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[Trey]

what kind of lie

When Extremes Meet is the best book 1 episode

Tarrlok goes mustache twirling villain for no reason, shutting down a whole nonbending district (the fact there's segregation legitimizes the Equalists for that reason alone). Then he locks up Korra's friends because the episode needed a reason for Korra to get angry. The episode is saved by the last fight and the bloodbending reveal.

And The Winner Is... shows the subtler, snakier side of Tarrlok, which is him in his element. Then you get the best probending of the season. Then you get glorious Amon swagger. Then you get the rooftop fight, praise be. The entire time Lin is Batmanning around. As a bonus, Mako is completely useless and Tahno is a sacrificial lamb. It's a great episode all the way through. Everyone is executing at top form.

 

[WhereAreMahDragonz]

Oh. I see.

 

[Brawndo Addict]

you guys are so weak

my avatar bet is a year and yall are just trying 2-3 months smh

Alright, the guilt is too much. There must be solidarity. I'll change mine to a yearlong bet but I'm going to restrict it to the Korra/Mako bet. Keep things pure and symmetrical.

 

[botty]

the peak of s1

 

[botty]

more makorra love tehehehe

 

[Trey]

Chill with that filth, b. We don't deserve the reminder of our trials and tribulations in watching this show.

 

[Infinite Justice]

Wow, that's a lot of parenthesis.

nah that pretty tame tbh.

but maybe that's my programmer side speaking

 

[Hamlet]

Air: And The Winner Is...

Spirits (Beginnings excluded): Light In The Darkness or A New Spiritual Age

Change: Enter the Void/Venom of the Red Lotus

Yes yes and yes And The Winner is has in my opinion the best fight sequence of Book 1. I just Absolutely love it the score and the fight choreography are all top notch. I remember watching it live and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time during the second half of the episode.
Amon was so good in that episode.

the peak of s1

 

[Booty Patrol]

king mako, is there any gorl he hasn't fuckT?

 

[Atraveller]

What is this madness?

 

[Infinite Justice]

And The Winner Is... shows the subtler, snakier side of Tarrlok, which is him in his element. Then you get the best probending of the season. Then you get glorious Amon swagger. Then you get the rooftop fight, praise be. The entire time Lin is Batmanning around. As a bonus, Mako is completely useless and Tahno is a sacrificial lamb. It's a great episode all the way through. Everyone is executing at top form.

yea it was a great ep and iirc we also got some more Aang memories flowing through Korra as well.


this along with the ep where Amon broke through Tarrlok's bloodbending (before that fucking godawful reveal) were pretty up there for me.

 

[Hamlet]

What is this madness?

heh its not true madness till someone posts pegging fan art again.

 

[Atraveller]

heh its not true madness till someone posts pegging fan art again.

Has that happened in the past?

 

[Booty Patrol]

king mako with bae

a dejected korra looks on... accepting the grim reality that she and asami will never be together

and goes to sleep

 

[Trey]

People will not let kinvara live, lol.

 

[Hamlet]

Has that happened in the past?

haha yep and its the reason for this rule in the OT: Posting Etiquette - NO HENTAI PLEASE

 

[botty]

king mako with bae

a dejected korra looks on... accepting the grim reality that she and asami will never be together

and ck

Think again, simian.




why...am I always the side chick?

So you gonna get that avatar cookie and then try to lay with me after, Mako?

Why do all the men in my life come and go?

why u mad, tho?

 

[Atraveller]

haha yep and its the reason for this rule in the OT: Posting Etiquette - NO HENTAI PLEASE

Oh man! I thought that was just a preemptive warning.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

When did this turn into bad picture caption the thread?

 

[Booty Patrol]

Think again, simian.




why...am I always the side chick?

So you gonna get that avatar cookie and then try to lay with me after, Mako?


Why do all the men in my life come and go?

why u mad, tho?

when i hop out his new six

fresh in some new shit

damn, she is too thick, who is this

im his new bitch

 

[Hamlet]

haha oh geez its still going.

 

[Joeytj]

Yeah....

I didn't like the way they handled this moment either. I guess the argument is, she never could connect them to anyways. And something something about Korra being her own Avatar (having to stand by her own judgment).

But it's pretty shitty to just destroy the entire build up of all the past Avatar lives. It's a pretty massive moment in a mythology sense, and it didn't really feel earned to me. Felt more like, they were trying to tack on as much as they could to make the fight more tragic for Korra.

I will say, while it's technically permanent (at least up to Book 3)...I would be shocked if they don't have her re-connect by the end of the series. I expect it to happen in Book 4.

