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TacticalFox88 said:
What did I tell you? Makorra is done and you all called me crazy
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I'm not calling it either way, but this wouldn't be the first case of the writers lying through their teeth. I'll believe it when Book 4 concludes without them getting together or even hinting at it.
 
Fair enough.

Funnily enough I think the new season of RWBY is going to blow S1 out the water, which is exactly opposite of how I feel about LoK.
 
TacticalFox88 said:
Fair enough.

Funnily enough I think the new season of RWBY is going to blow S1 out the water, which is exactly opposite of how I feel about LoK.
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It certainly has the potential to. LoK has been crippled by too many permanent alterations to it's world and characters. Even if book 3 is better than expected, the narrative has already been compromised and I can't imagine any 'fix' for those that wouldn't compromise those things further (like the last 2 seasons being a dream or whatever).

RWBY, on the other hand, while it certainly slipped and fell on more than one occasion in season 1, has yet to have done any permanent damage to any of it's characters. There is nothing stopping them from improving substantially this season. Hopefully, that's what happens. I look forward to it, and may even make an OT for it if no one else is.
 
Jintor said:
So yeah audio commentary



More at the link

"Oh yeah, that thing we did? It didn't make any fucking sense. Sorry about that."
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wtf is this shit? I'd rather they just leave us in the dark than just admit they don't know what they're doing. Way to inspire confidence for Season 3's quality.

Love Deterrence said:
Planning to check the series out soon. After Platinum's announcement today, I immediately wanted to learn more. I'm guessing it's best to watch The Last Airbender first, so I'll start there if for no other reason than to gather a bit of context before jumping into Legend of Korra. Hopefully I can catch up with you guys before Book 3's end. :-) (Sorry Legend of Korra fans. I know you've probably been hearing this all day from newcomers!)
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Hope you enjoy it. I'm sure most people (in this thread at least) are happy to hear people watching TLA before LoK, it's a really amazing series and far exceeds Korra.
 
Bryan admits that the final battle between Korra and UnaVatu was not supposed to make sense. It’s supposed to be symbolic and fun on an emotional level. The battle is symbolic in that it’s a reference to the light battle between Aang and Ozai and the duel between Zuko and Azula.
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it's like poetry, they rhyme.
 
God I hope that Bryan and Mike don't read GAF, they would feel suicidal.

Then I hope that they do, so they can attempt to fix all this bad.
 
Loomba said:
God I hope that Bryan and Mike don't read GAF, they would feel suicidal.

Then I hope that they do, so they can attempt to fix all this bad.
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Even if they do its a tad to late now considering they've already started working on the final Book 4 episodes
 
From the looks of the thread, I guess none of you saw the four leaked episodes of Book 3.

A lot of the issues with the series are address (not prepared to say "fixed") in just those four episodes.

I watched it, and immediately understood what Jeremy Zuckerman (the show's composer) meant when he said Book 3 will be more like ATLA. We even get two full episodes in
Ba Sing Se.

In just ONE episode, half the time we're at the North Pole and the other half at Ba Sing Se, and Team Avatar even begins to expand.

Zuko is the first member of old Team Avatar to really join the plot, as Katara barely matters in the previous two seasons, and so far so good.

We get MUCH more adult interactions, including Lin's family, the villains and Team Avatar is finally dating outside their circle, and it's actually very well written.

Bolin and Mako, free from the stupid love triangles, once again get character development time and we even learn a lot about their past and their family, once again touching upon their lives as street kids, making their stories more compelling, like the beginnings of Book 1.

The villains are fucking awesome, and their setup makes me feel optimistic about their endgame. Much more Amon tan Unalaq, but without too much mystery that could possibly raise impossible-to-fulfill expectations. There's one of them for each element (there's a ground melting earthbender, a sparky sparky boom woman, an evil airbender leader and a insane armless waterbender)

I, for wan (chuck chuck), am optimistic. And it's worth mentioning that this was the first Book written entirely after reactions to Book 1 came in (by the time Book 1 ended, Book 2 was already being animated).
 
