

Also who is to say conditions will get any better for the earth kindgom peoples but i agree she needed to be taken down a peg. I get he needed to be an antagonist because thats how these things work but i dont agree with his methods.
 
Icyflamez96 said:
Maybe but I don't expect it.


Well I guess considering this show is always trying to expand on things like that
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No. I agree that
she wasn't platinum bending what she did could have been feasible done by a strong non-bender. We've seen fancier stuff. She just whipped a chain around his ankle and smacked him into the ground.
 
Kinvara said:
No. I agree that
she wasn't platinum bending what she did could have been feasible done by a strong non-bender. We've seen fancier stuff. She just whipped a chain around his ankle and smacked him into the ground.
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I was just referring to the flying part of his comment.
 
Icyflamez96 said:
Yes, it's been established she wasn't platinum bending.

And poison is way worse and less plausible to just break out of than blood bending. If someone is bloodbending, you can overpower it with your bending (Like Amon or Aang). It makes much less sense to think that just because you're the avatar, you can survive lethal poison.
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It really doesnt though. Bloodbending is water based so i can see how the avatar state helps there. But that substance was
metal based (how the fuck did jinora even know this?)
. It shouldt have been a problem.
 
DragonKnight said:
It really doesnt though. Bloodbending is water based so i can see how the avatar state helps there. But that poison was
metal based (how the fuck did jinora even know this?)
. It shouldt have been a problem.
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Not sure how Jinora knew, but Korra definitely didn't, so she couldn't do anything about it.
 
Icyflamez96 said:
Also
I'm thinking when Jinora must have noticed by the look of the liquid that it was metallic. I forgot she was spying on them in the room.
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Yep. Youre right :). At least they have their bases covered this season finale in terms of things making sense. I still wished the whole sheebang had more oomph though.
 
DragonKnight said:
I didnt know the first bit about chin. Thanks for clearing that up. But on the flip, Sozin wanted to oppress and force his will on the entire world the roku said hell nah to all of that. So it is an individual thing. Thats like saying "well hitler was german so lets kill all germans to be sure this never happens again".
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Hmmm, that analogy doesn't quite work. It's more like "hitler was a fascist dictator so lets kill all fascist dictators to be sure this never happens again." since it was his absolute power that made him dangerous- not his nationality.

DragonKnight said:
Also who is to say conditions will get any better for the earth kindgom peoples but i agree she needed to be taken down a peg. I get he needed to be an antagonist because thats how these things work but i dont agree with his methods.
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I don't think anyone here would agree with Zaheer's methods but when people have experienced intense suffering they will turn to desperate and sometimes violent means in order to change the situation. This is evident in so many of our conflicts.

How would you feel if someone went and assassinated Kim Jong Un?

Or, if we consider history, what are you thoughts on the French Revolution?

Just something to think about.

Icyflamez96 said:
I was just referring to the flying part of his comment.
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oh, alright. My bad.
 
CreeperBlocks said:
Okay My thought's on Season 3 Finale/ Season 3 in general

The finale was... good, lets get this over and done with I don't think they will be another season like season one with Amon's ending. Episode Twelve was really good, Did Sparkly Sparkly Boom Lady get her head blown off? that was something else. Zaheer, What disappointing villain I was hoping he would have a much better agenda than throwing off world powers and the avatar. I like the idea of Air Benders Becoming Peace Keepers? I guess? I feel that's going to have some effects in Season Four. Jinora becoming an air master was pretty cool too. Overall I think story wise Season Three is the 2nd strongest ending behind Book One. Also Korra looks like absolute shit in the finale. I feel bad for her. I guess Book 4 will be the Avatar hunting down the rest of Red Lotus?
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I disagree, even with a few issues, this was much better than the ending of book 1
 
Pretty okay finale...didn't expect they'd end the season on a
depressing
note though.

I hate how everyone just do what we expect they should've done earlier in the season because "reasons"---
Mako finally lightning bend and one shot that water lady??? Come one!!!
Korra finally in avatar state, oh wait...she's poisoned so it's pretty weak now. Then why the hell didn't she do it 6 episodes earlier? Who knows!!
 
Icyflamez96 said:
Not sure how Jinora knew, but Korra definitely didn't, so she couldn't do anything about it.
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Jinora was using her spirit form while they were captured looking for an escape. They could easily write a way she found the poison was metallic in nature.

