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Legend of Korra |OT| - Saturday Mornings Just Got Better
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a 20 minute episode means you cant watch anything else?
It seems most competitors aren't great at an out-and-out slugfest though so if you can stand your ground it's viable. Problem is if your concentration slips it's possible to be blasted straight out of the arena.
I wonder if we'll see more girls competing?
Professor Beef
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Being the Avatar doesn't mean you're smart.
Hahaha! Brilliant! Thanks so much. This kid cracks me up.
Ignis Fatuus
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Probably easier to catch fish with waterbending in shallow water, where you can see them.
MotionBlue
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that link works for me
Ignis Fatuus
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MotionBlue
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Ignis Fatuus
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Both. HD makes a world of difference but it definitely seems they got a budget increase.
I'm so in love with this series already, but it's going to be a tough wait for the rest to come out. I'm really just in this thread for the gifs
Also is it just me (or the HD) or has the animation and art really been stepped up a notch?
The animation has been so much better in this series, it's expected, I guess, but nuts, nontheless. Like the quality found in the last four eps of the previous series, but all of the time. The Pro-Bending matches being a particular marvel because of it. So good.
I wouldn't say the Fire Nation is a lot more Japanese. They are more industrial, which you could attribute to early 20th century Japan, but the architecture and dress is more Chinese influenced. I would say:
Air = Tibet, Nepal
Water = Inuit
Earth = Qing Dynasty, Kyoshi Island = Japan
Fire = Mid Qing Dynasty
But there's a lot of influences from many nations and dynasties throughout the series, so you can't really generalize it so simply.
And a SECOND episode got out? I always miss this stuff!
I don' think they've increased the amount of animation frames much (if at all) from TLA's season 2 and 3 but it's the details and quality of the individual frames that makes it look a lot better.
Tenzin Korra
I'm glad it's not just me then. I thought the animation was top notch in TLA anyway (especially all the bending/fighting) but it was the background art that had me oohing and aahing in Korra. Same kind of thing I get when I watch Studio Ghibli stuff *swoon*
That's probably because the HD makes the awesome backgrounds much more visible. Like mentioned before, I have the TLA Artbook since yesterday, and that series also had amazing artworks and backgrounds. The problemw as that you didn't notice as much because of the SD quality :/
Yeh, I think you're right. That artbook really is incredible. I recently held showings of all 3 Books of TLA with my friends (in anticipation for Korra), and I have the DVDs, and the Xbox upscaled them fairly nicely, but yeh I guess you just don't get that crispness like you do with HD.
Not entirely sure but I think a proper HD release would be technically possible. It'd require a ton of work though so it'll probably never happen.
Phoenician_Viking
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When episode 3 is airing?
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Let's see, if the show starts on the 14th, that means it won't air until April 28th.
Unless its' a 2 episode premiere (which i hope it is)
googleplex
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Meelo, the best animated child on tv ever? I think so.
Also, after watching episode 2 for a third time,(yes third) I occurred to me that this was the first time I'd ever seen a girl in a western animated show, get the crap kicked out of her. Even if it she was just getting hit buy wooden panels.
It's an unspoken rule of western cartoons, that girls aren't allowed to be seen getting punched, kicked or any violent acts get committed on them. I can't even remember seeing any female characters on A:TLA getting as roughed up as Korra did in episode 2.
I think Master Paku smacked Katara to the ground in their fight but even that was done off screen. It'll interesting to see if "the Legend of Korra" will just ignore the unspoken rule against violent acts against female characters going forward.
Now I'm not sure if this early release was good or bad. Arrrrgh, torture.
I'd imagine so, unless they randomly decided to reward people for watching the first episode on the press website.
I meant maybe they'll just air the first episode and then the second the week after which would mean we wouldn't get the third untill the 28th. If they air it like with the early acess this weekend, we'll get the third episode on the 21st which is at least a little bit better.
Just a heads up: Hito is laying down the law in PonyGAF over linking to non-legit streams and downloads. I'm unsure as to the situation with Korra right now given that there might have been an inferred promise to make viewing available to non-US viewers, but suffice to say you should probably not be linking anything but Korranation.com, at least here in the public thread.
Gifs are cool though because only US people are making gifs right?
Gifs are cool though because only US people are making gifs right?
Mystic Theurge
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For some reason did the previews didn't do it for me, and I expected this to be horrible.
But wow. The first two episodes are amazing. I really hope the team can keep it up.
But wow. The first two episodes are amazing. I really hope the team can keep it up.
It's because the quality is terrible :|
Twilight Princess
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on april 14th, are both episodes going to be on air or just one?
Aha! A clue. The helmets. The pro bending helmets have a red, blue or green stripe on them. It looks like you need one of each element to make a team. Not 100% confirmed that you can't have multiple benders of the same element but it seems a much better guess now. Now I can move on with my life... and watch the rest of the episode again.
EDIT: Belts are coloured too.
EDIT: Belts are coloured too.
I don't know, fire nation society, the whole emperor worship, the military culture and the war aggression are all very similar to 20th century Japan.
Phoenician_Viking
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I just re-watched the episode for the third time and i can´t help but think that earth bending is very limited in pro bending since they can only use discs. I watched yesterday Toph destroying the earth benders in the arena, and i like how inventive and resourceful earth bending is. It´s little sad that earth benders can only use the earth discs.
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AceBandage
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Seeing as Korra is much more aggressive than most female leads (IE. she's the one picking the fights so far), they'll likely have her get beaten pretty badly, especially in some of the first encounters with the Equalists.
The goal of Pro-Bending it to do more of quick jabs at your opponent. If they made the arena out of Earth, they could just make a huge wall and shove them off, and that wouldn't be fair.
Much like Water Benders can't use Ice and Fire Benders can't use Lightning in the arena.
Phoenician_Viking
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I guess that´s fair.
AceBandage
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ColossalLazy
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Well putting ice on the field for the opponent slipping would be kinda cheap and also icing the opponent feet to restrain its movements would be also.
I think that they are only allowed to throw those disks and fling fire/water "balls". Anything else would just be overpowered. Take for instance the water-whip Katara liked to use. With that they could just pick the opponents up and throw them out the back. Or if they were allowed to pull up tidal waves from the sides the could just wash the opponents away.
Fire = a lot of Han Dynasty,as a Chinese this is what I feel.
You can watch some movies set in Han Dynasty (ex. Red Cliff)and you will find the style is similar.
And Han Dynasty is very aggressive in Chinese history too.
Red Cliff trailer
http://youtu.be/z3qIXQCHf94
That wouldn't make sense. Korra is the new Avatar. A new Avatar can't be born while the old one is still alive. Korra is the daughter of two water tribe citizens. Tenzin is Aang and Katara's son.
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