Some have seen the episodes and the vibe is generally positive.

Still, you don't want the creators of the show writing situations and have no idea how those situations fit into their world thematically or logically. They basically just threw their hands up and made the finale a bunch of set pieces they thought would look cool (it did to me) without any impact behind them. Azula touched on this already.

Compare this to the Book Earth finale fight in the catacombs: epic setpieces and flashy scenes back to back to back. And they all have impact.

Consider the stakes: Aang struggling with the avatar state. this has constant implications during the battle.

Zuko's decision and how that sets the tone for his entire character for Book Fire, as well as Katara's particular dislike for him and Iroh's disappointment going forward.

Azula being a smug, manipulative, glorious bastard the entire time, setting the stage for her setting up Zuko.

And this all is translated perfectly in the choreography of the action, enhancing it beyond its already high quality superficial impression.

None of that in Unalaq v. Korra.
 
Azula said:
Wow, talk about a lot of bullshit.

These guys have really been baffling in recent years. My god. I remember them laughing at a fan asking about the anti-bender pro rights movement after Amon, and how it would continue to shape the plot. They likened its lasting effects to just being crazy tin foil hat wearing extremists that have nazi propaganda in their basement. Like really? You set up this really great plot point, something that is a symptom of a society in turmoil, and then just because Amon is proven a fraud, it all just goes away?

As if that makes years of unrest disappear. Clearly people weren't happy with how benders had more power in society (how they were a special class). Yeah, I get that them electing a president was supposed to wrap that plot up. But my point is, these guys just don't seem to give a fuck when it comes to the overall impact a plot has. So seeing this isn't surprising. But ugh. It's pretty dam frustrating how little fucks they give. I would be MORE OKAY if their creative spark just wasn't as good as it once was. But hearing them talk is pretty annoying, as they don't seem to have any respect for their audience or what they are writing.
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It's more like they need to explain that Amon was manufacturing any sort of bending / non-bending disparity. If you look closely at season 2, you see Shady Shin is still a menace to society, with or without his bending. In only the very rare occasion like Yakone where a bender will actually be able to exploit people with it in the way Amon said. I never got the sense that someone with, what is essentially a flamethrower or squirt gun, could do much more in society than threaten people with physical violence, which isn't something unique to benders at all.

So I can see why Bryke would laugh at someone asking that, because in their heads it's perfectly clear that Amon was just stirring the pot and not actually building on anything that was even remotely true. Bending isn't a huge advantage, it's just a tool, and a relatively small one unless you're one of these exceptionally talented benders or the avatar. But it wasn't really driven home that well in the series, and it could still be interpreted as vague even. These are just all my theories and guesses anyway.

In a way though it reminds me of the problem people have with Aang just taking away Ozai's bending, as if him, essentially, simply being disarmed makes the entire Fire Nation renounce him as Firelord. It's not even addressed in the comics I don't think.

Veelk said:
I think that's because the fans remembered that the avatar state is just her channeling all her past lives at once. Without the past lives, there is no such thing as the Avatar State and Korra is severely dis-empowered, which has a lot of relevance on whats going on.

From the wording of what they said though, it seems they think she just lost the ability to talk to her past selves. I hope I'm wrong on this, because they can't have seriously gotten that fundamental an aspect of their own series wrong.

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How in the hell does Korra vs UnaVatu relate to ANY of that?
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She definitely can still power up with Raava, but she doesn't have the bending techniques and wisdom from all the past lives I'll bet. I think Mako and Korra are definitely never happening again, but a lot of people have suggested Korra reconnecting with her past lives as a sort of growth plotline for her to go back and slowly get all their spirits tied back up into Raava. Aang's spirit appeared to Tenzin during the fight where Vaatu was destroying Raava, so they're clearly not dependent on one another. I doubt they'd remove such a staple part of the series BEFORE exploring it like they did in AtLA, but that would mean that would be the storylines of book 4-5...and I'm not holding my breath for that, especially after the equalist comments. "Oh she just lost her connection shes the first avatar of this overarching avatar cycle" they'll say or something. Maybe Korra will revert the world back to living on lion turtles fearing the spirits and the cycle will continue again and again, technology and bending rising and falling with the spirits going in and out of the physical plane.