Edit: shit sorry
 
Really liked this finale,
even though it was quite depressing what happened to Korra.

Overall, I liked this season. It was way more consistent than the previous ones.

Really disliked The Red Lotus since their ideologies were really crazy, but I guess that's their jobs as villains: make the audience dislike, or possibly, hate them.

What I can't still understand is Zaheer flying DBZ style. Feeling that was unnecessary.
 
It's disingenuous to say that native peoples had no form of government or structured society. Just because it was different to the Western model does not mean they did not have leaders, laws, a justice system, etc. Hawaiians even had a monarchy.

The Native American chieftain is such a prevalent stereotype I'm actually a little surprised someone would see ther society as anarchist.
 
Overall thoughts
Good stuff first, bolin dat lava, figured he would get it, jinora becoming master was. ..ehhh but kids show. Smart wsy to take out the GF.


overall a strong season that ended a little better then the last 2 but still very season specific. They need to honestly let a story line intersect with 2 seasons because once again the wrap up ab d take down of the villain Zaheer felt weak. Built up his ascending ability just to let him get fucked up by a group of kids and fresh airbenders. Which was weak as hell. Not Amon weak but the way they resolved it all, knowing the poison was metal and fixing her was like a 2 second solution. Well see where they go with the whole wheel chair thing.I wouldn't be surprised if they literally drop the whole red lotus thing like they did with the equalist despite the fact they mentioned it at the end there. Not expecting them to knock it out the park next season tbh.
 
Doesn't the platinum refer to the poison? Which is how Jinora knew about it being metal based cause she overheard the whole conversation.
 
Deadly said:
Doesn't the platinum refer to the poison? Which is how Jinora knew too cause she overheard the whole conversation.
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What? No. You can't bend platinum. Platinum refers to the chains. The poison was metallic looking, and it was bent by people dressed in earth-bending looking clothes. Jinora saw this
.
 
The entire episode I was
like going to a cave in a spiritual place? Toph Beifong might appear. A crystal cave? Toph?! FLYING IN A VALLEY? TOPH?!

WHERE IS SHE?!

Finales were a let down. Kind of meh. No really weight to them. You didn't even really care about who would win as the
villains were so poorly explained. Heck, he says this band of brothers and sisters will dissolve current world order and create natural order where one only depends on theirself. YET HE'S IN A GOD DAMN GROUP AND IN LOVE. THIS SHIT SUCKS. I'M OUT.



SEE YOU GUYS NEXT SEASON.
 
Season 4 should be of Toph Beifong's pent up anger at Zuko for not taking her on a field trip so she goes insane and splits the planet in half.

I can see it being that way.
 
Phoenician_Viking said:
I am not satisfied with this ending. Korra, again proves that she gets depressed when lose a part of her. First time happened when she lost her bending in season.
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She's the Avatar. The entire world depends on her being able to bend. Of course she gets depressed when she can't do her damn job. How would you feel if you knew that you were putting the world at risk by not killing yourself?
 
Just finished the finale. Holy moly, fully redeemed. I'll make a longer reply detailing why I thought this episode was fantastic later but still hot dang.

AND IT LOOKS LIKE I'M NOT CHANGING MY AVATAR. IN YOUR FACE HTOWN.
 
Easily the best season of Korra. Easily.

Very satisfied with how it went down. Full thoughts later, but I came away smiling and clapping during moments in the last 2 episodes.

No BS deus ex machina ending. Red Lotus were incredibly badass, and Zaheer was the man. Everybody had a moment to shine which I really loved as well.

I guess having Sparkly Boom Lady's head getting blown off triggered Zaheers flight powers? Since he loved her deeply, when she died, he had no more earthly attachments?
Either way, that was amazing.

Season 4 can begin anytime.
 
There's are some Major Nitpickers and Colonel Naysayers in here that seem to be especially harsh on the finale. I don't really see how they can dislike it so darn much.
 
That Kuvira or whatever metalbender chick is definitely playing a major role next season. They focused on her too much this season to not bring her back for something big later.

I initially thought she was part of the Red Lotus as well, as the one that let them into the metal town.
 
Great ending to a great season IMO, much better than the previous ones. I just wish that they, overall, could tone down the Bolin silliness. Or at least give him more serious moments.
 
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