JadedWriter
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The Boulder feels conflicted about Korra not getting past her bullshit.Yeah it would be cool to have Zuko talk time - lessons from the past helping the future. I would also accept a peptalk from
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I'm hoping it makes the conclusion that much more poignant and profound for her character... But I am worried it's to draw things out, I guess.
Pretty torn so far. Despite what I said above, the latest episode and 'Korra Alone' are the only ones I can say were really good.
Icyflamez96
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Never even seen that one before o_0
JadedWriter
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I'm fine with Korra growing as long as she doesn't kill Kuvira in the end. The show needs to learn that killing a villain isn't the only way to resolve them.
Try drawing it for us in paint.
Icyflamez96
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She could just take away her bending. Boom, solved.
JadedWriter
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I don't even want that. Reason with her. It's the best way to show the evolution of Korra. Yes you can punch through Kuvira or strip her of her power, but that's more old Korra. If Korra is supposed to grow this season then she shouldn't be allowed to punch her problem into obliteration or negate her problem by neutering it as well. I know it's not going to happen, but her finding some sort of common ground with Kuvira and reasoning with her would be better way to resolve the conflict. Kuvira is doing the same kind of crap that Korra did and that's letting her ego do all the thinking. Kuvira is just way more savvy on how to do it though. Maybe it's because I actually tend to like the villainous characters which is making me a bit bias I guess, but her surviving as is, but finding a new outlook is a good way to end Kuvira's arc. She's not a Gundam villain.
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Perfect Cha0s
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It would be good to show the evolution of Korra, but it would take some crazy balls for them to close out the show with "Korra negotiated with Kuvira, and everything was okay."
Um pretty much every book so far has had a villain die in it.
Book 1
- Amon and Tarrlok have a little incident with their boat.
- Unalaq is killed due to the whole Jinora spirit light thingy.
- Everyone except for Zaheer in the Red Lotus crew dies grisly deaths.
- Ghazan crushed to death.
- Ming-Hua gets electrocuted by Mako.
- P'Li's head gets blown up.
Ha looking back at it Book 3 was not a good time to be a villain.
Atraveller
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Fixed.
You're no Meelo, that's for sure.
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Not many at the hand of the actual Avatar was more what I was thinking.
P'li has to be my "favourite" fatality though if there can be one.
And while there's a good amount of "smaller deaths", I still respect the hell out of the first series for "weakening" its main big bad than finishing him.
Hardly. Every episode dealing with Korra has taken her a step closer to healing or understanding a limit she still has. Over doing it would be spending all 22 minutes of an episode showing Korra not wanting to get out of bed because of depression.
Oh yeah Korra hasn't really directing the killing blow on any of the villains. Wonder if she thinks Amon is still out there or not though.
Yeah P'Li's death is the best fatality for me so far also. Just for the sheer shock at what happened to her. I mean its pretty impressive they managed to get that through with LOK and its 7+ age rating.
Earth Queen's assassination is also up there for me.
so what's the origin to this playful/cocky danceSmug overconfident naive fools.
Love me some smug Kuvira.
someone posted Bebop earlier but I really don't think the creators got it from that. Bushido Brown from The Boondocks did it in his last fight before he died. Brown is based off Jim Kelly
Did Jim Kelly/Bruce Lee ever do this in a movie?
I agree with the ranking, it just needed a little fixing
Amon, Zaheer and Kuvira are all pretty great. The villians are one of the best things about LoK
Just saw the last episode and i think the only reason Korra lost was because she didnt really believe in what she was fight for so that held her back, struggling to do the right think and appease both side is limiting her power. Kuvira is strong, but the fight wouldnt have been such a push-over if Korra would been more convinced that she is on the right side.
But i gotta say, Kuvira is great.
But i gotta say, Kuvira is great.
This is a short but sensible and intriguing point. Good for you.
For all the tedious back and forth about "korra being weak/stupid" the truth is, Korra is also very much insecure, unsure that she's up for the task in the real world, since Book 1. And now, with all her traumas, especially the one after Book 3 with Zaheer, she's even more scared of actually being the Avatar. She got passed some of her fear with Toph, but there's still one more barrier left, and who knows, she might just have to learn to live with that fear, not just discard it.