I just watched the redlettermedia reviews of star wars for the first time today. I don't know if you were pointing out the similarities on purpose but this was spot on. The meaningful fights were never about the physical battle, it was about the philosophical one of the two characters butting heads in a literal way, but both adhering to those beliefs in their fighting styles. The fight is a metaphor, because this is a story and not an actual thing that happened.

Loomba said:
God I hope that Bryan and Mike don't read GAF, they would feel suicidal.

Then I hope that they do, so they can attempt to fix all this bad.
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I honestly don't think that LoK has been that bad if you really try to analyze it. The characters are bad, but there's only so much you can do with 26 episodes of characterization vs 64 for AtLA. Korra is really missing out on those 'traveling/filler' episodes AtLA had where they didn't advance the plot of stopping the fire nation, but showing what kind of people the characters were.

You didn't notice it, but your brain did.

Azula said:
I used to think these guys were just hacks, or people that lost their creativity. But they kind of seem like assholes that have no respect for their show or audience. And that is really disappointing to me. Because despite my complaints with Korra, I still love this overall world. I respect what they do (even if I find it flawed). So it's really sad to see them have this mind of mind set and mentality towards their writing.
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That's totally not true. Watch the documentary if you haven't. The guys seem to love the fans. They have fan interaction like GRRM or Vince Gilligan. They really know their audience I think, there's just something going on in the first two seasons of Korra where they haven't been able to capture that lightning in a bottle.
 
Joeytj said:
From the looks of the thread, I guess none of you saw the four leaked episodes of Book 3.

A lot of the issues with the series are address (not prepared to say "fixed") in just those four episodes.

I watched it, and immediately understood what Jeremy Zuckerman (the show's composer) meant when he said Book 3 will be more like ATLA. We even get two full episodes in
Ba Sing Se.

In just ONE episode, half the time we're at the North Pole and the other half at Ba Sing Se, and Team Avatar even begins to expand.

Zuko is the first member of old Team Avatar to really join the plot, as Katara barely matters in the previous two seasons, and so far so good.

We get MUCH more adult interactions, including Lin's family, the villains and Team Avatar is finally dating outside their circle, and it's actually very well written.

Bolin and Mako, free from the stupid love triangles, once again get character development time and we even learn a lot about their past and their family, once again touching upon their lives as street kids, making their stories more compelling, like the beginnings of Book 1.

The villains are fucking awesome, and their setup makes me feel optimistic about their endgame. Much more Amon tan Unalaq, but without too much mystery that could possibly raise impossible-to-fulfill expectations. There's one of them for each element (there's a ground melting earthbender, a sparky sparky boom woman, an evil airbender leader and a insane armless waterbender)

I, for wan (chuck chuck), am optimistic. And it's worth mentioning that this was the first Book written entirely after reactions to Book 1 came in (by the time Book 1 ended, Book 2 was already being animated).
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<3 Thank you for this.

I feel so much better now.

It's nice to hear that from your description of the leaks....

Team Avatar is dating outside their circle.
Is it a new character or someone we already know?
I'm starving for some decent relationships in this series and having Team Avatar not being burdened with romance bs is a start.
 
LAUGHTREY said:
It's more like they need to explain that Amon was manufacturing any sort of bending / non-bending disparity. If you look closely at season 2, you see Shady Shin is still a menace to society, with or without his bending. In only the very rare occasion like Yakone where a bender will actually be able to exploit people with it in the way Amon said. I never got the sense that someone with, what is essentially a flamethrower or squirt gun, could do much more in society than threaten people with physical violence, which isn't something unique to benders at all.

So I can see why Bryke would laugh at someone asking that, because in their heads it's perfectly clear that Amon was just stirring the pot and not actually building on anything that was even remotely true. Bending isn't a huge advantage, it's just a tool, and a relatively small one unless you're one of these exceptionally talented benders or the avatar. But it wasn't really driven home that well in the series, and it could still be interpreted as vague even. These are just all my theories and guesses anyway.

