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Jason-Kun said:
Toph's cool but shes no Ty Lee.
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I do love Toph a lot (SHUUUN), but quoted for truth. :D

I have no reason why I haven't posted in this thread. Avatar is my namesake! (Shh forget about before the namechange. I was stupid back then.) Anyway!

This looks so awesome. I'll be looking forward to it and I'm really hoping Mai and Ty Lee are alive or at least led interesting lives. Is there any confirmation about them or more minor characters?
 
So seeing as Legend of Korra premiered yesterday, what did everyone think? (I'm aware of this being thread bumping, by the way. The show's still relevant so a new thread wouldn't make sense.)

I'm definitely a big fan of Korra and how her personality is so different from Aang's. I'm also a fan of Bolin, but I'll have to warm up to Mako. Tenzin's great. Oh as is the hobo and his fantastic bush. Meelo scares me, but it's in the best way possible. Oh a Lin Bei Fong is just plain fantastic and I'm really hoping to get more of a back story. Probably one of the better ways I've spent an hour.
 
Damn, it aired yesterday?? I'll have to watch it on Youtube or something, then.

I will be back with opinions later!
 
I'll have to watch it on Youtube. My mom got rid of cable six months ago.
 
Legendaryseeker99 said:
Damn, it aired yesterday?? I'll have to watch it on Youtube or something, then.

I will be back with opinions later!
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Nick.com might still have the episodes on their site. Look for the Korra section and click on the video section there. Fair warning, though, they're notorious region-blockers, so non-USians will have to find other sources. >:
 
That sparkly bush is magnificent


Holy hell is it hard to find the episodes on Youtube. The whole site is swamped with those stupid review videos. I only found one video of Welcome to Republic City in ten pages, and that one was weirdly sped up slightly. I haven't any luck with A Leaf in the Wind yet.
Also I'm watching this on YT because my computer apparently can handle it but not Nick.com????
 
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Did the Fire Nation put up a statue of Aang holding balloons?
 
I watched it earlier this week (it was streaming on the internet one weekend a few weeks ago on korranation, and I just grabbed a torrent someone made of those) and heeee it was awesome! And also sad :[ I think a lot of my favorite characters are probably dead. Probably.

speaking of my favorite characters MAKO IS TOTALLY RELATED TO ZUKO SOMEHOW. I JUST KNOW IT. His "brother" is an earthbender so I bet one of them is adopted, or maybe they're both street urchins. Maybe Zuko's mother had some other children while she was AWOL for such a long time... Mako looks, sounds, and acts so much like Zuko, and Mako was also the name of Iroh's voice actor so I bet it's at least an easter egg or something.

I'm making my boyfriend watch Avatar TLA on Netflix so he can watch Korra ASAP. He's enjoying it immensely. :]
 
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Sorry, should have clarified, LegendarySeeker. I posted the links as easy references for those who would be interested in watching the show. I was aware that your computer was having trouble with nick.com. Viacom is very quick to remove videos of theirs on Youtube, so I thought something official would be a more permanent option for those who can access it. There's a few less than...legal options that I could probably send your way, but I'm not exactly sure what the forum policy is on it.
 
In the same boat as Alraune, I watched the first episode on korranation while it was up. I'm happy with the advancement of the world as a whole; While republic city has a more urban feel to it, the martial arts fighting styles, the art, and the music still feel like the original.

Also pro-bending is the best sport ever.
 
Blastoise Fortooate said:
Well, Katara and Aang had children that could bend different elements, so. Mako and Bolin could easily be real brothers.


guuuuuh I love this show so muuuuch
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Right! I don't really get why so many people refuse to believe that Mako and Bolin are related. It doesn't seem like there'd be many ~pure-blood~ families around now. Also I'm getting the impression that you can learn to/be raised into any element? That's sort of how I took things in the Aang cycle even though the Avatar was meant to be unique. It would be fun to see someone who tried super-hard to learn another type of bending!

Aaaanyway I'm really enjoying the series!! Basically I love Jinora and Lin. I feel like it's still proving itself, but Korra herself is already a pretty great character. There are lots of things I'm looking forward to!
 
I always assumed Mako and Bolin were just mixed-race - if their parents were an earthbender and a firebender, they could have one earthbender kid and one firebender kid. There's obviously been a lot of cultural mixing since the first series, where things were pretty segregated.

And I'd be really, really surprised if the ability to bend weren't inborn. Off the top of my head I can think of about ten different situations from either series seem to suggest it (Katara being the only waterbender of her tribe, Pema complaining she wants a non-bender kid who won't blast wind in her face every ten seconds, Amon's equality movement criticizing bender privilege, the only airbenders in the world being Tenzin and his family even now, everybody other than the avatar only being able to bend one element at most, the sheer prevalence of non-benders, etc.), even if I guess you could handwave them all to work the other way.


Anyway, Korra is great! I love the general retention of the sense of humour from the first series while setting up a more morally complex storyline (I really hope they tackle that well).
 
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Blastoise Fortooate said:
Well, Katara and Aang had children that could bend different elements, so. Mako and Bolin could easily be real brothers.


guuuuuh I love this show so muuuuch
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Well, the fact they both bend different things isn't the only reason I figured that, just the biggest one. I get the feeling firebenders probably had the hardest time getting used to the whole not-segregated-by-race/country/bending anymore, considering their general supremist attitude during TLA. Waging a war on the entire world for a hundred years can't have been good on their ability to not be racist. There's also the fact Mako and Bolin look very different from eachother... but brothers can be that way too I suppose. I never said it wasn't entirely possible, but... I just really want Mako to be related to Zuko ;_; otherwise I'm like, ashamed of them for basically reusing a character as far as personality and practically design goes. The only difference is, like, the eyebrows, seriously

Oh and I just remembered, In the second episode, didn't the commentator mention something about Mako and Bolin coming out of nowhere? That really smacks like the rising underdog kind of thing, which is also why I theorize they grew up as orphans or something and 'adopted' eachother
 
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Alraune said:
Well, the fact they both bend different things isn't the only reason I figured that, just the most obvious one. There's also the fact they look very different from eachother... but brothers can be that way too I suppose. I just really want Mako to be related to Zuko ;_; otherwise I'm like, ashamed of them for basically reusing a character
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I'm kind of surprised on how much I've hear how similar Zuko and Mako are. I think besides the two being teen firebenders that aren't particularly friendly, they don't have much in common, especially background wise. Mako and Bolin's relationship seems very different from what Azula's and Zuko's was. Maybe the two being orphans is somewhat similar to Ursula leaving, but I haven't seen a parent figure for the two as opposed to Iroh or Fire Lord Ozai (if you can consider the latter one.) Also, with really one episode to go by, I'm fairly sure there'll be more of Mako that will established him as his own character rather than an Expy.

On another note, I'm really hoping that only a few characters are related to the past cast. While I enjoy the references to the previous characters, I think focusing too heavily on them will somewhat obscure the current cast.
 
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