Katara said as much. Aang learned to live with his pain, and Korra has to as well.
matrix-cat
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But she hasn't sucked, she's been awesome so far.
Atraveller
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Should have elaborated, she's great at kicking ass, but sucks at being an interesting villain.
Give her time. It's only episode 6!
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I want to believe!
I wouldn't ask you to believe if I didn't believe myself.
Fair enough. Honestly I hope we see more smug Kuvira as that's the most fun i've had with the character so far.
Lord Panda
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Frustrating episode.
Not enough Kuvira I know.
JadedWriter
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She should've been like this from episode one. Trash talking those bandits before she kicks their asses. If she said, "Those rocks you keep chucking at me can't touch me fools" it would've been pretty fun. If they showed she gets a kick out of embarrassing people in fights it would've helped her character. It gives her a quirk and would show how cocky she is from the outset. If she went to every nation and said, "bring out your strongest fighter. After I finish beating them your nation is mine." Without even giving an option for her possible loss, because she doesn't believe that she can lose. They should have fun with it. Kuvira obviously loves to fight.
More like not enough Asami. Looking forward to that reunion in the next episode.Not enough Kuvira I know.
Ha you pretty much describe Toph perfectly there. Sounds like they should have had Toph as the villain.
But yeah I suppose they could have showed a bit more of smug Kuvira from the start. Though some of the cockyness did show up in the earlier episodes with all the smirks she kept giving such as the one she gave after defeating the bandits.
It would have also been nice if they showed more of Kuvira uniting the earth Kingdom rather than as the show did placing us right at the end of the whole process.
JadedWriter
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There's nothing wrong with her acting a bit like Toph since Toph turned out to be one of the worst parents in ATLA history. Her actually "Uniting" would've been interesting to see because I can only assume she did it a lot more politically correct than the way she is now. I'd like to think she started off as an idealist. Her being the way she is currently was probably because she ran into some very hard to negotiate with people. Since Kuvira is not a half ass person she just moved onto strong arm tactics. She doesn't really seem "mean" or anything. Su and her twins are still alive. Anybody would've had them tortured and executed in front of Opal before the episode ended.
Smug overconfident naive fools.
Love me some smug Kuvira.
Yeah Bushido did kinda do it too.
Bushido Brown would've done a better job than Korra.Yeah Bushido did kinda do it too.
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Hmm feeling conflicted here as I really like both of them on equal terms.
Lets just agree that Jeremy Zuckerman/LOK deserves to have more official soundtracks released by Nick.
not sure why you think that, considering how that fight ended up
y'all are too hard on Korra
Aang lost fights too, ya know.
It was a joke. Without bending a normal human isn't in a good position. But he did fight three incredible fighters with amazing teamwork at once.
And again, it's not that she lost, but how she lost.
Haha, yeah. Bruce did the playful dance a lot, I know that, but what I was asking is if there was specific scene where he did the exact same movements that Kuvira and Bushido Brown did in their fights.Bruce Lee did it in pretty much every movie
Basically, any time you see any loosey-goosey shoulder-work, touching the nose with a thumb, hopping around before settling into a fighting stance it's in deference to ol' Bruce. Neo does it in The Matrix, too:
Like, is there a point in one of his movies where there's a medium close-up shot of just Bruce dancing from left to right, stops, then does his fighting stance:
Like it's too much of a coincidence that both characters did it exactly the same (even though Brown's movements are more exaggerated but I guess that was done to make people laugh lmao), so it has me thinking that there's a shot of Bruce Lee in one of his movies where the camera is set up just like how it's set up in the two gifs above and we see him do the sequence. The Enter the Dragon clip doesn't really put me at ease cause it's a shot of both characters and not just him.
but idk, I guess the writers were doing their own version of Lee's dance and there never was a specific scene that they copied directly from
He was my second guess after Lee/Kelly but the fighting stance that both characters do after the dance made me not mention him.
But Aang was the perfect avatar and Korra just completely sucks and Korra should just kill herself so the avatar cycle restarts and hope it goes to someone who doesn't suck next time. /s
I'd also say that Aang is a lot more spiritual than Korra. Though Korra is definitely getting up there.
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