In a way though it reminds me of the problem people have with Aang just taking away Ozai's bending, as if him, essentially, simply being disarmed makes the entire Fire Nation renounce him as Firelord. It's not even addressed in the comics I don't think.



She definitely can still power up with Raava, but she doesn't have the bending techniques and wisdom from all the past lives I'll bet. I think Mako and Korra are definitely never happening again, but a lot of people have suggested Korra reconnecting with her past lives as a sort of growth plotline for her to go back and slowly get all their spirits tied back up into Raava. Aang's spirit appeared to Tenzin during the fight where Vaatu was destroying Raava, so they're clearly not dependent on one another. I doubt they'd remove such a staple part of the series BEFORE exploring it like they did in AtLA, but that would mean that would be the storylines of book 4-5...and I'm not holding my breath for that, especially after the equalist comments. "Oh she just lost her connection shes the first avatar of this overarching avatar cycle" they'll say or something. Maybe Korra will revert the world back to living on lion turtles fearing the spirits and the cycle will continue again and again, technology and bending rising and falling with the spirits going in and out of the physical plane.

I just watched the redlettermedia reviews of star wars for the first time today. I don't know if you were pointing out the similarities on purpose but this was spot on. The meaningful fights were never about the physical battle, it was about the philosophical one of the two characters butting heads in a literal way, but both adhering to those beliefs in their fighting styles. The fight is a metaphor, because this is a story and not an actual thing that happened.



I honestly don't think that LoK has been that bad if you really try to analyze it. The characters are bad, but there's only so much you can do with 26 episodes of characterization vs 64 for AtLA. Korra is really missing out on those 'traveling/filler' episodes AtLA had where they didn't advance the plot of stopping the fire nation, but showing what kind of people the characters were.

You didn't notice it, but your brain did.



That's totally not true. Watch the documentary if you haven't. The guys seem to love the fans. They have fan interaction like GRRM or Vince Gilligan. They really know their audience I think, there's just something going on in the first two seasons of Korra where they haven't been able to capture that lightning in a bottle.
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I don't think the anti bending movement was only about Amon, and only could have gained that kind of traction if there was years of unrest and people not happy with the status quo. I'm by no means saying that we should see people touting Amons party or symbols. But to act like it was an issue fixed over night is laughable.

And I don't see why you think it's reasonable for them to laugh off a question. It's reasonable to expect a major plot point to have have a lingering impact on the world. It by no means needs to be a major or main conflict, but it should still be present in the world. It should still be an issue the president of Republic City faces. And hell what a wasted opportunity. It was already bad enough they rushed Amons plot and nearly tied up all plot in the Book 1 finale. I get it, they expected Book 1 was the end of the series. But once they started Book 2 their mindset of rebooting and not addressing the past is really lazy. It's one of the main reasons Book 2 suffers so many character problems. I see writers who now write in a bubble and only care about plot and action in the moment without writing the consequences or impact to those things. This is consistent with what they are saying.

And I have seen the documentary. They seem different now. Some of the shit they say is baffling. You really think the creator saying he had no idea what Jinora did in the finale is respecting his audience?
 
LAUGHTREY said:
In a way though it reminds me of the problem people have with Aang just taking away Ozai's bending, as if him, essentially, simply being disarmed makes the entire Fire Nation renounce him as Firelord. It's not even addressed in the comics I don't think.
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Ozai's position was compromised not because he got his power taken away, but because 1. He forfeited the title of firelord to his daughter, 2. Zuko won it from her in an Agni Kai and 3. Aang took his ability to take it back away. Ozai preached totalitarianism and most of the Fire Nation didn't care about the war, but it's what the boss said, so they had to do, much like how Japanese served the Emperor with blind obedience.