Yes, that's exactly what I felt the writers were trying to achieve with the Korra losing her connection to her past lives, but if it weren't for our knowledge of what the connection meant to Aang and in ATLA, honestly, the Legend of Korra never said why we should care.

Besides giving Korra bending at the end of Book 1, which in itself was a anti-climactic moment, her past lives barely figured. When they did appear again in Book 2, it was to highlight the importance of her having to reconnect with them in order to heal the Avatar spirit after that dark spirit attack in the ocean, and to regain her memory.

And that whole plot didn't matter because she lost her past lives anyway in the end! We got Beginnings Part 1 and 2 out of it, but it was just another example of the waste of time Book 2 was in many episodes.

Even so, I do think we haven't seen the last of the other avatars. The insist on her losing the connection to them, but not that they ceased to exist in the Spirit World, where past canon established they exist individually there... or they could just retcon that whole part and whatever.

 

[Joeytj]

i too like crack cocaine

OMG, I LoLed, I swear I did... even though I don't judge people's preference in what they like about LOK XD

 

[botty]

when i hop out his new six

fresh in some new shit

damn, she is too thick, who is this

im his new bitch

cause the players gonna playplayplay

and the haters gonna hatehatehate

I'm just gonna shake shake shake

shake it off, shake it off, shake it

 

[Sketchbag]

Asami is the worst. She's just a girl with a weird skill set and money.

She is never explained. She's just pretty and has electric gloves.

 

[Icyflamez96]

lol

 

[munchie64]

Da fuck is going on?

 

[Laughing Black]

cause the players gonna playplayplay

and the haters gonna hatehatehate

I'm just gonna shake shake shake

shake it off, shake it off, shake it

Cool MV!

 

[KHlover]

Asami is the worst. She's just a girl with a weird skill set and money.

She is never explained. She's just pretty and has electric gloves.

Isn't that explanation enough?

She's a bored, rich teenager/woman (what's her official age again? She looks like ~20yo) with access to (well, in Season 1 & 3 at least) almost unlimited funds. Took self-defence classes and seems to have inherited her father's talent in the engineering department.

Be honest, what would you do if you had more money than you could ever spend, a company that doesn't need your immediate attention and the chance to spend time adventuring with the Avatar (which you might or might not be infatuated with :3)? As far as I am concerned her character has had sufficent explanation by now.

 

[Alfebit]

Isn't that explanation enough?

She's a bored, rich teenager/woman (what's her official age again? She looks like ~20yo) with access to (well, in Season 1 & 3 at least) almost unlimited funds. Took self-defence classes and seems to have inherited her father's talent in the engineering department.

Be honest, what would you do if you had more money than you could ever spend, a company that doesn't need your immediate attention and the chance to spend time adventuring with the Avatar (which you might or might not be infatuated with :3)? As far as I am concerned her character has had sufficent explanation by now.

So what you're saying is she's Batman.

 

[KHlover]

So what you're saying is she's Batman.

There are some parallels, yes :3
EDIT: Although I'd say she's waaay more like Robin

 

[Fezan]

Season 3 was good beside the final episode so hyped for the next one.

 

[Rymuth]

Da fuck is going on?

I don't know and I don't care~~IT'S GLORIOUS!

 

[Sadist]

Okay I giggled

Man, season 4 coming so soon is insane.

 

[Mononoke]

I can forgive it after that beautiful scene with Aang

Interesting! I personally thought Endgame was like 50% awesome, 50% terrible. I actually hated how Korra got her airbending, as it felt silly to me that Amon could block her chi/energy for all other bending, but because she didn't have air bending yet, it technically didn't count. Meh. I guess?

But the rest of the episode kind of felt sloppy to me. Hated Amon's exposition (felt crammed in there). Hated the last 10 min of the episode. Bleh. I guess the other stuff was cool (the tension was in the air with Amon taking over the city).

Hmmm.

 

[Mononoke]

Asami is the worst. She's just a girl with a weird skill set and money.

She is never explained. She's just pretty and has electric gloves.

I don't see why she is any worse than the other characters. I mean, in Season 1 she probably had the most compelling story out of any of the side characters. She just lost her father because he was aiding the enemy. Her mother was tragically killed, leaving her now without a family. The only family she has is her new group of friends, and she can't even face them either because hey boyfriend cheated on her with her other close friend.

Going into Book 2, she probably has the most interesting story out the side characters (besides Tenzin). The writers fucked up though, by pushing her to the back in Book 2. She had barely any screentime, and they reduced her to a bootycall for Mako. Then in Book 3, she was also pushed to the back again (this time, becoming Korras BFF or something).

