Legend of Korra: finale spoilers

[Oblivion]

I think his name was Rohan, and there's not a lot of fanart because we only saw him for a couple seconds. I'm just guessing though.

You're correct. (There was just a post here linking that, but it seems to have vanished.)

[*Sigh*]

So I've just gotten through the first half of Korra Season 1 and I have to say that while I'm still impressed on a story, character, and visual level, I'm kind of disappointed in the action scenes.
Color me spoiled, but everyone's just using basic jabs and strikes... Where's the bigness? Where's the awesome level of bending that we saw back when Aang and his crew were taking down bad guys? It just seems a bit... underplayed.

[Milskidasith]

The only "big" bending that usually happened in the first Avatar, especially early on, was when Aang entered the Avatar state. And considering they're bending enough to cause serious damage to the city as-is, I don't think avatar-state level bending would be very practical from a storytelling standpoint.

[*Sigh*]

Yeah that's true, but I'm not talking big as in Avatar State big, I'm just saying anything more than a Liter of water or a pound of earth at a time. Everyone's bending like they just learned how a month ago and they're still not strong enough to throw some real heavy punches.

[Quirk]

Yeah that's true, but I'm not talking big as in Avatar State big, I'm just saying anything more than a Liter of water or a pound of earth at a time. Everyone's bending like they just learned how a month ago and they're still not strong enough to throw some real heavy punches.

They really aren't trained for that stuff at all: they'd wind up getting themselves seriously injured if they tried anything bigger than a liter of water or a pound of earth. The technique is refined, but that refinement makes it more limited in what they can do. The modernization of the world and the changing of culture basically has changed the dynamic: advanced skills are common, but actual masters are rare.

[kaoticAntagonist]

Yeah that's true, but I'm not talking big as in Avatar State big, I'm just saying anything more than a Liter of water or a pound of earth at a time. Everyone's bending like they just learned how a month ago and they're still not strong enough to throw some real heavy punches.

they also have less to draw from. Waterbenders do at least, since they are in a city. Earthbenders wouldnt really want to cause to much damage to their own city either.


But there are also less benders seen. Remember when Aang and the gang were storming the earth kings palace? They had to use big moves to take out a wider array of opponents. In this there are less enemies, but they are more elite. Thus smaller, more precise moves.

thats my reasoning anyway.

[*Sigh*]

They really aren't trained for that stuff at all: they'd wind up getting themselves seriously injured if they tried anything bigger than a liter of water or a pound of earth. The technique is refined, but that refinement makes it more limited in what they can do. The modernization of the world and the changing of culture basically has changed the dynamic: advanced skills are common, but actual masters are rare.

Yeah I suppose that makes sense. If this were the original Avatar then I'd most likely be fine with the level/magnitude of bending being displayed, but I've seen the Benders' potential and it kills me to see such small potatoes now.

[BewareOfNerd]

They really aren't trained for that stuff at all: they'd wind up getting themselves seriously injured if they tried anything bigger than a liter of water or a pound of earth. The technique is refined, but that refinement makes it more limited in what they can do. The modernization of the world and the changing of culture basically has changed the dynamic: advanced skills are common, but actual masters are rare.

Plus Mako and Bolin are pro benders. The difference between pro bending and traditional combat bending is basically the same as boxing and shaolin kung fu. They only use small amounts of earth and fire because that's all they're allowed to use in the ring.

Also, it'll get bigger as it goes on. Like Korra and Bolin earthbending ramps for the Korramobile out of the road.

[*Sigh*]

Yeah I just now finished all of the rest of the episodes, and I can say that I'm satisfied in the amount of "big bending" in the second half of the season.

What I'm strangely disappointed in now, however *cue collective groans* is all of the closure that's been doled out. It's like the creators of Korra never planned on getting a second season so they just crammed everything together into their incredibly unfair 12 episode season and hoped they wouldn't get screwed over like they did before.

[Drillgorg]

Speaking of those ramps, its hilarious to think that they probably pose a public safety menace towards negligent drivers.

[Milskidasith]

That is basically everybody's complaint, sigh.

[Dastardly bananas]

Yeah I just now finished all of the rest of the episodes, and I can say that I'm satisfied in the amount of "big bending" in the second half of the season.

What I'm strangely disappointed in now, however *cue collective groans* is all of the closure that's been doled out. It's like the creators of Korra never planned on getting a second season so they just crammed everything together into their incredibly unfair 12 episode season and hoped they wouldn't get screwed over like they did before.

Because that's exactly what happened.

[*Sigh*]

Because that's exactly what happened.

God Dangit.

[Quirk]

God Dangit.

My intuition and common sense says that some faceless Nick executives are behind it.

[AnatidaeCollector]

Just wondering, do you guys think there's going to be Avatar series about the Earth and Fire avatars? And if so, do you think that Earth will be set in present times, and Fire in the future?
Because it'd be kinda interesting to see a modern Avatar and the Avatar in a futuristic, hyper-techy setting, and I figure that each season will be 1-3 generations in the future...

[Dastardly bananas]

My intuition and common sense says that some faceless Nick executives are behind it.

I'm going to go ahead and say that's what happened as well. It just seems like the most likely option.

I'm also going to say that these Nick executives, who apparently had a run in with Koh, are really stupid for not immediately greenlighting a second season. Or at least greenlighting it sooner.