She definitely can still power up with Raava, but she doesn't have the bending techniques and wisdom from all the past lives I'll bet. I think Mako and Korra are definitely never happening again, but a lot of people have suggested Korra reconnecting with her past lives as a sort of growth plotline for her to go back and slowly get all their spirits tied back up into Raava. Aang's spirit appeared to Tenzin during the fight where Vaatu was destroying Raava, so they're clearly not dependent on one another. I doubt they'd remove such a staple part of the series BEFORE exploring it like they did in AtLA, but that would mean that would be the storylines of book 4-5...and I'm not holding my breath for that, especially after the equalist comments. "Oh she just lost her connection shes the first avatar of this overarching avatar cycle" they'll say or something. Maybe Korra will revert the world back to living on lion turtles fearing the spirits and the cycle will continue again and again, technology and bending rising and falling with the spirits going in and out of the physical plane.
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Right, I forget the stupid shit that Korra always retconned. Then yeah, there was nothing really lost here, or atleast nothing unless the next avatar wants to speak to their past lives. But as far as Korra goes, it's like losing a bank account of a million dollars she never had access to anyway. She didn't heed the wisdom of her past lives, and she didn't control the Avatar state beyond "KORRA SMASH" anyway. I would think that the thousands of lives powering the AS would leave a significant impact, but apparently it's just a supermode activated by the holy kite spirit, so I guess not.

Yup, nothing was lost.

I honestly don't think that LoK has been that bad if you really try to analyze it. The characters are bad, but there's only so much you can do with 26 episodes of characterization vs 64 for AtLA. Korra is really missing out on those 'traveling/filler' episodes AtLA had where they didn't advance the plot of stopping the fire nation, but showing what kind of people the characters were.

You didn't notice it, but your brain did.
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LoK is awful because I analyze it, and length is not an excuse. I've seen series with the equivelent time handle characterization way better than LoK does. Sherlock, for example. Each episode is around 80 minutes, which is the equivalent of 4 episodes for Korra. 3 episodes of Sherlock = 12 episodes of Korra. Yet look all the manage to do with that 'meager' time compared to LoK.

Greyface said:
Examples?
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Knock yourself out, kid.
 
Kinvara said:
<3 Thank you for this.

I feel so much better now.

It's nice to hear that from your description of the leaks....

Team Avatar is dating outside their circle.
Is it a new character or someone we already know?
I'm starving for some decent relationships in this series and having Team Avatar not being burdened with romance bs is a start.
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Haven't seen it but my guess is
It's like in the original show where they'd show up in town and they' d meet a random character that they'd have interest in before leaving the town.
 
Veelk said:
Hey Azula, Jintor didn't quote the entirety of the article. And they sort of address the Equalist issue you have, but not really.



There is also....



Asami's story is the one thing they did right in season 1. What the hell difference would that have made in relation to her father going nuts? Why would she do this? She hasn't shown any military interest in the series? I hope they aren't implying it would have been just because of Iroh.



I like 24 well enough, but what makes them think it's a good idea to put a torture interrogation in a kids show?



I cannot imagine who on earth cares. If anything, all it does is show how much of a master class they are in characterization when even the producers couldn't be bothered to keep track of these idiots.



Guess we have another cluttered finale to look forward to. Hopefully they'll leave out Mako this time.



And if it were the opposite, I'm sure they'd be perfectly honest and tell is so.



This is the more meaningful commentary that shows how they no longer understand narrative. I cannot think of a single character in TLA that was disliked for more than an episode or two before showing positive qualities. Sokka was a bit of a douche in the first episode, but he showed good qualities then too, and dropped the sexism and got some combat skills as close as the 3rd episode. Zuko, who was the antagonist and easiest to hate, showed good qualities early on too. If there was any period where Zuko was hated, it was during the time between his abandonment of the Gaang and his desertion of the Fire Nation, and that was still narratively well written where many fans felt sympathy for him plight. Who else? Toph was a bit of a prick at first, but again, endeared herself fast enough.