So I can agree that, she's terrible in the sense that, the writers have legit done nothing with her. But I don't agree she's a terrible character by default. I mean, she had a really likable personality in Book 1. She had the best story out of the group in Book 1. The writers just chose to do nothing with her.

 

[Chariot]

So what you're saying is she's Batman.

I wish she would be. They could've pulled a Blue Spirit with her. Being ashamed because her father was with the antagonists and helping her friends in a custom battle batman suit without revealing her identity until a certain moment.

 

[Spycarnegy]

IM super stoked for this. I just really dont want it to end. So bittersweet

 

[Lord_Byron28]

Season 3 was good beside the final episode so hyped for the next one.

What was wrong with the finale?

I don't see why she is any worse than the other characters. I mean, in Season 1 she probably had the most compelling story out of any of the side characters. She just lost her father because he was aiding the enemy. Her mother was tragically killed, leaving her now without a family. The only family she has is her new group of friends, and she can't even face them either because hey boyfriend cheated on her with her other close friend.

Going into Book 2, she probably has the most interesting story out the side characters (besides Tenzin). The writers fucked up though, by pushing her to the back in Book 2. She had barely any screentime, and they reduced her to a bootycall for Mako. Then in Book 3, she was also pushed to the back again (this time, becoming Korras BFF or something).

So I can agree that, she's terrible in the sense that, the writers have legit done nothing with her. But I don't agree she's a terrible character by default. I mean, she had a really likable personality in Book 1. She had the best story out of the group in Book 1. The writers just chose to do nothing with her.

You're forgetting about the true best character of B1, Lin. Seriously Lin and Asami were my favorite characters in Book 1. Looking back and replaying through Book 1 two things are very noticeable. First of all the production and quality is several notches above the other two seasons. Second of all the character's relationships were believable and they all felt like one big family. Book 2 really killed all of that and Book 3 made the best out of the situation that Book 2 landed them in. Them all diverging into independent plots should've been saved for Book 4 where they actually would've had a strong and believable enough connection to the show and the cast.

 

[Mononoke]

What was wrong with the finale?



You're forgetting about the true best character of B1, Lin. Seriously Lin and Asami were my favorite characters in Book 1. Looking back and replaying through Book 1 two things are very noticeable. First of all the production and quality is several notches above the other two seasons. Second of all the character's relationships were believable and they all felt like one big family. Book 2 really killed all of that and Book 3 made the best out of the situation that Book 2 landed them in. Them all diverging into independent plots should've been saved for Book 4 where they actually would've had a strong and believable enough connection to the show and the cast.

I liked Lin, although I found her to be kind of grating in the beginning. But she was really bad ass and interesting. I liked her little arc in the season. Which is what made me so angry, when she regressed in Book 2 (it was like her Book 1 arc didn't happen).

I would say for me, Lin, Tenzin and Asami were the best side characters coming out of Book 1. Lin regressed substantially in Book 2 (and didn't have much screentime). Asami was pushed to the back of Book 2 (and became a Boot Call for Mako). At least Lin was redeemed in Book 3.

 

[LX_Theo]

Prediction for Book 4... Korra dies at the end.

 

[lucebuce12]

Prediction for Book 4... Korra dies at the end.

 

[Mononoke]

Taken from the Nostalgia Critic thread:

Top 11 Best Episodes of Avatar:TLA with Dante Basco

 

[TheSlySoul]

Man, this thread is odd.
Anyways, looking forward to Book 4.
If I had to rank the seasons...
Book 3 > Book 1 > Book 2
I just wish it had 26 episodes for Book 3 because it felt like the ending was rushed.

 

[Trey]

Man, this thread is odd.
Anyways, looking forward to Book 4.
If I had to rank the seasons...
Book 3 > Book 1 > Book 2
I just wish it had 26 episodes for Book 3 because it felt like the ending was rushed.

Think of Book 4 as a direct continuation of Book 3, and Venom of the Red Lotus as the mid season finale, since the seasons were produced at the same time.

 

[shira]

Prediction for Book 4... Korra dies at the end.

No, make it full Romeo. Korra has to kill Mako to save the world, but he takes his own life to save her the pain.

 

[LX_Theo]

What can I say? I'm an optimist.

 

[Alfebit]

Prediction for Book 4... Korra dies at the end.

 

[The Purple Pill]

Prediction for Book 4... Korra dies at the end.

seems possible.

 

[Chariot]

Taken from the Nostalgia Critic thread:

Top 11 Best Episodes of Avatar:TLA with Dante Basco

Well, at the very least, he reminded me why Zutura is best.

Prediction for Book 4... Korra dies at the end.

I don't think so, but I won't bet ofc.