[Quirk]

I'm also going to say that these Nick executives, who apparently had a run in with Koh, are really stupid for not immediately greenlighting a second season. Or at least greenlighting it sooner.

More than a little stupid. The only smart responses would be A) How many episodes do you need? followed by B) SHUT UP AND TAKE OUR MONEY.

@Antidiae - If we compare timing to our own world...

AtLA: 1850-ish
LoK: 1920-ish
Next Avatar (Male Earthbender): 1990-2010-ish
Next Next Avatar (Female Firebender) 2080-2100-ish
Next Next Next Avatar (Female Airbender) 2200-2500-ish, depending on life-extension

So we have modern day, cyberpunk (or steam-cyberpunk), and space opera.

I like where this is going. Fun domestic uses for bending, bender registration acts, vessels that travel through the Spirit World ohoho...I like where this is going indeed.

Especially the space opera one. Gurus and other spiritual savants are in massive demand, because they're the only ones capable of moving a ship through the spirit world and moving them out of the sol system. Because of this, there's been a massive increase in spirituality that had been in decline for the last several centuries. Ships bear massive shrines to spirits of planets and stars to guide their passage.

WAIT: Each of the first five planets has a corresponding element. The name is literally "x-star"

Mercury - Shui-Xing - Water
Venus - Jin-Xing - Metal
Mars - Huo-Xing - Fire
Jupiter - Mu-Xing - Wood
Saturn - Tu-Xing - Earth

What have I done. This is wonderful. We now have firebending nomads in the dunes of Barsoom, people.

EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURTS.

[Drillgorg]

Just wondering, do you guys think there's going to be Avatar series about the Earth and Fire avatars? And if so, do you think that Earth will be set in present times, and Fire in the future?
Because it'd be kinda interesting to see a modern Avatar and the Avatar in a futuristic, hyper-techy setting, and I figure that each season will be 1-3 generations in the future...

I would love an Avatar In Space series. Traditional bending techniques coexisting with space age technology would be an awesome dynamic. In fact, the Avatar is now born on one of four colony planets. A flat windy planet, a water world, a mountainous rocky cave filled world, and a hot volcanic world. Earth is mostly preserved as a neutral zone for these colony worlds, and as a historical site. The four bending nations are not specific to the colony planets, but the corresponding bending arts are most common on their like planet due to old national boundaries. The avatar has to resolve major conflicts between earth's spirit world and the corresponding local spirits indigenous to the colony planets.

edit: What quirk said- interstellar travel is accomplished via spirit world shortcuts.

[*Sigh*]

Oh god what have you done Quirk.

What have you done?!

[Drillgorg]

Ugh, any information about Avatar Space Opera ideas is completely buried by that other Avatar.

[Quirk]

Oh god what have you done Quirk.

What have you done?!

I CAN SEE INTO FOREVER.

Spirits entering contracts with mortals and serving as the equivalent of AI. Metalbending precise enough to realign circuitry and microchips. Airbending in zero gravity. Airbending sports in zero-gravity. Using waterbending for cryogenic storage. Using armies of benders to terraform planets. Chi-blockers are replaced by cybernetically augmented transhumans. Airbending monasteries afloat in the upper clouds of Venus and the gas giants. Most ships are gigantic, containing artificial environments in there so as not to separate benders from their element in space.

It's basically Firefly with actual Chinese people meets Dune. So much yes.

[linkzeldi]

It's basically Firefly with actual Chinese people meets Dune.

Quirk stop it, you're leaking genius all over the floor. You're making me reimagine the bar scene from a new hope, except with Han as a firebender.

Of course this brings into mind what a bending world's first attempts at space travel would be like.

Adult Korra in 1959ish
Korra: No guys, this idea is totally legit.
Korra: So we take a bunch of firebenders, and stick them at the bottom of this airvessel, then point it straight up, and have them go boom.
Korra: Then we take a bunch of air and water benders to provide the essentials for life on board.
Korra: And finally, the metalbenders will be on board to make sure the ship doesn't collapse in on itself once it gets into space.
Korra: And then we just keep going until smack, we hit the moon.
Korra: I call it operation moonbending.

[Quirk]

Korra: And then we just keep going until smack, we hit the moon.
Korra: I call it operation moonbending.

Spirit Sokka: No Korra what are you doing that was my girlfriend.

[Oblivion]

AtLA: 1850-ish
LoK: 1920-ish
Next Avatar (Male Earthbender): 1990-2010-ish
Next Next Avatar (Female Firebender) 2080-2100-ish
Next Next Next Avatar (Female Airbender) 2200-2500-ish, depending on life-extension

On this:

Aang was a pacifistic, athletic, hyperactive monk.
Korra is a brawler, a bruiser, and a sports star.

Who else would like to see the Earthbender one as a nerd? A geeky kid who's more interested in the chemical composition of the earth he bends than smashing bad guys with rocks, and would rather think things through like an airbender than power straight through the opposition like most earthbenders.

Thoughts?

[Ladybug]

On this:

Aang was a pacifistic, athletic, hyperactive monk.
Korra is a brawler, a bruiser, and a sports star.

Who else would like to see the Earthbender one as a nerd? A geeky kid who's more interested in the chemical composition of the earth he bends than smashing bad guys with rocks, and would rather think things through like an airbender than power straight through the opposition like most earthbenders.

Thoughts?

Stop quoting me while I'm trying to learn how to MMO.