Yeah, no one had any kind of arc of hatred and still wound up being the most endearing cast of characters in cartoon history. The 'hatred' of Korra stems from the writing. A situation is artificially produced because the writers needed an excuse to paint Tenzin as in the wrong, so she ditches him, allies with the mustache twirling villain, and is horrible to her boyfriend, and lacks any moments of heartfelt appreciation moments with either Asami or Bolin because they need to spend time on boring Water Tribe politics and her Jack Bauer interrogation techniques.
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I don't think the equalist regime needed to continue. But I still think equality between benders and non benders was a great plot point, that should have still been present in future plot even if in the background. But I guess in their head only crazy Amon followers made up the entire regime and there wasn't really an issue with society.., even though the majority of people that joined the movement were regular citizens...

Anyways I'm not even that mad that they dropped it. I just hate their attitude about it. And as I've said, I'm seeing a clear pattern here where they are writing in a bubble where things don't need to make sense or have any consequences beyond the self contained arc.

That was my point. Them completely abandoning the equalist conflict and then laughing it off is just a reflection of their overall views. The same reason he can openly admit the finale makes no sense and be okay with that. I see this as a lack of respect for the writing and the audience.
 
So I'm guessing that there might be a gameplay trailer of Platinum's LOK game tommorrow after the show, given that I've only seen the news on specialist game sites and it's in Nick/Activision's interest to get the news out to as wide an audience as possible [edit: and that journalists have already had hands-on so it's definitely in a playable state]. So hope that comes through.

Soon, around the nation:

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...well, maybe not.
 
Azula said:
I don't think the equalist regime needed to continue. But I still think equality between benders and non benders was a great plot point, that should have still been present in future plot even if in the background. But I guess in their head only crazy Amon followers made up the entire regime and there wasn't really an issue with society.., even though the majority of people that joined the movement were regular citizens...

Anyways I'm not even that mad that they dropped it. I just hate their attitude about it. And as I've said, I'm seeing a clear pattern here where they are writing in a bubble where things don't need to make sense or have any consequences beyond the self contained arc.

That was my point. Them completely abandoning the equalist conflict and then laughing it off is just a reflection of their overall views. The same reason he can openly admit the finale makes no sense and be okay with that. I see this as a lack of respect for the writing and the audience.
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Yeah, I don't disagree with any point in particular. Some writers are like that, like Damon Lindelof, where they think a plot and characterization is just a shiny object to be dangled in front of the audience and they won't care about how incomprehensibly it fits in with the rest of the story. I'm not sure what you can do about it except say that they suck at their jobs, but we've known that since the end of book 1.
 
Veelk said:
Yeah, I don't disagree with any point in particular. Some writers are like that, like Damon Lindelof, where they think a plot and characterization is just a shiny object to be dangled in front of the audience and they won't care about how incomprehensibly it fits in with the rest of the story. I'm not sure what you can do about it except say that they suck at their jobs, but we've known that since the end of book 1.
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Definitely. But for me, I just figured that Book 1's issues was a result of Nick squeezing their balls and keeping them on a tight leash (in terms of budget and deadline). I still think this COULD be an issue, seeing as every time they talk about Nick, or their production, it sounds like hell.

That said, it's still really frustrating to see writers casually talk about it like it's not a problem. I mean lol, you have the creator openly admitting the finale to his second season made no fuckin sense, and that it's okay, because fans can fill in the blanks. Da fuck. Then saying the main fight didn't need to make sense, because it was supposed to be emotional (completely not understanding why Zuko vs Azula was a great fight). Ugh.

For all the shit we could give Lindelof, at least the guy is pretty open about his failures. At least HE tried to explain things. Often his writing DOESN'T make sense (so I get why you bring you him up, as the writers of Korra seem to be doing what he's doing). But I still feel like even Lindelof has some kind of intention for what he wanted something to be vs. "it doesn't matter".
 
This season looks awesome based on that trailer. Damn, this is coming out fast. I was gonna catch up with my little sister when the Book 2 blu ray before Book 3.
 
Friday? That´s really short notice. I like it this way instead of waiting month for the episodes to air.
13 episodes? I really hope they satisfyingly conclude all the plot points. 13 episodes seem short to deal with all that shows in the trailer.
 
TacticalFox88 said:
What did I tell you? Makorra is done and you all called me crazy
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Satch was coming at us. I know that feel.

Watch Bryke get them back together so he can quote that post and laugh at us. I would be convinced then, that Bryke has a personal vendetta against us (specifically).
 
Looks like its not too long to go till Book 4 is completed

"We had a fun crew screening last week of the 1-hour finale of Book 3. This will likely be our last such gathering, as the designers’ last day on the production is sadly tomorrow (which ended up falling on the Book 3 premiere), and the background painters are finishing up a few weeks behind them. In typical Korra fashion though, we still have an inordinate amount of work to do before they leave! DON’T GO! *sniff* I love this crew. It is bittersweet, because at the same time I am VERY HAPPY about the pre-production finish line fast approaching."

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Veelk said:
Right, but they....can't do that. It just now how a narrative works.
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I highly disagree with this. For instance, they can do it by focusing on Mako and his police, while Korra does her avatar thing. Mako´s police work will lead to a plot that has direct connections to what Korra is trying to fix. And then after time has passed (3-6 month) they can meet to solve the issue. The two can have independent screen time doing different things, while the plot connecting them together at some point. They don´t need to be in a group just because the writers are uncreative with regard to writing plots. At least they should be apart for a period of time and there should have distaste for being around each other. Mako is a cop, so there could be concentration about his work, instead of being with the group.
 
Phoenician_Viking said:
I highly disagree with this. For instance, they can do it by focusing on Mako and his police, while Korra does her avatar thing. Mako´s police work will lead to a plot that has direct connections to what Korra is trying to fix. And then after time has passed (3-6 month) they can meet to solve the issue. The two can have independent screen time doing different things, while the plot connecting them together at some point. They don´t need to be in a group just because the writers are uncreative with regard to writing plots. At least they should be apart for a period of time and there should have distaste for being around each other. Mako is a cop, so there could be concentration about his work, instead of being with the group.
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They've done a terrible job with the group and the relationships they have up to this point. It was already flimsy and questionable in Book 1. Having them split up in Book 2 was a terrible idea given they were already lacking depth. I don't even know why they are friends or a team at this point.

I don't disagree with what your saying. I think Mako benefited the most with his police work. But I really don't think they should separate him from the group for more than half a season. Although I kind of feel like they need to show Mako feeling a bit awkward about his break up. So I'm not opposed to him focusing on his work (especially since he was promoted).
 
IM A FEMALE REBEL
CANT YA TELL
BANG ON THE DASHBOARD
JUST CHIPPED A NAIL
LEAN OUT THE WINDOW
THATS WHEN I YELL
DRIVIN SO FAST BOUT TO PISS ON MYSELF
 
Holy shit. Book 3 premiers tomorrow.

..which I knew already.

But like, now we are super close.

Though I won't get to watch it live with you guys cause I have plans.

Still exciting.
 
Book 1 is amazing and I enjoyed Book 2 (well everything, but the episodes Studio Pierrot got their dirty hands on)

Can't wait for this one and the new LoK game
 
Korra&#8217;s interrogation of Judge Hotah in Civil Wars &#8211; Part 2 was inspired by Fox&#8217;s television series 24.
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You mean..that terrible scene where Korra acts like a thug? lmao

Yeah, I don't think your scenes need to be influenced by 24.
 
Phoenician_Viking said:
I highly disagree with this. For instance, they can do it by focusing on Mako and his police, while Korra does her avatar thing. Mako´s police work will lead to a plot that has direct connections to what Korra is trying to fix. And then after time has passed (3-6 month) they can meet to solve the issue. The two can have independent screen time doing different things, while the plot connecting them together at some point. They don´t need to be in a group just because the writers are uncreative with regard to writing plots. At least they should be apart for a period of time and there should have distaste for being around each other. Mako is a cop, so there could be concentration about his work, instead of being with the group.
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I'm not talking about what your talking about.

What I'm talking about is Azula's suggestion of how they seemingly want to start with a clean slate each season. The effects of last season, by and large, have no after effects. So Amon and the equalist? We basically never hear from them or their affect on Rep City.

I don't know where you got that I meant that converging plots don't exist. Of course they do. TLA did tons of them.
 
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